Ruqi Travel has been deeply involved in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and has completed the A round of financing. For example, the cycling trip was officially put into operation by Guangzhou Automobile Group and others on June 20 19. Ruqi traveled to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in "ripple mode", and Ruqi traveled to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to complete the A round of financing.
For example, Qiqi has been deeply involved in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and has completed the A round of financing of 1. More and more enterprises and capitals are aiming at the travel service market in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which is becoming one of the main battlefields of new energy vehicles and self-driving cars.
On April 26th, Ruqi Travel announced the completion of Series A financing of over 654.38 billion yuan, which was led by Guangzhou Automobile Group and invested by companies such as Ma Xiao Zhixing and Wen Yuan Zhixing. After the completion of this round of financing, Ruqi's trip will accelerate the commercialization of Robotaxi (self-driving taxi) and build a VaaS platform (video as a service model platform) linking the whole industry.
"In the past stage, the industry focused on improving the system algorithm ability and bicycle hardware level. With the development of technology, the focus began to shift to autonomous driving operation technology." Jiang Hua, CEO of Ruqi Travel, said today that Robotaxi must be operated through the travel platform if it really wants to become a service. For this reason, two autonomous driving technology companies have chosen strategic investment at the same time.
Ruqi Travel was officially launched in June 2009+2065438. The enterprise was founded by Guangzhou Automobile Group, Tencent, Guangzhou Public Transport Group and Didi Chuxing. At that time, the investment amount was 1 100 million yuan. Among them, Guangzhou Automobile Group, Tencent and Guangzhou Public Transport Group hold 35%, 25% and 10% respectively, while other investors hold 20% in total, and 10% is reserved for employee equity incentives.
In the past three years, Ruqi has been going deep into Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. At present, the service has been opened in Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Dongguan and other cities, with a user scale of about150,000, and the penetration rate of users in Greater Bay Area's core cities exceeds 30%. At the media communication meeting of Guangzhou Automobile Group's annual report held on March 3 1 this year, Zeng Qinghong, chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Group, said that Ruqi Travel Plan invested by Guangzhou Automobile Group will be listed next year, and Wen Yuan Star has invested150,000 USD in Ruqi Travel.
In recent years, enterprises have accelerated the layout of the network car market. According to the data of China Internet Network Information Center, in the first half of last year, China network car has covered more than 400 cities, and the total order volume exceeded 43 1 100 million; By the end of 20021and 65438+February, the number of online car users in China had reached 453 million, an increase of 87.33 million compared with 65438+February in 2020.
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is one of the most competitive battlefields for major online car sharing platforms. In addition to Qi and other "local tigers", there are many online car sharing platforms such as Didi Chuxing, Cao Cao Chuxing, Yao Chuxing and T3 Chuxing, which are "crossing the Yangtze River". Among them, after Geely grabbed the market with its trip to Cao Cao, the trip to Yao jointly created by Geely and Daimler-Benz has also settled down. Geely is taking Guangzhou as the core, further promoting the integrated operation of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Foshan, and seizing high-end business customers in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Recently, Yao Travel App has been completely revised, and the user experience has been enhanced through a series of innovations and upgrades. T3 Travel, a travel service platform jointly built by FAW, Dongfeng, Chang 'an and other enterprises, has recently landed in Huizhou, expanding its travel service map in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
At present, major travel platforms have accelerated the introduction of new technologies and products into cities such as Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Guangzhou, and the penetration rate of new energy vehicles has increased rapidly, which is considered to be related to the large-scale introduction of new energy vehicles by these platforms.
While competing for investment in new energy vehicles with platforms such as Cao Cao Travel and T3 Travel, if Qi Chuxing starts to exert its strength in the new market of Robotaxi, it will launch the first truly comprehensive and open Robotaxi operation platform in the domestic travel industry, provide Robotaxi business operation solutions and Robotaxi vehicle operation infrastructure for industry partners, and help the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain accelerate the commercial operation of Robotaxi.
After completing this round of financing, Ruqi Travel will set up a Robotaxi fleet with a scale of more than 200 vehicles and put it into demonstration operation this year, and build a v2x (information exchange between vehicles and the outside world) fleet with a scale of more than 1000 vehicles to promote the improvement of the autonomous driving operation system including the operation platform, data platform and supervision platform. At the same time, a one-stop super service platform created by cycling, such as the first store of cycling clothing, has been officially put into operation in Guangzhou, exploring the road of automatic maintenance of unmanned vehicles.
However, no matter what kind of players, even Didi Chuxing, which is at the top of the domestic Internet travel field, is currently difficult to make a profit by online car service. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is regarded as a "super metropolis", and many travel companies hope to make use of this huge metropolitan area and try various ways to break through, so as to solve the problem of * * * enjoying the "profit" of tourism.
If the enterprise goes deep into Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, it will complete the A round of financing on April 26th. For example, if an enterprise travels, it announces the completion of Series A financing of over 654.38 billion yuan. This round of financing was led by Guangzhou Automobile Group, with the participation of Ma Xiao Zhixing, Wen Yuan Zhixing, SPARX, Shengrui Asia, Guangzhou Investment Group, Lingnan Business Travel Group and Industrial Capital. This is also the first financing for the domestic intelligent online game industry in 2022.
