Internet cars are coming, the surrounding areas will usher in a new wave of entrepreneurial opportunities

March 12, SAIC and Alibaba Group jointly announced the joint venture to set up a 1 billion-yuan "internet Car Fund", the fund will be used to promote the "Internet car" development and operation platform construction. According to Alibaba, the two partners ' first internet car will be listed in 2016.

It is understood that this cooperation is a substantial step after the signing of the strategic cooperation Agreement between the two sides last year. The resource advantages of cooperation and complementarity are: SAIC has a large automotive customer base, in the vehicle integration, powertrain, new energy technology, automotive electronics and architecture, and so has a strong and solid independent development capabilities, in the automotive Information Services and automotive networking applications have deep research and development and operation experience in the automotive sales, service, Logistics and financial and other aspects of a sound system. Alibaba Group has self-developed Yun OS operating system, with cloud computing platform and Internet large data, as well as Internet content, service and biosphere, in E-commerce, finance, map and navigation, communications and other areas with core technology and service capabilities.
SAIC and Ali will give full play to their respective advantages, jointly exerting the "Internet car" technology development, service operation, business model and user experience, the relevant standards and norms of the establishment of the automotive industry to promote cross-border innovation and transformation of the development of the Internet car Ecological circle, to promote the future of smart cars and intelligent transportation concepts such as the landing.
Dingdao, senior Internet Watcher and Dean of the fast-forward research institute, said Alibaba is partnering with SAIC to set up 1 billion of the Internet car Fund to lay out its networked ecosystem, not just to make its own internet car. Car networking is a large set of ecosystems, it is not just a screen, the entire car inside each of the small parts and functions of each link, and the screen and your mobile phone through the cloud to interconnect. And such things, only in the large data and cloud services such as the development of a better bat, such as a few enterprises can do.
Dingdao also said in addition to internet companies, the traditional car companies are awakening, BMW and other companies have set up an Internet-related research institute, dedicated to the development of Internet vehicles landing, and some cars like mobile phones have a variety of practical apps (reversing applications, GPS, radar, automatic cruise, etc.). In the future, the internet car has been related to the surrounding areas will bring a new wave of entrepreneurial opportunities.