Chapter 436 Press Conference
Do earth-shattering things and become an anonymous celebrity!
The true strength of the "Seven Sons of National Defense" may only be known to itself and the Hexagonal Building...
Compared with the statue of "Mongrel Hou Yi" in Shuimu Academy of Fine Arts, the statue of Western Polytechnic University This "incognito" statue may not have the so-called "multicultural integration" and "international aesthetics" that keep pace with the times.
But the "feelings of family and country" that are the essence of Chinese culture that has been inherited for thousands of years immediately resonated with the two people present.
Mr. Ren and Mr. Yu heard the song and knew its elegant meaning.
"I am not alone in my path..." Mr. Ren sighed with his hands behind his hands.
"But Mr. Ren, if the other party doesn't come forward, we are afraid that we will be roasted on the fire..." Mr. Yu smiled bitterly.
After calming down, he also realized that the technology in his hand not only meant opportunities, but also meant huge risks.
Especially in the current international situation...
"Aren't we already being roasted on the fire?"
This rhetorical question left Mr. Yu speechless.
"But once the news leaks... do you need to pay attention to security?"
Old Ren naturally understands what Mr. Yu refers to by "security."
However, after a long silence, he unexpectedly shook his head.
"You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but how can you guard against a thief for a thousand days? Even if it's not a certain person, it's probably someone else... Do we have to be surrounded by the wind and the cranes all the time, and the grass and trees are all soldiers?"
"But ..."
"Needless to say, originally I was interested in There is still some hesitation about this matter, but with this technology, we are not without leverage.
What's more...since there are anonymous national warriors, there must also be warriors who charge into battle..."
Mr. Yu: “…”
"I understand. In this case, we will make all preparations and plans to minimize the risk."
"Well! In return, the other party gave us such a big gift, and we can't No expression..." Mr. Ren said again.
Of course Gao Yuan did not put forward conditions, such as 51% of Sihai’s equity worth hundreds of billions.
However, compared to this level of disruptive technology, if you just set up a company and brag about it, even if it is just a start-up company, the market value can easily exceed 100 billion, and the unit of measurement is still US dollars.
Not to mention that it also solved the imminent dilemma of Juchang.
In Mr. Ren's opinion, he made a lot of money from this transaction.
"Mr. Ren, do you mean to tilt our orders towards Bai Yeji as much as possible?"
As a domestic private enterprise, with the size of Juchang, we can slightly slip through the cracks of our fingers. A little leakage is a huge order for any small business.
“Well... of course this is what it should be. Since the other party is interested in our accumulation in the industry, the final goal should be to reach in-depth cooperation with us.
Prepare it in advance There is nothing wrong with relationships
As long as the other party needs it and we have it, we can try our best to contact the other party through cooperation... You should pay more attention to this matter. "
Mr. Yu thought for a while.
"You reminded me that when I went to Su City before, Mr. Hu enthusiastically recommended an investment project to me.
It’s just that this project is not in line with our current strategy, so I didn’t agree. "
"Oh? What is the project? " Mr. Ren asked curiously.
"It's called Idou New Energy, and it's a car-making project!"
"New energy vehicles...it's a cutting-edge technology track, good vision!"
Mr. Yu nodded with a weird look on his face .
"Well...the track is quite cutting-edge, but I seem to have heard recently that this company is going to go bankrupt..."
"Uh..."
...
At this moment, Mr. Yu said that the AIDO new energy vehicle manufacturing base was about to close down...
In a fully enclosed workshop, Mr. Bao and several engineers They were surrounding an improved Idol D3 that had just rolled off the production line. Everyone's eyes were wide open, as if they had seen a ghost.
I saw that the driver's seat of the car was empty, but the steering wheel was spinning on its own, and then it stopped steadily into the marked parking space line...
...
Very few people know what happened in that workshop at that time.
Not long after, Idou’s official website released an announcement.
The Idol D3 new product launch conference, which has been postponed twice, will be held as scheduled. We sincerely invite all journalists and friends to attend the conference!
This caused a small commotion in the local journalist circle.
