Chapter 906: Unsatisfied with special treatment, challenge the 5D Magic City
To gamble or not to gamble?
This is a question before Mr. Yin.
If he is unable to replace most of the taxis in Shancheng with bionew energy vehicles within the time stipulated by Changtian Technology, then the entire Lifan Group will be gone.
Not only is it gone, Lifan Group shareholders (mainly himself) are also burdened with huge debts.
In this cooperation, Changtian Technology or its subsidiary Cangqiong Automobile does not need to bear any risks at all.
The biggest problem is that their bio-batteries and motors cannot be sold.
If you can't sell it, you don't have to produce it. This is not a risk at all.
All risks are borne by Lifan Group.
Mr. Yin's face turned a little dark.
The cooperation plan proposed by Cangqiong Auto during this negotiation must have exceeded his expectations.
The cooperation plan obtained by Lifan is much more demanding than that of Haima Motors.
But then again.
If this cooperation is successful.
Lifan was able to complete the gambling agreement very smoothly.
Then the road ahead for Lifan Group will be smooth sailing from now on.
Not only can we gain friendship with Changtian Technology, but we can also further negotiate and cooperate with Changtian Technology.
The subsequent cooperation is not only limited to the purchase of new energy batteries and motors and authorization to produce new energy vehicles, but more importantly, equity cooperation and financial support.
Assuming that Lifan can obtain shares or financial support from Changtian Technology, then Lifan Group will most likely become one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the country.
Become the largest automobile manufacturer in the country.
This was originally what Mr. Yin had in mind when he established Lifan Group and decided to produce cars.
The subordinates gave Mr. Yin some looks and even secretly sent him a text message.
The meaning is that I hope Mr. Yin will not negotiate now, and quickly hold a meeting with the senior management, or return to the mountain city first, and everyone will discuss it before making a decision.
Mr. Yin also saw these looks and text messages, but he ignored them.
Because the current Lifan Group has no way out.
What lies ahead is a huge debt, involving more than 1 billion.
If we can cooperate with Changtian Technology, Changtian Technology will directly lend more than 1 billion to Lifan Group at low interest rates to help Lifan Group overcome the current difficulties.
This method is certainly much safer than trying to borrow money from usury.
So Mr. Yin immediately said to Feng Guotao: "Mr. Feng, we at Lifan Group fully agree with the cooperation plan proposed by your company!"
After hearing Mr. Yin's hasty statement, the people below quickly said: "Mr. Yin! You have to be careful about this matter!"
"I think a high-level meeting still needs to be held for everyone to discuss it!"
Who knows, Mr. Yin turned to everyone and said: "I have been a member of Lifan Group for decades now. I have watched our group company grow step by step, and I know what the company needs!"
Seeing Mr. Yin's decision, it was hard for everyone to say anything.
The work efficiency of both parties was very fast, and the cooperation agreement was signed in the afternoon of the same day.
Feng Guotao said that Like would send technical personnel back to the mountain city with Mr. Yin.
Help Lifan Group improve its automobile production lines and formulate production standards for new energy vehicles.
At the same time, relevant loan procedures will be improved and loans will be provided to Lifan Group to help Lifan Group overcome difficulties.
With the loan from Changtian Technology, the short-term crisis can be relieved, and Mr. Yin also breathed a sigh of relief.
He is very concerned about the construction of production lines for new bio-energy vehicles.
During the month after returning to Shancheng from Ningshi, Mr. Yin was basically on the production line.
He was shocked when he saw the work efficiency of Changtian Technology's technical team.
With such an efficient technical team, how could this company fail?
The plan formulated by Cangqiong Automobile for Lifan Group is to produce cheap, durable and safe new energy vehicles.
The remaining functions can be omitted, and the most important purpose is to save costs.
This new energy vehicle will not be sold on the market, but will only be provided to taxis in mountain cities and online ride-hailing companies that are labeled as operating only.
The cruising range designed by Cangqiong Automobile for this type of new energy taxi is 300 kilometers.
The fewer biobatteries used and their smaller size, the lower the cost of construction will be.
In addition, as an important city for Changtian Technology’s future new energy layout.
It is also to pilot the operation mode of new energy gas stations and to widen the gap with future civilian new energy vehicles.
The standard energy blocks used in new energy taxis are designed separately and cannot be mixed with the standard energy blocks of the already released Cangqiong cars and Haima cars, nor can other organic matter be added to the cars.
