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When traditional fuel models are gradually transformed to electrification, it means that a new era is coming. As the new energy vehicle as a new travel mode, the need for research and development and capital investment will be unknown. However, as the capital is more and more optimistic about the development of electric vehicles, there are a number of car companies to achieve financing since 2021.

According to statistics, only more than a month into 2021, the amount of financing for new energy vehicles has reached more than 60 billion yuan, of which BYD and Evergrande have reached more than 20 billion yuan.

Baiteng Motor will sign strategic cooperation framework agreements with Foxconn Technology Group and Nanjing Economic and technological Development Zone, and the three parties will work together to promote mass production of Baiteng new energy vehicles and strive to achieve mass production of M-Byte by the first quarter of 2022, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. This means that the Baiteng car, which once burned up 8.4 billion yuan and still can't get out of the car, got the help of "Noble" again in 2021.

GAC GROUP announced on January 5 that it will increase its capital by about 482 million yuan through its wholly-owned subsidiary "GAC Ean", and Guangdong Pearl Investment Intelligent Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Guangdong Pearl Investment") will increase its capital by about 1.923 billion yuan as a strategic investor. After the completion of the capital increase, GAC GROUP and his wholly-owned subsidiary GAC Ean New Energy vehicle Co., Ltd. together hold a 25% stake in GAC Ulai New Energy vehicle Technology Co., Ltd.

On January 20, as more and more car companies hope to raise money through listing, Weimar has also completed listing tutoring, although this time it is to make it easier for Weima to raise capital. However, according to the above listing guidance work summary report, Weima Motor has experienced a total of 12 capital increases and 5 equity transfers. According to public data, Weima Motor has completed 10 billion yuan of D-round financing in September 2020. according to incomplete statistics, the total financing amount has exceeded 30 billion yuan since its establishment.

On January 21, BYD announced that it would place 133 million H shares, with the total proceeds expected to be about HK $29.925 billion. According to the announcement, the placing shares account for about 12.69% of the expanded number of H shares issued and about 4.65% of the total number of expanded issued shares after the allotment and issuance of the placing shares. It is reported that the net proceeds are intended to be used to supplement working capital, repay interest-bearing debts and invest in research and development, which will increase the layout of the new energy vehicle business.

On January 24, Evergrande issued an announcement in the evening, placing 952 million new shares to six investors, attracting a total of HK $26 billion, which was voluntarily locked up for 12 months. This is also due to the continued popularity of the new energy vehicle market, Evergrande received new investment again less than four months later. Prior to this, Evergrande has already brought in shareholders such as Tencent, Sequoia Capital and DiDi, and this is Evergrande's second capital increase in six months.

On January 26th, the industrial and commercial information of Aichi Automobile Co., Ltd. changed, and the registered capital of Aichi Automobile Co., Ltd. increased from 801.5722 million yuan to 828.6897 million yuan, an increase of 3.38304%. Through the equity information, we can see that the proportion of shares held by Shangrao Didi Technology Co., Ltd. is 0.37%, and the registered capital is 3.0815 million yuan.

On January 27th, Zero Technology announced the financing of round B, raising 4.3 billion yuan and raising more than 1 billion yuan. It is understood that the round B financing will be used to support Zero's investment in product research and development, channel layout and brand promotion. It is reported that this round of financing includes not only strategic investors such as CIC Chuangyi, Zhejiang University Jiuzhi, and Yong Wah Capital, but also Fu Liquan, chairman of Dahua shares, founder of Zero Technology, and Zhu Jiangming, founder and chairman of Zero Technology. It also shows the confidence of the two founding shareholders in the future development of Zero.

On the evening of January 28th, American electric car company Faraday Future (Faraday Future) announced on its website that it had reached a final agreement with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on a business merger, valuing the company at about $3.4 billion (22 billion yuan) after the transaction was completed, and would be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the symbol "FFIE". Coupled with the fact that FF once again announced its cooperation with Geely, there is no doubt that Faraday's future has finally come.

Judging from the financing of these many car companies, it also reflects that new energy vehicles have been increasingly valued by capital at present. Previously, under the national dividend, China's new energy vehicles have developed rapidly in recent years, but with the emergence of more and more enterprises, the state quickly pressed the "pause" button. In this regard, the new forces of car-building have also suffered an unprecedented catastrophe, resulting in the elimination of many car companies, after all, car-building is very expensive.

However, according to enterprise inspection data, there have been 897 investment and financing incidents about new energy vehicle brands in the past decade, with a total financing amount of 384.11 billion yuan per month, which also shows that the development of new energy vehicles is gradually improving.

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