Chen Zifan never dreamed that in the past, he would take out a bunch of design drawings for others to choose from, but one day someone would use the same method to choose for him, and the choice would be a new energy vehicle.
"Look at this design drawing. This is an electric supercar I designed. I made it according to the motor model drawings you gave me and the design principles of new energy vehicles, but the horsepower required is very large."
Chen Zifan:......
What is this? A new energy supercar? How many people in China can afford a supercar? Let alone supercars, it’s hard to see a car worth more than 500,000 yuan on the road.
Putting aside those who are not supercars, is this thing on the screen really a supercar? Is there any supercar with only three wheels? Are you sure it's not a tricycle?
And the next thing is, what the hell is this bullet shape? Does the driver just push the accelerator and return to the west? Oh~ It turns out to be a flat rocket accelerator shape, no wonder it looks so awkward, this is too outrageous!
The next one, the bionic pangolin form, Chen Zifan thought at that time, "Oh, I'll go with it", so the shape of the fourth supercar is quite normal, at least it is in the form of a low-lying sports car with four wheels and two doors...
Just as Mo Shaokun continued to prepare to introduce the next design drawing, Chen Zifan quickly interrupted: "Hey! Wait a minute! Don't introduce these things now, what I want is a serious product!"
Mo Shaokun saw that Chen Zifan was already unhappy. He no longer wanted to introduce his so-called "supercars" with private goods, but started to bring out serious things, which were just as Chen Zifan expected.
"Medium to large sedan! Wheelbase 2980mm, length 4980mm, model 1980mm, height 1450mm, hatchback trunk design, electric lift tail, standard frameless doors, hidden pop-up door handles...
It would be a seamless super large canopy made of a single piece of glass. It would be even better if it could be made into a variable canopy. This is just a sketch of the appearance design. You are an expert on motors and batteries, so you have to take a closer look!"
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Are these designs from 2006?
Chen Zifan was a little silent looking at the design drawing in front of him. He frowned and began to think. These days, many cars still have hand-cranked windows, and the design drawing in front of him was already making electronic buttons.
It is indeed a B-class car. No, with a length of five meters and a width of two meters, it is probably a bit larger than a regular B-class car. For such a large new energy vehicle, the photovoltaic battery capacity must be above 90 degrees.
Moreover, the total torque of the equipped motor cannot be less than 600N·m, and the total horsepower must be at least 460 horses, and it may even be higher. Stardust Technology cannot produce a motor of this level, it is too difficult.
Fifteen years from now, it might still be about the same. Even fifteen years from now, building a car based on Mo Shaokun's design will probably cost more than 200,000 yuan, and the price will probably be even more expensive, easily reaching more than 400,000 yuan.
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The frameless door is okay. I don’t know where Mo Shaokun learned the design of the hidden door handle. This design has advantages and disadvantages from a practical point of view, but from the perspective of new energy products, there is no problem at all.
What I want is a new one, all kinds of new ones. I’ll put aside whether it’s easy to use or not. The key point is to be able to see the difference from a fuel vehicle at a glance. The variable canopy is a bit difficult, but you can make it with a little effort~
The rest is all aspects of configuration, such as tires, brake calipers, tire suspension, interior seats, etc., as well as some electronic control methods, such as electronic parking, head-up display and other functions.
But in this case, this car is obviously aimed at high-end new energy vehicles with extreme stacking materials, which does not meet their current development goals, so Chen Zifan continued to ask: "Are there any low-profile ones?"
Mo Shaokun scratched his head and said with some confusion: "But... a car worth four to five hundred yuan is already very cheap, not to mention that its configuration is so high..."
Chen Zifan:......
"You are awesome! You are noble! You are amazing! The most important thing for us now is to promote new energy vehicles first and let the public gradually accept new energy vehicles, instead of just building such high-end things.
There is also the most important issue. In addition to promoting new energy vehicles themselves, we also have to build infrastructure, such as charging piles, charging stations, and even battery swapping stations in cooperation with the government~
In addition, in order to distinguish new energy vehicles from traditional fuel vehicles, it is best to promote different license plates and purchase tax issues, such as green plates for new energy vehicles and blue plates for traditional fuel vehicles.
There is also the issue of purchase tax. Let’s try to see if we can exempt new energy vehicles from purchase tax, and we can’t sell them the same way as traditional fuel vehicles.
Suppose we sell a new energy vehicle for 188,000 yuan. When customers pick up the car from our direct-operated store, they only need to pay 188,000 yuan, and we will pay the initial insurance cost. Do you understand?"
Of course, even if you say this, it is actually impossible to do it. All kinds of car insurance are not cheap in total, and they have to be paid every year in the future. Xinghan Zhixing can only try to get rid of the insurance in the first year.
"Not only that, we will also provide free registration services. If you choose our new energy vehicle, the price will be whatever it is. You only need to pay to pick up the car, eliminating the tedious steps!
This is my plan. We will establish a new energy vehicle company called Xinghan Zhixing, which will initially focus on the affordable scooter market and launch our first new energy vehicle within three years.
Of course, Xinghan Zhixing will not only have one product. While launching affordable scooters, we will also launch a 'concept model'. This is not a pretense, but is serious about mass production.
