Three days later, the number of reservations actually reached a terrifying 670,000 vehicles, and it is still increasing. However, for those ranked after 100,000, the pick-up time will be very late. Only the first ten pre-order consumers can get the car in a short period of time.
The discount offered by Smart Electric Vehicles is that if you book online, you only need to pay a deposit of 1,000 yuan. If you don't make a reservation and buy it directly when the time comes, the value will be 30,000 yuan higher, and it will take 150,000 yuan to buy a smart M1.
At the same time, a large number of charging stations began to be built across the country, and they were all completed within a month.
On the third day after booking, some netizens revealed that the first smart M1 booked online had actually arrived.
This netizen is a senior car enthusiast. He specially made a video and posted his observations and test evaluations online.
As soon as the video came out, the number of views exceeded one million within a few hours, exceeded 10 million within half a day, and exceeded 100 million views within three days, becoming a hit on the entire Internet.
It turns out that the netizen in the video explained it calmly at first. He first hit the body of the car with a hammer and made a huge dent.
He read the contents of the manual, and then laughed and said: "Friends, I have never seen such a shameless person. The manual actually says that the body is made of self-elastic super material, which can absorb kinetic energy, and it also talks about general deformation and suppression. , can automatically recover within half a minute, haha, this is so awesome... "
However, before his ridicule could end, the barrage on the live broadcast screen almost drowned him out. The netizen was stunned for a moment and quickly looked back. I saw that the location where he hit it with the hammer had returned to its original state and was extremely smooth.
"Fuck! It's true. This is a car worth 120,000 yuan. How the hell is it so outrageous?" The netizen immediately lost his composure and almost jumped up.
Then he also discovered that the car was equipped with an active safety system, an intelligent voice system, four-wheel drive, intelligent lights, run-flat tires, anti-theft devices, leather seats, etc.
In the end, the netizen almost went crazy. He shouted: "Hey, it has things that are only equipped on millions of cars. It even has things that are not equipped on millions of cars. Damn, it has them." Ah, and damn, this car only sells for 120,000 yuan! Is there any reason for this? Am I dreaming, or is the manufacturer going crazy?"
Within seven days, the first batch of 100,000 vehicles was delivered to every consumer. Without exception, all buyers gave high praise.
For a month, all news media and self-media platforms have been flooded with news about Smart M1.
Those who didn't make a reservation were extremely regretful. If they tried to buy it again, it was out of stock. The subsequent cars will not be built until two months later.
Smart electric cars hardly need to advertise themselves, and netizens have become automatic advertising communicators.
However, Smart Electric Cars still timely launched a professional advertisement that comprehensively introduced the parameters of the Smart M1 car, and it was continuously broadcast in major media.
When it comes to artificial intelligence in cars, Ye Luo had actually quietly established a branch before, but it was not listed, and it was temporarily named Tianzhi Technology.
Shortly after Zhilian Microelectronics released the Smart M1, Tianzhi Technology, a third company under Tiangong Manufacturing, an artificial intelligence company, also announced its establishment.
Tianzhi Technology mainly researches artificial intelligence, industrial robots, driverless driving, intelligent speech recognition, virtual reality, machine emotions, etc., which also requires massive investment.
In fact, Tiangong Manufacturing has been carrying out these things, but now it has been separated and set up as a company to operate them.
In order not to affect the progress of the car, Ye Luo asked Ye Ming for 10,000 people to join Tianzhi Technology for research and development when the company was first established.
On the second day after Tianzhi Technology was established, a press conference was held as a routine. The press conference was held in the name of Tiangong Manufacturing, and also announced the development of Tianzhi Technology.
The scale of this press conference is far greater than the previous one. Because in the past few months, smartphones using Zhilian's chips have been on the market, and the response from consumers has been extremely good.
Especially the artificial intelligence above is extremely convenient to use. In addition, the mobile phone uses Tiangong's battery technology, which can basically be used for about ten days on a single charge.
For a time, mobile phones using Tiangong-made batteries and chips were sold out. This forces more mobile phone manufacturers to start using Tiangong-made battery chips.
Tianzhi Technology has made long-term plans and stated that it will contribute to the world in the fields of artificial intelligence, industrial robots, big data, software, operating systems, etc. in the future.
He also announced that smart electric vehicles will launch financing activities.
In fact, not long after the M1 came out, various parties began to discuss investment issues. In the end, the valuation given by all parties was 5 trillion.
This is not an overestimation. After all, Smart Electronics is making disruptive manufacturing. The annual global automobile retail sales is as high as 20 trillion yuan, with profits exceeding 2 trillion yuan. The valuation of 5 trillion is really not high. Furthermore, the initial investment in smart electronics alone is at least one trillion.
Those who came to negotiate were all automobile giants, including the top ten in the world, the top five in China, and governments of various countries, all of whom expressed their deep interest.
