Car companies’ love relay, special vehicles and travel services show the value of “hard work”

In addition to the medical workers who are fighting on the front line and the celebrities who donate generously, this epidemic has attracted the most attention. There is also a group that has also attracted much attention and has received praise from everyone - car companies.

In my impression, it seems that every "big event" - such as the SARS epidemic in 2003, the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, etc., the automotive industry is indispensable for its support. During this epidemic, car companies have also taken on social responsibilities and donated money and materials. Not only car companies with a state-owned background, but also many private car companies have also done their best.

In this "fight against the epidemic", in addition to traditional cash and in-kind donations, car companies have also provided support in special vehicles and travel services, which deserves our attention and praise.

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The negative pressure ambulance is a precise support, testing the emergency response capabilities of the car company's system

The epidemic hit suddenly, on the one hand, medical reinforcements are constantly improving the diagnosis , treatment efficiency; on the one hand, a large number of patients need to be isolated and transferred to hospitals, and the existing ambulance vehicles are stretched. On January 24, New Year’s Eve, the Department of Consumer Goods Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued an emergency notice to many domestic car companies to urgently produce negative pressure ambulances, and required them to be completed before February 5 and delivered to relevant units for use. The car companies that received the task immediately coordinated and worked overtime to rush the work.

The production of a negative pressure ambulance requires two major steps: production of the base vehicle and modification. The production of the base vehicle generally takes about half a month; while modification requires heat preservation treatment and interior modification. Decoration installation, medical equipment installation, negative pressure facility installation and other processes also take about half a month. As a result, the entire production process takes about a month. This emergency task was required to be completed in about 10 days, which was only 1/3 of the normal construction period, and the shortage of staff during the Spring Festival had further impact. It is conceivable how much pressure each car company is under to complete this task in such a short period of time, and how much pressure it puts on the management level of the company's manufacturing system.

Following the first batch of 26 million donations, BAIC Group used its own resources to once again provide "precise" assistance, and jointly invested in the purchase of 66 service vehicles in epidemic areas with 10 automobile units including BAIC Foton. Among them, 40 Foton Tuano negative pressure ambulances will serve as the main donated vehicles to serve the epidemic areas. These vehicles will depart from Weifang, Shandong on February 8 and be sent to Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Henan where the epidemic is currently the most serious. , Hunan provinces and Beijing City.

In addition to donating 10 million yuan, Chery Automobile's subsidiary River Special Vehicle Co., Ltd. made emergency arrangements to resume work at the car factory on the second day after receiving the notice, which was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and dedicated production to Negative pressure ambulances are still working overtime to provide rescue services, and 20 ambulances will be delivered to the epidemic areas in the near future.

After receiving this "emergency notice", SAIC MAXUS assigned this task to its Wuxi branch for production. As the largest production base of SAIC MAXUS, the Wuxi branch is the only company in Wuxi capable of producing negative pressure ambulances. After receiving the task, it also started to rework on the first day of the new year and fully devoted itself to the production of SAIC MAXUS V80. In addition to producing 60 negative-pressure ambulance vehicles, SAIC MAXUS also established a volunteer fleet for epidemic prevention and control in Wuhan on January 23 at the request of the Wuhan transportation department. The first batch of fleets is composed of 100 MAXUS G10 vehicles. It is currently in Wuhan assists in fighting the epidemic.

Time is life. Everyone knows this truth, but when it comes to implementation, many difficulties must be overcome. In order to expedite the production of negative pressure ambulances, in addition to coordinating the production rhythm, there is also shipping and delivery work. The epidemic + the Spring Festival holiday, coupled with traffic control in various places, also involve various coordination and docking; whenever it involves manpower and transportation, we must do our own epidemic prevention and protection... Many car companies have set up special projects for this purpose. The team established a cross-border and cross-regional communication mechanism.

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Travel services: from "icing on the cake" to "helping in times of need"

Expediting the production of negative pressure ambulances is hard power, so during this epidemic, , the travel support organized by car companies is "soft power."

After the "city lockdown", Wuhan City further banned motor vehicles from the road. How can Wuhan citizens ensure their lives without leaving their homes? What about the medical staff who work overtime? Dongfeng Motor is on the main battlefield in the fight against the epidemic. In addition to donating huge sums of money, it was also ordered to form a fleet of 1,000 Dongfeng travel support vehicles in times of crisis to serve community residents and provide residents with emergency services such as door-to-door food delivery, medicine delivery, and meal delivery. Dongfeng Travel has also established a "Dongfeng Travel Employee Pioneer Team" composed of 50 employees in Han to ensure targeted community service work.

In addition, in order to prevent and fight the epidemic, Dongfeng Travel established an epidemic emergency team on January 21 to launch emergency plans for its online car-hailing, taxi and time-sharing leasing businesses. In order to protect drivers, Dongfeng Travel has distributed protective clothing, masks and gloves to drivers, and distributed disinfectant and other disinfection equipment to vehicles.

On January 28, Ouliao Travel, a subsidiary of Great Wall, took the initiative to lend a helping hand and established the "Ouliao Travel Emergency Support Fleet to Fight the Epidemic". The fleet is on standby 24 hours a day to provide transportation for medical staff and headquarters. , medical supplies transportation and other necessary transportation service guarantees.

Geely, as the car company with the highest sales volume among its own brands in 2019, in addition to providing 200 million yuan in special fund assistance for the epidemic, its subsidiary Caocao Travel has also set up a fleet to provide transportation for residents who need to go out. Free travel services are provided.

Xpeng Motors, one of the representatives of new car-making forces, in addition to donating protective clothing, goggles, masks and other medical supplies and vehicles worth 3 million yuan, its subsidiary "Youpeng Travel" also Provide free travel services to designated treatment hospitals in Guangzhou to facilitate quick travel for medical and scientific researchers.

In addition to the travel teams listed above, many car companies and Internet companies are trying to improve related services to improve the protection and efficiency during the epidemic, and many volunteers have emerged, making People are moved.

Written at the end: "Automobile Industry Talk" suggests that it is important to provide love and help, but it is more important to do scientific self-protection. For travel drivers, companies should first ensure sufficient epidemic prevention items and do a good job in health epidemic prevention, vehicle Disinfection and epidemic prevention training, and reasonable arrangements for personnel scheduling, work and rest, and service areas - all of this tests the car companies' comprehensive response ability to deal with the crisis. I believe that the car people who are united will be able to use efficient mechanisms to help relevant departments win this epidemic prevention battle! "Automobile Industry Talk" will keep an eye on this.

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This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.