Chapter 132 Public Transportation Overhaul

When the traditional motorcycles disappear, the fuel taxis and buses that are active in the streets and alleys have also been replaced by new energy vehicles, and new energy vehicles and motorcycles are applied to some public areas, such as police cars...

And ordinary people are more and more inclined to choose new energy vehicles, which has two most intuitive impacts on Haicheng: noise and air quality, after all, the sound of new energy vehicles is much smaller than that of fuel vehicles.

Not only will the driving experience be much quieter, but it will also be much friendlier to passers-by and residents.

In terms of air quality, Haicheng officials have the idea of changing all traffic vehicles in the public domain to new energy vehicles.

In fact, it is easy to observe that in cities with a relatively higher proportion of new energy vehicles, from a distance, the air rarely has that gray feeling, and there is no noise on the road.

Of course, the air quality and the penetration rate of new energy vehicles is not 100% related, but also related to the development of local industries.

It's just that for Haicheng, since they have chosen such a development path, they will definitely go on, and the various "reasons" found in the development process are only to strengthen the confidence in choosing the direction of new energy.

After Lu Dongchang exposed the two models of Polestar X and Polestar G, at 8 o'clock the next morning, the Stardust community and Polestar Auto also jointly issued an announcement, confirming the information and release time of the two products.

And will carry out online and offline promotion on August 30, saying that it is the 30th, in fact, it has started now, and it has also specially rubbed a wave of Xingchen New Energy, Xingchen Technology, and Xinghan Zhixing's popularity:

The battery is Stardust New Energy, which is safe and secure! 40 degree large battery to meet the needs of more users! The warranty policy is exactly the same as that on Xinghan.

The motor is also Xingchen New Energy, and the parameters are needless to say, and it is no problem to hang Xinghan.

The brand is also owned by Xinghan Zhixing, although it does not follow the development model of Xinghan Zhixing's direct stores, but it is also a sub-brand, and there will be various technical support.

Obviously, Polestar X and Polestar G are aimed at public transportation, and they use taxi and bus versions in the publicity.

"No, why? Why only do taxis? With a range of 420 kilometers and a five-door and five-seater sedan, this is the product that ordinary people need! Xinghan is good, but it's a little impractical!"

"It's only sold for 85,800? It's cheaper than Xinghan modified cars! And the battery life is doubled! It can also pull people to make money! I'd like to buy a rental car!"

"Polestar X is for me!"

"@ζ˜Ÿζ±‰ζ™Ίθ‘Œ, come out and get beaten! Other brands have built cars, what about your Xinghan 01? Can you get it out quickly and nourish your eyes?"

"I just mentioned the wheat yellow star man, my mentality is already bad, I would have waited if I knew it."

"Xinghan car owners kneel and beg to launch a long-lasting version! Add 10,000 yuan! The range of 210 kilometers is not enough! It needs to be recharged once in a few days!"

"Yes, yes, sometimes I run a lot in a day, and I have to charge it that night, and the only good thing is that I have driven it so far, and the battery has not had a problem with attenuation."

"I still want to drive 120,000 kilometers to replace the battery sooner! It's really unpleasant to only be able to do 200 kilometers at a time, but it would be nice to have 400 kilometers in this taxi."

In fact, they also know that Xinghan can use a 20kh battery, and it is impossible to add it to the 40kh of Polestar X no matter how much the battery is increased, and even the modified long-life version opened by Chen Zifan only uses 30kh.

In this way, the price will have to be increased by at least 1~20,000 yuan, and the 55,800 yuan Xinghan can still play in the field of mini cars, but if it is increased to the price range of about 70,000 yuan, the competitiveness will be a little weak.

However, Chen Zifan is not a person who does not enter oil and salt, after seeing various feedbacks, he has notified Li Yuan to conduct a wave of market research, spend an extra 1~20,000 yuan, and run an extra 105 kilometers each time, whether it is worth it for himself.

Anyway, they are all the main ones

It is the 210 endurance version of Xinghan, and even if there is a 315 endurance version, it will only be sold as an "official modified car".

There are also many netizens who pointed the finger at Xinghan 01 through Polestar X, not that Chen Zifan didn't want to do it, but it was too difficult for Xinghan 01 to be mass-produced, and even Xinghan 001, which had been lowered by a few levels, was not fast.

