In the automotive circle, many big guys are very individualistic, and their common point is to dare to speak, saying that it is good to hear it is called arrogant dry clouds, saying that it is not good to hear it is called bragging X, and running trains with mouths full of mouths. For example, Li Bin, the founder of Weilai, said that he did not understand why there are still people who want to buy fuel vehicles. This makes people very speechless when they hear it, and you sell electric vehicles yourself to demean fuel vehicles, and immediately have no good feelings. And another big guy in the car circle, the founder of Ideal Car, Li Xiang, is known as "Li Qi" in the industry, and these two days he has been with people again, let's see what is going on.
The cause of the incident was that a company called Tuanche also announced that it would enter the field of car manufacturing. Tuanche.com is one of the largest auto trading and service platforms in China, the main business is the offline auto shows across the country, listed in the U.S. stock market a few years ago, it looks like a unicorn rising. However, because the epidemic situation has been sporadic in various places in the past two years, it is a heavy blow to the offline auto show, so the business of the group car is not smooth, and the loss of the enterprise is relatively serious, at this time, do not study their own business, but go to rub the "hot spots" of the car, no wonder it will attract a lot of criticism.
At present, the track of new energy is in full swing, and some industry companies that are far away from automobiles in the traditional impression have also entered the game and become new players. Electronic technology companies such as Huawei and Skyworth have taken the road of cooperating with "serious" car companies to create new energy vehicles and then brand endorsements. But in fact, they are only involved in the intelligent part of the whole vehicle, and important body parts such as "three major pieces" are still completed by car companies. Like huawei's release of the Q&A M5, it is obvious that Huawei's role and participation in it, as for buying or not buying is a personal choice.
Back to the matter of tuanche car manufacturing, Wen Wei, the founder and CEO of Tuanche, said confidently that the foreign team of more than 100 people owned by Tuanche Network has more than 20 years of experience in car manufacturing, and can almost undertake all the car manufacturing processes of new energy vehicles, which can not only shorten the car manufacturing cycle of international manufacturers and domestic manufacturers in the era of fuel vehicles by half, but also have no fear of failure. "It doesn't matter if our first car fails, we can make another one in 3 months."
It may be that such confident and even conceited remarks made Li xiang feel very unhappy, so he fired. He said, I really can't help but have to make a big mouth. Those entrepreneurs who hope to be able to do everything (incompetence) by opening the second vein of Ren Dou are generally liars in the end, 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.
Think about it, I spent so much money, so long to create an ideal ONE, and painstakingly to achieve monthly sales of more than 10,000, the arduous process, although only they know it, but you lightly write a sentence, as if building a car is a very simple thing, even if this matter has nothing to do with me, it is also an insult and blasphemy to my efforts, who will not be comfortable in their hearts, maybe people will not see through it, but I just can't stand it.
According to an authoritative auto analyst, he believes that the probability of success of the group car is not high. "In terms of car-making standards, the first is to have money, like last year Xiaomi invested 10 billion yuan in the first year, and then invested 10 billion US dollars in the next ten years; if there is no money, at least there must be the endorsement of investment institutions, but the information revealed at the press conference is that the group car network has none of these." In this regard, Li Bin also expressed a similar view, he once said that 20 billion yuan is the minimum threshold for building a car, and this is still said a few years ago, and the current situation is only a lot more. The financial report of Wei from the third quarter of 2016 to 2021 shows that the cumulative net loss attributable to the mother has reached nearly 60 billion yuan.
On the other hand, the group car is not rich in terms of funds. It is reported that as of the third quarter of 2021, the company's cash on the account is only more than 100 million yuan. In fact, this can also explain why Wen Wei is in a hurry to announce that the group car has entered the car manufacturing field. Now enterprises generally build cars first, and then develop a conference after the eight characters are skimmed. The group car is the opposite, first announcing the construction of the car with great fanfare, and then wanting to use this to find investment. This method cannot be said to be undesirable, but it may be more difficult for enterprises such as group cars. Now there are so many car-making companies, tuanche network is not prominent, it is not a leading enterprise in its own field, it is still in the stage of transformation, which makes investors have the confidence to invest in it?
Although Li wants to make the group car to make a car useless, but the group car's response is still quite "generous", its "public" issued an invitation letter to Li Xiang, inviting him to attend the first new product conference after the "success" of the car, although this invitation letter will not be cashed out is not known, Li Xiang has not yet responded to this, but I have to say that the group car This move "to retreat to advance" is still quite clever, the posture is posed, the heat flow is also speculated, the investor is also successfully attracted, as to whether it can really build a car, When will the new product launch open, does it still matter?
The track of new energy is already crowded, some people enter and some people exit, one more is not more, less one is not more. If you are strong and want to use car building to add icing on the cake, it is understandable. But if the old bank can't play around, and wants to get or transfer something by building a car, the result is not easy to say.