[Introduction: Since 2016, the intimate combination of NIO and JAC has jointly created a number of models such as ES8, ES6, EC6, and ET7, which has helped NIO stand out among the new car-making forces. And it is such a pair of people who seem to be of one heart and one mind, and they have not escaped the ending of "flying solo" after all. Recently, NIO acquired JAC.
The first and second manufacturing bases, which also indicates that the foundry model of NIO and JAC for many years has officially changed. Li Bin, chairman of Weilai Automobile, said in an interview in Shanghai on December 14 that he can save 10% of the manufacturing cost if he has a production qualification, not the cost of the whole vehicle. Within a few days, NIO had a new move. 】
Written by |Cai Jialun, editor|Grass.
On December 18, NIO announced that it had signed a new round of share subscription agreement with Abu Dhabi investment institution CIVN Holdings. Under the agreement, CYVN Holdings, through its subsidiary CYVN Investments, will make a strategic investment in NIO in cash aggregate approximately US$2.2 billion. At the time of the capital winter, NIO received strategic investment from CYVN again after half a year. This made everyone look back and understand why NIO, which was relatively tight at hand, dared to spend nearly 31 a few days ago600 million yuan from JAC to buy a factory and other products to achieve solo flight, accelerate the pace to cope with the increasingly fierce market competition in the field of intelligent electric vehicles.
In the early days, NIO cooperated with JAC, which was more like taking what they needed and keeping warm.
For a car company, it is not difficult to design a car, but it is difficult to have its own complete ** chain and be able to complete the production of key components of the car as much as possible, which is very lacking for NIO in the early stage of development, especially in some traditional technology production processes, NIO's performance is even less outstanding. At this time, JAC Automobile is also at a turning point in its development, and it is urgent to complete the upgrading of its automobile business, and it is a good choice to leverage the new power enterprise NIO to complement each other's advantages.
In the early days of car building, choosing to huddle together for warmth did help NIO, after all, start-up car companies want to put their energy and money on the "blade". JAC had relatively mature experience in automobile manufacturing, which was exactly what NIO urgently needed at that time. However, in recent years, this model is changing, and some new power car companies are gradually "de-foundry", and winning independent production qualifications has become a new trend of new power enterprises. Ideal and Xiaopeng have long gotten rid of OEM production, and the recently popular Xiaomi car also has its own independent factory in the Beijing Economic Development Zone. As an early new force in the game, this official car-making "admission ticket" makes NIO salivate. Finally, NIO spent about 31600 million to acquire some of JAC's assets, but also towards the road of independent production.
On December 5, JAC Automobile Group issued an announcement on the progress of the transfer of some assets for public listing, which showed that NIO was the transferee of one package of assets and three bags of assets, with a total transaction of about 31600 million, which also means that the transaction of JAC Motors to NIO's advanced manufacturing equipment and assets has finally landed.
As early as 2016, NIO, which has no production qualifications, signed an OEM agreement with JAC, under which NIO needs to inject fixed funds into JAC every year, and JAC is responsible for the production of new energy vehicles. On December 8, according to the latest production declaration information of NIO released on the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, NIO has changed from the original "JAC NIO" to "NIO", which means that NIO, which has completed the acquisition of part of JAC's assets, has obtained independent production qualifications.
So far, the three major new car-making forces of "Wei Xiaoli" have all obtained independent production qualifications, and Weilai Automobile officially announced that it will say goodbye to the era of ** JAC Automobile and switch to independent production, and JAC Weilai has officially become a thing of the past. Many riders were finally able to justifiably deduct the JAC logo that they felt was "not up to grade" this time.
Although it had a good time with JAC, looking back on the entire development history of NIO, there is still a big gap in sales compared with other "head" car companies in the same industry. Previously, there was no independent production qualification, which became one of the bottlenecks in the development of NIO. After obtaining the production qualification, NIO may truly reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Li Bin, chairman and CEO of Weilai Automobile, said in an interview on December 14 that the cost of completing the production and manufacturing of NIO by itself will be directly reduced by 10%, which refers to the manufacturing cost, not the cost of the whole vehicle. Some industry insiders believe that the acquisition of NIO through the production qualification is of certain significance to the development of NIO, which will greatly increase NIO's production capacity, improve its operating capacity while reducing costs, and make it easier for independently produced NIO to control all aspects of the automobile production process, improve quality control and enhance the brand value of the company, which is conducive to the long-term operation and efficiency improvement of the enterprise.
Comments. Making NIO truly itself is the voice of many consumers. NIO, which broke away from JAC, finally got rid of OEM and achieved production independence. At present, "Wei Xiaoli" has obtained independent production qualifications and has its own independent production plant. After the new Xiaomi car gets the qualification, it may also move from OEM to independent production in the future. It is worth paying attention to whether the OEM road in the automotive industry will work.
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