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Chapter 757 - 757 757 Huge Incidents!

757: Chapter 757: Huge Incidents!

Shocking the World!

757: Chapter 757: Huge Incidents!

Shocking the World!

Bad news spread rapidly!

The magic cure had failed, and the new virus was completely uncontrollable.

Upon hearing the news, Zheng immediately called Wu Jie.

No way around it!

With superior network technology and the invention of the Graphene Composite Battery, such a national treasure of a talent must be given extra attention.

“This is bad!

Where are you right now?”

“Airport Road, attending the opening ceremony of the first batch of battery swap stations in the Tianyuan area!”

“Over in Yincheng, the virus has mutated, and the wonder drug is completely ineffective.

Don’t go to crowded places, get out of there fast!”

“It can’t possibly have spread back to our country so quickly, right?

Besides, the event is almost over.

Don’t worry, I won’t be in any danger!”

After hanging up the phone, Wu Jie couldn’t help but frown deeply.

Two big events had happened over the past week.

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The first event.

The new car launch by Tianyuan Green Energy Auto shook the entire world.

Although scientists had long predicted that electric cars would eventually replace fuel vehicles, no one expected it to become a reality so soon.

And despite their not being cheap, the reservation orders were incredibly hot.

In less than three days, pre-orders had broken a million units, a truly unexpected and eye-opening achievement for many.

Tianyuan Green Energy Auto had been working at full capacity, producing day and night with overtime.

The more than thirty thousand stock vehicles produced in advance were quickly delivered to users in the Tianyuan area.

Two highly intelligent flexible production lines were running day and night at a speed of 96 vehicles per hour.

The overwhelming order demand directly caused the company to add three more production lines, aiming to produce two million electric vehicles per year.

Of course.

With so many orders, the company simply could not have inventory in stock.

The more than two thousand new cars that came off the production line each day wouldn’t be stored after passing the tests but immediately sent to be delivered to customers.

The early bird catches the worm.

Within just a week, Tianyuan and the surrounding cities and counties had delivered more than fifty thousand electric vehicles.

Although all the cars could be charged using the existing charging piles and household electricity, owners were still looking forward to the battery swap stations.

This was why.

The other hot commodity was the battery swap station.

The newly established Liuli Continent Green Energy Industry Company by Tanglong Industrial Group had prepared a whopping twenty billion Gold Coins.

In major cities across the country, nearly twenty thousand battery swap stations were being built at breakneck speed.

The larger the city and the more electric car owners, the higher the priority to build more battery swap stations.

In Tianyuan, for example.

For this first batch of stations to officially open, one was built every less than three kilometers from the city center to the suburbs.

They covered the surrounding satellite cities and suburban counties, totaling three hundred stations.

In Liuli City, Qicheng, and other first-tier cities and provincial capitals, there weren’t many new cars, so only a few or a dozen stations were symbolically built.

When Tang Xiao established Liuli Continent Green Energy Industry Company, she declared that within half a month, battery swap stations would cover all county-level cities.

Thus, even many cities without a single Tianyuan Green Energy Auto electric car had symbolically built one.

Therefore.

At the opening ceremony today, every one of over two thousand county-level administrative regions across the country had at least one battery swap station officially open.

Clearly, due to the limited delivery speed of electric vehicles, many battery swap stations would operate at a loss for a long time.

In some remote western counties, there might be no electric vehicles coming to swap batteries even after one or two years, resulting in zero revenue.

But nowadays, who doesn’t start a big business by spending money first and operating at a crazy loss to gain popularity?

Think about the initial group buying, takeout delivery, online ride-hailing, shared bikes…

Which company wasn’t initially treating money like dirt, spending crazily every day to attract customers and gain popularity?

What’s more, Liuli Continent Green Energy Industry Company could afford the losses!

Even if those remote county swap stations never turned a profit, what of it?

With construction costs of less than two million, plus the salaries of three or four workers and expenses, the maximum monthly loss would only be forty thousand.

The over two thousand swap stations built in various counties across the country would only incur a total loss of one hundred million!

In the past.

