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The official account of Future Automobile yesterday issued an official account push for the planning conference and delivery ceremony of the Suzhou plant of Future Automobile the day before, which may mean the official return of Future Automobile. From December 2, the official account began to appear intermittent content updates, the same day, the official account released a video of the future car road race, and then on December 7, the official account announced that it had reached a cooperation with Beijing Jingang, which runs the circuit. By Dec. 10, Future Motors promoted its Douyin account, saying "I'm back."

Before the "resurrection" operation of the system, the last update of its official account was in July 2020. For a period of time in 2020, when many automotive media mentioned future cars, they liked to add a few words after them: "Future cars, is there still a future?" The situation this year is a little different. When it comes to future cars, three words will be added to the front to say, "do you still remember Future cars?" . At the beginning of the year, another car owner on Weibo told the story of his experience with a cry, saying that it was "the most worthless car in history. It ran for more than 1000 kilometers and lost electricity for a week." the salesman said, "the boss is closed, the future is closed." Future cars have never officially announced their own death, but the disappearance of time is indeed enough for people to forget and remember.

Who would have thought it came back and handed in the car.

In yesterday's official account article, Future Automobile held a strategy sharing at the Suzhou factory on the 18th. At the meeting, Future Automobile Chairman Lu Qun said that Future Automobile will be laid out in "three new" areas, such as new materials, new energy, and new intelligence. at the same time, Lu Qun said that the 2022 Future Automobile K20 will be officially on the market, while Future Automobile will begin to distribute overseas cars. Paradoxically, Future Automobile not only quietly resumed the future K50 production line, but also quickly found six new car owners to appear at the delivery site.

This new car, which appeared on the scene, has some history. This is the first domestic all-electric supercar K50 futuristic NEDC with a comprehensive mileage of 380km and an acceleration time of 4.6 s. After it was officially listed in August 2018, the official price was 754300 and the subsidized price was 686800 yuan. It is precisely because of this positioning and pricing, the future K50 from the beginning to disappear, sales of less than 200 vehicles.

In the later period of the news that the future car was in financial difficulties, there was a batch of 50% discount future K50 in the car moments. Even so, it is said that some second-hand car vendors sold their cars for more than a year and finally had to sell them at a tearful discount of about 200000.

As early as 2015, Future Automobile was established, and in 2016, Future Automobile won the qualification of building cars with new energy issued by the National Development and Reform Commission. By 2018, Future Automobile will be qualified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is a rare fully qualified new energy car manufacturer, whose parent company is Great Wall Huaguan, an automotive engineering manufacturer. Due to the high positioning and high pricing of the above products, the sales volume is not enough to support the operation of the enterprise, go back to two or three years ago, not to mention the future car. Even though the three new powers of Wei Xiaoli, which has already sold more than 10,000 yuan, were basically thinking about getting out of difficulties at that time, ideal car CEO Li thought he was proud to be one of the five new energy car companies that can pay wages normally.

According to KuaiBao, the 2018 annual results released by Great Wall Huaguan, the company's total profit loss in 2018 reached 609 million yuan, down 163.44% from the same period last year, while the net profit of shareholders belonging to listed companies lost 606 million yuan, down 168.15% from the same period last year. The losses in 2016 and 2017 were 98 million yuan and 226 million yuan respectively, with a debt ratio of 35.28% and 69.46% respectively. With the parent company's growing losses and the inability to get new financing, Future's parent company, Great Wall Huaguan, was exposed in February 2019 and began to default on wages and suppliers. At that time, the future official replied, "the company does have financial problems, but it does not affect the payment of employees' salaries."

In mid-1919, there began to be news that Future Motor had failed to apply for employee credit loans to pay wages. Subsequently, there were media reports that Future Automobile offered a limited turnover quota of 200 people. These 200 people agreed to leave voluntarily, and their wages were settled at the end of February. And there is no compensation. But even these employees who signed the agreement, after February, still did not get paid.

Online, promising auto employees also send out a text of the termination agreement, which states: if you give up labor compensation, your salary will be settled in May of the following year; if you want to compensate Nation1, your salary will be settled in August of the following year; if you do not leave your job, the date of payment will be determined. At that time, while the wages of Future Automobile employees were in arrears, the social security and provident fund were also cut off, and some employees were unable to get back their due wages. From a variety of circumstances, the future car is not unpaid, but can not. Future Motor never responded to the news, nor did it confirm the authenticity of these agreements.

According to the inquiry on SkyEye, whether it is Great Wall Huaguan or Future Automobile, there are many cases related to suppliers or labor contracts, as well as court enforcement, as well as an announcement that a number of senior executives of Future Automobile are listed as restricting high consumers.

Finally, in November 2020, the first national experience store in Sanlitun, Beijing, was closed, the delivery center in Jingang Automobile Park was also empty, and the future car actually disappeared until the voice began to resume on the 2nd of this month. Before that, there were some signs that Future cars were changing. first, last month, a French creditor living in Shanghai withdrew his bankruptcy application to the court. some sports car industry Big V also posted some content located in the Suzhou factory showroom of the future car.

This may be related to a former Volkswagen China executive. At the end of last month, Bentley, founded by Su Weiming, a former Volkswagen China executive, was 20 per cent owned by Great Wall Huaguan, the future parent company. Bentley Motors is scheduled to be officially launched at the Beijing Auto Show in 2022, but the company has no qualification to build cars and no production base. If it is not impossible for Bentley to cooperate with Future Automobile, it may still have a future, but it may have to solve the historical problems left over earlier, provide lower-priced mass market products and get more financial support.

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