Chapter 36

Dong, chongchong, chongchong, tui, tui, tui, tui.

With a familiar sound as a child, an old tractor has just started.

On a deserted field, two tractors of different styles are undergoing a comparative test. One is an old tractor with black smoke and the other is a brand-new electric tractor.

Liang Shicheng felt after his separate experience that the money was really not wasted.

The noise of the electric tractor is very low, and there is almost no vibration. The driving comfort seems to have reached the level of high-end cars. It seems that it can also pretend to be an electric car if it is slightly improved.

Well, it's a slight improvement.

Liang Shicheng's real purpose is to prepare for entering the field of electric vehicles. Time can't afford to delay. He still has a lot to do before he gets a serious electric vehicle company.

These include larger scale driverless testing. The accumulation of a large amount of test data is not only to improve products and software, but also an important capital, a qualification certificate to prove the reliability of their driverless system.

So he came up with a bold idea to develop an electric tractor product called Tieniu x, install his own driverless system on it for free, and then start large-scale testing.

The cost of driverless system is expensive and cheap according to the scheme adopted. The most common scheme requires a large number of lidar, and the hardware cost alone needs hundreds of thousands.

However, Liang Shicheng's driverless system is too poor. There is only one high-definition camera that can rotate at a certain angle like a human head. The purchase price is less than 300RMB, plus a set of low-end mobile phone hardware configuration for control.

At present, the biggest advantage is the cost. Liang Shicheng is determined to install his driverless system on the tractor.

At the same time, iron ox X has the following characteristics. Although it is called a tractor, only 9 of every 10 people will agree with it.

Tieniu x should give full play to the greatest advantage of electric control and free adjustment of high and low speed modes.

In the low-speed mode, the speed is slow and the torque is strong. It is used for cultivated land.

In high-speed mode, the speed is extremely fast, and you can enjoy racing.

It can travel as fast as 60 kilometers per hour. Users can buy it home and use it directly as a two seater car.

The identity of the tractor is just a cover for the real use of iron ox X. Liang Shicheng has no qualification of an automobile enterprise, so his products can't go through a lot of relevant procedures.

But the tractor is an exception. The tractor does not need these qualifications. Strictly speaking, the tractor is not allowed to enter the city casually, and it is not under the jurisdiction of the traffic police.

The main activity range of tractors is all kinds of roads in the countryside. They will not be constrained by any modification. There are still a large number of formal cement roads in the countryside. The traffic police will not come here. Even if you build GAODA, no one will take care of them.

But Liang Shicheng knows a phenomenon. Many farmers use tractors as cars, load a bucket and pull goods casually. No one cares about running around the urban-rural fringe. Occasionally, they sneak into the city to sell watermelons. The traffic police turn a blind eye.

Iron ox x just conforms to the usage of these people. It is a combination of tractor and sports car. When farming is busy, it is an electric car to install accessories at other times, but the company will not admit this.

In this way, their own driverless system will inadvertently have a lot of opportunities to be actually tested, mainly on rural dirt roads and formal roads in the urban-rural fringe. There is still a need to abide by traffic rules and avoid various obstacles. Sometimes there are not many vehicles here, which can be said to be a slow-paced version of urban roads.

Of course, it occasionally has the opportunity to study in the city, but even if someone drives it to the city, he will be punished if he is caught.

Today is the race of performance test. At the beginning of the test, the electric tractor instantly accelerated to the maximum speed of 35 km / h, while the old tractor has just shaken the handle and is ready to start.

At the end of all the links, in addition to the price and the need for a lot of time to charge, the other performances of the electric tractor are completely won.

Although Liang Shicheng did not spend much money on the acquisition of such an agricultural enterprise and left enough ammunition for other industries to enter in the future, he was still very cautious about his investment in every step.

He asserted that because of these advantages of electric tractors, as long as we find ways to make up for those two disadvantages, the future prospect of this industry is broad, and it is the real tuyere for ourselves, although this is not a big capital.

Electric tractors have not been popularized in China, but they are popular abroad. However, Liang Shicheng, who was previously engaged in the field of agricultural UAVs, knows that there are many rich farmers in China. Although he does not expect to occupy all domestic markets, he is confident that electric tractors will have a certain sales volume in the future.

At the same time, he also has a huge advantage, that is, his current agricultural UAV company has a large amount of customer information. Most of these customers are a new generation of young farmers with strong learning ability.

No matter what their family conditions are, their thoughts have changed greatly. They are willing to invest more cost in equipment in exchange for higher efficiency in work. They think they can take out more time and engage in other things, rather than being honest like their parents.

There is such a trend in rural areas in China. Many farmers choose to work in cities. Although the originally owned fields are not allowed to be bought and sold, they can be rented to others. Therefore, some organizations specialized in renting a large number of fields and large-scale planting have been born. They are willing to purchase a large number of equipment to improve efficiency and reduce labor costs. Now the number of people left in rural areas has become smaller, Labor costs are getting higher.

In short, through the research work with a large number of previous customers, Liang Shicheng learned some pain points about the actual use of electric tractors. They charge too slowly and can't support a day when farming, but the work of the hired people is distributed on a daily basis, no matter how much they do or how little they do, so the families with less land can accept it, This is an unacceptable problem for large-scale organizations with a large number of fields.

But the good news is that many people can afford higher prices.

The original purpose of the tractor is to farm. The torque is large and the speed is slow. However, for farming, there is a demand for every mu of land twice a year. There is no need to plough in other times. In this case, the tractor is idle.

So farmers will develop the skills to use it as a car. The disadvantage is that it is very slow.

Some families who need faster speed to transport goods have to buy another van.

Iron bull x can maintain a speed of 60 km / h for a long time. It can barely get on the high-speed, but it can't get through the card. Racing in the countryside and the junction of urban and rural areas is not a problem at all.

Finally, Liang Shicheng confidently issued the R & D plan of Tieniu x to the newly purchased company

When he asked the design department about the feasibility of the scheme, he got a positive answer. It's not difficult. Anyway, there is really little difference between electric tractor and electric sports car in structure.

But there is only one problem that cannot be solved, that is the problem of short travel.