Chapter 107: High-Level Discussions in Sakura Country

Driven by the Xiaozhi Driving System, sales of domestic car manufacturers in Long Country have surged one after another.

Starting from the second day of New Year's Day.

Inside the 4S dealerships of several top-ranked domestic car manufacturers in Long Country, almost every one was packed with users looking at and buying cars.

Many news media and self-media outlets also swarmed in like sharks smelling blood, reporting on the grand occasion of each car manufacturer, while some published commentary and review videos.

Vehicles equipped with the Xiaozhi Driving System emerged all over the country.

The deep green license plates were significantly different from regular new energy vehicle license plates, and even more distinct from traditional fuel-powered vehicles.

Coupled with the fact that after smart driving is activated, there are obvious signal lights on all sides of the car body.

After being bombarded by news reports one after another, even those who do not pay much attention to cars know that this is the symbol of a smart driving car.

Due to the production capacity limits of various manufacturers, although there are many orders, the number that actually reaches users, when spread across the country, is actually only a few dozen in many cities, and more people are in a state of pre-ordering and waiting for their cars.

Therefore, every time a smart driving car hits the road, it attracts the curious and eager gazes of many passersby.

This greatly satisfies the vanity of many people.

And just as the Long Country automotive industry was full of joy, car manufacturers in other countries only felt a chill in their hearts.

Their new models were not only met with a cold reception in the Long Country market, but even in their own domestic markets, they were somewhat unable to compete with Long Country car manufacturers.

Although it is said that Long Country car manufacturers have a large amount of tax added to their exports to their countries, making the selling price often relatively high, the cost for their own car manufacturers to purchase Thor Battery is also higher than that of Long Country car manufacturers.

The two cancel each other out.

The price gap between the two is actually not large.

Furthermore, in recent years, some Long Country car manufacturers have exerted effort early on the new energy track, and they actually have certain advantages in various aspects such as production scale, after-sales management, cost control, and reputation.

At the very least, in the impression of many users in their own countries, Long Country new energy vehicles are quite good.

Now, with the powerful Xiaozhi Driving System, the technical advantage has simply left car manufacturers in other countries far behind.

Even if Xiaozhi cannot normally hit the road in countries outside of Long Country due to laws and regulations, many users are still looking forward to it, thinking that perhaps one day their own country will also open up to unmanned driving, and if they buy a Long Country new energy vehicle, they will be able to directly activate the unmanned driving mode at that time.

Conversely, if they buy a domestic car, even if their own country opens up an unmanned driving policy in the future, they might not be able to enjoy this technical advantage.

By comparison, everyone is naturally more willing to buy a Long Country car equipped with the Xiaozhi Driving System.

What's more.

After reviews by many bloggers, everyone knows that even if the Xiaozhi Driving System prohibits the full functions of unmanned driving and only enables L2 and L3 level assisted driving and automatic driving, its driving logic is still far more powerful than other cars.

With such a huge advantage, and the selling price not being very different, how could it not be sought after by everyone?

From the moment Su Xin opened up cooperation for the Xiaozhi Driving System, the several major car manufacturers of Long Country have been like generals clad in armor, not only competing with each other and shining in the Long Country market, but also constantly conquering territory in overseas markets.

Sales are climbing steadily!

All of this has brought about a crazy increase in the installation volume of the Xiaozhi Driving System, bringing massive funds to Tianqi Equipment Company.

With an authorization fee of 10,000 per vehicle and a cumulative total of over 20,000 authorized vehicles from various manufacturers every day, this amounts to over 200 million in revenue per day.

Moreover, the number of vehicles for which major car manufacturers are applying for authorization is still growing explosively.

The most critical thing is.

The cost of the Xiaozhi Driving System is too low; after excluding all labor, operational, and traffic risk costs, the profit is as high as over 95%, which is simply comparable to robbing money.

No, even robbing money isn't this fast.

With over 200 million Long Coin every day, it has to be transported by armored cash trucks in full loads every day; which desperate bandit could have such an exaggerated efficiency in robbing money? Even if the bank had no defenses, just the act of loading, moving, and transporting the money would be enough to exhaust these desperate bandits.

At the same time.

With the hot sales of various models, major car manufacturers have successively added orders for Thor Battery and have successively transferred prepayments to the account of Tianqi Energy.

Calculating based on current pure electric models, averaging across various models, the battery for each vehicle is about 70 kilowatt-hours, and the purchase price is about 56,000 Long Coin.

The unit price is much higher than the Xiaozhi Driving System.

What's more, the Xiaozhi Driving System is currently only equipped on the models of Long Country domestic car manufacturers, while every new energy vehicle produced globally now has to purchase Thor Battery.

Even if the sales of car manufacturers in other countries are not as good as those of Long Country car manufacturers, the total installation volume added together is much higher than that of Long Country car manufacturers.

Therefore, the revenue and profit of Tianqi Energy are far more terrifying than those of Tianqi Equipment.

Of course, Tianqi Equipment also has the Xiaotian Flight System, which has received large orders from the Military and several major drone manufacturers in the past few days, also bringing a steady stream of funds to Tianqi Equipment.

In short.

Tianqi Energy and Tianqi Equipment have become two of the hottest companies in the world in the past few days, and can be called top-tier unicorn companies on a global scale.

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At the same time.

In Sakura Country, in a spacious and bright conference room, the three major car manufacturers and several high-level officials sat together to discuss the future of the automotive industry.

"The era of new energy vehicles has officially arrived, but in this new era, we are all lagging behind Long Country car manufacturers; not only is our core battery technology being throttled, but this soul-level technology of smart driving is also far behind the other side."

"In Long Country, the largest automotive market, we have already lost our competitiveness; the order volume for the few days since our various models were launched for pre-sale is about 50% less than expected."

"Even in our domestic market, there are many citizens rushing to buy Long Country cars; everyone's recognition and enthusiasm for Long Country brands are getting higher and higher."

"If this continues, the entire automotive industry chain of our country will likely slowly lose all room for survival under the squeeze of Long Country car manufacturers."

"This is absolutely a massive disaster for our country," said Xiaoxi Heshi, president of Yutian Group, in a stern voice.

"Then what should we do now? When you decisively abandoned the fuel-powered vehicle industry back then and went all out to enter the new energy track, did you not think of this day?"

An official looked at Xiaoxi Heshi coldly, gave a light snort, and said.

When the three major car manufacturers abandoned the fuel-powered vehicle industry together, in addition to the major losses suffered by the three major car manufacturers themselves, it also caused many people to lose their jobs, caused many companies to go bankrupt, and even caused turmoil in the entire economy of Sakura Country; if it weren't for those above helping them clean up the mess and spending a great price to maintain stability, the society of Sakura Country would likely have been in turmoil.

The decision of the three major car manufacturers made the officials and the entire society of Sakura Country bear the consequences together.