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The startup of ia of one of Openai’s co -founders has no product. Even so it is valued at 32,000 million dollars

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Promises and expectations can use a fortune. It is the only thing that justifies that a startup of which nothing is known It is worth good 32,000 million dollars. That is more than eBay, Endesa or Hyundai, but with the difference that these companies have been working for years and even decades to achieve that figure. But we are in the AI ​​era, and here, we insist, promises and expectations are worth a lot. There is not much more than right now it seems to offer Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup of Ia co -founded by Ilya Sutskever, who was already confused of OpenAi and abandoned his ranks less than a year ago. According to Financial TimesSutskever has managed to lift a financing round of 2,000 million dollars for its startup, which makes the assessment of the same ascend to those mentioned 32,000 million dollars. The figure is also surprising because the economic moment we live, with tariffs threatening everything, precisely raises an important brake on investment. In September SSI He already lifted $ 1 billion and that made its valuation out of 5,000 million. That figure has multiplied by six, which seems to make it clear that they have something striking in hand. In An interview Last year Sutksver raised an AI with “nuclear safety”clarifying that “no matter how safe we ​​mean as when we talk about nuclear safety, as opposed to safe when we talk about” trust and security “”. In a later interview in September this engineer and entrepreneur indicated that he and his team had “identified a new mountain to climb and that it is something different from what I previously worked on.” Sources close to SSI have indicated that the company works in very special ways to develop and climb AI models. If true The milestone would certainly be intriguingespecially now that it is criticized that climbing – more gpus and more data to train AI models— It no longer provides such striking improvements. Be that as it may, the former OpenAi employees are apparently very well after having left the company. We have another example in Look Muratiwhich has also launched a call startup Thinking Machines Lab. He is also working to raise an important investment round … and also does it without having any product to show. So are these times. Image | OpenAI In Xataka | There are too many AI models. That raises a true death sentence for Anthropic and Claude

He will be able to continue selling his H20 GPU for AI in China, although he has cost him a 1 million dinner per diner

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The GPU for applications of artificial intelligence (AI) H20 is the salvation of Nvidia in China. Since the sanctions package officialized by the administration of Joe Biden entered into force November 16, 2023 This is THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR IA That Jensen Huang’s company can sell to its Chinese clients. And, in addition, during the last months it is being a real success. This chip on paper is much less capable than the most sophisticated GPUs that Nvidia currently sells. In fact, this is the reason why the US Department of Commerce has allowed its sale in China in recent months. Its limitations invited us to initially assume that their reception in this Asian country would be warm, but It has not been so at all. According to Business Intelligence semiconductorsince this chip reached the Chinese market in mid -2024 its sales have grown 50% quarter to quarter, which positions it as the most successful Nvidia product today. However, sales of The H100 GPUwhich is more powerful, “only” grows 25% quarter after quarter. In spite of everything since the end of 2024, the H20 Chip is undergoing the scrutiny of the US Department of Commerce. Jensen Huang has added one of his most unlikely successes Gina Raimondo, the Secretary of Commerce during the mandate of Joe Biden, He made this warning to Nvidia In December 2023: “If redesign a chip so that it can be used for AI, we will control it the next day.” The direct allusion to the Jensen Huang company is evident. The return to the US government of Donald Trump and his collaborators far from appeasing the panorama promised to end once and for all for the sale of the H20 GPU in China. The Nvidia business in China has resentful during the last two years as a result of the sanctions imposed by the US For Nvidia this restriction would be a very hard blow. His business in this Asian country has rented during the last two years as a result of the sanctions imposed by the US, and stop selling the GPU that during the last months He has sustained this company in China I would make a difficult wound to heal. These are the circumstances in which Jensen Huang has met with Donald Trumpand has done so with a firm purpose: to ensure that the government allows Nvidia to continue selling its H20 chip in China. The Trade Department, which under Trump’s mandate is being led by Howard Lutnick, intended According to several filters to prevent this week that this GPU continue to arrive in the country of Xi Jinping. However, against all forecast the US administration has suspended, at least temporarily, its export prohibition of this chip. This conclusion is surprising, but there are even more circumstances in which Jensen Huang has achieved his goal. And it is that the general director of Nvidia has approached this negotiation directly with Donald Trump during a dinner at the restaurant of the Mar-A-Lago tourist complex housed in Palm Beach (Florida), which is owned by the latter. It has transcended that Huang and the other diners They have paid a million dollars each for attending this dinner. But Huang has compensated. Nvidia can continue selling its H20 GPU in China. At least for the moment. Although, yes, he has pledged to invest more money in data centers for the US. Image | Nvidia More information | Npr In Xataka | The Nvidia pulse and US administration becomes more virulent. The B20 GPUs for danger

