Alibaba goes online to sell cars

Posted on 09-04-2015 at 9:12 by CasperH – 24 Comments”

“But what will the forty robbers do?” you ask. No, Alibaba.com is a online group is larger than Amazon and Facebook, so this could be quite exciting.

Because I can imagine that you don’t know what Alibaba is, a little introduction with the help of our friends of the Devices. Alibaba is a kind of Marktplaats.nl of China, but smarter. So, the firm is already using drones to get packages to deliver, for example. Alibaba is also greater. Much larger: in 2013, the site was already bigger than Facebook, and when Alibaba.com in september last year the stock market went, it was in one fell swoop 231 billion dollars worth.

The owner of Alibaba, is called Jack Ma. This man is, in itself, tens of billions of dollars worth. He announced in march a partnership with SAIC Motor, the largest car manufacturer of China. Together, they have an investment fund that should result in a car that is linked to the internet, and that different functionalities such as e-commerce, digital entertainment and internet communications seamlessly be integrated in the car.

Apart from the corner on the site where all second-hand (see picture above article) to score, Alibaba Group announced that there will be a division within the company has been set up everything with the buy of cars to have together. Whether it’s new or used cars or financing or insurance: Alibaba should soon be possible.

What that means to us? Still not a lot. But if Alibaba continues to grow as it now does, than can it be, that we more about this internetgigant going to write. Every story must begin somewhere, so also the story of Alibaba.com on Autoblog.nl. To be continued.