The arrival of so many capital giants directly increased the market value, doubling from the original five trillion to one hundred and four hundred billion.
In the end, Smart Auto sold 30% of its shares in exchange for 3120 billion in cash.
This money will be used for subsequent capital investment in smart electric vehicles, production line investment, etc.
In fact, Ye Luo is now very troubled by the problem of car production capacity, which has become a big problem that bothers him. He kept urging the artificial intelligence side to quickly complete the entire vehicle assembly line they built for him. The fully intelligent automobile manufacturing platform created by Tianzhi Technology is fully streamlined. This line can produce a thousand cars every day, which is 360,000 cars a year.
Finally, the situation was relieved after a month. The first artificial intelligence automobile production line was officially put into production, and the output of smart M1 was doubled.
However, this production line is also extremely expensive. The cost of a line is at least 500 billion.
And a month later, the second production line was put into production one after another.
The national auto market has been strongly impacted by the Smart M1, and major car companies have cut prices one after another, because no matter what aspect, the gasoline cars they build cannot compare with the Smart M1.
In the minds of ordinary people, a car as beautiful and high-quality as the M1 is at least worth a million dollars. But its value is only a few hundred thousand.
Of course, the car company itself will receive a subsidy of 30,000 yuan from the state for every car sold, so its true selling price, the official price is 150,000 yuan, but the actual price is 180,000 yuan.
However, no matter how much traditional car companies lower their prices, buyers have lost interest. Because they have watched countless videos, it can be fully charged in half a minute, can run 2,000 kilometers on a single charge, has a five-year and 500,000-kilometer warranty, and has free lifetime battery maintenance, etc. How can all these be compared to traditional cars?
In addition, electric vehicles do not require engine oil or filters, so maintenance costs are extremely low. Coupled with its own active safety defense system, the probability of accidents is extremely low.
Because of their safety, smart electric cars themselves simply set up an insurance company to sell car insurance to cars at low prices. The fleet price is only one-third of that of traditional insurance companies.
All these factors have caused people to completely abandon traditional gasoline vehicles and eagerly wait for the smart M1 to quickly increase its production capacity.
The most direct consequence is that domestic car sales that month dropped from the usual 1.5 million to a mere 350,000. Car companies were hit hard!
And the used car market has been hit even harder. Some nearly new cars that have just been driven around are listed for sale in large numbers online. The original price was several hundred thousand, but now they are sold for hundreds of thousands.
But even so, no one is willing to buy it. The second-hand car market seems to be hot, but there are very few people who actually buy it.
The pace of Zhidian is getting faster and faster. This month is not over yet, smart electric cars are coming soon with new surprises. The new car Smart Enjoy S6 is on the market. The S6 is an SUV with higher configurations, a wider body, and is equipped with driverless technology.
The pre-sale price of the S6 is as high as 550,000 yuan. If the state's 30,000 yuan subsidy is included, the price will be more than 580,000 yuan.
This time, people no longer hesitated. In just a few minutes, pre-sales exceeded 30 million, then 10,000, and 30,000.
By the same time the next day, twenty-four hours later, pre-sales reached an astonishing 890,000! You know, even in the past, domestic sales of luxury cars at this price range would not exceed 50,000 units per year. There are 30,000 pre-sales, which is an extremely terrifying number.
In sharp contrast, the sales of traditional gasoline vehicles have further shrunk. Some predict that the sales volume for that month may not even reach 200,000.
Major car companies are panicked and angry. Some state-owned car companies have used their connections to directly affect national policies. So the next month, the state canceled environmental subsidies for smart electric vehicles.
However, this move did not affect the enthusiasm of the people at all. Smart Electronics even announced that there will be no subsidies, they will subsidize them themselves, so the price will remain unchanged.
Ye Luo made more and more noise, and Ye Ming was shocked. For several months, he kept surrounding Ye Luo, and would offer advice from time to time.
That day, he and Ye Luo had dinner together. When he saw the news about the cancellation of environmental subsidies on the news, he immediately cursed: "A bunch of shameless people! If you can't build a good car yourself, you won't let others build it, you bastards!"
After scolding, Ye Ming gritted his teeth and said: "Luo'er, don't be afraid, you have a lot of money. In the past few months, I have sold trillions of vitality potions. I will give you all the money. In this way, you will be able to use it tomorrow." Publish a news item in various media outlets, saying that Smart Electric Vehicles will hold a car trade-in event for a limited time. At 11% of the residual value of the car, it will purchase mid- to low-end cars across the country."
Ye Luo was stunned and said, "Dad, our own car only sells for hundreds of thousands or more than fifty thousand, so we will lose money if we buy it like this."
"Don't be afraid of losses. As long as you can protect your capital, this business can be done. Aren't those shameless people just playing dirty tricks? Aren't they going to use policies to suppress us? Okay, let's do something to remove the firepower from under the cauldron!" Ye Ming said fiercely .