原文标题：
Tesla and Toyota Are Considering Jointly Developing a Small Electric SUV
Platform
特斯拉和丰田正在考虑共同开发小型电动SUV平台
原文连结：
https://reurl.cc/l0XOZ6
发布时间：
By Armen Hareyan G+ Mar 29 2021 - 10:54pm
原文内容：
Choi Won-seok reports in the Korean Ghosun Libo news publication that
according to an official from the Japanese automotive industry Toyota and
Tesla have been reviewing the partnership since last year and are approaching
the final stage.
Here are some of the highlights of Toyota Tesla partnership. When the
partnership with Toyota is established, Tesla will be able to launch a
compact SUV EV at low cost using the Toyota platform.
The Ghosun IIbo is the biggest newspaper in SK. A Tesla source Sawyer
Merritt, tweets that he has been told "the reporter of the story is also
highly regarded. We'll see if it's true."
Toyota provides the vehicle platform to Tesla, and instead, Tesla provides
some of the electronic control platform and software technology installed in
its vehicle to Toyota.
When the partnership with Toyota is established, Tesla will be able to launch
a compact SUV electric vehicle at low cost using the Toyota platform. In
addition, Tesla's sales in Japan, which are around 1,000 units per year, are
likely to increase significantly.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the 'Battery Day' in September of last year, that
Tesla "will release a $25,000 compact and affordable electric car in 2023.
However, among experts, there were several opinions that it would be
difficult for Tesla to find a way to sell electric cars at such low prices.
Especially considering Tesla has already developed the Model 3 in 2017, The
model electric crossover in 2020, the exoskeleton of the Cybertruck and
working on the Semi truck. at this moment we have no idea about Tesla's
affordable compact vehicle, which now it looks like may be produced in
partnership with Toyota, if this report is true.
I think this is a smart move for both Tesla and Toyota. Some people may be
skeptical of a Tesla Toyota partnership, but remember that Tesla helped built
Toyota RAV4 in 2012. I am sure you guys remember when Toyota sold its Tesla
stocks in 2017.
What's in it for Toyota?
Toyota can also significantly reduce the resources and time spent on
innovation of its vehicle's integrated electronic control platform ( ECU )
and operating system ( OS ) by using Tesla technology. Toyota is evaluating
that the integrated ECU and OS technology that can control and improve
vehicle functions through wireless updates (Over The Air) is lagging behind
Tesla. In other words, through cooperation between the two companies, Tesla
can reduce the cost and period of developing small electric SUVs and Toyota's
benefit is the gain in ECU and OS development. It aims for a win-win effect
by reducing the time it takes for the two companies to compensate for each
other's weaknesses, allowing them to focus more on their own strengths.
Tesla and Toyota have previously partnered. The two companies agreed to
jointly develop electric vehicles in 2010, and in 2012 marketed Toyota's RAV4
electric vehicle equipped with Tesla's battery system. However, due to
various reasons such as poor sales, the alliance between the Toyota and Tesla
ended in 2017. Yet, the close relationship between Musk and Toyota CEO Akio
Toyoda was maintained, leaving room for a reunion between the two companies
in the future.
Tesla's Fremont Factory is an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont,
California, operated by Tesla. But the facility opened as the General Motors
Fremont Assembly in 1962, and was later operated by NUMMI, a former GM–
Toyota joint venture. Tesla took ownership in 2010.
Last year, Toyota sold 9.35 million vehicles, surpassing Volkswagen and
returned to the world's top sales in five years. Toyota, along with Isuzu and
its truck subsidiary Hino, plans to accelerate the electric and autonomous
driving of commercial vehicles. Prior to this, Toyota also established a
hydrogen fuel cell development joint venture with five Chinese automobile and
technology companies, including Tsinghua University, Beijing, Cheil,
Dongfeng, and Guangzhou Motors. The jointly developed hydrogen fuel cell
system will be installed on Chinese trucks and buses from 2022. In addition,
Toyota is striving to maximize economies of scale related to electrification
and autonomous driving, including successive capital alliances with rivals
Mazda and Suzuki.
Meanwhile, Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter on the 27th of March that “
the likelihood that Tesla will soon become the largest company in the world
is higher than 0%.” Although the context is not clear, it was also written “
probably within a few months,” an expression that can be interpreted as
referring to a period, and was soon deleted. Currently, Tesla's market
capitalization is about $ 590 billion, which is one-third of the world's
largest market capitalization company, Apple.
Tesla's share price continued to rise even after surpassing Toyota, which was
the first in the industry's market capitalization at the time, in July of
last year. Tesla, in particular, has a task to achieve economies of scale,
with only 500,000 vehicles sold as of last year. If the alliance with Toyota
is established, it can receive great power to expand mass production faster
and at lower cost.
