To say that Evergrande is unreliable in building cars is just because you have no money.

Perhaps most men have a dream of building a car. Most rural children born in the 1990s have played a game. They use a pesticide bottle or a square bottle to pierce the four corners, insert a branch in front and back, and then put four tung berries on it. "Car" was born, the cost is zero, it only requires some manual work.

I later learned that building a real car would cost RMB 20 billion. This is not nonsense. At the end of 2016, NIO CEO Li Bin publicly stated that if you don’t have 20 billion, don’t build a car. At the end of 2017, Xpeng Motors founder He Xiaopeng said that he used to think 10 billion was too exaggerated when others built cars, but now he thinks 20 billion is too much. Not enough money.

Building cars is really a waste of money.

Is money the only bottleneck in building a car? For new energy vehicle companies, this is indeed the case.

The advent of the era of modular car manufacturing allows most car components to be purchased from supporting suppliers for technology and accessories assembly. This breaks away from the development problems of traditional fuel engines and makes it possible to purchase batteries to manufacture electric vehicles. Got to be simpler.

Bojun Auto spent billions and burnt out for more than a year before it was defeated in a hurry. At least for now, it seems that money can make things happen. But no matter how simple a car is, it is not just as outrageous as what Li Shufu said is a sofa with wheels.

Throw money! Real estate giant Evergrande Group Xu Jiayin also wants to build cars. Objectively speaking, because the profitability of the real estate field continues to decline, Evergrande has transformed from real estate to finance, health, sports and other fields in recent years.

Evergrande Group, which has total assets of over 2 trillion yuan, does not want to make small fuss. Coupled with Xu Jiayin’s personal views on the industry, an industry like car-making that costs money like water seems to be a perfect fit for Evergrande Group. Such confident people and companies can spend endless amounts of money.

In order to build cars, Evergrande will invest a total of 29.4 billion yuan in the automobile business from 2019 to 2021. Among them, 14.7 billion yuan was invested in 2019, 2.7 billion yuan was invested in the first half of 2020, and 9 billion yuan is expected to be invested in 2021. A total of 29.4 billion yuan has been invested in the past three years.

In terms of production bases and future planning, Evergrande Group will announce the construction of three new energy vehicle production bases in Shenyang and Guangzhou respectively, with a total investment of up to 160 billion yuan and 120 billion yuan in the two places. From the beginning to the final scale, Evergrande spent more than 300 billion yuan to build a car. Compared with China's traditional local car companies such as Geely and Great Wall, the development of Evergrande Automobile is achieved by spending money, and this is almost the only way.

Traditional car companies used to transform from machinery manufacturing plants to assembly and finally obtained car manufacturing qualifications and expanded to the current scale within 20 to 30 years. Not only Great Wall and Geely, but also Mercedes-Benz Century-old brands like BMW and BMW also developed in this way. If this process continues, by the time Evergrande builds cars, humans may no longer need cars. Therefore, throwing money is the correct and fast way.

Tens of billions of money have been spent, but there is still no mass-produced car. Evergrande has a few more hats on its head by building cars in the enclosure style, slogan style, and flashback style.

People who know how to build cars know that building cars is not easy. People who don’t know how to build cars are asking, where is the car after more than a year? In today's social rhythm, Evergrande's speed is slow, but is this wrong? Not necessarily, after all, Evergrande's model is a multi-pronged long-term model, which is different from the model of companies that are short of money, which research and develop first and then manufacture. The root cause of all this is, of course, that Evergrande has a lot of money and a huge initial investment. Behind the buying, buying, and cooperation is the process of the industry gradually moving closer to Evergrande Automobile. And now those who are eager to demand quick results from Evergrande's huge investment either don't know how to build cars or are jealous because they don't have the money.

It is difficult for one person to build a car. But it is not that difficult for a rich man to build a car. In other words, it may not work if you have money, but it will definitely not work if you don’t have money.

Of course, those who have money to build a car will also encounter difficulties, and even cold looks, because there are many people without money waiting to see a joke. A joke about having money but not being able to build a car. It must be the biggest joke among the automobile manufacturing industry, real estate industry, and wealthy circles. Today, many people can't wait to see this joke. Shuge wanted to say that money can make a fool of himself, but if he wants to complete the great cause of building cars, perhaps bystanders need to give Evergrande more time. After all, it has gathered people who have money, want to build cars, and have ideals to build cars. I'm afraid Xu Jiayin is the only car person.

This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.