TSMC is being investigated by the US. It faces a possible fine of 1,000 million dollars, according to Reuters

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TSMC is at a crossroads. This manufacturer of Taiwanese semiconductors, The Major on the Planetis subject to an investigation of the US Commerce Department Since October 2024. The organization that Gina Raimondo then led suspected that this company could secretly arrived agreements with Huawei to take care of the manufacture of your semiconductors for smartphones and applications of artificial intelligence (AI). At the current situation of tension between the US and China this accusation is very serious. The US government definitely included Huawei in its blacklist in 2020, and one of the immediate consequences of this decision was that TSMC should stop producing semiconductors for this Chinese company. Two years later, in October 2022, the US administration decided to include All the Chinese semiconductor industry In his blacklist, which further cut the TSMC client portfolio. Fortunately for this company, Everything seemed to be clarified just a month ago. Finally, TSMC is likely to be unscathed from this conflict In December 2024 TSMC broke its commercial relationship with Powerair, a Singapore company that, apparently, was responsible for delivering to Huawei the chip manufactured by TSMC that appeared on the card for the Ascend 910b. Interestingly, this was the second company presumably responsible for reaching Huawei integrated circuits produced by TSMC. In 2023 this last company stopped offering its manufacturing service to the Chinese Chips Design Company Sophgo to illegally mediate with Huawei. The CSIS has accused TSMC of having made two million Ascend 910 chips indirectly for Huawei However, their problems did not end here. At the beginning of last March the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), An American organization that is dedicated to elaborating strategies that seek to guarantee the security of the US, accused TSMC of have manufactured indirectly for HuaweI For 2024, no less than two million chips of the Ascend 910. With these integrated circuits this Chinese company could have produced a huge number of units of its ascend 910c solution, which is currently its hardware for the most advanced. The most interesting thing was that the CSIS argued that Huawei had once again resorted to “ghost” companies that acted as intermediaries between her and TSMC. However, the author of the report did not exculpate the Taiwanese company: “TSMC manufactured large amounts of Ascend 910b of Huawei in the name of ghost companies and sent them to China, thus violating US export controls.” This is the reason why, According to Reutersthis integrated circuit manufacturer could receive a fine of billion dollars, or even more, from the Department of Commerce. US regulation establishes that in this context The sanction can ascend twice the value of the transactions that have violated export restrictions, which could place this fine as one of the highest in history by this type of infraction. Image | TSMC More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US tariffs are already hurting two of the companies that support Taiwan’s economy: TSMC and Foxconn

It already exceeds 8,000 million in income and manages to be profitable

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Amazon managed Your corporate blog. That is 13% more than the previous year, marking a new record since its arrival in the country in 2010. But the most notable is the turn in its profitability. The Spanish subsidiaries 36 million losses in 2023 were passed to 1.5 million benefits. Its main logistics division, Amazon Spain Fulfillment, multiplied by ten its benefit to 19.2 million, while Amazon Road Transport quintupled it to 10.45 million. This growth is mainly driven by its holy Trinity: Online store. Cloud services. Digital advertising. Why is it important. The technological giant has established itself as one of the ten largest employers in Spain with 28,000 permanent workers, being the company that has created the most stable employment in the last five years. Its total fiscal contribution exceeded 1.3 billion euros, distributed among more than 400 million in direct taxes (mainly social security and companies tax) and more than 900 million in indirect taxes (VAT and withholdings). The panoramic. The company has invested 4,500 million in Spain during 2024, 32% more than the previous year, with special focus on logistics infrastructure and data centers. Amazon has 40 logistics facilities throughout the country and has announced an investment of 15.7 billion to expand its Cloud region in Aragon. Its template reached 28,000 employees, adding 3,000 positions for 2024. Yes, but. Although Amazon speaks of a fiscal contribution of 1,300 million, its taxation for benefits in Spain is still completely broken down. The company emphasizes that it paid more than 400 million in direct taxes, but this figure mainly includes contributions to social security and other taxes, without specifying how strictly corresponds to the Corporation Tax. In detail. The greatest growth occurred in its technological areas: the Data Services subsidiary increased income by 60%, and the audiovisual division, 55.7%. Amazon Data Services, which manages data centers, received an injection of 500 million to expand its infrastructure in Aragon. Amazon Digital Spain, responsible for Prime videohe invoiced 312 million, almost doubleing his benefit. Amazon Online Spain, dedicated to advertising, multiplied its benefit for ten to 6.3 million. And now what. Amazon still does not reveal the specific income of your online store and AWS In Spain, when operating these areas through luxembourg branches. It is estimated that these operations generate about 4,650 million euros in Spain, approximately 58% of the total business, but its results do not break down with the same transparency as the subsidiaries constituted in the country. Outstanding image | Adrian Sulyok (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | I have downloaded all my Amazon data and I have learned a lesson: it is too easy to buy online

