How important is appearance?

In this face-looking society, in this era of appearance, there is a good skin, which is very advantageous.

It doesn't matter if it's a person or a car!

Looking at the car sales list of later generations, none of the cars that sell well are ugly.

It must be all of them, that is, the light of Wuling and the Hongguang of Wuling.

However, it is a god car among god cars, and the general model should not be compared.

"You don't have to look at it so seriously now, go back and study it slowly, I have other things to tell you."

Seeing Kato staring intently at those pictures, Jiang Hui couldn't help but say.

"It's so beautiful, Mr. Jiang, if you don't engage in car design, it's really a waste of talent."

"You open a company and invite me to go?".

"Hehe, no company can afford to hire Mr. Jiang."

"Alright, don't look at it yet. I'm going to get people to try to develop an electric car, what do you think?".

"Is an electric car like Tesla?".

"No, I'm not going to make a sports car for the time being, I want to develop an electric truck first."

"Electric trucks?does anyone buy them?".

"Meituan is engaged in its own logistics, and Jingxi Mall will also do it in the future, and our automobile company will also have logistics and transportation needs after its establishment, so I plan to let our electric trucks be sold at cost price within our group first."

"Even if it's a cost price, it's probably very expensive, at least half the price of a truck outside, right?" Kato said, "Besides, if you sell at cost price, you won't make money."

"I don't plan to make money from Guanghui's electric car in five years, and I think it's very successful to be able to not lose money."

"Although the government has subsidies for electric vehicles, we don't need to respond immediately as soon as the government encourages them, right?"

"You're missing the point of my electric car business. What's the most important thing about an electric car? It must be the battery, right?".

"Indeed, the high price of batteries and the fact that battery performance does not meet the requirements of long-distance operation are important reasons why electric vehicles are not popular."

The proportion of batteries in electric vehicles, even after a decade, is more than half the cost.

In the field of sedans, the range of electric vehicles generally does not exceed 500 kilometers.

So from this point of view, what Kato said still makes a lot of sense.

Although Jiang Hui is now a butterfly, no matter how powerful it is, it is impossible to completely subversively promote the development of batteries, at most, it is just to let the battery technology in ten years show itself in advance and improve the battery level for a few years.

"Think about it, whose battery do we use for our electric cars?".

"ATL? You mean you want to promote ATL by producing electric vehicles?" Kato felt as if he had captured Jiang Hui's thoughts.

"You're half right, supporting ATL's development of power batteries is an important purpose for me. More importantly, I think governments around the world will introduce some policies to restrict the production of gasoline vehicles."

Jiang Hui's statement, in 2007, was rarely believed.

Ten years later, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands and other countries have released timetables for banning fuel vehicles, and according to their plans, they will basically ban fuel vehicles around 2025 to 2040.

At that time, the Celestial Empire also announced the "double points" policy to support the development of new energy vehicles.

The so-called "double credits" are: average fuel consumption credits + new energy vehicle credits.

Before the policy is announced, the average fuel consumption of automakers will meet the standard, and their models will be able to produce smoothly.

If it is not met, then the average fuel consumption is a "negative point".

If the "negative points" are not compensated, they will be punished by the suspension of the declaration or production of high-fuel consumption products.

The "double credit" is that the state has added "new energy vehicle credit" on this basis.

If new energy vehicles are not produced or the production is insufficient, production of high-fuel consumption models will be discontinued as a punishment. If you don't want to stop production, you need to spend money to buy new energy credits from other manufacturers to compensate for your negative scores.

In addition, new energy vehicles can also be carried forward, if the number of new energy vehicles produced in the first year exceeds the standard, earning a "positive points", which can be used to make up for the "negative points" of new energy vehicles in the second year.

In order to meet the new new energy vehicle credits, car companies will definitely develop or introduce a large number of new energy models.

Compared with the parts industry, the field of batteries and related materials has become a "sweet spot" in the eyes of investors.

At that time, ATL was expected to be the biggest winner under the "double points" policy.

Guanghui Automobile, which has more electric vehicles, will also truly achieve corner overtaking in the era of new energy vehicles.

"So our company's development of electric vehicles can be regarded as a layout in advance?", after listening to Jiang Hui's words, Kato basically understood Jiang Hui's purpose.

"Yes, most car companies do not pay attention to electric vehicles now, although we are new to the automotive industry, but now we start to study electric vehicles, we are ahead in the field of electric vehicles."

"In the automotive industry of the island country, there is a point of view, that is, in the case of new energy vehicles, hybrid vehicles are more promising in the short term, and fuel cell vehicles are very promising in the long term."

Kato's words are also true.

From the perspective of practical application, hybrid is the closest to the current state of technology, and it is also the most feasible.

In this regard, the island country car companies are at the forefront of the world, and they are also the most powerful in hybrid technology!

In 1997, Toyota launched the world's first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, the Prius.

Subsequently, in 2001, the car was sold in more than 40 countries and regions around the world, with its largest markets being island countries and North America.

The Prius has been highly praised around the world for its revolutionary reduction of fuel consumption and emissions, and its epoch-making significance and advancement.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers the Prius to be the most fuel-efficient of cars sold in the United States.

The California Air Resources Board rated the Prius as the cleanest vehicle in the U.S. by far based on carbon dioxide emissions.

The UK Department for Transport has announced that the Prius has the second lowest CO2 emissions of any vehicle sold in the UK.

However, precisely because hybrid technology is relatively mature, although it is more environmentally friendly and practical, Jiang Hui believes that the Celestial Empire government is unlikely to support the development of activity technology.

The subsidy for new energy vehicles in the later Celestial Empire illustrates this point.

The definition of new energy vehicles varies from country to country, and is often referred to as "low-pollution vehicles" in island countries.

There are 5 categories of low-pollution vehicles, namely: natural gas-fueled vehicles, hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, methanol-fueled vehicles, and clean gasoline vehicles with the strictest emission and fuel efficiency restrictions.

In the United States, new energy vehicles are often referred to as "alternative fuel vehicles".

In the Celestial Empire, new energy vehicles include four major types: hybrid electric vehicles, pure electric vehicles, fuel cell electric vehicles, and other new energy vehicles.

It looks like there's something wrong with that.

Combined with the subsidy policy for new energy vehicles, hybrid models will be developed (plug-in hybrids, which island countries are not good at, are subsidized) are not subsidized, which actually means that the government does not really regard it as a new energy vehicle.

Why?

Because hybrid technology and patents are basically in the hands of island companies!

The Celestial Empire government is not stupid, how can it use its own money to subsidize the enterprises of the island country?