After Lao Wang made the decision to change taxis, other taxi drivers were not optimistic about it.
They think Lao Wang is a waste of money.
After all, a car is a consumable, and its value will be greatly reduced after you buy it.
This is especially true for taxis, whose value retention rate is much lower than that of private cars.
Lao Wang spent more than 100,000 yuan to buy the Elantra last year. He plans to sell it this year, but it may only cost a few tens of thousands of yuan. This is a big loss.
Not to mention losing tens of thousands of yuan, I still have to spend more than 100,000 to buy a new energy vehicle from Lifan, which costs close to 200,000 yuan.
Spending 200,000 yuan to go back and forth is not worth it as everyone drives a taxi.
After everyone saw that the persuasion was not forgotten, they stopped talking.
After all, we are all adults and we are responsible for what we do.
If Lao Wang makes a loss when buying a car, to put it more bluntly, it is none of our business.
After Lao Wang sold the Elantra at a loss, his family only got the news belatedly.
My wife was so angry that she cried, made fuss, and hung herself, thinking that Lao Wang was crazy.
"You just bought this last year and sold it this year after driving it for a short time. I heard from Lao Li and others that you want to spend more than 100,000 to buy a Lifan new energy vehicle?"
My wife was so angry that her whole body ached.
"Lifan is a shabby company. Don't you know that you are from Shancheng?"
"I've heard that some people in our taxi company switched to new energy vehicles a few years ago and drove taxis in our mall just to save some money. As a result, they could only run one or two hundred kilometers on a full charge, and they were either charging or recharging every day. Although I saved more than 100 yuan in gas on the way, I wasted a lot of time. Do you think it’s worth it?”
"Besides, you just bought your car and you're selling it at a loss. Are you stupid?"
Seeing his wife so angry, Lao Wang could only explain seriously: "I'm not stupid, I have a clear mind. After I replaced our car with a Lifan new energy vehicle, I calculated in detail that I could earn 6,000 in a month." to 10,000 yuan.”
"I will be able to earn an extra 100,000 yuan this year, or within a year, I will be able to get the money I paid for a new car back."
"Furthermore, I traded in my old car to someone else, and I still have tens of thousands of yuan left, so I can actually replace it with a new bioenergy car with only tens of thousands of yuan."
"The current Lifan is not the same Lifan Company as before. They have cooperated with Changtian Technology, the most well-known technology company in China."
"I have seen the press conference of Changtian Technology's new energy vehicles. I heard that it is no problem for new energy vehicles to run two to three million kilometers. Moreover, we use bio-based new energy, not rechargeable. It can recharge energy very quickly. Point. There are quite a lot of them, so there’s no need to queue up, and it only takes two or three minutes to refill the energy blocks.”
"I no longer have to queue for an hour or two to inflate the air after I finish work at night. I can come back early to see you and the child."
When Lao Wang said this, his eyes were a little red.
In order to earn more money for his son to study for graduate school, he would go out after 7 o'clock every morning and not return home until 11 or 12 o'clock in the evening, working continuously for more than 20 hours.
In fact, Lao Wang ends his shift after nine o'clock every day, but he doesn't come back until eleven or twelve o'clock every day. The most fundamental reason is that he has to drive to a gas station far away to queue up for gas.
Of course there are gas stations closer, but everyone knows that gas stations in the city don’t have to travel very far, so the queues take longer.
Every time I come home, my wife and son are already asleep.
He felt particularly aggrieved and felt that what he was living was not life but merely survival.
I feel that I am just a tool to make money, I cannot feel the warmth of any family, and I have no way to accompany my children's growth. The relationship between husband and wife also has serious problems.
If we continue to live like this, it is not a matter of money, but whether the family can be suitable.
If the car is replaced with a bionew energy vehicle, he can quickly add energy blocks when eating breakfast, lunch and dinner outside. He does not have to spend hours waiting in line for gas, and he can save more than 100 yuan in gas every day. money.
In addition, if Lao Wang can earn two to three hundred yuan more per day than before, he can work until about 6 o'clock and end his class. In this way, he will earn the same money as before, and he can go home early and have a good rest.
After 6 o'clock, he can also rent the car to other colleagues who are willing to drive taxis. His new energy car does not need to queue for gas, but only needs to add energy blocks, so the cost of driving is very low, and there are many mobile ones. The taxi colleague is willing to rent Lao Wang's car to drive.
