The plan for 5,000 energy service areas set off a huge wave in the entire Hua Xia Internet and even the world Internet.
They already felt that the price of the Thunderbolt car was incredible when it was first introduced. Although the standard version was the cheapest version, the technology on it was still far ahead of all cars of the same price on the market.
Now, Monster Industries was going to invest in the construction of more than 5,000 energy service areas in the country?
Even if it was 5,000, there were 661 cities and 1,636 counties in Hua Xia. On average, big cities could be distributed to four energy service areas, and small counties could be distributed to one.
If these energy service areas were built, then as long as the Thunderbolt car had no major technical defects, its sales would be a sure thing.
However, no matter how popular the sales were, how could they earn back the investment cost of the energy service area?
This was easy to calculate. Last year, Volkswagen of Germany sold about 4 million cars in the Chinese market, accounting for 18% of the Hua Xia car market. The financial report showed that the Hua Xia market brought in a total of 5 billion euros of net operating profit for Volkswagen, which was equivalent to 37 billion yuan.
Even a giant like Volkswagen of Germany had to pay ten years of net profit in vain to support this plan.
No matter how powerful Monster Industries was, could they compete with Volkswagen of Germany with pure electric cars?
It was obvious that no matter how popular the Thunderbolt car sales were, this energy service area plan was a bottomless pit of losses. Monster Industries might also be lost.
That night, the Thunderbolt car's search volume soared to the top of all major search engines.
At 11 o 'clock that night, Hua Xia's largest automotive portal, and also the world's most visited website, [My Car Home], which had published countless authoritative automotive reports. It published a special news article about the Thunderbolt car written according to the latest information.
The editor who wrote the news was called Liu Linzheng. He was the most popular car test driver on the [My Car Home] website and a member of the new car information release team.
His reports at the press conference would be titled "Liu Report" in front. Over time, Xiao Liu used his humorous words and sharp and professional attitude to conquer a large number of people who were interested in buying cars.
Now, every time a new car was launched, domestic car brands would take the initiative to invite him to attend the press conference. There were even some brands that invited Xiao Liu to test drive their cars before they went on the market and gave a professional test drive report. The manufacturers would then make small improvements based on his opinions.
Liu Linzheng was naturally invited by Monster Industries to attend the Thunderbolt car press conference.
Although they didn't enjoy the extraordinary treatment that other domestic car brands enjoyed. However, when the press conference ended, Liu Linzheng took the initiative to ask to see the interior of the Thunderbolt car. He was gladly accepted by the staff, and the company staff accompanied him to drive the Thunderbolt car for a few hours.
In Xiao Liu's report, he used seven automobile revolutions to describe the Thunderbolt car.
"From the first generation of Great Wall SUVs to BYD's Tang top models, to the joint venture Land Rover and Audi, I've tested more than 200 domestic car models. I have tested the BMW i8, Mercedes-Benz 2017 S600, Audi S7, etc., and even Tesla.
But there wasn't a single car here that could give me the enjoyment of driving the Thunderbolt car. The more cars I tested, the more picky I became about the car. During the test drive, manufacturers often asked me what the perfect car in my mind was. I would answer that the perfect car didn't exist. But this time, after driving the Thunderbolt car, I found that the pickiness that I had developed through driving hundreds of models didn't exist in the Thunderbolt car at all.
I'll tell you what I felt the most during that one-hour test drive.
Technology, disruptive technology, and the smart assistant that I almost fell in love with. The feeling of driving the Thunderbolt was like driving a Santana from the 1980s and suddenly touching the BMW i8.
My test drive time was from 7: 30 to 8: 30, which happened to be night time, so I was lucky enough to experience the night mode of the Thunderbolt car.
Did you know that in night mode, the front windshield of the Thunderbolt car would automatically perform low-light compensation? Even if I didn't turn on the high beams, I could clearly see the scenery outside. And along the way, no car's high beams could make me unable to see the road.
I asked the staff about the technical principles of night mode.