Nowadays, the dilemma faced by Idol New Energy has gradually become known to the public.
Suppliers are blocked, employees are in arrears with wages, the boss is planning to run away... In short, all kinds of gossip are flying around.
All the news points to one conclusion...
Idols are basically like grasshoppers after the fall, and they won’t be able to jump around for much longer.
As an established new energy vehicle company that has been eliminated by the reduction of subsidies, it has naturally attracted the attention of many practitioners in the industry.
So the next day, many reporters and colleagues came to the press conference, and the venue at Nuovo University was actually full.
"I thought today's press conference would be delayed again, but I didn't expect it to be held as scheduled?"
"I guess it's because Mr. Bao knew he couldn't delay it. The conference has already been delayed twice." , The ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her parents-in-law after all!”
“There’s no point in delaying it anymore, now Idou is here! Who in the industry doesn’t know the situation yet?
With subsidies declining, the most important price-performance ratio of Idol, the account-accounting tool, is gone. I heard that all manufacturers are cutting orders.
That’s it. How can a product with the same power as 'Laotou Le' be sold without subsidies?
I see, this press conference is basically a farewell party. "
"Who says it's not the case? If we maintain the original price, we will lose money on building one. Now let's see how bold Mr. Bao is to lower the price.
If the price drops by 20 to 30% to fill the gap of declining subsidies, maybe a few more cars can be sold. ”
The reporters were talking in twos and threes on their seats.
Rather than saying that they were here to attend a new product launch, it would be better to say that they were here to interview a bankrupt company.
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Many reporters have already begun to draft, preparing to ask about the "bankruptcy process" of Idol Auto after the boring press conference...
At this time, there were also three men in the front row. Talking in low voices.
"Alas! This Mr. Bao can be regarded as the veteran of new energy vehicles. I didn't expect that he would end up like this."
"Yes, the future will always be a world where technology is king. The other party chose the route of profit first and research and development later, which was originally wrong!
The choice was still a low-end model of the A00 level. The market recognition is inherently limited and it is destined to be unable to impact high-end brands.
What's even more failed is that the technology was rushed into large-scale production before it was mature, and now it has just expanded into a mess.
If the country gives him a few more years, maybe he can make a comeback and make some achievements. It’s too late to say anything now..."
"Yes, how can we develop new energy vehicles? For those who don’t burn money, I have scheduled the profit time until after 2023. Profit is secondary to us entrepreneurs. "
"In fact, this is also a good thing for us. Bad coins are expelled so that good coins can circulate.
The old new energy car-making forces have withdrawn from the market. Next, it is time for our three new car-making forces to step onto the stage of history. ”
"The two Mr. Lis said it right. Market and technology are indispensable. Relatively speaking, technology is the core of the core compared to the market.
In my opinion, our future opponents are also There is only Tesla..."
"Haha! Xiaopeng, you are me. As the most technically savvy among the three of you, do you think there will be any refreshing highlights in Mr. Bao’s new car launch?”
“The highlight? I think the price may be the highlight... ..."
"Uh...hahaha!"
"Hahaha!"
Just as the three of them were pointing out Jiangshan, scolding Fang Qiu, and waiting to see "the end of the old era" while talking and laughing, the lights in the venue suddenly dimmed!
“Bang!” Immediately, the big screen in front of everyone suddenly lit up.
However, to everyone’s expectation, the above was not the expected ppt, but a video.
To be precise, it is a live video recorded in high definition without any rendering or processing.
The background seemed to be an empty workshop, with only a petite red mini car parked inside.
To be fair, the exterior design of this car is not outstanding. It is better than those old people, but it is also limited and does not give people any "eye-catching" sense of luxury.
Everyone was stunned.
Without any ceremony such as opening the curtain, the new car of Idol Company, the Idol D3, was displayed directly in front of everyone...
"Uh... this Did Bao Zong just mess it up? He didn’t even care about the basic sense of ritual?”
The three people from before were immediately speechless.
The three entrepreneurs who originally had some expectations for this conference suddenly felt disappointed.
However...
The car in the video started to move.
