Integrated pricing successfully buys American electric vehicle manufacturer Fisker

According to the bulletin on the progress of the takeover of the United States by the company's controlling shareholder million to the group, said: "Million to the group to buy the company's shares in the United States, the acquisition process in the United States has made substantial progress, Wanxiang Group has completed the United States, the company's delivery work, is currently processing the relevant departments of China's approval, the specific completion time is still uncertain. "

In this regard, Wanxiang believes that, following the acquisition of the U.S. lithium-ion battery manufacturers A123 system last year, the completion of the delivery of Fisker, marking the new energy automotive industry chain has been preliminarily formed. However, some insiders told the Daily economic news reporter, because has not yet obtained the car qualification, even complete the acquisition of Fisker, million to the "car dream" is still difficult to achieve in the short term. The

Universal Twists acquisition of Fisker

, founded in 2007, was once considered to be the most "similar" to Tesla's US luxury electric vehicle manufacturer, but, unfortunately, Tesla's "wind up" in the US and even global markets, Fisker, however, has moved ahead to "decline" because of the lack of core technology and security. In 2012, as its battery supplier, the United States A123 System Company announced bankruptcy, the Phillips model "Camaro" was also forced to suspend production, follow-up products were put on hold. In November 2013, Fisker formally filed for bankruptcy protection. The plight of the Fisker

has made it possible for the largest parts company in China to see hope. Million to the Chairman of the Group Board of Directors Lu has a dream, that is involved in the whole car manufacturing.

in June 1999, the Wanxiang Electric Vehicle project team was established and subsequently identified the battery-motor-electric-electric-vehicle development strategy. 2002, Wanxiang successfully developed lithium-ion power battery, motor and controller and other key components. Subsequently, the first electric car and electric bus were also developed. Starting from 2004, the Pure Electric bus is put into demonstration operation in Hangzhou. 2009, million to the group announced the investment of 1.365 billion yuan to build the largest domestic electric vehicles and lithium battery production base.

But Lu is still dissatisfied with this, in order to quickly acquire technical resources, Wanxiang Group launched a round of intensive overseas mergers and acquisitions. May 2010, Wanxiang Group and focused on power batteries and fuel cell business of the United States Ener1 Company joint venture, the first investment of more than 300 million U.S. dollars, in Hangzhou, the establishment of fully automated batteries and battery system production base. January 2013, million to 256 million U.S. dollars to buy the United States battery equipment business A123 system company.

After the above actions, Wanxiang has done a series of supporting preparations for its "dream of making cars", and whether the successful acquisition of Fisker has become a key step forward from the parts company to the whole vehicle manufacturer.

Thus, in the 2012 years of Fisker's first predicament,, Wanxiang began to engage with him and expressed "interest in providing assistance to Fisker in any way possible". Subsequently, in a bid for the Fisker, Wanxiang launched a "contest" between the Green Tech car (GTA), a Chinese-American Wang Xiaolin, and the hybrid technology holding Company (Hybridtech), a holding by Richard Li. Eventually, after twists negotiations and auctions, the group will fisker a successful income with a combined 149.2 million dollar valuation.

Plan to revive "Kamala"

Although it has successfully won the Fisker, but in the industry, Lu's "dream of car-building" in the short term is still impossible to achieve.

First, the department itself has no technical advantage, and its core technology is almost always in the hands of suppliers. "For example, chassis, hybrid control systems, control systems, etc. are owned by quantum technology companies, and the battery system is provided by the American A123 Systems Company and manufactured by the Finnish Valmet plant," said Tingyong, an independent automotive analyst. "

Secondly, in the production qualification, although in October last year the Ministry of Industry issued the" Vehicle manufacturers and Products Bulletin "(The No. 254 instalment), million to the group subsidiary of Wanxiang Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd. appeared in the list of new vehicle production enterprises. However, the million to obtain the only special-purpose vehicle production qualification, mainly passenger cars, trucks and other commercial vehicles production qualification, does not include cars. This also means that even with Fisker and its associated electric-vehicle production technology, it is still difficult to "graft" it into its auto business in the short term. The

may be aware of the above issues, and in the bid for Fisker, Wanxiang did not mention the content of its technology in China. Instead, the revival of Fisker's model "Camaro" was put to the first step.

In accordance with universal planning, in the overall recovery plan, the "universal version" of the Fisker first will be the market 2000 vehicles "Camaro" models to provide maintenance, maintenance and other "three packs of services", and second, will soon sell Fisker existing inventory. It is understood that the existing inventory of the Camaro is about 100~200; third, in April this year, the Fisker will resume a foundry in Finland, which has been discontinued for 18 months, and then gradually transfer production from Finland to the United States.

In addition, Wanxiang plans to invest in, design and develop Fisker second-generation models (GENII), as well as core technologies for the development of new energy vehicles such as batteries and plug-in hybrid drive systems, to make up for Fisker's long-standing lack of core technology vl.

However, in the opinion of independent auto analyst Tingyong, it is not easy to restart the production of Fisker, which will not only pay high costs, but will also face a series of problems that are missing from core technology.