Global Monopoly of Technology

Luo Sheng's private office.

"Master, the video conference is ready, and the connection will start in 7 minutes."

Xiaona's voice responded. At this moment, Qing Xue, who had a red face, had already sorted herself out, and then packed some things and took them out of the office.

A few minutes later, Luo Sheng looked at the 4K high-definition giant curtain wall opposite the wall, Xiaona immediately opened the video, and Yao Jianhong and other core executives from the Cote d'Azur appeared on the screen.

The video conference begins.

"Now the entire auto industry is surging, and friends and businessmen have come one after another to seek cooperation."

In one of the one-frame videos, Yao Jianhong said with a laugh, that the whole meeting seemed quite relaxed.

Another executive smiled and said: "Our survey found that more and more brand-new new energy vehicle brands have been established recently, which has also brought in the entry of capital, and many new car manufacturers have already obtained A round of financing. "

The whole industry is heating up. Cote d’Azur develops technology patents and gives them back for nothing. This gives many entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell stories to VCs and stand in the ranks of Cote d’Azur to use Cote d’Azur’s open technologies. Can sing a good show.

Financing has become extremely smooth. Everyone knows that the entire auto industry is about to usher in a major reshuffle. This is a major trend. Whether it is intentional development or fishing in troubled waters, more and more capital parties want to take a piece of the pie.

"We have to increase our efforts and increase the speed to throw blockbusters. The short-term panic and turmoil in the industry will help us quickly establish the overall situation." Luo Sheng looked at the core executives on the video screen: "The technical standard for super charging stations is independent of other standards, that is, all super charging stations built by us are free to use for 20 years."

This is the most ruthless method.

It is to apply the thinking of Internet ecology in the field of pure electric vehicle industry. Every pure electric vehicle is equivalent to an Internet user. As long as the user is caught, there is no fear of profit harvesting.

For fuel vehicles, fuel is a necessity for vehicles, so fuel sales have even more amazing profits than car sales.

The same is true for pure electric vehicles. Electricity is a necessity for their normal use. It is foreseeable that with the continuous increase in the number of vehicles, charging services will inevitably become a richer and more lasting source of income. machine" to describe the speed at which this business generates profits.

Facing this lucrative business, Côte d'Azur has made such an amazing decision to supply all its super charging piles to car owners for free, which will surely become a huge attraction for consumers to choose Côte d'Azur pure electric vehicles or models in this ecosystem. "magnet".

Not only the pure electric vehicles of the Côte d'Azur, but other electric vehicles that can meet its charging technology standards can also enjoy this service free of charge.

However, it is not unconditional that other brands can enjoy it. If other brand manufacturers want to use or build the same super charging pile, they must fully adopt the technical standards of the Côte d’Azur without paying or charging.

This seemingly attractive "overlord clause" is actually very reasonable. Although other brand manufacturers have to build charging stations even before the Côte d'Azur, the technical system, technical content and scale cannot be compared with Côte d'Azur. Competing against each other, especially the scale, simply said that the money invested is not enough, but Luo Sheng has some money to die, which is an unparalleled late-mover advantage.

For other manufacturers, it is necessary to take into account the super killer move of free charging of the Côte d’Azur charging pile, which is an irresistible temptation for consumers. Twenty years of free charging can almost drive the car to its lifespan. It's over.

Other brands also pay charging fees, which is a vote for consumers.

In addition, the cost of building a charging station is high. For other manufacturers and brands, compared with spending years and a lot of money to build their own platform, they also have to take huge risks to compete head-on with powerful competitors like the Côte d’Azur. Possibly dead.

It is obviously more cost-effective to directly join the other party's system and use the charging platform of the Côte d'Azur without taking risks.

Many newly established brands do not need to spend a lot of energy and capital to build infrastructure. They can sell cars as long as they are built. Moreover, the Cote d'Azur has opened up technology patents for free, all of which have greatly reduced the power of new car manufacturers. The entry threshold of the new brand will further spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

This is also what Luo Sheng wants to see.

Of course, in the short term, there will definitely be a situation in which a group of demons dances around. All kinds of messy brands will emerge. This is an inevitable result, but it will not last for too long. The market will eventually eliminate a large number of brands. At the same time, truly powerful brands will survive. down.

Secondly, the current Cote d'Azur's super charging pile laying strategy has an increasingly strong and obvious advantage in both quantity and distribution, and what is more attractive is that it does not charge any fees, which will attract a large number of consumers to come Buying blue pure electric vehicles will inevitably form a strong competitive advantage in the scale market after the market has reached a certain level.

The result is that the more widely the Côte d'Azur's technical standards are used and the more consumers there are, the sooner they will be able to raise enough "chips" to negotiate the market to enter any regional market they want to enter.

That is globalization!

These are all positive strategies, and you have never thought about hiding them. It is a strategy that is on the bright side, but there is nothing you can do about it.

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One hour after the meeting, Yao Jianhong held a press conference again to announce the latest news to the outside world.