Therefore, Lao Wang's colleagues only saw the first meaning, that is, buying a car is very expensive and not cost-effective.
But Lao Wang has analyzed many pros and cons in detail, so he made such a decision.
The wheel of history is rolling forward.
Only by sitting in the car can you succeed. If you lie under the car or even go against the trend, you will definitely fail miserably.
The thing that Lao Wang regrets most now is that he didn't take an online ride-hailing service.
If I had sold my taxi and started driving an online car-hailing service, my life might have been greatly improved by now.
So this time Lao Wang was determined to replace Lifan's new energy vehicle.
It took Lao Wang three days to complete the procedures such as purchasing the car license plate and getting the taxi roof.
After he got on the Lifan Mountain off-road vehicle, the first thing he felt was that the vehicle was quite solid.
The interior of the car is definitely not as fancy as the Elantra, but you can feel that the materials used are very strong.
This shows that Lifan's Shanyue Automobile has indeed used its funds where they should be used.
What taxi drivers are most concerned about when driving is actually safety. As for whether there is a big screen in the interior or how many speakers there are, it is actually not important to them.
Lifan's Shanyue satisfied Lao Wang's safety requirements.
Lao Wang then tried the car again.
New energy vehicles are indeed new energy vehicles.
It picks up speed quickly, drives quietly, and has no sense of frustration.
Just these few points made Lao Wang very satisfied.
At least it would make driving a lot easier for him.
After all, in a city like Shancheng with a large population and very complex traffic conditions, what taxi drivers have to do at any time is to cut into traffic and prevent others from cutting into traffic, overtake and prevent others from overtaking, and start speeding up and prevent others from starting to speed up.
Take the best path yourself and leave the other messy road conditions to others.
This has requirements for the car's starting response, speed and safety.
Lifanshanyue met this requirement.
In the past, Lao Wang could make about 200 yuan in turnover in the morning, two to three hundred yuan in the afternoon, and one or two hundred yuan in the evening.
So the daily turnover is about 800 yuan.
However, due to the influence of online ride-hailing, the daily turnover has dropped sharply to 500 yuan, and the morning turnover has dropped sharply to more than 100 yuan, sometimes even only a few dozen yuan.
But after switching to Lifan's new energy vehicle, Lao Wang made 200 yuan in profit this morning because it ran faster and was more agile.
This made Lao Wang extremely happy and proved that changing his car was the right choice.
At noon, most of the Dingxin Taxi Company where Lao Wang worked had dinner at Xinxing Hotel.
The Xinxing Hotel is located under the bridge, not far from the gas station and the gas station. In this area, the taxi drivers rush to refill the gas after eating.
The lunch boxes are divided into 10 yuan and 15 yuan tubes, and there is no charge to add water to the tea cup, and there is no charge to get the tea.
For taxi drivers who work hard to earn money and are very thrifty, they are very satisfied if they can have a packed lunch at noon.
The masters of Dingxin Taxi Company all saw that Lao Wang drove a new car here today.
Everyone gathered around the new car and talked about it.
"Lao Wang, that's good. Your car looks great."
"The speed of the Lao Wang tram is very impressive. I saw you overtaking several cars today, and you were also ahead of the traffic lights."
"Lao Wang, how much does it cost to put down your car?"
"Old Wang, are you charging here or something? How many kilometers can you run on one charge?"
"I heard that the road conditions on the uphill slopes in our mountain city are very bad, which will do great harm to the battery. It seems that it is not cost-effective to drive a tram."
Lao Wang could see that most of the eyes still revealed jealousy and envy, and of course there was also some admiration.
In order to survive, most people in the Xia Kingdom only dare to follow the rules and dare not make any innovations or make new attempts.
Because new attempts are a double-edged sword. If you succeed, you are likely to take a shortcut, but if you fail, you will have nothing.
Now Lao Wang is equivalent to the first person to try something new, the first person to dare to innovate, so many masters at the scene admire Lao Wang very much.
After eating and drinking, the drivers queued up to refill the gas as usual. Otherwise, they would run out of gas during the rush hour of four or five o'clock in the afternoon. Not only would the queue for gas be long, but the road would also be very busy. Traffic jams will definitely waste time.
