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Chapter 134 Public Transportation Major Transformation

When traditional motorcycles disappear, fuel taxis and buses that are active in the streets and alleys are also replaced by new energy vehicles, and new energy vehicles and motorcycles are applied to some public areas, such as police cars...

And when ordinary people are more and more inclined to choose new energy vehicles, there are two most intuitive impacts on Haicheng: noise and air quality. After all, the sound of new energy vehicles is much lower than that of fuel vehicles.

Not only will the driving experience be much quieter, but it will also be much friendlier to pedestrians and residents.

In terms of air quality, Haicheng officials have the idea of ​​changing all public transport vehicles into new energy vehicles. If so many fuel vehicles are lost in one breath, the exhaust emissions will be reduced by a large amount.

It is actually easy to observe that after traveling to many cities, in cities with a relatively higher proportion of new energy vehicles, the air rarely has that gray feeling from a distance, and there is no noise when walking on the road.

Of course, air quality is not 100% related to the penetration rate of new energy vehicles, but also related to the development of local industries. If the heavy industry and mining industry are relatively developed, new energy vehicles will not be able to save them.

It’s just that for Haicheng, since they have chosen such a development path, they will definitely go on. The various “reasons” they find in the development process are only to strengthen their confidence in choosing the direction of new energy.

After Lu Dongchang exposed the two models of Polestar X and Polestar G, at 8 o'clock the next morning, Stardust Community and Polestar Automobile also jointly issued an announcement, confirming the information and release time of the two products down.

The online and offline promotion will be carried out on August 8th. It is said that it is on the 30th, but it has actually started now, and it has also specifically caught up with the popularity of Stardust New Energy, Stardust Technology, and Xinghan Zhixing:

The battery is from Stardust New Energy, which is safe and guaranteed! 40 degrees large battery to meet the needs of more users!The warranty policy is exactly the same as that on Xinghan mini.

The motor is also made of Stardust New Energy. Needless to say the parameters, it is no problem to hang the Xinghan mini.

The brand is also owned by Xinghan Zhixing. Although it does not follow the development model of Xinghan Zhixing's directly-operated stores, it is considered a sub-brand anyway, and it will also have various technical supports.

Obviously, Polestar X and Polestar G are aimed at public transportation, and the versions of taxis and buses are also used in the promotion. The former is matched with a relatively affordable price, which directly attracted a lot of netizens to condemn:
"No, why? Why are you only a taxi? With a battery life of 420 kilometers, a five-door five-seater sedan, this is the product that ordinary people need! The Xinghan mini is good, but it's not very practical!"

"It only sells for 8.58 yuan? It's cheaper than Xinghan mini modified car! And the battery life is doubled! It can also attract people to make money! I want to buy a special car for rent!"

"Polestar X is just for me!"

"@星汉智行, come out and get beaten! Other brands have made cars, but what about your Xinghan 01? Can you make it quick to make you look good?"

"I just picked up a Maihuang Xinghan mini, and my mentality is already bad. I would have waited if I had known."

"The owner of the Xinghan mini is begging to launch a version with a long battery life! You can add 1 yuan! The battery life of 210 kilometers is not enough! You have to charge it once in a few days!"

"Yes, yes, sometimes I run a lot in a day, and I have to charge it that night. The only good thing is that I have driven it until now, and the battery has not decayed."

"I also want to drive 12 kilometers to change the battery sooner! It's really uncomfortable to only have 200 kilometers at a time. It would be great if I could have the 400 kilometers of this taxi."

In fact, they also know that Xinghan mini can use 20kWh battery, and it is impossible to add a larger battery to the 40kWh of Polestar X. Even the modified long battery life version driven by Chen Zifan only uses 30kWh.

In this way, the price will have to be increased by at least 1 to 2 yuan. The 5.58 yuan Xinghan mini can still compete in the field of mini cars, but if it is raised to around 7 yuan, the competitiveness will be a bit weak.

However, Chen Zifan is not a person who doesn't like oil and salt. After seeing various feedbacks, he has already notified Li Yuan to conduct a wave of market research. He will spend an extra 1 to 2 yuan and run an extra 105 kilometers each time. I don't think it is worth it. worth it.

Anyway, what they mainly promote is the 210 endurance version of Xinghan mini. Even if the 315 endurance version is released, they will only sell it as an "official modified car".