Côte d'Azur announced that it is willing to share its supercharging network, but only if other manufacturers' electric vehicles must meet the standards of supercharging stations, and accept the subversive business model of Côte d'Azur that does not charge owners for charging.

A piece of news that is no less than a "nuclear bomb" to the entire industry, blasting all the colleagues to the outside.

In the past two weeks, Cote d'Azur has "selfless" dedicated the results of the huge amount of research and development funds that have been spent over the years, giving the outside world the feeling of a crazy "free" series.

And this time, the announcement of a new round of super free strategy will not only cause a new earthquake in the whole industry, but also create a crazy circle of fans among all consumers.

Consumers don't care about the game between these big groups. They only know that the operation of the Cote d'Azur is beneficial to all pure electric vehicle owners.

Come on, Luo Sheng's operation directly exempted all electricity bills. It is conceivable how violently this stimulates the consumer market.

Major car owners are discussing this matter online.

As a result, the pre-sale of Weilan pure electric vehicles suddenly soared. On the second day after the news was announced, the first-generation Weilan pure electric vehicle pre-sold more than 30,000 vehicles on the same day.

You must know that Toyota, the world's number one sales car, has not broken the average daily sales volume of 30,000 vehicles, and the blue pure electric vehicle is still pre-sale to create this data myth.

What's interesting is that scalpers and futures speculators are scared at this time, and they don't dare to play.

If you dare to play at this time, you are either stupid or you are really here to give money. Anyone who has a brain will think that the Cote d'Azur now throws a heavy news every three or five, and it is all bad news. The ghost knows what will come next. .

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"Mr. Luo, the 20-year charging fee waiver is really an unprecedented feat. It's no problem to have fewer vehicles now, but once the ecology is gradually formed, it will inevitably bring a strong financial load, thousands of The daily power consumption of 10,000 cars is a terrifying scale, can we support it?"

In Luo Sheng's office, at this moment Yao Jianhong expressed his long-term worries, that he will be in a state of serious losses for a long time in the future.

"The data monopoly brought about by the 'Internet of Everything' represents endless wealth, and the data analysis and cloud computing services brought by the ecosystem are the basis for the continuous generation of banknotes." Luo Sheng said calmly: "I and I In cooperation with the State Grid, free charging for car owners has long been negotiated. We only need to pay 20% of the electricity bill to the State Grid. The State Grid has the national backstop. This is not a purely commercial project. 'Project prospect, leave it to me to do the terminal."

"This... So it is." Yao Jianhong was shocked. It was the first time he heard the term "new infrastructure", and he suddenly realized that this game of chess was bigger than he thought, and what he knew was only the tip of the iceberg.

Luo Sheng added: "What we need to do is how to offset the remaining 20% ​​of electricity bills. Once the number of pure electric vehicles increases, it will reach a scale of over 100 million in the future. This 20% is also a heavy financial expenditure burden. We don’t have state financial subsidies, so we have to start from the field of renewable energy, which is also the invisible big hand of the state’s macro-control driving us to develop a positive cycle of renewable energy.”

Yao Jianhong nodded and said, "So that's the case. I said why should we leave 20% of the burden to us. After all, a country is a country, and the overall situation is invisible and powerful."

The reason why the state is so committed to supporting the super-large private enterprises like the Côte d’Azur is that it is not blindly letting go. "Stand firmly in control.

Electricity is the source, and this section does not let the Cote d'Azur get involved.

Of course, Luo Sheng also understands what it means to stop in moderation. Even if he really wants to do this kind of business, he won't say anything unless he has a brain.

Too hot.

"But Mr. Luo, the production capacity has become an unsolvable problem again, and it is still a top priority that must be solved." Yao Jianhong changed the subject and said, "Now there is a gold-eating monster like free charging, I really I'm worried about whether our funds can hold up."

The current layout has been rolled out on a large scale, and it really affects the whole body. If this point is placed on another point, it will oscillate. You have to solve it, otherwise it will bring other shocks.

Production capacity is always a headache now, and it takes time for friends to join, but the daily capital consumption will not stop, and the operating costs brought by more delays are astronomical expenses every day, so we can't wait, we must make more money as soon as possible. pure electric car running on the road.

"You don't have to worry about it, ten brand-new super factories will be completed soon without any accident, and mass production will be realized in 2016." Luo Sheng smiled.

"Ten? Where does the money come from?" Yao Jianhong looked at the boss in shock when he heard this. The ten super factories have added 20 production lines. The investment cost of the ten super factories alone is 300 billion yuan. The accompanying packages add up to a trillion-dollar rhythm.

Selling the bottoms of the Côte d’Azur, I can’t get so much money now, nor can I borrow funds from Bluestar Technology Group. This kind of leverage risk is going to explode at the rhythm of the table. It really depends on the state to save lives. The state will definitely not let these two companies go bankrupt, or they will lose control of the company. .

Luo Sheng said calmly: "Remember Zhong Yuanhong from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission? We have already communicated that ten super factories will be built in the top ten coastal cities. We don’t have to pay a cent, and by 2016 the annual production of pure electric vehicles on the Côte d’Azur will reach more than 3.4 million units.”

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