High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 664: Chapter 282: Another Sucker

Extreme Shadow Cars’ suppliers are spread across the country, with several hundred major suppliers, and less than forty in Jiangbei.

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Li Yang on stage continued to speak.

"Actually, all car owners of Extreme Shadow Cars are heroes in this matter. My wife specifically reminded me to thank you at the press conference. Of course, we also want to thank those who willingly promote Extreme Shadow Cars. Extreme Shadow Cars currently haven’t spent a dime on advertising, and my personal endorsements for the cars are also free.

Although whether we do it or not doesn’t affect the outcome, doing it is better than not.

This is also why we’re launching the purchase credit redemption financing options—to compensate you guys, the ones who spend three hundred thousand, fifty thousand buying a newly established brand."

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"With miscellaneous matters discussed, let’s start talking about the new cars.

The new generation of Megrez and Shaking Light represent our Extreme Shadow Group’s disruption of electric vehicles!

Our system is now richer, and our car’s performance has improved by 10% compared to the previous generation!

The disruptive feature for electric vehicles I mentioned earlier is mainly our newly launched Autonomous Driving 3.0. This is an entirely new driving mode, the culmination of work by over a thousand engineers over four years, and it leads the way for electric vehicles to take a revolutionary step forward!

Autonomous Driving 3.0 not only offers highway smart navigation comparable to seasoned drivers but also seamless urban navigation assistance. It has currently been activated in thirteen major cities nationwide, with more scenarios to be unlocked subsequently.

Henceforth, the era of intelligent driving has arrived. Extreme Shadow Cars’ Autonomous Driving 3.0 has undergone 1.8 million kilometers of testing without a single fault. Just operate according to the manual, and the car itself becomes the most reliable driver, the best assistant on the journey!

Additionally, older models can contact the service center to upgrade to the autonomous driving package, which is priced at 20,000 Yuan."

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Li Yang later introduced two new models, with the interiors maximized from the first generation and little room for further improvement.

The main focus is vehicle performance.

Including motor control and the efficiency increase of the range extender.

Of course, the prices of the two cars have also correspondingly increased by 20,000 Yuan.

Those cars delivered at the end of the year can choose not to include the autonomous driving package; if they do, they will have to pay additionally.

However, Extreme Shadow Cars’ standard Autonomous Driving 2.0 comes free of charge, and its performance is already strong in comparison to other cars.

After all, there isn’t any company worldwide that has spent over ten billion to research this.

Even Tesla hasn’t launched its autonomous driving package yet and still charges money... It’ll be years before you can use it.

The price is 60,000 Yuan.

Yes, 60,000 Yuan for a so-called ’smart driving’ that activates years later.

Li Yang considered naming this Autonomous Driving 2.99 because according to international rules, L3 level autonomous driving is considered self-driving.

Hence, many car companies usually avoid calling it 3.

But after thinking it over, Li Yang felt it’s entirely unnecessary! He doesn’t need others to set standards for him; he’s willing to call it Autonomous Driving 3.0. When real smart driving comes out, he’ll call it 4.0, 5.0.

With technology development reaching this stage, many techniques aren’t particularly hard as long as there’s money and talent.

However, this only applies to companies willing to focus on technology.

For example, Tesla’s only impressive feat is the 4680 battery, claimed to have double the energy density of current lithium batteries.

In reality, it still hasn’t been mass-produced, and even by 2024 only a few will have been manufactured—barely enough to fit in twenty thousand cars.

And after testing, it turns out to have lower energy density than Ningde’s batteries.

For one lousy battery, they spent billions of US Dollars.

As for Tesla’s so-called open patents, aside from those trying to gain some hype, no genuine car company uses them.

Because those technologies are too poor, nobody values them.

Even so, these two myths still have believers online.

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The press conference concludes, and orders can now be placed.

The order volume is not particularly remarkable; last year, when the first generation of Shaking Light was launched, orders surpassed three thousand right after the conference, reaching sixty thousand within just a few days.

After the new year, the two production lines were overwhelmed and couldn’t keep up with the increase in orders.

The third generation of Megrez and the second generation of Shaking Light have a moderate increase in orders this time, as both are priced two thousand US Dollars more.

After the press conference, Li Yang did not linger and returned immediately to Xue Ning’s place.

The words he said began to ferment online.

Some people don’t understand, but some do.

A post received broad acknowledgment.

"Li Yang’s press conference said a lot of things seemingly related to Extreme Shadow Cars, but in reality they were disconnected. It sounds complex but is simple. In one sentence: He’s displeased!

Jiang Banxia understood the importance of the new energy industry chain four years ago. At that time, the domestic industry chain was fragmented and unable to form competitiveness at a high level, aside from lithium batteries; everything else was mediocre.

The emergence of Extreme Shadow Cars caused those industry chains to become highly competitive, as Extreme Shadow Cars provided abundant orders and profits, spurring market competition.

But Modu introduced a big catfish to try achieving this through a catfish effect.

They completely disregard what Extreme Shadow Cars have accomplished, secretly possibly doing things adversarial to Extreme Shadow Cars, like selling the industry chain’s most advanced technology at low prices to Tesla. Thus, Tesla can effortlessly get the hard-earned configurations of Extreme Shadow Cars, potentially lowering costs by 30% or more than Extreme Shadow Cars.