After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 251 Use magic to defeat magic

Lu Liang talked a lot with Lao Wang and learned a lot of knowledge related to cars.

As for performance and intelligent driving, we can add them in gradually later, but now we should get the shell and frame out first.

Building a car is like painting a picture. First, you need to splash ink to draw a basic outline, and then add scenery such as mountains, rivers and rocks on it.

Lao Wang also talked about his decision-making mistakes. His ideas were a bit outdated, which led to many novel designs being abandoned.

Just like the older generation thinks that square and big are beautiful, but young people nowadays don’t think so. They all pursue dynamism and fashion.

Whether it's Apple or Tesla, they are all following this route.

BYD is also groping its way forward, but it got up early and arrived late.

If Lu Liang has ideas and is willing to invest money, he should not just wait for the intelligent driving system to appear.

The time to prepare is now.

Although this market is small, it has great room for development and is enough to accommodate three or five leading companies.

Lu Liang has worked so hard to promote this market, and Lao Wang doesn't want him to waste his precious time.

Lu Liang seemed to be thinking about something, and then asked about the advantages and disadvantages of plug-in hybrid and extended-range hybrid.

"I can't say." Lao Wang thought for a long time and shook his head slowly.

Which one is better or worse needs to be tested by the market. No matter how good or powerful the technology is, if the market does not accept it, it is useless.

BYD chose plug-in hybrid from the beginning, so they will continue to work in this direction before the market makes a choice.

Of course, they also have research and development on extended-range electric vehicles, but they haven't invested too much money in it, mainly to be prepared for any eventuality.

The reason why research and development is expensive is mainly because there is no specific direction, so one can only do things here and there and cast a wide net.

Just like BYD, they actually didn’t think about making cars at the beginning, even making cars was just a symbolic act.

Otherwise, they would not have released only five car models in 12 before the country promoted new energy.

It is mainly engaged in the manufacture of batteries and rail transit, but it just happened to coincide with the country's promotion of the new energy industry.

That's why we shifted our focus to car manufacturing.

Lao Wang paused and asked, "Not going for pure electric?"

"Yes, but not just pure electric," said Lu Liang.

Old Wang taught him everything he knew, which made him feel a little embarrassed to miss him. So he made a painful decision to only contact Lin Dongyao and Wu Lei, and return to the Magic City to make plans for the rest.

Because the first phase of Tesla's super factory will be completed in the early spring of next year, there should be many engineers coming to take charge.

As the fourth largest shareholder, Musk should have no reason to refuse Tianxing Asset's visit.

The two walked around and came to the car showroom, where BYD's "Chopped Pepper Fish Head" was about to be launched.

The sales volume of Hongguang mini is so terrifying that it has exceeded 20 units as of last week.

Just one company and one car account for 31.3% of the sales in the entire new energy market.

Although one unit only makes 69 yuan, with 0.82 new energy points and policy subsidies, one unit can at least make a profit of 4500 yuan.

A mini car with a standard price of 2.39 yuan has a net profit of 19%. How can you justify this?

All major car companies are jealous, but no one is sure to reduce the cost to below 2.4.

Even BYD, which produces and sells its own products, can only keep the price at 5.69 yuan, but their range has increased to 300 kilometers.

Power batteries are Wuling’s disadvantage. Even with the participation of Ningde Era, Ningde still wants to make money.

Coincidentally, power batteries are BYD's advantage, and the range of over 180 kilometers should offset the price difference.

Lao Wang smiled and joked: "Mr. Lu, are you interested in driving around for a few laps?"

The good sales volume of Hongguang mini is closely related to Luliang.

Big influencers wore the same style, small influencers followed suit, and fans gradually developed a liking for the product. As a result, sales exploded.

Lu Liang shook his head repeatedly: "I was just about to go to Wuling to ask for some advertising fees."

"Going to Liuzhou?" Old Wang was surprised.

Lu Liang smiled and said, "It's not easy to get out here, so of course I'll go around and look around."

Last week, the sales of Hongguang mini exceeded 20 units, and Wuling sent him a letter of thanks.

Lu Liang didn't like these false reputations, so he took the opportunity to promote his own Tianxing OS system.

Coincidentally, Wuling has seen the growth potential of the new energy market and is preparing to launch a colorful version of mini next year.

Originally there were only two versions, one with a range of 120 and one with a range of 180, and there were basically no auxiliary functions such as interior decoration.

So they plan to add a new version to improve battery life and add electronic control functions such as LCD screens.

It is easier to make money by adding more fancy features, and they can't think of any reason to refuse the free car computer delivered to their door.

Wuling had no intention of developing car computers at all. The functions of the Earthlight car computer, which has a total sales volume of more than 5 million units, are limited to playback and radio reception.

After spending a day in the Pentagon,
After walking around and looking around, Lu Liang became more and more certain of his ideas and could no longer sit and wait for death.

At night, Lu Liang returned to his hotel in the city.

He called Hu Weiwei and asked her to go to Shanghai tomorrow to set up a research and development center.

Lu Liang has already witnessed the power of local support and plans to build a factory in Shanghai in the future to compete with Tesla.

After all, Tesla is a purely foreign-owned company and the only wholly foreign-owned automobile manufacturer in the country.

This was also one of the conditions that the Shanghai Municipal Government and the country set when inviting Tesla to settle in.

Although NIO is also a company in Shanghai, Li Bing chose to cooperate with JAC, and the OEM factory is also in Luzhou, but the company is just named in Shanghai.

If there is a competitive new energy vehicle company in Shanghai, Shanghai's municipal government should be slightly biased towards it.

Catfish were originally introduced to drive away small fish. If the small fish become big fish, the catfish will lose its function.

The next morning, Lu Liang went to Liuzhou and talked with Wuling's Lu Botao to determine the cooperation policy.

We returned to Shenzhen that night.

The trip back and forth was very hurried, because Lu Liang needed to finish his work here before the 8th and then return to the Magic City.

Not only because of the launch of NIO’s new car, but also because the 9th is the election day.

He prepared for more than a month, drawing on almost all the funds he could mobilize, just waiting for that day to short the Mexican peso and go long on international gold.

On Saturday, through Lao Wang's introduction, Lu Liang met the president of the New Energy Vehicle Association, who is also the second-in-command of the local area.

They expressed warm welcome to Lu Liang's joining.

It was also informed that the New Energy Vehicle Association will be renamed the World New Energy Vehicle Association in the near future, and plans to hold its first session on the island next year.

First-rate companies set standards, second-rate companies build brands, and third-rate companies make products. The same applies to countries.

The country has gone to great lengths to promote the new energy industry, even giving Tesla the power to become wholly foreign-owned, in order to lead the industry and set standards that are beneficial to itself.

Faced with the carbon neutrality, environmental protection and energy conservation launched by the Western world, they are simply taking advantage of the situation and going with the flow.

What A Zhong is best at is adding rules, understanding rules, and finally using rules to defeat the rule makers.

The West says that developing countries are seriously polluted, and in order to curb the progress of development, they have introduced concepts such as environmental protection and carbon neutrality.

They accepted this concept, promoted the development of the new energy industry, carried out industrial upgrading, and finally turned the tables on Tiangang.

If the West does not accept new energy, it is not environmentally friendly, and it does not accept carbon neutrality, which is against natural ethics.

Only magic can defeat magic.

(End of this chapter)