Recently, the second municipal law organs in accordance with the law to support entrepreneurs to innovate and start a business service to serve the high-quality development of the private economy outstanding case selection situation, Changzhou Tianning District People's Court Judge Zhao Hongsheng undertook and displayed on the spot "Changzhou automobile limited company and a car rental co., LTD. and other sales contract dispute case" was rated as excellent.
Case introduction
In December 2016, a new energy automobile company in Changzhou signed a Vehicle Procurement Contract with a car rental company, stipulating that the car rental company would purchase 300 electric vehicles from the new energy automobile company and transfer the full subsidy to the designated account of the new energy automobile company within 5 working days after applying for the local government subsidy. After the contract was signed, the new energy vehicle company fulfilled the obligation of vehicle delivery and licensing according to the contract, but after receiving the municipal and provincial subsidies, the car rental company believed that the provincial subsidies issued were not the local subsidies stipulated in the contract, so it refused to pay the government subsidies, and the two sides disputed. Since then, the new energy automobile company has sued the court, requesting the car rental company to pay more than 6.8 million yuan in vehicle subsidies and other expenses.
After the Tianning District People's Court of Changzhou City accepted the case, it carefully listened to the opinions of both parties, considered the purpose and function of the contract signing at that time, and interpreted the contract as a whole from the true intentions of the parties, and finally ruled that the car rental company would pay the provincial subsidies and municipal subsidies it had received to the new energy automobile company 6.795 million yuan in accordance with the contract, and bear the corresponding overdue interest. After the first-instance judgment, the car rental company appealed, and on August 26, 2021, the Changzhou Intermediate People's Court made a second-instance judgment upholding the original judgment.
Typical
In 2021, the output value of the new energy vehicle and core parts industry in our city has exceeded 125 billion yuan, ranking second in the province, and the new energy vehicle manufacturing industry and core parts manufacturing industry represented by new energy vehicle manufacturing is one of the "power points" of the ten advanced manufacturing cluster expansion projects in the city's "532" strategy, and it is also one of the "main attack points" for the city to further build a national-level strategic emerging industrial cluster, and it is also a key part of the city's construction of the Yangtze River Delta innovation axis, the industrial axis, and the industrial science and technology innovation center. The Tianning District People's Court of Changzhou City gives full play to the overall function of judicial trial services, follows the business logic of the market economy, accurately grasps the scale of adjudication, and provides a strong judicial guarantee for helping the city's "industrial height" display and Helping Changzhou to build an "industrial landmark".