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CTOnews.com May 8 news, public information shows that a few days ago, Reading Automobile Group Co., Ltd. added a bankruptcy review case, the case number is (2023) Lu 0725 Breshen No. 1, the applicant and the respondent are both Reading Automobile Group Co., Ltd., and the handling court is the people's Court of Changle County, Weifang City, Shandong Province.

Founded in 2008, Reading first focused on low-speed electric cars, or "Old Man Le". From 2016 to 2018, Reading topped sales of low-speed electric cars for three consecutive years, with a market share of more than 30% at one point.

In 2018, six ministries and commissions issued a notice on strengthening the management of low-speed electric vehicles, requiring all localities to carry out rectification and reform of low-speed electric vehicles and prohibit increasing the production capacity of low-speed electric vehicles.

In order to transform, Reading has acquired Shaanxi Qinxing Automobile and Sichuan Automobile Mustang successively, and obtained the production qualification of new energy vehicles and traditional oil passenger cars. But sales of Reading's I series and mini electric car, Reading Mango, are not ideal, and factors such as rising raw material prices in 2022 have also put pressure on Reading.

Since 2021, Reading has been exposed to capital chain and capacity problems, defaulting on dealers' payments. Since the beginning of this year, Reading has been involved in about 100 civil cases involving a total amount of 40.938397 million yuan. Although Reading announced the completion of round A financing of 3.2 billion yuan on November 21, 2022, the funds did not arrive on schedule as agreed.

Reading Motors is more concerned about a "real-name tip-off" letter from founder Li Guoxin on January 14, 2023. In the letter, Li Guoxin pointed out that Reading was forced to misstate its industrial and sales output value of 4.683 billion yuan.

In February 2023, Reading was jointly reported by dealers. The "Open letter from Jiangsu Dealers to the Joint investigation team of Reading Province and City" signed and sealed by dealers believes that Reading is a fraudulent company. The dealers cited several major reasons, including: the Reading Company owed production and stopped production as soon as it went public; when the supply of products fell short of demand, it invested high fees in Hunan Satellite TV to carry out publicity; in the case of production without going out of service, it continued to deceive investment; founder Li Guoxin registered an overseas company and was suspected of running away with money. Dealers believe that these are all signs of car-building scams.

CTOnews.com noted that the most recent update of "Reading car" official account stayed on March 8. So far, the official website of Reading cannot be opened.

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