In fact, there were rumors about the establishment of "smart car" before, but it was called SAIC L project before, and I didn't know that there were other forces to join at that time. According to the previous information, we can know that as the "No.1 Project" of SAIC, the project team has set up a subsidiary independently, focusing on high-end smart cars, and the purpose of Alibaba's entry seems obvious, that is, aiming at another Internet technology company-Baidu's smart car driverless technology. In China's classic Book of Changes, "smart plan" means to consider everything with wisdom, while the implication of "smart car" is to create a new mode of intelligent travel in which people, cars and people live together.
According to SAICa's A-share announcement, the company plans to jointly invest with Zhangjiang Hi-Tech and Hengxu Capital to establish the Shanghai Yuan Jie Intelligent Technology Equity Investment Fund Partnership, with a subscribed capital of 7.2 billion yuan. The fund plans to invest in high-end intelligent pure electric vehicles of Alibaba (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. ..
According to the company's introduction, confidant automobile will invest in the whole business chain of R&D, production, manufacturing and marketing. All data generated by consumers in the daily use of smart cars will be automatically processed through AI artificial intelligence, which will promote product upgrading and brand image building. Moreover, Zhizao Automobile will also set up its own intelligent travel research institute, which will build an international R&D system of "one horizontal and three vertical", in which the vehicle R&D center will run through all of them, and the data-driven center, intelligent driving center and forward-looking modeling center will realize business execution.
As the first automobile enterprise in China at present, SAIC has the incomparable advantage of "concentrating on doing great things", and in order to quickly seize the first highland in the field of smart cars in the world, the head office will allocate talents from its subsidiaries to undertake the "No.1 Project". This project is another high-end intelligent new energy vehicle project after FAW Hongqi and Dongfeng Lan Tu. Not only that, Alibaba's presence will also bring more imagination to the project.
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