After the car had been running around the square for some time, Ernst's family took the new vehicle on the test.

The man in charge of the operation of the vehicle, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, trotted to the door, opened the door smoothly, and then asked Konstantin to enter the back compartment.

"Your Majesty, please sit tight!"

Konstantin looked carefully, the space in the carriage is still relatively narrow, far less than the carriage, the seat takes up a lot of space, the seat is made of a hard leather sofa, and it is more comfortable to lean on it.

However, the temperature in the carriage is not very friendly, so the sunroof is open for ventilation.

Such a model has been studied by Heixingen Energy Power Company for almost ten years, so it has been very complete once it is launched, including the power system.

In the previous life, the speed of the first car invented by Carl was only 12 kilometers per hour, and the speed of the horse-drawn carriage was generally 16 kilometers per hour.

The technical barriers built in it can also ensure that Heixingen Energy Power Company will maintain the world's No. 1 throne for a long time.

As the car started, Konstantin felt the extraordinaryness of this vehicle, which could reach a maximum speed of 30 kilometers per hour more than twice as fast as a horse-drawn carriage, and could run until the fuel ran out, of course, for safety reasons, the general speed was maintained at 20 kilometers per hour, but it was already quite fast.

The cool breeze from the windows and sunroof also cools the interior, and the hollow tires and smooth road surface make the car run very smoothly.

After Constantine, others began to experiment with this new type of transportation, especially Archduke Ferdinand and Princess Charlotte, who asked the driver to max the throttle to try the thrill of drag racing.

In the end, Karina was with Ernst, who was now pregnant, so in order to prevent accidents, Ernst asked the driver to reduce the speed to ten kilometers per hour.

"Will this vehicle replace horse-drawn carriages in the future?" Karina asked.

"Of course, it just takes a long time to develop, and now the cost of production is too high, except for the big aristocrats and big capitalists, ordinary people can't afford to consume it at all." Ernst replied.

In 1804, the French army engineer Gounod built the first car powered by a steam engine, so from 1804 to 1880, the steam car lived up to its name, but no one would buy this means of transportation to act as a platoon.

Before the advent of fuel vehicles, it was the golden age of steam cars, but due to the defects of steam engines, such as the difficulty of boiling water and stalling in harsh cold weather, as well as the difficulty of braking the car itself, steam cars were gradually eliminated, or this kind of steam car could not be promoted at all.

And the car in East Africa, the more accurate name is a fuel-powered car, but this is not a problem, just like a power bank is essentially a battery, but there is nothing wrong with calling it a power bank.

Ernst continued: "Karina, don't look at this car is very comfortable to sit in, the appearance is also good, in fact, only the Three Kingdoms (Royal) Family also has one, the real finished car to be launched on the market is actually quite simple, of course, as long as the price is in place, you can also enjoy the full service." ”

As a later generation, the finished royal car under Ernst's promotion is basically the same as the car of the previous life, at least in appearance.

But if you want to treat the car as an industrial development, you must consider the market affordability, just like the special car provided by the three royal families, with the development level of this era, it is similar to the rockets of the 21st century, and the people who can buy rockets in the 21st century are not nothing, but the number is very small.

And the same is true of today's automobiles, even the steam cars that have fallen behind, so if East Africa wants to develop the automobile industry, it must bring down the price of automobiles and make them compatible with the market.

The easiest way is to reduce the allocation, and at present, Heixingen Energy Power intends to launch a car with a maximum speed of 15 kilometers per hour, which is the limit of many of the top engines on the market today.

Just like squeezing toothpaste, Hexingen Energy Power Company, as a pioneer and giant in the field of internal combustion engines, has more powerful technology in its hands, that is, the engines of the royal special edition cars are not the most advanced.

Because the first element that needs to be considered in royal vehicles is safety, the engine is also based on stability as the highest standard, which is similar to the requirements of military products.

In addition to reducing the speed, the commercial vehicles launched by Heixingen Energy Power Company should also be reduced in terms of parts, decoration, and comfort.

Finally, the commercial model for the mass market is probably a notch stronger than the first car invented in the previous life.

In this way, the lowest-spec model is still a convertible three-wheeled car, and even then only the wealthy can afford to consume it, and they can also customize a higher-spec vehicle according to their own economic strength.

The East African or Hexingen consortium can occupy an important position in low, medium and high industries by virtue of its technological advantages, and it can even be said to be a monopoly position.

As for changing lanes and bypassing the technical barriers of the Heixingen consortium, it is basically impossible, or it is impossible to threaten East Africa with the market, because ERNST's layout of the automobile industry is carried out simultaneously in Germany, Austria and the East.

In this way, the embarrassment of Japan's hydrogen energy vehicles in the previous life will not appear in East Africa, Germany and Austria are the world's top powers, and East Africa is also a low-ranking power, so it can escort the German automobile industry, which is also the reason why Enstradeo and Austria were launched.

And other countries in the automobile industry can also be pirated, although the profit is not as good as the Heixingen consortium, but it is not impossible to get out, but the high-end market must be monopolized by the Heixingen consortium for a long time.

As an emerging industry with broad prospects, the automobile industry is a high-end commodity as soon as it appears, and the Heixinggen Consortium is equivalent to mastering the essence of the essence.

This situation can be referred to as follows: in the past life, Africans were not ordinary people who could have a car, while Americans were thinking about what kind of car brand to choose.

Karina understood the meaning of Ernst's words, and she said: "That is, this car is the same as the transoceanic international telephone you used to get, and there is no way to promote it on a large scale?" ”

In order to command Africa in Europe, Ernst spent a lot of money to make transatlantic telephones, but so far it has not recovered its costs, let alone promoted them.

But cars are different after all, so Ernst said: "No matter how expensive a car is, it is very limited, unless real money is used to build the body and parts, and the automobile industry has a wide range of prospects, and I believe that it will not be easy to be replaced in the future, so there is some truth to my worries, but it will not reach that level." ”

Fuel vehicles until the 21st century is still enduring, now only in the 19th century, so the automobile industry has at least a century and a half of prosperity, even before the Ernst crossing, the so-called new energy vehicle development is just like that, for example, in many oil-rich countries, new energy vehicles are difficult to replace fuel vehicles, such as Canada, Russia, the Middle East, etc.

New energy vehicles need abundant electricity to support, and charging is not as convenient as refueling, just take many countries in Africa, electricity is not popular, let alone trams.

(End of chapter)