During DiDi’s competition with Uber in China, DiDi was burning through a hundred million a day on average, providing huge benefits to drivers and passengers.

They were not distressed about the cost, were they?

It’s what made them successful, encouraged people to switch from taxis to ride-hailing services, and even led to the merger with Uber.

So, for Wu Jie and Tang Xiao, even if more than twenty thousand battery swap stations were to lose money, with a monthly loss of one billion, what would it matter?

In the next three months, three international giants were going to transfer a total of sixty billion Gold Coins in stocks and bonds to the company.

These five hundred billion plus Gold Coins in stocks and bonds, once sold, turn into cash.

Thirty billion Yuan, even if you lose one billion a month, it’s enough to last for thirty years.

With so much money, why worry about the losses?

In counties and smaller cities, symbolically build one station, while in city centers, provincial capitals, and municipalities, build a few or even up to a dozen.

No matter whether there are electric cars to swap batteries, build the battery swap stations first.

In the future, Tianyuan Green Energy Auto will have five production lines in Tianyuan, producing two million vehicles a year.

They will also go to Wu Jie’s hometown of Tongcheng, the Anxiong New District personally designated by Tan, and the Pearl River Delta Region.

To build three large bases respectively, each with a massive annual production capacity of ten million vehicles.

Hence, there will be more and more electric vehicles in the future, and more battery swap stations are beneficial.

In fact…

It’s not easy for a battery swap station to operate without earning a single penny and only incur losses.

There are already quite a few electric vehicles from other companies on the market now, and the battery swap stations have charging piles to provide charging services for car owners, earning a little money.

Additionally, Tianyuan Green Energy Auto is continuously producing electric vehicles, and as time goes on, the number of electric vehicles in major cities will increase from none to some and from a few to many.

Switching to a fully charged battery can yield a gross profit of one hundred and fifty Yuan.

If a station can switch out batteries for ten electric vehicles a day, it won’t operate at a loss.

At least the workers’ wages, electric bills, equipment maintenance, and depreciation costs are covered.

And ten cars…

Is that too difficult?

In Tianyuan and the surrounding counties, the first batch of 300 battery-swapping stations that were put into use would not easily incur significant losses.

After all, with fifty thousand electric vehicles already delivered to customers, even if only ten percent of owners needed to swap batteries daily, that still equates to a market demand for five thousand vehicles.

On average, that means each swapping station is servicing more than ten cars.

Additionally.

Tianyuan Green Energy Auto’s two newly built production lines will go all out to manufacture vehicles for taxi companies and ride-hailing services.

Within two months, a new fleet of official vehicles, taxis, and ride-hailing cars will begin to appear in various locations.

These vehicles will be used frequently, especially taxis.

If taxis operate on a day and night shift system, they can easily cover four to five hundred kilometers a day, and they would definitely need to swap a battery every day.

If a city has several thousand electric taxis and ride-hailing cars, then the swapping stations in that city would actually make a profit.

So as long as the production capacity of Tianyuan Green Energy Auto is sufficiently large, the swapping stations under the Liuli Continent Green Energy Industry will somehow avoid losses.

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Secondly.

The globally renowned Curse-City King Holding Investment Company launched an astonishing acquisition bid.

They planned to use two billion Gold Coins in cash, plus three hundred million barrels of crude oil, to acquire a twenty percent stake in Tianyuan Green Energy Auto.

Over the past few years, as national strength continued to grow,

it has always been Chinese companies acquiring foreign businesses in cross-border takeovers.

In sectors like real estate, hotels, technology, media, and telecommunications, there have been major foreign acquisitions in recent years.

For example, Tencent’s 8.6-billion Gold Coin purchase of Finnish mobile game developer Supercell, Sinochem Group’s 44.2 billion Gold Coin acquisition of Syngenta, Geely’s 9 billion Gold Coin investment in Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz…

This time, Tianyuan Green Energy Auto really made the nation proud, attracting investment from the oil-rich tycoons of the Zhongzhou Continent.

One is an innovative company set to change the world’s transportation and energy landscape!

