Great Power Reclamation

Chapter 2601 Self-driving Taxi

Intimidated by his father, Yang Wei went home every day and lived with Ye Qianqian again.

Yang Geyong doesn't care about those things. No matter if there is any grudge in your heart, just sleep with me. I don't believe that it can't be solved by sleeping together every day.

For the first time, Ye Qianqian felt that her father-in-law was so wise. Although his method was simple and crude, it was really effective!

Now the two of them fight three hundred rounds every day, and Ye Qianqian feels refreshed every day when she goes to work.

She was impatient to begin with, and now she was even more decisive.

After the two took office, they did not take any major measures. Liu Junken had just expanded the city, and they just needed to maintain stability for now.

However, they still gave some preferential policies to the newly launched electric vehicles. After all, it is a new industry, and it is energy-saving and environmentally friendly. This must be supported.

However, they also issued strict regulations to battery companies, which was to develop methods for recycling and decomposing old batteries as soon as possible, otherwise the pollution caused would also be a big problem.

I have to say that these two girls are very forward-looking. The biggest obstacle to electric vehicles in the future will be the pollution problem of old batteries.

If a solution is not developed soon, it will become a big problem sooner or later.

For example, recycling of various small batteries today is still a problem.

In fact, the battery factory has thought about this problem since the beginning of production. It is not that difficult to solve this problem.

One is that it can be recycled and reused, which is the so-called refurbishment. This refurbishment is not counterfeit or fake, but the unusable parts are replaced, and there is no difference between it and a new one.

For those materials that really cannot be reused, just decompose them and restore them to their original raw materials.

This stuff is just like scrap metal, what can it become after it is melted down? The reason why it causes pollution is nothing more than the recycling work is not in place.

The Warrior Electric Vehicle Factory can recycle all used batteries. If you don’t return them, it’s your fault.

The reason why the city attaches so much importance to it is because the technical content of trams actually lies in the batteries.

Battery life is an important factor affecting the development of electric vehicles. In fact, the first electric car appeared much earlier than the earliest gas-powered car. The history of electric vehicles is full of innovations in four-wheeled transportation.

We begin in the 19s, when Scotsman Robert Anderson invented the motorized carriage, which was manufactured between 30 and 1832.

Batteries (galvanic cells) were not rechargeable at the time, so it was more of a parlor magic trick ("Look! It's not a horse or a cow, but it moves!") than a transportation device.

Another Scotsman, Robert Davison of Aberdeen, built a prototype electric locomotive in 1837.

In 1841 a larger and better version was demonstrated, which could travel 4 miles at a speed of 1.5 miles per hour and tow 6 tons.

It then needed its batteries replaced. This impressive performance so alarmed the railroad workers (who saw it as a threat to their jobs maintaining steam engines) that they destroyed Davidson's demonic machine, which he named Galvani.

In 1859, rechargeable batteries were invented, making the idea of ​​electric cars more feasible.

Around 1884, inventor Thomas Parker helped deploy electric streetcars and built prototype electric cars in Britain.

In 1890, William Morrison, a Scottish-born chemist living in Des Moines, Iowa, applied for a patent for an electric carriage that he had built around 1887.

It appeared in a city parade in 1888, according to the Des Moines Register.

It has front-wheel drive, 4 horsepower, a reported top speed of 20 mph, has 24 battery cells, and requires recharging every 50 miles.

Morrison's self-propelled carriage became a sensation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition. Morrison himself was more interested in batteries than mobility, but he sparked the imagination of other inventors.

Pedro Salom and Henry G. Morris adapted the technology of battery-powered street cars and boats and in 1894
At first, it was heavy and slow (like a streetcar, with steel "tires" and 1600 pounds of batteries).

Later their Electrobat gradually adopted pneumatic tires and lighter materials, so that by 1896 their rear-wheel steering carriage used two 1.1 kW engines and had a range of 20 miles at a top speed of 25 mph.

In 1896, the Electrobat and another electric car from Riker won a series of five-mile sprint races against a gasoline-powered Duryea car.

