The car originally cost RMB 59,800. After upgrading the battery pack, it was directly sold for RMB 70,000+. At the same price, you can also choose Polestar X, which has more space and longer battery life...
Of course, Chen Zifan also knows that many people like the appearance design of Xinghan Mini. Polestar X always feels that it is not that distinctive, and the brand power of Polestar Automobile is obviously not as good as that of Xinghan Zhixing.
Although he often says that the brand is not important, that is just because Xinghan Zhixing is a new brand. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are expensive, so the brand plays a big factor, and these things are also valuable.
It can actually be included in the selling price.
There are also long-range versions of Xinghan Mini. The Xinghan Mini driven by Chen Zifan is a modified version with an extra-large battery. The theoretical cruising range can exceed 400km, but it is definitely not suitable for mass production.
The mass-produced long-range version must consider the comprehensiveness to some extent, and the driving experience cannot be sacrificed for the sake of battery life, unless it is like Chen Zifan who has no requirements for driving quality. After all, he drove the previous Dandan car very well.
It just lacks a bit of entertainment.
And the people riding in his car will be in pain.
In fact, no matter what kind of car (family car), people who drive are definitely more comfortable than people who sit in the car. The wind noise, tire noise, and engine noise of some cars are very loud, which is simply torture to the rear passengers.
Fortunately, Xinghan Mini has done very well in these aspects, and because it is a tram, there is less engine noise. Except for the high speed limit, which cannot run above 120, everything else is basically no problem.
Most people who drive Xinghan Mini are mainly for transportation. They don't pursue too strong performance, and they don't think about overtaking other cars on the highway...
The main reason why a long-life version is needed is that many areas are too far away from urban areas, such as a certain town. If I want to go to the city, the round trip distance alone is 200 kilometers, and I don’t dare to drive around the city...
In this case, long battery life is necessary, but one reason for this demand is charging piles. There are not enough charging stations. Among more than 600 cities in China, less than half currently have charging stations.
So there is still a long way to go...
Li Yuan believes that the cruising range limits the sales of Xinghan Mini to a certain extent. If a long-lasting version can be launched, the sales of Xinghan Mini can be increased by at least 10%, but the price issue is more critical.
The current cost of sodium-lithium batteries is theoretically lower than that of pure lithium batteries. In fact, there is not much difference between the two. Upgrading the 20kWh battery pack of Xinghan mini to 30kWh will increase the cost by about 5,500 yuan.
Added to the 59,800 yuan (fast-charging version) price of the Xinghan Mini, the price is about 69,800 yuan. If we follow other manufacturers' routines, the 315 battery life version will definitely be sold for more than 70,000 yuan.
But Chen Zifan thinks it is not necessary. Another important role of Xinghan Mini is to open up the new energy vehicle market. Being so expensive at all times affects sales, and it is not cheap now. Spending tens of thousands to buy an electric car still requires a little courage.
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After a simple calculation, Chen Zifan replied to Li Yuan, asking him to prepare a long-lasting version of Xinghan mini, while other configurations remained unchanged.
At the same time, the market research on the personalized options of Xinghan 001 is almost done. First, we will test the water with a few appearance options and directly look at the market feedback.
Chen Zifan also told Li Yuan by the way: "From now on, you can just take care of this kind of thing by yourself. You don't need to inform me every day. You are also very clear about Xinghan Zhixing's development philosophy and plan. There is no need to do this every time."
In fact, he couldn't take care of it. Besides, since he handed over the management of Xinghan Zhixing to Li Yuan, he was not allowed to make any decisions, which was somewhat unreasonable.
He also believed that Li Yuan would not mess around casually. Just like this time, Li Yuan must have known that he would agree to make a long-lasting version of Xinghan Mini, so he raised this matter. If he was not sure, Li Yuan would not mention it.
With Chen Zifan's words, Li Yuan felt relieved. He first made arrangements for the long-lasting version of Xinghan mini, and then held a meeting to conduct voting and select several personalized appearance parts that Xinghan 001 was going to launch.
In the end, he also changed the names of all Xinghan Zhixing's electric motorcycle direct-operated stores to Xinghan MOTO. Incidentally, he also made a wave of personnel transfers. With these three moves, Xinghan Zhixing immediately became completely new, especially in terms of electric motorcycles. He also planned to build
A new electric motorcycle factory.
