Interstellar Energy Tycoon.

Chapter 161 Wang Guofu wants to build a flying car

On the afternoon of the 16th.

At the entrance of the Xingyuan Group headquarters building, several cars parked, and a group of people came down.

A middle-aged man with a round face, who was guarded in the middle, entered the building under the reception of the staff of Xingyuan Group.

Wang Guofu came to Suhong City in person again.

The pace is hasty, but also a very eager look.

By the way, what is his purpose for coming here this time?
Is there any thing or technology that deserves him to let go of his bossy airs and condescend to come here once from a thousand miles away.

You must know that the current Bimendi is simply incredible. Last year, the car sales exceeded an astonishing 1200 million units, becoming the world's number one car company in sales, with a domestic market share of 35%, and a foreign market share. It's down 10%, and it's still killing and expanding everywhere.

The profit margin is also very impressive. On average, each car has a net profit of at least 3 yuan, plus other businesses, and a total profit of 5000 trillion yuan a year.

Now Bimengdi’s business account has trillions of dollars in cash flow, and there is nowhere to spend the money. There is also a kind of invincibility that is very lonely, melancholy and boring. I am a little confused and can’t see the future direction. After all, I am at the peak. Above, even if there is a higher sky above the head, if you don't get the right direction and step on the wrong step, it will be an abyss. Therefore, many shareholders and investors have suggested to Wang Guofu that in the next few years, he only needs to continue to consolidate his advantages , continue to make efforts to seize market share.

The meaning is to let him lie on the credit book and live comfortably on his laurels.

Wang Guofu nodded and accepted these suggestions, because he is already in his 60s, he is exhausted, he is a little bit immobile, and he has fought all his life and has been busy with his career for decades, so he should enjoy it.

Some time ago, he had a life secretary in his 20s beside him. He was very young and beautiful, and he graduated from a prestigious school. He not only helped Wang Guofu at work, but also took care of him in every possible way in life. Looking at Wang Guofu made him very useful, and the investors were very relieved. They sent red dates and lotus seeds one after another, wishing him an early son, and fearing that he would not think about it again.

However, no matter how beautiful and virtuous that life secretary is, no matter how comfortable the life in the gentle village is.

I saw the light-energy airliner "Xingmeng", which took off and landed frequently, and was put into commercial use at an extremely fast speed. It will soon replace traditional aircraft and spread to every corner of the sky in Huaguo.

Can't sit still.

Even if this light-powered passenger plane flying in the sky does not match the cars running on the ground, Wang Guofu still can't sit still.

Huo got up, put aside that charming life secretary, and brought a group of people to Suhong City to reach a new strategic cooperation with Xingyuan Group and start a new car manufacturing project.

The strategic conference room on the 28th floor.

"Old Wang, long time no see."

"Xiao Li, you are an otaku, I always come to see you, why do you occasionally go to the deep sea to see me~"

"Old Wang, definitely next time, I will visit Shenhai City in the future."

"As long as you go, I will accompany you all the way, take you to taste delicious food, see the scenery, and to be honest, there are more beauties in the deep sea than Su Hong, you will know when you go."

Li Xingyang and Wang Guofu patted each other's shoulders and chests, and exchanged friendly greetings for a while. When they talked about the topic of beauties, Wang Guofu showed an expression of "you know" and said that there are resources to introduce. Li Xingyang was sweating.

"Okay, old Wang, let's sit down and talk about business."

Li Xingyang sat on the chair at the head of the conference table, and said: "You said that your Bimengdi Automobile is planning to carry out a strategic transformation, and will devote all its efforts to the research and development of 'flying cars'. It plans to lead the automotive field and enter the 'flying car' within three to five years In the era of flying cars, Lao Wang, your idea is a bit too advanced. Although it is not impossible to use high-energy light beams for energy, but there are too many cars. The high altitude can only be used at low altitudes, the loss of the light beam will be very large, the comprehensive utilization rate of light energy is estimated to be less than 2%, and there are many high-concurrency applications... Lao Wang, you are indeed predicting the general trend of flying cars. , but this is ten or 10 years later, it is a bit too early to plan to fully transform into a flying car now."

"Because it's early, I have to plan ahead and take the lead! Pull enough distance from my friends and merchants so that they can't catch up in the short term."

Wang Guofu said very excitedly.

"In fact, there are already some technology companies in China that have made flying cars, and their ideas have been realized earlier, but so far, these flying cars are still only niche toys and have not been widely promoted. Conceptual products are not enough, and the best time to launch them is when the society develops to a certain stage, which is called coming into being.” Li Xingyang said again.

"I understand this truth, but most of these 'flying cars' can only be called flying toys, with loud noise, short battery life, low load capacity, and high price. They cannot replace traditional cars at all. The low-altitude airspace below 1000 meters has not been released, so these 'flying cars' are destined to be just concepts and cannot be developed, but light-powered flying cars are different."

