A few days ago, LI released its Q2 financial report for 2023, with revenue and delivery reaching record highs of 28.65 billion yuan and 86,533 vehicles respectively, with year-on-year growth rates exceeding 200%. In addition, the company’s operating capacity continued to improve, and Q2′ s gross profit margin increased steadily to 21.8%, making it a new force in car making and even a star in the entire automobile industry.

First, focus on the highlights in LI Q2 financial report.
In terms of financial data, LI Q2 has made a series of encouraging achievements. Revenue reached 28.65 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 228.1%; Operating profit and net profit both climbed, reaching 1.63 billion yuan and 2.31 billion yuan respectively; The gross profit margin increased to 21.8%, and the company’s profitability rose steadily; Free cash flow increased to 9.62 billion yuan, a substantial increase compared with the same period; By June 30, 2023, the company’s cash reserves reached 73.77 billion yuan … Both the positive and positive business trend and the ever-increasing abundant cash reserves have laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of LI.

The strong market performance is undoubtedly one of the sources supporting LI’s good business. By the beginning of July, LI had delivered over 400,000 vehicles. From November 2019, when the first Li ONE rolled off the assembly line, to October 2021, when the 100th car rolled off the assembly line, it took 23 months. It took 10 months for 100,000 to 200,000 vehicles to go offline. From 200,000 vehicles to the cumulative delivery of more than 300,000 vehicles, it ideally took 5 months; From 300,000 vehicles to 400,000 vehicles today, the ideal took only three months, which not only explained the "ideal speed", but also highlighted the deep recognition of LI by China consumers …

At the same time, driven by the hot sales of L series models, LI also showed an accelerated expansion trend. In June, its delivery volume exceeded 30,000 vehicles for the first time, and this highlight performance continued in July; By the end of July, more than 200,000 ideal L series models had been delivered. With the release of its first all-electric flagship model MEGA approaching, LI, which has built a dual technical route of "all-electric+extended range", is worth looking forward to in the future.
LI is also favored by the capital market because of its positive circulation performance and broad prospects for development. In the first half of the year, the share price of US stocks in LI rose from $21.760/share on the first day of opening to $35.100/share on the last trading day of the first half of the year, with an increase of 61.31%. As of the release date of Q2 financial report, the closing price of LI has risen to USD 42.630/share, with a total market value of USD 44.435 billion, or about RMB 320.118 billion, and it has secured the second place in the market value of China automobile enterprises.
So, what factors have helped LI to achieve a leap-forward development?
First, LI’s precise brand positioning and product hard power, which conforms to the development of the industry and has a deep insight into the market demand. With the transformation of China’s automobile industry from big to strong, "upward" development is the only way for China’s automobile. As a "latecomer", LI lacks brand shackles and focuses on the high-end market to give it an inherent advantage; And the sweeping rise has also given it the confidence to wrestle with the traditional luxury giants, and even broken the difficulty of China brand upward.

In terms of products, in view of the demand of consumers in China and the control of various market segments, the products launched by LI won the hearts of the people. The product distribution of L7, L8 and L9 meets the purchase range of most consumers. The products themselves are not only smart and comfortable configurations such as "refrigerator, sofa, big color TV" that people talk about and even change consumers’ car habits, but LI has also spent a lot of R&D investment on more cutting edges, which has effectively improved consumers’ sense of comfort in car use. For example, in the development of L-series chassis, in order to change the air suspension from the exclusive luxury car of one million to the technology that can be used by more families, LI established R&D centers in the north and south, and developed the intelligent ideal magic carpet air suspension by itself.