500 million years of evolution separate us from sea stars, but there is something that has not changed so much: our appetite

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Hormones are molecules that exert the functions of messengers in our body. They take part in a large number of physiological processes, among which are the food and digestion of the food we consume. Among them, we know several hormones that regulate appetite and satiety. Evolutionary History A new study has analyzed The evolutionary history of bombsin, a hormone capable of transmitting the signal of satiety to our brain. This hormone had already been detected in some species of vertebrates and we know that it is capable of exercising this function in humans. Now we have found the genes that encode these hormones in very distant species evolutionarily, such as sea stars. Bombsin Bombsine was discovered in 1971, not in humans but in an amphibian, the belly toad fire (Bombina Bombina). It is a small peptide similar to those used by our own body to transmit (among other “messages”) the sign that we have satiated, molecules such as glucagon, the gastric inhibitor peptide (GIP), or the peptide similar to glucagon-1 (LPG-1). The researchers who studied the bombsin verified that, by injecting it into mammals, this also caused a feeling of satiety. This caused the subjects to reduce the amount of foods they consumed and space their intakes more over time. Needle in a haystack. In his study, the team responsible for New Research, began to study the genomes of different invertebrate animals until it ran into genes capable of encoding hormones similar to bombsin. And they found them in several equinoderms species (Echinodermata), As for example in the common sea star (Asterias Rubens), but also in hedgehogs and sea cucumbers. “It was like finding a needle in a haystack,” explained in a press release Maurice Elphick, co -author of the study, “but finally we discover the genes that encode a neurohormone similar to the stars of sea stars and their relatives.” Arbn.After that, the team studied the function of this hormone, which they called Arbn. Through mass spectrometry, the equipment was able to determine the molecular structure of the compound, thanks to which they could synthesize it and submit it to test. Thus they found that the hormone had an impact on the gastric processes of sea stars. “When I put Arbn, I saw that it caused contraction in the stomach of the sea star,” Weiling Huang addedCo -author of the study. “This, Sig would, that Arbn could be involved in stimulating the stomach retraction when the sea star stops eating. And that is precisely what I saw. When I injected Arbn into the sea stars (…) it made the stomach retract (…). What is more, arbn also delayed the beginning of the food, since the stars injected with arb those that water was injected. “ The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Making historians. The study gives us new clues about how our digestive system and its tools to control its internal processes evolved. A track that allows us to ride ourselves 500 million years ago, when the last common ancestor of humans and sea stars inhabited the earth. But the finding also has significance for the pharmacological industry. In recent years they have seen the rise of various treatments based on hormone analogous substances such as LPG-1 or GIP. Compounds such as semaglutida (better known by its commercial name Ozempic) or the tirzepatida (Tirzepatida) were born as diabetes treatments but achieved success as losing weight formulas. These compounds emulate the hormones that our body secretes behind meals, hormones that fulfill the function of communicating to organs such as the pancreas that our digestive process is underway but that also transmit to the brain the message that we have satiated our appetite. Compounds such as Bombsine, Arbn, or similar could perhaps be used also In this context. In Xataka | Japanese researchers have studied how to eat less. Your verdict is extremely simple: eat more slowly Image | Hans Hillewaert, CC by-SA 4.0

