Following NIO, Hefei may usher in another new force in car manufacturing.
Recently, Deepway announced that it has reached a cooperation with Hefei City, Anhui Province, and will land three major projects in Feixi County: Deepway Headquarters, Sales Settlement Center, and Intelligent Manufacturing Base for New Energy Heavy Trucks. Official disclosure,The total scale of the above three investments exceeds 10 billion.
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Go both ways, "friends" become "family".
On September 21 this year, Yu Aihua, member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, discussed cooperation with Wan Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of DeepWay.
The two sides believe that Hefei has a strong momentum in the new industry, and the new energy automobile industry has a comprehensive layout, especially the cadres have a strong perception of the industry, and they have an early, deep understanding and fast action for the new energy commercial vehicle industry. The two sides agreed to adhere to the long-term plan and short-term implementation rather than quick success, accelerate the promotion of the intelligent new energy truck project in Hefei, and work together in the field of new energy commercial vehicles to produce results as soon as possible, so as to help Hefei build a new energy vehicle capital with international influence.
On September 21, Yu Aihua, member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, discussed the cooperation of new energy commercial vehicles with Wan Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of DeepWay.
On November 22, DeepWay announced that it had reached a cooperation with Hefei City, Anhui Province, and would land three major projects in Feixi County: DeepWay Headquarters, Sales Settlement Center, and Intelligent Manufacturing Base for New Energy Heavy Trucks. According to official disclosure, the two sides have officially held a signing ceremony a few days ago.
The two sides said that if they settle down, they will have roots, and from then on, "friends" will become "family". For the development of enterprises, Hefei is happy to see it;To do practical things for enterprises, Hefei is never tired. It is hoped that the two sides will work together to accelerate project cooperation, build a good industrial ecology, and help Hefei New Energy "passenger cars and commercial vehicles go hand in hand, electrification and intelligence and blossom".
On November 21, DeepWay signed a project cooperation agreement with the people of Feixi County, Anhui Province.
According to the official introduction, after the signing of the cooperation with Hefei, Deepway will build an intelligent factory with an annual output of 100,000 new energy heavy trucks with the help of local **. This means that DeepWay will truly achieve a closed loop of commercialization. Hefei also said that it will provide comprehensive support for Deepway in terms of policies, talents, and infrastructure, and in the later stage, DeepWay will also carry out R&D, testing and commercial application of autonomous driving technology.
Hefei, known as the "most bullish venture capital" institution, can always do the right thing at the right time.
On April 29, 2020, NIO officially announced that the agreement on the settlement of NIO's China headquarters in Hefei was officially signed, with an investment of more than 10 billion yuan. Upon completion of the transaction, NIO will hold a 75% stake in NIO China9% of the controlling shares, strategic investors will hold a total of 241% of the shares. At the Tsinghua PBC Global Financial Forum held on May 23, 2021, Li Bin, founder and chairman of NIO, introduced that NIO has raised US$145 billion globally today. In 2018, NIO went public in the United States, but the financing was not smooth. Hefei sent charcoal in the snow at the most difficult time and saved NIO from the "emergency ward". Today's NIO, you can only look up.
At the 2021 China Automotive Blue Book Forum, Li Bin told ** that there are three reasons why NIO chose Hefei:First, the geographical location advantage of industrial layout. Second, talent advantage and innovation advantage. Third, the vision, responsibility and efficient action of the Hefei and Anhui departments, and the entire execution is quite high.
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Benchmarking NIO and blossoming
Now, Deepway has decided to settle in Feixi, Hefei"We are looking forward to this cooperation with the people of Feixi County."Wan Jun, the founder and CEO of DeepWay, said that through the joint efforts of both parties, DeepWay will achieve rapid development in Feixi and drive the intelligent new energy heavy truck industry into the fast lane of developmentIn the future, the two parties will also work together to build an industrial ecology and help Hefei's new energy market present a prosperous scene of "passenger cars and commercial vehicles going hand in hand, electrification and intelligence".
So, what is the strength of Deepway, and can it become the second "NIO"?
As we all know, new energy and intelligent transformation have set off a new wave in the automotive industry. According to the data, the number of heavy trucks in China exceeds 9 million, of which about 3.5 million are engaged in trunk logistics. If it is gradually replaced by intelligent new energy heavy trucks in the future, it will inevitably give birth to a trillion-level market. Naturally, there are many companies targeting this market, such as Tesla, Nikola, Freighter, OTTO, etc., as well as TuSimple Future, Plus, Inceptio Technology, etc. in China. DeepWay was established in July 2020 and aims at the smart new energy truck market.
Different from other new truck enterprisesDeepWay's advantage lies not only in its autonomous driving technology strength, but also in Lionbridge's rich trunk logistics scenarios. "Technology + Scenario" allows DeepWay to turn PPT into reality. On September 17, 2021, DeepWay officially released its first smart heavy truck, Xingtu Generation 1. This heavy truck is based on the "Sky Survey" vehicle EE architecture, full forward and full redundancy design, with four high computing power platforms, calmly carrying 100 million + line operations**, and the communication rate is increased by 4,000 times, which is very forward-looking.
To go furtherOpen up the underlying technology, Deepway also personally went out to build a car,Its first product, "Deep Stars", adopts independent positive research and development, mainly benchmarking Tesla's Semi Truck. Compared with the 5-year landing cycle of Tesla's Semi Truck, as a latecomer, DeepWay's car was released in September 2021 and has been delivered at the end of May this year, taking only 20 months. The first batch of vehicles was delivered to the ** chain logistics company Rising Sun, which was mainly used for trunk transportation in the CATL era.
"Deepway" was delivered in batches for the first time in the world.
In addition, Deepway has also obtained a number of seed users, including Weiqiao Group, Shandong Binzhou Transportation Group Co., Ltd., Shouguang Chengda Transportation Co., Ltd. and Shandong Sinotrans Qilu Logistics, etc., and has more than 1,000 orders in hand so far.
And whereasIn the capital market, DeepWay has also attracted a lot of attention. Up to now, DeepWay has completed 3** financing, with a cumulative financing amount of more than 1.2 billion yuan, and the shareholder lineup is not only with Lionbridge, but also with well-known institutions such as SoftBank China, Weiqiao Capital, Qiming Venture Capital, and Lenovo Venture Capital.
Financing process (source: Tianyancha).
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