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Chapter 1078 Difficulty moving forward

Daily sales exceed 200 million US dollars?

When this number came out, many people's first reaction was that they didn't believe it: What a joke, how long has your iQ online mall been online? It's less than 2 months since the full amount was calculated. Even if the market reaction is good, the daily sales cannot exceed 200 million US dollars, right?

What is the concept of daily sales of US$200 million? It means that the total amount of goods sold through the iQ online mall will be at least more than US$70 billion each year. In the whole United States, can the annual sales of any mall reach this number? None of them!

This also refers to the most conservative figure. With the current growth rate of iQ online mall, annual sales exceeding US$80 billion, and the hope for US$90 billion is also great, with a hit of US$100 billion? It is really not possible at all. ⊙,

The annual sales exceed 100 billion US dollars, and this number has made countless bosses in traditional industries look red.

The worst thing is that as a platform provider, iQ company can openly withdraw 0.5% of the more than 70 billion US dollars, which is what iQ company deserves.

In countless people, they are still unwilling to accept reality, but as the barometer of the US economy, the stock market has made the most accurate reaction: iq's stocks soared all the way. Looking at the crazy upward arrow, everyone has only one idea: crazy! crazy!

More investors are slamming their chests and pounding their feet to scold Lin Zheng for being a good person: If you invest more stocks in the stock market, will you die?!

With the rise of iQ stocks, they hope that Lin Zheng would invest all the stocks into the stock market.

Stock investors were just slapped in their chests and pounding their feet, but Goldman Sachs regretted that it lost the opportunity to invest in iQ online mall and wanted to hit the wall with one head-on death... When they thought of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch's investment bank bosses were smiling so hard that they couldn't close their mouths. Henry Paulson wanted to strangle Lin Zheng to death.

But the media were collectively excited, what a good news.

A few days ago, he scolded Lin Zheng a half-dead media. Now he immediately turned around and began to pick up Lin Zheng's stinky feet without any moral integrity. Lin Zheng, who was at the forefront of the storm, was not affected, but was very calm. After confirming that the online mall project was on the right track, Lin Zheng finally felt relieved.

He missed homesick.

When Lin Zheng thought of his little babies, he felt that he could not help it even for a minute, and his tide of longing instantly spread.

At this time, Lin Zheng received a call from Bill Ford.

Bill Ford on the phone smiled very happily: "Lin, congratulations, you succeeded again."

An online platform with annual sales of tens of billions of dollars and a huge hope of hitting hundreds of billions of dollars is not only successful, but also has huge social influence. Now, even if the US government, affairs departments and judicial departments want to take action against IQ, they must consider it carefully.

Bill Ford could have used Lin Zheng's business to get acquainted with Lin Zheng, but when the iQ online mall officially got on track, facing the powerful capital power in Lin Zheng's hands, he must give Lin Zheng enough respect.

In the face of Bill Ford's congratulations, Lin Zheng was very calm. This was what he deserved.

After chatting for a few words, Bill Ford expressed his meaning: Inviting Lin Zheng to attend the launch ceremony of the hybrid version of smart ity in 10 days.

The upcoming smart nature hybrid version is divided into two-seat version orto and four-seat version O-R. It is based on Lianchuang Technology's latest 48v voltage platform and is equipped with a belt-type VT automatic transmission developed by Lianchuang Technology. The result of the simulated road test is that the fuel consumption of 3.2 liters per 100 kilometers. If it is in accordance with the standard working conditions provided by the US Department of Transportation, the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers will be quickly reduced to 2.7 liters. The pure electric mileage is 20 kilometers, and the fuel saving effect is quite amazing.

The hybrid version of smart ity is about to be launched? Lin Zheng was a little surprised when Bill Ford said that. Then he agreed happily: "No problem, I will definitely arrive!"

"That's great." Although I knew Lin Zheng was unlikely to reject him, Bill Ford was still very happy when Lin Zheng agreed so well: This shows that Lin Zheng gave him face: "By the way, Lin, I have a suggestion for this car."

"Well, you said." While responding like this, Lin Zheng suddenly became alert: What are the tricks of this guy Bill Ford?

"That's right. The electronic injection system installed on smart is provided by Bosch? Why don't we use Visteon's products? Using Visteon's electronic injection system, we can reduce the cost of this car by another $25."