Many people don't know that Xinghan Zhixing also has the product Xinghan 001, they only know that there is a new energy motorcycle under development, which is the Xinghan 009 admitted by Mo Shaokun himself, and there is no news about Xinghan 01.

So they are really sad about their misfortune and angry with them! Obviously, with Xinghan starting, why not hurry up to launch new energy vehicles, but be preempted by Polestar cars? Why did you run to build motorcycles again?

As the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, Chen Zifan doesn't care about this, Xinghan Zhixing only needs to develop products according to the existing progress, and carefully calculated, how long has Xinghan been on the market?

It's less than three months to be full!

A new car in three months? Which car manufacturer can have this speed? I'll have to wait!

Chen Zifan's original intention was to push Polestar to the front to withstand the pressure and attract the attention of the market, and then Xinghan Zhixing will continue to push forward the work, and strive to start the "road test" in Haicheng in March and April next year.

Regarding netizens' doubts about the fact that Polestar X only makes taxis... Soon someone came out to explain:

"There is a version of Polestar that is not a taxi, and I have already posted about it, but it seems that we will have to wait for Haicheng to change all the taxis to Polestar X before it will be fine-tuned on the taxi version before it is released!"

For this reason, many people also specially downloaded a Polestar car, and after clicking on it, they found out that it was true, ignoring the outrageous price of 1.2 million for Polestar G, how comfortable it was to look at Polestar X~

There is only one thought in their minds:

"This is a normal new energy vehicle!"

At the same time, many people are aware that the taxi market in Haicheng is about to change, and the chaotic scene of Jetta, Santana, Passat, and Hongqi will no longer exist, leaving only Polestar X.

Putting aside the struggle of interests at the brand level, some of the existing taxi drivers will not be better, and the situation of sky-high prices and no meters will no longer appear as before, and the entire industry will be more regular.

Under the promotion of the general environment and Haicheng officials, even if some drivers have complaints, they will not have any impact, not to mention what is bad about transformation and development?

Not only is the salary higher than before, but the job is also secure, so why bother to run a black car again? If you don't work hard every day, you may be fined and the car will be detained.

The official announcement of Polestar X and Polestar G was originally just a small news, but some traditional car manufacturers directly overreacted after seeing it, and began to target new energy vehicles with their own marketing channels.

What is "the king of miscellaneous brands", "buying a miscellaneous electric car and driving it with only four wheels left, and the rest are all falling apart", "fuel vehicles are fun to drive, manual transmission is really fun, and automatic transmission is worry-free and effortless"...

Over and over again, it has been those few sentences, Chen Zifan really wants to persuade them to see what the situation of Xinghai Driving School is, since Xinghan came out, the girls who learned to drive and took the C2 driver's license test are batch after batch, and they all have taken a fancy to Xinghan, and as soon as they finish the driver's license test, they will go to the direct store to see the car.

It's one thing to buy it or not, but the scene is really lively, where there are many girls, there are naturally many men, and after the fame of Xinghai Driving School spread, a group of young guys with strong firepower also came to sign up for a C2 driver's license.

What manual transmission, driving pleasure ...

Does it matter if you have a girl? Is it important to have a Xinghan car friend group? Is it important to go to the Xinghan direct store with your sister to see the car and chat and brag? It's also thanks to young people, but it's rare for anyone who is 25 years old to do such a thing.

Polestar X officially announced that the number of applicants for Xinghai Driving School has ushered in a small increase, what "electric cars fall apart as soon as they are opened", which used to describe domestic cars, but now it is starting to target new energy vehicles?

No matter what you do, there is only one response from Xinghan Zhixing and Polestar: our electricity bill is cheap, and our car cost is very low... What? Do you want to compare it to anything else? Do you have that car?

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Whether it is a new energy vehicle or a fuel vehicle, they must all have their own advantages.

Look at this, originally Polestar X and Polestar G were just a big thing, but now they have been done like this, not to mention the popularity of Polestar cars, not to mention, Haicheng bus has also become popular, there is only one reason: Polestar G has a free car f on it!

This is the first time in the field of buses, not to mention anything else, if Polestar G really replaces the original bus in Haicheng, I'm afraid there will be a lot of rubbing f to sit in the end, it doesn't matter, they can sit at will!