Wang Guofu introduced: "The flying car I envisage has comprehensive promotion value, mainly flying at a low altitude of 200 meters, using light beams for energy, and flying at an altitude of about 1000 meters, with an average of 12.56 square kilometers (a radius of two kilometers) circle), set up a large floating energy supply tower, which can emit up to 1 beams of high-energy short-wave beams with a power of 1000KW, and supply energy for 60 flying cars at the same time. Even if the light energy utilization rate is only 600%, under the power of [-]KW, A flying car powered by carbon fiber materials and an ion engine with a large thrust-to-weight ratio can easily levitate and fly at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour."

"How to provide the electricity for the floating energy supply tower?" Li Xingyang asked.

"It can be connected to the national power grid and connected to the ground power grid with a wire more than 1000 meters long. It can use the cheap electricity of 6 cents in the national grid, and it can also pass through a nearly 3-meter-long superconducting wire. , connected to the floating relay at an altitude of 3 meters...Xiao Li, think about it, using wires to transmit power, the loss is much lower than that of light beams, and there is almost no loss. The power generated by the floating relay , directly to the floating energy supply tower, and the cost of energy can also be very low.”

Wang Guofu walked up to Li Xingyang, took out a pen, drew various design sketches on A4 paper, and explained the principle to him.

Check out his sketches.

It's easy for Li Xingyang to understand, because it's not complicated at all.

That is to say, to make the "flying car" a reality, let it enter thousands of households, and the cost of use is low, most families can afford it, and it can also solve the problem of traffic congestion in big cities. Energy, to avoid excessive loss rate; use the floating energy supply towers one after another to play the role of "energy supply base station", adopt the wired connection method, go up, absorb the energy in the floating relay, go down, Obtaining electricity from the national grid can be described as double insurance, with high security redundancy.

There is also a very big advantage, that is, through the floating energy supply towers, the space energy facilities of Star Source Group, a large amount of electricity can be used by flying cars while using these floating energy supply towers. It can 'backflow' the excess electricity into the national grid, and actually form a huge energy network. Xingyuan Group can sell the electricity that is too much to use to the national grid at a cheap price and earn some money. income.

The plan to sell excess electricity was ingeniously realized with this method of killing two birds with one stone.

Of course, Wang Guofu's plan also has two obvious flaws.

First, it is necessary to set up a large number of floating energy supply towers.

Even if each floating energy supply tower can cover an area of ​​12.56 square kilometers, assuming that it covers most of the country, to cover a land of no less than 300 million square kilometers, it is necessary to install no less than 24 floating energy supply towers. Energy Tower—In fact, in large and medium-sized cities, giant floating energy supply towers can be set up to handle the concurrent use of tens of thousands of vehicles at the same time, but in suburban rural areas, small floating energy supply towers can be set up to handle 100 to 1000 vehicles. Concurrent situation of the vehicle, and does not need to be connected to the floating relay with wires, only the electricity of the national grid can be used.

But no matter what, more than 20 floating energy supply towers are definitely needed, and the construction cost of these infrastructures will cost trillions.

Second, it brings certain hidden dangers to air safety.

Especially where the wires that transmit power are standing straight up, even if they emit orange light themselves, making the aircraft in the sky consciously avoid, there is always a high probability of collision, so we have to be careful ,cheer.

It will also have some impact on the flight training of the Air Force. You can no longer fly freely over the metropolis. You can only find some rural areas without wire interference, or the northwest and southwest airspace for free flight.

In addition, it will also have a certain impact on the flight route of the light energy passenger plane, but the interference is not great, and the floating relay can even be shared.

In addition to the above shortcomings.

There is basically no big problem.

"Xiao Li, I have calculated many times. Although keeping hundreds of thousands of floating energy supply towers in the air for a long time will consume huge energy every day, as long as the number of flying cars is large enough, the At the level of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of vehicles, the cost of all aspects is evenly spread. The cost of using a flying car per hour is at most about 1000 yuan, but the longest distance can fly 500 kilometers, and the average cost per kilometer is 2 yuan. This is within an acceptable range, as long as it is a middle-income family, it can be used. However, after five or ten years, the price of electricity will also decrease. If it falls to 3 cents, the cost of use per kilometer will drop to 1 yuan , if the electricity is 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, then the cost per kilometer is only 6 cents more, even if it is still not as good as electric cars running on the ground, but the great convenience brought by flying cars and the time and cost saved are definitely far more than the cost per kilometer. It costs more than 6 cents per kilometer."

Wang Guofu said.

nod.

Li Xingyang nodded again and again, yes, what Lao Wang said makes sense. For users in big cities who buy flying cars, even if they save 1 hour a day in traffic jams and waiting for red lights to find a parking space, it is enough to offset the cost of use.

There's something going on.

Lao Wang's project is indeed very promising, and it can also help his own space energy facilities to transmit electricity to the national grid.

Based on this alone, Li Xingyang intends to fully support Lao Wang and promote the construction of the 'flying car' project and related infrastructure.

(End of this chapter)