In order to prepare for the next few new products, he also knows that the outside world's controversy over Xinghan Zhixing's expansion of electric motorcycle business is very large, even greater than that of new energy vehicles.
There's nothing we can do about it...
Thanks to the overall trend these days, if it is 2022, whether it is film and television works or real life, whether it is fuel motorcycles or electric motorcycles, the negative image will be greater than the positive image.
The scenes where motorcycles appear in movies and TV shows are mostly illegal, gangsters, urban drag racing, modifications... Not to mention in reality, some Internet celebrities without driver's licenses and no safety awareness take off at every turn.
There are two of them every three to five.
It's surprising that this is so good.
It’s just a means of transportation. Isn’t it good to ride it honestly? Does it have to become a controversial topic?
Fortunately, there are still many normal people in reality. Chen Zifan is also aware of these problems, so he is preparing corresponding solutions in advance. However, not all places are sea cities, and not everyone has to take a driver's license.
All he can do is to help Haicheng increase its influence as much as possible, thereby affecting more cities and popularizing the awareness of safe driving. Not only electric motorcycles, but also driving requires a stronger safety awareness.
After handing over the work of Xinghan Zhixing to Li Yuan, Chen Zifan can devote more concentration to the work of Stardust Technology. Building buildings is one aspect. Now everyone seems to be saying that he likes to build buildings, which makes him speechless:
"Other people like yachts, manors, and airplanes. I just built a few buildings. Who doesn't have any hobbies?"
There were no conditions before, but now that we have money, people, and drawings, we can't start infrastructure construction?
Another task is to continue to prepare new products. The Stardust 4 series has been arranged, and Stardust-Obama is also being prepared. The air charging technology is being tested every day and will be ready for mass production soon.
The only difficulty is how to make the charger smaller. Since the internal structure of current air chargers is too complex, and transmission and temperature stability must be ensured, the size cannot be too small.
But in this way, the ordinary power strip will be full with one charger. The project leader provided Chen Zifan with two suggestions: 1. Reduce the charging range and thus reduce the size. 2. Make a special power strip.
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Designed for air chargers!
Free up a socket for it to use, and just throw it there like a router. The charging range is exactly a bedroom. When there is no power, you can lie down and manually choose whether to start charging.
You can also set it to start charging as soon as it enters the charging range. If the battery is fully charged, the phone will not use the battery power first, but will first use the power released by the air charger.
Will the battery be recharged while playing?
This is definitely not the case. The maximum charging power of air charging can reach 20W. The main heat source is concentrated on the power adapter, which has almost no impact on the mobile phone. Moreover, the power of the Stardust-Yaobao is just over 10W.
20W is completely enough.
10W also refers to 10W under extreme conditions. For daily use, 5W is basically enough.
It’s no problem to charge and play at the same time!
As for reducing the range...that's definitely not possible. Even if you try to optimize the structure of the power adapter, you won't be able to reduce the charging range. It will have a great impact on the experience.
Just let the structural designer optimize it. If there is no other way, just make it bigger. Chen Zifan doesn't think that consumers who can spend 20,000 to buy Stardust-Yaobao will be so harsh on the size.
After all, it is a new charging method!
What happened to the older one?
This is called stability!
There is also a dedicated project team responsible for the AR glasses, and the current progress is pretty good. The main reason is that the first-generation version has few functions. If a "giant screen" is added to the AR glasses, the workload will be too much for them.
I don’t know how long it will take just to debug it.
Whether it can be released in June next year is still unknown, but if it is replaced by other new products with a complete supply chain, the research and development progress will be very fast.
At the last high-level meeting, many high-level executives had already proposed the idea of entering the PC side. However, they turned to Nvidia and AMD to seize the console. The graphics card market was obviously unrealistic. Laptops were a relatively safe and easier direction to implement.
But Stardust Technology already has a tablet!
When building a laptop, it cannot be equipped with a Windows system, and it is impossible to use Windows. It all uses Stardust OS, so what is the difference between it and a tablet? How to make the product different is the difficult part.
Stardust Technology's current tablets are all 10.8 inches in size, which is considered a "golden size" for tablets. In Chen Zifan's memory, the best-selling tablets, whether Apple or Android, are all 11 inches in size.
