Rebirth of the Wild Age

The activities on the first day of the Bibendum Challenge were mainly about car safety and environmental protection tests. Not only electric vehicles, but fuel vehicles can also participate. The test content includes noise, energy consumption, acceleration, snaking, carbon dioxide emissions and on-site exhaust pollutant emissions.

The most nonsense is carbon dioxide emissions. The so-called "from oil well to tire" calculation method covers the entire production and transportation process of making this car. Anyway, at the level of Song Weiyang, a liberal arts student, after looking at the calculation formula for a long time, he didn't know how to calculate it.

Moreover, the calculation data produced by Michelin has become the environmental protection standard of the automobile industry.

A total of seven test items, Tesla performed well, got two A, four B and one C. As for the "Beyond No. 2" hydrogen energy vehicle developed by the state and developed by Tongji, it directly received five A's and two B's, which was very proud of its counterparts all over the world.

The main event on the second day was to hold the "New Energy Vehicle International Seminar". The president and vice president of Michelin came, as did the executives of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Nissan and other companies. There are also the Vice Chairman of the EU Energy Commission, the former Chairman of the European Parliament, and dignitaries from the United States, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, Brazil and other countries.

In China, leaders from the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Environmental Protection Administration, and the State Foreign Trade Corporation, as well as local officials from Shenghai, several major state-owned auto companies, and two barrels of oil CEOs attended the meeting. The meeting venue was at the School of Automobile of Tongji University.

Even though Song Weiyang is the richest man in China, he is in a small role in the auto industry, and he can only sit down and listen with the president of Tesla.

Everyone is unanimously optimistic about the development prospects of new energy vehicles in China. The executives of BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other companies all believe that with the popularity of new energy vehicles in the market, China will definitely lead the world. This is not flattering, but out of practical considerations, because China's car ownership is small and China's car supporting services are not perfect, which is conducive to the promotion of new energy vehicles.

No one thought that before new energy vehicles were launched in China, traditional fuel vehicles had become popular-you can buy a car with a down payment of a few thousand yuan. No one believes you.

On the third day, hundreds of passenger cars and concept cars were placed on the Shenghai International Circuit for guests and media friends to test drive.

Finally it's Tesla's turn to show off!

Prior to this, people's focus was on the new energy vehicles of BMW, Nissan and GM.

What Nissan brought to the exhibition was an SUV with a clumsy head and a clumsy look, with a square and hard-line sentiment. It is a hydrogen-powered car with a top speed of 145 kilometers per hour and a theoretical cruising range of 350 kilometers.

What BMW brought to the exhibition was a concept car with a three-seater design similar to a sports car. The body can be said to have no bright spots at all, it is an ordinary car, not as good as the Nissan SUV. The lithium battery vehicle has a top speed of 135 kilometers per hour and a theoretical cruising range of 300 kilometers.

GM directly took out three new energy vehicles, a passenger car, a sedan, and a pickup truck. The appearance of passenger cars and pickup trucks is just like that, no different from ordinary fuel cars, while the car is so ugly that it explodes—Wuling Hongguang cut off one third of the car’s butt. You can imagine what it looks like.

These three companies are mainly to showcase their technology, so they didn't take much care in the appearance design, so they gave the Tesla Roadster a chance to stand out.

Except for those engaged in technology and automobiles, 99% of test-drivers are ordinary people. They don't care what transmission technology you use, and no matter what fuel cell you use, first of all, it looks better than someone else's car. This led to a long queue of more than 20 meters in front of Tesla's booth, all waiting to experience the car.

Hu Gang is a reporter for "Commercial Vehicles" magazine. After entering the venue, he went straight to the BMW booth, and then went to the booths of Nissan and GM to learn about the situation. The so-called understanding of the situation is to get a leaflet with the basic data of the car on display, and then take a few photos of the car.

After strolling for a while, Hu Gang saw the queuing staff and immediately ran over to ask about the situation: "Man, what brand of booth is this, why are you all queuing?"

"Speaking of what Tesla is, it looks pretty cool." The other party replied.

The booth was already surrounded by a few large circles. Hu just squeezed in with difficulty and found that Tesla employees were introducing the situation to several leaders: "Our car doors use electronic induction technology. As long as there is a key on the body, approach the car door gently. As soon as you pull it, the door lifts automatically. Of course, it can also be remotely controlled with a key. Leaders, please see my operation."

The employee stretched out his hand to the handle of the car as he spoke. After an inaudible sound, he held the handlebar and pulled it slightly, and the vertically opened door immediately moved upward automatically. The employee took out the key and took a few steps back. With a casual press, the car door fell automatically and closed again.

"Wow!"

There was a burst of exclamation from the crowd, and they all felt that this car was a high-end sci-fi car.

Hu Gang felt a little speechless. This technology was adopted by sports car manufacturers many years ago. Only talking about electronic sensors, have you seen the automatic flushing in the toilet? The basic principle is the same.

Today, other manufacturers are demonstrating advanced technologies, and many of them are concept car technologies that cannot be mass-produced. Only Tesla came to show the appearance, show what electronic sensor car door, actually attracted the most people to come to join in.

