From knock-off old-man's electric vehicles to industrial giant

Chapter 2: What does the lack of production qualifications have to do with my "old man's car"?

[Ding! The Destiny Black Technology System has been activated!]

[First recharge bonus automatically generated...]

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[Successful extraction! Congratulations, host, you have obtained the entry "Fever"!]

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[Fever-related terms]

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Feature 3: When the host imitates and attempts to improve upon a competitor's product, the final product will receive an additional 50% product strength bonus!

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Xu Yi squinted, making sure he wasn't hallucinating!
This system... is so awesome.

Even just one of its features is incredibly valuable!
Don't mention that your company is currently facing difficulties.

Even if the business goes bankrupt, with these advantages, I can start from scratch and rebuild my former glory!
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When the host company's profits exceed 10 billion, the next term will be automatically extracted.

The system's introduction was very brief.

There wasn't much communication, but that didn't diminish its effectiveness.

Xu Yi put on his pants, grabbed his coat, and rushed to the company.

After half an hour.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Xu Yi arrived at the entrance of Xingchen Technology Co., Ltd.'s office building in a private car. As soon as he reached the second-floor office, he was stopped by Wang Jingming, the R&D manager. As the company's only technical director, Wang Jingming was considered an original shareholder that Xu Yi had brought in.

"President Xu, you're finally back. How did the negotiations with Jianghuai go? R&D and production have been abruptly halted, and everyone is just waiting for news."

Seeing the other party's anxious expression, Xu Yi patted Wang Jingming on the shoulder, gesturing for him to sit down first.

He said calmly.

"Don't rush, call everyone else over. The matter of the car manufacturing license has been resolved..."

Upon hearing this, Wang Jingming's expression softened slightly.

I felt inexplicably calmer.

If they can't pass the car manufacturing qualification hurdle, then all the previous investments will be wasted. However, Xu Yi hasn't appeared for the past few days, so his return must mean he has found a solution. After all, the old factory manager still has a lot of connections and resources left behind.

soon.

Xu Yi arrived at the conference room and called over the senior executives of the company's main departments, including R&D, marketing, production, finance, and human resources.

Just as everyone sat down, looking at Xu Yi with expectant faces.

Xu Yi calmly took a sip of tea and said indifferently:

"I went to negotiate, but the negotiations broke down..."

"Without obtaining the vehicle manufacturing qualification, neither producing through affiliation with another company nor producing in another factory will work. So the launch of the new car has completely collapsed. There's nothing we can do."

He shrugged and announced this cruel truth.

As soon as these words came out.

The entire conference room was stunned!
The crowd exchanged bewildered glances, staring incredulously at Xu Yi, then at Wang Jingming, the messenger.

no--

I was just called to a meeting, but it doesn't seem to mean that.

"Why are you all staring at me? I can't help it..."

"I only said there was a result, not that it was necessarily a good result. Besides, production qualifications are too difficult to obtain now. Let alone using the connections left by my father, even if you were to touch the dragon vein, you couldn't do it without a lot of money."

Xu Yi glanced at everyone's reactions and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

This world is very realistic. Connections and resources are built on mutual benefit. Now that people have left, they've forgotten you. If you have no power or money, who will care about you?
"Boss, if that's the case, then all our initial investments—the stamping and welding workshop equipment, and the R&D—have been wasted..."

"I can't help but say that," said Zheng Tie, the production manager.

In order to enter the automotive industry, the company invested more than 300 million yuan in total, including factory renovation, purchasing stamping equipment, and acquiring an old automotive production line.

Although the annual production is less than 30,000 units, it is already quite good for a startup company. And all of this is based on successfully obtaining the car manufacturing license.

The company had originally signed an agreement with a local taxi group, under which the local taxi group would purchase 10,000 vehicles in batches when the new cars were launched simultaneously, thus guaranteeing a minimum sales volume.

But now, plans can't keep up with changes.

The past two years have been a breakout year for the establishment of domestic car brands.

The terms that were originally agreed upon have increased several times over in just one year.

