Chapter 142 Balance car and electric car, listed at the same time!
Early in the morning on July 16, Luo Jia called Anran and drove to the city center to inspect the launch of the electric balance bike.
The electric balance bike is currently in trial operation, so it will not be launched in the remote Baoshan area, but will be launched along the line from Lujiazui to Xujiahui and placed in the most prosperous city center.
The first batch of balance bikes were launched in four cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and 2,500 vehicles were deployed.
The reason for doing this is not regional discrimination, but because the charging facilities of the four major cities are the most complete. As the facade of China, they have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to transform urban circuits drastically, while other cities are not yet ready.
If the trial operation goes smoothly, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xi'an, these quasi-first-tier and second-tier cities will also be launched later.
In general, in the current domestic shared transportation sector, it mainly relies on cheap and easy-to-use electric motorcycles, while electric balance bikes are future-oriented products.
The car stopped in Xujiahui. Luo Jia and Anran saw that there were many balance bikes placed at the entrance of the subway station. The reporters set up long guns and shot the balancing bikes that had just been launched.
Not only domestic journalists, but also many overseas media also came. They stood on the balance bike happily, then walked along the road, shouting loudly.
Luo Jia and An Ran observed on the roadside.
In order to detect the automatic control capability of the balance bike, the reporters deliberately put the vehicle at the intersection, and then the return function of the balance bike was turned on, slowly moving towards the sidewalk, and finally parked next to a sycamore tree.
This scene shocked the reporters present. It seemed that the electric balance bike really had the ability to manage itself. If it was found that it was parked randomly and hindered traffic, the balance bike would move to the most reasonable place by itself.
Luo Jia and An Ran smiled at each other. From a technical perspective, it is not complicated to implement this function. It is just a very basic positioning and autonomous driving technology, and the reporters were too fussy.
Since the number of first batch of balance bikes on the market is limited, if you want to try it, you still have to wait in line to use the balance bike as a means of transportation.
Luo Jia and An Ran ate an ice cream on the side of the road, and then returned to the company with satisfaction.
"I heard that those guys wanted to explore the application of single-wheel transportation. Have you approved it?" An Ran asked Luo Jia while sitting in the car.
Luo Jia nodded, "Well, I can't spend much money anyway. I have always wanted a unicycle like Dragon Ball. Besides, whether it is a balance bike or a unicycle, it is an exploration of future transportation. It's no harm to study it."
Anran didn't say anything. The technicians of Star Technology have made a lot of explorations on what the future means of transportation should look like, including electric roller skates, electric scooters, and electric wheelbarrows, and there are many research plans.
The balance bike is currently the most mature product, so it is the first to be put on the market. One day, Star Technology will launch even more strange means of transportation.
The two broke up at the company's door and safely returned to the research institute. Luo Jia entered his office, turned on the computer, and checked domestic and foreign news.
As expected, the official launch of the electric balance bike has caused a warm response around the world.
Although Xingchen Technology did not invent the balance bike, they made profound transformations of the balance bike and then put them on the market in large quantities. As a means of public transportation, this is unique in the world.
Domestic netizens are excited about this. In addition to electric bicycles, they now have a second choice.
And overseas netizens feel envious and jealous.
They thought of mobile phones from balance bikes. China-made mobile phones swept the world, and even Samsung and Apple were fucked down.
Thinking of small household appliances from mobile phones, no matter where you are in the earth, more than 90% of the small household appliances you buy are made in China.
Then there are TVs and monitors. Even the computer field has been captured by the four giants, not to mention washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, and other traditional advantages of China.
"Oh my God, we have been surrounded by China Manufacturing!"
"Look at a loss and think of a way, who will stop them? If this continues, the Chinese will occupy the whole world!"
"What should I stop? It's good to be able to stop those savages and not let them enter high-end fields such as automobiles, aviation, and semiconductors. Look, China will be out of electric cars tonight, and there will probably be another fierce battle to fight."
Luo Jia smiled. By observing the messages from overseas netizens, it is not difficult to find that foreigners in this world are divided into two categories.
One type is the melon-eating crowd, such as Latin American people. They don’t care who ruled the electrical appliance field. Anyway, buying American goods or Chinese goods is almost the same for them.
Another type is traditional power countries. They can be said to have deep hostility towards China. The world's market is so big. If China divides more, they have to divide less.
After the motorcycle army took the lead in going overseas and fought with the Neon giant in Southeast Asia.
On July 16, after several months of intense preparations, BYD, Great Wall and Geely's electric vehicle projects were finally officially launched.
The Great Wall's press conference is in the capital, Geely is in West Lake, and BYD is in Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
From the south to the north, three press conferences lined up in a row, firing the first shot of the battle of hegemony for electric vehicles.
