Chapter 136 Huge market, the problem of energy consumption
After Luo Jia's introduction, everyone finally realized that electric bicycles and electric motorcycles are also a big business.
More than 100 million motorcycles are sold every year around the world. The world's number one champion belongs to the Chinese manufacturer, but in recent years, it has been surpassed by the third Indian brothers.
Indian motorcycle manufacturers sell 18 million vehicles every year, while our country has dropped to less than 15 million vehicles.
Many motorcycle enthusiasts take pride in riding expensive imported motorcycles such as BMW, KTM, Harley.
But in fact, these models, such as BMW g310, ktm 690, 390, 190, and Harley 400, are all made in India.
A large number of Honda, Suzuki, and Kawasaki come from Southeast Asia and Thailand.
Thailand also builds more than 10 million motorcycles every year. If Chinese manufacturers do not make any efforts, they will even be surpassed by Thailand within a few years.
Electric bicycles are completely the world of domestic manufacturers. Yadi, Emma, and Xinri. These manufacturers give people an average feeling, but they are the well-deserved overlords in this world, manufacturing nearly 50 million electric bicycles every year, accounting for 90% of the world's share.
Those European and North American electric bicycles are almost without exception made by China OEM products.
Adding these sales together is as much as 1500 million vehicles, which is a huge industry that can bring in hundreds of billions of net profits every year.
With the supporting equipment, hard helmets, gloves, vulnerable parts, etc., the market value is quite amazing.
Luo Jia will not miss such a huge market. The automobile industry wants to grab it, and motorcycles, electric bicycles, and even the bicycle fields must be won together.
Mr. Ren recalled the past and sighed deeply, "When I just retired from the army, I rode a Suzuki 125. That single-cylinder motorcycle cost more than 20,000 yuan. Now it's a real trick. The salary was only 200 to 300 yuan back then, which was equivalent to several years of salary."
The bosses present are all a little older and generally have deep memories of the motorcycle era in China.
In the past, it was a very cool thing to have a motorcycle, and the price of buying a motorcycle was often accumulated by the family for several years.
Unfortunately, in the later period, motorcycles were banned nationwide, and motorcycles, like transportation, gradually disappeared from the land of China.
Every year during the Chinese New Year, you can always see in the news that people working in developed coastal provinces form a large army of motorcycles and return to their hometown in the southwest province.
Local governments along the way set up rest stops to provide hot water and food to the motorcyclists and tell them to pay attention to safety.
When Luo Jia first read this kind of news, she felt very moved, but when she thought about it carefully, she felt very sad.
If there is no way, who would be willing to ride a motorcycle to cross mountains and hills so far?
If you encounter rain and snow, you will be in danger if you suffer.
But compared to other modes of transportation, motorcycles have the advantages of convenience and money saving.
It is not easy to work hard to make money. Save some money and bring more things to your family. Maybe everyone thinks this way.
Luo Jia's tone was extremely firm, "No matter what, electric bicycles and motorcycle projects must be launched, before electric cars, and when selling them, they must be cheaper, the cheaper the better."
"After all, our country is not as rich as everyone can afford electric cars. If technology cannot serve everyone, it is the sin of us tech people."
Everyone applauded and said, Luo Jia's strategy has always been like this. Take mobile phones for example. Huawei phones are very cheap in China, but they are expensive overseas. If you make less money in your hometown and more money outside, you will make more money. This is how profits come about.
So far, the four giants' domestic revenue accounts for only 15% and 85% are wool cut from all over the world.
Now Luo Jia is preparing to enter the field of transportation, and the strategy is the same. He instructs the cooperative manufacturers to make less money at home, but overseas, he should go overseas and make money with great fanfare!
"Don't worry, Mr. Ren, your Suzuki 125, which cost more than 20,000 yuan, was indeed a lot of money by Neon people, but from now on, we will make several times the capital and profit!" Luo Jia said to Mr. Ren.
President Ren was stunned at first, then laughed, "Okay! Have fun! I'll just say this to you, I'll do this glass of wine!"
After the party, Luo Jia returned to Baoshan.
He drank a little too much and was dizzy. Luo Jia told the robot to wake him up at 6 o'clock tomorrow, then went into the bedroom and fell asleep in a daze.
Just after six o'clock the next morning, Luo Jia felt that the robot was carefully massaged himself. He enjoyed it very much. He closed his eyes and asked the robot to press his whole body. Then he stretched and got up from the bed.
Luo Jia had the habit of drinking a cup of warm water when she woke up. The robot held a tray with a water cup on the plate, and waited aside.
"Okay, prepare the clothes I want to wear, and you can go and play the game." Luo Jia said.
In fact, he has no clothes to prepare, just T-shirts and sweatpants. The wardrobe is full of such clothes, but the robot will clean the clothes Luo Jia has worn, iron them neatly, and then fold them.
Luo Jia went straight into the bathroom, took a shower, washed up, and then changed into clothes and prepared to go out.
