On July 25th, Didi announced the expansion of cooperation with Toyota Motor Corporation in the field of smart travel services, and Toyota will invest a total of 600 million US dollars in Didi. Among them, part of the funds will be used for the establishment of a joint venture company between the two parties and GAC Toyota to provide automobile-related services for platform drivers.
Didi said that the two sides will combine their respective professional experience and technical advantages to provide more efficient, high-quality, convenient and comfortable travel services and build an inclusive, win-win and green travel ecology.
Toyota said in the press release that both parties hope to provide consumers and drivers in China mobile travel market with vehicle management, maintenance, insurance and financial services through various intelligent interconnection services based on MSPF. At the same time, Toyota hopes to launch pure electric vehicles that meet the travel service needs of China Mobile in the future and make them popular.
This is not the first cooperation between Toyota and Didi. 20 18, Didi reached a cooperation with Toyota e-Palette intelligent driving technology platform; And began to carry out the vehicle rental business of network car drivers in Toyota's demonstration dealership.
In addition, it is worth noting that before Toyota and Didi signed the cooperation agreement, Didi had already heard the news of financing.
On July 17, according to the Wall Street Journal, Didi Chuxing sought financing of $2 billion. According to the report, Didi will sell the newly issued shares at the price of 2065438+July 2008 when it was financed by online travel service giant Booking. At that time, Booking invested $500 million in Didi and announced that the two sides had reached a strategic cooperation. However, the valuation after Didi completed the financing at that time was not disclosed. According to the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the matter revealed that Didi's valuation may be $62 billion.
As for Toyota, before Didi, Toyota also invested in Grab, a car company in Southeast Asia, and Uber, a global taxi giant.
New energy, * * * enjoyment and intelligence are the three major trends in the development of the whole transportation and automobile industry in the future.
Didi launched "Torrent Alliance" in April 2008+2065438. At present, it has cooperated with more than 30 domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers and industrial chain enterprises such as FAW, Dongfeng, BAIC, SAIC, GAC, Geely, BYD, Toyota, Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi to build a platform for automobile operators.
In the face of traffic, every company is building its own ecosystem, and Didi is ahead this time.