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Chapter 325 We can form a makeshift team that looks high-end

Because all the investors were immediately interested.

This is exactly the same as selling courses. It doesn't matter how much effort is put into telling parents how their children should make up for their shortcomings in Chinese, math, and English, or how the children should cooperate and change their study habits.

The important thing is that as long as you take my class, you can get into Peking University or Tsinghua University!
You must first shamelessly draw a big picture.

After Mr. Zi said this, the investors immediately became excited: "Is this a commercial model for driverless cars? Please elaborate, elaborate..."

"How can solar energy achieve 24-hour solar storage and charging? Is the technical threshold high?"

You have to understand that they are not billionaires, they are just investors who manage funds for the rich or certain bank depositors or some national funds.

They also have to go back and explain to investors and shareholders where they invested.

If I really invest the money in agriculture and produce solid results, investors may think you are doing something stupid. If there is no project with huge profits, I will give the investment to other fund managers.

Anyway, projects like picture trading platforms and internet celebrity trading platforms are the favorites of venture capitalists as long as they can explain the ins and outs clearly and have sufficient data support.

In fact, they don’t understand either.

In a sense, many new energy vehicles have to use all kinds of impressive high-tech slogans because manufacturers also want to explain to investors why these vehicles have a future.

There must be enough high-tech gimmicks to make venture capitalists feel that there is a possibility of huge profits, so that they can continue to attract billions of dollars in investment despite losses year after year.

Zi Xiaowei was originally dismissive of it, just like he had always disliked driverless cars, which should not appear on special products like cars with high risks.

But in order to fool Brother Qiang, he had to think carefully: "Yes, let me first make my position clear. I am against the autonomous driving of family cars. There can be many intelligent driving assistance systems, such as fatigue prevention and electronic intervention to avoid risks in emergency situations, but intelligent AI cannot replace human hands in driving family cars. Traffic driving environments are too diverse, and a single mistake could endanger lives. AI can only be an auxiliary tool to make human life better, and it cannot do evil or harm humans. This has risen to the height of ethics."

He offered an analogy: "Automatic weapon stations controlled by radar and computers have long been used by the military to intercept and shoot down incoming enemies from the air. However, even in North America, where guns are permitted, no civilian would dare to use a smart machine gun to shoot wanted criminals on the street. There should be a clear distinction between military, commercial, and civilian use."

Regardless of whether these people agree with his slightly peculiar attitude, they only care about whether they can make money and whether there is a high return on investment: "What's the deal with commercial use?"

Zi Xiaowei said to Qiang: "Actually, everyone working on autonomous driving knows that the difficulty of autonomous driving on highways is actually much easier than on urban roads. This is because the driving environment on closed-lane highways is much less complex, making it much easier to achieve no matter which technical approach is chosen."

Brother Qiang nodded. "Well, the simplest scene in intelligent driving is the highway. The road conditions are simple, the signs are clear, and it has one-way lanes. That's why many intelligent driving models often use highway scenes. Traffic jams, vegetable markets, and streets with mixed traffic are the most complex."

Zi Xiaowei gestured, "I'm not entirely in favor of autonomous long-distance trucking right away, as it raises ethical concerns about endangering other family vehicles on the road. However, it's worth a try for short trips, especially the transition from highways to transshipment warehouses."

Brother Qiang, who had personally built Jingxi Logistics, understood immediately: "Your idea is to expand the autonomous vehicles inside the logistics warehouse to the highway intersections, so that those long-distance trucks can always stay on the highway, without going into the city and wasting time. After the autonomous trucks are docked, they will follow a fixed round-trip route. Is that what you mean?"

Zi Xiaowei nodded. "Then, as the mileage increases little by little, and as replacements are made, perhaps one day all long-distance trucks will be driverless models that run fixed round-trip routes."

This has always been Zi Xiaowei's attitude: "Times will eventually change. If we don't adapt, and others completely control the technology, we will lose everything. However, we can promote this change in a more humane way. Logistics trucks on highways can accumulate and improve autonomous driving technology, because this can minimize human casualties. This commercial benefit will also give companies more motivation to participate. Countless people make a living by long-distance trucking. This gradual change process will also serve as a warning to related practitioners, so they will not suddenly lose their jobs."

Brother Qiang thought for a moment and said, "Technically, this isn't difficult to achieve. I know several ports are already using this model to solve the problem of fixed routes from unloading ocean-going cargo ships to logistics parks. Jingxi Logistics can save a huge amount of labor costs because machines can run tirelessly. Especially if they use electricity, the cost of battery replacement for freight trucks will reduce this part of the cost to an extreme. However, policy approval is a huge unknown."

