The car originally cost RMB 59,800, but with an upgraded battery pack, it was directly sold for RMB 70,000+. At the same price, you can also choose the Polestar X, which has more space and longer battery life...
Of course, Chen Zifan also knows that many people like the appearance design of Xinghan. Polestar X always feels that it is not that distinctive, and the brand power of Polestar Automobile is obviously not as good as that of Xinghan Zhixing.
Although he often says that the brand is not important, that is just because Xinghan Zhixing is a new brand. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are expensive, so the brand plays a big factor. These things are also valuable.
It can actually be included in the selling price.
There are also long-range versions of Xinghan. The Xinghan driven by Chen Zifan is a modified version with an extra-large battery. The theoretical mileage can exceed 400k, but it is definitely not suitable for mass production.
The mass-produced long-range version must be more comprehensive, and the driving experience cannot be sacrificed for the sake of battery life, unless it is someone like Chen Zifan who has no requirements for driving quality. After all, he drove the previous Dandan car very well. It's just a little less entertaining.
And the people riding in his car will be in pain.
In fact, no matter what kind of car (family car), people who drive are definitely more comfortable than people who sit in the car. Some cars have very loud wind noise, tire noise, and engine noise, which is simply torture to the rear passengers.
Fortunately, Xinghan has done very well in these aspects, and because it is a tram, there is less engine noise. Except for the high speed limit, which cannot run above 120, everything else is basically no problem.
Most people who drive Xinghan are mainly for transportation. They don't pursue too strong performance, and they don't think about overtaking other cars on the highway...
The main reason why a long-life version is needed is that many areas are too far from urban areas, such as a certain town. If I want to go to the city, the round trip distance alone is 200 kilometers, and I don’t dare to drive around the city...
In this case, long battery life is necessary, but one reason for this demand is that there are not enough charging piles and charging stations. Among more than 600 cities in China, less than half currently have charging stations.
So there’s still a long way to go…
Li Yuan believes that the cruising range limits Xinghan's sales to a certain extent. If a long-lasting version can be launched, Xinghan's sales can increase by at least 10%, but the price issue is more critical.
The current cost of sodium-lithium batteries is theoretically lower than that of pure lithium batteries. In fact, there is not much difference between the two. When Xinghan's 20k battery pack is upgraded to 30k, the cost will increase by about 5,500 yuan.
Added to Xinghan's price of 59,800 yuan (fast charging version), the price is about 69,800 yuan. If we follow other manufacturers' routines, the 315 battery life version of the car will definitely have to sell for more than 70,000 yuan.
But Chen Zifan doesn’t think it’s necessary. Another important role of Xinghan is to open up the new energy vehicle market. Being so expensive at all times affects sales, and it’s not cheap now. It still takes a little courage to spend tens of thousands to buy an electric car. ~
After a simple calculation, Chen Zifan replied to Li Yuan, asking him to prepare the long-life version of Xinghan, while other configurations remained unchanged.
At the same time, the market research on the personalized options of Xinghan 001 is almost done. We will first test the water with a few appearance options and directly look at the market feedback.
Chen Zifan also told Li Yuan by the way: "From now on, you can just take care of this kind of thing by yourself. You don't need to notify me every day. You are also very clear about Xinghan Zhixing's development philosophy and plans. There is no need to do this every time."
In fact, he couldn't take care of it. Besides, since he handed over the management of Xinghan Zhixing to Li Yuan, he was not allowed to make any decisions, which was somewhat unreasonable.
He also believed that Li Yuan would not mess around casually. Just like this time, Li Yuan must have known that he would agree to make a long-lasting version of Xinghan, so he raised this matter. If he was not sure, Li Yuan would not mention it.
With Chen Zifan's words, Li Yuan felt relieved. He first made arrangements for the long-life version of Xinghan, and then held a meeting to conduct voting and select several personalized appearance parts that Xinghan 001 was going to launch.
In the end, all Xinghan Zhixing's electric motorcycle direct-operated stores were renamed to Xinghan MOTO. Incidentally, a wave of personnel transfers were also made. After three moves, Xinghan Zhixing was established.
The horse has become completely new, especially when it comes to electric motorcycles. He is also planning to build a new electric motorcycle factory.
