Chapter 1432: Pulling Off a Whole Big Show

While Luo Quan was still on the plane returning to the country, several of Nikola's new cars had already been delivered to the Huaxia branch.

Before that, Luo Quan had already instructed her subordinates to set up the launch event venue.

Actually there wasn't much difficulty; just build it according to a gala stage, and additionally the backstage needs to be more spacious, so that Luo Quan can drive the car directly onto the stage when the time comes.

No amount of PPTs is as intuitive as bringing the car directly to the front of the stage.

As for the vehicle parameters, just emphasize the most important few items; if you explain too finely, not many people can understand anyway.

Of course, after the livestream ends, all parameters will be released on the official website; the necessary information transparency still cannot be lacking.

After getting off the plane, Luo Quan did not start work immediately, but had the department conduct a survey on Bilibili, Weibo, Douyin, and Hupu first, asking whether everyone had any car-buying plans recently, and what their expectations were for car appearance and performance.

Judging from the feedback received, not many people wanted to buy a car.

But regardless of whether they buy a car or not, the requirements for car appearance are the cooler the better, preferably looking as cool and flashy as a supercar; additionally, performance should also match a supercar if possible.

Finally, it must let people sit inside comfortably, not get backaches and waist soreness from deformed space after looking at the car for a while.

After reading the questionnaire report, Luo Quan finally breathed a sigh of relief, fortunate that the general direction for car manufacturing she had previously instructed Nikola on turned out to be correctly predicted.

How can a new brand snatch business from old factories?

It must seize the young people's market.

And what do young people want? Nothing more than appearance and performance.

Both head-turning and fast; as long as the price isn't outrageous, it will definitely be favored.

Although they might not necessarily buy, at least it can make the brand's name resound.

So since Nikola electric vehicles came into being, the banner they've flown is: young people's first supercar.

What needs attention is what exactly the definition of a supercar is.

Speed? Appearance?

Actually it's the brand it possesses.

Lamborghini is a supercar, but not all cars with Lamborghini's appearance can be called supercars.

Conversely, if a tricycle had the Lamborghini badge, it would definitely be looked at with higher regard.

What Luo Quan needs to do now is to market Nikola as the supercar among new energy vehicles.

The establishment of brand value requires a long time to accumulate.

Luo Quan doesn't have this time, but she has technology.

Nikola was responsible for the electric vehicle's internal hardware R&D; during this period Luo Quan incidentally also made some minor suggestions and provided some "special" factory-produced parts.

After installation, Nikola discovered these designs and parts improved performance terrifyingly.

Even he himself drew inferences from one example and carried out a secondary upgrade on these parts.

This is the reason Luo Quan calls Nikola a genius.

Able to quickly digest and apply advanced technology after contact, this is absolutely a genius rarely encountered in ten-odd years.

Luo Quan even suspects that if she gave him more alien technology, he could even lead Earth through a third industrial revolution!

It's just that doing these things now is still too early.

But considering aliens are about to arrive, perhaps she can gradually give Nikola some interesting little gadgets.

Of course, these are all later stories.

With alien technology and Nikola's modifications, saying their electric cars are a head ahead of Earth is not an exaggeration at all.

And there's also the appearance made by alien designers; Luo Quan doesn't believe such a cool-looking and fiercely performing car could be unpopular.

As the world's second-largest big-ticket item after houses, human demand for cars is very large.

How popular people owning Mercedes-Benz and BMW are in the blind-date market needs no elaboration.

She hopes that in the future Nikola can also be mentioned in the same breath, even reaching the same level of existence as Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce.

And she believes the arrival of this day won't be particularly far off.

The second day after returning to the country, after everything was ready, Luo Quan posted a dynamic:

"Tonight at 7:30, is everyone ready to witness the revolutionary day of new energy vehicles?"

This sentence shouted out, directly blew up the entire EV circle.

"Revolutionary day of new energy vehicles, Luo Bao this is you giving us a whole big show."

"Blowing cow bigger than anyone, just don't let the raindrops be smaller than anyone when the time comes."

