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Six years later, the new power car manufacturing enterprise Ranger car has not been separated from the title of "PPT car building". According to Tianyan investigation, Shanghai Ranger Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. added equity freeze information, the person being executed is Wei Jun, chairman of Ranger Automobile, the frozen equity amount is 45 million yuan, and the enforcement court is the Shanghai Minhang District people's Court.

Data show that Ranger Automobile, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shanghai, is an integrated intelligent electric vehicle manufacturing enterprise integrating R & D, design, production, sales and service of new energy vehicles. it is also an earlier batch of Chinese new power car manufacturing enterprises. In July 2015, Huang Xiuyuan, founder and CEO of a brand launch and PPT, announced the official launch of the first pure electric car, the Ranger X, which took 482days to develop and caused a sensation in the auto circle. From the release of the new car, this model is very similar to Tesla Model S, no matter in shape, chassis structure or body size, so it is called "PPT car".

However, two months after the release of the new car, there was news that the team had been disbanded, and it was believed that the Ranger car had stopped, and it was not until the new shareholders entered that the car returned to the public again. In December 2015, Wei Jun, chairman of Xituo Industrial Group, joined Ranger with money and team as chairman of Ranger. For Ranger cars, the addition of Wei Jun not only restarts the road of building cars for Rangers, but also plays an important role in follow-up financing.

According to the heavenly eye survey, Ranger car has completed three rounds of financing of A, B and B +, with a cumulative financing amount of more than 8 billion US dollars. In October 2017, Ranger Automobile completed its round An investment, with a total financing of 1.22 billion yuan, including Xinhua Silk Road Fund, Jingxing Tiancheng and other investment institutions. In March 2018, Ranger car completed round B financing with a total financing of 5.02 billion yuan, jointly invested by 12 institutions, including Qianhai Wutong, China Environmental Protection Industry Co., Ltd., Zhongchuang Ocean, South Taihu Construction Investment and Huzhou Donghong. In August 2018, Knight Motors completed the $350 million financing round of B+, which was invested by the exclusive strategy of Gezhi assets, and Gezhi assets also became the second largest shareholder of Ranger Motor.

Unlike other new power brands, Ranger insists on building its own factory. In April 2017, Ranger signed a cooperation agreement with the government of Wuxing District, Huzhou City, planning to build a super factory project of Ranger cars (Huzhou) in Wuxing District, which will begin construction in 2017 and plan to go public in 2019 with a total production capacity of 200000 units. Until now, the construction of the factory is still stagnant, and there is no further development of the car-building project. In December 2019, the government of Wuxing District, Huzhou City discussed to take over the knight-errant factory project and planned to acquire land for the knight-errant automobile industry project and dispose of projects under construction, which is conducive to invigorating land resources, defusing project risks and reducing disposal costs.

In the middle of last year, some media visited the self-built factory of Ranger cars. The project has been suspended for more than half a year, and the project construction headquarters at the site has also been evacuated, leaving the slogan "Walk in Heaven and Earth and never forget the original ideal and ambition for a long trip in the future." According to the security guard left behind at the site, the construction site has been suspended after the Chinese New year in 2021, and the project construction headquarters was evacuated in April and May. The security guard told the reporter that the workers had not been here since they returned home for the Spring Festival, and there were no workers on the construction site a long time ago. now there are only three security guards here to look at the construction site, three shifts, more than 2000 yuan a month, and the wages are paid by the security company. Ranger cars sometimes come to the construction site to have a look.

Car building is a very expensive industry. Li Bin of Xilai Automobile once said bluntly that building a car is a very expensive thing, so if a start-up wants to build a car, it needs at least more than 20 billion of the capital, otherwise it will not be done well. In addition, there is a need to improve the efficiency of the use of funds, that is, even with 20 billion of the funds prepared, the money still has to be saved. Because the industrial chain of car building is very long, if any link fails to control the cost, it will lead to the high cost of mass production, which will lead to the loss of market competitiveness. Judging from the current situation of the Ranger car, can the Ranger car still work if it has raised only $8 billion since its inception?

Someone's coming! someone's going! Judging from the development of new power enterprises in the past year, car-building forces such as Singularity, Baiteng, Future, and Green Chi have fallen in the middle of the road of new energy, and the successful survival of "Wei Xiaoli" is marching towards the annual sales of 100000 vehicles. Even so, there are still many enterprises hoping to catch the last bus, such as Baidu, Xiaomi, Niu Innovation Energy, Foxconn, Tuan che, and so on. These new cross-border enterprises are as confident as the new power car companies a few years ago, but as the new energy vehicle race track becomes narrower and narrower, who can gain a foothold under such tight encirclement?

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