Don’t underestimate this $25. The cost of a car is reduced by $25. Based on the annual production capacity designed by smart ity, the annual cost saving is $2.5 million. What’s the $2.5 million that won’t be enough to buy an airplane.

But Lin Zheng smiled: This guy is really not at ease!

Visteon is actually a subsidiary of Ford, just like the famous Delphi was independent from General Motors. Although Visteon was independent from Ford, it still has close ties with Ford Motor. Visteon's biggest customer is still Ford. The key point is that Visteon caused trouble for himself at the Consumer Electronics Show in the United States, Lin Zheng still remembers it.

But this is not the point. The key point is that if you choose to use Visteon's electronic injection system and want to match the electronic injection system and the engine, Lin Zheng has to disclose his 48v voltage platform to Visteon. Of course, there is no problem to disclose it. Lin Zheng never likes to cherish it himself, but the 48v voltage platform is the basis of Lianchuang Technology's "weak hybrid" hybrid technology. Ford wants to get out of his own hands without paying a little price? Go to dream!

"Bill," Lin Zheng said to Bill Ford: "Maybe you don't know, we are developing our own electronic injection system, which has two voltage platforms: 12v and 48v... Of course, the ordinary version of smart nature sold in North America can be equipped with Visteon's eu, and I have no objection to this."

Lianchuang Technology is preparing to develop its own electronic injection system? Bill Ford was shocked by Lin Zheng's words! Lianchuang Technology has accumulated strong technology in automotive electronics enough. If it is used to develop an electronic injection system, how can Ford play in the future? It must dispel their dangerous idea.

"Lin, I understand what you mean, but as a friend, I sincerely advise you that the development of electronic injection systems is difficult, it is really difficult. Hardware is not a problem, but software, data and algorithms are the biggest problems..." Bill Ford said earnestly.

To be honest, Bill Ford's words are not wrong. The difficulty of the electronic injection system has never been reflected in the hardware. To be honest, even the current level of domestic research and development of electronic injection technology... If you have the ability to produce cars, the domestic level of electronic injection systems is basically stable in the top three, counting down... It is not impossible to build a working electronic injection system according to the gourd, but the matching with the engine under various operating conditions is definitely a mess. Just like the core of the computer is actually the operating system, the core competitiveness of the electronic injection system is huge data collection and the optimization of operating conditions algorithms.

But when facing Bill Ford's words, Lin Zheng smiled: "Bill, you forgot that I am the boss of Minardi Team, and Cosworth is also my company."

I have done so much preparation work in the early stage, and the selection of supporting software, algorithms and other preliminary work has been started for several months. If I don’t do EU, why should I do so much effort? No matter how Bill Ford persuades me, Lin Zheng will not dispel this decision.

“…”

**! Bill Ford immediately had a strong urge to curse!

That’s right, with the data accumulated by Cosworth over the years and the technical support provided by Minardi team, Lianchuang Technology’s development of the electronic injection system is still difficult, but it is far less than before.

What if Lianchuang Technology really had its own electronic injection system? Lianchuang Technology now has its own engine and manual and automatic gearbox, and has obtained Focus' chassis technology from Ford Motor, and also has to add the 155 chassis obtained from Alfa Romeo... This means that Lianchuang Technology has all the core technologies for producing a car: engine, gearbox, chassis, and on-board electronic systems.

This is really bad news.

Although Bill Ford does not believe that Lianchuang Technology can threaten Ford's status in the automotive field, with the aggressiveness shown by this guy, this is ultimately a problem. Since it is a trouble, it should be eliminated in its infancy.

After failing to persuade him, Bill Ford even made a hole that he was absolutely unwilling to let go: "Lin, maybe we can exchange it and agree to your cooperation with Napa, as long as you give up on developing electronic spray technology."

Napa, which has more than 13,000 chain repair sites across the United States, is known as the largest car repair chain in the United States, known as "McDonald's and KFC in the auto repair industry". The negotiations between Tesla and Napa were very good. Napa, which has long been preparing to intervene in the retail business of automobiles, hit it off with the cooperation between smart ity. With both parties having a strong desire, the two parties quickly reached a framework agreement: Any chain repair shop in Napa can order smart ity models, and users can repair and maintain them at any Napa chain repair shop. (To be continued...)
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