Alibaba and Tencent Kick the Tires on a New Idea—Keeping China’s Jalopies on the Road

China's aging car fleet is huge and will soon start needing significant repairs. Chinese tech companies want a slice of the action.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and affiliates of Tencent Holdings Ltd.

, the two superpowers of the Chinese web, are confronting the country’s thousands of mom-and-pop repair shops with the choice of joining one of their new smartphone-based networks or becoming less relevant to China’s fast-growing ranks of digital consumers.

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