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    The hardware engineers and software engineers in Tesla Company all used to work in car companies. During the process of designing the car, they should be careful to keep a hand in order to prevent the arrival of nefarious people.  They will think of it in advance to take advantage of us.  Of course, they have previously designed and manufactured traditional cars, and they are relatively safe in terms of spare parts. It is unlikely that someone will buy a car and replace it with various "auxiliary factory" products, and then come to a 4S store.  Or are the manufacturers selling genuine accessories?  Things that cannot be done on traditional cars are possible on Tesla cars. After all, the production of traditional auto parts also requires a series of strengths. Not just any workshop can do robot acting (rebirth)  .  As for cars like Tesla, because they use mature 18650 batteries, there are quite a lot of counterfeit batteries of this kind in Asia!

    Let¡¯s talk about our country. Let¡¯s not talk about the Panasonic 18650 batteries that we purchase in large quantities. Let¡¯s talk about the Sony 18650, which is a similar product. This battery is sold at a really high price because of the Sony brand. In fact, it¡¯s because Sony¡¯s output is not high.  The Panasonic is so big, so the cost is relatively high.  For example, we buy batteries directly from Panasonic. We buy 100 million batteries at a time, and the asking price is US$1 each. When we buy more, the price gradually drops to US$0.8 per battery, which is only 5 yuan in RMB.  Money matters, right?  Sony's genuine 18650 is priced at nearly 90 yuan on the official website in Japan!  Then look at the Sony 18650 sold in the Flea Street store on our Huaxia Hi-Tech online shopping website. The prices range from 15 yuan to 120 yuan!  One that costs 120 yuan can be considered to be genuine, but one that costs 15 yuan?  This really can¡¯t be authentic!

    It is sold in online stores like this. The fake ones may be rechargeable 18650, but they are made by workshops with poor performance.  And for example, some fake 18650s sold in physical stores on the street are so fake that they are not even batteries inside, but sand and cement!  Then the weight is directly made exactly the same as the real 18650!  The result is that if you don¡¯t test it on the spot, you can easily get tricked!  This is the most heartless thing.  Those who are a little more conscientious, or a little smarter, will make fakes with batteries inside!  What battery to install?  The easiest way is to use AA batteries!  The 18650 battery cell is as the name suggests.  The diameter is 18 mm and the height is 65 mm.  And what about AA battery?  It's 14490.  That is 14 mm in diameter and 49 mm in height!  18650 is exactly one size larger than AA battery!

    So there are some smart copycat workshops that buy the cheapest AA batteries from small battery factories outside, such as the ones that cost 50 cents a piece. Some even open their own workshops to make AA batteries themselves and then put them on the market.  After placing the 18650 shell inside, add some sand and cement to make the overall weight the same as the 18650, and then connect the positive and negative electrodes of the battery inside to the positive and negative electrodes of the 18650 outside.  What result does this have?  Those who bought this 18650 battery tested it on the spot when they bought it, and found that it was indeed charged!  It¡¯s easy to deceive people!  After I bought it and charged it up, I found that it couldn't be charged at all. Only then did I realize what they were saying!  Of course, there are also problems with using AA batteries, because the voltage of AA batteries is generally 1.5v, and the voltage of new batteries can even be as high as 1.7 or 1.8 volts, but the voltage of 18650 is 3.6 volts, so really  If you want to use a multimeter to measure it, it¡¯s still easy to find a problem right away!

    Then some smarter workshops began to find ways to further cheat.  If this is further deceived, it will be so true that ordinary people cannot discover it. In fact, the 18650 battery specifications were set very early. At the earliest time, such a specification not only included lithium batteries, but also nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries.  18650 for the battery!  Of course.  This kind of nickel metal hydride 18650 is rare now, but it does not prevent copycat workshops from using this idea to make copies!  How did they copy it?  Put a cheap NiMH rechargeable battery inside the 18650 case and add a small boost circuit board!  Originally, nickel metal hydride batteries are available in various models just like ordinary batteries. There are AA size AA batteries and AA AA size batteries. If you use AA size batteries, the voltage is 1.2v.  After putting it in the 18650 case and installing a boost circuit board.  You can boost the output voltage to about 3.2v, so you can deceive people!

    You should know that the voltage of 18650 battery is not constant.  Generally speaking, the 3.6v or 3.7v nominal voltage of the 18650 is just a platform voltage. In fact, when the battery is fully charged, it is 4.2v.  When it lights up, the voltage is 3.0v or 3.2v!  So what will be the effect if the voltage of a nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery is boosted to 3.2v?  The effect is that there is no problem even if you use a multimeter to measure it!  18650 with half 3.2v will also appear, 18650 that is almost out of power!  And the capacity of this nickel-metal hydride battery is indeed much smaller than that of 18650. After boosting, it is a fraction of 18650!  So it perfectly fits the image of a dead 18650 battery!  The result of buying this kind of battery is that after I went back and charged it several times, I found out that the charging time was long and the battery was not fully charged, and then it ran out of power very quickly after using it!  As a Chinese, Jia Hongjian knew about these copycats in the country.They are so evil-minded. Even if these copycat workshops do not take the initiative to use their products to exploit our batteries, even if others buy their batteries to exploit our batteries, that is absolutely not allowed!