The difficult thing has not been to build a yacht of 80 meters and 200 million dollars. It has been to take it to the sea without destroying it

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Imagine living in a quiet town near Rotterdam, and when you look at your window you see a colossus for you, 14 meters wide and with the height of a three -storey building. It is what has happened (once again) to the inhabitants of the quiet town of Alphan (Netherlands). According to published the local media AD Those who have approached one of the channels that are going through the population have seen how A 200 million superyate of dollars Lawrence Strollowner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1 and head of Fernando Alonso, juggled to reach the sea sailing through narrow channels and raffling bridges and all kinds of obstacles in his odyssey. The megayate odyssey Feadship is one of the world’s main manufacturers in the world. From their shipyards in Aalsmeer they have left colossi like the Launchpad by Mark Zuckerbergwith 118 meters of length. All of them have had to go through that intricate journey of narrow channels, curves that test the expertise of the engineers involved in the transfer and several traffic cuts in the populations through which they pass. This type of operations are not simple. They require millimeter planning and the perfect execution of each step. Any calculation or maneuver error could have ended up damaging the helmet of a vessel valued at more than 200 million dollars or, worse, putting people’s safety at risk. The epic odyssey of PROJECT 714production name that the Stroll Yate has received, was recorded on video for the Dutch Yachting Channel. Some sections of the transfer were especially tense, such as the pass There were hardly a few centimeters of margin so that the superyate helmet scratches its pillars. The tight turns in the channels, as a chicane in an F1 circuit as in which their owner competes, also contributed their touch of tension during the hypnotic transfer to high seas. Project 714 Leaving the shipyards When even money can pave the way PROJECT 714 is neither the first nor the last supereyate that makes this journey, but its complexity reaches the extreme when it comes to large vessels such as the commission of the owner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1, with an estimated heritage in 3.8 billion dollars, according to Forbes. The journey of Koru de Jeff Bezos From the Oceanco shipyards in Alblasserdam, it was a challenge the exit to the high seas through some channels similar to those that has had to travel the Spery of Stroll. On that occasion, the Dutch builder had to face A serious problem: A historical drawbridge built in 1927 was not high enough for the 70 -meter masts of the Koru to pass under its structure, so the construction company proposed to temporarily dismantle the bridge so that the sailboat could cross it. According to The published by the local medium Truuwthe refusal of the neighbors forced the refusal of the City Council, so the builder had no choice but make the journey without masts to complete the construction of the Koru in the shipyards that the company has in Greenport. A floating mansion Ad picked up some of the reactions of Alphan’s neighbors who came to see how Project 714 slid over the waters of their narrow channels. “This is quite impressive,” “is not normal”, “the closer, more impressive” or “we are in first class” are some of the comments that raised in its path the impressive mole of steel and aluminum. The luxurious yacht is designed to be A floating mansion destined for leisure and It has five covers, A beach club with pool in the stern, an sharp bow cover that could well host a helipad and wooden floors in all covers. When being in manufacturing phase, Feadship does not give many details about his Interior equipment and finishessomething that will be addressed after overcoming the navigation tests that it now faces. Which He has shared It is that the yacht has a more efficient diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system that reduces vibration and improve comfort on board. In Xataka | Ultrararicos change the ground for a superyte during the summer: so are some of these floating mansions In Xataka | Keeping a mooring supereate comes out very expensive. Some researchers have a proposal for the rich: donate them to science Image | Feadship, Aston Martin F1

