Without waiting for Beidian to discuss the collective price reduction promotion with other car companies, Daqin Electric Vehicle preemptively began to reduce prices. Newspapers all over the country have published large advertisements, which read: In order to thank new and old customers for their care, Daqin Electric Vehicle will reduce the price by 10% to give back to customers, and go to each sales store to buy a car that will send 100 meters of charging cables, intelligent charging protectors, etc., which is convenient for car owners to use various convenience facilities to charge their cars.

The biggest obstacle to the promotion of electric vehicles is the problem of charging. Daqin Automobile uses supercapacitors as energy storage devices, theoretically speaking, the charging speed of the capacitor is not limited, it is completely possible to fill a group of capacitors in one minute or a few minutes, and the charging speed is completely comparable to the speed of refueling.

But in fact, such charging speeds would not have been possible if it were not at a dedicated charging station. The energy storage unit of an electric vehicle with a range of more than 500 kilometers needs to store no less than 50 kilowatt-hours of electricity. If you want to charge this 50 kWh in 1 minute, the power of the circuit must reach more than 3,000 kilowatts, which is more than 100 times the power that the average household meter can withstand.

The principle of the electric vehicle charging station designed by Daqin Group is to use several groups of supercapacitors to store electricity. When the car is not charging, the capacitor bank continuously draws power from the grid and stores it. When a car comes to charge, the charging station does not draw power directly from the grid, but supplies power to the car from a capacitor bank that stores a large amount of electrical energy, which enables extremely high charging power without a surge impact on the municipal grid.

After the plan to build charging stations in large cities such as Linshui was hindered, Daqin Group changed its thinking and chose a road where the countryside surrounded the city. Daqin Group's business personnel began to travel to second- and third-tier cities to lobby the local government to support the construction of charging stations. It is impossible for Beidian and Anshi to exert influence on all cities, and in those places where Beidian and Anshi are beyond the reach of the whip, charging stations have begun to be established. It provides charging services for electric vehicle owners.

For places where there are not enough charging stations, the sales staff of Daqin Group take the initiative to design charging solutions for car owners, and some pull a cable from the user's own home to the door to charge the car; Some use roadside shops to provide paid charging services. This kind of one-family charging service naturally cannot consider the problem of charging efficiency, and Daqin Group provides a special charging protector for car owners. Keeping the charging power within the range that the home circuit can handle, of course, the time to fill a set of supercapacitors has to be extended from a few minutes to several hours.

Even so, electric vehicles are still very attractive to consumers. The power consumption of an electric car per 100 kilometers is only more than 10 kilowatt-hours, according to the electricity price of 4 cents per kilowatt-hour, that is, five or six yuan. And for the same mileage, even the most fuel-efficient fuel car costs six or seven liters of gasoline, which costs more than 20 yuan. The difference of more than 10 yuan per 100 kilometers is not a small amount. This alone is enough for consumers to be willing to bear all kinds of inconveniences caused by charging.

It may sound like a hassle to spend hours on each charge, but it's actually not intolerable. Generally, if you just drive to and from work, the cruising range of 500 kilometers is enough to run for more than half a month. There's nothing big about taking a slot out of your charge every half a month. Charging can be done at night, plugged in after work, unplugged and ready to drive the next morning. And it can be used for more than ten days in a row, what is such an inconvenience?

At first, it was only a few users who were looking for new trends who bought electric vehicles. But soon, the demonstration effect of these users was revealed. In the era when automatic fuel vehicles were still very rare, electric vehicles could achieve continuously variable speed, which greatly reduced the difficulty of driving, and was especially respected by the majority of female drivers. More than half of Chinese families are financed by a hostess. Electric cars have won the favor of female drivers, and naturally they are invincible.

The governments of large cities such as Beijing, Pujiang and Linshui have come under great pressure. Seeing that electric vehicles are being popularized in second- and third-tier cities, where can residents in big cities still sit still. Unlike small and medium-sized cities, many residents of large cities live in high-rise buildings, and it is not practical to pull a cable from their own home to charge their cars. Plus there is no charging station in the city. As a result, residents of these big cities want to buy electric vehicles but are unable to solve the problem of charging.

More concentrated opinions are on the taxi industry in the city. Taxi drivers are the most sensitive to fuel consumption of 100 kilometers of people, they have to run four or five hundred kilometers a day, just burning oil will cost more than 100 yuan, and if you can replace the taxi with an electric car, this part of the cost will drop by more than 70%, a month of fuel consumption alone can save two or three thousand yuan, this is a huge benefit!