For Tesla, Hu Gang knows that the toy car of Song's richest man is a silly product sold only by nouveau riche and rich second generation.

A leader estimated that he was from a technical background, and looked a little impatient, and asked directly: "Does this car have any advanced technology?"

"Of course," the Tesla employee laughed. "Our battery pack management and control system and our unique motor technology have been patented in China, the United States and other countries. This Tesla belongs to the third generation of products. , It accelerates from 100 kilometers in only 5.9 seconds, the theoretical endurance is 500 kilometers, and the top speed is 145 kilometers per hour."

The leader was surprised and said, "What battery do you use? You can run 500 kilometers."

The Tesla employee replied: "BYD lithium iron phosphate battery."

"Lithium iron phosphate batteries can't provide so much energy, right." The leader wondered.

"Of course not one battery, but we used 8,000 batteries to form a battery pack," a Tesla employee laughed. "We have a battery pack control system developed by ourselves, even if some of the batteries are short-circuited It will affect the operation of the entire battery pack."

The leader couldn't laugh or cry: "You are... this is cleverness, but it seems to have great wisdom."

Tesla employees said: "This is the way our chairman Mr. Song Weiyang came up with."

The leader asked: "Listening to your previous introduction, Tesla has already started commercial use?"

A Tesla employee said: "So far, we have sold just 40 vehicles."

"Little workshop," the leader asked a little disappointed, "Do you have a car production license?"

"Yes." The Tesla employee replied.

The leader immediately stopped questioning. A company the size of Wanxiang Group launched an electric car project four years ago and has not obtained a production license until now. Song Weiyang can get a license from a small workshop, but it must have gone away, and the relationship is particularly hard.

After Hu Gang received the leaflet at the booth, he planned to go to other places and couldn't help but come back to take pictures after walking a few steps. The main reason is that the appearance of this car is very cool. It looks like a super sports car. How can men not like this thing?

It happened that someone came back from a test drive, and Hu Gang immediately went to interview: "How do you feel about Tesla?"

"Nice, very awesome," the man gave a thumbs up, "I can't hear any noise, it runs very smoothly, and the interior is super luxurious, and you can also plug in MP3 to sing! I have no money, I have money. I will definitely buy it. I heard that this car sells for 8 million!"

He sounded like a layman, Hu Gang simply ran to line up for a test ride.

The line waiting for the test drive was very long. There were only more than a dozen test rides in line. Hu Gang waited a long time and finally got into the passenger cabin. He has to admit that Tesla's interior is really beautiful, and there is an indescribable sense of science fiction.

After searching for a long time without finding the gear, Hu Gang immersed himself in studying the information on the leaflet, only to find that Tesla did not have a transmission at all, and only used a reducer.

As a sports car, this is unqualified!

"Dude, this is a sports car, try it at full acceleration," Hu Gang said to the test driver.

The test driver immediately slammed on the accelerator pedal, and a strong feeling of pushing his back suddenly struck. This person hurriedly stepped on the brakes and said, "Fuck, scare me!"

Hu Gang continued to read the information and found that the third-generation Tesla adopts a dual-motor design to achieve an acceleration from 100 kilometers in 5.9 seconds. This data is crazy. For BMW’s new energy car, it takes 10 seconds to accelerate from 100 kilometers. In order to cater to the rich second generation’s pursuit of speed~www.readwn.com~, it has been maddened and reduced. The body weight of tens of kilograms.

The test driver parked the car on the edge of the track and said to Hu Gang: "Friend, you come and drive, I will try other functions."

"Okay." Hu Gang got out of the car immediately.

The previous test driver sat in the front passenger’s cab and started to play with the electronic screen of the driver’s platform. He soon said with excitement: “It’s awesome, there are also car navigation, car MP3, color full touch screen operation! This car is too high-tech It's worthy of being Song's richest man's toy."

A few years ago, the error of vehicle GPS positioning was still very large. However, since 2000, the United States cancelled the interference to civilian GPS, and the accuracy of vehicle-mounted GPS reached within 10 meters. Since then, vehicle-mounted GPS has begun to develop rapidly.

But in China, car GPS is still a very new thing, only a few relatively high-end models have. Song Weiyang also enlarged the Shenzhou handheld computer to the Tesla sports car, not to mention the full touch screen operation, and plug in a U disk to listen to MP3.

After a lap, Hu Gang deeply felt that the third-generation Tesla might be very popular with local tyrants! This also left him speechless. A total of only a few dozen cars have been sold, and the third generation has actually been developed... In fact, on the basis of the previous generation, it has continuously reduced the weight of the car body, modified the minor problems encountered by the user, and added Various high-tech equipments are then integrated into dual motors to improve acceleration.

Counting from the first year of the Chinese company in 1984, this year happens to be the 20th anniversary, so various forums and gatherings continue.

In late October, there will be a China Entrepreneurs Forum, which will be attended by well-known private entrepreneurs across the country. Song Weiyang received the invitation and delivered an opening speech. He planned to drive the third-generation Tesla over and fool those local tyrants who got rich first to pay.

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