The Light of Domestic Products: The whole world begs me to sell

Chapter 227 Vehicle-road coordination and remote intervention under 5G network

Hu Lai's request was naturally satisfied immediately.

Soon, accompanied by Director Zhang, Hu Lai came to the brand new Phoenix Industrial Base.

Today's Phoenix Super Industrial Park has been officially put into use, and various branches and departments of the Phoenix Group have also been gradually relocated from the previously leased factories.

Phoenix Motors also completed the relocation work some time ago. At the same time, because of the stable rear base of the super industrial park, Phoenix Motors had always wanted to build a series of venues and equipment such as vehicle internal test sites and crash test laboratories. The project was established and landed in the super industrial park.

These changes can be seen all over the place. When he arrived at the super industrial park, Zhang Feiyang and the main person in charge of the "unmanned bus" project team were already waiting for him in the newly built internal test site.

Standing in front of the crowd was naturally Zhang Feiyang. When Hu Lai looked at the project team members behind Zhang Feiyang, he found several familiar faces, and one of them was Wei Ming, the designer of "Qingluan".

When Wei Ming joined the Phoenix Group, he was just a little-known designer. Later, he participated in the design of "Qingluan" because of the explosion of his independently designed "Quick One" and Dali tricycle.

Although the appearance of "Qingluan" is not super stunning, it is above the standard, and it also made Wei Ming stand out in the industry. As the main designer of the new generation of Phoenix Group, it is not surprising that he participated in the design of the "unmanned bus" project.

Hu Lai looked at Wei Ming, nodded his head from the air, and regarded it as a greeting.

After Hu Lai met everyone, Zhang Feiyang pointed to the circular test road in front of him, and first introduced the test site to Hu Lai.

"Boss, this is part of our internal comprehensive testing ground."

"This ring road is the first to be completed. It is mainly used to test the durability and reliability of the vehicles. The test sites for other working conditions are still under construction. It is expected that they will be fully delivered in half a year."

Hu Lai nodded.

A few days ago, he was busy with the lithography machine, and today was the first time he came to the internal test site of Phoenix Automobile in person.

Hu Lai is still clear about the situation of the entire comprehensive testing ground.

According to the comprehensive test field planned by Phoenix Automobile, the total length of the road has reached 28.4KM, including high-speed road sections, ramps, curves, wading, mountain roads and other complex road conditions. At the same time, the test site also has extreme working conditions and various limits. The test site, the circular road in front of him is obviously just one of the test content.

He looked at the circular road in front of him, and there happened to be several Phoenix cars on the road that were being tested. He pointed to a vehicle he had never seen before, turned his head and asked:
"Feiyang, is that car...?"

Zhang Feiyang smiled slightly and said:

"This is the super sports car we are about to launch. It is now undergoing the final durability test, and it will be launched soon."

While the two were talking, a green and white bus with a rounded shape slowly drove out of the circular road and stopped in the parking area not far from the crowd.

Hu Lai looked at the "unmanned bus" not far away. This is the main purpose of coming here today.

He walked over quickly and observed the exterior design of the "unmanned bus" at a close distance.

Hu looked at the designer Wei Ming at the side, and asked curiously:
"Wei Ming, your design is not bad."

Wei Ming was obviously flattered, and he didn't expect that Hu Laihu would always praise him suddenly. He walked out of the crowd in a moment of surprise, shook his head and said:
"Mr. Hu, I didn't design this project. It was designed by our colleague Xiao Yao from the design department."

"I also came here today, and I also came here specially to study."

Now, instead, Hu Lai was a little surprised, and Zhang Feiyang on the side hurriedly introduced:
"Boss, this is designer Xiao Yao."

"Our 'unmanned bus' was created by the beautiful designer Xiao Yao. She and our designer Wei Ming formed two design teams. She is the design director of the other team and only recently joined us at Phoenix Motors."

"Today, colleagues from our sister company, BYD Design Department, came to Phoenix Motors to exchange ideas, so designer Wei Ming brought them over for a visit."

As Zhang Feiyang's voice fell, Hu Lai first looked at the new beauty designer Xiao Yao, and then at the BYD designers who came to study.

He had a different emotion in his heart. It had to be said that Phoenix Motors was indeed becoming a powerful automobile company at a speed visible to the naked eye. Phoenix Motors already had the ability to attract top talents in the industry.