Luo Jia did not visit the scene in person because he knew very well that the automobile industry is so huge that it is definitely not possible to decide the outcome in a short period of time. It has to be fought for a long time. It has just begun now, so there is no need to worry.
In the evening, company executives appeared in Luo Jia's office, and the cafeteria brought some side dishes such as sausages, roast duck, and cold-squashed three-slime dishes.
Several people closed the door, took out the beer from the refrigerator, gnawed the duck neck while watching the press conference, just as they thought it was a small party.
Most of the employees of Star Technology gather in the restaurant. It is a big event to go public with electric vehicles. The canteen will provide free beer and red wine today.
The press conference was held very quickly, and the first thing that attracted everyone's attention was the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Although the company is still called BYD, their electric cars have been replaced with a new name and trademark.
Lingyun is a pretty good name. If Toyota Lingzhi had not changed, the name would have seemed a bit counterfeit.
But Toyota didn't know what was going on, so it changed the good Lexus to Lexus. From a Chinese perspective, the artistic conception of these two names is far different.
Of course, it’s not this time that Toyota has a clear mind. They have also changed Domineering to Prado, Land Cruiser to Land Cruiser, and Camry to Camry.
After a brief introduction, the new car release process was immediately followed.
The three companies, Geely, have the strongest strength. Their Volvo and Lynk & Co, each have launched three new cars, while Great Wall wey and BYD Lingyun also have launched three models.
In other words, on July 16, a total of 12 electric models were launched by the three companies.
However, when the audience saw these new cars, they all expressed confusion. They were all miniaturized products, namely mini cars, small cars, and small SUVs.
Moreover, these electric cars are not only small in size, but also have no trunks, but are all hatchbacks, which is very different from the current mainstream in China.
"It's too small, right? It's not cool to pick up girls at all."
"There is no cool supercar? Bad reviews!"
"Other manufacturers are making cars bigger and bigger, but they have built small cars against the trend. I think they are pills!"
"No matter what you think, I don't love hatchbacks anyway, so I will never buy them."
There was a lot of complaints in the barrage of B station. Chinese netizens were very dissatisfied with the new cars of the three car manufacturers and thought it was too small.
And overseas netizens were gloating.
"I got up in the middle of the night to watch the press conference. I didn't expect that the Chinese manufacturers would launch these things."
"It feels more suitable for Europe or neon with narrow roads. We in North America will never like this kind of small car."
"Let's go to bed. After all, when it comes to car manufacturing, Chinese people are unreliable laymen. They have only cut off their braids for a few days."
Foreign netizens slandered these models in a crazy way, compared them with Tesla, and came to a far inferior conclusion.
However, as the press conference proceeded, the style of painting gradually changed.
The range starts from 400 kilometers and can reach up to 800 kilometers. Currently, Tesla's strongest model is only 500 kilometers.
"This battery life is OK! After all, it is a small city car. If it is not expensive, you can buy one for your wife and let her drive to and from get off work, buy vegetables, etc." Netizens discussed.
Immediately afterwards, Geely's Boss Li began to introduce fast charging technology.
There are currently two types of fast burst technology in the world, high voltage mode and low voltage mode.
The leading figure in high-voltage fast-rushing is North American giant Qualcomm. Their QC fast-rushing patent is ahead of the world before Star Technology.
This is also the reason why Luo Jia spent a lot of effort on electronic control. Take Tesla, a leader in the electric vehicle industry, for example, 90% of Tesla's patents are all electrical control technology!
Without excellent pcu and BMS, it is impossible to achieve power management in a safe state. From Tesla to Star Technology, the scientific teams on both sides agreed that the importance of electronic control is far greater than that of batteries, so they did a lot of work and applied for an astonishing number of patents.
In terms of fast charging, Xingchen Technology has taken a path opposite to Qualcomm.
They use low voltage quick-pulse to intelligently distribute the entire battery pack into hundreds of independent small modules, and then add four times the ear poles to these modules, and use power management chips to carry out outrageous management to squeeze the full potential of the entire battery pack.
Boss Li doesn't know much about technology, but at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange press conference, BYD's Boss Wang was too professional. He excitedly introduced this set of electronic controls and talked about it for half an hour.
Finally, his voice trembled and revealed the truth.
Star Technology's pcu and BMS can be fully charged with 80% of its power in twenty minutes!
As soon as this result came out, the whole world exploded!
Twenty minutes fill 80%?
This is too crazy!
Whoever drives a long distance doesn’t need to take a break, drink a cup of tea and go to the toilet or something.
Xingchen Technology's electronic control can charge your electric car to 80% at the time you go to the toilet!
It takes less than an hour or two hours, only twenty minutes!
Opponents around the world are staring at Xingchen Technology's battery technology.
Chapter completed!