Right or left, no exceptions.
The top screen can be 12.6 inches, and the bottom screen can be 8.8 inches. Therefore, although there is a strong voice in the Stardust community for tablets of other sizes, Chen Zifan has no idea of releasing new models for the time being. In his opinion, tablets with 12.6 and 13.3 inches have come to an end.
No matter how big it is, it won't fit.
Like 14-inch+ tablets…
The cost and selling price are very high.
Ordinary people have no need for this.
Why does it need to be so big?
As a workstation? Why not use a desktop?
Lenovo's Savior Y900 is a living example. A 14.5-inch tablet starts at 4,999 yuan, and 12GB of storage costs 5,999 yuan. Chen Zifan feels that Lenovo has never thought about selling this product. Facts have proved that the sales volume is indeed
Very miserable.
The product positioning is not clear. It is surprising that it can be sold. For 5000, you can choose the mainstream 14-inch thin and light notebook on the market. Why buy an Android tablet?
Therefore, according to Chen Zifan’s idea, if you want to clearly distinguish between Stardust Tablet and Stardust Notebook, you must first distinguish them in terms of size. The maximum size of Stardust Tablet is 12.6 inches, while the size of Stardust Notebook starts at 14 inches.
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And there will be two versions:
They are 14 inches and 16 inches respectively.
They are all positioned as thin and light notebooks (no independent display).
Next comes the key point that really distinguishes tablets from laptops: the CPU. The chip used in the Stardust tablet is the same chip used in the Stardust mobile phone. At most, it can deliver better performance than the mobile phone.
The CPU of a notebook computer is completely different. It will be redesigned separately. The size alone is at least 4 times larger than that of a tablet computer. Needless to say, the performance is also very powerful.
The performance release of the CPU alone can reach 55-60W, and with the core display (GPU) and other power consumption, the power consumption of the entire machine can reach 90-100W, which is nearly 4 times the level of a tablet computer.
Of course, the above is just a theoretical state, and specific tests still need to be carried out. Moreover, too strong performance release is sometimes not a good thing. The heat dissipation may not be suppressed, which means the noise will be relatively loud.
Specific products need to be more balanced.
Even so, laptops are much more powerful than tablets. With such strong performance, it means that Stardust OS can do more "professional" things and differentiate it from Stardust OS on mobile phones and tablets.
Open it and become a real PC system.
But don’t forget that Stardust OS has analyzed Windows and joined it as early as [Synthetic Creation]. Now that conditions are available, we can separate a team specifically to work on the PC system.
This is the main difference between tablets and notebooks. The remaining differences include appearance design and form. Chen Zifan will not use Apple’s fanless design for the time being. It is quiet, but the heat dissipation cannot keep up, and it is easy to move around.
Overheating protection occurs.
But this does not mean that he will not pursue a quiet usage experience. It is normal to use a fan at the beginning. When cooling technology further develops and notebook CPUs become more mature, he will naturally try newer designs.
Just do it, Chen Zifan immediately got into the core area of the Stardust Factory. He really prepared a lot of design drawings for thin and light notebooks. There are also many products in his memory that he can refer to, such as Lenovo's Xiaoxin, YOGA, and LG gram.
, ASUS Inspiron, Dell Inspiron, etc.
The more cost-effective ones include the Mechanical Revolution Unbounded. These products are either cheap or expensive, but the one that best meets Chen Zifan’s expectations and Stardust Technology’s product positioning is as long as the LG gram is big enough and light enough!
The appearance is also high enough!
The appearance of LG gram style is much higher than the products of some first-tier manufacturers, but the price is a bit more expensive, making it an eccentric product.
Even if Chen Zifan doesn't like LG, a patent troll, he has to admit that they are indeed good at products. In comparison, Lenovo Xiaoxin's design is a bit average, but the price seems to be okay.
Stardust notebooks have different systems, so they must use an attractive enough appearance design to attract some consumers to the Stardust Technology camp.
Of course, the final price of the Stardust notebook will definitely not be as crazy as that of LG. A thin and light notebook that costs tens of thousands of yuan is no longer a product that most consumers can afford. If the price of the Stardust notebook can be set at 5,000 to 7,000
The price range is very competitive.
It can also avoid the price overlap of tablet computers.