Technological Hegemony

In the early morning of July 16th, Luo Jia called An Ran and drove to the city center to investigate the launch of electric self-balancing vehicles.

The electric balance car is currently in trial operation, so it will not be launched in the remote Baoshan District, but will be launched in the most prosperous city center along the line from Lujiazui to Xujiahui.

The first batch of self-balancing vehicles were launched in four cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, each of which released 2,500 vehicles.

The reason for doing this is not regional discrimination, but because the charging facilities in the four major cities are the most complete. As the facade of Huaxia, they have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to make drastic changes to the city's circuits, while other cities are not yet ready. .

If the trial operation goes well, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xi'an, these quasi-first-tier cities and second-tier cities will also launch electric self-balancing vehicles later.

Generally speaking, the current domestic shared transportation mainly relies on cheap and easy-to-use motorcycles, and electric balance vehicles are future-oriented products.

The car stopped in Xujiahui, Luo Jia and An Ran saw the entrance of the subway station, where many self-balancing scooters were placed, and the reporters set up long guns and short cannons, snapping photos of the just-launched self-balancing scooters.

Not only domestic journalists, but also many foreign media also came. They happily stood on the self-balancing scooter, walked along the road, and yelled.

Luo Jia and An Ran observed from the side of the road.

In order to test the automatic control ability of the self-balancing car, the reporters deliberately left the car at the intersection, then turned on the homing function of the self-balancing car, slowly moved towards the sidewalk, and finally parked beside a plane tree.

This scene shocked the reporters present. It seems that the electric self-balancing vehicle really has the ability of self-management. If it is found to be parked indiscriminately and hinders the traffic, the self-balancing vehicle will move to the most reasonable place by itself.

Luo Jia and An Ran looked at each other and smiled. From a technical point of view, it is not complicated to realize this function. It is only a basic positioning and automatic driving technology, and the reporters are too fussed.

Due to the limited number of the first batch of self-balancing vehicles on the market, if you want to try it out, what is it like to use a self-balancing vehicle as a means of transportation, you still need to wait in line.

Luo Jia and An Ran each ate an ice cream on the side of the road, and returned to the company contentedly.

"I heard that those guys want to explore the application of unicycle transportation, have you approved it?" Sitting in the car, An Ran asked Luo Jia.

Luo Jia nodded, "Well, it won't cost much anyway, I've always wanted a unicycle like in Dragon Ball,

Besides, whether it is a self-balancing vehicle or a unicycle electric vehicle, it is an exploration of the future means of transportation, and there is no harm in researching it. "

An Ran didn't say anything. The technology geeks of Star Technology have conducted a lot of explorations on what the future transportation tools should look like. There are many research plans for electric roller skates, electric scooters, and electric unicycles.

The self-balancing vehicle is currently the most technologically mature product, so it was the first to be launched on the market. One day in the future, Star Technology will launch even more bizarre means of transportation.

The two broke up at the entrance of the company, and An Ran went back to the research institute, while Luo Jia went into his office, turned on the computer, and checked domestic and foreign news.

Unsurprisingly, the official launch of the electric self-balancing vehicle has aroused enthusiastic responses around the world.

Although Stellar Technology did not invent the self-balancing car, they have made a profound transformation of the self-balancing car, and then put it on the market in large quantities, as a means of public transportation, which is unique in the world.

Domestic netizens are excited about this one after another. In addition to motorcycles, they now have a second choice.

And foreign netizens feel envious and jealous.

They thought of mobile phones from the balance car, and the mobile phones produced in China swept the world, even Samsung and Apple were wiped out.

From mobile phones to small home appliances, no matter where you are in the world, more than 90% of the small home appliances you buy are made in China.

Then there are TVs and monitors, and even the computer field has been captured by the Big Four, not to mention washing machines, air conditioners, and refrigerators, which are China's traditional advantages.

"Oh my god, we are already surrounded by Chinese manufacturing!"

"Hurry up and think of a way, who will stop them, if this continues, the Chinese will occupy the whole world!"

"What can we do to stop it? It's good enough to stop those savages and prevent them from entering high-end fields such as automobiles, aviation, and semiconductors. Let's see, Huaxia will release electric vehicles tonight, and it is estimated that there will be another fierce battle To fight."

Luo Jia smiled. By observing the comments of overseas netizens, it is not difficult to find that foreigners in this world are divided into two categories.

One is people who eat melons, such as people in Latin America. They don't care who rules the electrical appliance field. Anyway, buying American or Chinese products is the same for them.

The other is the traditional big power countries. They can be said to hold deep hostility towards China. The world market is so big. If China gets more points, they will get less points.

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After the Motorcycle Legion took the lead to go to sea and fought hand-to-hand with the Neon Giant in Southeast Asia.

On July 16, after several months of intense preparations, the electric vehicle project of BYD, Great Wall and Geely finally officially launched.

Great Wall's press conference was in the capital, Geely was in West Lake, and BYD was in Shenzhen.