After the completion of this round of financing, Ruqi Travel will continue to deepen the "two-axis drive" strategic layout, accelerate the commercialization process of Robotaxi, build a VaaS platform linking the whole industry, and gradually become a global leader in autonomous driving operation technology.
For example, Riding Travel was established by Guangzhou Automobile Group and other investors, and it was officially put into operation on June 20 19. The company provides users with an intelligent, interesting, excellent and fashionable special car travel experience, which belongs to Guangzhou Qichen Technology Co., Ltd. For example, Qichen has been deeply involved in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with the "ripple mode" and has opened services in Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Dongguan and other cities, with a user penetration rate of over 30% in the core cities of Greater Bay Area.
Under the strategic layout of "two-axis drive", Ruqi Travel has launched the first truly comprehensive and open Robotaxi operation platform in the domestic travel industry, providing Robotaxi business operation solutions and Robotaxi vehicle operation infrastructure for industry partners, helping the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to accelerate the commercial operation of Robotaxi, and finally making the cutting-edge technology of autonomous driving truly become a travel business scene of landing, operation and sustainable service.
After completing this round of financing, Ruqi Travel will set up a Robotaxi fleet with a scale of more than 200 vehicles to put into demonstration operation this year, build a v2x fleet with a scale of more than 1000 vehicles, and fully promote the improvement of the autonomous driving operation system including the operation platform, data platform and supervision platform.
At the same time, the one-stop super service platform built by Qiqi Travel, such as Qiqi Car Service, has been officially put into operation in Guangzhou, which will anchor the future automatic driving operation scene and explore the road of automatic maintenance of unmanned vehicles.
For example, Jiang Hua, CEO of Riding Travel, said: "In the past stage, the industry focused on improving the system algorithm ability and bicycle hardware level. With the development of technology, the center of gravity began to shift to the automatic driving operation technology. Robotaxi must be operated through a travel platform in order to truly become a service. To this end, two of the world's leading autonomous driving technology companies have also chosen strategic investment. "
For example, Qi traveled in depth and completed the A round of financing. 3 With the continuous overweight of car companies and autonomous driving companies, the "Capital Bureau" in the field of travel is heating up again.
On April 26th, if Riding Travel announced the completion of Series A financing exceeding 654.38 billion yuan, it was led by Guangzhou Automobile Group, with the participation of Ma Xiao Zhixing, Wen Yuan Zhixing, SPARX, Shengrui Asia, Guangtou Group, Lingnan Business Travel Group, industrial capital and other institutions. According to reports, after the completion of this round of financing, Ruqi's trip will accelerate the commercialization of Robotaxi.
The reporter of Science and Technology Innovation Board learned that after the completion of this round of financing, Ruqi Travel will set up a Robotaxi team with a scale of over 200 vehicles to put into demonstration operation this year, and set up a V2X team with a scale of over 1000 vehicles.
At the same time, the first store of Ruqi's one-stop super service platform "Ruqi Car Service" has been officially put into operation in Guangzhou, which will face the future automatic driving operation scenario and cover the automatic maintenance of unmanned vehicles.
The reporter of Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily noticed that in this round of financing of Ruqi's trip, two autonomous driving technology companies, Ma Xiao Zhixing and Wen Yuan Zhixing, participated in the investment. Among them, Wen Yuan Zhixing Department is an old shareholder.
According to the survey data of Sky Eye, on February 2, last year, Wen Yuan Zhixing made a strategic investment trip. According to reports, this is also the world's first self-driving start-up investment and travel platform.
Figure: Ruqi travel financing process; Source: Tianyancha
At the end of 65438+February last year, Guangzhou Automobile Group, Wen Yuan Star and Ruqi Travel reached a strategic cooperation, and the three parties will carry out in-depth cooperation based on their respective advantages, and * * * will jointly promote the design, research and development, mass production and commercial operation of Robotaxi (self-driving taxi) front-mounted vehicles.
At present, Robotaxi is one of the potential application scenarios of autonomous driving service, and its scale and volume can include: network car, taxi market and so on.
In the view of Jiang Hua, CEO of Riding Travel, "In the past stage, the industry focused on improving the system algorithm ability and bicycle hardware level. With the development of technology, the focus began to shift to autonomous driving operation technology. To truly become a service, Robotaxi must be operated through a travel platform. "
According to the data, Riding Travel was established by Guangzhou Automobile Group and other companies, and it was officially put into operation in June 20 19. According to reports, if Bike Travel has been opened in Guangfo, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Dongguan and other cities, the user penetration rate in Greater Bay Area's core cities exceeds 30%.
Talking about the capital logic of the current online car market, Zhang Junyi, managing partner of Oliver Wyman Consulting, said, "The overall logic will not change greatly. Whether to burn money is not the most important thing. The ultimate success is to be able to continuously obtain external capital support or form a closed-loop business model with its own cash flow. "