Zheng Chao understood a truth.
It is not afraid of meeting a layman in everything, but it is afraid of meeting a layman pretending to be an expert.
If the lithium battery can be directly inserted into the electric car to replace the lead-acid battery, why would he be needed to give advice here? Those who work on electric vehicles have already started working on it.
In his opinion, Lu Yunhao is a standard layman commanding an expert, and it is inevitable that he will make people laugh.
For example, everyone in the know knows that building the Three Gorges Dam is a major project of the century and a super giant project. Except for China, almost no country can accomplish a water conservancy project of this scale.
In the eyes of people like Lu Yunhao, he would probably say with disdain: "Isn't it just building a dam? What's so difficult? Don't care whether it's a one-meter-long dam or a thousand-meter or three thousand three hundred and thirty-three From a technical point of view, a five-meter-long dam is nothing more than blocking both ends and pouring cement. Isn’t that enough?”
How can you reason with such a person
But Zheng Chao has no choice. Who wants this to be his boss? And I couldn't resist the attraction of double salary. I came all the way from Yanjing to join him, and now I can't turn back.
So, he could only say patiently: "Mr. Lu, I have a general understanding. The lithium battery is not an ordinary battery. Its biggest problem is that it is not stable enough. If it is just one section and inserted into a flashlight, it will be fine. It is better. It is safe, but if there are too many in series, the voltage and current will be high, and it will be easy to burn or explode during the charging and discharging process, and it may even cause a fire."
"Is it so outrageous?" Lu Yunhao's face was full of disbelief.
Zheng Chao explained: "Lithium batteries are indeed not very safe. If you pierce the lithium battery of your mobile phone with a sharp object, the battery will soon catch fire or even explode."
Lu Yunhao asked again: "Then how did Li Mu do it?"
Zheng Chao said: "Li Mu has core technology. He has a way to safely string together dozens or hundreds of lithium batteries so that they can work stably without overheating, overcharging, spontaneous combustion, or explosion. , this is also the biggest technical threshold for domestic electric vehicle manufacturers to imitate, because domestic electric vehicle manufacturers have not studied these, so everything has to start from scratch, they don’t know how others do it!”
Lu Yunhao thought, isn't this thing just a big battery box
Just like two AA batteries are installed in a four-wheel drive car, they can be run after they are put in them. For electric cars, a larger battery box can be made, and more batteries can be installed.
Now I roughly understand that there are so many ways in this.
Zheng Chao continued: "The lithium battery packs currently trial-produced by several manufacturers have less than half the capacity of Li Mu's battery packs, and various problems frequently occur. The most serious one was that a bulge exploded directly on the test machine, almost causing a fire. , In addition, overheating, spontaneous combustion, and failure to charge are all common occurrences and have become commonplace. At present, there is not even a lithium battery pack that can stably travel for 100 kilometers. "
Lu Yunhao was silent for a moment and said: "Then let's get lead-acid batteries first. The worst we can do is invest more in supporting the battery replacement. We will replace it when the electric vehicle manufacturers develop lithium batteries."
Zheng Chao said: "As far as I know, electric vehicle manufacturers have basically given up research and development."
"Why?" Lu Yunhao frowned and said: "Aren't these guys too promising? They failed once or twice and stopped doing it? Don't you know that failure is the mother of success? When I wrote a self-recommendation letter and job application to the boss of Southern English It took me several times to write the letter before it was successful. They are developing a broken battery, so they don’t have so much patience?"
"No." Zheng Chao explained: "I heard them say that it means there is no market space. If Li Mu's hardware is used, even if there is no technical threshold, the cost of an electric vehicle will be more expensive than a 125cc motorcycle. , without corporate procurement, ordinary people would not be willing to spend so much money to buy an electric car."
"Damn it, I'll buy it!" Lu Yunhao said anxiously: "If they can really produce a car with similar specifications to Li Mu, I will buy him three hundred cars first, oh no, five hundred cars..."
Zheng Chao said awkwardly: "With this research and development difficulty, once it is developed, if we don't sell 50,000 units, the manufacturer probably won't be able to make back its money... "
If you invest 10 million in R&D costs and sell 50,000 units, the R&D cost of each vehicle will be 200, and the manufacturer will most likely not be able to recoup the money. If you can only sell 10,000 units, the R&D cost of each vehicle will be 1,000. If you don’t have enough money, then don’t even think about getting your money back.
Therefore, manufacturers with 10,000 cars would not be interested, let alone 500 cars like Lu Yunho's.
At this time, another colleague who used to work at Southern English knocked on the door and came in. Seeing that both of them were there, he did not hesitate to say anything directly: "Mr. Lu, there is another problem on the business side."
"what is the problem?"
The other party said, "That's right. We sent a business team to check out nearby hotels and found that almost all hotels don't have computers."
"No computers..." Lu Yunhao frowned: "What does it have to do with us that they don't have computers?"
The man was stunned, and after a moment he said: "Of course it does matter, Mr. Lu. If they don't have a computer, they won't be able to run our order-taking backend, and then they won't be able to access our platform..."