In order to prepare for the next few new products, he also knows that the outside world is very controversial about Xinghan Zhixing's expansion of electric motorcycle business, which is greater than that of new energy vehicles.
There's nothing we can do about it...
Thanks to the overall good atmosphere these days, if it is 2022, whether it is film and television works or real life, whether it is fuel motorcycles or electric motorcycles, the negative image will outweigh the positive image.
The scenes where motorcycles appear in film and television works are mostly about illegal activities, gangsters, urban racing, and modifications... Not to mention in reality, some Internet celebrities without driver's licenses and no safety awareness take off at every turn.
There are two of them every now and then.
It's strange that this could be better.
It’s just a means of transportation, isn’t it good to ride it honestly? Does it have to be a controversial topic?
Fortunately, there are still many normal people in reality. Chen Zifan is also aware of these problems, so he is preparing corresponding solutions in advance. However, not all places are sea cities, and not everyone has to take a driver's license test.
All he can do is to help Haicheng increase its influence as much as possible, thereby affecting more cities and popularizing the awareness of safe driving. Not only electric motorcycles, but also driving requires a stronger safety awareness.
After handing over the work of Xinghan Zhixing to Li Yuan, Chen Zifan can devote more concentration to the work of Stardust Technology. Building buildings is one aspect. Now everyone seems to be saying that he likes to build buildings, which makes him speechless:
"Other people like yachts, manors, and airplanes. I just built a few buildings. Who doesn't have some hobbies?"
There were no conditions before, but now that we have money, people, and drawings, infrastructure construction must not be started?
Another task is to continue to prepare new products. The Stardust 4 series has been arranged, and Stardust-Obsolete is also being prepared. The air charging technology is being tested every day and will be ready for mass production soon.
The only difficulty is how to make the charger smaller. Since the internal structure of current air chargers is too complex, and transmission and temperature stability must be ensured, the size cannot be too small.
But in this way, the ordinary power strip will be full with one charger. The project leader provided Chen Zifan with two suggestions: 1. Reduce the charging range and thereby reduce the size. 2. Make a special power strip.
Designed for air chargers!
Free up a socket for it to use, and just throw it there like a router. The charging range is exactly a bedroom. When there is no power, you can lie down and manually choose whether to start charging.
It can also be set to start charging as soon as it enters the charging range. If the battery is fully charged, the phone will not use the battery power first, but will first use the power released by the air charger.
Will the battery be recharged while playing?
This is definitely not the case. The maximum charging power of air charging can reach 20. The main heat source is concentrated on the power adapter, which has almost no impact on the mobile phone. Moreover, the power of the Stardust-Yaipei is only over 10. 20 is completely enough.
10 also refers to 10 in the extreme state. For daily use, 5 is basically enough.
It’s no problem to charge and play at the same time!
As for reducing the range... that's definitely not possible. Even if you try to optimize the structure of the power adapter, you can't reduce the charging range, which would have a great impact on the experience.
Just let the structural designer optimize it. If there is really no other way, just make it bigger. Chen Zifan doesn't think that consumers who can spend 20,000 to buy Stardust-Yaobao will be so demanding about the size.
After all, it is a new charging method!
What happened to the older ones?
This is called stability!
There is also a dedicated project team responsible for the AR glasses, and the current progress is pretty good. The main reason is that the first-generation version has few functions. If a "giant screen" is added to the AR glasses, the workload will be overwhelming for them.
I don’t know how long it will take just to debug it.
Whether it can be released in time for June next year is still unknown, but if it is replaced by other products with a complete supply chain,
For new products, the research and development progress will be very fast.
At the last high-level meeting, many executives proposed the idea of entering the PC side. However, it is obviously unrealistic to start with Nvidia and AMD to seize the console and graphics card markets. Laptop computers are a relatively safe and easier to implement direction.
But Stardust Technology already has a tablet!
Laptops cannot be equipped with o system, and it is impossible to use o system. They all use Stardust OS, so what is the difference between it and tablet computers? How to make the product different is the difficult part.
Stardust Technology's current tablets are all 10.8 inches in size, which is considered a "golden size" for tablets. In Chen Zifan's memory, the best-selling tablets, whether Apple or Android, are all 11 inches in size. Or so, no exceptions.