In addition, in order to better serve users, the network scale of stores in LI is also increasing. As of July 31, 2023, LI had 337 retail centers covering 128 cities, and operated 323 after-sales maintenance centers and authorized car body panel repair and spraying centers in 222 cities. The integration of online and offline integrated sales has promoted the improvement of sales and service efficiency.
Based on the above, LI’s unexpected market performance is also natural. More importantly, the expansion of sales volume has also brought about the appearance of scale effect: the cost of vehicle R&D and production has been greatly reduced. According to the plan, the overall R&D expenditure rate of LI will continue to be stable at around 10%, even comparable to that of large multinational automobile groups; Have more say in the supply chain, so that it has more resilience and anti-risk ability; The geometric growth of brand recognition allows it to cope with the current "price reduction tide" safely, maintaining the price and showing the brand’s strength.
The rising brand recognition, the continuous hot sale of products, the reduction of R&D costs, the upgrading of business process systems, etc., complement each other with the steady rise of the company’s operating performance, and thus form a sustainable positive cycle.
Looking ahead, whether it is the company’s own development momentum, the continuous evolution of market demand, or the overall development direction and prospects of the industry, LI will achieve a higher leap.
Personally, LI’s upcoming first pure electric vehicle will make its product matrix more perfect; Intelligent assisted driving functions such as urban NOA and commuter NOA, which will be pushed one after another, as well as vehicle capabilities that are constantly upgraded through OTA, will continuously enhance user stickiness and brand awareness; However, the company’s insistence on self-research of core technologies and increasing investment in R&D of product core technologies will become the guarantee of product hard strength.

In terms of market demand, the mid-to-high-end incremental market has gradually become the main battlefield of consumption, which coincides with the positioning of LI. Family users’ demand for car purchase is diversified, but the purpose is clear. LI L7, L8, L9 and the upcoming MEGA can fully meet the needs of various consumer groups.
From the overall prospect of the industry, new energy and high-end are also development trends. According to the data of passenger car market information association, from January to July, the total retail sales of new energy passenger cars in China reached 3.725 million, up 36.3% year-on-year. In July, the retail penetration rate of new energy passenger cars reached 36.1%.
Based on the above, it is reasonable for LI to be optimistic about the future.It is predicted that the cumulative delivery volume in the third quarter will reach 100,000 to 103,000 vehicles, up by 277.0% to 288.3% year-on-year, among which the monthly delivery volume of L8 and L9 will exceed 10,000 vehicles, and the ideal L7 will challenge the monthly delivery target of 15,000 vehicles; The quarterly revenue is expected to reach 32.33 billion yuan to 33.30 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 246.0% to 256.4%. In the fourth quarter, LI will deliver 40,000 vehicles a month.





























