/ Assoc/Guangzhou, May 06, 2022 -- Robotaxi is one of a wide range of potential applications for autonomous driving services. Its essence is the commercialization of self-driving ride-sharing scenarios. With the rapid development of autonomous driving technology, how to transform cutting-edge technologies into landing services has become the key to achieve scale and commercialization. Therefore, the travel platform with in-depth insight into travel demand and rich experience in travel service has become a new outlet of the autonomous driving circuit and has successively gained capital.
On April 26, Ruqi Travel announced that it had completed A round of financing of over 1 billion yuan, led by GaC Group, with the participation of Ma Zhixing, Wenyuan Zhixing, SPARX, Risen Asia, Guangzhou Investment Group, Lingnan Business Travel Group, Industrial Capital and other institutions. This is the first financing in the domestic intelligent travel industry in 2022. Among them, Pony Zhixing and Wenyuan Zhixing participated in attracting attention. This is the first time that two major autonomous driving companies invested in the same travel platform in China.
Robotaxi is a track with great potential. In the long run, when robotaxi technology and supply are mature, people may choose more driverless taxis as the core travel tool and replace private cars and other human transportation tools from the perspective of safety and convenience. After the completion of this round of financing, Ruqi Chuxing will continue to deepen the strategic layout of "two-axle drive", accelerate the commercialization of Robotaxi, build VaaS platform linking the whole industry, and gradually become a global leader in autonomous driving operation technology.
In retrospect, Ruqi Travel has gone through more than 1000 days since its official launch on June 26, 2019. An important basis for this company to make a breakthrough in the commercialization of Robotaxi is that its technology is tough enough. As a mobile travel brand under GAC Group, Ruqi Travel provides services based on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The penetration rate of travel users in the core cities of the Greater Bay Area has exceeded 30%. Qi Chuxing has a very mature operation system, rich scenes and massive data, which can integrate the complete automobile industry chain of GaC Group and the Internet industrial ecology of Tencent, so as to provide soil for the commercialization of Robotaxi. Meanwhile, "Qi Cube", a data management and application development platform independently developed by Qi Chuxing, lays the technical foundation for the commercialization of Robotaxi in the aspects of big data and artificial intelligence.
Such as Qi travel all the way to the industry is a top student. In terms of Robotaxi commercialization breakthrough, Ruqi Chuxing has also taken a key step by virtue of its own excellent technology and accumulated commercial operation experience. It is reported that after the completion of this round of financing, Ruqi Travel will build a Robotaxi fleet with a scale of more than 200 and put it into demonstration operation, build a v2x fleet with a scale of more than 1,000, and make every effort to promote the perfection of the autonomous driving operating system including operation platform, data platform and supervision platform. It is believed that in the near future, The commercialization of autonomous driving on a larger scale will happen more quickly.