Morris and Salom founded the company that year and entered the "money-making" stage of a successful business.

They built several electric Hanson taxis to compete with the horse-drawn carriages then in service in New York City and sold the idea to Isaac L. Rice, who founded the Electric Vehicle Company (EVC) in New Jersey.

He in turn attracted big-money investors and partners, and by the early 20th century they had more than 600 electric taxis operating in New York, with smaller fleets in Boston, Baltimore, and other Eastern cities.

In New York, the downtime required to recharge the batteries was addressed by converting ice rinks into battery swapping stations where taxis could drive in, swap out their spent batteries with charged ones, and drive away.

But like many startups, it expanded too quickly, encountered unexpected conflicts between investors and partners, and the entire taxi enterprise went bankrupt in 1907.

Even so, electric vehicles have not withdrawn from the stage of history. After countless changes, they were ultimately defeated by fuel vehicles because of the problem of battery life.

The breakthrough made by the Warrior Group in batteries is undoubtedly groundbreaking, so even if branches can be established anywhere, the battery factory must be located in the Military Reclamation City.

Because the three core components of electric vehicles are nothing more than batteries, motors and electronic controls.

There are basically no secrets about motors and electronic controls, and the most advanced technologies of Warrior Electric Vehicles today are batteries and smart networking technology.

No one else will be able to learn smart networking because it involves too many technologies and you can’t learn it just by looking at it.

However, if battery technology is put out for production, there is a real possibility that it may be stolen by others.

After driving an electric car with Yang Geyong last time, Ye Yuze has been driving this car now, mainly because it is more comfortable to drive than a fuel car.

Now, a series of technologies developed by Mr. Ni and others have begun to be applied to electric vehicles, which is icing on the cake.

For example, autonomous driving, this technology has been experimented for some time and is very mature. Li Lindong sent another car to Ye Yuze and asked him to test drive it.

Yang Geyong came after hearing the news, and the two of them got into the car out of curiosity.

Li Lindong sat in the driver's seat, set a goal, and then started chatting with two people.

Then the car started to move on its own, choosing a very precise route, giving way to pedestrians and abiding by traffic rules all the way, all in a very standard manner.

Yang Geyong was chatting with Ye Yuze and didn't take the autopilot seriously. But after all this time, he was completely dumbfounded. Both he and Ye Yuze were good drivers, but they would inevitably violate the rules. However, the autopilot was just like a well-behaved driver and would not make any mistakes.

In fact, traffic jams are often caused by people not obeying traffic rules. They all want to rush forward, and end up occupying lanes that they shouldn't occupy, so no one can move.

Even if a traffic accident occurs, there will generally not be a traffic jam if other vehicles follow traffic regulations.

If all the cars on the streets drive like this in the future, there will be no traffic jams, let alone car accidents.

Both of them were shocked, and Ye Yuze couldn't help but ask:
"How long has this type of car been tested?"

Li Lindong smiled proudly, "It's been almost half a year. As soon as this technology tram came out, Mr. Ni and his team developed it. The reason why it has not been used in cars is because they have to conduct safety experiments."

Ye Yuze nodded and said nothing more. He was thinking about something.

After a long while, he suddenly said to Yang Geyong:

"What do you think of introducing this kind of taxi in New York?"

Yang Geyong slapped his thigh excitedly: "Great, those bastards don't work hard all day long, they don't go here and there, and they have to spend money in addition to the car fare. They should have been replaced long ago!"

Ye Yuze nodded: "Okay, let's do this. Let's help them change their attitude and let them know what it means to serve the people."

Li Lindong suddenly interrupted: "Boss Ye, I think we should implement it first in Junken City. Only with a model can it be convincing!"

Ye Yuze shook his head: "Taxi drivers have a hard life, don't destroy their jobs. As for the ones in Lao Mi's side, just destroy them. Anyway, their benefits are better."

Li Lindong was silent, not knowing how to respond.
Yang Geyong didn't think too much about it and said casually:
"Just arrange something else for them. Any job in our military reclamation city can earn more than driving a taxi, and it doesn't require so much hard work."

