Chapter 895: They are in a hurry, they are really in a hurry!
No matter how big the Xiaguo automobile market is, the total volume is limited.
Cangqiong Auto has sold more than 600,000 units, so some car companies must have lost sales.
The first to bear the brunt must be Volkswagen, Toyota, General Motors and other automobile groups that ranked first in sales in the past.
This situation makes these automobile groups very nervous.
Sales staff at many Toyota 4S stores took the initiative to call and inquire. In the past three or four months, they had contacted customers who were interested in buying a car.
In the end, I was horrified to find that more than 95% of those users who had contacted Toyota 4S stores but had already purchased cars purchased Cangqiong Automobile.
In other words, Cangqiong Automobile has taken away 95% of Toyota's potential customers in just a few months.
Volkswagen has also adopted the same measures as Toyota to conduct follow-up visits to customers who have their phone numbers but have not purchased a car.
At the same time, it was found that 60% of the customers who had already purchased a car purchased Cangqiong Automobile.
This can already illustrate a problem. Cangqiong Automobile is steadily encroaching on its own market.
Toyota and Volkswagen hoped to give Cangqiong Auto a resounding slap in the face, but this plan completely failed.
New Year's Day in 2018 is a national holiday.
However, the Xiaguo District headquarters of Toyota, Volkswagen and other automobile companies are not on holiday.
They don't take a holiday not because there are promotions and sales activities on New Year's Day, but because the impact of Cangqiong Automobile on them is too great.
But for any normal car company, from its birth to the launch of its cars and then to its crazy occupation of the market, it is unimaginable without a few years or even more than 10 years of accumulation.
But it took Cangqiong Automobile, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology, less than half a year to achieve this goal.
How could such a terrifying speed not make people frightened!
Cangqiong Auto's sales volume of more than 600,000 in four months also fully demonstrates that the entire market recognizes it.
If a car brand has technology and market recognition, then this brand will definitely be able to lead the entire industry.
Toyota Xiaguo District Headquarters.
There was silence in the conference room.
If we say that when Cangqiong Automobile was first released, they were not deeply aware of the crisis.
So this time, the power is indeed in front of you.
Sales of Toyota's mainstream models fell from September to December.
During this time period, national car sales are growing.
This is the first time Toyota has entered the Xiaguo market.
Facing the powerful attack from Cangqiong Automobile, Toyota Xiaguo District Headquarters had no good solution.
They are even more unwilling to cut prices for promotions.
Therefore, Toyota's Xiaguo District Headquarters had no choice but to immediately inform Toyo Headquarters of the incident.
I hope that Dongyang headquarters can give some guiding opinions.
But New Year's Day and Spring Festival are always the peak season for car sales.
If Toyota Xiaguo District Headquarters waits for guidance from Dongyang before making a decision, the peak sales season at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 will definitely be ruined.
The Dongyangxia District Headquarters also immediately took some emergency remedial measures.
For example, although the popular and best-selling models in the past did not have a price reduction on the surface, they also had to give away interior decoration and paving.
As for the super popular models, they are sold at a flat price and will not be sold at a higher price.
Toyota, which used to be quite aloof, seems to have become approachable at this time.
This change by Toyota makes consumers very uncomfortable.
When everyone came to Toyota's 4S store to buy a car, they learned that some popular models had no price increase, which was very strange.
Of course the salesperson smiled and said: "Our activities this time are very intensive, just to give back to consumers."
Users who come to the store to look at cars are not fools.
Of course they know this tactic.
Everyone smiled and said to the salesperson: "It's not that you are vigorous in your activities and give back to consumers, but it's hard to sell Toyota cars now."
"That's right, if I spend more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan to buy a Toyota car, I might as well spend tens of thousands more yuan to buy a Cangqiong car. The experience will be completely different."
The customer's words made Toyota's sales staff feel very embarrassed.
"Have you finished watching it? After watching it, we went to Cangqiong Automobile next door to take a look. Now Cangqiong Automobile is very friendly and has opened 4S stores in many cities."
These words made the Toyota salesperson want to vomit blood.