"People saying this are passersby who don't understand Luo Quan; she never makes promises she can't fulfill, as long as she says it out loud it will definitely be delivered, she hasn't broken her word to this day!"

"Won't it be directly taking out a supercar-performance EV, the kind with 0-100 acceleration in 2.5 seconds, top speed 260 km/h?"

"Then you're awesome, directly surpassing several EV Guinness World Records by a head, can you say something realistic?"

"If there really is such a car, god knows how expensive it would be."

"The data you mentioned discounted by 20% is more like it, but the price will probably skyrocket above a million."

"Who buys an EV if they have a million?"

"Luo Bao this time seems to have indeed said there's a model selling up to 990,000, should be this car bringing the revolution."

"If the speed is fast enough then it indeed counts as a revolution."

"Pity Luo Bao's Mo Yu Qilin isn't for sale, that's the coolest car I've ever seen."

"If that thing were for sale, estimated at one or two hundred million?"

"More than that, only one exists globally, performance crushes the vast majority of supercars, and it's a car Luo Quan has ridden in; even at three hundred million people would scramble to buy."

"Indeed."

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Before seeing any actual car, netizens still held a wait-and-see attitude toward her bold words.

After all, cars aren't like phones; they cost tens of thousands at a minimum, and brands with smaller reputations are extremely difficult to resell, so most people are very cautious when buying cars.

Watching news or press releases related to cars is also relatively conservative; I prefer to research and analyze pros and cons.

Of course, after the release of Damai Automobile, this atmosphere has changed somewhat.

Because many people added screenshots of their own reservations just to show off, in the end they discovered they couldn't get a refund.

First, they posted pictures of themselves riding the hot trend on their social circle, then they posted asking for legal aid.

Such clowns are not uncommon these days.

Of course, whether this is actually happening or Damai deliberately let people do this to hype up the heat is a matter of opinion.

But Luo Quan will try her best to prevent such situations from occurring, because she doesn't want to increase the workload of her legal department.

In the evening, Luo Quan wore a very casual outfit, just a T-shirt jacket and jeans, no different from the girls on the street.

Originally planning to wear a suit, but after trying it on, she still gave up.

Speaking of which, she doesn't even remember the last time she wore a suit.

For general formal occasions, she usually wears evening gowns; she has hardly ever touched a suit.

However, for this occasion, wearing an evening gown would be even more inappropriate, as it would divert the audience's attention elsewhere.

Similarly, suits also have similar troubles.

Once she puts on the lining of a suit, Luo Quan's advantages would perhaps stand out, and it would likewise skew everyone's attention.

So Luo Quan still opted for relatively loose casual wear.

After all, the temperament of a business elite does not need a suit to be highlighted.

Jobs, for example, also dressed very casually during his product launches, but who would say he lacks elite temperament?

Of course, her hair was still tied up.

After becoming a mother, Luo Quan prefers to tie her hair up.

Wen Xia said she increasingly wants to be a married woman, but actually it's for Luo Ning's convenience.

Because when clothes are opened, dense hair easily slides down the shoulders to the chest, so it's still better to tie it up; otherwise, every so often one has to sweep the hair behind.

And the result of tying up the hair is that the screen keeps flashing "Married Woman Luo Quan," especially since she also wore a pair of zero-degree frame glasses in a unique way.

This is not ordinary glasses; it's also a technology borrowed from Huan Yu, somewhat like VR.

Usually, there's no difference from zero-degree glasses, but when activated, a phone screen appears before the eyes, and then you can control the interface before your eyes via the operation panel.

Actually, it's just connecting a tablet and VR, then giving a similar writing board-like operation tool.

Only because some alien technology was used, the visual experience is much more comfortable than ordinary VR.

And being able to play with the phone while lying down without tiring the arms is its biggest selling point.

Of course, such a tech-savvy little gadget is merely a gift for luxury car models; Luo Quan wearing it is just trying to create some hype.

But who knew this new look would cause such a big reaction, with the barrage not brushing Luo Quan my wife but brushing Luo Bao ripe.

