Regarding electric scooters, the whole world's attitude has always been hesitant, especially western countries, their hearts were twisted into a knot.
The trend of electric scooters in history was caused by 2008.
Now when talking about 2008, many people think of the economic crisis, but in fact, for Hua Xia people who experienced 2008, the deepest memory was probably the crazy international oil price.
On January 2nd, 2008, the international oil price officially broke through the price of 100 USD per barrel, and then it continued to rise crazily, finally reaching its peak in July 2008, when the price of a barrel of crude oil reached 150 USD per barrel.
One must know that in 2002, the price of a barrel of crude oil was only 20 USD per barrel, and in 6 years, it increased by 7.5 times.
Not to mention the reason for the skyrocketing international oil price, the most important point was that it made people realize that gasoline cars may not be so perfect.
Before 2008, there were actually a lot of environmentalists who urged people not to use gasoline cars to pollute the environment. Boss Jia's deepest impression was from a novel, where the male protagonist, Brother Tao, relied on a car exhaust purifier to make a fortune, and reached the peak of his life.
Ahem, let's not talk about this. Anyway, before 2008, there were a lot of environmentalists, but it never moved the market. Except for the occasional one or two automobile companies that didn't want to do electric scooters, all automobile companies chose to turn a blind eye to electric scooters, and continued to focus on their gasoline cars.
After all, electric scooters were destroying the gasoline car market, which was equivalent to suicide.
But as the international oil price skyrocketed to 150 USD per barrel, the direct result was that car sales plummeted by 60% that year, and all automobile companies fell into huge losses.
In 2005, General Motors and Chrysler were among the top 500 in the world, but in 2008, they finally declared that they couldn't make ends meet, were insolvent, and finally went bankrupt.
Of course, the main reason was because of the financial crisis in 2008, which broke the bank's capital chain, and then the two companies' capital chain also broke.
But if these two companies didn't have a huge sales decline in the second quarter of that year, all the financial institutions wouldn't have despaired of the two automobile companies' ability to repay their debts, which led to the collapse of the stock market, and finally buried them.
The funny thing was that although car sales had dropped and many car companies had closed down, oil prices had risen even more. This was because the sales of crude oil in countries like Saudi Arabia had dropped because of the sharp rise in oil prices. If they couldn't increase their sales in a short period of time, they could only increase oil prices to ensure their profits.
These countries couldn't be blamed for being too greedy. It was because the region was too chaotic. Many countries had stopped production. Some countries had high welfare policies and had to maintain their own enjoyment. The country's finances had fallen into a serious deficit crisis. If the profits of crude oil fell, they would collapse and have to continue increasing the price of crude oil.
Coupled with the financial crisis at that time, countless people lost their jobs and lost their income. How could they have the money to buy cars or gasoline? Walking was still the most cost-effective way. This further led to a decline in car sales and gasoline consumption.
This formed an unsolvable closed loop. At that time, the automobile companies were horrified to find that if this situation continued for another two or three years, 80% of the world's automobile industry would close down, and the gas stations would be finished. Everyone would die together, and everyone would have to walk to work!
Therefore, the automotive industry at that time took the initiative to unite and announced that they would support environmental protection and electric vehicles. Many countries with a large automotive industry even came up with a timetable, saying that their country would completely stop selling gasoline vehicles by a certain number of years, so that all the cars sold in the country would be environmentally friendly and clean electric vehicles.
For example, Italy announced that it would completely stop selling gasoline vehicles after 2024.
Mexico, Norway, and other countries did it in 2025.
The United States did it in 2029.
Fusang did it in 2035.
And these automobile companies weren't joking. They had invested in developing electric vehicles, and many research centers had been set up.
Seeing this, the OPEC member countries panicked. They found that the energy market they relied on to maintain might be finished. So the international oil prices began to slowly decline and stopped rising.
So before 2005, the world's automobile industry was not pressured by the oil price and was indifferent to electric vehicles. But recently, these international automobile companies started to pay attention to electric vehicles. Because they saw their biggest market in the future, Hua Xia, although they couldn't sell their cars.
Everyone in the automobile industry was smart. Although they kept saying that Hua Xia was bad, they all knew that Hua Xia was destined to become the automobile consumer market, second only to the United States. Whoever could occupy Hua Xia would be able to dominate the automobile industry in the future.
Here, the European automobile companies were even smarter. For example, Volkswagen started to invest in Hua Xia in the 70's. Then, BAT, which was familiar to the people of Hua Xia, also invested in Hua Xia in the 80's.
Then, there were the Japanese and the Koreans. They had all come.
After 2000, the entire Huaxia automobile market was basically in a state of chaos. Dozens of internationally renowned automobile brands had established joint ventures in Huaxia to sell automobiles, and the Huaxia market had taken up most of their profit margin.
During this period of time, these foreign car companies had the most comfortable life.
But from 2002 onwards, these comfortable days were gone. These companies were horrified to find that the sales of their joint venture vehicles in China had more than doubled, and it was falling every year. It was estimated that in a few years, the sales would fall to zero.
What's worse was that many of the joint venture companies with these foreign automobile companies suddenly expressed their intention to withdraw from the joint venture. These foreign automobile companies automatically withdrew all their shares. These foreign automobile companies had abandoned these foreign tycoons. This was unbearable.
But this was the truth. These foreign companies were about to lose the entire Hua Xia market.
Later, they found out that the main culprit was the Daqian Group. This company promoted their electric scooter technology in Hua Xia for free. They also spent a lot of money to build new power stations. In just three years, they had completely defeated the original oil-powered vehicles. Now, almost all the vehicles on the roads in Hua Xia were electric scooters.
Especially in 2005, when YLK's SDM regime collapsed, the United States took over the oil wells that originally belonged to YLK's government. The international oil price began to soar. Now, the international oil price had exceeded 60 USD. In Hua Xia, the oil price had increased from 3 RMB to 6 RMB.
How could Hua Xia people tolerate such high oil prices? Before, they had no choice. Now that they had electric scooters, who would want to be slaughtered by the oil price?
As a result, the sales of oil-powered vehicles fell to the bottom. Many joint venture companies noticed the trend. They naturally abandoned their foreign joint venture companies and focused on making electric scooters.
After all, if you cooperated too well with foreign companies, the patent or the brand will always belong to them. At most, you can make some money.
But the electric scooter was something that belonged to him. Even a fool would know which one he would choose.
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