Because she had just spent almost half an hour explaining the advantages and performance of Toyota cars to these people, and even took them on a test drive. She did not expect this to be the result.
But that’s competition!
The entire peak car buying season before New Year’s Day and Spring Festival.
Toyota has chosen not to increase sales, and Volkswagen and other models have also chosen more aggressive sales measures.
However, during the peak sales season at the beginning of this year, the sales volume of these brands was still an entire order of magnitude lower than last year.
On the contrary, Cangqiong Automobile's sales once again set a record.
Although Cangqiong Automobile has not released sales data for more than ten days before the Spring Festival, through media tracking reports and the proportion of the number of license plates issued by the Vehicle Management Office every day, it can be inferred that Cangqiong Automobile's sales must have hit a new high.
Cangqiong Auto also takes Internet sales to the extreme, putting even Tesla to shame.
Users can log in to the official website of Cangqiong Auto and customize their own cars, including exterior color, wheel color and size, interior color, etc.
These are the same as Tesla.
The biggest difference is that if a user owns a Zemeng device, they can log in to the virtual Cangqiong car sales store and conduct a virtual test drive. They can even see the details of the car more intuitively and customize some details, such as seats.
Color and material, etc.
Users only need to customize their own car. As long as the full payment is made, the car can be delivered to their doorstep after being registered with the license plate.
The 4S stores in major cities have truly become a display platform rather than a sales platform.
This kind of high-quality service is a complete dimensionality reduction compared to traditional fuel vehicles.
Europe.
Germany, Volkswagen headquarters.
Volkswagen has obtained the sales data of various models in the Xiaguo region in 2017.
This data does have some growth compared to last year, but the growth rate is not large and lags behind Xia Guo's annual automobile growth.
Especially for mid-level cars priced at more than 200,000 yuan, sales in the next few months directly suffered a waterloo.
Volkswagen cannot compete with Toyota in the global automobile market, and it even suffers long-term losses in many overseas markets.
In the European and American markets, Volkswagen still has many popular models that cannot compete with models such as South Korea's Hyundai and Kia.
Therefore, Volkswagen basically relies on the Xiaguo market to survive, and even most European car companies rely on the Xiaguo market to survive.
If there is any disturbance in the Xiaguo market, the impact on European automobile companies will still be very large.
It can be said that as long as the Xiaguo market sneezes, the European automobile industry system will catch a cold.
Volkswagen Group and its top management have not yet had time to consider how to deal with the crisis from Changtian Technology Co., Ltd.
Because the public crisis has come.
Volkswagen has plans to lay off employees in 2018 due to declining global sales.
But the specific number of layoffs and whether they are really necessary depends on Volkswagen's performance in 2017.
Volkswagen's performance in 2017 basically depends on the performance of the Xiaguo market.
However, due to the emergence of Cangqiong Automobile, Volkswagen's sales in the Xiaguo market did not meet the expected standards.
Therefore, Volkswagen headquarters will lay off employees.
The number of layoffs is 1,000.
When the layoff list was announced, the employees who were laid off were angry.
Europe's economy has been in bad shape in recent years.
The only pillar industries are the automobile and machinery industries.
Now that everyone has been laid off, it is difficult for most people to find suitable jobs.
Therefore, after the Volkswagen Group announced this news, the laid-off employees immediately protested!
People held demonstrations with banners in the Volkswagen Industrial Park.
This action was also supported by Volkswagen's labor union, and some employees who had not been laid off also supported this protest.
They even went on strike to support.
Because according to the current decline in Volkswagen's global profits, there will be further decline next year.
At that time, Volkswagen will still choose to lay off employees.
It is very likely that you will be laid off next time.
Under such circumstances, Volkswagen employees will definitely choose to go on strike in support.
The public worked hard and managed to get rid of the strikers and protestors.
These things also attracted the attention of Europeans.
Of course, the European media will not look for reasons from themselves. While they frantically report on the Volkswagen Group incident, they also point out that the fundamental reason for the Volkswagen Group's layoffs is that Xia people took the jobs of Europeans.
They even went so far as to crazily smear Changtian Technology.
