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According to Tianyan survey data, on July 22, Beijing Tuge Technology Co., Ltd., the main operator of shared car Tuge, changed its industry and commerce. Founder Wang Lifeng stepped down as legal representative, chairman and manager and was replaced by Shi Yulian. At the same time, Wang Wenzi and other five people all quit the ranks of directors and supervisors, adding a new supervisor, Yuan Haiting. The company has been listed as a breach of trust three times, including unpaid wages and so on.

On July 24, some media visited Tuge on the spot, but Tuge is now empty. According to the property of the building where the company is located, Tuge is still in arrears with part of the rent, but the person in charge has not been able to be contacted, so he plans to return the office space of Tuge next month and collect the rent through legal means.

Founded in July 2015, Tuge was once a leader in the field of shared cars and was once sought after by the capital market. So far, it has raised as many as six rounds of public financing, totaling nearly 500 million yuan, including investors such as ZhenFund and SIG Hainer Asia.

However, the huge amount of financing did not save Tuge. Since the end of 2018, Tuge has been exposed with financial problems one after another, and many users have reported that it is difficult to refund the deposit.

During the period from August 2018 to January 2019, Tuge's branches in Chengdu, Xi'an, Nanjing and other places had abnormal operations, and the local administration for industry and commerce was unable to contact the registered residence.

In addition, Tuge has frozen funds in several places because of several lawsuits. On January 24, 2019, property worth 242580 yuan under Tuge's name was seized by Beijing Haidian District Court due to the lawsuit of Shenzhen Wanchaihui car Leasing Co., Ltd. On February 26th, Beijing Fengtai District Court froze 934706 yuan in bank deposits under the name of Tuge due to a lawsuit from Beijing Zhongqing Travel Industry Automobile sales and Service Co., Ltd.

Going back to 2015, Tuge has just been established and has completed six rounds of financing in four years. Many industry insiders believe that Tuge is only one step away from listing.

In June 2018, there were more than 400 timeshare shared cars registered nationwide, with more than 10 operating vehicles, including SAIC, FAW, Geely, Grand Directory and other vehicles, as well as start-ups like Tuge.

At this time, Tuge announced that it had operated more than 7000 vehicles in seven cities, with more than 3.5 million registered users, and claimed to be the shared car brand with the largest number of vehicles, the largest market share and the largest growth among shared cars.

However, in the second half of 2018, the news that the deposit was difficult to refund in ofo was that Tuge was also exposed that the deposit was difficult to refund.

On January 2, 2019, Wang Lifeng, the current CEO of Tuge, was besieged by users and employees in Beijing for eight hours to respond. At present, the company does encounter financial difficulties and is unable to refund the deposit normally, but the deposit return can still be solved. After that, Wang Lifeng disappeared for half a year.

According to the public data of Tuge, the deposit of Tuge is 1500 yuan, the number of registered users of its platform is nearly 2 million, and the total deposit is estimated to be around 3 billion yuan.

In addition to Tuge, since 2017, there have been a number of car-sharing companies whose deposits are difficult to refund. According to the public information section, the companies that have problems are as follows:

Some industry insiders said that sharing cars is different from sharing bicycles, the price of each bike ranges from a few hundred yuan to thousands of yuan, and the cost of a car starts at tens of thousands of yuan, which is a heavy capital business. Without a huge investment background and the support of the whole car factory, it is difficult to bargain with the automakers, and it is very difficult to survive in this industry.

Today, the reshuffle of the shared car industry continues, the collapse of a number of start-ups, and the injection of new capital may save shared cars from the cold winter, but millions of unrefunded deposit users still need to wait for a reply from the company.

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