Chapter 297: A Long Way to Go

When the pre-sale of Bluestar Auto began, the pre-order volume of Bluestar E1 reached 2,643 units on the first day, and the pre-order volume of Bluestar ES2 reached 551 units!

You know, this is not a mobile phone for thousands of yuan, but a car with a price of hundreds of thousands! The cheapest Bluestar E1 standard configuration, the starting price is 300,000 yuan, if you want to add configuration, it will be more expensive!

The Bluestar ES2 is a high-end coupe model, with a price starting at 800,000 yuan.

But at such a price, there are still a large number of consumers who choose to book!

When the booking data on the first day came out, the entire Huaxia and even the world's automobile industry were shocked!

In front of Bluestar Automobile, Tesla sold the best among new energy vehicles, but its highest sales quarter last year was to sell 112,000 vehicles, an average of 33,000 units per month, and an average of about 1,100 units per day.

Behind this data is the reputation and market that Tesla has worked hard to accumulate for several years, and now, the pre-sale of Bluestar Automobile has exceeded 3,000 units on the first day!

If this continues, won't the monthly sales be 90,000 units?

Moreover, this is only the sales of two models, and if it is in the sales list of a single model, this data is even more exaggerated.

However, the most stressful thing for peers is that on the second day of the pre-sale of Bluestar Motors, the number of bookings climbed again. In contrast, the sales of other models in the same price range during the same period can be described as plummeting.

This is not a comparison of models, but a technical grinding. One unmanned driving alone is enough to attract a large number of people who can't drive, but need a car to pay for it.

Now, peers only hope that Bluestar Motors is not as good as advertised, and there will be various problems in the later stage.

But their idea, it is estimated that it will be difficult to realize.

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The island nation, the Association of Automobile Manufacturers, representatives from Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Mazda and other automobile companies gathered.

These people are not only representatives of car companies, but also representatives of the six major consortia of island countries behind them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, as soon as Bluestar Motors was launched in China, its sales reached new highs. On the contrary, as far as I know, the sales of our companies in China have declined to varying degrees. I think we have to take a stronger approach!" said Kengo Takahashi solemnly.

"Deep space technology is unlike any other opponent in the world. A representative from Mitsubishi Motors said, "As far as I know, it took less than half a year for them to paralyze the video game business that Suo Ni is most proud of!

Kengo Takahashi darkened his face and said, "This is a technological war, and no one can stand idly by. Now OICA refuses to recognize Deep Space Technology's fully autonomous driving technology, and will not allow Bluestar to enter the international market for the time being. But we need to act as soon as possible to contain them before they develop!"

"At the moment, we should gather everyone's strength and give them the greatest restrictions from the industrial chain. ”

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At the same time, Germany, one of the four largest economies in Europe and one of the most industrially developed countries in the world. Here, there are the world's most powerful automobile manufacturing enterprises and the most powerful auto parts suppliers.

The matter of Bluestar Automobile has always been highly valued by German car companies.

Since the victory of the blue star unmanned car king over the human car king, German car companies have quickly allocated funds to add to the unmanned driving field.

In the past few days, Bluestar Automobile, a car company, has forced the world's new energy vehicles, and even the stock prices of traditional car companies have fallen, so that the German auto giants can't sit still.

The monopoly on high-end manufacturing for so many years can't be broken like this!

The German Association of the Automotive Industry also held a secret meeting attended by representatives of the automotive giants.

They discussed it for a long time, and after they returned, the business of each company was adjusted to a certain extent.

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Ten days later, the metal industry of the island nation suddenly announced that due to various factors, it would raise the prices of several metal materials and restrict exports.

And these materials, it is coincidental or not, they are the raw materials purchased by Bluestar Automobile.

The metal smelting and material manufacturing of the island country are better than some suppliers in Huaxia, so Bluestar Automobile is purchasing their goods, and now the sudden price increase of materials has led to a direct increase in the manufacturing cost of Bluestar Motor.

However, Bluestar Automobile or Deep Space Technology has faced more than one suppression, and German parts suppliers have also taken some restrictions, so that Bluestar Automobile cannot buy some important parts normally.

Either you need to increase the price, or you have to choose a more inferior product from your own country or another country.

The U.S. auto industry has also made a little effort to suppress Bluestar Motors.

Behind the high sales of Bluestar automobiles is the rapid increase in manufacturing costs and the difficulty in supplying parts.

"The price of our cars is already very high, and if the price increases, I am afraid that the sales will be greatly reduced. In the Blue Star Automobile Gigafactory, the director of the marketing department said.

"This is a very difficult thing to do!" Guan Yang analyzed, "For example, in the case of raw materials, let's talk about alloy steel and special steel! Although China is a big steel country, it is not a steel power." ”

"The steel production of the island country is only 10% of that of our country, but the profits are completely out of us. The price of their high-quality steel is a little cheaper than that in Europe, and our domestic automotive steel plates are basically joint ventures. ”

"There are other raw materials, and it's pretty much the same. ”

"As for the parts, we can only produce motors and other parts ourselves, and we can't produce all the other parts ourselves, so we still have to import products from Germany, island countries and the United States. This is not our problem, but the reason why our local industrial manufacturing technology, the overall level is not enough. ”

"It's really difficult!" Meng Xiaobai said with emotion, it's not enough to do a good job of motors and energy. Once the core interests of those developed countries are violated, they will suppress deep space technology even if they lose some short-term profits.

"In other words, we have to bear the high cost of operating for a period of time. And solve the problem of raw materials and parts as soon as possible. ”

"That being said, these two issues are not ten or twenty years old, and it is estimated that it is difficult. Guan Yang sighed.

This is not only to improve the technical level of Bluestar Automobile, but also to improve the industrial manufacturing level of the whole country.

"Don't rush, take your time. Meng Xiaobai smiled, "We still have something to play!"

The development of Bluestar Automobile in the next year or two will definitely be limited by these factors, but Meng Xiaobai will naturally not give up so easily.

"Is it really impossible to improve the industrial level of the entire industry and the entire country?" Meng Xiaobai suddenly felt that he was full of fighting spirit again, "The higher the difficulty, the more interesting it is to do!"