Hu Lai generously welcomed the designers from BYD, and then praised the designer Xiao Yao. At last, the focus returned to the "unmanned bus" in front of him.

He looked at the "unmanned bus" in front of him, and what made him suddenly interested was the solar panels on the roof.

He looked at the solar panels on the roof and asked:
"Feiyang, just now Director Zhang introduced to me that we are now using solar panels on the 'unmanned bus', and the solar energy can be charged for a day, and can achieve a battery life of 20KM?!"

As soon as Hu Lai finished speaking, Zhang Feiyang nodded immediately.

"Boss, it is true."

"This time we specially cooperated with the top leading photovoltaic company in China - 'Longji' to manufacture a batch of solar panels that fit on the roof of our 'unmanned bus' vehicles. The final test results did reach the 20KM battery life level."

Hu Lai was thinking in his heart, and subconsciously felt that the battery life of 20 kilometers for one day of irradiation was not too little.

Before he could say anything, Zhang Feiyang continued:
"For a long time, the conversion efficiency of traditional solar panels is low, and the upper limit of power is only a few hundred watts. Even the car air conditioner cannot be used. Although many new energy vehicles claim to have solar panels for charging, they are actually gimmicks."

"We used the latest generation technology of 'LONGi' this time, and the conversion efficiency of solar energy has been greatly improved. This has achieved the performance of charging 20KM in one day, far exceeding other domestic solar panels."

"but……"

Hu Lai was a little surprised by Zhang Feiyang's explanation. According to Zhang Feiyang's meaning, is it already a high-end solar technology to achieve 20KM battery life with one day's charging?

In doubt, he pricked up his ears to listen carefully to Zhang Feiyang's next words.

"Boss, although we have achieved a battery life of 20KM, the cost is indeed a bit high."

"We have not yet fully determined whether it is necessary to use this solar panel charging technology on the 'unmanned bus'."

Hu Lai was even more puzzled and asked:
"The cost is a bit high?"

"That's right, the cost is higher!"

Zhang Feiyang replied:

"Boss, the latest solar panel we use is not only the latest technology, but also because it is more difficult to make in order to perfectly fit our curved roof."

"Just such a solar panel on the roof of a car costs close to 5 yuan."

"And each bus can save 20KM of battery life every day under sufficient sunlight. Calculated according to one kilowatt-hour of electricity per kilometer, it actually saves 20 kilowatt-hours of electricity and 20 yuan."

"That is to say, the 5 yuan solar panel will take 2500 days to pay back the cost under the condition of the best charging efficiency every day, and it will take 7 years..."

"Actually, various maintenance problems will definitely be encountered during use, so we are considering whether to adopt such a solar panel design on the 'unmanned bus'."

Hu Lai was taken aback for a moment, and then completely understood Zhang Feiyang's thoughts.

To put it simply, this is a question of product positioning or product strategy.

The "unmanned bus" manufactured by Phoenix Motors must be marketed, and the first factor to be considered in the market is commercialization.

At present, the introduction of this technology will definitely do more harm than good for the bus company. It will take 7 years to cover the cost of 5 yuan of solar panels under the best sunlight. .

I believe that even the cost price bus company is definitely not willing to purchase this function.

but.

From the perspective of technical reserves and technological leadership, applying such an immature or relatively low cost-effective technology to "unmanned public transport" vehicles will definitely have more advantages than disadvantages.

Hu Lai was thinking, Zhang Feiyang took a step forward and opened the door of the "unmanned bus".

Hu Lai stepped on the "unmanned bus" under the guidance of Zhang Feiyang, and Zhang Feiyang continued:
"Boss, it's not just about solar panels, we haven't fully decided whether to use a steering wheel on this 'unmanned bus'."

Hu Lai's thoughts were pulled back, and he took a closer look. Inside the "unmanned bus" he was in, there was no traditional steering wheel on the original driver's seat at this time.

The entire car is consistent from front to back, and the interior is like a subway car. The only difference is that there is a LCD screen of more than ten inches at the front and back of the car, which shows the current speed of the bus and road conditions.

Hu Lai thinks about several technical directions of the current global unmanned autonomous driving technology. One is the most common, unmanned autonomous driving with a steering wheel. The way to make up for the lack of autonomous driving technology.

