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Ideanomics' MEG announces the Formation of Business Entities to Capitalize on China's RMB24 trillion (USD3.4 trillion) "New Infrastructure" InvestmentsNEW YORK, March 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideanomics, (NASDAQ: IDEX) ("Ideanomics" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce the formation of two core business entities to capitalize on China's RMB24 trillion (USD3.4 trillion) "New Infrastructure" investments. The Chinese government is accelerating its New Infrastructure" investment as part of the financial stimulus measures put in place to help stabilize growth and employment, serve consumption upgrades, and improve overall quality of life. As of March 4, seven provinces and cities have launched more than RMB 24 trillion in key new infrastructure construction projects. New infrastructure refers to the infrastructure construction that focuses on the technology infrastructure - 5G infrastructure, ultra high voltage (UHV), intercity high-speed railways and intercity rail transit, new energy vehicle charging station infrastructure, big data centers to service 5G IoT/IoV data collection, improve major fields of study such as artificial intelligence and industrial internet. Investments and progress in the New infrastructure are expected to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 epidemic and consequent economic downturn as well as promote reform and innovation. The two entities, MEG New Energy Vehicles and MEG 5G Energy Services, will be subgroups of MEG's New Energy Sales division, each having a core group of strategic partners. New Energy Vehicles will facilitate financing and leasing of supporting IoV infrastructure under a variety of scenarios including the Belt and Road Initiative, electric vehicles (EVs) in Qingdao, Shandong Port, urban electric engineering vehicles, new energy taxi exchanges, urban new energy buses and other operating scenarios. It will be primarily financing for 5G towers and stations as well as other similar group's power supply. MEG's New Energy Vehicles has formed a strategic cooperation with several leading partners, including CATL, Beiben Trucks Group Co., Ltd., Chery Automobile Group, CEMI Group, iUnicorn (Shenma Zhuanche), etc. to incorporate IoV technology into their manufacturing. 5G Energy Services will make use of IoT/IoV services to accelerate the deployment, maintenance, and management of clean energy services in a variety of scenarios ranging from urban data centers, energy transformation (distributed energy), to urban charging ports. It has formed a strategic cooperation with China Tower, GCL Group, State Grid, DongfangEnergy Sales Cloud, and TMR Energy. GCL brings a real-time fleet management platform which will leverage the IoV and IoT data capabilities over 5G to assist commercial fleet operators with everything from charging and battery replacement indicators, through to route optimization based on traffic and weather conditions. New Energy Vehicles and IoT/5G Energy Services augment MEG's platform with a long-term layout in new energy, 5G towers, big data centers, artificial intelligence, and the industrial internet are positioned to take advantage of the "New Infrastructure" economic initiative in China. MEG's ultimate strategy is to derive revenues from new energy sales from the increasing adoption of EVs. 5G Energy Services is an additional layer of revenue - powering the thousands of 5G towers used to support IoT/IoV services in commercial electric vehicles, and complements MEG's New Energy Sales platform which includes wholesale electricity sales and prepaid sales through UnionPay 4-in-1 cards. About Ideanomics The company is headquartered in New York, NY, and has offices in Beijing, China. Safe Harbor Statement Investor Relations and Media Contact View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ideanomics-meg-announces-the-formation-of-business-entities-to-capitalize-on-chinas-rmb24-trillion-usd3-4-trillion-new-infrastructure-investments-301031024.html SOURCE Ideanomics |