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Before Beidian and other car companies could discuss the matter of collective price cuts and promotions, Daqin Electric Vehicles pre-emptively started to cut prices. Large-scale advertisements were published in newspapers all over the country, which read: In order to thank new and old customers for their care, Daqin Electric Vehicles will reduce the price by 10% to give back to customers, and when you buy a car at each sales store, you will get a 100-meter charging cable, smart charging protector, etc. , It is convenient for car owners to use various convenient facilities to charge their cars.

The biggest obstacle to the promotion of electric vehicles is the charging problem. Daqin Automobile uses supercapacitors as energy storage devices. Theoretically speaking, the charging speed of capacitors is unlimited. It is entirely possible to fully charge a set of capacitors within a minute or a few minutes, and the charging speed can be compared with the speed of refueling. comparable to.

But in fact, if it is not at a dedicated charging station, such a charging speed is impossible to achieve. For an electric vehicle with a cruising range of more than 500 kilometers, its energy storage unit needs to store no less than 50 kilowatt-hours of electricity. If you want to charge the 50 kilowatt-hours of electricity within one minute, the power of the circuit must reach more than 3,000 kilowatts, which is more than 100 times the power that ordinary household meters can withstand.

The electric vehicle charging station designed by Daqin Group uses several sets of supercapacitors to store electricity. When the car is not charging, the capacitor bank continuously draws power from the grid and stores it. When a car comes to charge, the charging station does not take power directly from the grid, but supplies power to the car from a capacitor bank that stores a large amount of electric energy, which can achieve extremely high charging power without generating surges to the municipal power grid shock.

After the plan to build charging stations in super-large cities such as Linshui was hindered, Daqin Group changed its thinking and chose a road of encircling the cities from the countryside. The business personnel of Daqin Group began to go to second- and third-tier cities to lobby the local government to support the construction of charging stations. It is impossible for Beidian and Anshi to exert influence on all cities. In those places beyond the reach of Beidian and Anshi, charging stations have begun to be established to provide charging services for electric vehicle owners.

For places where there are not enough charging stations, the sales staff of Daqin Group actively design charging solutions for car owners, some of which pull a cable from the user's own home to the door to charge the car; some use roadside shops to provide paid charging services . This kind of one-to-one charging service naturally cannot consider the issue of charging efficiency. Daqin Group provides car owners with special charging protectors to control the charging power within the range that the household circuit can bear. The time of the supercapacitor has to be extended from a few minutes to several hours.

Even so, electric vehicles still have a strong appeal to consumers. The power consumption of an electric vehicle per 100 kilometers is only 10 kWh. According to the electricity price of 40 cents per kWh, that is five or six yuan. For the same mileage, even the most fuel-efficient fuel car needs six or seven liters of gasoline, which costs more than 20 yuan in conversion. The price difference of more than ten yuan per 100 kilometers is not a small amount. This alone is enough to make consumers willing to bear all kinds of inconvenience caused by charging.

A few hours per charge may sound like a hassle, but it's not unbearable. Generally, if you just drive to and from get off work, the cruising range of 500 kilometers is enough to run for more than half a month. It's not a big deal to take a period of time every half a month to charge. It can be charged at night, plugged in after get off work, and can be driven after unplugging the cable the next morning, and it can be used continuously for more than ten days. What is the inconvenience?

In the beginning, only a few trendy users bought electric vehicles, but soon, the demonstration effect of these users was shown. In the era when automatic transmission fuel vehicles were still very rare, electric vehicles can achieve stepless transmission, which greatly reduces the difficulty of driving, and is especially respected by the majority of female drivers. In more than half of Chinese families, the female head holds the financial power. Electric cars have won the favor of female drivers, and naturally they are invincible.

The governments of big cities such as Beijing, Pujiang, and Linshui have come under tremendous pressure. Seeing that electric vehicles are becoming popular in second- and third-tier cities, residents in big cities can't sit still. Unlike small and medium-sized cities, many residents of big cities live in high-rise buildings. It is unrealistic to pull a cable from your home to charge your car. In addition, there are no charging stations in the city, which leads to the residents of these big cities who want to buy electric vehicles but suffer from the problem of being unable to solve the problem of charging.

Opinions are more concentrated, is the taxi industry in the city. Taxi drivers are the most sensitive people to fuel consumption per 100 kilometers. They have to run 400 to 500 kilometers a day, and they will spend more than 100 yuan on fuel alone. With a reduction of more than 70%, the fuel consumption alone can save two to three thousand yuan a month. What a huge benefit!