The robot was lying at the door as usual, looking at his back.
After Luo Jia left, they were about to start playing video games.
Recently, they have become obsessed with Red Dead Redemption 2. This group of Internet-addicted teenagers are struggling day and night. Luo Jia is indeed very beautiful when watching the game, but unfortunately he has no time to play games.
While watching the news on his mobile phone, Luo Jia came to the company's door and just saw Li Moran when he looked up.
"Did you get up early or haven't been asleep all night?" Luo Jia asked curiously.
Li Moran smiled, "The software center no longer stays up late now, this is your order. I am used to getting up early and going to bed early."
Luo Jia nodded. The stage of attacking the operating system has finally passed. He worked overtime desperately to catch up with Google's opportunity to charge.
Now Luo Jia’s order to each department is to ensure that employees must rest, and even if they work overtime occasionally, they will have to make up for their sleep the next day.
The people at the headquarters are all geniuses who are more expensive than gold, and they can be more efficient in combining work and rest.
"Then what are you going to do now?" Luo Jia asked again.
"Like you, come and have a look at the electric version of shared bicycles."
"Then let's go together."
Luo Jia and Li Moran walked out of the company's door and saw a row of orange-red electric motorcycles, which were launched overnight last night.
And the ordinary bicycles in the past are being recycled quickly and sent to the waste treatment factory for rebuilding.
Speaking of which, shared bicycles are actually a waste of social resources, but there is no way to do it. Everything has a price. If you want efficiency and convenience, you must bear the side effects caused by this.
The two of them swept a bicycle, rode on it and gently twisted the electric door. The rear 300w brushless motor made a slight sound, pushing the motorcycle forward quickly.
Due to the lightweight design, electric bicycles are only 3.2 kilograms heavier than ordinary bicycles, the wheels are thinner and the friction coefficient is extremely low.
In addition, the advanced electronic control developed by Xingchen Technology is very energy-saving. At one time, electricity can run almost 100 kilometers. Of course, if the weight is too large, it will not be able to run that far.
The two of them rode along the road by the river, opposite Chongming Island. After the bridge connecting Chongming and Nantong was established, Luo Jia could also buy land on Chongming Island and build a larger base. The land price there was cheaper than Baoshan.
The Star Battleship has come to an end and will be completed in early July, and then the second phase will be launched. Baoshan District will still provide land at a bargain price, and Luo Jia promises to stay here and will not move away.
After Huawei moved from Shenzhen Stock Exchange to Dongguan, Baoshan is now afraid that Luo Jia will move away, so he is desperately trying to give him all kinds of good conditions.
After all, Xingchen Technology is now a golden signboard in Baoshan, and its tax scale is also very large. All over the country, cities that want to take Xingchen Technology away can line up a whole street.
As a company's welfare, those houses are very cheap. With the income of the company's employees, anyone can afford it. It's really not possible. You owe the money first and slowly deduct it from your salary.
But there are too many single dogs in Xingchen Technology, and there are only about 600 people with family members, and there are still 1,500 sets left. This is a headache for Luo Jia.
"It seems that the number of charging piles is still not enough," said Li Moran.
Whenever the motorcycle starts charging, a charging sign will be displayed. On average, there are charging piles every 100 meters on the road by the river, so charging is always intermittent.
"Take it slow." Luo Jia said, "It will take at least a few months to believe in the strength of the national team."
After Professor Ouyang returned, he often called Luo Jia. Luo Jia heard a lot of top-level plans for future transportation from him.
Important big cities like Shanghai will of course give priority to construction and the network will be expanded in the second half of the year, but it will take two to three years to truly complete the national network.
Luo Jia told Li Moran what he knew. He asked curiously, "I believe that the national team will be able to complete the national network within three years, but how should the energy problem be solved?"
"In a few years, electric cars will be used across the country, which will consume a lot of electricity. Is the current energy network sufficient?"
Luo Jia smiled and asked Li Moran to park the motorcycle aside.
Then the two walked to the riverside together. There were several huge wind turbines on Chongming Island opposite, like white giants, slowly rotating.
Luo Jia said, "First of all, you need to know a situation. At present, the total electricity consumption in my country is 60 trillion kilowatt-hours, of which agricultural electricity accounts for 1.8%, tertiary industry electricity accounts for 13.4%, residents' daily electricity accounts for 12.6%, and industrial electricity accounts for 72.1%.
Li Moran frowned, "Industry uses so much electricity?"
Luo Jia nodded, "That's not. To produce a ton of aluminum, it will consume 13,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity. One ton of steel consumes 700 kilowatt-hours of electricity, steel, aluminum, chemicals, and building materials. The electricity consumed by these four types of factories accounts for 30% of the country's electricity consumption."
"In contrast, electric vehicles consume much less electricity than industry, and do you know how much electricity is abandoned in our country every year?"
Chapter completed!