The public account of Qiantu Automobile recently issued a public account push, the content of which was the previous day's Qiantu Automobile Suzhou factory planning conference and delivery ceremony, which may mean that Qiantu Automobile officially returned. Starting on December 2, this public account began to have intermittent content updates, on the same day, the public account released a video of the future car road running, and then on December 7, the public account announced that it had reached a meta-universe event cooperation with Beijing Jingang, which operates a racing track. On December 10, Qiantu Automobile promoted its Douyin account and said, "I'm back again."
Before the "resurrection" operation of this system, the last update of its official account was in July 2020. There is a period in 2020, whenever many auto media mention the future car, they like to add a few words to the back, "The future car, is there a future?" This year's situation is a little different, when mentioning the future car, it will add three words in front of it to become "Remember the future car?" ”。 At the beginning of the year, there was also a car owner on Weibo who told the story of his experience with a crying voice, saying that this was "the least worthless car ever bought, running for more than 1,000 kilometers, and there was no electricity for a week" to call the sales, and the sales said that "the boss has gone out of business and the future has gone out of business." "Future Cars has never officially announced its own death, but the time to disappear is indeed enough for people to forget and remember."
Who would have thought that it would be back and delivered.
In the public account article, No. 18 Qiantu Automobile held a strategy sharing at the Suzhou factory, at the meeting, Lu Qun, chairman of Qiantu Automobile, said that Qiantu Automobile will be laid out in the "three new" fields such as new materials, new energy, and new intelligence, while Lu Qun said that in 2022, Qiantu Automobile K20 will be officially listed, and Qiantu Automobile will begin to lay out overseas cars. Paradoxically, Future Auto not only quietly resumed production of the Future K50 off the production line, but also found 6 new owners to appear at the delivery ceremony to deliver the new car.
This new car that appeared on the scene has some history. This is the first domestic pure electric supercar prospect K50, NEDC comprehensive mileage of 380km, 100 miles acceleration time of 4.6s. After the official listing in August 2018, the official price was 754,300 yuan, and the price after subsidy was 686,800 yuan. Because of this positioning and pricing, the future K50 from the beginning to the disappearance, sales of less than 200 vehicles.
In the late stage of the news of the financial difficulties of the future car, there was a batch of half-discounted future K50s in the car circle of friends, even so, it is said that some second-hand car dealers sold for more than a year, and finally had to tearfully discount another half discount of about 200,000 yuan to throw.
As early as 2015, Qiantu Automobile was announced, and in 2016, Qiantu Automobile obtained the new energy vehicle manufacturing qualification issued by the National Development and Reform Commission. By 2018, Qiantu Automobile obtained the car manufacturing qualification of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which is one of the few new energy car manufacturing enterprises with full qualifications, and its parent company is the automobile engineering manufacturer Great Wall Huaguan. Due to the high positioning and high pricing of the above products, sales are not enough to support the operation of the enterprise, back to two or three years ago, not to mention the future of the car. Even the three new forces of Wei Xiaoli, which has sold more than 10,000 yuan now, basically considered the problem of getting out of trouble at that time, and Li Xiang, CEO of Ideal Automobile, was proud to be one of the five new energy vehicle companies that can pay salaries normally.
According to the 2018 annual performance report released by Great Wall Huaguan, the company's total profit loss in 2018 reached 609 million yuan, down 163.44% year-on-year; the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies lost 606 million yuan, down 168.15% year-on-year. In 2016 and 2017, the loss was 0.98 billion yuan and 226 million yuan respectively, and the debt ratio was 35.28% and 69.46% respectively. As the losses of the parent company became more and more serious, and affected by the inability to obtain new financing, in February 2019, The Great Wall Huaguan, the parent company of Future Automobile, began to have arrears of wages and supplier payments. At that time, the future official replied, "The company does have problems in terms of funds, but it does not affect the payment of employee salaries." ”
In the middle of 2019, the news that Future Auto applied for a loan with employee credit for salary was unsuccessful, and then there were media reports that Future Auto provided a limited number of 200 people to leave, and these 200 people agreed to voluntarily leave, and settled their salaries at the end of February, and there was no compensation. But even after February, these signed employees still did not get paid.
There are also promising auto employees on the Internet who issue the text of the resignation agreement, which states: if the labor compensation is abandoned, the wages will be settled in May of the following year; if the N+1 is to be compensated, the wages will be settled in August of the following year; and if the wages are not left, the wage date is expected to be determined. At that time, the wages of future auto employees were not only owed, social security and provident funds were also cut off, and some employees could not get back the wages they deserved. From various circumstances, the future car is not unpaid, but can not. Future Auto never responded to these messages or confirmed the authenticity of these agreements.
On the Tianyan check, whether it is Great Wall Huaguan or Qiantu Automobile, there are many cases related to suppliers or labor contracts, including the compulsory enforcement of the court, and the announcement that a number of executives of Qiantu Automobile have been listed as restricted high-consumption personnel.
Eventually, in November 2020, Qiantu's first experience store in Sanlitun, Beijing, was closed, the delivery center in Jingang Automobile Park was also empty, and Qiantu Automobile actually disappeared until the 2nd of this month began to resume its voice. Before that, there were some signs that Qiantu Automobile was changing, one was that last month, a French creditor living in Shanghai withdrew its bankruptcy application to the court, and some big V in the sports car industry also sent some content positioned in the exhibition hall of Qiantu Automobile's Suzhou factory.
This may be related to a former Volkswagen China executive, who at the end of last month, former Volkswagen China executive Su Weiming founded Binli Automobile, whose 20% stake is held by the future parent company Great Wall Huaguan. Penley Motors plans to be officially released at the 2022 Beijing Auto Show, but the company has no car manufacturing qualifications and no production base. If Bingli Automobile really cooperates with Qiantu Automobile, Qiantu Automobile may still have a future, but it may first solve the historical problems left over from before, provide lower price mass market products, and obtain more financial support.
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