Today's news: Fliggy: May Day travel demand explodes; Tesla's first-quarter profit plummets 20% year-on-year; Zheng Yuanjie will never publish works again; KargoBot launches unmanned self-driving trucks; China's 6G communication technology research and development has made an important breakthrough
Fliggy: Explosive demand for travel on May Day
On April 19, Fliggy released the "2023 "May Day" Travel Weathervane". Less than 10 days away from the "May Day" holiday, as of now, the bookings of domestic air tickets, hotels, scenic spot tickets, group tours, etc. have exceeded the same period in 2019, and the cumulative bookings have increased by more than 10 times compared with last year. Among them, mid- and long-term travel orders accounted for more than 90%.
Among them, high-quality, content-rich tourism services have become the key direction for tourism platforms and businesses to make efforts. Data from Fliggy shows that the average price of a customer order during the May Day holiday increased by more than 30% year-on-year, and the booking volume of high-star hotels increased by more than 14 times year-on-year.
"Travel + performing arts experience" is particularly popular during this year's "May 1st" holiday. According to incomplete statistics, hundreds of concerts and music festivals will be held across the country around the "May 1st" holiday, which is the first explosive window period for the performance market in more than three years. Data from Fliggy shows that hotel bookings around the location of the "May 1st" holiday concert and music festival have soared by more than 20 times year-on-year.
In terms of outbound travel, Fliggy’s “May 1st” outbound travel bookings hit a new peak, an increase of more than 200% compared to the Spring Festival holiday in 2023, and the unit price of outbound tourists dropped by 46.2% year-on-year.
Tesla's first-quarter profit plummets 20% year-on-year
On April 19, Tesla announced its financial report for the first quarter of 2023. Tesla's adjusted EPS was $0.85 in the first quarter, compared with analyst expectations of $0.86. Revenue for the quarter was $23.33 billion, compared with analyst expectations of $23.35 billion. Maintain the full-year vehicle production forecast unchanged at 1.8 million, analysts expected 1.84 million. It fell 4% after hours.
This is equivalent to a year-on-year increase in revenue of more than 20%, but a year-on-year drop of more than 20%, which is basically in line with Wall Street's expectations for the consequences of Tesla's global vehicle price cuts in the first quarter.
Before the release of the much-watched quarterly report, Tesla announced the sixth price cut in the United States this year. Investors suspected that the strong price cut was a signal of weak demand. Tesla’s stock price fell 3.6% yesterday, and finally closed down. 2% to a one-week low. However, the stock has risen nearly 48% this year, outperforming the S&P 500 which has risen 8% and the Nasdaq which has risen 16%.
Tesla said in its financial report that the Shanghai factory has been successfully operating at close to full capacity for several months.
Zheng Yuanjie will never publish any more works
On April 18, Zheng Yuanjie posted a farewell letter on Weibo, saying that her original well-known literary characters were unauthorized, and 710 infringing trademarks were maliciously registered by unscrupulous merchants for selling various commodities.
Zheng Yuanjie said that starting today, he will bid farewell to trademark rights protection, and will no longer defend the rights of 673 infringing trademarks that first infringed on the rights and interests of my original well-known literary characters. I still write every day, but the works I have written, including the novels I have written, will never be published, because if I publish, I will face trademark infringement and it will be difficult to successfully defend my rights. Zheng Yuanjie is known as the "King of Fairy Tales", and her representative works include Biography of Pipilu, Biography of Lu Xixi, Biography of Shu Kebeta, Biography of Big Bad Wolf Rock, Ghost Car, White Guest, Golden Thumb, etc. .
KargoBot launches driverless self-driving truck
On April 19th, Didi's self-driving cargo KargoBot debuted at the Shanghai Auto Show. KargoOne consists of a pilot vehicle with intelligent driving functions driven by a driver, and multiple L4 self-driving trucks. End-to-end logistics and transportation for various complex long-distance scenarios.
Dr. Wei Junqing, head of KargoBot, said that KargoBot has created a hybrid unmanned solution suitable for bulk freight. This solution has increased KargoBot's processing capacity for complex scenarios by 50 times, and its core safety indicators have increased by 20 times. At the same time, it can Effectively reduce wind resistance and reduce energy consumption by 5-10%. As of March this year, KargoBot has transported more than 1.2 million tons of coal and other bulk commodities, and its cumulative logistics revenue has exceeded 100 million yuan.
China's 6G communication technology research and development has made an important breakthrough
It is learned from the Second Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry that recently, the 25th Academy of the Second Academy completed the first domestic real-time wireless transmission and communication experiment of terahertz orbital angular momentum in Beijing, using a high-precision spiral phase plate antenna to achieve 4 different beam modes in the 110GHz frequency band. The 4-mode synthesis completes 100Gbps wireless real-time transmission on the 10GHz transmission bandwidth, which maximizes the bandwidth utilization and provides important guarantee and support for the development of 6G communication technology in my country.
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