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With the launch of another new force, Changjing, founder of Stone Technology, launched a new car-building project, Luo Ke Intelligence, the first product will be standard Mercedes-Benz G-Class. It announced yesterday that it had received $100 million in financing, led by Tencent Group, and Sequoia, an investment agency, also participated in the investment. At present, the car-building team has not officially announced the name of the car brand.

Founder Chang Jing graduated from South China University of Technology with a computer major and has worked for Tencent and Baidu. Then created Meitu tool magic map spirit, and then was acquired by Baidu. In 2014, it re-founded stone technology and won investment from Xiaomi, which became part of the ecological chain around Xiaomi, customizing smart home devices such as intelligent floor sweeping robot and hand-held wireless vacuum cleaner for Xiaomi, as well as some independent products. Including "intelligent stone sweeping robot", "stone self-cleaning sweeping robot", "small tile intelligent sweeping robot", "stone wireless hand-held vacuum cleaner" and "stone intelligent double-brush floor washer" and so on.

In February 2020, Stone Science and Technology landed on the board. Judging from the above time points, it is very close to Lei Jun's tuyere entrepreneurship, so under this logic and entrepreneurial background, it is not surprising to turn into a new force of car building again.

One year after landing Kecheng Board, Changjing established Shanghai Luoke Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. on January 8, 2021, with a registered capital of 10 million yuan, Changjing directly held 40% of its shares, and then controlled a total of about 56% through other holding companies. for the actual controller of Luoke Motor. The three armed forces went first without moving food and fodder, and obtained US $100 million in financing in more than a year, which may only be a drizzle for the car industry, but from the new power project, it has already achieved the first stage goal. It only needs to reproduce a number of sample cars, and its car-building plan can be smoothly promoted under the same general trend.

The automobile industry is concerned about looking up the trademark registration of Luo Ke Automobile in the State Trademark Office. It has registered the Chinese names "Little Stone Automobile" and "Polar Stone Automobile" under the trademark classification of 12 types of vehicles. From the word combination point of view, Luo Ke Automobile is likely to choose "Polar Stone Automobile" as its official name. In December 2020, Stone Technology submitted the name "Stone car" to the Trademark Office, which shows that Changjing initially or planned that Stone Technology was directly involved in new business, but then it seems to have changed its mind. Luo Ke Intelligent Technology was formed with several executives a month later, and it does not rule out its attempt to challenge the independent listing of the business.

To achieve this plan, Changjing brought in Yan Feng, a former partner and CTO of Weimar, to join Luoke as CEO. Yan Feng left Weima Motor in April last year. But Weimar did not want many people to pay attention to reports of executive departures over the past year, so the news of Yan Feng's departure did not attract much attention at the time. According to a photo posted online, he visited the China Automotive Center, which is in charge of automobile product certification, as CEO of Luoke Automobile in July last year.

At present, Luo Ke does not have much information on its products, and its first car is positioned as a cross-country model of the Mercedes-Benz G series, hoping to exceed 1000 km in a single run with the help of extended range technology.

In the face of new forces, more and more companies with Internet background devote themselves to this emerging industry. Coincidentally, Zhou Hongyi said a few years ago that his ultimate goal of being a floor-sweeping robot was to build a driverless car, and CEO Changjing, a professional floor-sweeping robot stone technology, really took this step.

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