Coquettish Rebirth

"Mr. Jia, this is the schematic diagram of the power station we designed..." After speaking, the engineer began to play the ppt slides to introduce their general ideas to Jia Hongjian.Jia Hongjian saw that the picture drawn on the ppt was a place similar to a car repair shop or an independent garage. A "robot" more than one meter high stood on the ground next to the car.Such a robot, of course, cannot be humanoid, it is actually just a mechanical arm.The height of this robotic arm is about 1 meter, and the arm of the robotic arm is not short. It is estimated that the two arms can add up to two meters.In this schematic, the robotic arm is pulling the battery out of the battery compartment on the side of the car.On the other side of the robotic arm, there is something like a locker for storing packages in a supermarket, with the words "charging cabinet" written on it.The idea is to remove the dead battery through the robotic arm, and then put it in the charging cabinet for charging.

Jia Hongjian still found this thing quite novel. The robot he first imagined based on the picture should be a "semi-automatic" robot.In other words, it does not involve positioning or anything like that, and it may not even have much motivation itself.When changing the battery, special personnel are required to unplug the old battery, then use the two pliers of the robotic arm to clamp the battery, and then pull the robotic arm to extract the battery.Then the mechanical arm itself may have something like hydraulic pressure, which can firmly hold the battery, so the worker only needs to turn the mechanical arm 180 degrees, and then guide the mechanical arm to install the old battery into the charging cabinet, and manually insert the plug Charge it, and then put another new battery in the opposite direction and you're done.

If calculated according to such a routine, it is estimated that it takes three to two minutes to change the battery of a car?This looks pretty good too!Of course, the engineers in front of us.They are all engineers in automotive hardware and software. It is impossible for them to develop such a semi-automatic robotic arm. They can only come up with such a requirement. Later, we will find another factory specializing in robots for us. Isn't it enough?If it is done like this at that time, we will build and replace power stations just like building gas stations, and then we can hire people.This will also reduce the unemployment rate in the United States a lot!Speaking of which, the fact that it helped the United States reduce the unemployment rate is really not because we love the United States or something!Mainly for the sake of image!In many cases, when the image of a company is improved, it will attract consumers more to buy, right?Even from another perspective, let’s let Americans have more people to work, so that they can have money to buy Chinese products, right?

Although the specific economic theory says that the worse the economic situation of a developed country is, the more they will rely on Chinese products-because Chinese products are cheaper.But the question is how much has our country's foreign trade orders decreased since 08?Maybe the export of some basic daily necessities is better, but the export of many things has also declined!After all, our country is now slowly climbing from the low-end to the high-end. At this time, if Americans only buy cheap Chinese products.Doesn't that interrupt the rhythm of our industrial upgrading?However, when Jia Hongjian was thinking about the great effect of such a semi-automatic mechanical arm on the overall battery replacement, there was a sentence in the engineer's continued introduction that suddenly attracted Jia Hongjian's attention—"We This robotic arm adopts a fully automatic design. It is estimated that the construction cost of a single battery exchange room is about 5 US dollars. Equipping two battery exchange rooms is enough for daily commercial battery exchange load. Under such circumstances, if we If we provide them with comprehensive training, then we don’t even need people to guard the charging room, and we can completely implement coin-operated and card-swiping unattended fully automatic battery replacement bases…”

"Wait!" Jia Hongjian couldn't help but interrupted him at the time, "What did you just say? Fully automatic? No one? You designed this thing so that the car owner can change the battery by himself?" "Yes... ..." The engineer nodded in confusion.He looked at Jia Hongjian quite confused, not knowing what the problem was.Suddenly Jia Hongjian understood where the problem was - he remembered the gas station on the American side.Then there is no employee service like China!That's right, when you drive to a gas station in China to refuel, there are dedicated refueling employees responsible for collecting money and refueling.Instead of getting out of the car, the owner drives the car to the refueling machine, stops and turns off the engine, and tells the employee how much gas to fill.Then the employees go to help with refueling, and after the work is done, the car owner gives them money, and then they can start the car and leave.

But such a set of practices is completely unworkable in the United States!There is no such kind of employee at any gas station here in the United States to help with gas and collect money!No matter how rich people are, as long as they drive by themselves, they need to get down to operate the refueling machine to refuel by themselves when they go to refuel!On the American side.Refueling is a matter of self-help!That's right, labor is expensive here in the United States, so gas stations would rather lay off their refueling employees and let consumers refuel by themselves.And consumers would rather have cheaper gas prices and do it themselves-don't forget that the middle class in the United States accounts for the largest majority, which itself is the master who has to do a lot of work by himself!The lawn in front of every household needs to be trimmed by the male owner every week!Ordinary middle-class people are not willing to spend money to find help from stowaways and the like, just to save money!