All kinds of complaints came from all walks of life, and soon spread to the cadres of the government. Li Dongyuan was walking in the corridor of the city hall, and he could faintly hear the cadres in a certain office complaining about the lack of charging stations in the local area. Everyone was saying that in a dignified Linshui city, the facilities are not as good as those in the districts and counties below. . If you don’t have a charging station, you can’t buy an electric car. In this day and age, if you buy a car or a traditional fuel car, are you ashamed to say that you have good taste?

"It's really not going to work like this."

At the municipal government office meeting, Li Dongyuan relayed what he heard to the city leaders, and then expressed his emotion.

Before Li Dongyuan finished his sentence, a deputy mayor named Luo Rongchun immediately took over: "Yeah, I'm also aware of this problem. To tell you the truth, my wife was still talking to me about buying a car two days ago. Said that her cousin in her hometown bought an electric car, which is fuel-efficient, easy to drive, and stylish in appearance. But we can’t find a place to charge it in Linshui City, and buying a car is a waste. She also said that I am the deputy mayor , should speak for the people, build hundreds of charging stations in Linshui, why not?"

"Charging stations..." Another deputy mayor named Zhou Fuyou sneered, "At the beginning, the Daqin Group said they were willing to build 2,000 charging stations for us for free, but the result..."

"Lao Luo, Lao Zhou, the city has set the tone for the charging station, and you all know it well." Mayor Liang Jinquan coughed lightly and reminded.

"Of course I know." Zhou Fuyou said, "To put it bluntly, isn't it that Beidian thinks that Daqin has robbed their market and uses our hands to trip Daqin? The Beidian just opened their mouths and lost nothing. How good are we, foolishly acting as a gunman for others, causing our own people to complain, and all conflicts are directed at our city government."

"Well, we didn't do it for Beidian's face. The leaders of the province also said hello." Liang Jinquan argued.

Luo Rongchun said: "Mayor, I think what Lao Zhou said has some truth. In fact, the leaders of the province just looked at Beidian's old face and said something casually. We have delayed for so long, and we are worthy of Beidian .Electric cars are indeed a good thing, and the common people like them. If we continue to procrastinate like this, the complaints will definitely grow bigger and bigger.”

"Hey, gods are fighting, what are we mortals messing around with?" Zhou Fuyou muttered.

"Old Zhou, you can't say that." Li Dongyuan said, "The Daqin Group itself is not authentic enough. Beidian still has a great influence in the central government. If we don't stand on the side of Beidian now On the one hand, they might become passive in the future.”

"What's there to be passive?" Zhou Fuyou said with a stern neck, "For a few charging stations, the central government can wipe out our achievements in Linshui? Speaking of which, it is Beidian who is the most wronged in this matter. Technically It can't compete with the Daqin Group, so it's too low to use this method to get in the way."

"Okay, okay, the problem in the North Store is not what we need to care about." Liang Jinquan tried to smooth things over, "Since the masses have opinions about the charging station, we'd better treat it with caution. How about it, Dongyuan, let Ji The committee should do some preparatory work first, including site selection, power grid adjustment, etc., and release the news to calm the public's discussion. As for when to start work, I think it can wait a little longer, and it is impossible for the above to be infinite. If you drag it down, there will always be a result in the end.”

Just as she was talking, Wang Xuemei, deputy director of the Municipal Office, gently opened the door and came in. She walked to Liang Jinquan's side, leaned down, and whispered something to Liang Jinquan. Liang Jinquan was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and said to Li Dongyuan: "Dongyuan, go with Xuemei. Two people from the East Haidong Troop have come and said they have something to talk to the leader in charge of urban construction."

Li Dongyuan followed Wang Xuemei to the small conference room, and sure enough, he saw two soldiers sitting in the room waiting for him. The leader of them looked to be about 30 years old, with two bars and two stars on his shoulders. Li Dongyuan came in , He stood up, took the initiative to reach out his hand to Li Dongyuan, and introduced himself: "Mayor Li, hello, I am Feng Tianlei, deputy chief of staff of a certain division stationed in Haidong, and I was ordered to come here to discuss the construction of military facilities with Linshui City. "

"Deputy Chief of Staff Feng, welcome." Li Dongyuan shook hands with Feng Tianlei, greeted Feng Tianlei to sit down, and then said: "It is the duty of our local government to support national defense. I don't know what Deputy Chief of Staff Feng is going to talk about this time." Facilities, need us to do some work."

"What I want to talk about is very simple. Our department recently received a batch of new equipment, some of which are powered by supercapacitors. In order to ensure the operation of this batch of equipment, the Military Commission asked us to build a batch of charging stations locally. Among them, the number of charging stations to be built in Linshui City is 300, and I hope Mayor Li can support it." Feng Tianlei said seriously.