Overnight, the dispute over the collision test between the Ideal i8 and the 8-ton heavy truck Chenglong came to a happy ending. Ideal, China Automotive Research and Development Corporation, and Dongfeng Liuzhou Automobile jointly issued a joint statement announcing the settlement. According to the joint statement, Li Auto stated that the purpose of this test is to verify and improve the passive safety performance of the Li Auto i8 and does not target the safety and quality performance of any other brand of vehicles; Li Auto will take further measures to avoid causing similar disputes again.
China Automotive Research Institute said that in terms of process control, it did not fully predict and avoid potential risks caused by incomplete information release, and China Automotive Research Institute apologized for this.
Dongfeng Liuzhou Automobile said that it consciously resists unfair competition, adheres to the bottom line of legal and compliant operations, adheres to the principle of seeking truth from facts, and contributes to the realization of my country's historic leap from a major automobile country to an automobile power.
Why did the three companies suddenly reconcile? After all, Ideal executives had bluntly stated that they wanted to retest. A person close to Dongfeng Motor gave the answer behind this.
A person close to Dongfeng Motor told reporters that after the incident occurred, Dongfeng immediately communicated with Ideal and China Automotive Research and Development Corporation, but at that time the two companies had a tough attitude, believing that they had also been attacked by trolls and others due to testing, and refused to delete the test video. After the conversation was fruitless, Chenglong issued an infringement statement.
"Chenglong was implicated and pushed to the forefront. Relevant departments have also noticed this. Now we are advocating 'anti-involution' and do not want to start a war of words again." The above-mentioned person said.
