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At the end of the year, NIO had a wonderful time. First, the wine tasting test drive event caused controversy, and then the CEO personally tested the live broadcast for 13 hours, which pulled the largest financing at the end of the year.
Event planner is a "talent".
It was rumored on the Internet that the NIO store tasting included both liquor tasting and test drive, which caused controversy. It even attracted the official of the Beijing Traffic Administration to leave a message in the comment area of netizens, saying that it had been transferred to the traffic team for verification.
Source: Internet.
As a result, NIO deleted the 12-spice tasting and test drive sessions of liquor from the latest poster, and the tasting session continued to be held.
NIO staff said that the wine tasting session in the middle of this event has been canceled, and it has been replaced by the sharing of wine knowledge and the tasting of smells, and the test drive will be arranged normally, "because everyone seems to have a big ambiguity about this link before, we have canceled the part of tasting (wine)." Because the previous tasting was simple to taste in the mouth, but if you don't swallow, you will rinse your mouth. But there are still many netizens who complain that Weilai's event planner is a "talent".
Although this small episode happened and was ridiculed by the majority of netizens, it also attracted a lot of attention to the 150-degree ultra-long battery pack measured by Weilai CEO Li Bin's live broadcast. 02
The car lost 80 billionThe Middle Eastern tyrant continues his life
NIO has a small goal, which is to make trams go where petrol trucks can go. Li Bin, CEO of NIO, hopes that NIO can break the restrictions of electric vehicles in terms of range and charging facilities, so that electric vehicles can reach more places like traditional fuel vehicles.
In order to achieve this small goal, NIO has spent a lot of financial resources and manpower. Data shows that in the first three quarters of this year, NIO's net loss has reached 1531.3 billion yuan. In less than 6 years since the car was manufactured, NIO's cumulative losses have exceeded 80 billion yuan.
However, this small goal seems to be on the verge of being achieved. After the tasting event, Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, drove the ET7 live to measure a 150-degree ultra-long battery pack, which attracted attention from the industry.
Source: Weibo.
According to the data released by Weilai's official Weibo, after more than 14 hours of driving, the mileage of the whole journey is 1044 kilometers, and the average speed is 83 per hour9 km h, the average energy consumption per 100 km is 132kwh。After the end of the day, 3% of the remaining battery will be used, and the remaining CLTC mileage will be 36 kilometers, and it is expected to still be able to travel more than 30 kilometers.
Does this count as breaking the limits of electric vehicles in terms of range and charging infrastructure?In this regard, netizens have mixed reviews. Some netizens believe that the battery life tested at an average speed of less than 90 kilometers per hour has no significance, and that this test is only achieved under the most favorable conditions for battery life, and does not consider actual driving;Some netizens believe that in the high-speed of the Yangtze River Delta, it is normal for the average speed to be 80-100 kilometers per hour after driving more than 300 kilometers, and it is difficult to reach more than 1,000 kilometers even if it is a fuel vehicle.
Although netizens still have a wait-and-see attitude towards NIO's ultra-long-life battery pack, after this live broadcast, NIO ushered in the largest financing of the year.
NIO announced on the 18th that CYVN Holdings, a subsidiary of the UAE sovereign** Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, will invest US$2.2 billion at a price of 7$5 purchase price to subscribe to NIO 29.4 billion common shares. This is the second bet on NIO after CYVN Holdings invested $1.1 billion in NIO in June. Some time ago, negative news such as Weilai's losses and layoffs frequently appeared in hot searches, and many netizens were worried that it would be the next new force to go bankrupt. However, the two rounds of investment sent by the "local tyrants" in the Middle East have once again filled NIO's blood bar.
Source: Internet.
Will NIO still be a Chinese brand?
Although this financing is a big deal for NIO, after the completion of this investment transaction, CYVN will hold approximately 20 percent of the total issued and outstanding shares of NIO1%, becoming the largest single shareholder of NIO. Will NIO still be a Chinese brand in the future?
In response, Li Bin said that he has 39% of NIO's super voting rights and is still the shareholder with the largest voting rights in the company. First, when he was listed, he transferred 50 million shares to the user trust, and now the equity has not been reduced in the equity table, which means that he has long been not the largest shareholder in the economic senseSecond, because of the super voting rights, their own voting rights are still the most, and the changes at the shareholder voting level are very small.
According to Li Bin's meaning, NIO will only do the high-end precipitation market of smart electric vehicles in the future, not fight the best war, and rely on leading products and technologies to maintain brand positioning. To this end, the NIO brand will continue to make efforts to the high-end, and will never move closer to the 200,000 to 300,000 yuan market, ET5 will be the cheapest model of NIO, and there will be no NIO products with a lower price than this car.
NIO Day, which will be held on the 23rd of this month, will unveil the ET9, the executive flagship sedan. According to NIO, ET9 is a technology flagship that represents the world's top technology. As for the flagship model to be released on December 23, Li Bin revealed that the model will be "the culmination of NIO's technological innovation" and will be positioned as an executive flagship model in the business market.
Source: Weibo.
NIO has also included luxury brands such as the S-Class, BMW 7 Series, and Porsche Paramela among the competitors of this executive flagship model. As for whether it is worthy or not, this is another story. However, NIO's earnings report is not so optimistic.
NIO's newly released data for the first three quarters of this year shows that NIO's financial situation has picked up. NIO's total revenue was 190700 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 466%, an increase of 117 month-on-month4%。Net loss of 45600 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 108%, a month-on-month decrease of 248%。
Judging from NIO's financial reports over the years, revenue and new car deliveries have been growing, but the net loss has also increased year by year, and NIO has invested more and more in R&D expenses. According to the statistics, despite the increase in cash reserves, NIO's asset-liability ratio remained at 80 considering accounts payable, short-term debt and long-term borrowings in the third quarter78%, if sales do not improve in the short term, NIO is still facing high cash flow pressure.
In the past, there was a ** Wenjie M7 after the sales were hot, and then Lei Jun invested 100 billion to build Xiaomi smart electric vehicles, and the competition in the new energy vehicle market is becoming more and more fierce. Although NIO has launched the "Battery Swap Alliance", Changan and Geely have joined, which can be regarded as opening up a new path of "making money". But looking at the attitude of netizens, the situation is not optimistic. When do you think NIO will be able to make money?