When the pre-sale of Blue Star cars started, the pre-orders for Blue Star e1 reached 2,643 units and the pre-orders for Blue Star es2 were 551 units on the first day!
You know, this is not a mobile phone worth several thousand yuan, but a car that costs hundreds of thousands! The cheapest Blue Star e1 with standard configuration has a starting price of 300,000 yuan. If you want to add configurations, it will be even more expensive!
The Blue Star es2 is a high-end coupe model, with a starting price of 800,000.
But even at such a price, a large number of consumers still choose to book!
When the first day’s reservation data came out, the entire China and even the world’s automobile industry were shocked!
Before Blue Star Motors, Tesla sold the best among new energy vehicles, but in its highest sales quarter last year, it sold 112,000 vehicles, an average of 33,000 vehicles per month, and an average of about 1,100 vehicles per day.
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Behind this data is the reputation and market that Tesla has worked hard to accumulate for several years. Now, Blue Star Motors has pre-sold more than 3,000 units on the first day!
If this continues, wouldn't the monthly sales volume be 90,000 units? This will directly occupy a place on the sales ranking board!
Moreover, this is only the sales volume of two models. If it were included in the sales list of a single model, this data would be even more exaggerated.
However, what puts the most pressure on peers is that on the second day of pre-sale of Blue Star cars, the number of reservations rose again. In contrast, the sales of other models in the same price range during the same period can be described as plummeting.
This is not a comparison of models, but a technological crushing. Just a self-driving car is enough to attract a large number of people who can't drive but still need a car to pay for it.
Now, peers only hope that Blue Star cars are not as good as advertised, and various problems will arise in the future.
But their idea is probably difficult to realize.
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Representatives from the island nation, the Automobile Industry Association, and automobile companies such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Mazda gathered together.
These people are not only representatives of car companies, but also representatives of the six major financial groups in the island country behind them.
"Everyone, as soon as Blue Star Motors was launched in China, its sales have hit new highs. On the contrary, as far as I know, the sales of each of our companies in China have declined to varying degrees. I think we must take stronger measures.
Got it!" Takahashi Kengo said seriously.
"Deep Space Technology is different from any opponent in the world." A representative from Mitsubishi Motors said, "As far as I know, it only took them less than half a year to paralyze Soni's most proud video game business! Your Mitsui Foundation
What a heavy loss!”
Kengo Takahashi said with a dark face: "This is a technological war, and no one can sit idly by. Now OICA refuses to recognize the fully autonomous driving technology of Deep Space Technology, and will not allow Blue Star cars to enter the international market for the time being. But we must act as soon as possible.
, stop them before they develop!"
"At the moment, we should gather everyone's strength and give them the greatest restrictions from the industrial chain."
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At the same time, Germany is one of the four largest economies in Europe and one of the most industrially developed countries in the world. Here, there are the most powerful automobile manufacturing companies and the most powerful auto parts suppliers in the world.
The matter of Blue Star Motors has always been highly valued by German car companies.
Ever since Blue Star’s autonomous driving defeated the human car king, German car companies have quickly allocated funds to expand into the autonomous driving field.
In the past few days, one car company, Blue Star Motors, has forced new energy vehicles around the world, and even the stock prices of traditional car companies have fallen, making the German auto giants unable to sit still.
The monopoly on high-end manufacturing that has been held for so many years cannot be broken just like this!
The German Automobile Industry Association also held a secret meeting, attended by representatives from giants in the automotive industry.
They discussed for a long time, and after returning, each company's business has been adjusted to a certain extent.
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Ten days later, the island country’s metal industry suddenly announced that due to various factors, it would increase the price of several metal materials and restrict exports.
And these materials, coincidentally, are the raw materials purchased by Blue Star Automobile.
The island country's metal smelting and material manufacturing are better than some suppliers in China, so Blue Star Motors purchases their products. Now that the price of materials has suddenly increased, Blue Star Motors' manufacturing costs have directly increased.
However, Blue Star Motors or Deep Space Technology is facing more than one suppression. German parts suppliers have also adopted some restrictions, making it impossible for Blue Star Motors to purchase some important parts.
Either the price needs to be increased, or you can only choose inferior products from your own country or other countries.
The U.S. auto industry has also made some efforts to suppress Blue Star Motors.
Behind the surge in sales of Blue Star automobiles is the rapid increase in manufacturing costs and difficulties in parts supply.
"Our car prices are already very high. If the price increases, I'm afraid sales will decrease significantly." said the marketing director at the Blue Star Automobile Super Factory.
"This is a difficult thing to handle!" Guan Yang analyzed, "For example, in terms of raw materials, let's talk about alloy steel and special steel! Although China is a big steel country, it is not a strong steel country."
"The steel output of the island country is only 10% of our country's, but the profits are overwhelming for us. Their high-quality steel prices are a little cheaper than those of Europe. Our domestic automotive steel plates are basically joint ventures."
"There are other raw materials, and they are pretty much the same."
"As for parts and components, we can currently only produce motors and other parts ourselves. We cannot produce all other parts ourselves. We still have to import products from Germany, island countries and the United States. This is not our problem, but our local industry.
The reason is that the overall level of manufacturing technology is not enough."
"It's really difficult!" Meng Xiaobai lamented that even though the motor was ready, the energy source was not enough. Once it offends the core interests of those developed countries, they will suppress deep space technology even if they lose some short-term profits.
"In other words, we have to bear high-cost operations for a period of time and solve the problems of raw materials and parts as soon as possible."
"That's it, these two problems won't last ten or twenty years, so it's probably very difficult." Guan Yang sighed.
This is not only to improve the technical level of Blue Star Motors, but also to improve the industrial manufacturing level of the entire country. It is difficult to reach the sky!
"Don't be in a hurry, take your time." Meng Xiaobai said with a smile, "We still have fun to play!"
The development of Blue Star Motors in the next one or two years will definitely be restricted due to these factors, but Meng Xiaobai will naturally not give up so easily.
"Improve the industrial level of the entire industry and the entire country? Is it really impossible to do it?" Meng Xiaobai suddenly felt that he was full of fighting spirit again, "The higher the difficulty, the more interesting it is to do it!"