【CNMO Technology News】Gaohe Automobile is now at a critical juncture of life and death, and it is likely to go out of business soon. During this period, Jia Yueting, the founder of Faraday Future (FF), began to publish an article to bombard Gaohe Automobile and its founder Ding Lei as an "industry disgrace", and announced that Ding Lei and the affiliated companies of Human Horizons (Gaohe's parent company) had filed a lawsuit for infringement of trade secrets and unfair competition. In other words, Gaohe Automobile has been established for so many years, Jia Yueting did not sue sooner or later, why did he sue at this time?
Ding Lei (left) and Jia Yueting (right) On March 5, car blogger @Wu Pei analyzed several points of logic behind it. The blogger believes that because Gaohe is now looking for funds to save itself, and if there is a major lawsuit at this time, the funds will not come in. Jia Yueting is also a capital expert, pinching seven inches, as the old saying goes: take advantage of your illness to kill you.
Blogger analysis Jia Yueting and Ding Lei were still friends at the beginning. In July 2015, Ding Lei resigned to join LeEco Auto as co-founder, global vice chairman, and CEO of China and Asia Pacific of LeEco Super Auto. For Ding Lei's joining, Jia Yueting has repeatedly praised him in public, saying that he is a leader in the automobile industry, and he will work together to promote China's automobile industry to catch up with Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, and realize the dream of China's automobile power.
But the good times didn't last long, in 2017, Jia Yueting had an accident, Ding Lei then left LeTV and founded Human Horizons, and the new car rolled off the assembly line more than two years later. Rumor has it that Ding Lei left with the core backbone and a full set of design data for FF 91, and the HiPhi X is indeed similar to FF 91.
In response to Jia Yueting's lawsuit, Gaohe Automobile issued a statement earlier, denying that Ding Lei had plagiarized and infringed on FF's trade secrets and intellectual property rights, and there was no unfair competition.
It is reported that since October 2023, Gaohe Automobile has shown business difficulties. Previously, Ding Lei revealed: "The window period for Gaohe Automobile to turn over is at most three months", and he will actively strive for it, and he is unwilling to end it here. And Jia Yueting sued Gaohe Automobile and Ding Lei at this time, it seems that he didn't want to give Gaohe Automobile a chance to turn over.