In the United States, when children reach the age of [-], [-], or [-], they will basically get a car sponsored by their parents—naturally, it is unlikely to be a brand new good car. Generally, what families can sponsor their children is like " In the first part of "Transformers", the protagonist's father sponsors the child hundreds of dollars to go to the second-hand car market to choose a second-hand car that is not in good condition!At such a time, parents will basically take their children to refuel once, and then give the children the process of refueling, such as how to swipe a credit card to refuel and so on.It can be said that in almost all gas stations in the United States, the only employee is the cashier in the convenience store to which the gas station belongs!In many cases, if the gas station is run by a small private owner, then the cashier may be the owner himself and his family!Under such a social background, American engineers will design a replacement power station. Isn't that just trying not to use labor?After all, labor is expensive. For them, it is already a concept that is deeply rooted in their bones, so they can find others to do things without spending money.Then try not to look for it!

All of a sudden, Jia Hongjian saw the difference between the American way of thinking and the Chinese way of thinking!Our Chinese labor is cheap, so many things are done by people, which is much cheaper than using machines!It’s like changing a power station. If a fully automatic robotic arm like the United States is used, the purchase cost is estimated to be 20 U.S. dollars.That would be 20 RMB at the current exchange rate!One set is 80 RMB, why don’t you get three sets and four sets for one power station in China?This is 80 out!With 3000 yuan, how many people can you hire to replace the battery for the car owner?Counting 5 for one person, and two people for one tram space, the monthly cost is only [-], and four tram spaces are only [-] per month.On the surface, the cost of purchasing the robotic arm can be compared to the three and a half years the workers have worked!This is not counting the various maintenance, maintenance and repair costs of the robotic arm!All kinds of expenses are counted, and if it is not done well, one machine is equivalent to hiring two people to work for [-] years!

And it's still gross!If you turn around, the manipulator manufacturer will offer a high price.What kind of software algorithms and messy things are more high-tech, and it is more likely that one machine is worth two workers working for seven or even ten years!In this way, for our Chinese capitalists, it is really not as good as employing people!Because the machine has been used for ten years, what will happen to the depreciated one?The frequency of this maintenance must be greatly increased!It may even be necessary to replace the machine after ten years of use!It's really better to replace the battery directly by manpower!Moreover, in Jia Hongjian's vision, if the battery is replaced, the car owner will actually pay the same price as filling up a tank of gas, or even a little cheaper.In this way, the remaining employees in the United States will save stacks of dollars!

And in that province of China, it is RMB!Internationally, crude oil is priced in US dollars instead of RMB!Gasoline in the United States may be tens of cents a liter.In China, it is several yuan RMB!American workers who change batteries are paid in dollars, but Chinese workers are paid in renminbi!So think about it.If you want to change the power station in the United States, it seems that from the perspective of profitability, you should really use as few people as possible?Can this guarantee a certain profit?Otherwise, if manpower is used, the profit is not enough to pay the workers?hiss!This made Jia Hongjian embarrassed, should we continue to use labor?

You must know that in China, Jia Hongjian planned to directly operate all power stations.Because their Jia family has such a plate from a gas station.There are tens of thousands of gas stations all over the country in their hands. They also bought private gas stations with Sinopec and PetroChina in the past!So for Jia Hongjian, in China, we only need to renovate the gas station, for example, change the convenience store of the gas station into a power station, and that will be fine.The lot and buildings are ready to go!Just need to change the circuit or something!But it's different here in the United States. Jia Hongjian and the others don't have a network of gas stations all over the country!If all of them are directly sold in the United States, the investment is really too great!

Among other things, according to the calculation of the engineer just now, the power station for two parking spaces will cost 10 US dollars, and the establishment of 16 power stations in the United States will be 1 million US dollars!And there are now 30 gas stations in the United States!These thousand gas stations are not even a drop in the bucket!And if it is to build [-] power stations, it will cost one billion US dollars!This is money without land!If the money for the land is included, it is not impossible for [-] billion US dollars!Although Jia Hongjian could afford the money, he also thought about whether to allow a third party to join in?If we say that we are open to third-party franchises and do not charge franchise fees, as long as someone is willing to invest in the establishment of a power station, they can come to receive training or something. Does that allow us to spend a small amount of money to do big things?Is it possible to roll out the coverage of our power station across the United States faster?Then, taking into account various factors, should we still insist on using employees?Or should we choose this method without manual work now? (To be continued..)