BBC: Xia people are seizing job opportunities around the world, be wary of them taking everything from us!
The Times: Workers in Xia Guo do not abide by labor laws, and Xia Guo’s companies use unfair means to seize our opportunities.
The news reached Changtian Technology.
After Wang Xiang reported the news of Volkswagen's layoffs to Chen Xiao, Chen Xiao laughed.
Chen Xiao said to Wang Xiang: "Keep in mind 2017, because it was the happiest year for Volkswagen. From now on, Volkswagen will never have a good time again."
"Starting from Volkswagen, European automobile group companies will suffer serious collapse. After losing the Xiaguo market, their lives will be very difficult."
Hollowing out the entire European automobile industry chain is the goal of Changtian Technology.
But this has just begun.
America.
Tesla headquarters.
At the beginning of 2018, the global automobile industry seemed to know that a big change was coming.
Tesla's sales in 2017 were still very good.
But it's still worse than Musk's estimate.
The bad part is in Xiaguo Market.
Musk finally got employees at Tesla's Xia headquarters to get a top-of-the-line Sky car.
Special sea and land transportation was used to deliver the Cangqiong car to the Tesla headquarters.
According to relevant laws in the United States, Musk's behavior is illegal.
Because cars need to be declared customs, especially cars imported from overseas.
Without relevant procedures, existing automobile products cannot enter the US market.
So Musk's behavior is more like smuggling, illegal smuggling.
But in order to get the real performance and driving experience of the Cangqiong car, Musk can’t worry about so much.
In 2017, Tesla's global sales were only 100,000 vehicles.
The Cangqiong Automobile was only used for a few months, and the sales volume in Xia Kingdom alone was 160,000.
The gap between the two sides is clear at a glance.
Soon, Cangqiong Automobile was transported to Tesla headquarters.
The worker carefully removed the car from the truck, but due to a mistake, the car hit the loading and unloading board of the truck.
If it is an ordinary car and it falls from a height of more than two meters and hits the chassis, the chassis of the car will not be scrapped, but will definitely be overhauled.
When I went to Cangqiong Automobile, I directly activated the vehicle system and turned on the chassis to prevent vibration mode.
The entire chassis was actually unscathed.
The loading and unloading workers breathed a sigh of relief, after all, they would not have to lose money.
But when Musk saw this scene, he was extremely shocked.
This is like Cangqiong Automobile giving itself a boost and giving Tesla a boost.
Musk first observed the car's exterior and interior, and then personally test-drove the car to feel the car's performance, especially the intelligence of the car's computer system and its auxiliary driving system.
After just driving for a while, Musk felt mixed emotions.
The electric drive of the car is so perfect!
Microbial electric drive can give cars a better driving experience.
Of course, what shocked Musk the most was the super-smart car system and driver assistance system.
There are some heavily populated roads inside the Tesla headquarters park, and there are many small streets and alleys outside the park, which are completely incompatible with Tesla's assisted driving mode.
Tesla's assisted driving mode has never been successful when challenging these road conditions.
But this time Cangqiong Automobile completed the task easily.
This is like telling Musk that your Tesla is an idiot.
You are mocking Musk. The assisted driving mode that you have invested a lot of manpower and material resources in researching is simply rubbish.
After the test, the engineers in the entire Tesla research team became very silent.
They just can't figure it out.
How does Changtian Technology achieve such an advanced technological level?
"When did Xia's technical engineers become so powerful?"
"How on earth did they do it!"
Musk immediately asked engineers to set up the Sky Car.
Test the real range of the Cangqiong car.
This device is a device used by Tesla to simulate comprehensive road conditions.
Even Tesla's M3 has a standard range of more than 400 kilometers, and the maximum range tested here is more than 300 kilometers.
The final test results shocked everyone again.
The Cangqiong car, which has a standard range of 1,000 kilometers, has actually traveled 1,237.69 kilometers. However, it is very convenient for engineers to add energy blocks, which is much more comfortable than charging!
Seeing this scene, Musk completely collapsed!
He ordered: "Tear it down! Dismantle this car for me and analyze it part by part!"