The top screen can be 12.6 inches, and the bottom screen can be 8.8 inches. Therefore, although there is a strong voice in the Stardust community for tablets of other sizes, Chen Zifan has no idea of releasing new models for the time being. In his opinion, the 12.6-inch and 13.3-inch tablets have come to an end. No matter how big it is, it won't fit.
Like 14-inch+ tablets…
The cost and selling price are very high.
Ordinary people have no need in this regard.
Why do you want it so big?
As a workstation? Why not use a desktop?
Lenovo's Savior Y900 is a living example. A 14.5-inch tablet starts at 4,999 yuan, and 12GB of storage costs 5,999 yuan. Chen Zifan feels that Lenovo has never thought about selling this product. Facts have proved that the sales volume is indeed Very miserable.
The product positioning is not clear. It is surprising that it can be sold. For 5000, you can choose the mainstream 14-inch thin and light notebook on the market. Why buy an Android tablet?
Therefore, according to Chen Zifan’s idea, if you want to clearly distinguish between Stardust Tablet and Stardust Notebook, you must first distinguish them in terms of size. The maximum size of Stardust Tablet is 12.6 inches, while the size of Stardust Notebook starts at 14 inches. Above~
And there will be two versions:
They are 14 inches and 16 inches respectively.
They are all positioned as thin and light notebooks (no independent display).
Next comes the key point that really distinguishes tablets from laptops: the CPU. The chip used in the Stardust tablet is the same chip used in the Stardust mobile phone. At most, it can deliver better performance than the mobile phone.
The CPU of a notebook computer is completely different. It will be redesigned separately. The volume alone is at least 4 times larger than that of a tablet computer. Needless to say, the performance of the notebook computer is also very strong.
The performance release of the CPU alone can reach 55-60, and with the core display (GPU) and other power consumption, the power consumption of the whole machine can reach 90-100, which is nearly 4 times the level of a tablet computer.
Of course, the above is just a theoretical state, and specific tests still need to be carried out. Moreover, too strong performance release is sometimes not a good thing. The heat dissipation may not be suppressed, which means the noise will be relatively loud.
Specific products need to be more balanced.
Even so, laptops are much more powerful than tablets. With such strong performance, it means that Stardust OS can do more "professional" things and differentiate it from Stardust OS on mobile phones and tablets. Open up and become a real PC system.
Don’t forget that Stardust OS has already analyzed o and joined it during the [Synthetic Creation]. Now that conditions are met, we can separate a team specifically to work on the PC system.
This is the main difference between tablets and laptops. The remaining differences are in appearance design and form. Chen Zifan will not use Apple’s fanless design for the time being. It is quiet, but the heat dissipation cannot keep up, and it is easy to move around. Overheating protection occurs.
But this does not mean that he will not pursue a quiet experience. It is normal to use a fan at the beginning. When cooling technology further develops and notebook CPUs become more mature, he will naturally try newer designs.
As soon as he said it, Chen Zifan immediately got into the core area of the Stardust Factory. He actually prepared a lot of design drawings for the thin and light notebook, which he could refer to in his memory.
There are also many products, including Lenovo’s Xiaoxin, YOGA, LGgra, ASUS ZenBook, Dell Inspiron, etc.
The more cost-effective ones include the Mechanical Revolution Unbounded. These products range from cheap to expensive, but the one that best meets Chen Zifan’s expectations and Stardust Technology’s product positioning is as long as LGgra is big enough! Light enough!
The appearance is also high enough!
The appearance of LGgrayle is much higher than the products of some first-tier manufacturers, but the price is a bit more expensive, making it an eccentric product.
Even if Chen Zifan doesn't like LG, a patent troll, he has to admit that they do have a good hand in products. In comparison, Lenovo Xiaoxin's design is a bit satisfactory, but the price seems to be okay.
Stardust notebooks have different systems, so they must use an attractive enough appearance design to attract some consumers to the Stardust Technology camp.
Of course, the final price of the Stardust notebook will definitely not be as crazy as LG. A thin and light notebook that costs tens of thousands of yuan is no longer a product that most consumers can afford. If the price of the Stardust notebook can be set at 5,000 to 7,000 The price range is very competitive.
It can also avoid the price overlap of tablet computers.
