Chapter 111 Maximizing Revenue
Next, Piatti adjusted the design direction of this new car.
The adjusted plan will be more suitable for the use characteristics and functions of taxis.
Compared with private cars, taxi configurations are more pragmatic and do not require those luxurious decorations.
And because the daily mileage of taxis is much higher than that of private cars, more attention should be paid to car maintenance.
After days of work by various departments of the company, the first test car was finally successfully manufactured.
After detailed testing, this car has shown very excellent performance, especially in the battery part, which has been significantly improved compared to the previous electric car.
This car consumes only about 20 degrees of electricity per 100 kilometers. Converted, the cost is only one-third of that of a petrol truck.
This car can have a range of 400 kilometers after being fully charged, which is almost enough for a taxi to use for a day under normal circumstances.
Of course, even if the power is exhausted, the battery can be quickly charged within 20 minutes. Such charging speed will not have much impact on the normal operation of taxis.
After that, Piati officially participated in the taxi bidding in Shenzhen City.
This bidding attracted many domestic and foreign car companies to participate. Although the number of taxis purchased in the first batch of Shenzhen City will not be too many, if the bidding can be successful, it will not only be a manifestation of strength , and is likely to open up the market and continue to expand the taxi market in other cities.
After receiving the bidding documents from various car companies, Shenzhen City began to evaluate these plans.
After discussions between Shenzhen City leaders and many experts, Piati’s bidding document has become one of the most satisfactory plans in Shenzhen City.
On the one hand, new energy vehicles are the future trend, and now is the stage to promote new energy vehicles.
Although Piati's model is slightly more expensive, because new energy vehicles can now enjoy subsidy policies, the price after subsidies is still acceptable.
In addition, Piati's car has its own obvious advantages in terms of charging and battery life. Even compared to other new energy vehicle brands, Piati's advantages are still very prominent.
After various professional tests, this model named Piati E6, with its strongest comprehensive performance, stood out among many bidding plans and successfully won the bid.
Shenzhen City will purchase the first batch of 100 Piati E6s. Although this order is not too large, for Piati, it is like seeing an oasis in the desert.
The whole company has been injected with energy. Everyone no longer talks bad about the company's prospects and is engaged in work in a better working condition.
While trying to continue to open up the electric taxi market in other cities, Piati is also developing the same private car model, hoping to occupy a larger user market.
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Shengzhou University, Materials Laboratory.
After confirming that he would continue to stay in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shengzhou University for a PhD in the future, Ning Chen came to the laboratory in advance.
What Ning Chen is doing now is experiments on superconducting materials.
Of course, Ning Chen has not yet started his own project, but is reproducing some experimental projects that have been done by his predecessors.
By reproducing previous experimental subjects, Ning Chen can better understand the various details of the entire research process, which will have better results than simply reading the paper.
During the break, Xuzhou and Ning Chen chatted about Piati.
“Ning Chen, Piati has successfully applied our technology. I didn’t expect that their first model to apply these technologies would be a taxi.”
“ Yes, but this is indeed a very good idea. In most cases, taxis only operate in one city, which can avoid many of the disadvantages of new energy vehicles.”
"If Piati really emerges from the predicament with the help of this technology, then the R&D cost of 10 million is actually cheap enough."
Looking at the past from the perspective of the future, you will naturally see that Lots of regrets.
But after all, at that time, Ning Chen and Xu Zhou were not fully confident about the success of the entire research.
“If we continue to cooperate with Piatti in the future, it is best not to make a one-time deal. If we choose patent licensing or patent technology investment, we can get longer-term benefits.” Xu Zhou said.
In the previous horizontal topic, the contract signed by the two parties included the cost of patent technology transfer. If you only license the patent, you can obtain continuous income every year.
Ning Chen also agreed with Xu Zhou's proposal. If they make any applied results in the future, they can first apply for a patent, and then choose a professional use method according to the situation, so as to maximize the benefits of the patent.
At this time, Ning Chen remembered the system task.
“Hey, I don’t know when the previous task will be completed.” Ning Chen had previously imagined whether the “International Top Achievement Scholarship” awarded to him by Shengzhou University would count as A world-class academic award.
After all, this award has the word "international" in it.
But as expected, awards issued by the school itself will not be recognized by the system as world-class awards.
While Ning Chen was thinking about these things, he suddenly received a prompt message from the system.
[Detected that the host has completed the task: Obtained a world-class academic award]
[Obtained the task reward: Energy recovery*10]
"Huh? The task has been completed ”
Ning Chen knew that this was definitely not because he had received the "International Top Achievement Scholarship" from Shengzhou University. After all, it had been a while, and the system did not experience any delays.
“Can it be said that... I have already received some award?”
Due to the special mechanism of the system, the judgment of the task is not based on the information Ning Chen learned, but Based on objective information, this allows the system to get some news earlier than Ning Chen.
Now that the system has determined that Ning Chen has completed the task, Ning Chen only needs to wait quietly for the notification.
Next, Ning Chen continued to check the messages on the system task interface.
[The task system has been updated...]
[Task: Develop a new type of superconducting material]
[Task introduction: You have made a choice about the direction of future research, and the next step is Feel free to explore in this direction. Develop a new superconducting material that is different from any other superconducting material on the market, and complete various superconducting-related tests]
[Task reward: Energy*500, subject experience*500 (only Can be used for subjects of Level 2 and above)]
Seeing the refreshed tasks, Ning Chen couldn’t help but laugh.
"Isn't this exactly the direction I want to research? It seems that the system tasks are not set in advance, but are generated based on my current situation."
Ning Chen must understand the humanity of the system Hua expressed his praise. If at this time, the system suddenly asked Ning Chen to do some biological research, Ning Chen would really be at a loss to start.
After seeing the reward for this mission, Ning Chen also felt that the reward this time was very real.
Although there is no new black technology, 500 points of energy and subject experience are indeed valuable.
Compared with the previous rewards of only dozens of points each time, this time the system really spends money on task rewards.
"Ning Chen, what are you doing there?"
Xu Zhou saw Ning Chen dumbfounded and giggled from time to time. He wondered if something was wrong with Ning Chen because he was too tired from research. .
Ning Chen realized that he was still in the laboratory and quickly put away the system panel.
"Nothing, I just suddenly thought of some possible research directions."
"Okay, when you decide on the research topic, we can start the experiment."
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In the evening, when he returned to his home, Ning Chen looked at his system backpack interface and thought about how to use the items in these backpacks.
According to Ning Chen’s previous thoughts, he wanted to try the effect of the ability to “restore energy”, for example, whether it could solve the negative state after the excitement mode.
However, after careful consideration, Ning Chen felt that it was better to postpone this plan a little further.
“Now I have more than 900 experience points in the subject of materials science, and the upgrade is not far away. I’d better wait until I upgrade before trying.”
See more than 900 points and 1000 points. They look similar, but because of the knowledge sorting effect brought about by the upgrade, the gap between them is actually very obvious.
After Ning Chen's foundation in physics and chemistry continued to improve, the previous bottleneck situation in materials science no longer occurred.
According to this trend, Ning Chen can complete a breakthrough in materials science in the near future.
(End of this chapter)