Abstract: With the wide application of digital intelligence technology, artificial intelligence has become an important driving force for the improvement of new quality productivity.Based on the panel data of listed companies in China's new energy vehicle industry in 2011-2022, this paper discusses the influence of artificial intelligence on the new quality productivity of the new energy vehicle industry.The results show that: (1) artificial intelligence can not only directly promote the improvement of industrial new quality productivity, but also indirectly promote the development of industrial new quality productivity by reducing the stickiness of R&D costs and transaction costs, improving the quality and efficiency of innovation;(2) The promotion effect of artificial intelligence in promoting the new quality productivity of the new energy industry has obvious heterogeneous characteristics and threshold effect.In non-state-owned enterprises and eastern regions, after Tesla enter the Chinese market, as well as in enterprises with a short established time, moderate listing age and large scale of employees, the promotion effect is more obvious;(3) The conduction effect analysis of the industrial chain shows that the downstream industry has a stronger transmission effect on the upstream industry. This study provides important inspiration for the government and enterprises to make better use of the AI empower dividend and improve the new quality productivity of the new energy vehicle industry in the new development pattern.

Key words: artificial intelligence, new quality productivity, innovation cost, innovation quality, innovation efficiency, threshold effect, industrial chain transmission effect