All round car designer

Chapter 582 Car Sharing
However, it is clear that Jiang Yang and Ma Huafu are still very confused about the concept of "speeding travel" proposed by Zhou Fei.

"Wait a minute, Brother Fei, what is the main business of this Mercedes-Benz travel? Why does it sound like a taxi company?" Jiang Yang asked suspiciously.

And Ma Huafu on the side also came over, he wanted to know this question more than Jiang Yang.

"It can be understood in this way, but the business of Mercedes-Benz travel is still very different from the taxi industry. Do you still remember the smart transportation scene I described to you before? If any consumer needs a car, then you can directly pass the customer You can place an order at the terminal, enter your travel requirements, and a corresponding vehicle will come to pick you up. Mercedes-Benz provides similar services, but it is not yet so smart at this stage.”

Zhou Fei explained with a smile.

"According to Mr. Zhou, what's the difference between this speeding trip and the current car rental company?" Ma Huafu continued to ask.

"It can be said that there is no difference!" Zhou Fei shook his head immediately.

This time, Jiang Yang and Ma Huafu became even more confused. Since it is no different from car rental, why bother to share it? Isn’t it already available at this stage?
"I said there is no difference. I mean that there is no difference between car sharing and car leasing in essence. What car sharing needs to do is to turn car manufacturers into the largest car rental companies, and evolve from the current two links of production and sales to production and sales. Rent, even production and rent, reform the automaker functionally."

Seeing that the two people still didn't understand, Zhou Fei continued after thinking for a while, "Then let me put it simply, I won't talk about the future business of Mercedes-Benz, I will only talk about what Mercedes-Benz will do at this stage, that is, in some Put our cars in specific areas, and then those who need them will place an order and rent them for a fee, and the fees will be charged according to the mileage or rental time."

"That is to say, the difference between Mercedes-Benz travel and leasing companies is that ours is self-service ordering, which does not require manual services like leasing companies, and the service coverage of Mercedes-Benz travel will be wider, and it will be more convenient to use. Right." Jiang Yang suddenly realized something.

"It can be said that once the service of speeding travel is promoted, we can put our shared cars in the vicinity of various companies, parks, squares, and even on the road, so that more people who do not have a car but urgently need a car, You can also enjoy the convenience brought by the car, and this is only the first stage of the development of Mercedes-Benz, at this stage, all the vehicles can only be provided by ourselves."

"Listen to Mr. Zhou, then in the second stage, we can use other vehicles besides the company?" Ma Huafu keenly grasped the key information in Zhou Fei's words, and asked quickly.

"Yes, the second stage of the development of Mercedes-Benz travel is to use the idle vehicle resources of the whole society to provide people with car travel services." Zhou Fei smiled and nodded.

To put it simply, at this stage, Mercedes-Benz will play the same role as Didi and Meituan in the previous life, and its business scope will be further expanded.

In the previous life, none of the travel companies established by car manufacturers provided online car-hailing services. What Zhou Fei is going to do now will be a preliminary attempt.

"Idle vehicle resources in the whole society? How do we use this? It sounds like there is no possibility of operation." Ma Huafu, who had just understood a little bit, suddenly became confused again, feeling that he and Zhou Fei were not on the same channel.

"I'll explain this to you later. If I talk too much now, I'm afraid you'll get confused again. Let's understand the car sharing first." Zhou Fei didn't explain too much. It's okay to develop online car-hailing services. It's possible to wait until the second half of the year, or even next year. If you talk too much, Jiang Yang and the others will get dizzy instead.

"I probably understand the concept of car sharing that Brother Fei mentioned. If we want to realize the service that Brother Fei mentioned, allowing consumers to place orders by themselves and charge by time or mileage, we need to establish a comprehensive background system. , it can not only track the location of each shared car in real time, determine the specific condition of each car, but also place orders, charge fees, or provide other derivative services through the client. "

It was only at this time that Jiang Yang understood why Zhou Fei entrusted him with the responsibility of sharing, because the development of sharing cannot be separated from the strong support of Internet technology, and Autohome is naturally the best choice.

"You are right. Such a system is indeed needed. Later, you can discuss this matter inside Autohome and see how long it will take to develop such a system." Zhou Fei smiled and nodded.

"However, if we do this, there is still a problem, that is, there are many problems in the selection of vehicles and the maintenance of vehicles. According to what Mr. Zhou said, is it necessary to use the vehicles within our group for delivery? How about arranging special personnel to refuel these vehicles every day? Not to mention the labor cost, the transportation cost of gasoline alone is probably an astronomical figure. More importantly, do we choose to refuel at regular intervals, or as long as the vehicles are out of gas, I have to run to refuel immediately..."

Ma Huafu talked eloquently for more than five minutes. There is only one problem, that is, using traditional oil trucks as shared cars will bring great inconvenience. Not only will the operating cost be very high, but it will also limit the use of shared cars. universal.

Zhou Fei smiled, "What the old horse said is also what I will focus on discussing with you next, and that is how to choose the vehicles to put in."

Most of the shared car companies like Caocao Chuxing and Ruqi Chuxing in the previous life provide electric vehicles. As long as charging stations are installed in the corresponding places, these problems raised by Ma Huafu can be perfectly solved. The vehicles can be used when they are idle. After charging, it needs to be plugged into the charging station after use to return the car successfully, and there is no problem of manual refueling.

However, the production of these electric vehicles is generally very simple, and there will be a lot of loopholes in safety. Among other uncivilized things, the hygiene in the car is very bad.

Zhou Fei once used a shared electric car near the company. To be honest, the actual experience is really hard to describe, not to mention the peculiar smell in the car. It always feels light when driving, and the workmanship is not even as good as the old scooter.

So if Zhou Fei wants to promote car sharing here, he must first determine whether the vehicle to be launched is a traditional car or an electric car.

If the decision is to launch electric vehicles, then how to choose the brand of electric vehicles, is it based on Tesla, or other brands under the group?
These are the problems Zhou Fei wants to solve.

(End of this chapter)