On June 7th, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Geely Holding) and Tencent jointly announced that the joint venture formed by the two parties will successfully win the bid for 49% equity transfer of EMU Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as EMU). The future will be with China. Railway Corporation (hereinafter referred to as China Railway Group) and its related companies, jointly manage railway value-added services.
It is understood that the EMU network was established in 2017. It is the only company in the China Railway General Corporation that operates the EMU Wi-Fi.
One day later, Geely Automobile announced that it will establish a docking working group with China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Aerospace Science and Industry Group) as soon as possible to put cooperation on high-speed flight trains, industrial Internet applications, etc. into the agenda, and The possibility of cooperation in driverless systems, on-board chips, automotive blockchain applications, and car networking is discussed.
Automobile manufacturing, shared cars, flying cars, high-speed rail...... Geely in the field of travel in the end what is the next game?
Win high-speed rail Wi-Fi 'otherwise'
How did Geely, the automaker, suddenly enter the high-speed rail industry?
'Participating in the operation of the 'Internet + High Speed Rail' project is a practical exploration of support for the mixed reform of the railway sector by Geely Holdings. It is also an important step for future development and transformation of Geely Holdings, said Li Shufu.
In this regard, industry analysts pointed out that Geely is actively exploring and deploying mobile travel in the future. Under the premise of consolidating the advantages of hardware manufacturing, we will strive to develop online digital technology solutions to provide users with a highly integrated smart mobile space online and offline, and participate in high-speed railways. The operation of the network is an important step in its future travel.
According to NBD (micro-signal: NBD-AUTO), a piece of Geely's layout in the travel market, Cao Cao's special car has been deployed in many cities across the country, but the traffic shortboard has always been a stop-gap in the Cao Cao's extended car layout.
According to public statistics, in the past six months, the average daily new users of Didi Trips were approximately 704,000, and that of China Autos was 104,000. However, the average daily growth of Cao Cao's new vehicles was less than 20,000. It can be seen that in the online market, The growth rate of Cao Cao's car users is far less than that of Dripping and Shenzhou.
With the equity transfer of the E-Bike network and the cooperation with the Aerospace Science and Industry Group, Cao Cao's traffic problem may be helpful.
At present, aviation, high-speed rail Wi-Fi belongs to the traffic entry point for the last competition on the Internet. If Wi-Fi is to be extended to all high-speed rails in the future, this will be a very attractive market. According to statistics, as of 2017, China’s high-speed rail mileage has reached 25,000 kilometers. , accounting for 66.3% of the total high-speed rail mileage in the world. EMUs carry 1.71 billion passengers annually, covering about 200 million people.
Imagine playing games on the high-speed railway with free Wi-Fi. After the high-speed train arrives at the station, you can make a special appointment with Cao Cao's special car. A seamless docking schedule. Visit the e-commerce platform during the journey and book orders with one click. The car is also not a bad idea. This new scene may be the true intention of Geely's layout.
Large layout travel exposed 'careful thinking'
At the just-concluded Global Automotive Forum in 2018, Li Shufu described the future of the car like this: 'One is driverless. This is certain. Second, it will help people solve many problems, such as buying 10 cars. It can make money automatically, automatically take parking, this is the future of the car, it must be like this.
It is not difficult to see from the passage of Li Shufu that Geely Automobile has its own 'careful thinking' in the field of large-scale travel. NBD cars have learned that, as of now, Geely has been deploying in the network travel, shared car, flying car and other travel fields.
In addition to the above-mentioned Cao Cao special car, in the sharing of automobiles, the 'micro bus' jointly launched by Geely Holding Group and ContiTech Group can be fully charged for 100 to 160 kilometers.
In addition, Geely also has a 'King Fry' - a flying car. Last year, Geely Automobile announced that it had acquired Terrafugia, a Silicon Valley flying car company, and had obtained approval from the relevant US agencies. It plans to build a plant in China next year.
On June 3 of this year, the company under Geely Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hainan Land Reclamation Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd., which includes cooperation on flying car tourism projects.
As Li Shufu once said publicly, 'The automobile industry can do a lot, there can be endless imagination'. Perhaps someday, Geely will install Wi-Fi in civil aviation.