They have lost more than 208,000 million in one day

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The already turbulent business of business and finance has been shaken by the earthquake of the tariffs that the US imposed on all the countries of the world, regardless of whether its only inhabitants They were penguins and seals. The immediate consequences has been a general fall in the main stock markets, which has especially affected the titans of technology and luxury, eliminated from a stroke more than 208,000 million dollars of their balances in a single day, According to estimates Bloomberg. According to Forbeslosses for the 3,000 most important millionaires reached 270,000 million. The news of the new US tariffs caused An earthquake in Wall Streetcausing the S&P 500 index to be left 4.8% and the Nasdaq Composite, centered on technology, 6%. The China response To those tariffs Nor is he helping to your recovery. Losers: Technological and Luxury Titans The disruption of investors that caused “the day of liberation” and Trump tariffs His main victim was charged in Mark Zuckerberg, whose estimate of his fortune has been reduced in 17.9 billion dollars In his single day. The value of the goal shares collapsed by 9%. It should be noted that Zuckerberg had successfully raffled the latest stock market crises, and while most of the millionaires who had donated to Donald Trump’s investiture, They lost about 209,000 millionGoal remained out of losses. The impact caused by Trump’s tariffs has been so great that he has not been able to dodge it. Jeff Bezos, is another of the technological millionaires he showed Your support to Trumpbut that has also been harmed from this stock market debacle. The session closed with Amazon’s shares, the main source of wealth for Bezos, falling into more than 9% in its price. That fall has meant eliminating some 16,000 million dollars Of the accounting balances of Bezos. Larry Ellison and Michael Dell didn’t get left behind in Milmillionaire losses either. The companies of both millionaires have a great dependence on hardware processors and components manufactured outside the USwhich caused investors to withdraw their money from their companies. Oracle’s shares fell 5.8%, while Dells left almost 19%, causing them losses of 9.9 billion and 9.4 billion dollars respectively. Interestingly, one of the least affected by the tariff storm was Elon Musk, the already altered Shareholders of Tesla They lived another day of falls In the price of the actions of the electric car manufacturer, but its fall was “only” 5%, which resulted in a loss of 8,700 million dollars In the estimate of Elon Musk’s fortune, which remains the richest person in the world with a heritage of 378.1 billion dollars. For his part, Bernard Arnault, The King of French luxuryhe suffered a decrease in his heritage of 8,600 million dollars After the fall suffered by LVMH’s shares in almost 6%. The holding company to which brands such as Louis Vuitton, Moët Chandon or Tiffanys & Co are in a serious problem since much of its brand portfolio manufactures its products in Europe. In Xataka | Only 15 people are part of the “100,000 million club”: it is 0.5% of 1% of the Milmillonaria elite In Xataka | The best paid Spanish manager in the world does not work in a great technological: sells “sugary water”

400 million euros for the electric car and the same as always

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The Government has confirmed the renewal of the MOVES III PLAN. More than two months after Congress knocked down the decree boum in which Aids for the purchase of electric cars were collectedthe Executive has managed to extend the plan that already existed and make it retroactive. It will be available until the funds are exhausted on December 31, 2025 The latter is important because it does not leave any buyer that he has acquired his electric car in 2025 behind. Remember that the approval of a new Moves Aids continued to be approved. From here, uncertainty. To start because, adding those days of 2025, The approved aids exceeded the budgeted amount. With the successive extensions, 1,550 million euros were available but the requests added 1,579 million euros. And, secondly, because from the beginning it has been ensured that all purchases made in January, February and March of an electric car that will enter the Moves Plan (less than 45,000 euros before the application of VAT) were going to be delivered to buyers. In spite Xataka different companies. Now we know that the program continues in the same terms we had with a Temporary extension of 400 million of euros. A program that can support at a time when the registrations of this type of technology have triggered. Aids that have the challenge of being more agile The aid of the Moves III Plan, which now recover, have the following format for the purchase of a tourism: Electric and electrical car of extended autonomy (more than 90 kilometers of electric autonomy): 4,500 euros of minimum aid and 7,000 euros of help if a vehicle with more than seven years of seniority is accused. Plug -in hybrid (between 30 and 90 kilometers of electrical autonomy: 2,500 euros of minimal aid and 5,000 euros if a vehicle with more than seven years old is accused. Fuel battery (without minimal autonomy): 4,500 euros of minimum aid and 7,000 euros of help if a vehicle is accused more than seven years old. These amounts They increase by 10% When the task of the vehicle is taxi, it is purchased by a person with reduced mobility or in a municipality with less than 5,000 inhabitants. In addition, with the extension of the Moves III Plan, the 15% dismissal in the income statement for the purchase of an electric car (with a maximum of 3,000 euros. The fall in aid had arrived at the worst time because the market gave symptoms that this technology was taken off. In fact, with figures from the first quarter of the yearWe know that the electric car has grown by 64.22%, until reaching 22,028 registrations. But, above all, it has been 6.66% market share, which is a great advance for previous years where it did not pass or cost to reach 5%. It remains to know how many of these registrations were already closed before the fall in January of the Moves III Plan and are being registered now. With the registrations of the month of April we should verify If the fall of the Moves III Plan was leaving a lot of hangover in the market or purchases have continued. What we will not have is a change in the bureaucracy of aid. Asked for this, Sara Aagesen, Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, has assured that He has worked to expedite processes But aid will continue to be processed by the Autonomous Communities. The current process has been repeatedly criticized by manufacturers and buyers since the delivery of aid was delayed to the point that some clients did not see the entry of them Until more than three years old. More than a year ago than The Government promised To change this and deliver the aid as a discount that we would find when buying the car. At the moment, it has not happened. Photo | Renault In Xataka | All aid you can request for the purchase of an electric car