Ye Yuze heard that it was true, so he instructed Li Lindong:
"Go talk to the city government and talk directly to the traffic control department leader, don't use my name."

Li Lindong nodded: "Don't worry, Mr. Ye, the Warrior Group has always followed the rules and never overstepped the boundaries."

Yang Geyong was a little confused: "These are all good things, why can't I find them? I'll call Qianqian."

Ye Yuze stopped him: "We are a company, they are the government, normal things should be handled through normal channels, so as not to give some people an excuse."

Yang Geyong stopped talking. He was simple-minded but not stupid. He naturally knew what Ye Yuze cared about.
The reason why the Military Reclamation City has developed so rapidly since its establishment is that the decision-making power has always been in the hands of its own people.

If someone with ulterior motives takes power, I don't know if they are seeking personal gain, but it will definitely hinder the development of the military reclamation city. This is fatal.

Just like in the early days of reform, a large number of enterprises suffered losses and went bankrupt. The reason was not the workers or technology, but the rigid thinking or incompetence of the enterprise leaders.

Otherwise, why have so many township enterprises risen so rapidly? In terms of equipment and technology, how can they compare with state-owned enterprises?

Can a group of farmers who have never touched any equipment be better than the workers who have been exposed to factories since childhood?
Therefore, Junken City has paid special attention to this aspect since its inception, focusing on the introduction of talents and hiring professional managers.

In particular, government agencies will never interfere with the autonomy of enterprises.

For example, the Warrior Group has always had half of the government's shares, but they never interfere in business matters, which is why the group has developed to this point.

If a leader who likes to be bossy comes and goes to the Warrior Group to express his opinions every now and then, and then meets a bunch of subordinates who like to flatter him, it is really hard to say what the Warrior Group will be like.

Although it is difficult to develop a business and it requires the efforts of many people for a long time, it only takes one person to bring it down. There are many such examples in China.

Ye Yuze had no intention of interfering in politics, but he would never allow the group to be brought down, so he did a lot for the country free of charge.

But he was also very careful about something, that is, never get too close to any official, even if the official was his relative.

Because there are so many people watching the warrior group now, including some people in the power center, who will definitely jump out once they get the chance.

He is a child of the Corps. Since he was a child, he knew that he should be patriotic because there were powerful enemies everywhere around him. Only when the motherland was strong could the people have a stable life.

And they, from birth, are destined to be the ones to protect this stability. This is their mission.

Li Lindong quickly submitted an application for self-driving taxis to the relevant departments.

The relevant departments attached great importance to it and reported it to the city government very quickly.

After a meeting to study the plan, the city felt that it was feasible. As for the taxi drivers, the Warrior Group has already come up with a resettlement plan.

In fact, the Military Reclamation City is still short of people. Even if the Warrior Group wants to take over all of them, the city will not agree.

After all, they are all experienced drivers with excellent skills, and the city will also retain some of the money for use elsewhere.

After the team reached a consensus, they quickly reported to the Corps headquarters. Ayijiang and Liu Junken naturally agreed quickly.

Subsequently, the first batch of driverless taxis appeared on the streets of Junken City, becoming a highlight.

In the beginning, only young people tried it. After all, it was a new thing and many people felt insecure.

But as more and more people experienced it, this mode of travel was quickly accepted by people.

After all, without a driver, there would be no emotions and less trouble, but those chatterboxes were a little dissatisfied.

Because many people like to brag to the driver as soon as they get in the car, and taxi drivers are generally more talkative, so you don’t feel lonely on the road.

Now the fun is gone, but there is also artificial intelligence, the one called Lele, which can chat with you.

This guy can be either male or female, knows everything about astronomy and geography, and most importantly, is proficient in multiple languages, which has attracted many taciturn passengers to get on the bus and chat with him.

What's more, some people take the car just to chat with Lele, and they have developed a close relationship.

This caused those drivers who refused to quit the taxi industry to complain and call these people idiots.

The city did not clear out all the taxis, but simply explained the situation to them. After all, self-driving taxis are cheap and they may not be able to compete.

The tickets are ready. Give me some.