Free car f is not used by people, is it just a decoration, just a publicity stunt?

With the popularity of Polestar X and Polestar G, Haicheng can't say anything if it doesn't renovate public transportation, but the process is far more complicated than they imagined, and there have been several waves of personnel replacement alone.

Under the leadership of Chen Zifan, the sales of products such as Stardust 3 and Stardust 3+ have always been maintained at a very high level, and 4G is also being promoted.

The next step is to continue to develop new products, wait for Polestar to release the car at the end of October, and then carry out a major overhaul of public transportation in Haicheng.

In the Stardust factory, the newly established drone project team is already assembling the first drone, which is said to be a drone, but it is actually a variant version of a large remote-controlled aircraft, but it can be connected to a 4G network.

At first, they were going to use the 13 million pixel camera on Stardust 3+, but then the project team leader hurriedly stopped it and replaced it with other cameras:

"A 13-megapixel camera? What do you want to do so ***? Our first-generation drone is just the entry model! We have to get the product out first, and then the next generation will launch an all-round balanced advanced model on this basis!"

Chen Zifan's pursuit of products has not changed, but he also knows that sometimes consumers have to give more time to adapt, mobile phones are fine, but other products are priced too fiercely as soon as they come up, which is not conducive to product promotion.

He remembers that although the future drone industry is very developed and has derived a variety of application scenarios, the overall popularity rate is not high, and it seems that consumers are not interested in such a product.

There are many specific reasons, such as technical difficulties, high prices, lack of unified guidance in the market, difficulty in distinguishing between commercial and private businesses, and safety issues, such as crashes caused by improper control, but these are not key points.

Chen Zifan believes that the most difficult point lies in the change of ideology, ordinary people have a very low degree of acceptance of such products, and they are full of fear of exploring the sky field, and remote control planes cannot sell remote control cars.

Even if the two belong to the same price segment, they still can't be sold, and people will not think that it is more cost-effective to buy a remote-controlled aircraft, but will feel that the remote-controlled aircraft sells the same as a remote-controlled car, so what quality problems do it specify.

Stardust Technology's current UAV development direction has two kinds, one is a commercial UAV with more complete configurations and higher professional requirements in all aspects, and the other is an entry-level private UAV for the mass market.

said that it was an entry, but in fact, the configuration was not bad at all, especially in terms of security configuration, Chen Zifan put a lot of effort into it, because he knew that once something had an accident, the market would be hit hard.

At the same time, there are also certain requirements for the user of the drone, and the new drone must accept a period of control guidance before the new machine is turned on, and the overall flight speed is relatively slow, and the flight altitude is also limited to a relatively safe range.

There is also a certain guarantee in terms of battery life, and the operator will be prompted directly when the warning power is reached, or directly descended to the safe landing site set in advance.

Even in the event of an emergency, the Stardust Drone will not fall directly like a high-altitude projectile, and a thing similar to an "airbag" will pop inside to wrap the entire fuselage.

However, the final Stardust drone will definitely not be named after "drone", it will be the same as Stardust tablets, Bluetooth headsets, smart watches and other products, with their own "noun" to replace the product name....

Even so, there will definitely be no fewer accidents, and Haicheng will definitely not set up any "drone no-fly zone", and other cities will not be sure.

The sum of various costs, coupled with a relatively affordable price, Chen Zifan feels that the Stardust drone is likely to become the second product with a "relatively low" net profit margin after the Stardust Bluetooth headset 1 of Stardust Technology.

And the accompanying risks are also relatively high, but Chen Zifan will definitely not give up research and development in the field of UAVs, and it is okay if the risk is high, and there are other areas with low risk.

For example, the "smart home" that is ready to be promoted in cooperation with the United States, since the last visit to the United States, Wang Jinli has led people to establish cooperation in many fields with them, and it is almost time to create smart home products.

In terms of products, Midea is responsible for itself, Stardust Technology only provides key technical support and some core components, Wang Jinli has taken the documents back to the Stardust Technology headquarters after establishing cooperation:

When he found Chen Zifan, his first sentence was: "Chen Dong, this is the product plan we are going to launch next, there are three categories and fifteen models..."