Can only say fortunately Luo Quan can't see the barrage right now.

Amidst a stirring melody, Luo Quan came onto the stage, holding a tablet in her hand, directly connected to the large screen behind.

"Thank you everyone for tuning in on time at 7:30 PM to watch Nicola Company's new car launch, I am Luo Quan……"

Next is the same as before, talking about some jokes encountered during car manufacturing, sharing some interesting customer feedback received by the company, first warming up the atmosphere before proceeding.

However, those sitting in the audience are mostly industry bloggers or journalists, who have no interest in such fun content; they'd rather see what today's car actually looks like.

And the barrage clearly basically doesn't care about these; they're all praising Luo Bao's beauty, or hahaha and such.

Of course, there are also potential customers concerned about car quality, and their number is not small.

But to get them to take it seriously, we need to show everyone some winning goods, right?

Fortunately, Luo Quan is very clear about the limits of joking around.

Seeing the atmosphere heated up about right, she put down the tablet, picked up the remote, pressed a button, and the first vehicle-related PPT appeared before everyone.

"This is our first product today, its name is Snow Wolf!"

A silver-white, cool-looking sports car appeared before people.

It possesses a strange yet beautiful streamlined appearance like an alien, every line and corner filled with technological sense.

Unintentionally glancing, one might think lying before the eyes is an alien beast!

But this alien beast causes no fear at all; instead, it's full of artistic beauty, making people unable to resist the urge to drive it.

Solitary, beautiful, elegant, unique temperament, completely independent of Earth automobile style, is this car's first impression on people.

"As everyone sees, this car possesses an outstanding appearance completely incomparable to other automobiles.

If automobiles could also be selected as the world's most beautiful, it would definitely rank in the top three."

Luo Quan finished speaking, no one in the audience expressed opposition, and the barrage was also brushing praises of beauty.

Whether a car looks good or not is subjective; everyone has different opinions.

But if it's the work of a Dao-level designer, then it's different.

Because their works can influence people's subconscious, making them feel this thing is beautiful.

Of course, designers cannot make garbage beautiful.

First, the work must indeed be outstanding, then only can everyone acknowledge it.

Dao merely accelerates and amplifies this process, making it easier for people to feel its beauty.

"And what kind of specifications does such a car possess?"

Luo Quan seized the moment, pressed the remote again, and then recited by rote: "Zero to hundred acceleration 2.85 seconds, top speed 275 kilometers per hour, maximum range 1200km, adopts 800v architecture, uses our Nicola's latest developed charging pile, fastest 18 minutes to fully charge!"

Upon saying this, all the audience were stunned.

Whether they are novices or industry bigwigs, or specifically doing review bloggers, they are still seeing such a powerful electric car for the first time.

Currently, the data of million-level electric cars in the circle is only eight-tenths of this car before us.

What concept is this?

Nikola effortlessly surpassed the world's top-tier electric vehicle models in just one year, and by a wide margin at that — saying it's ahead by an entire era would be no exaggeration!

If these figures are true, then details like materials and interior trim are trivialities, completely capable of delivering a dimensionality-reduction strike against the entire EV industry!

"Miss Luo Quan, is this vehicle's data real?" A blogger stood up directly to ask.

He wasn't trying to deliberately find fault, he simply had never seen such an outrageous car.

"I know, once this car comes out many automobiles will be reduced to industrial waste, but I stake my personal reputation on it — their data is all genuine and valid, and if individual units are tuned well, they might even exceed these figures."

Luo Quan spoke and pressed a button again: "Please watch the VCR?"

Immediately afterward the big screen played a video — footage of Snow Wolf speeding across the test track.

From the various on-site data it can be seen that all the specifications laid out for it just now are completely true.

Until this moment, the atmosphere at the venue instantly erupted into an uproar.

Originally thinking it was a new car launch, it turned directly into an industry revolution — truly an eye-opener!

"This is off the charts, brothers, come quick and see the EV immortal!"

"Is there really such a badass car?"

"Then how much money would it take to buy such an awesome EV?"

"Under a million and I'll write my name backwards!"