All round car designer

Chapter 598
The reason for this situation in the electric vehicle market is, on the one hand, related to the hot sales of Tesla and Nikola. These two brands have made major capital realize how huge the electric vehicle market is.

On the other hand, it is also related to the country's subsidy policy.Although the relevant departments have formulated the industry development norms for electric vehicles before, trying to guide the healthy development of the electric vehicle industry and prevent some low-quality companies from entering the electric vehicle industry, there are policies and countermeasures. Under the stimulation of high policy subsidies, There are still many companies that have obtained electric vehicle production licenses through various methods and entered this industry.

The main purpose of these companies is not to build cars, but to cheat insurance. Their level is only at the stage of PPT car building. As long as they blow well, they can pass the inspection and get corresponding subsidies. Whether they can successfully build a car is not their concern.

This situation also happened in Zhou Fei’s previous life. When electric vehicles were just emerging, there were as many as hundreds of electric vehicle companies registered in China. Some of these car companies were transformed from electronics factories, from the Internet, and from automobiles. The transformation of the spare parts factory caused a false prosperity in the country at that time.

The final result is that as the development of the electric vehicle industry becomes more and more standardized, most manufacturers end up closing down, leaving only empty factories and office buildings. Next Weilai, Ideal and Xiaopeng.

Zhou Fei originally wanted to avoid this situation at this time, so he lobbied the relevant departments to formulate industry norms for electric vehicles, but who would have thought that even if there were industry norms, it would still not be able to prevent this situation from happening.

In front of capital, everything seems to be possible. The current electric vehicle market is a carnival of capital!

But Zhou Fei believes that after a few years, all the bubbles will burst, and the final result will still be the same as in the previous life, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

When the tide recedes, it will be clear at a glance who is swimming naked.

After arriving in Shanghai, Zhou Fei found Ma Huafu directly. According to the usual practice, Ma Huafu was still the first to report to Zhou Fei the development progress of Tesla's new car.

After such a long period of hard work, the 2D renderings of Tesla's two new cars, Model [-] and Model X, have finally come out. The car is more intelligent.

At the same time, the solid-state battery development project led by Tian Hong has also made breakthrough progress. After successively overcoming the two major problems of solid-state battery structure and electrolyte selection, Tian Hong initially obtained the current solid-state battery through computer simulation. Theoretical cruising range of the battery: up to 1200 kilometers! !
Although the actual mileage produced will definitely shrink, but with the deepening of research, Tian Hong will further improve the performance of the battery, and finally can absolutely guarantee that the actual mileage of the developed solid-state battery will not be lower than A thousand kilometers!
This also fully proves that Zhou Fei's idea at the time was correct. It is a very wise choice to replace lithium batteries with solid-state batteries.

If Tian Hong's development progress can be faster and catch up with Tesla's new car development progress, then the next generation of Tesla will have such a heaven-defying configuration of solid-state batteries and DAS systems. In front of him, how many opponents can withstand it?

Not to mention, the next generation of Tesla will make great efforts on the price, further reduce the production cost, and make the price of Tesla more affordable. In this way, the king of cost performance is absolutely none other than Tesla!
All in all, although there are ghosts and monsters from all walks of life in the electric vehicle market, Zhou Fei is still full of confidence in his products.

"The communication with Ramsey must not be slack, especially the development of the ADAS system on his side. Information symmetry must be achieved, and useful ideas must be reflected in the development of new cars as soon as possible." After listening to Ma Huafu After the report, Zhou Fei emphasized.

"We are clear about this. In principle, we hold a video conference once a week. If there is any important information that needs to be communicated in a timely manner, we will contact Ramsey and the others as soon as possible." Ma Huafu nodded.

"What does Mr. Zhou think of the current electric vehicle market?" After talking about the new car, Ma Huafu also changed the topic to this.

"Do you mean that there are so many new car-making forces?" Zhou Fei smiled, then waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about it, first do our job well, and continue to strengthen Tesla's advantages. Secondly, I want to say What's more, despite the fact that there are so many competitors now, they won't be able to support themselves in a long time, and they don't need us to sell them at all. If such a large number of electric vehicle manufacturers can survive one percent in the end, then Not bad."

Tesla's real opponent is Nikola.

"There is one more thing to report to Mr. Zhou. According to reliable sources, the joint venture factory between Baixun and Nikola will officially introduce Nikola ES1 in August this year. It is estimated that they will announce this in two days. It's gone." Having said that, Ma Huafu's face became more serious.

From its establishment to the present, Tesla has no real domestic competitors. The only electric vehicles that domestic consumers can access are Model 1 and Model Y. Now ES1 is about to be introduced into China. Tesla will usher in a real competitive model!
"It seems that Nikolai still can't hold back." Zhou Fei couldn't help but smile when he heard the words, as if he had expected this a long time ago, "Nikola's new car EV1, at least until the second half of next year, They can't wait that long, so the introduction of ES1 is inevitable, and after the localization of ES1, the price will definitely drop, which is indeed a big impact for us. "

"But you don't have to worry so much, old horse. Continue to do a good job in our technology to reduce costs. After we open the optional DAS system next year, we don't have to worry about being inferior to Nikola ES1 in terms of competitiveness." Zhou Fei smiled and patted He patted Ma Huafu on the shoulder, and then said, "I heard that Nikola EV1 is going to be unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show in October this year. What do you think of it?"

"I've also heard about this. The nature of the exhibit seems to be similar to that of a concept car. It should be to attract people's attention and attract consumers' attention. I wonder if we can do the same for our two new cars. , at least it cannot be compared in terms of momentum." Ma Huafu quickly replied, but at the end he did not forget to add, "President Zhou, what do you think?"

"I've had an idea these days, and I don't know if it's feasible or not." Zhou Fei suddenly smiled mysteriously, and then continued, "Why don't we hold a car show by ourselves, called the Mercedes-Benz Auto Show, what do you think? ?”

(End of this chapter)