From the south to the north, three press conferences lined up, firing the first shot in the battle for electric vehicle supremacy.

Luo Jia didn't come to the scene in person, because he knew very well that the automobile industry is so huge that the winner cannot be determined in a short period of time. It will take a long time to compete, and it has just started now, so there is no need to be too anxious.

In the evening, company executives showed up in Luo Jia's office one after another, and some side dishes such as sausages, roast duck, and cold salad were delivered from the cafeteria.

A few people closed the door, took out the beer from the refrigerator, and watched the press conference while nibbling on the neck of the duck, treating it like a small party.

Most of Star Technology's employees gathered in the restaurant. The launch of electric vehicles is a big event, and the cafeteria will provide free beer and red wine today.

The press conference went on quickly, and the first thing that attracted everyone's attention was the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Although the company is still called BYD, their electric vehicles have a new name and logo.

Lingyun, it's not a bad name. If Toyota Lexus didn't change, the name would look a bit fake.

But Toyota didn't know which tendon was cramping, and changed the good Lexus to Lexus. From a Chinese perspective, the artistic conception of these two names is far from the same.

Of course, Toyota's thinking is not this time. They also changed Domineering to Prado, Land Cruiser to Land Cruiser, and Camry to Camry.

After a brief introduction, the next step is the release of the new car.

Of the three companies, Geely is the most powerful. Their Volvo and Lynk \u0026 Co each launched three new models, while Great Wall Wey and BYD Lingyun also launched three models each.

In other words, on July 16th, a total of 12 electric models from the three companies were launched.

However, when the audience saw these new cars, they expressed confusion. They were all miniaturized products, namely mini cars, small cars, and small SUVs.

Moreover, these electric vehicles are not only small in size, but also have no trunks. They are all hatchbacks, which are very different from the current mainstream in China.

"Isn't it too young? It's not cool to drive out to pick up girls."

"There is no cool supercar? Bad review!"

"Other manufacturers are making cars bigger and bigger. Instead, they go against the trend and build small cars. In my opinion, they are pills!"

"No matter what you think, anyway, I have no love for hatchbacks, and I will never buy them."

There was a wave of crazy complaints in the barrage at station b. Huaxia netizens were very dissatisfied with the new cars of the three car manufacturers, thinking they were too small.

And overseas netizens gloated over their misfortune.

"It's a pity that I got up in the middle of the night to watch the press conference. I didn't expect Huaxia manufacturers to launch these things."

"It feels more suitable for Europe or Neon with narrow roads. We in North America will never like this kind of small car."

"Go to bed, wash up, after all, when it comes to building cars, Chinese people are out-and-out amateurs, they only cut off their braids for a few days."

Overseas netizens frantically slandered and compared these models with Tesla, and came to the conclusion that they are far inferior.

But as the press conference progressed, the painting style gradually changed.

The battery life starts from 400 kilometers and can reach a maximum of 800 kilometers. At present, Tesla's strongest model is only 500 kilometers.

"This battery life is good! After all, it is a small city car. If it is not expensive, you can buy one for your wife and let her drive to and from get off work, grocery shopping and so on." Netizens commented.

Immediately afterwards, Geely's boss Li began to introduce fast charging technology.

At present, there are two kinds of fast charging technologies in the world, high voltage mode and low voltage mode.

The leader of high-voltage fast charging is the North American giant Qualcomm. Their qc fast charging patent was leading the world before Star Technology.

This is also the reason why Luo Jia spent a lot of effort on electronic control. Take Tesla, the leader in the electric vehicle industry, as an example. Ninety percent of Tesla's patents are all on electronic control technology!

Without a strong pcu and bms, it is impossible to achieve power management in a safe state. From Tesla to Xingchen Technology, the scientific teams on both sides agree that the importance of electronic control far exceeds that of batteries, so they have done a lot of work separately. A staggering number of patents have been applied for.

In terms of fast charging, Star Technology has taken a path opposite to Qualcomm.

They use low-voltage fast charging to intelligently distribute the entire battery pack into hundreds of independent small modules, and then add four times the ear poles to these modules, and use the power management chip to perform management that is so accurate that it squeezes the entire battery the full potential of the group.

Boss Li doesn't know much about technology, but at the press conference in Shenzhen, BYD's Boss Wang was too professional. He introduced this set of electronic controls excitedly and talked for half an hour.

In the end, he revealed the truth with a trembling voice.

Star Technology's pcu and bms can charge 80% of the battery within 20 minutes!

As soon as this result came out, the whole world exploded!

Eighty percent full in twenty minutes?

This is too crazy!

Whoever drives a long distance does not need to take a break, drink a cup of tea and go to the toilet or something.

The electronic control of Star Technology can charge your electric car to 80% when you go to the bathroom!

Not an hour, not two hours, just twenty minutes!

Rivals around the world are eyeing Star Technology's battery technology.

But they never expected that the most powerful thing about Xingchen Technology is not the battery, but the electronic control!

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