On the hot search together with the photos of Xiaomi car, it is the topic that "Xiaomi car will lose 3 million fines if the media leaks".
Therefore, some netizens ridiculed, and a supplier was fined 1 million yuan for leaking Xiaomi’s design draft at the beginning of this year. At present, Xiaomi Automobile has earned 4 million yuan.
In addition to the photos of Xiaomi Automobile, Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, also talked about Xiaomi Automobile in the CCTV face-to-face column yesterday. Lei Jun said that he built the car with the assurance that he was determined to win. There are two principles for Xiaomi to build a car. The first one is "keeping the integrity surprisingly". Keeping the integrity is to fully respect the laws of the automobile industry and use the mature technology of the automobile industry to ensure that the first car can be built well; The second is "ten times the investment". Generally, a car company invests about 300 to 400 people in building a car, and about 1 billion or 2 billion R&D funds, while Xiaomi invested 3,400 engineers in the first car, and the entire R&D investment exceeded 10 billion.
More and more details show that "the first car for young people" is about to be pushed into the spotlight and be judged by the market.Xiaomi car "hit the face"?On November 15th, the first model of Xiaomi Automobile appeared in the 377th batch of Announcement of Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Products issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The declaration map shows that the first model of Xiaomi Automobile is a pure electric car, and there are two models, namely SU7 and SU7 Max.
As soon as the picture came out, many fans thought that Xiaomi’s car hit Porsche. The media electric gorilla made a series of pictures, comparing the front face, taillights and waistline of Xiaomi car and Porsche TayCan. "It’s not that Porsche can’t afford it, but that Xiaomi is more cost-effective." Some car fans even ridiculed Xiaomi’s car "Bao Shi Mi".
In terms of specific parameters, the length, width and height of Xiaomi SU7 are 4997mm/1963mm/1455mm, the wheelbase is 3000mm, and the height of Xiaomi SU7 Max is 1440mm, and the other parameters are the same. Xiaomi SU7 will have two battery capacity versions, the battery pack capacity is 101kWh and 73.6kWh respectively, of which the battery life of 101kWh is 800km and 750km; respectively; The battery life of 73.6kWh battery pack is 668km and 628km respectively. Xiaomi Automobile adopts ternary lithium-ion battery made in Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, and its driving motor has a peak power of 220kW/275kW. It is also equipped with an automobile event data recording system (EDR). In addition, when the spy photos of Xiaomi’s car frame were exposed, some fans thought that the handle area of Xiaomi’s car interior door panel was similar to Tesla Model 3.
At present, there are various spy photos, "ID photos" and unpainted driving photos of Xiaomi Automobile on the Internet, and most rice noodles are satisfied with the appearance of Xiaomi Automobile exposed at present.
Does Xiaomi Automobile insist on cost performance?At present, the news on the market is that Xiaomi car is divided into standard version, Pro version, Max version, and track version that will not be mass-produced, and the price is concentrated at 190,000-300,000 yuan. Guo Ming, an analyst at Tianfeng International Securities, said that the key selling points of Xiaomi Automobile are autonomous driving, software ecology and 800V fast charging and power configuration, and the estimated price is less than 300,000 yuan. Han Lu, a senior car blogger, previously broke the news that Xiaomi Automobile is positioned as a C-class luxury car with a minimum price of around 300,000 and a high allocation of around 500,000. At present, this Weibo has been deleted.
Earlier, the article said that Xiaomi Automobile was priced at 260,000 yuan and divided into two versions. The price of low-profile models ranges from 260,000 to 300,000 yuan, and the price of high-profile models exceeds 350,000 yuan. However, the price of Xiaomi car will be as low as 200,000, or 200,000-300,000, or more than 300,000. The price of the three stages directly determines whether Xiaomi car still focuses on the familiar "cost-effective" formula. After the announcement of building a car, Lei Jun initiated a vote on the pricing of Xiaomi car, with nearly 20,000 people participating, with the largest number of netizens choosing less than 100,000 yuan, followed by 100,000-150,000 yuan. However, from the current exposure of Xiaomi car configuration, the pricing below 150,000 is indeed somewhat difficult. Xiaomi automobile, which has not yet been released, has already faced an increasingly new energy market. This year, new energy vehicles started a price war. Near the end of the year, in order to rush sales, the promotion methods of car companies are becoming more and more crazy. According to a document issued by Cui Dongshu, the current secretary-general of the National Passenger Car Market Information Association, the promotion of new energy vehicles increased especially in November this year, and it has reached the historical high promotion level since last November.
According to the data of Easy Car, in the last month of 2023, Jiyue, BYD, Tucki, Zhiji, etc. adjusted the prices of various series of vehicles one after another, and other new energy vehicles also introduced various preferential policies to buy before the end of the year. Can the fans be satisfied with the final pricing of Xiaomi Automobile at the moment of rushing sales volume and volume price at the end of the year? Is Xiaomi Auto released this year?Yesterday was also Lei Jun’s 54th birthday. Last night, Lei Jun sent a message thanking his friends for their birthday wishes, with a picture that "everything will work out in the end".
Because of this point in time and the word "car", netizens, while wishing Lei Jun a happy birthday, also wondered whether the Xiaomi auto conference was coming. The blogger "Game Technology" of Xiaohongshu previously published a document saying that Xiaomi has "finalized" the launch conference of Xiaomi Automobile in Beijing on the 28th. The internal staff of Xiaomi Automobile denied that "the time has not been fixed yet, and we are really considering this time point". There have been more and more official actions of Xiaomi Automobile, such as Xiaomi Automobile Weibo, which has just been opened and the speed of light is off the assembly line, Xiaomi Automobile official website, which has only a few photos, and some Xiaomi Houses in Beijing and Shanghai, which have started to confirm the display of automobiles.
According to national business daily, the four major manufacturing workshops (stamping, welding, painting and assembly) in the first-phase factory of Xiaomi Automobile have been built, and small-batch trial production has started, and all the produced cars are parked in the assembly workshop. At the Xiaomi 14 conference, Lei Jun said when answering questions from netizens that Xiaomi Automobile is progressing very smoothly and will be officially listed in the first half of next year. When the time is right, report to everyone. Will this "appropriate time" be the end of this year? In the "Face-to-Face" column, Lei Jun said that he was a little anxious: "I am particularly worried that everyone will not buy it if it doesn’t catch fire; I am even more worried that everyone will buy it. If you wait for 1-2 years, you will definitely be scolded. Can the upcoming Xiaomi car satisfy the majority of rice noodles? And what changes will Xiaomi cars and rice noodles bring to the automobile industry? We will wait and see.












