Tianming Group Headquarters.

"At present, we have completed the installation of super charging stations in Shencheng, Jinling, Yanjing, Nanjing-Hangzhou and Yangcheng, with a total of 300 charging stations, which are placed in various traffic arteries in five major cities, which can basically meet the travel needs of local electric vehicle consumers, which is the specific location of charging stations in each city. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Ke handed a document to Zhou Jingming. After half a year of hard work, Tianming Group has completed the initial deployment of charging stations, and in Zhou Jingming's plan, the first phase of the pre-sale of Tianming EP1 is mainly concentrated in these five places, and the rest of the places will decide whether to install more super charging stations and how many super charging stations will be installed according to the pre-sale situation.

"How are the preparations for the press conference?" Zhou Jingming took the information and asked while reading it.

"It's almost over, only the invitation has not been sent out, and it will all end today and tomorrow. Zhao Ke replied.

"I heard that many people are already ordering the Tianming EP1 car, is there such a thing?" Zhou Jingming thought of this and quickly asked curiously.

The vehicle has not been officially released yet, and only some spy photos have been circulated, and now someone is coming to pre-order?

"There is indeed such a thing, but they are the CEOs of some cooperative enterprises in China that have a good relationship with us, I don't know if they really like electric vehicles, or in order to make friends with us, there seem to be more than a dozen, but none of them agreed. Zhao Ke replied with a smile.

"I see. Zhou Jingming nodded, "The first batch of electric cars that leave the factory, I am going to equip several of you with one, which will be regarded as this year's year-end bonus, what do you think?"

Tesla's first electric car was also given to each of the founding members.

"Yes, a car is less than 300,000, and this year-end bonus is not light. Zhao Ke replied with a smile.

"Okay, that's it. As for what color you want, go back and count it, and then report it to Martin Eberhard, who will coordinate the production. ”

If an electric vehicle company is established in the future, Martin Eberhard will definitely be the general manager of this branch, and Zhou Jingming will also feel relieved that he will manage electric vehicles.

As the time approaches, "electric vehicle" has become the hottest word at the end of 2002, especially thanks to the best-selling hybrid version of the S3, consumers are looking forward to the pre-sale of pure electric vehicles.

The "Consumer Reports=" in the United States even opened a column on "electric vehicles", which introduced the past and present of electric vehicles in detail, and made a profound outlook on the development prospects of electric vehicles in the future.

The column commented, "...... At the beginning of 2002, General Motors announced the discontinuation of the EV-1 electric car, at the end of 2002, Tianming Group announced that its first pure electric vehicle was about to accept reservations, perhaps, 2002 is a year of succession, considering the concept of four modernizations of automobiles proposed by Tianming Group, perhaps it is really as Zhou Jingming said, electrification will be a turning point in the development of automobiles in the future......

Compared with the eager expectations of consumers, the rest of the international automakers are very indifferent to the news that Tianming Group is about to release the first electric car, whether it is Toyota or GM, has not made any reaction, after all, in their opinion, the release of electric vehicles, will not affect the current market structure.

In particular, General Motors, as the first mainstream automaker to try to develop electric vehicles, no one can know better than General Motors that electric vehicles are a bottomless pit!

In addition to endless R&D funding, electric vehicles cannot bring any economic value to R&D companies, and the EV-1 is a bloody lesson!

Because of this, when Tianming Group poached almost all of the electric vehicle development engineers such as Cocconi from General Motors, GM not only did not take any steps to stop it, but even wanted to thank Tianming Group for solving the problem of leaving so many people for them.

And this time, in the face of the news of the release of Tianming Group's electric vehicles, General Motors is also secretly happy, because in recent years, Tianming Group's sales growth is too rapid, and it looks like it is about to catch up with General Motors, and at this time, Tianming Group has focused on the group's development of pure electric vehicles, which is undoubtedly good news for General Motors.

The longer Tianming Group tosses around electric vehicles, the longer GM will have to open the gap with Tianming Group, and GM is certainly happy to do so.

To put it bluntly, in the first decade of the 21st century, no automaker will take electric vehicles seriously, even before Zhou Jingming's rebirth, electric vehicles only gradually emerged around 2010.

And until Zhou Jingming's rebirth, the proportion of electric vehicles in the entire automobile market is also small and pitiful, and the market is still dominated by traditional cars, that is to say, electric vehicles replace traditional cars to become the mainstream of people's travel, which is a long process, which Zhou Jingming knows better than anyone else, what he wants to do now is nothing more than to play a leading role.

When the last page of the calendar for 2002 was turned, 2003 finally came as promised, and Tianming Group's first pure electric vehicle, Tianming EP1, was officially unveiled.

The new car conference is still held at the Shencheng International Convention and Exhibition Center, and this time the number of people who participated in the press conference was more than the number of people at the press conference of the hybrid version of Yixuan S3 in the previous year.

The process of the press conference is no different from the past, when Zhou Jingming announced the relevant performance parameters of this car, Tianming EP1, which has been shrouded in the curtain, finally officially met with everyone under the illumination of the magnesium lamp.

Red, blue, black three colors, to meet the preferences of different people, sharp and fashionable appearance, instantly attracted the attention of the audience, all the cameras are also focused on the three cars, taking pictures, admiration one after another.

"I never thought that an electric car could be designed like this!"

"This car is too beautiful, it's better than most traditional cars!"

"It seems that GM's EV-1 is really misleading everyone, and this is what an electric car should look like!"

"The acceleration of 100 kilometers is 4.8 seconds, the maximum speed is 235 kilometers per hour, and the cruising range is more than 500 kilometers, what kind of sense of science and technology is this!"

"No wonder Tianming Group built a super charging station on a large scale before, it turned out that it had absolute confidence in this car!"

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Listening to these words of praise, Zhou Jingming's face couldn't help but show a happy look, and after clearing his throat, Zhou Jingming said again, "Tianming EP1 electric car, the unified pre-sale price is 350,000 yuan, starting today, Tianming Group will fully accept reservations!"

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