Theoretically, it would be a better choice to mass-produce high-end and low-end products together, but in reality we may not be able to wait that long, so we have to choose to take a step back and use concept cars to promote them.
This design...well, it can be used, but it must be done well. Let's do it in five years. Let's try to see if we can build this new energy vehicle within five years. I'm afraid you can also do some work in cooperating with the authorities."
The launch of the so-called affordable scooter is just to provide a new direction. Even if the electric scooter can be built within five years, it will not be mass-produced and launched early. It is too early and Stardust Technology is not strong enough.
Chen Zifan needs to first establish a solid position for Stardust Technology in the smartphone era, and use smartphones to drive the development of other products.
"I understand!"
Mo Shaokun nodded, and Chen Zifan said a lot in one breath. He understood the truth. He originally wanted to design an affordable scooter, but in the process, the cost of producing the car would unknowingly increase.
For example, he originally wanted to design a car that costs RMB 100,000, but he also wanted it here and there. When he asked for it, he found that the cost of building the car exceeded RMB 100,000. How could there be any profit? He would lose everything.
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There was nothing he could do about it. The environment he had grown up in was too generous, and it became a shackle that restrained him. In fact, in addition to cars, he also brought with him some excellent new energy motorcycle design drawings.
These are not the fancy things from before, but serious track car styles and traditional cruise models. Mo Shaokun also knows that things cannot be rushed, so he plans to talk about new energy motorcycles later.
Chen Zifan emphasized a few key points: Xinghan Zhixing will be their new energy vehicle company, promote official cooperation, promote infrastructure, and have its own channels and business models on this basis.
In addition, there must be matching technologies that can be transformed into real products. Of these things, registering a company is the easiest. The rest are not easy to do and require a huge amount of work.
But since I have chosen this path, I have to go on no matter how difficult it is. After Mo Shaokun left the office, Chen Zifan rubbed his temples helplessly:
"Sure enough, I have to do it myself..."
He has not had much experience with high-end cars and does not understand the design principles, but he has had a lot of experience with low-end cars. It is too easy to design an affordable scooter for about 50,000 yuan, and each unit can still make a net profit of 10,000 yuan.
In an era when new energy vehicles are booming, there are too many products similar to Wuling Hongguang MINI EV, and there are a large number of designs for Chen Zifan to choose from.
"Although its maximum price is only about 50,000 yuan, it must highlight its features and create a unique style of high-quality small car..."
In the end, Chen Zifan set his sights on Changan Lumin, a three-door, four-seater mini car with a sleek shape. On the surface, the configurations are similar. In order to save costs, it may not even have fast charging.
With an 18-degree battery and a motor with a total torque of 79N·m, the cruising range is about 200 kilometers. For a new energy scooter with this level of cruising range, there is no need to expect how fast it can run.
Theoretically it can run to a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, but in fact it is enough to reach a speed of 80+ kilometers per hour.
Because normal people will not use such a scooter to run long distances, high speeds, and even fast charging will not work. Charging stations and charging piles are not widely available. Slow charging is okay, and you can use household sockets to fight against it.
It's a bit slow, but it doesn't require installing home charging piles or anything like that, so it's convenient.
The registration process of Xinghua Zhixing will take some time, and the products have not yet been released. On the contrary, Xinghua Zhixing, which specializes in electric vehicles, is preparing to produce new products. The selling points are keyless start, LCD instruments, etc.
Chen Jianjun didn't say much about this to Chen Zifan, but the main connection between this electric car and the Stardust 1 may be the Bluetooth key, which records car status information and doesn't even have a navigation map.
Xinghan Zhixing has only established a development direction for new energy vehicles. It may be very difficult to rely on it to become a new profit point. Therefore, the current Stardust Technology should still focus on the development of electronic products.
"It would be much more convenient if we could establish the dominance of Stardust mobile phones within the fifth generation of products..."
The next day, Minister of Finance Li Yuan, who had not seen him for a long time, brought a document to briefly report to Chen Zifan on the sales of Stardust products:
"Between June 11 and 30, Stardust 1 sold a total of 1.85 million units in Stardust directly-operated stores, 2.18 million units in Stardust authorized stores, and 130,000 units in Stardust official website.
The mall sold 40,000 units...
The total sales volume of Stardust’s first-generation Bluetooth headsets is 130,000 units, the total sales volume of Stardust mobile power supplies is 70,000 units, Stardust colorful silicone mobile phone cases…”
Including mobile phone dealers from all over the country, Stardust 1 sold nearly 8 million mobile phones in 20 days. This sales volume is a level that Nokia has not reached in the Chinese market. The shipment volume can only be described as terrifying.
This is also the glory of the "first smartphone". Seeing how profitable Stardust Technology is, other mobile phone brands got red-eye on the spot and began to prepare desperately to launch their own first-generation smartphones.
Gionee is also moving faster. They have already obtained a new testing machine. They only need to go through the experiment to confirm that the product is ok, and then pass the audit and certification of the industry and information department before it can be mass-produced and launched.
Thanks to the confused ugly man for the reward! Thanks to the lonely patient Bingyun Huang for allowing me to play GG with a good monthly ticket! Thanks for the support!!!