The other is Google's unmanned self-driving technology, which not only cancels the steering wheel, but also cancels all the brakes and accelerator pedals. It completely uses a computer-controlled solution without human intervention.

In terms of the current level of commercialization, even the "Qingluan" of Phoenix Motors has adopted the method of steering wheel and manual intervention, but now, the "unmanned bus" project team has adopted another model, the model without steering wheel .

Hu Lai didn't know the idea of ​​the "unmanned public transport" project team, nor did he know which plan was correct and in line with the trend.

It is even said that so far, all unmanned autonomous driving companies in the world cannot be 100% sure whether the solution with a steering wheel or without a steering wheel is the ultimate historical development trend.

In an instant, Hu Lai had a thought.

This is the problem that a company needs to face after reaching an industry-leading position.

In the field of family cars before, Zesla has already told all new energy car companies with its own sales that the best commercialization in the field of family cars is to have a steering wheel and an unmanned automatic driving mode is the best.

But now, in the field of unmanned autonomous buses, Phoenix can no longer cross the river by feeling any company, and can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

What is the future market direction of "unmanned buses", whether the national policy will force steering wheels in the future, or even whether the solar panel technology just now will really become a trend? All these items need to be explored by Phoenix Motors. to test the market.

For a company, it must have strong market foresight!
The questions Zhang Feiyang said reminded Hu Lai of a very famous academic discussion.

A few years ago, the national level of Yanguo wanted to spend 1400 billion to build a high-energy particle collider, thinking that this would be of great benefit to our country's physics.

However, it has aroused heated discussions in the academic circle, and a large number of physicists and academicians believe that a high-energy particle collider should be established.

But coincidentally.

Mr. Yang, the world's top physicist, does not support spending 1400 billion to build a high-energy particle collider.

It is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Yang is an unquestionable authority in the physics world, and is currently No.1 in the world.

However, whether he was conservative or correct in the high-energy particle collider, we will take many years to know.

The reason for this situation is that Yanguo can no longer cross the river by groping others in the field of high-energy particle collider physics, so we can only move forward by groping.

Today's Phoenix Motors is also beginning to face this problem.

Hu Lai was not in a hurry to express his opinion, presumably the "unmanned bus" project team has also done a lot of research.

Sure enough, Zhang Feiyang then introduced:

"Boss, in the market, Yutong Bus and Alphaba are both trying to drive unmanned autonomous buses. Yutong Bus adopts the same model as ours, without the steering wheel and brake pedal at all."

"And Alphaba uses the traditional steering wheel mode, which can be manually intervened."

"but……"

"The 'unmanned buses' of these two car companies have not yet been put into commercial use. When they are operating the lines, they still need to have special staff on board to deal with various possible situations."

"Of course, we also understand that this is for the sake of safety, but we don't want to use this method at this point. If staff are still required on the bus, then this bus was originally developed for the 'unmanned bus at night'. People bus' doesn't make any sense."

Hu Lai became more and more interested. The project team adopted the no-steering-wheel solution and refused to have staff in the car. He must have ideas and contingency plans.

His eyes fell on Zhang Feiyang, and Zhang Feiyang continued:

"Boss, when you were outside just now, did you see a bump and a camera on the roof?"

Ok?
Hu Lai's mind recalled what he saw on the roof of the bus just now. There is indeed a small bulge on the roof of the bus that fits perfectly into the rounded design of the roof.

He nodded, and Zhang Feiyang said with satisfaction:
"The bump on the top of the head is a 5G signal receiver and a 360-degree high-definition high-frame camera that we specially added."

"Our 'unmanned buses' are all driving in urban areas. Now our mountain city has full coverage of 5G signals, and the signal transmission is much better than our shared car 'Mayfly'."

"With a fast 5G receiver and a stable 5G signal, not only can the 'unmanned bus' become a huge mobile WIFI, but also the road images, road condition information and even vehicle information obtained by the vehicle can be obtained with almost zero delay. Internal information is fed back to the command center."

"In this way, this bus can fully realize the functions of 'vehicle-road coordination' and 'remote intervention'!"

Hu Lai's eyes lit up!
5G network realizes vehicle-road coordination?

Enable remote intervention?

"Feiyang, you are talking about the specifics."

(End of this chapter)