In fact, the current large supermarkets, chain supermarkets, and large-scale logistics that can achieve unmanned operation in this link can significantly reduce costs compared to traditional warehousing.

Zi Xiaowei smiled and said, "I'm talking about two routes. The first is to complete it in enterprises and parts of the city. For example, we can establish the largest high-speed freight transfer station in Jingxi Logistics in the northern suburbs, and then deliver it along the ring road to warehouses in several districts of Jiangzhou. There is great potential for the small-scale application of intelligent driving on the urban highway, pure electric vehicles, and logistics parks. This can also inject a high-tech future into Jingxi, which is much better than throwing 15 billion into the water."

Brother Qiang nodded: "What about the other line?"

Zi Xiaowei chuckled a little: "Of course, it's promoted in more civilized and liberal overseas markets. For example, I launched a brand new electric car rental business on Koh Samui. The four integrated solar-storage-charging stations on the island are running very well..."

In comparison, things like this are indeed much freer in various overseas countries.

Zi Xiaowei unfolded his foldable phone to show the business operating on Koh Samui. He'd mentioned this business in a video he'd shown to Sister T at the Ella R&D Center.

But now it is basically operating normally.

Cute cats in the same color scheme, and a "carport-style" photovoltaic solar charging station in the same color scheme.

The capitalists just tried their best to listen to the "high-tech driverless trucks", but it was still a bit difficult, after all, they rarely see trucks in their living environment.

Not to mention the various operating scenarios of warehousing, freight and logistics. It is indeed difficult for people without relevant life experience to conceive of these high-tech applications.

But they were intrigued by this beautiful charging station: "Is this the 24-hour solar charging station you mentioned? Can you explain what the 24-hour thing means?"

Zi Xiaowei couldn't help laughing again. "Solar energy is unlimited, depending on the area of ​​the photovoltaic panels and the power generation efficiency. The problem is energy storage. For example, in a country with strong sunlight like Lu, while ensuring daytime charging, it can also generate more electricity and store it for use at night. But energy storage batteries are very expensive. What can we do?"

He himself was puzzled: "One of our engineers proposed a plan to build an energy storage reservoir in the western mountainous area. The reservoir is built on the top of a mountain. During the day, solar energy is used to drive a ram pump, which consumes less energy and is more efficient. The pump pumps water to a higher altitude. Then, at night, the gates are opened to release water to generate electricity. The whole system forms a 24-hour cycle."

Even though Brother Qiang was deeply involved in the research and development, he was able to immediately conceive of this recycling model: "Hahaha, this is converting solar energy into potential energy storage..."

It became even clearer when Zi Xiaowei demonstrated the water hammer pump: "This is mechanical energy. The solar power supply is just to maximize efficiency. This design is very ingenious."

Because it is an experiment, only one of the four charging stations is equipped with this energy storage reservoir. It is a simple solution in Koh Samui, which has abundant water resources. There is also tidal power generation, one is wind power generation, and only one is a pure photovoltaic power generation plus a large energy storage cabinet, which is a high-cost model.

Of course, the gimmick is more important than its practical application. It is mainly to provide different electric vehicle energy replenishment solutions in Southeast Asia where the basic power grid is not well developed.

It can also be promoted under the banner of environmentally friendly and clean energy, which makes it very attractive to economically underdeveloped areas that do not produce oil.

It is also an important technological gimmick for Jingxi.

Zi Xiaowei originally planned to have a face-to-face talk with Brother Qiang.

But it became a bit messy because of the crowding of capital, or it was possible that Brother Qiang deliberately wanted to release the capital around him to investigate something.

Those investors gathered around their mobile phone screens to watch the operation video of electric vehicles and charging stations.

Brother Qiang looked at Zi Xiaowei thoughtfully. "It was purely out of personal interest and my keen understanding of logistics systems that I built my own intelligent robot logistics R&D team several years ago. This doesn't belong to Jingxi, it's my personal business."

He mentioned this last time in the basement of the R&D building.

Zi Xiaowei hummed: "Then it is even more your intellectual property."

Brother Qiang switched to Chinese and whispered, "It has patented technology, but the technological content is not high. After all, the warehouse self-driving robot is just a very insignificant branch."

Zi Xiaowei has seen that there are many such "robots" driving material carts on modern automobile production lines, busy moving things along fixed routes in the workshop.

Sometimes it looks like a forklift, just with a computer chip and an identification system.

Now he whispered, "But we can make it look high-tech, not for financing, but to put the company on the forefront of high technology and give Jingxi a greater human mission."

Brother Qiang understood immediately. His weather-beaten face thought for several seconds before he smiled: "When it comes to marketing, you live-streaming people have already driven the old marketers off the horse. I think it's okay!"

That's it.

(End of this chapter)