The industry has reached a consensus that the combination of cars and the internet will be closer

March 13, SAIC and Alibaba Group jointly announced that the two sides will jointly set up a 1 billion-yuan "internet car Fund." SAIC and Alibaba will take the capital as the link, connect their advantageous resources, together to create "running on the internet car." In addition, SAIC and Alibaba also disclosed that the two sides will form a joint venture to focus on the technology development of Internet vehicles, the first internet car products are expected to be listed in 2016. What does the industry think about the cooperation between SAIC and Alibaba? What is the future of Internet cars? The industry survey of the Furious Car Network (survey time: March 16 March 22, the number of participants 2,073) on the above issues, the survey set up a total of 3 questions, the following will be based on the findings and expert interviews to elaborate.

Cars will be more closely integrated with the Internet as an industry consensus

One of the world's top 500 traditional car manufacturers-SAIC group, one is the NYSE listed on the Chinese it upstart-Alibaba, the joint venture between the two is easy to earn a lot of eyeballs, and then avid its cooperation project is the most popular internet car, industry attention can be expected, then, What does the industry think about the future of the cooperation between SAIC and Alibaba?

The results of the survey 1 showed that nearly half (47%) of the participants were bullish on SAIC-Alibaba cooperation. In this part of the industry, SAIC and Alibaba are divided into two industries of automobiles and the Internet, and are the leaders in the field, if the development of domestic Internet vehicles, the combination of the two may be the most reliable.

First, they have an advantage in capital. In a new field of exploration, capital accumulation is indispensable, for SAIC and Alibaba, the money problem is not a big problem, the early 1 billion yuan to take out the "Internet Car Fund", is not a huge amount. Furthermore, the technical aspects have their own advantages, SAIC has a solid foundation in integrated vehicle integration, powertrain, new energy technology, automotive electronics and architecture, automobile sales and service, etc. Alibaba is in cloud computing, internet large data, e-commerce and other aspects of the strong; Complementary。

However, there are also a considerable proportion of the industry expressed different views. In its view, SAIC and Alibaba, although they are the leader in their respective fields, but does not mean that the cooperation between the two will certainly be successful, even the two of the same field of the strong joint venture may be due to corporate culture, management concepts and other issues to failure, not to mention this cross-industry joint ventures, the difficulty is certainly not small. In addition, the two cooperation in a new field, facing the standard formulation, technology integration, channel operation and many other problems, greater risk. Therefore, this part of the participants are not optimistic about the cooperation between the two, holding this opinion accounted for 30%.
SAIC-Alibaba cooperation will face many problems, but the key to determining its success or failure is the internet car market prospects, the sector is a sunshine industry? The results of the survey 2 are positive, the internet car market is promising and the participants are promising.

65% of people in the industry are positive about this. In the global scope, the automobile intellectualization is the industry tendency, the Internet to the automobile industry subversion now appears to appear the irreversible trend. Even in the domestic, recently, there has also been a music car, Ichi car (easy to, Chery, Bo Thai tripartite joint venture) and many other Internet vehicle projects have been mounted, and then avid the cooperation between SAIC and Alibaba, internet vehicles are step by step into reality.

In addition, there is news that "internet car" has entered the agenda of the Ministry of Industry, or related enterprises to provide project funds, technical transformation support. Ministry of Industry may take the lead to build the platform, make the domestic traditional automobile manufacturers and advanced Internet enterprises smoothly docking, and jointly promote the domestic intelligent automobile industry progress.

25% of the participants scoffed at the internet car, saying that the current so-called internet car projects are hype concept, the real market space is not big. In this part of the participants that, for the moment, the internet car simply does not have the possibility of mass production promotion, that is, there is no industry standards and guarantee the absolute safety of the technology is not so much a car, as the capital market for the automotive industry, fuelled by the new hot speculation concept, for a long The ideal state may be an intelligent software system or a high value-added device to become a consumer trend.

In our online interview with industry experts pointed out that the internet car can be from the concept into reality, the key is to see the policy guidance, once there are subsidies and other favorable policies, has become a hotspot of the internet car may quickly landing.

Cars will be more closely integrated with the Internet as an industry consensus

The first internet car product of SAIC and Alibaba will be put on the market in 2016, then, the factors that may affect its development, survey 3 asked for this, the results show that technology maturity and security performance is the key.

31% of participants chose technical maturity. Automotive is a technology-intensive industry, the core elements of traditional vehicles-engine, chassis and gearbox hardware needs sophisticated production technology and matching technology. Even now, there are still a lot of auto companies have mastered the core technology. The internet car is based on the intelligent vehicle, in addition to the traditional automotive technology, but also need to master intelligent interconnection and other related technologies and the need to integrate the two efficient, difficult.

25% of participants chose security. First of all, if the relevant technology is immature, the internet car itself will have security problems. Second, internet vehicles also face cyber attacks from the Internet, and a virus may expose its own private information, and even more, driving cars may be controlled by others and their own security will not be guaranteed.

The management mechanism and marketing promotion also obtained 21% and 16% of the support degree respectively. Internet vehicles need to establish a highly shared mobile internet, and the management of this network must be efficient, must establish a sound industry standards and strict implementation, which is the prerequisite for its marketing. In addition, the internet car is a new concept, whether to obtain the consumer's favor is still unknown. In the case of automotive intelligence, in addition to some guarantee driving safety and comfort of the technology, other aspects of the audience groups are very limited, the cost of higher than most of the ordinary consumers, and constantly upgrade the system and cumbersome operating mode, etc. are restricting its large-scale promotion.