Byd broke the barrier of 100,000 million dollars of income in 2024. It is an unknown milestone for Tesla

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The year 2024 was marked by a huge fight between the two great giants of electric cars. Byd and Tesla played the market with a disparate luck until closing with a technical draw. The last chapter is signed by its financial results. Sales. Byd put 4.27 million cars on the market in 2024. The figure is far from 1.79 million cars delivered by Tesla. Elon Musk’s company He failed to exceed the figure of the previous year (1.81 million units) for the first time in the last ten years. However, Tesla sold more electric cars than byd. Although the Chinese company is famous for its electric cars, the truth is that in 2024 it sold 1.76 million cars, according to Financial Times. The figure It has been ratified In the presentation of results that the Chinese company has carried out last week. Not just EV. That is, Byd has sold almost 2.5 million more cars than Tesla but has managed to enroll plug -in hybrids. In China, plug and electrical hybrids total in the same category (New energy vehicles) But they are not the same. In China, the aid for the purchase of electric cars also add up for new energy vehicles. That is why in Byd they focused 15 years ago. Recently, the company has celebrated break the 10 million units barrier of new energy cars manufactured. To reach the first five million it took 15 years but for the subsequent five million it has only taken fifteen months. A Sorpasso. If we talk about electric cars, BYD has lacked very little to overcome Elon Musk’s company last year. Everything indicates that it will meet the objectives this year although the forecasts point to Sell ​​5.5 million units of new energy cars in 2025. It has not been specified how many would be electric. If these figures are fulfilled, Byd will fight with Stellantis for being the fifth largest car manufacturer in the world. Would reach the figure selling only plug -in hybrid models and electric cars, which does not do any of the rivals that in 2024 he had above (Stellantis, General Motors, Hyundai/Kia, Volkswagen and Toyota). And another already confirmed. If we take into account how 2025 started for Tesla, we can expect Byd to exceed those of Elon Musk in electric. However, in 2024 he already advanced in another equally important parameter: income. Last week he confirmed that they shot over the 107,000 million dollars. The Chinese company thus broke a barrier that Tesla has not overcome so far. The American company stayed last year at 97.7 billion dollars in its income. The prospects for the Chinese company are even more ambitious for 2025, I have the launch of its new products. Without loosening. In 2025, Byd does not plan to lift the foot of the accelerator. The company has begun to deploy loaders who promise 400 kilometers recharges in five minutes. For the moment, Only two of your cars They can carry this power but expected to add new models, especially those of greatest cost. And to this we must add that he recently confirmed that he would put his eye of God in the street (the most advanced driving aid functions) in all his cars, regardless of its price. It is a missile to the company’s flotation line that wants to get an economic performance of it and see how competition gives it. New horizons. In addition to the above, Byd also has a lot to win because it has new markets in April. In front of Tesla, which has four models (And one of them is only sold in the United States)Byd continues to find a hole for its plug -in hybrids and its electric. Having combustion engines in their wallet allows them break in Europe And, above all, in countries where The electric car is less developed. Despite Do not sell in the United Stateswait in 2025 Sell ​​800,000 units outside Chinawhich means duplicating the numbers of 2024. And the battle for China. To all of the above, it must be added that Tesla’s performance in China is being very bad in these first months of 2025. Byd has reached a point where accumulates a 15% market share In sales. Of the total sales, not only of the new energy models. Tesla, however, is in free fall in the market. To the point that in February 2024 a little more than 30,000 units enrolled. It did not reflect such a low figure since July 2022, according to CNEV Post. China, the world’s largest electric car market, does not seem the ideal place to suffer with sales if you sell exclusively electric cars. Photo | Byd and Tesla In Xataka | The electric car is sweeping so much in China that the natural step is already raised: stop calling it “electric”

