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Since November last year, Tuge shared cars have been frequently reported as delinquent deposits by users, and the record of 1500 yuan deposit in APP has disappeared.

Previously, the official customer service responded that the fault would be repaired in the near future, but at present, the Tuge hotline has indicated that "there is no such business number", all the shared cars in the parking lots have been removed, and the company's office address has been emptied. Industry and commerce responded that Tuge did not go bankrupt.

It is understood from the relevant channels that the Beijing Court trial Information Network has intensively made public 82 judgments of Beijing Tuge Technology Co., Ltd., all of which are lease contract disputes arising from the failure to refund the deposit on time. Of the judgments made public in June this year, 41 were of first instance and 41 of second instance.

With regard to the claims made by many plaintiffs for the refund of deposit and interest, Tuge Company appealed to the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate people's Court, saying that according to the agreement between the company and the user, 1500 yuan would be returned to the user without interest after applying for the deposit. The court of first instance ruled that the payment of interest was not in line with the agreement between the two parties and should be changed in accordance with the law. In response to this, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate people's Court held that Tuge had already constituted a breach of contract and should bear the corresponding liability for breach of contract. The court of first instance ruled that the company paid interest correctly and rejected Tuge's appeal.

In addition, in the second instance, Tuge asked the court to grant a certain grace period for the refund of the deposit because of the company's operational difficulties, but the court did not support it.

It is understood that the number of registered users of Tuge across the country has reached 3 million, and the deposit for each user is 1500 yuan. According to this calculation, the deposit of Tuge is as high as 4.5 billion yuan. Even if the number of people registered according to Tuge is 2 million, the deposit is as high as 3 billion yuan. If it is calculated according to the 15 people a day promised by the Tuge staff, it will take more than 300 years to complete at the earliest.

According to the official website, Tuge was founded in July 2015 and received an angel investment of 10 million yuan in the first month. It received financing in 2016 and peaked in 2017. The company has landed operations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Xi'an, and the company also has Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Citroen, Peugeot and other models. However, Tuge's seemingly "brilliant and beautiful" past did not stop it from becoming a rout, and the "difficulty in refund deposit" at the end of 2018 made Tuge a target of public criticism.

Tugo is not the only car-sharing company in crisis.

"Travel now" can not avoid fewer available vehicles, and users are dissatisfied with the increase in the radius and range of car-seeking. In addition, EZZY, a shared car with a high-end line, has also announced its dissolution. By the time EZZY stopped operation, there were only more than 120 vehicles and only more than 1700 users. Panda Travel, GoFun and other shared cars have also been complained by many passengers because of their poor sense of experience, messy body, lack of safety guarantee and other problems.

As early as March 2017, the collapse of Youyou cars, an early group of players in China, officially announced the fact that shared cars will die out sooner or later.

Reason 1: the business model doesn't work.

Take Tuge as an example, in order to facilitate users to borrow and return, Tuge said that it can stop at any specified area, but the parking cost which is extremely difficult to control has become a problem. There is to pay a deposit, but due to the previous car owner's high parking fee, need to pay first, and then in the form of currency return, equivalent to their own responsibility, which will also let many users choose to "abandon the car and go."

In addition, not only parking fees, but also many shared cars do not have reasonable planning on a series of issues such as vehicle management, refueling, violations, abnormal use of vehicles, and there are large operational loopholes, which is also the main reason for their downfall.

The second reason for the demise: the development of the industry is immature and the safety is worrying.

The real sharing is the use of social idle resources, rather than the timeshare lease of the asset model. However, the operation mode of shared cars is obviously not suitable for the current national conditions of China. With the increasing congestion of the road, the bumps in the use of shared cars are inevitable, but few enterprises can achieve the bottom line of driving safety such as timely maintenance and comprehensive inspection. In addition, due to the serious lack of emergency response mechanism and imperfect audit information, countless shared cars have been labeled as unsafe.

The third reason for demise: the loss situation is difficult to reverse, profit is even more difficult!

Car sharing in the early stage through the recognition of capital, and a large amount of financing. However, the car, as the main body of sharing cars, needs a lot of capital investment, and the early large investment and micro-income make it burn money and lose money for a long time. But today, the disadvantages of the car-sharing business model and very few users make it impossible for capital to make a quick and effective profit. Once the capital is pulled out, the shared car is bound to die.

Due to the break of the capital chain, the failure of the operation mode and the disapproval of the users, these are all the reasons why the shared car can not move forward.

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