American comics: Becoming the god of technology from Osborn

Chapter 93 Make friends, 1999!

After learning the time and location of the press conference, the reporters rushed back to their own newspapers as fast as they could. Everyone wanted to be the first to write a report about the upcoming official launch of the hovercraft.

Overnight, the news that Osborne Group was about to launch a floating car spread all over the country.

It is hard not to be curious about this technological product that can almost revolutionize the automotive industry.

Ordinary people just watch the fun, while rich people start to weigh their wallets, wondering if they can afford it.

After all, the flying cars that have appeared in the past were not only of poor quality, but also extremely expensive, almost reaching a sky-high price of one billion US dollars per car.

Taking into account all kinds of miscellaneous maintenance costs, those with a net worth of less than 10 billion US dollars can forget about it.

There are only a few hundred people in the world whose personal assets exceed 10 billion US dollars. Even if we include the so-called hidden rich people, there will be no more than a thousand people at most.

But the number of people who want to buy hovercrafts is far more than this number. However, due to their lack of money, not many people can afford it, which has led to the failure of this market to develop from the beginning to the end.

Now the Osborn Group plans to join the game. With its various leading technologies such as bionic humans, prosthetic modifications, smart firearms and SCV engineering mechas, everyone will regard Harry Osborn as a super genius comparable to Tony Stark.

All products produced by the Osborne Group maintain extremely high quality while also having "low" prices. At least to outsiders, Osborne is simply losing money by selling its products.

They have every reason to believe that once the hovercraft is on the market, the price will definitely not be as abstract as those previous concept products.

But the problem is that even if the Osborne Group has leading technology and can lower costs, it will probably still cost at least 100 million yuan to sell it. There are many people who can afford it, but it is hard to say how many people can afford to support it after buying it.

Soon, the day of the press conference arrived.

Top figures from all walks of life received invitations from the Osborne Group to watch the press conference.

Among them were James Rhodes from the military, New York's deputy mayor, state legislators, many representatives from the business community, and countless celebrities.

A sea of ​​people gathered in the open-air exhibition hall of the Stark Expo, waiting for the press conference to begin.

It can be said that nearly half of the upper class in New York have come here. If a crazy super villain suddenly appears at this time and takes out lethal weapons such as bombs or poison gas, it will definitely cause unprecedented big news.

In order to avoid that situation, Pepper, the current CEO of Stark Industries, dispatched 150 bionic guards to be responsible for on-site security.

That's right, Stark Industries also bought Osborn's androids, and was one of the largest buyers.

However, they did not start gradually laying off human employees after buying the bionic people like other companies did. Neither Tony nor Pepper had any intention of firing the employees. Instead, they increased the employees' original salaries.

All in all, with bionic guards, on-site security is not a problem.

boom!
At this moment, a roar suddenly came from the sky, causing everyone to look up at the same time.

In the sky, three hovercrafts with different appearances slowly descended to the center of the venue.

The car in the middle is the Redfield Excalibur that Harry is riding in. The car on the left is more square than the Excalibur and looks very symmetrical. The overall color scheme is mainly green and white with red embellishments. Although the exterior design is not as cool and technological as the Excalibur, it still looks good.

The floating car on the right is probably the most eye-catching of the three. Its body is very large, a circle larger than an ordinary bus, so that the other two can land steadily on the display stand, but it can only float in the air.

"Wow! These cars are so cool. Just looking at their appearance is a pleasure. I can't wait to ride in one and fly for a while."

In the crowd, a young master from a wealthy family looked at the three hovercrafts with burning eyes, "I hope that the Osborne Group's press conference can provide test drives..." The hatch of the Redfield Holy Sword in the middle opened automatically to both sides, and two figures, a man and a woman, walked out.

The woman is naturally the audience’s old friend Chloe.

Next to her was a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties. Unlike Chloe, he did not have a circular LED light on the right side of his forehead, which meant he was not a bionic man.

Perhaps in order to promote bionic people, almost all the staff at every press conference of the Osborne Group are bionic people. Seeing a real person on stage at this time made the audience feel a little uncomfortable.

"Welcome everyone to the Osborne Group's product launch. I'm Chloe, the head of the publicity department."

After introducing herself, Chloe immediately began to introduce the middle-aged man's identity.

"This is Lei Bushi, the development director of the hovercraft project. He will introduce the relevant data of the hovercraft to everyone."

"Hello everyone, I'm Lei Busi. Now please let me tell you about the basic configuration of the hovercraft. We have launched a total of three models of hovercraft, each equipped with an automatic driving system, built-in air conditioning and refrigerator."

Reeves smiled proudly.

He came to the front of the green and white hovercraft and introduced it, "This is a model for the civilian market. We named it Atrus. It has seven seats including the driver's seat."

"When fully loaded, the Atrus can reach a top speed of over 680 kilometers per hour, and a combined range of 2,700 kilometers! Even if it runs at top speed throughout the entire journey, which will result in a higher energy consumption rate, the mileage under extreme conditions will not be less than 2,000 kilometers!"

Lei Bushi said shockingly.

"This means that with the Atrus, one trip is enough to cross most of the United States without having to refuel!"

680 km/h! Normal range 2700 km! Extreme range 2000 km!

The audience was all shocked. What the hell is this data? Not to mention comparing it to a car, you have to know that the range of a general civilian helicopter is only about 1,000 kilometers, and a speed of 200 to 300 kilometers per hour is considered very fast.

Osborne's hovercraft at least doubled in size when it came up, which was truly amazing.

This couldn't help but make the audience start to worry. With a body of Atrus that is not much bigger than a regular off-road vehicle, it must have the power to propel the car into the air and also have such a terrifying endurance. The energy technology used is definitely not simple.

It is conceivable that the cost of this car must be an astronomical figure.

The price will only get more horrible.

As if he could see the audience's concerns about the price, Lei Jun suddenly smiled and said, "Although there are many other parameters and configurations that have not been introduced, the most important thing for everyone should be how much it will cost to drive this car home, right?"

"Our boss, Harry Osborn, often told us that many times, the purpose of selling products is not to make money, but to make friends with customers. We sincerely hope to establish a friendship of mutual trust with consumers."

“Some companies will cut off products that are obviously of good quality and can bring a good experience to consumers because of low profit margins, but that is not the path we at Osborne Group want to take!”

Having said that, Lei Bushi's face became serious and he spoke loudly.

“So, the price of Atrus is only – $1999 million!”

Sorry, I wrote this with a bit of a testimony tendency, and I deleted and revised a lot of content before posting it, so the update time is very late

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