Chapter 890 Even a small test can slay a dragon (2)
Musk asked the staff at the Xiaguo headquarters to buy a Cangqiong car, which was actually a helpless move.
Because after Musk studied the launch of Cangqiong Car, he found that Cangqiong Car has no weaknesses.
Of course, the only weakness is that currently Cangqiong Auto only has one factory in Ning City, which may cause insufficient production capacity.
So Musk hopes to get a top-end traditional car as soon as possible and study the specific performance of this car?
Terrible opponent!
After Musk said this hurriedly, he slumped on the boss's chair and felt a little lost.
If Cangqiong Automobile is released by another company.
Musk doesn't care at all and may even think the company is bragging.
However, the publisher of Cangqiong Automobile is Changtian Technology, and it was Chen Xiao who came to the platform in person.
This gives Musk a strong sense of crisis.
Musk knows very well what kind of company Changtian Technology is.
If nothing else, let’s talk about Hanhai Technology Company, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology.
With just one move, world-famous mobile phone companies such as Apple and Samsung were beaten to the ground.
This is still just one card of Hanhai Mobile.
When Hanhai Technology Company produced the Zemeng wearable device, it was completely unequal to compete with Apple and Samsung's mobile phone products.
Not to mention Apple and Samsung are powerless. These two companies are simply not qualified to compete with Zemeng equipment.
Wearable devices and mobile phones are two products from completely different eras.
Therefore, if a company as terrible as Changtian Technology enters an industry, it will definitely be bloody.
Changtian Technology is now entering the automobile industry, and it is the new energy automobile industry. How could Musk not be nervous?
Changtian Technology’s bio-battery, which is pollution-free and can last for 1,000 kilometers, has already left Tesla’s ternary lithium battery far behind.
How could this situation not make Musk anxious?
The staff immediately followed Musk's instructions and notified the staff at Tesla's Xia headquarters.
Everyone was busy completing the tasks.
Musk was the only one left in the office.
Musk considers himself a technology geek, and his ambitions are not limited to Tesla cars.
But to create new miracles in the history of human science.
Launch rockets, land on the moon and Mars, and even establish new human colonies on extraterrestrial stars.
These are Musk's ambitions.
Even though Tesla's current sales are still far behind Volkswagen and Toyota, the world's top automobile industries, Musk has never been nervous.
He believes that one day Tesla's sales will surpass these traditional car companies.
But today.
He saw Changtian Technology’s Cangqiong car launch conference.
Saw the corresponding performance of Cangqiong Car.
Even though not a single Cangqiong car has been sold, Musk's inner pride and pride have completely changed.
Because there is another technological person in this world who is more arrogant than him.
That is Chen Xiao.
This deep sense of frustration and powerlessness has greatly damaged Musk's confidence.
At the same time, at the Toyo Toyota headquarters.
Akio Toyoda also stayed up all night.
Although Changtian Technology has never been involved in the automotive industry.
But this company's strong strength in other areas has proven their execution capabilities.
Akio Toyoda knows very well that under the attack of Tesla and Sora Motors, and the rise of Xia domestic brands, Toyota's good days are likely to end.
But Akio Toyoda was a little unwilling.
He believes that Toyota has managed almost step by step under his leadership and has not made any major mistakes.
It sells well in global markets such as North America and Xiaguo. It is sold in the Xiaguo market without any price reduction. Models such as Highlander and Land Cruiser are even sold at increased prices. In the global second-hand car market, Toyota's cars have the highest value retention rate. These are all
This is Toyota's highlight moment.
Even today in 2017, Toyota's Xia Guo still implements a no-price sales policy.
So all this made Akio Toyoda feel a little confused. Obviously Toyota's performance was very good, but why did he feel like he was going to die in the next second?
It was as if a perfectly healthy young man suddenly learned that he would get cancer and die of cancer in the future.
This feeling is very uncomfortable and confusing.
Akio Toyoda's secretary walked in, brought Akio Toyoda a midnight snack, and silently massaged his shoulders behind him.
This is a habit that Toyoda Akio developed after working overtime for a long time. He needs a personal secretary to serve him.
The secretary whispered to Akio Toyoda: "President, please rest early. Cangqiong Automobile has not yet been put on the market. It is difficult to say what the market's reaction will be. There is no need for us to worry too much about this."