"Uh...this is...reversing into the warehouse?" Everyone was confused again.
Good guy, people also show videos at new car launches, but they are the kind of "artistic videos" that have been artistically processed, using streamlined bodies to show graceful figures in various mountains, rivers and lakes, and increasing consumers' desire to buy.
Are you showing us the butt of the car when it reverses into the garage?
To be honest, there is no beauty at all!
And... it actually stopped!
The first time I put it into storage, the line was so tight that the whole car almost turned sideways and parked in the parking space.
There was a burst of boos at the scene.
"I took a taxi here, and you just let me see this?" "Refund the money!" "Can you be more serious?"
"Can someone come out and explain it?"
< br>"Isn't the funding enough to even hire an experienced driver?"
Various discussions started, but this is not over yet.
It seemed that the car was parked crookedly, so the car started to reverse into the parking space for the second time...
This time it still pressed the line, and the car was parked at a 30° tilt.
Some people at the scene were already frowning.
The third time, the car parked squarely in the parking space, but this time it hit the bottom line again.
Some people at the scene began to gnash their teeth and seemed eager to go up and help park the car.
The fourth time, it was successfully put into storage, but it was slightly bumped in the corner, so it was not considered a success.
The fifth time, it was successfully put into the warehouse again. The car body was a few centimeters sideways, but fortunately it was successfully put into the warehouse.
The sixth time, it was put into storage perfectly. This time, the car and the parking space were almost symmetrical.
Many obsessive-compulsives present finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However...the next step is side parking, parking without markings, obstacle parking, and extreme parking...
There seem to be more than a dozen cameras around, faithfully recording the body movements from all angles and showing them to everyone...
"What is this? A driving school video for novices? What's the point of showing us this?"
“Protest!”
“Did the wrong video appear?”
The discussion became louder and louder, but no staff came out to explain.
"Tell me, what is this Mr. Bao doing? Even if there is no hope, a good press conference shouldn't be such a joke, right?"
The other two people also frowned, confused. Mr. Bao, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd?
Until...
The camera suddenly zooms out!
For the first time, the entire new car, together with more than a dozen cameras around it, were finally fully reflected in the lens!
The originally noisy crowd suddenly fell silent.
The three people in the front row widened their eyes and looked in disbelief.
"This..."
The action is still the same, almost replaying the previous video, but everyone clearly saw it...
They imagined In the middle, the rookie sitting in the driver's seat... doesn't exist at all!
The steering wheel is so windless and automatic...
"This...is this automatic parking?!"
The technical genius Xiaopeng directly broke through the defense and opened his mouth in disbelief.
Illusion?
My Xiaopeng Motors has more than 400 R&D personnel, and has introduced the person in charge of the machine learning algorithm for the autonomous driving function Autopilot from Tesla. It has just achieved entry-level automatic parking on cutting-edge cars...
The cost of your A00-class mini car is not even enough for me to have a lidar...
Now tell me, have you achieved automatic parking? !
The other two people also looked at each other and swallowed.
The scene was eerily quiet, with only occasional exclamations and a series of flashing lights.
It wasn’t until the parking video that they had previously thought was boring was played from beginning to end again that the lights slowly turned on.
At some point, Mr. Bao was standing next to a car covered by a curtain, with a smile on his face.
“Everyone, welcome to our idol’s new car launch event.
I just heard a lot of people cursing, so without further ado, let me talk now I am here to formally introduce to you this year’s latest model that our company has worked hard to develop..."
"Wow~" The red curtain was slowly opened by two beautiful emcee ladies, revealing the true face of Lushan Mountain .
It is the same red car as in the video just now.
There is no suspense, and naturally there is no surprise!
However, everyone has been stunned by this wave of operations by the idol company!
Holy shit! A00 level automatic parking...how to do it?
This car is simply incredible!
Mr. Bao looked at the people in the audience with a happy face.
"This time the product Idol D3 models include the 2018 basic model 'Doujishi'.
And the upgraded model...'Shengdushi'!
And what we are launching today The theme is-'Talking Car'!" (End of Chapter)