All kinds of complaints arose from all strata and soon spread to the cadres of the organs. Li Dongyuan walked in the corridor of the city government, and could faintly hear the cadres in a certain office complaining about the lack of charging stations in the local area. If you don't have a charging station, you can't buy an electric car, and in this day and age, if you buy a car or a traditional fuel car, are you embarrassed to say that you have taste?

"It's really not going to go on like this."

At the office meeting of the municipal government, Li Dongyuan relayed what he heard to the city leaders, and then expressed his emotion.

Before Li Dongyuan's voice fell, a deputy mayor named Luo Rongchun immediately took over: "Yes, I am also aware of this problem." To tell you the truth, my wife muttered to me about buying a car two days ago, saying that her cousin in her hometown bought an electric car, which is fuel-efficient and easy to drive, and has a fashionable appearance. But we can't find a place to charge in Linshui City, and buying a car is also a waste. She also said that I, as the deputy mayor, should speak for the people and build hundreds of charging stations near the water, what's not to do? ”

"Charging station ......" another deputy mayor named Zhou Fuyou sneered, "At the beginning, Daqin Group said that it was willing to build 2,000 charging stations for us free of charge, but the result was ......"

"Lao Luo, Lao Zhou, the city has set the tone for the charging station, and you all know it." Mayor Liang Jinquan coughed lightly and reminded.

"Of course I do." Zhou Fuyou said, "To put it bluntly, isn't it that Beidian thinks that Daqin has robbed them of their market and uses our hands to stumble Daqin?" The north store is just opening its mouth, and nothing is lost. It's good for us to use people as guns stupidly, which makes our own masses complain, and all the contradictions are directed at our city government. ”

"Well, we didn't want to save face in Beidian, and the leaders of the province also said hello." Liang Jinquan argued.

Luo Rongchun said: "Mayor, I think what Lao Zhou said has some truth. In fact, the leaders of the province just looked at the old face of Beidian and said casually. We've dragged on for so long, and we're worthy of the North Store. Electric cars are indeed good, and people like them. If we continue to drag on like this, the complaints will definitely get bigger and bigger. ”

"Alas, the gods are fighting, what are we mortals fooling around." Zhou Fuyou muttered.

"Old Zhou, you can't say that." Li Dongyuan said, "The matter of the Daqin Group itself is not authentic enough. Beidian's influence in the center is still very large, and if we don't stand on the side of Beidian now, we may be passive in the future. ”

"What's passive?" Zhou Fuyou stiffened his neck and said, "For the sake of a few charging stations, can the central government wipe out our achievements in Linshui?" Speaking of which, the most reasonable loss in this matter is precisely Beidian, which is technically competitive but not Daqin Group, so it is too bad to stumble in this way. ”

"Okay, okay, the problem of the North Store is not something we need to care about." Liang Jinquan played a round game, "The matter of the charging station, since the masses have opinions, let's be cautious." In this case, Dongyuan, you should ask the Planning Commission to do some preparatory work in the early stage, including the selection of points, the adjustment of the power grid, and so on, and release the news to calm down the discussion of the masses. As for when the start of construction will start, I think we can wait a little longer, and it will not be possible to drag on indefinitely, and there will always be a result in the end. ”

As she was talking, Wang Xuemei, deputy director of the Municipal Government Office, gently pushed the door in, walked to Liang Jinquan's side, leaned down, and whispered a few words to Liang Jinquan. Liang Jinquan was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and said to Li Dongyuan: "Dongyuan, you go with Xuemei, two people from the troops stationed in Haidong have come, saying that they have something to talk to the leader in charge of urban construction." ”

Li Dongyuan followed Wang Xuemei to the small conference room, and sure enough, he saw two soldiers sitting in the room waiting for him, the leader of which looked to be 30 years old, carrying two bars and two stars on his shoulders, seeing Li Dongyuan come in, he stood up, took the initiative to stretch out his hand to Li Dongyuan, and introduced himself: "Mayor Li, hello, I am Feng Tianlei, deputy chief of staff of a division stationed in Haidong, and I was ordered to come to Linshui City to negotiate the construction of military facilities. ”

"Deputy Chief of Staff Feng, welcome." Li Dongyuan shook hands with Feng Tianlei, beckoned Feng Tianlei to sit down, and then said: "It is the duty of our local government to support the cause of national defense. I don't know what kind of facilities Deputy Chief of Staff Feng is going to talk about this time, and what kind of work we need to do. ”

"What I'm going to talk about is very simple. Our department recently received a batch of new equipment, some of which are powered by supercapacitor packs. In order to ensure the operation of this batch of equipment, the Military Commission asked us to build a number of charging stations in the local area, of which the number of charging stations to be built in Linshui City is 300, and I hope that Mayor Li can support it. Feng Tianlei said solemnly. (To be continued......)