On January 16, Ideal Auto founder Li Xiang once again "fired" at some of the remarks in the current automotive circle through social platforms, and this time the target was Tuanche, an auto trading service platform listed on the US stock market. It is worth mentioning that the company officially announced on January 6 this year to enter the field of car manufacturing and become a member of the army of new domestic forces.
This time, Li Xiang expressed his opinion by forwarding a blog post, saying: Those entrepreneurs who expect to find a super savior, those entrepreneurs who hope to be incompetent by opening the second vein of Ren Dou, and finally find a general liar, or most likely they are liars. At the same time, he also stressed that there are still people who can openly speak out of this view without shame, which really refreshes the bottom line of entrepreneurs.
The original blog post that Li wanted to forward was an interview with Wen Wei, CEO of Tuanche, from a domestic auto media, which had a lot of views on the advantages of Tuanche's own car manufacturing and his views on the new forces at present.
According to the original blog post, the biggest driving force for the group car to decide to build a car came from an external team of more than 100 people, and Wen Wei said that this team can undertake almost all the car manufacturing processes including product planning, engineering development, intelligent driving, and has more than 20 years of car manufacturing experience. Not only that, this team can also do more than 20 million yuan of cars, but also can do cars below 50,000 yuan, including commercial vehicles, logistics vehicles. It is worth mentioning that the team's car manufacturing cycle can be achieved in 18-24 months, while the current domestic manufacturers need 36 months.
Combined with the original blog post, Wen Wei gave a high evaluation to his own car-making team, almost omnipotent. In addition, according to the information, the team already has semi-finished models, and the first car of the group car will be selected from these semi-finished models, the price will be between 100,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan, and it is expected to open pre-sales in the second half of this year.
As for the funds and budgets for car-making, Wen Wei revealed that there are many investors who are currently interested, and the desire of local governments for car-making projects can also become one of the solutions; and according to the calculation of tuanche, the funds required for mass production of a car are only a fraction of the current new car-making forces; for example, Niu Chuang got 500 million US dollars, and Tuanche may be one-tenth of his.
The screenshot is derived from the original blog post that Li wanted to forward
In response to Li Xiang's questions, the group car has not yet responded. However, this is not the first time that Li wants to spit on some of the industry's views and products in public or on social platforms.
Regarding the follow-up progress of the Li Xiang shelling regiment car manufacturing incident, the author will continue to pay attention to it. However, from the concept and original intention of the group car manufacturing reflected in the blog post, it is inevitable that people will question it. Even if the threshold for electric vehicles is lower than that of the traditional internal combustion engine era, there are still higher requirements for related technologies and funds; in addition, in recent years, in the domestic new force army, PPT car manufacturing is not a minority. Then whether the group car chooses to build a car is as Li Xiang said, perhaps in the second half of this year.