The other is a wealthy energy behemoth with a huge oil output!

This acquisition negotiation drew the attention of the entire world, especially the financial futures industry.

After multiple rounds of discussions between both parties, the deal ultimately fell through.

The oil tycoons even increased their offer to five hundred million barrels of crude oil, but still failed to persuade Wu Jie.

Following the breakdown of the negotiations, Wu Jie solemnly declared at a press conference.

Electric vehicles are gradually replacing fuel cars, leading to a decreasing demand for oil, and the price of oil will inevitably start to fall…

The insistence by the Curse-City side to trade in increasingly worthless crude oil was the biggest reason for the collapse of the negotiations.

Tianyuan Green Energy Auto, committed to clean and green development, could not possibly accept five hundred million barrels of crude oil.

And what to do with so much oil anyway?

Use it for cooking, or perhaps frying food?

Turning it into gasoline, diesel, and kerosene for burning would pollute the environment too much; it might be better to simply refuse it.

Consequently.

The day the negotiations fell through, the global energy market shook like a magnitude twelve earthquake.

Oil futures markets around the world experienced a panic sell-off.

The price of oil once plummeted to 40 Gold Coins per barrel, a veritable cliff-like free fall.

However…

Oil is the economic backbone of many countries, which rely on the oil trade to sustain economic operations and prosperity.

Wu Jie’s move caused oil prices to collapse, directly impacting the economies of many countries.

If oil isn’t valuable, can those tycoons still spend money like water?

How many people will cry themselves to sleep in the bathroom?

Blocking someone’s livelihood is akin to killing their parents!

This wave of enmity was truly fierce.

From presidents to common people,

workers engaged in oil exploration, refining, transportation, and trading also came to deeply resent Wu Jie.

Wu Jie thought that his energy points would surge and quickly surpass one billion.

But what happened?

He hadn’t accounted for the swift reaction from countries around the world!

Soon, countries organized experts to clarify and debunk myths, and invested heavily to buy in and prevent further collapse of oil prices.

There were various arguments.

For instance, Tianyuan Green Energy Auto was just starting out, with extremely limited production capacity, and it would take a long time to meet domestic demand alone.

Moreover, the company only obtained domestic production licenses, and its electric vehicles still had to go through approval and certification to be sold in other countries.

Other countries would surely scrutinize very strictly (and slowly) and would not allow Tianyuan Green Energy Auto to rapidly capture the market.

The fact that Liuli Continent Green Energy Industry had plans to buy land, network, and build swapping stations, meant that related processes would definitely be tightly controlled.

Furthermore, electric vehicles from Tianyuan Green Energy Auto were no longer cheap; with tariffs added for exporting to other countries, the cost would increase further.

Consider how inexpensive fuel cars are, and how low the oil prices are as well!

For example, a Tianchen Sedan that sells for 60,000 Gold Coins domestically would cost at least 100,000 Gold Coins in other countries after all sorts of taxes.

Meanwhile, in other countries, a Mercedes C-Class or BMW 3 Series could be priced around 40,000 Gold Coins, with gasoline costing less than one Gold Coin per liter.

The additional 60,000 Gold Coins are equivalent to driving an extra 70,000 kilometers!

Moreover.

With over a billion existing gasoline cars globally, the gradual phase-out would take at least a decade.

Thousands of various ships, including oil tankers, cargo ships, and naval vessels, must burn heavy fuel oil or diesel.

Planes and fighter jets which number in the tens of thousands, including commercial airliners, must burn aviation kerosene.

Added to that, oil is an extremely important raw material for the chemical industry, so the demand for oil consumption would remain robust.

Ultimately.

Experts with all their classical references and data managed to convince the general public.

Oil prices did not drop precipitously any further and started to recover steadily.

And the hatred towards Wu Jie also swiftly diminished; he didn’t manage to break through one billion energy points in one go to complete his mission.

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Now, the third major event happened.

A new mutation of the Sakuragi Hana virus emerged, rendering the miracle cure ineffective.

If they couldn’t contain it, wouldn’t that mean national extinction??