There are still many netizens pointing the finger at Xinghan 01 through Polestar X. It’s not that Chen Zifan doesn’t want to do it, but the mass production of Xinghan 01 is too difficult. Even Xinghan 001, which has been downgraded by several levels, is not progressing fast.

Many people do not know Xinghan Zhixing and Xinghan 001. They only know that there is a new energy motorcycle under development, which is the Xinghan 009 that Mo Shaokun personally admitted, and there is no news about Xinghan 01.

So they are really mourning their misfortune, angry at their indisputable ah!Obviously with the start of the Xinghan mini, why not launch new energy vehicles as soon as possible, but be preempted by Polestar Motors?Why did you go to build motorcycles again?

As the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. Chen Zifan doesn't care about this. Xinghan Zhixing only needs to develop products according to the current progress. Besides, after careful calculation, how long has Xinghan mini been on the market?
It's less than three months!

A new car in three months?Which car manufacturer can have this kind of speed?Anyway, I have to wait!

Chen Zifan's original intention was to push Polestar Motors to the front to withstand the pressure and attract market attention, and Xinghan Zhixing will continue to advance the work, and strive to start "road testing" in Haicheng in March or April next year.

Regarding netizens’ doubts about Polestar X only being a taxi... Soon someone came out to explain:
"There is a non-taxi version in the Pole Star App, and I have already posted a post, but it seems that I have to wait until Haicheng replaces all the taxis with Pole Star X, and then fine-tune the taxi version before launching it!"

For this reason, many people even downloaded a Polestar car app. After clicking on it, they realized that it was true. After ignoring the outrageous price of 120 million for Polestar G, Polestar X is so comfortable~

There is only one thought in their mind:
"This is a normal new energy vehicle!"

At the same time, many people have realized that the taxi market in Haicheng is about to change. The chaotic scene of Jetta, Santana, Passat, and Hongqi traveling together in the past will no longer exist, leaving only Polestar X alone.

Leaving aside the conflict of interests at the brand level, some existing taxi drivers will not be better off. The same as before, the situation of asking prices and not using the meter will not appear again, and the entire industry will be more regulated.

Under the general environment and the promotion of Haicheng officials, even if some drivers complain, it will not have any impact, let alone what is wrong with transformation and development?

Not only is the salary higher than before, but the job is also guaranteed, so why bother to run illegal cars again?Not to mention the hard work of pulling people every day, maybe you will be fined and your car will be impounded.

The official announcement of Polestar X and Polestar G was originally just a small news, but some traditional car manufacturers overreacted directly after seeing it, and began to use their own marketing channels to specifically target new energy vehicles.

What are "no-name brands are called kings", "buy no-brand electric cars and drive with only four wheels running, and the rest are all falling apart", "fuel vehicles are fun to drive, manual transmission is fun, and automatic transmission saves worry and effort" …

Repeating those few words over and over again, Chen Zifan really wanted to persuade them to take a look at the Xinghai Driving School. Since the Xinghan Mini came out, there have been batch after batch of girls who are learning to drive and taking the C2 driver's license test. After getting the driver's license, I went to the direct sales store to see the car.

Whether you can afford it or not is one thing, but the scene is really lively. Where there are many girls, there are naturally many men. After the reputation of Xinghai Driving School spread, a group of young guys with strong firepower also came to apply for a C2 driver's license.

What manual transmission, driving pleasure...

Is it important to have girls?Is it important to have Xinghan mini rider group?Is it important to go to the Xinghan Direct Store to see the car and chat with your sister to brag B?This is also thanks to young people, but those who are 25 years old rarely do this kind of thing.

With the official announcement of Polestar X, the number of applicants for the Xinghai Driving School has ushered in a small increase again. What "electric cars fall apart when they are driven" used to describe domestic cars, but now they are targeting new energy vehicles?
No matter how you target them, there is only one countermeasure for Xinghan Zhixing and Polestar Automobile: Our electricity bill is cheap, and our car cost is very low... What?Do you want more than anything else?Do you have wifi in the car?

Whether it is new energy vehicles or fuel vehicles, they must have their own advantages. Why do you compare them?
Take a look at this, Polestar X and Polestar G were just a small thing, but now that they are done like this, the popularity of Polestar Automobile has increased in a straight line, Haicheng Bus has also become popular, the reason There is only one: Polestar G has free on-board wifi!

