Technological Supremacy Chapter 136: Huge market, energy consumption problem
After Luo Jia’s introduction, everyone finally understood that electric bicycles and electric motorcycles are also a big business.
More than 100 million motorcycles are sold in the world every year. The world’s first laurels once belonged to Chinese manufacturers, but in recent years, they have been surpassed by the third brother of India.
Indian motorcycle manufacturers sell 18 million motorcycles a year, while our country has slipped to less than 15 million.
Many motorcycle enthusiasts are proud to ride expensive imported motorcycles such as BMW, KTM, and Harley.
But in fact, models like BMW G310, KTM690, 390, 190, and Harley 400 are all made in India.
A large number of Honda, Suzuki and Kawasaki are from Thailand in Southeast Asia.
Thailand also manufactures more than 10 million motorcycles every year. If the Chinese manufacturers do not exert their efforts, they will even be surpassed by Thailand in a few years.
E-bikes are completely dominated by domestic manufacturers. Yadea, Emma, Xinri, these manufacturers feel so-so, but they are the well-deserved overlords in this world, producing nearly 50 million vehicles a year Electric bicycles account for 90% of the world’s share.
Electric bicycles of European brands and North American brands are almost without exception products manufactured by China.
Adding these sales together, there are as many as 150 million vehicles, which is a huge industry that can bring hundreds of billions of net profits every year.
Adding supporting equipment, helmets, gloves, vulnerable parts, etc., the market value is quite amazing.
Luo Jia will not let go of such a huge market. The automobile industry must grab it, motorcycles and electric bicycles, and even the bicycle field.
Recalling the past, Mr. Ren sighed deeply, “When I was just discharged from the army, I rode a Suzuki 125. That single-cylinder motorcycle cost more than 20,000 yuan. Now that I think about it, it’s really stupid. , the salary was only two to three hundred yuan that year, which was equivalent to several years’ salary.”
The bosses present are all a little old, and they generally have deep memories of China’s motorcycle era.
In the past, owning a motorcycle was a very cool thing, and the price of buying a motorcycle was often accumulated by a family for several years.
It’s a pity that motorcycles were banned nationwide in the later period, and motorcycles, a means of transportation, gradually disappeared from the land of China.
Every year during Chinese New Year, people can always see in the news that people working in developed coastal provinces form an army of motorcycles and return to their hometowns in southwestern provinces.
The local government set up rest stops along the way to provide hot water and food for the motorcycle army, and asked them to pay attention to safety.
When Luo Jia first saw this kind of news, Luo Jia felt very moved, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt very sad.
If there is no way, who would like to ride a motorcycle over mountains and mountains on such a long road?
In case of rainy and snowy weather, not to mention suffering, there is still danger.
But compared with other modes of transportation, motorcycles have the advantages of convenience and cost-saving.
It’s not easy to earn money by working hard. Save some money and bring more things to the family. Maybe everyone thinks so.
Luo Jia’s tone was extremely firm, “In any case, electric bicycles and motorcycles must be launched, before electric cars, and they should be sold at a lower price, the cheaper the better.”
“After all, our country is not yet rich enough that everyone can afford an electric car. If technology cannot serve everyone, it is the sin of us technology people.”
Everyone clapped their hands and said yes, Luo Jia’s strategy has always been like this. Taking mobile phones as an example, Huawei mobile phones are sold very cheaply in China, but they are expensive overseas. This way.
So far, the domestic income of the Big Four only accounts for 15%, and 85% comes from wool sheared from all over the world.
Now that Luo Jia is going to enter the field of transportation, the strategy is the same. He tells the cooperative manufacturers to make less money in the country, but to go overseas with great fanfare and make a lot of money!
“Don’t worry, Mr. Ren, your Suzuki 125, which cost more than 20,000 yuan, was indeed made a lot of money by the Neon people, but from now on, we will earn it back several times with the principal and interest.” !” Luo Jia said to Mr. Ren.
Mr. Ren was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed loudly, “Okay! Have fun! Just say this to you, I’ll finish this glass of wine!”
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After the party, Luo Jia returned to Baoshan.
Drinking a little too much, dizzy head, Luo Jia asked the robot to wake him up at six o’clock tomorrow, then went into the bedroom, and fell asleep in a daze.
Just after six o’clock in the morning of the next day, Luo Jia felt that the robot was carefully massaging him. He enjoyed it very much. He closed his eyes and let the robot massage his whole body. Then he stretched and got up from the bed. .
Luo Jia has the habit of drinking a glass of warm water after waking up, and the robot is holding a tray with a water glass on it, waiting aside.
“Okay, prepare the clothes I want to wear, and you can go to play games.” Luo Jia said.
Actually, he doesn’t have any clothes to prepare, just T-shirts and sweatpants. The closet is full of such clothes, but the robot will wash and iron the clothes worn by Luo Jia, and then fold them and put them away That’s all.
Luo Jia went straight into the bathroom, took a shower, and after washing up, changed her clothes and prepared to go out.
