In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love

Chapter 628 Everyone has different angles and lengths
Traveling is indeed the best way to get to know each other before starting a family.

Thanks to the deep friendship that we have established in the snow-capped mountains and icy lakes over the past few days, we will not deliberately keep a distance from each other when reshopping the photos. This is already a very high courtesy to each other.

Of course, Maizi had a lot of private chats with her bestie, ex-boss, and ex-ex-boss. Gao Tingting had a lot of chats with her sister and big clients. The new daughter-in-law even created a two-person group chat with Dai Anni. Anyway, she had a lot of cell phones.

In short, Dai Anni complained less, and what she talked about most was fatigue and soreness. It just so happened that the confinement nanny had a massage qualification and worked overtime to earn extra money.

Once on the plane, everyone squeezed into the middle cabin and took turns receiving service, all in an orderly and courteous manner.

This also gave Zi Xiaowei and Li Xiang space to chat in the front cabin.

The former internet prodigy, who already had numerous partnerships, was somewhat disappointed: "In just one year, the entire situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse. Both Yuyao and DaMi have fallen by the wayside. If I could still compete with these internet strategies, your sudden entry into the fray, accompanied by established car companies, immediately tipped the scales in the other direction."

The crew must be on standby at the airport, not following their boss around. Now, after takeoff, Zi Xiaowei, wearing only a turtleneck sweater, can hold a scalding cup of coffee and slowly get his slightly frozen brain working. "After all, a car is a mechanical object. It has to operate physically on the road, absorb shock and bumps, and handle accidents and collisions. This is very different from the mobile phone industry in terms of safety. Yunfan, the company Lixiang is using as a shell company, is from Jiangzhou. The locals know its quality, so I knew Lixiang's mechanical foundation from the beginning. Coincidentally, I'm a veteran user of the 168 Auto website and understand you and your team's style. So it's a matter of intention."

Obviously, they were rivals who had fought bloody battles in the business competition, and who could have at least reduced Li Xiang's wealth of tens of billions by half, but now they could talk so frankly.

Li Xiang relaxed a little, "But you have no ill intentions. I can tell you've never attacked any other brand. You're simply reminding consumers, based on your public responsibility, to choose new energy vehicles from established car companies whenever possible. This is precisely our weakness."

Zi Xiaowei sipped his coffee. "Everyone has their own pricing strategies and marketing styles, but Lixiang is the only company that has truly set the right benchmark in the new energy vehicle boom. We were lambasted by our competitors for the three major appliances: sofas, color TVs, and refrigerators. Then they all quietly learned from them, making cars truly comfortable and entertaining home appliances. This is the core of the transformation brought about by the infusion of new energy. All other choices have chosen the wrong focus, like poor students who couldn't even copy homework. If you had sought scale expansion when Lixiang was most profitable and reinvested profits into improving the vehicles themselves, perhaps you could have built a stronger moat. Instead, you chose larger profits per vehicle and launched an immature new MPV, only to be blocked again."

He would not discuss with his younger predecessors what scale is the most effective way to make money. In fact, Ella Automobile has only launched one new model, the Totoro, so far, and is trying hard to expand its scale.

The R&D team is also following his ideas and making continuous adjustments, from the previous MPV, to the sedan, and now to the iPhone in the car. Every year, they only make minor adjustments to this classic model, and focus on continuously exploring the internal functions of the Totoro, from car computer content to seat details, entertainment functions, leisure mode and other in-depth research and development.

But the facts have proved that Lixiang Auto did miss the golden turning point after the explosive period in 21 and 22, and fell into the trap of pursuing profits. Now it has been copied by several top companies who have grasped the essence of new energy vehicles and immediately turned around and beat up. It seems that it still has some performance in the market, but it is just eating the leftovers from the past and making money from the information gap of consumers. Once this residual heat disappears, it will be finished.

So, how could Boss Li be in the mood for sightseeing right now? "Starting in July of this year, within half a month, we suddenly discovered that the delivery data exceeded the registration data by more than 200. Where did these cars go? After carefully tracking their locations, we found that they were all transferred overseas by car dealers. Some of them were even flashed by Big Goose hackers. This only shows that they were sent abroad directly after delivery. Backend data shows that a considerable number of cars were delivered domestically and then resold overseas as used cars, with Central Asia and the Middle East being the focus."

No wonder Li Xiang has been looking for Zi Xiaowei to travel with him again and again since August and September.

But Zi Xiaowei didn't say anything. When the other party started to pay attention to these marginal data, it meant that the overall situation had become a little bleak.

Just like the joke says, when a company starts enforcing attendance and management discipline, it is most likely doomed.

Li Xiang was indeed caught off guard. "According to our internal planning, we didn't consider expanding overseas 25 years ago. We were striving to achieve a % market share in the new energy vehicle market, at least in the yuan segment, before we were ready to expand overseas. That would have been too expensive. Now, it seems that expanding overseas has become Li Xiang's only way to survive."

Zi Xiaowei really did not have the intention to kill his comrades who fought side by side with him.