Volkswagen lost 6.7 million with each one who sold

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On the Paseo de la Fame of the luxury supercoches, there is a star reserved for a car that, although their wealthy buyers had to put on the table 1.7 million dollars to remove it from the dealership, every time a unit was sold, its manufacturer lost 6.7 million dollars: The Bugatti Veyron. Bugatti Veyron: A luxury and speed icon The Bugatti Veyron He was born in 2005 of one Ambitious idea: Create the faster, powerful and luxurious car in the world. And what if they got it. Ferdinand Piëch, the visionary architect of the current Volkswagen group and grandson of Ferdinand Porsche himself. The passion for speed and luxury was carried in the DNA. This supercar mounted one of the engines that has given the most joys to Bugatti. It’s about Your brutal W16 of 8.0 liters and four turbos, with which it was able to accelerate as a rocket and break cut speed records above 406 km/h. This figure became almost a demand for The desire for “revenge” of the brand for a speed record in Le Mans. The name of the Veyron also closely linked to Le Mans’s career, since he honors Bugatti’s pilot and engineer Pierre Veyronwhich in 1939 won the 24 hours of Le Mans with one of the brands of the brand. The brand took Six years to develop from the Veyron for the challenge of implementing an engine capable of developing 1,001 hp of power and 1,400 nm of touch. To keep the temperature of such a beast at bay, engineers had to integrate 10 radiators. The exclusivity of the Bugatti Veyron was not only noticed when paying the 1.7 million dollars that cost Each unit. Each game of tires, especially Designed for the Veyron For Michelin, it cost the whopping $ 38,000 and had to replace every 4,000 km. On the track and maximum speed, the life of the tires was limited to about 15 minutes before disintegrating. Something that would rarely do, since the 106 liters of their deposit gave for 12 minutes. Without a doubt, a car with maintenance Far from the reach of many pockets. The Veyron was not just speed. It was also extreme luxury. Every detail, from materials to labor, was of the highest quality. Having a Veyron was like having a work of art on wheels, a demonstration that you could afford the best of the best. Aspire to One of the special editions Del Veyron was already another level, and supposed to pay more than 2.7 million for some of them. A ruinous business for Volkswagen But here comes the surprising part: despite its millionaire sales price, Volkswagen lost money with every Veyron who sold. And not little, precisely. Such and as they counted in Technology.orgthe financial research firm of Wall Street Bernstein Research published a report in which they assured that the Volkswagen group lost about 6.24 million dollars for each Bugatti Veyron that was sold. However, later the authors of that report admitted that this figure should be taken cautiously because it was based on approximate estimates. Paradoxically, the explanation of this financial fiasco is given by its engineering and design success. Volkswagen did not spare on expenses to create the perfect car and for it They invested 1,620 million of dollars in their development. Last prototype of the Bugatti Veyron The negative part is that Bugatti only sold 450 units of his Veyron in the 10 years he was on sale, so the investment in R&D was higher than the brand recovered selling cars, which was a financial fiasco. However, although in absolute terms, the development effort of the Veyron was greater than the income of its sale, the technology that was developed for that jewel of engineering then served as the basis for all A supercoches lineage. Its legacy has served to knock down all the speed records until it reaches 490.48 km/h that reached the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ In 2019, such and as he collected Car and Driver. Volkswagen was willing to assume those losses because he wanted to demonstrate his ability to create the Best Support Support in the World. Although, the Veyron was not a financial success in itself, it managed to position Bugatti as a reference brand on the map of luxury supercoches. A “failure” that, in the end, turned out to be a great triumph, although very expensive. In Xataka | Bugatti has found a new reef: his clients are spent on average 500,000 euros on extras to customize his car In Xataka | They are founders and ultra -ups, but they have not always driven luxury supercoches: a review of the cars of the Tech millionaires Image | Bugatti

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