As usual, the robots were lying at the door, looking eagerly at his back.
When Luo Jia is gone, they will start playing video games.
Recently, they have become obsessed with Red Dead Redemption 2. This group of internet-addicted teenagers have been tossing around there day and night. Luo Jia saw that the game screen is indeed very beautiful, but it is a pity that he has long since lost the time to play games.
While watching the news on his mobile phone, Luo Jia came to the door of the company, and when he looked up, he happened to see Li Moran.
“Did you get up early or did you stay up all night?” Luo Jia asked curiously.
Li Moran smiled, “The software center doesn’t stay up all night anymore, this is still your order, I’m used to getting up early and going to bed early now.”
Luo Jia nodded. The stage of attacking the operating system has finally passed. He worked overtime desperately to catch up with the opportunity of Google charging.
And now Luo Jia’s order to each department is to ensure that employees have a rest time, even if they occasionally work overtime and stay up late, they must make up for sleep the next day.
The people in the headquarters are all geniuses who are more expensive than gold, and the combination of work and rest is more efficient.
“Then what are you going to do now?” Luo Jia asked again.
“Like you, let’s take a look at the electric version of shared bicycles.”
“Let’s go together.”
Luo Jia and Li Moran walked out of the company gate, and they saw a row of orange-red motorcycles, which were launched overnight last night.
The ordinary bicycles of the past are being quickly recycled and sent to waste treatment plants to be remade.
Speaking of which, sharing bicycles is actually quite a waste of social resources, but there is no other way. Everything has a price. If you want efficiency and convenience, you must bear the side effects caused by it.
Two people each sweep a bicycle, ride on it and turn the switch lightly, the rear 300W brushless motor makes a slight sound, pushing the motorcycle forward quickly.
Because of the lightweight design, the motorcycle is only 3.2kg heavier than ordinary bicycles. The wheels are also thinner and the coefficient of friction is extremely low.
Combined with the advanced electronic control developed by Xingchen Technology, it is very energy-saving. It can run almost 100 kilometers per kilowatt-hour. Of course, if the weight is too heavy, it will not be able to run that far.
The two of them rode along the road by the river, facing Chongming Island. After the bridge directly leading to Chongming and Nantong is built, Luo Jia can also buy land on Chongming Island and build a larger base. Baoshan is even cheaper.
The star battleship has come to an end, and will be handed over in early July, and then the second phase will start. Baoshan District will still provide land at the price of Chinese cabbage, and Luo Jia promises to stay here and will not move away.
After Huawei moved from Shenzhen to Dongguan, Baoshan is now afraid that Luo Jia will also move away, and desperately offers all kinds of good conditions.
After all, Xingchen Technology is now a golden signboard of Baoshan, and the scale of taxation is also scary. The cities all over the country that want to take Xingchen Technology away can line up a whole street.
As a company benefit, those houses are very cheap. With the income of company employees, anyone can afford it.
But Xingchen Technology has too many single dogs, and there are only about 600 people with their families, and there are as many as 1,500 sets left. This matter is enough for Luo Jia to have a headache.
“It seems that the number of charging piles is still not enough.” Li Moran said.
Whenever a motorcycle starts charging, a charging sign will be displayed. On average, there are charging piles every 100 meters on the road by the river, so the charging is always intermittent.
“Take your time.” Luo Jia said, “Believe in the strength of the national team. It is usable now. It will take at least a few months to achieve perfection.”
After Professor Ouyang went back, he often called Luo Jia. From him, Luo Jia heard a lot about the top-level planning of future transportation.
Of course, an important big city like Shanghai will give priority to construction, and the network will be rolled out in the second half of the year, but it will take two to three years to actually complete the national network.
Luo Jia told Li Moran what he knew, and he asked curiously, “I believe that the national team will be able to complete the national network within three years, but how to solve the energy problem?”
“In a few years, electric vehicles will run all over the country, which will consume a lot of electricity. Is the current energy network sufficient?”
Luo Jia smiled ~IndoMTL.com~ and asked Li Moran to park his motorcycle aside.
Then the two of them walked to the riverside together, and there were several huge wind turbines on Chongming Island opposite, like white giants, turning slowly.
Luo Jia said, “First of all, you need to know something. At present, my country’s annual total electricity consumption is 60 trillion kwh, of which agricultural electricity consumption accounts for 1.8%, and tertiary industry electricity consumption accounts for 100%. Residential electricity consumption accounts for 12.6 percent, and industrial electricity consumption accounts for 72.1 percent.”
Li Moran frowned, “The industry uses so much electricity?”
Luo Jia nodded, “That’s right, producing one ton of aluminum consumes 13,500 kilowatts of electricity, one ton of steel consumes seven kilowatts of electricity, steel, aluminum, chemicals, building materials, these four types of factories consume of electricity, accounting for 30% of the country’s electricity consumption.”
“In comparison, electric vehicles consume much less electricity than industry, and do you know how much electricity is wasted in our country every year?”
Li Moran felt incredible, his eyes widened, “No way, there are still discarded ones?”