"I'll wipe..." Lu Yunhao finally figured it out.
He already felt a little dizzy.
I really didn’t expect that this project would have so many implications.
He hurriedly asked: "Is the merchant willing to purchase computers?"
"I don't want to." The man said, "Most of them are small and medium-sized restaurants. The retail price of a computer is three to four thousand. For them, the cost is a bit too high."
"But computers can help them make money!" Lu Yunhao said angrily: "We help them make money, and we are wronging them by asking them to buy a computer?"
The man said helplessly: "At this stage, our platform is not online yet, and there is no data to prove that we can help them make money, so they are not willing to buy computers rashly, because just buying a computer is not enough, they also need to apply for broadband and connect to the Internet. That’s all.”
"Damn..." Lu Yunhao said angrily, "I think there's something wrong with the way you do things. You should try your best to do everything first. If it doesn't work, then think of other solutions instead of coming back and telling me directly. This won’t work!”
After saying that, he asked: "Have you tried hard?"
"Trying hard..." the man said aggrievedly: "Our business words are all worn out, it's useless."
Lu Yunhao asked angrily: "Then I want to ask, how did Li Mu solve this problem?"
The person said: "For all the merchants Li Mu cooperates with in Yanjing, Ele.me provides computers for merchants to use. Their policy is that Ele.me pays for them and gives them a free trial for a period of time. After the trial period, If they feel that Ele.me can really bring them income, they can buy their own computers, or buy them from Ele.me, or rent them from Ele.me."
Lu Yunhao said in great surprise: "Li Mu's business model requires too much capital investment! Buying electric cars, mobile phones, and computers. If you think about it, his investment in these alone in a city would not be less than tens of millions, right?"
Zheng Chao, who had been silent for a long time, said: "Li Mu already has very, very strong funds, and he holds shares in the electric car factory, which has reduced costs. He also holds shares in Shenzhou, and the costs are also low. For mobile phones, I don’t know, but there should be very good preferential conditions.”
Lu Yunhao suddenly felt extremely stressed.
It turns out that if you want to follow Li Mu's footsteps and build a food delivery platform, the total initial investment in one city alone may exceed 100 million.
In addition to office space, operating personnel, developers, and development costs, a large number of riders must be hired, each rider equipped with high-performance electric vehicles and mobile phones, and each merchant equipped with computers and broadband access services for business operations. Up, there will be a lot of operating costs, as well as various advertising and publicity...
I thought that twenty million US dollars was already a lot, but looking at it now, no matter how I calculated it, it was just enough.
No, this is just barely able to cope with the exposed demand. If there is something else that I haven't thought of, there will probably be a financial crisis.
Lu Yunho, who originally thought he had a bright future, suddenly felt like he was walking on thin ice.
At this time, someone knocked on the door again and came in. It was Lu Yunhao's secretary.
"Mr. Lu, Li Mu just officially announced on Weibo Twitter that Ele.me will enter the Shanghai stock market in the near future!"
"Wori..." Lu Yunhao immediately sat at his desk, opened Weibo Twitter, and then searched Li Mu's personal Weibo.
"Ele.me is about to enter the Shanghai market and launch online food ordering services in Shanghai. The Ele.me Shanghai channel will be officially launched in a week. Congratulations to the citizens and netizens of Shanghai. You will soon be able to enjoy the convenient online food ordering service. .”
Li Mu's popularity on Weibo, Twitter, and the entire entertainment and public circles is much higher than that of Lu Yunho.
If someone wants a celebrity to repost a Weibo post, it will cost at least tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions.
However, when Li Mu posted a Weibo post, without saying a word or saying hello, countless celebrities spontaneously forwarded it.
In addition, Li Mu himself has the most fans on Weibo, so Li Mu's Weibo immediately exploded on the entire Weibo.
Top celebrities, first-tier stars, second-tier stars, all the way to 18th-tier starlets, as long as they knew about it, they all forwarded Li Mu's Weibo.
Some said, wow, support Mr. Li, support Ele.me!
Some said that from now on, you don’t have to worry about what to eat when you go to Shanghai! Come to Ele.me when you’re hungry!
Others said, I am a Shanghainese, now I am blessed, thank you Mr. Li!
Some even said that I have been in Shanghai all year round. Oh my God, I am so grateful to Mr. Li. Technology changes life!
With so many celebrities taking part together, it suddenly became a super hot spot on Weibo.
Li Mu has long been used to this. He knows better than anyone what the entertainment industry is like.
In my previous life, there was a great director who made a relatively bad movie. The box office was very good and the reputation was even worse. The people said it was not good to watch. As a result, almost all the stars in the entertainment industry retweeted Weibo and said that they liked it very much...
This incident was quite famous at first, but after that incident, Li Mu already understood how terrible people in the entertainment industry were at what they did.
So these people are trying to repost it for me, but he doesn't appreciate it at all.
But even though he didn't appreciate it, Lu Yunho was also frightened.
Ele.me comes as soon as you say it comes, and the formation is so big, it is simply overwhelming...
(End of chapter)