They generously told me that the principle of the headlights of the Thunderbolt car was different from traditional headlights. The lights of the Thunderbolt car were blue. When the light source shone on the target, there would be a light reflection. These reflected lights would be fed back to the front windshield, and the image would be enhanced by a special transparent layer inside the glass, allowing the driver to obtain a vision no less than during the day.
This was a revolutionary technology. If the high-end car manufacturers couldn't develop a similar technology. I couldn't imagine their living environment in the future …
The star test driver, Liu Linzheng, also posted a few pictures of the night mode effect that he took with his phone in the news.
The effect of these pictures shocked hundreds of thousands of netizens.
At the end of the news, Liu Linzheng also used a very exaggerated tone to ask Monster Industries why the standard version of the Thunderbolt car was priced at 240,000.
Because he felt that the standard version was also equipped with this kind of windshield technology, and the window glass supported the color-changing function. Priced at 240,000, would Monster Industries really not lose money?
In Liu Linzheng's opinion, the standard version was priced at 500,000 more in line with the economic benefits.
Liu Linzheng's generous praise made countless netizens moved. The standard version was priced at 240,000, and most users who wanted to buy a foreign joint venture brand car could afford it. If it was priced at 500,000, 95% of the users couldn't afford it.
Priced at 240,000, was it a loss?
Some people would do the business of losing their heads, but no one would do the business of losing money. The price of the Thunderbolt car was naturally not a loss. The configuration of the standard version of the Thunderbolt was an innovative technology in the eyes of others. However, in Monster Industries, except for the plasma battery, which was relatively high in cost, the rest of the technology was cabbage.
The standard version was only equipped with transparent and opaque glass colors that could be adjusted. The windshield was equipped with night mode, auxiliary driving, remote driving, and other functions. As for the electrically adjustable seats, induction wipers, airbags, side air curtains, and other technologies, domestic cars that were less than 100,000 were willing to be equipped. Of course, the Thunderbolt car would not be stingy and would do better.
It was not impossible to raise the standard version to 500,000.
However, this would give up the entire Hua Xia, and even the largest share of the mid-range car market in the world.
This choice was like a multiple-choice question between having the world's gold and having the world's steel. Gold seemed to be luxurious and expensive, but people who gave up steel and chose gold would only make countless people laugh their heads off.
Giving up the mid-range car market was equivalent to letting several automobile industry giants ranked higher than Monster Industries on the manufacturing rankings obtain the gold medal of immunity.
Small profits and quick turnover brought more than just more profits. There was also the right of Monster Industries to speak in the automobile market and a fatal charge to the foreign industrial market.
The construction plan of 5,000 energy service areas in the country was the invincible golden body that Ye Qing built for the Thunderbolt car.
As long as the sales of the Thunderbolt car reached a certain scale, the energy service area could be like a gas station, making a lot of money every day.
There was so much money that there was no place to spend it. This was also one of the driving forces behind Ye Qing's grand plan. If money was not spent, it would always be just a string of numbers, without any value.
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That night, most of the users in the country who had plans to buy cars were a little sleepless because of the news media.
Those who had planned to buy more than 200,000 foreign joint venture brand cars immediately lost their calm when they saw that the standard version of the Thunderbolt was only 240,000.
F * ck!
There was no need to draw numbers for alternative energy vehicles. The country also had special subsidies for car purchases, tax exemptions, and a lot of other preferential policies. Why don't we wait and see first? What is the reputation of the Thunderbolt car?
Users who had planned to buy high-end cars between 400,000 and 700,000 were also not calm.
That Thunderbolt elite version, Thunderbolt Lightning, looks super awesome.
Someone hurry up and buy one, let us hear the owner's evaluation.
Buying a car was a big deal second only to buying a house. Many potential car buyers who were not too far away from Zhongyun City decided to take a look at the sample car first.
In the end, early the next morning, the first batch of users who had arrived in Zhongyun City to take a look at the sample car were shocked by the dense crowd. (To be continued …)
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