    Fortunately, these hardware engineers and software engineers consciously or unconsciously took into account the psychology of consumers. They thought that if they were consumers, they would get a brand new battery when they bought a car. As a result, the battery would be replaced after driving the car for a few years.  The overall performance is getting worse and worse. I don't know how many people have used the battery in my car, which has a great impact on consumers' experience.  Even if Tesla invests in a batch of new batteries for rotation at this time, it will easily lead to consumers feeling that they rely on luck when it comes to batteries. If they are lucky, they will encounter good batteries, and if they are not lucky, they will encounter bad batteries. This kind of uncertainty is very easy.  Affects sales and reputation!  With such an idea, these engineers thought of building a system that monitors battery status like an on-board computer.  We want to develop a chip that monitors battery status.  There are seven or eight thousand batteries in a battery panel used in a car. They cannot be managed by just one on-board computer chip. They must be grouped or something.  So this monitoring system becomes more and more detailed!  And such a detailed monitoring itself can also prevent batteries from being siphoned off to make a profit!

    And in terms of other hardware of the car.  The goal at the beginning of the design was to be satisfactory, and now it has achieved this goal very well. To put it bluntly, Tesla's first-generation pure electric coupe is just a pure electric gimmick!  It is to let consumers suddenly tell them that we have made it when they think that pure electric cars are a thing of the future!  Let them try our car with a sense of curiosity!  In this way, their expectations are mainly on the label of pure electric vehicles, not on how good the safety performance is, not on whether the brand is good enough!  So as long as we provide a satisfactory and average product.  Coupled with such a gimmick of pure electricity, it is enough!

    Even if a low-priced pure electric scooter is launched in the future, it will directly impact the entry-level models of Toyota and other cars. By then, we will not need to make the car less buggy. The electricity consumption of the car is already higher than that of the oil-burning Toyota car.  Come and save money!  This is already the biggest highlight!  When consumers get this bright spot, it will be easier to tolerate minor problems, and then we can slowly improve the level!  In this way, by competing with different products, we can skip the leading advantages of traditional car giants and reach the same starting line for everyone!  For example, the cost of using a car is calculated in detail within Huaxia Automobile.  If a home charging pile is installed or it is directly connected to household electricity for plug-in charging.  Basically, a mobility scooter needs about 1,100 kilowatt-hours of electricity to drive about 10,000 kilometers, which is 11 kilowatt-hours of electricity per 100 kilometers.

    And it is calculated based on the daytime electricity cost of 5 cents per kilowatt hour and the peak and valley electricity at night at 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour.  One hundred kilometers is actually 2.75 yuan!  What price is this, dear!  You know, even if the price of gasoline drops to 5 yuan per liter, even if a Japanese car consumes only 6 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers, it still costs 30 yuan per 100 kilometers!  Our mobility scooter costs less than 3 yuan per 100 kilometers, only one-tenth of others!  What is this concept?  If the price is similar to that of Japanese cars, ordinary people, no matter Chinese or Americans, should not go crazy and buy our cars?  Especially Americans. Americans basically live in the suburbs, far away from where they work.  It was normal to drive 50 kilometers during my last shift!  And one round trip a day is a hundred kilometers away!  Even if the price of gas is much cheaper in the United States, it¡¯s still a big expense, right?

    It¡¯s like California, which has the cheapest gas prices in the United States.  When the price of crude oil was US$30 to US$40, the price of gasoline in the United States was almost US$2 per gallon.  Converted into RMB, it is 3 yuan per liter, so 6 liters of oil per 100 kilometers will cost 18 yuan.  But 11 kilowatt-hours of electricity are different.  For example, the electricity price in California is a tiered electricity price, but unlike in China, the electricity price in the second stage is cheaper!  A household's electricity consumption within a month is US$0.092 per kilowatt hour within 300 kilowatt hours, and the excess after exceeding 300 kilowatt hours is US$0.052 per kilowatt hour!  So after driving 10,000 kilometers, the electricity bill spent on my husband¡¯s car alone is 1,100 kilowatt-hours. That 300 kilowatt-hours is about 6 cents per kilowatt-hour in China, but there are 800 kilowatt-hours worth 30.3 cents per kilowatt-hour!  If this does not include peak and valley electricity prices, the cost of charging 1,100 kilowatt-hours of electricity for 10,000 kilometers of car charging is US$27.6 plus US$41.6, which ultimately equals US$69.2, or RMB 436.  Then divided by one hundred, that is, the power consumption per 100 kilometers is 11 kilowatt-hours, which is equivalent to RMB 4.36!

    Even if there is a 7% tax on electricity use in California, it is only 4.7 yuan per 100 kilometers!  Assuming that the husband works exactly 50 kilometers away from home, he only spends 4.7 yuan a day on electricity, while gas costs 18 yuan!  The difference is 13 yuan, which is two dollars!  Not to mention that the average American family has more than one car. When the wife goes out to buy groceries and send the children to school, she has to drive, which actually saves a lot of money in a month!  Moreover, because of the increase in electricity consumption,What about the decline in electricity prices in this stage?  So in fact, the electricity at this family¡¯s home is cheaper, right?

    So this saves a lot of money!  When he finally arrived at this point, Jia Hongjian was really surprised!  He originally thought that the electricity prices in the United States were the same as in China, with the second level being higher than the first level!  It turned out that it was because China's industrial electricity demand has always been relatively large. Electricity is a scarce resource, so people have to prevent people from wasting it, so the price is getting higher and higher.  The industries in the United States have long since moved abroad, and their power resources are surplus, so the tiered electricity prices are actually like going to the supermarket to buy things. There are discounts for buying more!  So when it comes to promoting electric scooters in the United States, that¡¯s really a foundation!  (To be continued.)
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