Xinhe Energy Company of Changtian Technology will build new energy energy block supply stations in major locations in mountain cities, specifically to supply energy blocks for taxis.
Because the amount of energy added is very fast and convenient, and the time is very short, the construction area and building volume of the energy block supply station will be far less than existing gas stations and gas stations.
There are some energy block supply stations that can be built by cooperating with restaurants that taxi drivers often eat at.
Therefore, this solution will become popular very quickly.
Many restaurants frequented by taxi drivers are very eager to cooperate with Galaxy Energy, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology.
These bosses also concluded that the future must be an era of new energy.
If the driver can add energy blocks to the future taxi while dining in a restaurant, it will certainly help the restaurant owner to gain popularity and business.
Soon the construction of Lifan Group's new generation taxi started.
Under the guidance of Cangqiong Automobile technical personnel and the huge industrial chain supply of Changtian Technology, the construction cost of the entire taxi is very low.
The new taxi is named Lifan Shanyue A1.
The total construction cost is only 50,000 yuan.
This was achieved on the basis of some production line improvements.
If the production line is rebuilt according to the technical standards given by Cangqiong Automobile, the production cost may be even lower.
Cube's executives decided to price the Lifan Shanyue A1 at 139,000 yuan.
And it supports taxi drivers’ loan purchases.
In order to complete the gambling task with Changtian Technology and replace taxis in mountain cities with bio-new energy vehicles as soon as possible, Lifan has also made up its mind and launched a series of policies.
First, take a loan to buy Lifan's Shanyue A01 car. The loan can last for up to three years, and it is free of interest and handling fees.
Secondly, for every driver who purchases a Shanyue car, Lifan Group will sponsor the energy usage fee of the car for one year.
This kind of sponsorship does not give money directly, but adds it to the designated energy block. You don’t need to give money when the energy is added quickly.
The third policy is that the cars in the hands of taxi drivers can be used for replacement, and the replacement price will be 1% to 5% higher than the market price.
The industrialization of Changtian Technology is indeed very scary.
It only took two months to complete the renovation of Lifan's factory.
It took Lifan another two months to complete mass production of the car.
There are about 20,000 taxis in the main urban area of Shancheng, plus 15,000 online taxis of various types, so there are about 35,000 operational taxis and online taxis.
Judging from this data, it is actually relatively simple for Lifan to complete the gambling agreement.
But everything is difficult at the beginning.
It is still quite difficult to get these taxi drivers and taxi companies to willingly complete the upgrade of taxis.
Therefore, the senior management of Lifan Group has not been idle. They have used various connections to visit taxi companies and even taxi drivers to persuade or lobby them to replace their taxis.
At the end of 2018, everything was ready and waiting for market feedback.
Shancheng is a very special city.
It is nicknamed the Magic City by many netizens.
Because the roads in this place are rugged and the terrain is uneven, the gap is very large.
You think you are on the top floor, but actually you are on the bottom floor.
Then you think you are on the ground floor, look down, and find that you are on someone else's top floor.
It is an absolute challenge for road traffic construction.
It even drove countless navigations crazy.
There are also many jokes about mountain city traffic on the Internet, jokingly saying that if a driver missed an intersection, he would never be able to get out.
In mountain towns, you rarely see bicycles or electric horses.
If you ride a bicycle up a steep slope, it is very likely that you will not be able to ride up it at all. If you ride a battery-powered bicycle, the battery-powered bicycle cannot drive on such a rough road.
Therefore, in an era when new energy vehicles are popular in taxis, Shancheng is also an absolute exception.
Because mountain climbing consumes a lot of power, it is very unfriendly to the lithium batteries of new energy vehicles.
A lithium battery new energy vehicle with a standard range of 500 kilometers may actually have a range of 400 kilometers when driving in flat areas such as Rongcheng or Yangcheng.
But if you are driving in a mountain town with extremely rugged terrain and frequent uphill and downhill slopes, the range may be less than 200 kilometers.
Ordinary taxis can barely reach Hukou by driving 300 kilometers a day, and they can live a comfortable life by driving 300 to 500 kilometers a day.
Moreover, the road traffic in the mountain city is very complicated, with many people and many vehicles.
If a new energy vehicle is used as a taxi, the vehicle must be charged at least twice a day.
