Recently, the official website of Ideal Cars updated its recruitment information and announced job openings for “Plant Manager-Manufacturing Base” and “Senior Manager of Project Management,” both marked with the red “urgent” label. From the picture, we can see that the workplace is in Shunyi District, Beijing, which leads to the inference that Ideal has taken over the factory.
From the image, we can see that the total investment for the new Ideal factory project will reach 6 billion yuan. After two years of suspension of Beijing Hyundai’s first factory and the acquisition of land resources, Ideal will turn it into its own production factory. This factory will carry out key technical research and development of complete vehicles, core components, and autonomous driving. The plan is to start production in 2023.
The fifth item in the “Shunyi District’s Major Engineering Projects during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period” shows that this project has been listed as a major engineering project in Shunyi District. Ideal’s second production base aims to achieve an annual output of 250,000 vehicles.
Looking back, Ideal’s first production factory was in Changzhou Manufacturing Factory, Jiangsu, which boasted a total of four workshops: stamping, welding, coating, and assembly, and a road test site. Its annual output reached 100,000 vehicles and is expected to increase to 200,000 vehicles next year. After the addition of the Shunyi factory, Ideal plans to achieve a sales volume of 1.6 million by 2025. Even though the second factory has been built, Ideal will continue to acquire land for new factories.
The 2021 model of Ideal ONE has started to be delivered to customers, and the sales volume of Ideal Cars continues to rise. In May 2021, a monthly delivery record of 4,323 cars was achieved. Therefore, from this perspective, the lack of production capacity of a factory is urgent. Besides this, Ideal is also preparing to launch its second model, X01 by 2022.
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