This is the first time in the field of buses. Among other things, if Polestar G really replaces the original bus in Haicheng, I am afraid there will be a lot of Wi-Fi users who will sit to the end. It doesn’t matter, just sit with them!

Is it just a display, a publicity stunt?

With the popularity of Polestar X and Polestar G coming together, Haicheng would not be able to make sense even if it did not transform public transportation, but the process was much more complicated than they imagined, and the staff turnover alone went through several waves.

Stardust Technology has not forgotten its own job. Under the leadership of Chen Zifan, the sales of Stardust 3, Stardust 3+ and other products have always been maintained at a very high level, and 4G is also constantly promoted.

The next work only needs to continue to develop new products, wait until the end of October for Polestar Automobile to release the car, and then carry out the major transformation of public transportation in Haicheng City.

In the Stardust factory, the newly established drone project team is already assembling the first drone. It is said to be a drone, but it is actually a deformed version of a large remote-controlled aircraft, but it can connect to a 4G network.

At first they planned to use the 3-megapixel camera on the Stardust 1300+, but then the project team leader quickly stopped it and replaced it with other cameras:

"A 1300-megapixel camera? Why is it so high? Our first-generation drone is just an entry-level model! We have to sell the product first, and the next generation will launch an all-round and balanced advanced model on this basis!"

Chen Zifan's pursuit of products has not changed, but he also knows that sometimes consumers have to be given more time to adapt. Mobile phones are fine, but other products are priced too aggressively when they come out, which is not conducive to product promotion.

Although the future drone industry in his memory is very developed and various application scenarios have emerged, the overall penetration rate is not high. It seems that consumers have no interest in such a product.

There are many specific reasons, such as difficult technology, high price, lack of unified guidance in the market, difficulty in distinguishing between commercial and private use, and safety issues, such as crashes caused by improper control, but these are not the key points.

Chen Zifan believes that the most difficult point is the transformation of ideas. Ordinary people have very little acceptance of such products, and they are full of fear of exploring the sky, and remote-controlled airplanes cannot sell remote-controlled cars.

Even if the two belong to the same price range, they still can’t sell. People don’t think that it’s more cost-effective to buy a remote-controlled aircraft, but they think that the remote-controlled aircraft sells the same as the remote-controlled car, so there are some quality problems in its designation.

Stardust Technology currently has two development directions for drones. One is commercial drones with more complete configurations and higher professional requirements, and the other is entry-level private drones for the mass market.

It is said to be an entry, but the configuration is not bad at all, especially in terms of safety configuration, Chen Zifan has put in a lot of effort, because he knows that if there is an accident with this thing, the market will be hit hard immediately.

At the same time, there must be certain requirements for the user of the drone. Before the new machine is turned on, it must accept a period of control guidance. The overall flying speed is relatively slow, and the flying height is also limited to a relatively safe range.

There is also a certain guarantee in terms of battery life. When the warning power is reached, the operator will be prompted directly, or directly dropped to a safe landing point set in advance.

Even in the event of an emergency, the Stardust drone will not fall directly like a high-altitude parabola. Something similar to an "airbag" will pop up inside to wrap the entire fuselage.

However, the final Stardust drone will definitely not be named after "drone". Like Stardust tablets, Bluetooth headsets, smart watches and other products, it will use their own "nouns" instead of product names.

Even so, there will certainly be many accidents that should occur. Haicheng will definitely not set up a "drone no-fly zone", and other cities can't be sure.

With the addition of various costs and the relatively affordable price, Chen Zifan thinks that the Stardust UAV is likely to become the second product with a "relatively low" net profit margin after the Stardust Bluetooth Headset 1 of Stardust Technology.

And the associated risks are relatively high, but Chen Zifan will definitely not give up research and development in the field of drones. It is okay to have high risks, and there are other fields with low risks.

For example, the "smart home" that is going to be promoted in cooperation with Midea. Since the last visit to Midea, Wang Jinli has led people to establish cooperation with them in various fields, and the only thing left is to create smart home products.

Midea is responsible for the product itself. Stardust Technology only provides key technical support and some core components. After establishing the cooperation, Wang Jinli has returned to the Stardust Technology headquarters with the documents:

When I found Chen Zifan, his first words were: "Chen Dong, this is the product plan we plan to launch next. There are three categories and fifteen models..."

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