"Toyota has a century-old history and is the world's most valuable car company. Our cars are sold to more than 200 countries around the world. We have car production plants in more than 20 countries around the world, involving hundreds of thousands of employees."
"And Cangqiong Car has just been released, not a single car has rolled off the production line, not a single car has been sold, and except for Xia, no country in the world has approved the sale of Cangqiong Car, so what is there to worry about?
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After listening to the secretary's comforting words, Toyoda Akio felt better.
He can be considered a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, and feels that what the secretary said is very reasonable.
Cangqiong Auto's competitiveness on paper is indeed very high.
But Xia's automobile companies may brag more after all.
Moreover, the car has not been sold on the market, so the reaction of consumers and the performance of the entire market are unknown.
What are you worried about?
After thinking about this, Toyoda Akio felt that he might be older and more sensitive to many things.
He laughed loudly and said: "Okay, we won't work overtime tonight, let the marketing department and the technical department collect the specific information of Cangqiong Car as soon as possible, and let Toyota Xiaguo headquarters pay attention to the sales situation of Cangqiong Car.
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After Akio Toyoda had a midnight snack, he returned to his office suite to sleep.
He firmly believes in his heart that Toyota will survive!
At this moment, Changze Prefecture is filled with laughter and laughter.
After the press conference, senior executives such as Chen Xiao and Gao Miao held a celebration banquet.
At the celebration banquet, no one mentioned Cangqiong Auto, because everyone knew it very well.
Changtian Technology’s Cangqiong Automobile will definitely subvert the global automobile industry.
All employees within Changtian Technology have this kind of confidence!
The senior management held a celebration banquet happily.
And the employees of Cangqiong Automobile are not idle.
The busiest person during this period is the person in charge, Ma Guotao.
The first is the issue of mass production in the factory.
Before and after the launch of Cangqiong Automobile, the factory in Ningshi was already operating at full capacity.
The Ningshi factory, which has undergone industrial technology and equipment optimization, can produce 500 Cangqiong A01 cars every day.
Currently, there are a total of 20,000 Cangqiong A01 cars in the warehouse of the Ningshi factory.
This number is far higher than the media's estimates.
Many media believe that Cangqiong Automobile is an emerging brand and does not care about its inventory.
It is estimated that Cangqiong Automobile has 1,000 vehicles in stock, which is very impressive.
After all, in a modern automobile production factory, it may only take a month or two from the time an order is placed for a car to be successfully produced.
Therefore, reporters believe that Cangqiong Automobile should wait for orders before placing orders for production, so as to save costs and reduce inventory risks.
They underestimated the strength of Changtian Technology.
Changtian Technology lacks nothing, certainly not money.
With an inventory of 10,000 to 20,000 vehicles, the design cost is only about 3 billion RMB.
Changtian Technology can afford such a small amount.
What's more, Changtian Technology's goal for Cangqiong Automobile is to only allow success and not allow failure.
In addition to supervising the mass production of factories.
During this period, Ma Guotao also implemented the 4S store matters.
As mentioned in the press conference, there are currently only three Cangqiong Auto 4S stores in the country.
One is located in Shanghai, one is located in Jiangzhou, and one is located in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
These three 4S stores were car 4S stores before Cangqiong Automobile moved in.
The one located in Shanghai is the 4S store of GAC FCA Jeep, and the ones located in Jiangzhou and Suhang are the 4S stores of Hyundai and Chevrolet respectively.
Due to the strong impact of domestically produced cars and the policy on new energy vehicles, these three brands of cars are not very popular.
Therefore, the 4S store has no way to maintain operations.
The location of these three 4S stores is very good, and the area is very wide. Ma Guotao personally came to the scene and made the final decision for these three 4S stores.
It only takes about a week from the end of the press conference to the official sales of the car offline.
Therefore, the staff of the 4S store worked overtime to decorate the 4S store.
At the same time, multiple large trucks also transported Cangqiong Automobile's temporary factory to the 4S store.
According to Cangqiong Auto’s sales plan, sales are divided into two parts: online and offline.
Offline sales will begin about a week after the press conference.
Online sales will take one month later.
Therefore, offline sales are very important, whether it will be an instant hit or a rapid decline.
This is crucial to the future development of Cangqiong Automobile.
Suhang Cangqiong Automobile 4S Store.
