Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 66 The era of new energy vehicles is here!

Eight days later, on March 3.

Red Star Company held a grand press conference to announce the successful trial production of the new electric car.

Domestic and foreign news media flocked to the meeting. Hundreds of automobile manufacturing companies and automobile dealers were invited to participate in the meeting. Relevant departments of the country, provinces and cities also sent people to attend the press conference.

Thousands of participants, unprecedented grand event!

For this grand event, the daily engineering logistics team specially set up a simple and atmospheric temporary venue. In order to facilitate the performance demonstration of the new car, the venue is located at the new car testing ground in the electric car factory.

A huge promotional poster with a length and width of more than ten meters was posted in the most conspicuous position of the venue. On the poster was the scene of Zhong Cheng standing next to the daily titan "affectionately" touching the car body.

The combination of mighty soldiers and sturdy chariots brought a strong visual impact to the participants, and at the same time showed the lofty ambition of Red Star Company.

However, during the audit, in order not to cause trouble for Zhong Cheng, he added a pair of large sunglasses, which made him even cooler.

Zhou Hu and others said that it was much better than those beautiful car models.

Zhong Cheng sweats profusely, how did I become a car model?
At the press conference, Red Star launched three models, the off-road Titan, the sports car Fly, and the sedan Star.

Daily Titans is priced at 30, Daily Feitian is priced at 50, and Daily Stars is priced at 15. Daily Stars will become the main product, targeting the mass consumer market.

These three models will be expanded into car series in the future, and more price models will be developed to cover the passenger car market in an all-round way.

Performance demonstrations and pricing announcements for all three models created a huge buzz at the press conference.

The mileage of a single charge can reach more than 800 kilometers, and the speed can easily reach 150 kilometers per hour. It only takes 15 minutes to fully charge under the condition of AC charging. The battery life is super long, and there is no leakage in the natural state...

These specific performance parameters have shocked non-professional reporters. This is a comprehensive crushing of the performance of existing new energy cars!

The new car launch plan announced by Red Star and the goal of achieving an annual output of 3 million within 100 years and 5 million within 300 years shocked the participants in the auto industry.

The tiger is really here!
After seven or eight years, is there still room for them to live?
The major passenger car dealers were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and some people expressed their willingness to pay in full on the spot to distribute and sell the new cars of Red Star Company, as many as they wanted.

More distributors are already contacting the headquarters, and they will send people to Red Star Company to discuss cooperation matters in detail. Taking advantage of Red Star Company's lack of its own sales network, let's get a share first.

Immediately afterwards, the representatives of the National Development and Reform Commission announced on the spot a new policy related to the promotion of new energy vehicles, and the most stringent standards for vehicle exhaust emission control will be fully implemented within three years.

It also announced that it will take the lead in building 1 charging piles in China's first-tier cities within one year, and realize full coverage of charging piles in expressway service areas and urban gas stations within two years.

The era of new energy vehicles is coming!

The major reshuffle of the auto industry has begun, and Huaxia is already in the leading position.

After the meeting, not only car dealers, but also a large number of car manufacturers approached the marketing department of Red Star Company to discuss cooperation matters.

This night will be a sleepless night for many people, but some people are happy and some are frustrated!

In the following month, the news continued to ferment. The sales of traditional fuel vehicles were hit hard, and there was a cliff-like negative growth. The stocks of major international famous automobile manufacturing companies shrank sharply, and even some new energy automobile companies were affected.

A large number of consumers began to hold coins and wait for the new car of Red Star Company to be launched, and the driving schools in major cities in China were once full.

A large number of related discussions are flooding various car forums:
"I'm miserable. I just bought an imported car. Can I return it?"

"I run 800 kilometers on a single charge. It's not like I only charge once a month. Don't be so cool!"

"This one-kilometer consumption is cheaper than a car burning natural gas. We are lucky to run taxis!"

"Is there a daily car with more than 100 million yuan, 50 yuan is too cheap!"

"Why don't those upstairs die?"

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In the days that followed, everyone in the daily project team devoted themselves to more intense preparations for mass production.

The work of Zhong Cheng's power battery project team has been relaxed, but he has not been able to relax.

He and Zhao Wei participated in the improvement of the intelligent vehicle control system of electric cars, which is the development trend of high-end electric cars in the future.

It can also bring greater appreciation space for future daily electric vehicles.

For this reason, members of the daily project promotion committee specially set up a new intelligent vehicle control system project team, Zhong Cheng was appointed as the team leader, and Zhao Wei, Zhou Hu, Gui Bin and others were the team members.

For this project, Zhong Cheng said that there is no difficulty. Can an intelligent car compare with an intelligent machine tool?
Intelligent cars are mainly reflected in two aspects: smart cockpit and automatic driving.

The smart cockpit is nothing more than adding some voice interaction, door opening anti-theft, temperature control, and installing a few large screens in the car to support a few APPs, which have no technical content. Zhou Hu and Gui Bin will take care of it.

The aspect of autonomous driving is relatively more complicated, and because the current environment has not reached the time when it can be applied, Zhong Cheng still seriously considered the long-term development, and also laid the foundation for the design of military drones in the future.

To this end, he found Li Mei, and together with Zhao Weiyi, he improved and transplanted the intelligent operation module of the machine tool equipment in the Gonggong system, and designed it into a special Gonggong vehicle control system.

This system is based on software and hardware such as "high-precision map + high-precision radar + camera".

In daily driving, the system can provide rear vehicle approach warning, low-speed automatic follow-up in congestion, cross-traffic reminder functions at intersections, emergency braking and forward collision warning functions, etc.

During the parking process, it provides functions such as automatic parking, door opening warning after parking, rear cross traffic warning, etc.

In high-speed driving, the system has functions such as full-speed follow-up, lane departure warning, lane keeping assist, and traffic sign recognition.

When the lane change condition is not met, the vehicle has an emergency lane keeping assist function, and when the lane change condition is met, the vehicle can complete the automatic lane change, during which there is an assisting function of early warning of vehicles approaching from behind the lane.

Of course, these functions are not fully automatic driving in the true sense, but if external conditions permit, they can be upgraded to fully automatic driving soon.

In fact, the difficulty lies not in technology, but in traffic regulations and consumer recognition.

(PS: Right now, can you accept a car with no one in the driver's seat driving fast on the road? Most of you will think it's a hell!)

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