Most charging stations may take two to three hours to queue up for charging, and even fast charging takes two to three hours.
Five or six hours a day are wasted on charging, which is absolutely fatal for drivers who make a living by driving taxis.
Therefore, after taxis in many cities switched to new energy vehicles, taxi drivers in mountain cities remained unmoved.
Either burn oil directly, or of course more often use natural gas instead of oil.
Don't think that the cost of using natural gas is low.
The cost of using natural gas is also very high.
Taxis that convert oil to gas generally use 80-liter gas tanks. Filling up the gas tank can add about 16 cubic meters of natural gas. Each time you fill it up, you can run about 200 kilometers. The price of a cubic meter of natural gas is 3 yuan.
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Therefore, a taxi costs 28 yuan for gas every 100 kilometers it travels. If it is calculated as if it travels 500 kilometers a day, it needs to refill the gas three times a day, which costs 140 yuan.
In a magical city like Shancheng, the queuing time for gas refilling and charging is not much different.
Many taxis have to queue up for gas for more than half an hour, and most of the time it takes about an hour.
However, compared with new energy trams, oil-to-gas taxis should also be the best option.
Now Lifan Group gives everyone a better choice.
That is to replace the car with a bionew energy vehicle.
A bionew energy vehicle can run 300 kilometers every time it is filled with energy blocks. This is a real 300 kilometers without any false standards.
And because the energy quick addition time is very fast, the total time from when you confirm to add the energy block to when the staff adds the energy block to your car can be controlled within two minutes.
In addition, the energy block is small in size and does not have any safe operating regulations. It cooperates with a large number of restaurants, rest areas and gas stations, so the points are scattered in a scattered manner, which is larger than those with a larger floor area and strict safety operating regulations.
There are so many gas stations that the driver doesn’t have to queue at all when he adds two yuan, which greatly saves the taxi driver’s time.
The most important thing is that the price of energy blocks is very cheap. Lifan Group first offers energy blocks to major taxi drivers at a discount for one year. After one year, it only costs a few yuan per 100 kilometers.
Whether it is time cost or money cost, it is much better than the oil-to-gas conversion in the past.
Taxi drivers and online ride-hailing drivers make a living by driving, and of course they will calculate the cost of using the car.
Under the stimulation of Lifan Group, many people were moved.
Lao Wang, who has been driving a taxi in the mountain city for 5 years, is one of them.
Lao Wang's taxi is a Hyundai Yinlan, which was just replaced last year.
He wasted two or three hours queuing up for gas every day, and it almost drove him crazy.
Moreover, the summer in the mountain city is extremely hot. In order to save energy, he did not even dare to turn on the air conditioner, which made the passenger experience very poor and received several complaints.
Lao Wang decided to take a gamble this winter and sell the Yin Lan he just bought last year and take out a loan to buy a Sanyue A01 car produced by Lifan.
When colleagues learned the news, they thought Lao Wang was crazy.
"We are all from mountain cities. There are only three taxi brands, either Suzuki, Hyundai, or Changan. No one buys Lifan at all. Don't people in mountain cities know that local brands are rubbish? What's more, you just bought it last year
I just changed my car, there’s no need, Lao Wang!”
"That's right, Lao Wang! Lifan seems to have only purchased the bio-battery and motor from Changtian Technology. The car is produced by itself. You and I can't tell what the quality is!"
"His car is selling for 149,000, and the price is not cheap. It's really not cost-effective, Lao Wang!"
In response to the dissuasion from his colleagues, Lao Wang also made up his mind and said: "I believe that Changtian Technology has cooperated with Lifan, and the quality of Lifan's cars has definitely passed the standard, otherwise Changtian Technology will not be able to save this face!"
"In the future, I have inquired about adding energy blocks to my car. Many restaurants where we eat can add energy blocks. When we eat, we can just buy a few energy blocks and add them in. If not, go to the supermarket or buy and rent them online.
A special energy block for the car would also work.”
"In this way, I can save at least one and a half hours of refueling time every day, and I can earn at least 100 yuan in one and a half hours. After I refill the gas quickly, I can save more than 100 yuan in monthly savings, and I can save more than 100 yuan every day.
If I can earn an extra two to three hundred yuan, I can earn 6,000 to 10,000 yuan a month. With more money, I can pay off my car with the extra money, and the driving and riding experience are very comfortable.