Since Li Xiang proposed to launch the MPV in June and July, he temporarily suspended the progress of the MPV project in R&D. Of course, he also wanted to take a look at the answer of this academic master.

As a result, the market gave me several crosses, and the top student next door even spilled ink on my answer sheet.

So Li Xiang was forced to propose speeding up the reduction of the SUV nesting doll, which was a disguised price reduction. A slight reduction in size would reduce the price by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan, thus avoiding competition with Totoro and above prices.

Zi Xiaowei revised his idea of ​​making small and medium-sized chinchillas and changed it to making cars.

He still respects Li Xiang, a pioneer in new energy vehicles, because he thinks it can retain more top students in the market and make it easier for him to copy homework.

But the moat he imagined was too shallow.

Regardless of whether Li's attempt at acting was truly difficult or just a bit of a struggle, he had no intention of competing. "Just before I came up here, it was already minus ten degrees Celsius over there. It's said to be even colder in Kazakhstan. Pure electric vehicles really aren't suitable for sale here, at least not until solid-state batteries mature. However, new energy vehicles can offer the benefits of air-conditioned rooms, and extended-range and mild hybrid vehicles are naturally more practical. It all depends on how much market acceptance you can each gain."

Li Xiangcai, a northerner, said: "The extended-range model does greatly avoid winter range issues and ensures continuous power usage. However, its off-road capability and ability to adapt to various terrains are far inferior to those of Changjiang Automobile's mild hybrid SUVs. This gap is not obvious in China, but it is very obvious overseas, especially in Central Asia and the Middle East, where conditions are harsh and infrastructure is underdeveloped!"

So we had to come out and see it to understand. Li wanted to reveal his shortcomings, so Zi Xiaowei, who landed more than an hour later, immediately understood what was going on.

During the days when the boss was traveling, the overseas sales director in charge of Central Yaroslavl led his team on an international flight and rushed to the Kazakh capital to wait.

This was stronger support than what dealers across the border could offer. Over a dozen 500s, including both hybrid and gasoline versions, were on the road. He readily responded to inquiries from non-independent directors: "Despite its size, the Kazakh market is relatively small. Annual national sales are only around units. This year, we'll eventually be able to sell just over . Korean cars are quite competitive here..."

What the hell is this place?

I never had this feeling before in Xinjiang.

I don’t know if it’s because of the motherland mentality.

It is more likely that they flew in from northern Hebei and headed straight for top tourist attractions upon landing.

All you see are lakes and snow-capped mountains that look like fairyland in mythology, all of which are the most beautiful.

There are certainly countless environments with harsh natural conditions that look terrible.

But since this is the capital, it should be the place with the most lush grass and beautiful water in the country.

From the moment you step off the plane, this place looks like you’ve walked into a post-apocalyptic movie set!

So when Zi Xiaowei saw it for the first time, he turned back and asked the girls to wrap their clothes tightly and cover their masks and scarves tightly, especially the babies, who had to be airtight and wait for the car to slide to the gangway before quickly rushing up.

The place is always covered with thick fog and hoarfrost, the entire view is gray, and the temperature drops to minus 20 degrees Celsius.

But there are also the buildings that a capital city should have, all of which are hazy and have rough edges. The ones that are a little higher cannot see their outlines and are blended into the fog.

It has a particularly wasteland-style futuristic feel.

Chang Yueling, who has traveled to Europe many times, gasped: "Is it still possible to survive here?"

Maizi finally breathed a sigh of relief after getting in the car. "Now I can really see how comfortable eastern Guangdong is. It's a great experience to visit a cold region. If I really wanted to live here my whole life, it's no wonder that depression is so common in northern Europe."

This is a sparsely populated capital.

As the ninth largest country in the world and the largest landlocked country, it gives people an endless sense of desolation.

Zi Xiaowei also felt that it was no wonder that the ancient nomadic peoples would launch plundering attacks on the Central Plains every winter. Anyone would think that since they were going to die anyway, they might as well burn, kill and loot and maybe survive.

At this time, the off-road attributes that Changjiang Automobile emphasizes among all major domestic manufacturers have shown its advantages.

Changjiang has always focused its core research and development on SUVs. In China, people always ridicule those who buy Changjiang cars as pseudo-off-road country bumpkins. With paved roads so developed, what's the point of those hard-core and pseudo-hard-core off-road vehicles that emphasize being able to drive on bad roads but can't reach the level of the Wrangler?
Now Zi Xiaowei understood a little bit.

Not all countries have the infrastructure capabilities of Southeast Asia's mainland, and not all countries have the naturally livable climate of tropical and subtropical regions.

These places can easily become so harsh that the environment requires some off-road capabilities to travel on paved roads.

For example, now when driving from the airport to the city center, you must pay attention to the snow and ice on the road.

The natural advantages of SUVs emerge, and Changjiang Automobile's advantage of being relatively durable among its peers once again stands out here.

Of course, what Zi Xiaowei thought about was that in this depressing and desolate environment, wouldn’t a new energy vehicle become a spiritual fortress?
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