On February 12, according to the Financial Associated Press, the third factory of Ideal Auto may have been settled in Chongqing, an important automobile town.

　　According to the Chongqing Municipal Public Resource Transaction Supervision Network, the transaction of the A16-8 plot in the A district of the Water and Soil Group in the Liangjiang New Area of ​​Chongqing has been completed, and the transaction time is January 27, 2022. The land area of ​​the plot is 1,133,400 square meters, and the transaction price is 430.69 million yuan. The transferee is Chongqing Chezhiyu Automobile Industry Co., Ltd., and the industry category of land use conditions is transportation equipment manufacturing.

　　The industrial and commercial registration shows that Chongqing Chezhiyu Automobile Industry Co., Ltd. was established on December 9, 2021, and its registered address is No. 618 Liangjiang Avenue, Longxing Town, Liangjiang New District, Chongqing. The company is 100% controlled by Chongqing Ideal.

　　Caijing.com contacted the relevant person in charge of Ideal Auto for this purpose, but has not received a response from the other party as of press time.

　　Li Auto's first factory is located in Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu, with an annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles. The 90,491 Lili ONEs delivered in 2021 will all be produced at this plant, and the production capacity is already stretched. The plant is currently building a new workshop, which will have an annual production capacity of 200,000 vehicles when completed.

　　In 2021, Li Auto will take over the first factory of Beijing Hyundai and transform it into Li Auto Beijing Green and Intelligent Manufacturing Base. Its total investment is more than 6 billion yuan, and it is planned to be put into production by the end of 2023, with an annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles, and will be put into production of pure electric models.

　　Li Auto plans to launch a full-size luxury smart extended-range electric SUV in 2022 and two other SUV models in 2023. In addition, Li Auto is also developing Whale and Shark, the platforms for its future high-voltage pure electric vehicles, and plans to launch at least two high-voltage pure electric vehicles every year starting from 2023.

　　Li Xiang, CEO of Lixiang Automobile, once revealed in an internal letter that he would achieve the goal of 1.6 million vehicles by 2025.

　　Judging from the size of the newly acquired Chongqing land parcel, it is 1,133,400 square meters. In comparison, the Changzhou factory of Ideal Motors covers an area of ​​750 mu (500,000 square meters) and the Beijing factory covers an area of ​​786 mu (524,000 square meters), which is less than the combined area of ​​the two factories. here. From this, it can be judged that its design capacity may also be greater than the sum of the first two factories.