Whip bullshi January 17 news, a few days ago, the group car network announced in a high profile that it will join the army of new car-making forces, and on the social platform and Ait Weilai, Ideal Car and Xiaopeng Car. Before this dynamic, there were no rumors that the company was going to build a car.
Wen Wei, CEO of Tuanche, said in an interview with the media that the reason for building cars, in addition to the commonality of industry opportunities, the biggest driving force for Tuanche to decide to build cars comes from an external team of more than 100 people. Wen Wei introduced that this team can undertake product planning, modeling design, engineering development, testing, chassis, three electricity, intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, systematic integration program, production support, supplier management of almost all car manufacturing processes, with more than 20 years of experience in car manufacturing, in the technology, sample cars have precipitation.
"This team can make cars with more than 20 million yuan, and can also do cars with less than 50,000 yuan, including commercial vehicles and logistics vehicles."
"The international manufacturers of the fuel vehicle era of the car manufacturing cycle are 48 months, the domestic manufacturers have done 36 months, and our current team can do 18-24 months."
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In Wen Wei's description, this team is almost omnipotent, and is with semi-finished models to come, the first car will be selected from these semi-finished models, "the first car using mature programs, mature technology, mature suppliers, the product itself quality, quality control is completely mature and controllable", priced at 100,000 yuan - 200,000 yuan range, 2022 golden nine silver ten can be pre-sold.
Below the article, most netizens questioned the group car manufacturing.
Ideal Auto CEO Li Xiang also forwarded the report, and commented that those entrepreneurs who hope to find a super savior, those who hope to be able to do nothing by opening the second pulse of Ren Dou, and finally find the general liars, or most likely they are also liars. There are still people who can openly speak out of this view without shame, which really refreshes the bottom line of entrepreneurs. The essence of entrepreneurship is: rhythmic and patient long-term growth.
Tuanche is a leading automobile trading and service platform, founded in 2010, with new car group buying as the core entry point, and successfully listed on the NASDAQ in the United States in 2018, known as the first domestic auto new retail stock listed in the United States. Tuanche lays out a new retail strategy around the auto trading scene and creates a complete auto trading service ecological chain. Tuanche has created a new retail model of scenario-based automotive industry, and worked with automobile OEMs and dealers to build a local offline car purchase scenario for consumers, which reduces the communication cost between automobile manufacturers and users, reduces bicycle marketing costs, and improves the success rate while facilitating consumers to buy cars.
According to the enterprise inspection APP, the affiliated company of Tuanche is Tuanche Internet Information Service (Beijing) Co., Ltd., and there are 19 enterprises in the group to which Tuanche belongs, of which 10 have been cancelled, 8 enterprises have the status of "survival", and 1 is in business.
Yesterday afternoon, Wen Wei, CEO of Tuanche, responded on the social platform, "I didn't expect that the first shot of the Long March came from Mr. Li Xiang. Apart from rhythm and patience, have you forgotten your vision and judgment? Wasn't Feng Sihan's repulsion that he had seen his eyes spray too early? Therefore, no one should think of themselves as prophets, nor should they be the ones they hate the most. ”
According to the data, as of now, the group car has not yet achieved profitability. In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, the net losses of Tuanche were 86.568 million yuan, 90.671 million yuan, 78.700 million yuan, 251 million yuan and 163 million yuan, respectively, with a cumulative loss of about 670 million yuan in the past five years.
As of the close of the U.S. stock market on January 16, 2022, the market value of the group car was $52.74 million.
