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On December 18, The long-discontinued Future Automobile delivered the Future K50 to new users at its Suzhou plant, and announced that the Future K20 will be officially listed in 2022 and begin to lay out overseas markets. Qiantu Automobile also announced that it will cooperate with Suzhou Canadian Solar Power Technology Co., Ltd. to plan to mass-produce and launch the world's first solar photovoltaic vehicle in 2022.
At the 2022 Future Strategy Sharing Meeting, Lu Qun said that Future Automobile will focus on the layout of new materials, new energy and new intelligence, and he believes that new energy vehicles need to be lightweight to reduce the cost of use and save energy.
According to the information disclosed by Lu Qun, at present, Qiantu Automobile has reached cooperation with academician Yu Aibing, academician Wu Xinhua and Monash University in Australia, and the three parties will jointly develop and produce aluminum alloy 3D printing technology, fluid metal body bone structure, new body connection technology and light alloy body manufacturing. In the future, Future Auto will continue to deeply lay out the application of new materials in subsequent models, reduce the quality of the whole vehicle through new materials and meet the customized needs of users.
In terms of new energy, Lu Qun said that Qiantu Automobile will lay out solar photovoltaic vehicles, saying that Qiantu Automobile has reached a cooperation with Suzhou Canadian Solar Power Technology Co., Ltd. The two sides will jointly promote the industrialization and commercial application of lightweight on-board solar photovoltaic products in the whole vehicle, and plan to mass-produce and launch the world's first solar photovoltaic vehicle in 2022. Lu Qun said that in the future, the technology will be applied to the follow-up models of Future Automobile and pushed to overseas markets.
Not only that, Lu Qun further said that the project will achieve the goal of achieving an average daily cruising range of more than 50 kilometers per day with photovoltaic charging technology in the three types of lighting areas (the annual equivalent photovoltaic utilization hours are 1200-1400 hours).
In terms of new intelligence, the future car aims at the heat of the meta-universe. Qiantu Automobile said that it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Jingang Automobile Culture Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Creative Cloud Network Technology Co., Ltd. to jointly develop a meta-universe racing game and create an offline event based on Qiantu K50 modified GT racing car.
As the first company to obtain the "double qualification" of new energy vehicles, Qiantu Automobile was officially established on December 14, 2016. Great Wall Huaguan, the parent company of Qiantu Automobile, is a research and development company for automobile design, which began to tackle the core technology of electric vehicles in 2009, and launched the Qiantu K50 prototype concept car at the 2014 Beijing Auto Show, and the Qiantu K50 was officially released at the 2015 Shanghai International Auto Show. In 2018, the first mass-produced model, the Future K50, was listed on the market, and the price after subsidy was 686,800 yuan, which can be said to be the most expensive car in the domestic car manufacturers at that time. However, due to the K50's market positioning and high pricing, the model is seriously slow to sell.
Although sales are very poor, the future car burns money quickly. Since September 2015, the parent company of Qiantu Automobile was officially listed on the New Third Board to February 20, 2019 issued an announcement to terminate the listing, according to incomplete statistics, Great Wall Huaguan raised more than 2 billion yuan through private placement. But the money that came in burned out in a year or so. Since then, the negative news of Future Auto has continued, starting from February 2019, it has been exposed that the capital chain has been broken, and its first store in Sanlitun has been withdrawn, and the delivery center in Jingang Automobile Park has also been emptied.
On September 22, 2020, Fano Automobile signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Qiantu Automobile. The main content of the agreement shows that Qiantu Automobile and Fano Automobile jointly establish a production base in Changde City, Hunan Province, and the professional technology and qualification assets provided by Qiantu, funded by the company and cooperated with the company's international sales channels, to jointly develop the new energy vehicle business.
The two-year-old Future Car has also made a warm-up for this return. On December 2, The official WeChat public account of Qiantu Automobile released the road running video of Qiantu K50, which is also the first update of the account since July 30 last year; on December 7, Qiantu Automobile once again issued a document announcing the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with Goldenport Holdings and Blue Ocean Creative; on December 10, Qiantu Automobile promoted its short video account with the caption "I am back again".
In fact, the "resurrection" of the future car this time is not without warning. On the one hand, from the domestic new energy vehicle market environment favorable factors are obvious, the industry generally believes that the marketization of new energy vehicles has entered a new stage of explosive growth, and has shifted from the past policy-oriented to market-driven.
On the other hand, the action of great wall Huaguan, the parent company of Future Automobile. At the end of May this year, Great Wall Huaguan held the second shareholders' meeting of 2021 at the Suzhou plant of Qiantu Automobile. According to the information disclosed by Great Wall Huaguan, the second shareholders' meeting elected a new board of directors and a board of supervisors, and resolved to approve the relevant company financing and equity incentive plans.
It is worth noting that at the second shareholders' meeting of Great Wall Huaguan, there were some important enterprises and capital parties, such as Shen Jihong, director of the management committee of Nanjing Economic Development Zone, Dong Min, general manager of Su Gaoxin Venture Capital Group, GuoKejia and Qiu Lianyong, managing director, Du Mingchong, deputy general manager of the investment banking department of CICC, and Li Yaoyuan, natural person shareholder. Since then, there has been news that Great Wall Huaguan, which has been delisted from the New Third Board for two years, intends to re-list, to which Lu Qun has responded that it is under study.
On December 10, Rayfont New Energy announced that it would subscribe for no more than 4% of the equity of Great Wall Huaguan, which is currently engaged in a round of fund-raising activities to raise about RMB200 million to RMB240 million through investor subscription of new shares, and the subscription agreement is part of the fundraising activities.
On December 15, Great Wall Huaguan said that it signed an agreement with two institutions that the three parties will cooperate in the research and development and application of aluminum alloy 3D printing in vehicles, automobile talent training, etc. Future Automobile, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Wall Huaguan, will widely apply these research and development results to new models. Not only that, great wall Huaguan is associated with Binli Automobile, founded by former Volkswagen China executive Su Weiming. According to enterprise investigation data, Binli Automobile was established at the end of November, and Great Wall Huaguan held 20% of its equity.
Nowadays, with the increasing acceptance of new energy vehicles by consumers, the domestic new energy vehicle market has ushered in explosive growth. According to the data of the Association of Passenger Vehicles, the retail sales of new energy passenger cars in November this year were 378,000 units, an increase of 122.3% year-on-year and 19.4% month-on-month; the cumulative sales volume from January to November was 2.514 million units, an increase of 178.3% year-on-year. Not long ago, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said at the information conference in December that at present, the new energy vehicle market has shifted from policy-driven to market-driven.
Monthly sales of new energy vehicles, source: China Automobile Association
Chen Qingtai, chairman of the China Electric Vehicle 100 Association, previously said: The industrialization of new energy vehicles has gone through three stages, the first stage is the policy-driven stage, the second is the policy + market-driven stage, and the third stage that is now starting is the market-driven stage.
Now the sudden announcement of the return of the future car may be the "eye red" of the growth of new energy vehicles against the market. As for whether it is ready to grab market share, at least from the current point of view, future cars have not said goodbye to this.
In addition, Zotye Automobile has just announced the start of the restructuring plan and will re-enter the high-end electric market. The return of the future car brings a new model of the future K20, which means that the future is about to usher in a new stage of development, as to whether it can successfully reverse the inherent impression of volkswagen and smoothly return to the new energy market? Worth looking forward to.
Remember a few years ago a new car-making force logo map, according to incomplete statistics there are nearly 50 new car-making forces, in just a few years most of the new car-making forces have been "killed", there are a few cars are still surviving, can really be regarded as a few ashore.
Source: Electric Zhijia