Juwan technology research won the round a financing of Tencent investment, reaching 8 billion

In the face of the epidemic situation and the international situation, the price of raw materials for power batteries fluctuates, and the attention of the industry, including new energy vehicle enterprises, to power batteries has reached a new climax.

Recently, Guangzhou Juwan Technology Research Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Juwan technology research”) made industrial and commercial changes and added 11 investor enterprises. Among them, Guangxi Tencent Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Guangxi Tencent”) holds 2.26% of Juwan technology research.

According to tianyancha data, Guangxi tengchuang was established in January 2020, and its business scope includes venture capital business, acting as an agent for other venture capital enterprises and other institutions or individuals. The reporter found that Guangxi tengchuang has invested more than 20 enterprises abroad since 2022, covering a wide range of industries such as information technology, e-commerce, medical technology and catering.

After the equity penetration, Guangxi tengchuang is a grandson of Shenzhen Tencent ruitou Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., which is a member of Tencent group. The chairman of Guangxi tengchuang is Li Zhaohui, executive director of Tencent industry win-win fund. In the public information, Li Zhaohui is responsible for investment and M & A in SNS, games and wireless fields. However, in Tencent’s foreign investment projects, the automotive field is not rare.

Looking back on the cooperation between Tencent and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) as early as the eve of the 15th Guangzhou International Auto Show in 2017, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) and Tencent held a strategic cooperation conference of “wisdom for the future”. At that time, the ISPACE concept car equipped with Tencent’s “AI in car” system made its debut, opening the prelude to the cooperation between the two sides in the intelligent network.

Subsequently, in June 2019, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) and Tencent jointly created a travel project, Ruqi travel, which was launched, and Ruqi travel app was downloaded and officially launched. As a strategic investment project of Tencent group’s transformation from consumer Internet to industrial Internet, Ruqi travel will continue to strengthen cooperation with Tencent in the fields of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, high-precision map and automatic driving, and deeply layout the intelligent Internet connected mobile travel ecology through cross platform cooperation with the help of Tencent’s “traffic” driving and “connection” capabilities.

During the Shanghai auto show in April 2021, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) and Tencent held a strategic cooperation upgrading signing. The two sides will continue to upgrade their cooperation and carry out more forward-looking and in-depth cooperation in several major aspects. In terms of product digitization, the two sides will promote the cooperation between gos system and tai3 based on the existing cooperation between gos (GAC intelligent network operating system) and Tai (Tencent eco car network) 0 platform convergence.

In terms of business digitization, the two sides will work together to build a data platform throughout the whole process of production, manufacturing, sales and management. With the help of enterprise wechat and other platforms, build a complete digital marketing and service system and digital office capacity, create a data-driven and efficient sales and after-sales service system and digital office scene, and realize the digital control of automobile life cycle.

In addition, the two sides will jointly improve the construction of information security system needed for future strategic development, including multi-dimensional guarantees such as enterprise security consulting, compliance audit, risk control security and data governance. In terms of building a new travel ecosystem, based on the behavior of Ruqi, a subsidiary of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) company, and with the help of Tencent’s social platform ability, drive the ecological development of travel services.

At the same time, the two sides will also rely on their respective technical layout in the field of automatic driving, explore the development direction of automatic driving, v2x and other technical applications and robotaxi operation, accelerate the R & D and application verification of automatic driving products, and promote the improvement of relevant standards and regulations; Combined with the respective capabilities of both sides, accelerate the implementation in the fields of intelligent network connection demonstration base, intelligent transportation operation management and intelligent city construction.

In terms of digital base, the two sides will establish long-term cooperation of CO creation and symbiosis around digitalization. Establish long-term and in-depth cooperation covering the whole business chain in the construction and operation of big data platform, improve the competitiveness of both sides in the field of smart travel, and jointly shape new benchmarks in the fields of intelligent networking, smart travel, smart transportation, automobile industry cloud and so on; Continue to explore the comprehensive integration development of the Internet plus automobile industry; Jointly discuss the construction of automobile talent training system facing the digital era, so as to provide human guarantee for the digital development of enterprises.

Shortly after the upgrading of strategic cooperation, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) , Wenyuan Zhixing and Ruqi travel reached a tripartite cooperation agreement. This means that Tencent, as one of the investors of Ruqi travel, has also stepped into the field of automatic driving. With this investment in Juwan technology research, Tencent has further expanded its layout in new energy vehicles and intelligent Internet connected vehicles.

Tencent, which chose Juwan technology research investment, obviously also noticed the tuyere brought to the power battery market by the era of new energy vehicles. At the 2021 Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) performance meeting, Zeng Qinghong, chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) said: “Juwan technology research currently has 51% employee shareholding and 49% GAC shareholding. At present, Juwan technology research’s round a financing has reached 8 billion yuan, which proves the full recognition of the market.”

Juwan technology research, founded in September 2020, is a high-tech company focusing on the R & D and production of advanced energy storage, which is led by Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) and jointly funded by GAC capital, the graphene technology team of GAC Research Institute and the third-party strategic partner shareholding platform.

At present, Juwan technology research has two major products, namely XFC double speed battery and overcharge station, which have been supplied to GAC AIAN. Among them, XFC speed doubling battery, namely super speed doubling battery, can charge for 5 minutes and drive 200 kilometers at the fastest charging rate of 6 times.

In September 2021, aion V Plus equipped with super speed battery was officially launched.

At the same time, A480 overcharge pile also came out with super speed battery. It is reported that Juwan technology research has gradually built and operated 18 overcharge stations in Guangzhou, and plans to land about 200 overcharge stations in Guangzhou this year.

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