Everyone else fell silent.

If that's the case, then it's really over.

Seeing the despair on everyone's faces, Xu Yi took a sip of tea and continued, "Don't panic, everyone. Although the situation is bad, it's not a dead end. At least our main business of manufacturing mini tricycles hasn't been lost. As for the investment in vehicle manufacturing, it's all gone down the drain. Here's my thinking..."

"Since we can't manufacture cars, we can change direction and use existing equipment and stamping machines to integrate production lines and manufacture some miniature four-wheeled vehicles for the elderly to sell on the market. In this way, the profit of miniature four-wheeled vehicles is actually no lower than that of ordinary family cars."

Many people have forgotten.

These past few years have not only been the first year of rapid growth for domestically produced new energy vehicles, but also a period of explosive growth for micro four-wheeled vehicles and "elderly recreational vehicles".

Looking back at history, before the policy was implemented, many local "old people's fun" four-wheeled vehicles grew unchecked like weeds.

The number of vehicles in use could even reach an astonishing tens of millions, which is already an industry scale exceeding 100 billion!
What Xu Yi wanted to seize was this opportune moment!

"Mr. Xu, don't mini cars also need production qualifications to be listed on the market? Without production qualifications, they can't be registered!"

Wang Jingming was taken aback.

In his opinion, Xu Yi's idea was a bit outrageous.

Ordinary family cars are divided into A-class, B-class, and C-class cars, which represent passenger car lengths of 4.5-5 meters respectively.

Microcars specifically refer to passenger vehicles with a wheelbase between 2.2 and 3 meters, such as "A00 class" and "A0 class" vehicles. They are also known as "mini cars" abroad.

The government does not require that a vehicle model be manufactured with a specific wheelbase, but if it wants to be listed for sale and registered normally, it still needs to obtain a vehicle manufacturing qualification.

Who would buy a car that can't be registered or insured?
Xu Yi looked at him, "Who said I was going to be listed?"

He took out his phone and showed a picture of a tricycle, red in color and with a simple design.

This is the most common three-wheeled scooter in rural areas and county towns.

These three-wheeled scooters, in their early years, helped countless rural families get started, providing enormous and irreplaceable transportation capacity for travel from rural areas to cities.

"I'm asking you, is this kind of car registered again?"

Then Xu Yi pulled out a picture of a tricycle with an enclosed cabin.

It has three wheels and a piece of glass, with a power structure almost identical to that of a three-wheeled scooter.

The only difference is that it has a car-like cabin and an extra row of seats.

People's needs are simple. If they can't afford a car, they can only buy a three-wheeled electric vehicle costing a few thousand yuan to get around and haul goods.

If the price increase is not significant, and it still provides shelter from the wind and rain and is suitable for picking up and dropping off children, that would be even better.

Thus, the four-wheeled old man's car came into being.

Unlike the 25 years before his rebirth, in an era when even electric bikes and motorcycles had to be registered and inspected, the speed limit was 25 km/h, and even illegally parked electric bikes had to pay parking fees.

This is a great era!

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "rectification of low-speed four-wheeled vehicles and inclusion of them in motor vehicle regulations" is at least a few years away.

The problem is coming.

It's true that "old man's cars" do not meet automobile production standards.

Why don't I just not register the vehicle?
Motor vehicles without license plates on the road?
Sorry, this doesn't belong to a motor vehicle!
If the driver is over sixty years old and doesn't have a driver's license, then they are even more invincible.

This means they have transcended the Three Realms and are no longer bound by the Five Elements!

Let alone now, even if you were in 25 years ago, when the system was more standardized, inspectors would have been helpless if they encountered a 70-year-old man driving a low-speed electric vehicle.

Magic immunity.

They had no choice but to let them pass.

After listening to Xu Yi's line of thought.

Everyone was completely dumbfounded!!

Is the company transitioning to producing electric vehicles for the elderly, or is it the illegal kind?

Boss, you're unbeatable!

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(End of this chapter)