《外刊精读》蔚来会成为中国的特斯拉吗？

一年前险些破产，蔚来会成为中国的特斯拉吗？ 难度：CSE9 课程导读 哪家公司，最有可能成为中国的特斯拉？从市值上看，蔚来的希望很大。这家去年差点破产的电动汽车初创企业，今年下半年股价一路飙升，这家在中国远称不上家喻户晓的公司，已经成为全球第四的汽车制造商。蔚来是如何走下神坛，又重新崛起的？一起来听今天的讲解。 英文原文 How NIO, a Chinese EV Startup, Rose, Fell and Rose Again 蔚来汽车是如何在走下神坛后重新崛起的？ A year ago, Chinese electric-vehicle startup NIO Inc. was near ruin. Today it is worth more than General Motors Co. 一年前，中国电动汽车初创企业蔚来汽车濒临破产。而如今，它的市值却超过了通用汽车公司。 NIO’s brush with bankruptcy and its subsequent revival to become the world’s fourth most valuable auto maker — only Tesla Inc., Toyota Motor Corp. and Volkswagen AG are worth more by market capitalization — is a measure of investors’ seesawing faith in Chinese EV startups, which for years promised a high-tech automotive revolution that proved elusive. 蔚来曾与破产擦肩而过，后来又崛起为全球市值第四高的汽车制造商，市值仅次于特斯拉、丰田汽车公司和大众汽车，这种巨变恰恰凸显出投资者对中国电动汽车初创企业的信心起伏不定。多年来，中国的电动汽车初创企业一直承诺将带来一场高科技汽车革命，但事实证明这仍未能完全实现。 From its founding in two thousand and fourteen, NIO led a pack of Chinese EV startups that became a magnet for investors seeking the next Tesla. But many investors eventually lost confidence, frustrated by the loss-making companies’ limited progress. 自2014年成立以来，蔚来成为一批中国电动汽车初创企业的领军者，这些初创企业吸引着希望发掘下一个特斯拉的投资者。但由于这些企业持续亏损并且进展有限，许多投资者最终失去了信心。 A savior arrived: the government of Hefei, a city about three hundred miles west of Shanghai in Anhui — the home province of Mr. William Li, NIO’s founder and chief executive — that has emerged as a center of EV production. NIO agreed to a six hundred and eighty three million dollars financing package with the city’s officials in April. 救星来了，那就是合肥市政府。合肥市位于上海以西约300英里，是蔚来创始人兼首席执行官李斌的家乡安徽省的一座城市。安徽省已成为电动汽车的一个生产中心。今年4月，蔚来与该市官员达成了6.83亿美元的融资协议。 The capital injection rescued NIO, chiefly by giving suppliers and customers confidence that the company had a future, Mr. Li said. 李斌表示，这次注资拯救了蔚来，主要因为这让供应商和客户相信该公司仍有前途。 Mr. Li said NIO aims to produce seven thousand five hundred cars a month starting in January; it contract-manufactures its vehicles in Hefei. It plans to start selling cars in Europe next year — and eventually in the U.S. . 李斌还表示，蔚来汽车计划从明年1月开始月产能将达到7,500辆；该公司采用代工模式在合肥生产电动汽车。他们计划明年开始在欧洲销售电动汽车，最终进军美国市场。