Although the door is not open, the staff has decorated the 4S store very festively.
In the center of the hall are three Cangqiong 201 cars, which correspond to three different versions.
Luxurious balloons and pure flowers are all arranged in the car showroom, just waiting for customers to come.
Zhou Lin, a salesperson who had just applied for a job at Cangqiong 4S store, felt a little nervous.
She carefully pulled the sales manager's sleeve and said, "Manager Liu, tell me if there will be any customers when we start selling tomorrow?"
The most fundamental reason why Zhou Lin raised this question was that the Cangqiong Auto 4S store was surrounded by heroes.
Next door on the left is Toyota's 4S store, and Toyota is the largest 4S store in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Next door on the right is the Volkswagen 4S store.
One Xiaguo market can support the entire Volkswagen Group, which is enough to show how terrible Volkswagen's sales in Xiaguo are.
There are BBA and Tesla on the other side of the road.
Manager Liu patted Zhou Lin on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, kid, Changtian Technology's products have never failed! The performance of the Cangqiong car is so good, and it can run 1,000 kilometers without refueling or charging. If no users come
, I have to pay for one myself.”
In fact, before the Cangqiong Automobile launch conference, many internal employees of Changtian Technology were asking whether they could apply for one.
The group company takes into account the large number of users and gives priority to satisfying market users, so it allows employees within the group to postpone subscriptions and wait until the needs of market users are met before meeting the needs of group employees.
Zhou Lin patted her chest and said, "Come on, you must do your best tomorrow!"
On the morning of the second day, when Zhou Lin came to work on time at 7:00, she suddenly found that there was a long queue at the door of Cangqiong Automobile!
Zhou Lin was completely shocked!
She said to herself: "This is a car 4S store, not a mobile phone store! How can there be so many people lining up!"
Zhou Lin originally planned to calculate how many people were in line?
But I found that the queue went directly to the intersection and turned left.
The distance from here to the street is at least 1 kilometer, which means the number of people in Taizhou exceeds 1 kilometer!
This is really terrible!
The economic conditions of Suzhou and Hangzhou have always been at the forefront of the Xia Kingdom.
In addition, in recent years, it has been said that fuel vehicles are prohibited from taking to the road, and number and license plates of fuel vehicles are restricted to encourage citizens to purchase new energy sources.
As for new energy vehicles, except for brands such as Tesla and Billy, the citizens of Suzhou and Hangzhou look down on other brands.
However, due to the range charging and battery spontaneous combustion of Tesla and BiDi, many users who intend to buy cars are extremely entangled and are ready to wait. Therefore, the desire for car consumption in Suzhou and Hangzhou has been greatly suppressed.
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Now suddenly the Cangqiong car has appeared, which can travel 1,000 kilometers, and does not require charging or refueling. It is produced by Changtian Technology, and everyone's desire to buy a car has been aroused!
Just when Zhou Lin was in a daze, the citizens in the front looked at Zhou Lin wearing the work clothes of Cangqiong Automobile and shouted: "Miss, go to work quickly! When will sales start!"
Only then did Zhou Lin react, quickly agreed, and trotted to the 4S store.
Manager Chen had arrived a long time ago. He was sweating profusely and said nervously and excitedly: "Comrades! Comrades! Unexpected! Big unexpected! We are likely to face a tough battle today.
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"Oh my God, when I came to work, I saw so many people queuing up! If I hadn't worked here, I would have thought these people were queuing up to get free eggs!"
After Manager Zhou said this seriously, the staff burst into laughter.
"Don't laugh, I'm serious!"
"Currently, our 4S store only has 100 cars in the warehouse! There are so many people queuing up outside! How can we sell these 100 cars!"
Not only was Manager Chen extremely shocked, many media reporters who came to interview were also shocked when they saw such a huge queue!
You must know that this is selling cars! A 4S store that easily costs 20,000 to 300,000 yuan for a car worth more than 500,000 yuan is not selling flour or noodles!
Xiao Zhang, a salesperson at the Toyota 4S store who had just started working, saw such a long queue and said in confusion: "It's really strange. There are no activities in Fengcheng today. Why are there so many people queuing up? Is it like this?"
Is there a limit on numbers and purchases?”
The colleague next to him patted Xiao Zhang on the head and said: "What are you crazy about? You didn't see that this queue is for the Sky Car!"