Armen Hareyan is the founder and the Editor in Chief of Torque News. He
founded TorqueNews.com in 2010, which since then has been publishing expert
news and analysis about the automotive industry. He can be reached at Torque
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机翻如下：
崔元锡在韩国Ghosun Libo新闻刊物上报导称，据日本汽车行业的一位官员透露，丰田和
特斯拉从去年开始就一直在审查合作关系，并已接近最后阶段。
以下是丰田特斯拉合作的一些亮点。与丰田的合作关系确立后，特斯拉将可以利用丰田平
台低成本推出一款小型SUV电动车。
高顺二宝是SK最大的报纸。特斯拉的消息人士Sawyer Merritt在推特上表示，他已经被告
知 "报导的记者也是备受关注。我们看看是否属实"。
丰田向特斯拉提供车辆平台，而特斯拉则向丰田提供安装在车辆上的部分电控平台和软件
技术。
与丰田建立合作关系后，特斯拉将可以利用丰田平台低成本推出小型SUV电动车。此外，
特斯拉在日本的年销量约为1000辆，很可能会大幅增加。
特斯拉CEO埃隆-马斯克在去年9月的 "电池日 "上表示，特斯拉 "将在2023年发布一款价
值2.5万美元的小型平价电动汽车"。不过，在专家中，有几种意见认为，特斯拉很难找到
以如此低的价格销售电动汽车的方法。尤其是考虑到特斯拉已经在2017年开发了Model 3
，在2020年开发了Model电动跨界车，Cybertruck的外骨骼和Semi卡车的工作.此刻我们还
不知道特斯拉的经济实惠的小型汽车，现在看起来可能会与丰田合作生产，如果这个报告
是真的。
我认为这对特斯拉和丰田来说都是明智之举。有些人可能会对特斯拉与丰田的合作持怀疑
态度，但请记住，特斯拉在2012年帮助丰田打造了RAV4。我相信你们还记得2017年丰田出
售特斯拉股票的事情。
对丰田有什么好处？
丰田还可以通过使用特斯拉技术，大幅减少用于汽车集成电子控制平台( ECU )和作业系
统( OS )创新的资源和时间。据丰田评估，能够通过无线更新(Over The Air)来控制和改
善车辆功能的集成ECU和OS技术已经落后于特斯拉。换句话说，通过双方的合作，特斯拉
可以降低小型电动SUV的开发成本和周期，而丰田的好处是在ECU和OS开发上获得收益。它
的目的是通过缩短时间，让两家公司互相弥补对方的弱点，从而达到双赢的效果，让两家
公司更加专注于自己的优势。
特斯拉和丰田此前就有合作。两家公司在2010年达成了联合开发电动汽车的协定，并在
2012年上市了搭载特斯拉电池系统的丰田RAV4电动汽车。不过，由于销量不佳等各种原因
，丰田和特斯拉的联盟在2017年结束。然而，马斯克与丰田CEO丰田章男之间的亲密关系
却得以维持，这为两家公司未来的重新合作留下了空间。
特斯拉的弗里蒙特工厂是位于加州弗里蒙特的汽车制造工厂，由特斯拉运营。但该工厂在
1962年以通用汽车弗里蒙特装配厂的名义开业，后来由通用汽车和丰田的前合资企业
NUMMI经营。特斯拉于2010年获得所有权。
去年，丰田汽车销售了935万辆汽车，超过了大众汽车，五年内重回世界销量第一。丰田
与五十铃及其卡车子公司日野一起，计画加快商用车的电动和自动驾驶。在此之前，丰田
还与清华大学、北京、车尔、东风、广汽等5家中国汽车和技术公司成立了氢燃料电池开
发合资公司。联合开发的氢燃料电池系统将从2022年起安装在中国卡车和巴士上。此外，
丰田还在努力实现电气化和自动驾驶相关的规模经济最大化，包括与竞争对手马自达和铃
木的连续资本合作。
与此同时，特斯拉CEO埃隆-马斯克27日在Twitter上写道，"特斯拉很快成为全球最大公司
的可能性高于0%"。虽然上下文不清楚，但也写了 "可能在几个月内"，这个表述可以理解
为指一个时期，很快就被删除了。目前，特斯拉的市值约为5900亿美元，是全球最大市值
公司苹果的三分之一。
特斯拉的股价在去年7月超过了当时行业市值第一的丰田之后，仍然持续上涨。尤其是特
斯拉，截至去年，特斯拉只卖出了50万辆汽车，要实现规模效益，任务艰巨。如果与丰田
建立联盟，可以获得巨大的力量，以更快的速度、更低的成本扩大量产。
心得/评论：
新闻的消息来源是......也很爱放新闻炒股票的韩国媒体
所以真实与否待查证
但是这确实是一个不错的想像
想想看两者强强联合，对于世界上所有想要推电车平台的竞争对手的打击
国内有心要做相关生意的，动作实在太慢了