1. XPeng Inc.

, founded in 2015, is a leading Chinese smart electric vehicle (“Smart EV”)

company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets smart electric vehicles in China.
Today they have become a recognized leader in the fast-growing smart electric vehicle market,
producing popular and sustainable vehicles, namely the SUV (G3) and the four-door sports
sedan (P7). Smart EVs offer attractive design and performance, combined with safety and
reliability. Their smart EVs appeal to China's large and growing base of tech-savvy middle-class
consumers.

They are primarily targeted at the mid-to-high-price segment of the passenger car market in
China. To optimize customer mobility and enable rapid product iteration, they strategically
decided to focus on developing fully featured intelligent driving technologies, an embedded
intelligent operating system and core automotive systems in-house.

With their own software, underlying hardware and data processing technologies, they can
quickly and efficiently develop and implement innovative products. XiaoPeng has a multi-
channel sales model that combines a data-driven and targeted online marketing strategy with a
physical sales and service network. Their manufacturing philosophy is based on quality,
continuous improvement, flexibility and high operational efficiency. XPeng aims to drive the
transformation of smart electric vehicles through technology and data and shape the mobility of
the future.

Prices.

G3 starting price is 149,800 RMB

P7 starting price is 229,900 RMB

2. Avian Machinery is a world class manufacturer of size reduction machinery for the plastic, rubber,
paper, wood and recycling industries. With manufacturing, distribution, and service facilities in
Australia Sydney, China Shanghai, USA Chicago, Germany, Avian Machineryis an international
supplier to the plastics, rubber, paper, wood industry.

The parent company of Avian Machinery was founded in 1962 in Australia Sydney and has grown to
a global company with manufacturing, service and distribution centers in the USA, Germany, China,
Korea, Japan, UK, Czech Republic, South Africa, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Middle East.

Avian offers a wide variety of machines including low, medium, and high speed granulators,
pulverizes, shredders and all washing line. Avian granulators and shredders are ideal for block, film,
sheet, plastic, and other specialized material including rubber. Currently, Avian customers include
the automotive, electronic, food packaging , engineering pipes, chemical, plastic, waste recycling
and packaging industries.

We chose this company because it can recycle automative plastic, which is rare. There are many
recycling plants, but they just shred the whole car, which is not efficient.
Xpeng can also finance it to help scale up operations and allow it to recycle other automotive
plastics that have not been abstracted to date.

Exactly what car parts are recyclable?

Cars these days contain at least 400 to 500 pounds of plastic, an amount which continues to
increase for fuel efficiency and to create lighter vehicles. There are about 5 different types of
plastic used within cars, including polypropylene, polyethylene, polycarbonate, TPO, PVC, and
ABS. Most of the plastics can be recycled, but the challenge of separation, sorting, and
cleansing of contaminants is a different matter altogether.

Some parts that we regularly recycle include bumpers, spoilers, valences, fender trim moldings,
headlight & taillight casings and covers, wheel liners, and bed liners. Interior trim such as trim
panels, dash panel trim, and consoles can also be recycled, but are not removed very often.
Same goes with engine bay trim, including engine covers and air baffles.

Are all brands equally recyclable? How about types of vehicles (SUV vs car vs pickup)?

Yes, all plastic parts that can be separated (i.e. the plastic polymers are the same) can be
recycled. The caveat is that you can’t take a mixed bunch of plastic parts that variously contain,
PP, ABS, PVC, and PC for instance, and recycle them together. In order to recycle, the
components need to be separated by polymer. And sorting black plastic – which most car parts
are – is extremely challenging.

How exactly is the plastic recycled?

They first sort the plastics by polymer, then decontaminate the parts. For example, in the case
of a TPO bumper, contaminants may include metal parts, clips, sensor brackets made from
different polymers, and/or an ABS grill, which is incompatible with TPO. Once this part is clean
of all contaminants, then it is grouped with other TPO parts and put this through a shredding
and granulating process to create “re-grind flake.” Avian then work with partners who extrude
and further process this material.

How about car parts?

Manufacturers, including the vehicle manufacturers, are looking for ways to re-incorporate the
material back into car parts. But it comes down to volume available, purity, and shipping costs.

Avian are also trying to work with metal recyclers to be able to recycle the automotive plastics
before the vehicle gets shredded. Once the car gets shredded, the plastics in an end-of-life
vehicle get mixed with fabric, rubber, glass, and sometimes ugly stuff like mercury. All of that
ends up becoming Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR), which is landfilled. B.C. generates 80
million pounds of plastic that becomes ASR each year, so it’s a big environmental problem to
solve

What can communities do to improve the situation and divert more auto plastics?

Vancouver has been doing pretty well. Metro Vancouver has banned the disposal of auto parts
in the landfill, which helps encourage more recycling. Body shops generally want to do the right
thing, and many shops hate seeing this plastic enter the landfill. However, it is expensive to do
this work, and it would be nice to see if there was some support for the bodyshops to help them
offset the costs of recycling.

Avian hope the insurance industry will help support their efforts to recycle. After all, they pay for
insurance in case of an accident, and, in a collision, the insurance company is paying for the
replacement parts to be replaced. Shouldn’t they also be helping to ensure the end-of-life part is
responsibly recycled, rather than turfed in the landfill?

3. China plans to effectively rein in the trend of polluting plastic products ending up in nature by
2025, according to an action plan made public on 15, September 2021. Aside from sharply
cutting the use of disposable products and enhancing recycling, the country will strive to stop
plastic and other waste from ending up in landfills, said the document, which was issued by the
National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

Thus, it can work well for both companies to cooperate. Apart from the fact that China and the
USA are experiencing the trade war nowadays, we all understand that ecological problems do
not advance anyone these days, and consiquences are harsh on everyone. Only working
together we can fight the climat change and exceed of plastic waste that harms oceans and
lands.
As we menioned before in this research, you can see that Avian works with China. What we
suggest is that they work together, which will benefit both companies and their countries.
XiaoPeng can use recycled plastic produced by Avian. And vice versa, XiaoPeng can supply
Avian with scrapped cars. Almost all the car dealerships in the world have trade-in programs:
you take your old car, whenever condition it is, it is been priced and this price is discounted from
the new automobile you are going to purchase. It also works with cars which are not on the
move. So, here we see a great opportunity for these two companies to cooperate beneficially.