The same Xiao Li said to Lao Wang out of habit: "Come on, Lao Wang, let's go fill up the gas together, and we can play two in a while."
Taxi drivers are people, not tools.
They also entertain themselves in their free time.
For example, when waiting in line for gas, they would take out poker cards and play a few games of Landlord.
Putting away the cards while waiting for the car to move, this can be regarded as joy in suffering.
After Xiao Li finished saying this, he saw Lao Wang's new car, patted his forehead and said, "I forgot that I had already switched to a new energy vehicle. I don't need to fill up the gas at all. I'm so envious. By the way, you said your new energy vehicle The car can run 300 kilometers, so how do you add energy?"
After Xiao Li said this, many masters gathered around. They were also curious about how to add energy to new energy vehicles, and everyone whispered.
"I heard that Xiao Wu and the others also bought new energy vehicles, and they seemed to be charging at charging stations."
"Oh, don't mention the charging pile. I saw Xiao Wu and others queuing up at the charging pile that day. It was longer than ours to refill the gas. Moreover, they can charge for several hours, while we only need a few minutes."
"That's right. It seems that charging the electric train is also troublesome."
"A tram is a tram, bio-based, new energy. A tram is bio-based. The new energy tram that Lao Wang bought is a bio-based new energy tram."
Xinxing Hotel has also cooperated with Galaxy Energy Company, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology, which sells standard energy blocks for taxis.
In fact, the entry threshold for Xinxing Hotel to sell standard energy blocks as an agent is not high, and the standard energy blocks do not occupy much space. For the owners of Xinxing Hotel, it is just a piece of cake.
The boss still wants to bet on the future.
He doesn't want to open a restaurant his whole life.
If the energy block of new energy can be made bigger and stronger in the future, even if the profit is not equal to that of a gas station, it is still very good to be worth 1/3 of a gas station.
However, because there are still very few drivers who buy bioenergy taxis, the hotel owner did not hire workers. He just asked the energy blocks to be taken out and added the energy blocks to the taxi according to the video instructions.
The entire process probably lasted less than a minute.
The energy block is added.
Taxis that originally only had a range of a few kilometers have a range of more than 300 kilometers.
Lao Wang bowed his hands and said to his colleagues: "You will fill up slowly in a while, I will leave first."
This scene stunned everyone.
"This...it only took about 10 or 20 seconds to complete, right?"
"This speed is really fast, and there is no need to queue at all!"
"Yes, it will take at least more than an hour to refill gas after we finish eating at noon. Lao Wang can do it in a few seconds. Many taxis are refilling gas at noon, but there are a lot of taxis. Lao Wang has to run around during this hour. 100 yuan is totally fine.”
"That's right, how much does the energy block cost?"
The owner of the hotel said: "Now the Galaxy Energy Company, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology, is subsidizing taxis. The taxi driver can recharge the fuel quickly and there is no charge for this year."
This sentence deeply stimulated everyone.
Everyone spends around 100 yuan to refill gas every day, but Lao Wang’s new energy vehicle costs nothing at all.
Everyone immediately realized, "Lao Wang now saves about 100 yuan every day by not filling up gas. When we are waiting in line to fill up gas, he goes to run the order and earns one or two hundred yuan more. That is not more than us in a month." Earn more than 10,000!"
Xiao Li finally reacted, and everyone started cheering after saying this.
"That's right, the profit of more than 10,000 yuan a month is still very scary."
"This is such a good deal, I wonder why Lao Wang insists on changing the car!"
The owner of the hotel added: "The energy blocks in taxis are very small. Even if you replace all the taxis with Lifan's bio-new energy taxis, at the same time, I only need to add the measuring blocks here." The energy blocks will be given to you, and you can add them yourself, and then leave without queuing, which will save a lot of time."
"That's right, that makes sense!"
"Yes! I also want to change my car."
Taxi driver Lao Zhou decided to replace Lifan with a new bio-energy car like Lao Wang.
The Suzuki in his hand has been driven to the point of being scrapped. He originally planned to buy the Elantra, but now he will definitely not buy the Elantra, and will directly buy bio-new energy.
"I'll change my car too!"
"I'll change too!"
"Can we form a group and go to Lifan's 4S store to ask? I don't know if there are any discounts if we form a group."
For a time, the mentality of taxi drivers in the entire mountain city has undergone earth-shaking changes.
(End of chapter)
