【Smart Car Pie News】Car manufacturing is definitely the most popular cross-border area of domestic technology Internet companies, and He Xiaopeng, the founder of Xiaopeng Automobile, also predicted that between the end of 2023 and 2025, it will enter the era of new car manufacturing 2.0. If you want to catch up with the new car 2.0 era, you must now lay out.
Chang Jing, founder of Stone Technology
Recently, 36Kr reported that Luoke Automobile, the car-making project of Stone Technology founder and CEO ChangJing, has completed a financing of 100 million US dollars at the end of 2021, led by Tencent Group, and the investment institution Sequoia has also participated in the investment. Sources said that Tencent's investment in this round of financing exceeded $50 million. At present, Luoke Automobile is conducting a new round of financing at a valuation of $2 billion. However, at present, the executives of Luoke Automobile and Tencent have not responded positively to the news.
In April 2021, Zhichepai reported that Changjing personally operated the establishment of an independent automobile company. However, at that time, Stone Technology responded that Changjing's automobile project did not have a direct connection with Stone Technology, Stone Technology did not participate, and the company focused on scientific and technological innovation and was committed to intelligent hardware research and development. However, according to qichacha data, in April last year, Shanghai Luoke Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. received a $240 million angel round investment from Stone Technology. It is reported that the first car of Luoke Automobile will choose the extended range route and will launch a hardcore off-road model similar to the Mercedes-Benz G series.
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