The company with a registered capital of 7 billion yuan was deregistered on the hot search Weilai: has not actually operated the business without impact

Reporter Gong Mengze

"NIO AutoMotive Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "NIO") has recently been cancelled! On February 16, the topic of "Weilai Technology Cancellation" rushed to the first place in the hot search of Douyin. The "Securities Daily" reporter checked the sky eye to confirm that Weilai Technology has undergone industrial and commercial changes, the status of the enterprise has been changed from existence to cancellation, and the reason for cancellation is the resolution to dissolve.

According to the information of Tianyancha, Weilai Technology was established in July 2019 with a registered capital of 7 billion yuan, and its business scope includes wholesale of auto parts; technology development of new energy vehicles and related parts, etc., and Li Bin serves as the company's legal representative and chairman.

For a time, rumors were rife, some people thought that this was the result of Weilai Automobile CEO Li Bin setting off a confrontation between oil and electricity, and some people speculated that Weilai's "pyramid scheme" model collapsed. On February 17, Weilai Automobile told the "Securities Daily" reporter that the company has not actually operated and has no impact on Weilai's business. The relevant person in charge said, "(Unexpectedly) deregistered a company that has not actually operated, and actually landed on the first hot search of Douyin." ”

NIO technology has not actually operated

The year 2019, when NIO Technology was established, was the most difficult year for NIO. At that time, Li Bin, who was once on the verge of breaking the capital chain, was even rated as "the most miserable person in 2019" by the outside world. The background of the establishment of NIO Technology is that in May 2019, NIO signed a framework agreement with Beijing Yizhuang International Investment and Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yizhuang SDIC").

Under the agreement, NIO will set up a new entity "NIO China" in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone and inject specific business and assets into NIO China, and Yizhuang SDIC will invest 10 billion yuan in "NIO China" to obtain the interests of non-controlling shareholders holding "NIO China". Based on this, in July of the same year, WEILAI Technology was established in Yizhuang, Beijing.

However, nearly a year after the signing of the framework agreement with Yizhuang SDIC, the cooperation projects between the two sides have not made substantial progress. In the end, Yizhuang SDIC insiders ended with a sentence of "we do not vote" to confirm the insubordination of cooperation between the two sides. After that, the plot is that Weilai's Chinese headquarters settled in Hefei, and Beijing Yizhuang chose Xiaomi Automobile.

"The company that was deregistered this time should be a derivative of backdoor financing at that time." Since there is no 'capital', of course, there is no need for 'shell'. Some insiders told the "Securities Daily" reporter that Beijing's goal of building a global intelligent and connected vehicle technology innovation highland has never wavered, but at that point in time, Weilai's life may have made Yizhuang finally dare not bet.

According to Tianyan, from the perspective of shareholder information, WEILAI Technology is jointly held by NEXTEV LIMITILED and NEXTEV USER ENTERPRISE LIMITED.

Through equity penetration, NEXTEVLIMITILED invested in a total of 3 companies, namely NIO Technology, which was deregistered this time, and NIO Holding Co., Ltd., which is still in operation, and Shanghai NIO Financial Leasing Co., Ltd.

Speaking of the impact of the cancellation of NIO Technology, Ma Lin, senior director of corporate communications at Shanghai NIO Automobile Co., Ltd., responded that there was no impact on NIO's business.

NIO has been controversial

At the same time that the cancellation of Weilai Technology continued to ferment, a video about Weilai Automobile was also circulated on the Internet.

The video shows that in the Jinhua section of the Jinhua-Hangzhou-Jinqu Expressway in Zhejiang, a Weilai ES6 suddenly lost control after being rear-ended by a rear vehicle, accelerated forward for 2 kilometers, and hit 5 vehicles successively.

The driver of Weilai expressed his confusion about the process of the accident, saying: "There is a roof in the back of the car, I feel that the speed of the car is faster, I will step on the brakes, but it feels like the car is getting faster and faster, and finally hung up the P gear (stop gear) to stop." ”

Although the accident was eventually investigated, it was confirmed that the accident was caused by the improper operation of the owner. However, the relevant video still caused widespread concern on multiple platforms, and the reporter noted that in the comment area of Douyin, Gao Zan replied: "Weilai Company has been deregistered and dissolved, and the safety of new energy vehicles has a long way to go." ”

In fact, even though the market value of enterprises such as Weilai and Xiaopeng Automobile has risen sharply in recent years and the products have been successfully delivered, the market and some consumers still have considerable prejudice against the new forces of car manufacturing.

"This is also one of the reasons why the cancellation of Weilai Technology can be on the hot search." Gao Chao, a researcher at the China Autonomous Driving Industry Innovation Alliance, told reporters that on the one hand, Li Bin, the founder of Weilai, is straightforward and fast-talking, and bold remarks are very easy to attract excessive attention. On the other hand, if the transformation of traditional car companies is more about the anxiety of how to rise in the era of the new four modernizations of automobiles, then the people have a kind of panic of life and death for the new forces of car manufacturing.

The reporter noted that Weilai, which was once in the first echelon, has been squeezed out of the three new forces of car manufacturing. According to the latest data, Weilai delivered 9652 units in January, down 8.93% month-on-month, and the market performance lagged behind Nezha, ranking fourth in the new car-making forces. And its ranking decline in fact, there is a hint of it, from 2021, Weilai has a "production capacity crisis", when some car owners complained about the progress of Weilai, saying that it would take 10 weeks to pick up the car after locking the order.

Although the report card is not satisfactory, Weilai has not stopped the pace of IPOs. Recently, Weilai, which has landed on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States, has reported that it may go to Singapore to seek a second listing after the Hong Kong stock listing plan is blocked. At the same time, WEI SAID it would not abandon its listing plan in Hong Kong and would continue to discuss relevant solutions with Hong Kong regulators.

Not only that, 8-year-old Weilai also officially handed out the "battle book" to the 106-year-old BMW.

On February 15, at the all-weather marketing communication meeting of Weilai, Qin Lihong, president of Weilai Automobile, said that the previously rumored "Gemini" Gemini star is actually the code name of Weilai's new model ES7, the new car is between ES6 and ES8, and the official positioning is a medium and large five-seat SUV, based on the Weilai NT2.0 platform. According to Qin Lihong, after the launch of the NIO ES7, it will benchmark the domestic long-wheelbase BMW X5L, and it is expected that these two cars will be the "most anticipated big five-seat SUV" in 2022.