Li wanted to complain about "no bottom line", and the group car that crossed the border car in 2022 will lose another 100 million yuan in 2021.
On April 4, the auto trading and service platform Tuanche.com released its financial report for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021.
According to the financial report, in 2021, the group car achieved a net income (revenue) of 357.6 million yuan, an increase of 8.3% year-on-year; a net loss of 101.9 million yuan, narrowing by 37.5% year-on-year; new car transactions 104689 units, a year-on-year decrease of 25.4%. In 2021, Tuanche ended the decline in revenue for two consecutive years, and the loss narrowed year-on-year, but it still did not get rid of the loss situation.
Among them, in the fourth quarter of 2021, the group car achieved a net income (revenue) of 83.1 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 49.8%; a net loss of 42.6 million yuan, an increase of 67.9% year-on-year; and a new car transaction of 24,990 units, a year-on-year decrease of 63.9%. For the decline in revenue, Tuanche said that due to the continuous multi-point emergence of the epidemic, the fourth quarter of 2021 auto show decreased by 53.5% year-on-year, resulting in a year-on-year decline in offline marketing service revenue, which directly affected the revenue of the fourth quarter.
As of the close of trading on April 1, 2021, the total market value of Tuanche.com was US$41.44 million, or about RMB264 million, down more than 27% since 2021. Speaking of the group car network, many people are already familiar with it.
Due to the ideal CEO Li wanted to shell the regiment car to build a car, the group car once stood on the cusp of the storm.
At the beginning of 2022, Tuanche.com, which is listed on the US stock market, announced the construction of cars, after the main business of Tuanche.com was to provide domestic consumers with a platform for automobile trading and services. Cross-border car manufacturing is not new, about the car group car CEO Wen Wei revealed that the company found an almost omnipotent foreign team.
Omnipotence, which is generally a mythical bridge, from the mouth of an Internet company CEO, still makes people feel different. Coupled with remarks such as "build a car in 3 months", Li wants to scorn it.
Li Xiang commented, "Those entrepreneurs who expect to find a super savior, those entrepreneurs who expect to be incompetent by opening the second vein of Ren Dou, and finally find 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. ”
Whether it is a scammer or a new entrepreneur's bottom line, such a statement cannot be described as sharp. They are all hit workers in the Internet industry, and no one is a good lord.
For Li Xiang's sharp remarks, Wen Wei, CEO of Tuanche, is not a good stubble, and Hui Yingcheng "did not 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 (CEO of Volkswagen China) being repulsed too early to see his eyes sprayed? Therefore, no one should think of themselves as prophets, nor should they be the ones they hate the most. ”
This time, Li wants to question and escalate the "contradiction" between the two (at least on the surface, it is a contradiction, both are Internet bigwigs, whether it is a contradiction or a drama only in his heart) is upgraded again. Afterwards, Wen Wei said in a loud voice, "Building a car is not a drama, and Li Xiang was invited to attend when the first product release of the group car was released." ”
As a representative of the new car-making forces, Li Xiang's questioning behavior this time is very puzzling, itself is a brand of new forces, why would it "fight with a rising star"? When things go wrong, there must be demons. It is worth noting that as a veteran of the Internet industry, the "Wen-Li controversy" has brought a large wave of traffic attention, and also made people remember the new player of Tuanche.
However, car building is not a mouth cannon, it is easy to hit the mouth cannon, and the landing of the car project is full of various difficulties. What's more, the group car that announced the car is itself a internal and external problem, and the financial report of the past 6 years shows that the net profit of the group car has been a loss for 6 consecutive years, with a cumulative loss of nearly 800 million yuan, and it is reported by the media that employees are waiting at home.
According to the data, the group car network was officially launched in 2010. In November 2018, Tuanche.com was listed on the NASDAQ to ring the bell. Although tuanche network has the word tuanche, its main business is not group car purchase, but mainly focuses on automobile exhibitions, cooperating with automobile manufacturers to build offline car purchase scenarios and earn service fees.
All along, the business model of Tuanche Network has not brought high profit income. The financial report shows that since 2016, the group car network has been in a state of loss. The market value of Tuanche.com has also fallen from $618 million at the beginning of its listing to $41.44 million today.
Therefore, the announcement of the group car network to build a car, it is inevitable that people will think, is it really making a car or is it to tell another Internet story? From the relevant reports, it can be understood that the group car decided to build a car power from an external team of more than 100 people. According to Wen Wei, this team can undertake product planning, modeling design, engineering development, three electrics, intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, systematic integration program and almost all other car manufacturing processes, with more than 20 years of experience in car building, and there are precipitations in technology and sample cars.
In Wen Wei's eyes, this team is almost omnipotent, and is with semi-finished models to come, the first car will choose one of these semi-finished models, "the first car adopts mature programs, technologies and suppliers, the quality of the product itself, 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.
In a word, the car-making team of the group car has experience, technology, efficiency, and can do almost everything. This not only refreshed the bottom line of entrepreneurs, but also refreshed the public's cognition, such an omnipotent pie, smashed on the head of the group car, when it was announced that the car could be pre-sold, it was simply too dreamy.
The car was so understated by Wen Wei, CEO of Tuanche, that it is no wonder that people feel unreal. You know, even if Evergrande is such a local tycoon, it is "buying, buying and buying", and now Hengchi 5 is just off the line, in less than ten months, it can pre-sell new cars, which is simply rubbing the new forces of car manufacturing on the ground.
Since the announcement of the car at the beginning of the year, the news of the group car has disappeared, and the progress has been made, and the performance conference has not been mentioned. Cross-border is never an easy task, not to mention the funds needed to build a car is also unimaginable. Since 2016, the group car, which has been in a state of loss, can support the burning state of car manufacturing is unknown.
Therefore, whether the group car can catch the new forces to build a car, but also let the bullets fly for a while.