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Chapter 37 Tractors Are Electric Cars

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With a sound familiar from childhood, an old-fashioned tractor has just started its pace.

On a barren field, two tractors of different styles are undergoing a comparison test, one is an old-fashioned tractor with black smoke and the other is a brand new electric tractor.

Liang Shicheng felt that the money was not in vain after experiencing them separately.

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

Well, it is a slight improvement.

Liang Shicheng's real goal is to prepare for entering the field of electric vehicles. Time has not been delayed. He has a lot of things to do before he gets a serious electric vehicle company.

These include larger-scale unmanned driving tests. The accumulation of a large amount of test data is not only to improve products and software, but it is also an important capital, a qualification certificate that proves the reliability of its unmanned driving system.

So he had a bold idea to develop an electric tractor product called Tieniu X, install his own unmanned driving system on it for free, and then start large-scale testing.

The cost of the unmanned driving system varies depending on the scheme adopted.The most common solution requires a large amount of lidar, and the hardware cost alone requires hundreds of thousands.

But Liang Shicheng's unmanned driving system is too shabby. The entire external hardware only has a high-definition camera that can rotate a certain angle like a human head. The cost purchase price is less than 300RMB, plus a set of low-end mobile phone hardware configuration. control.

The biggest advantage at present is cost. Liang Shicheng is determined to install his unmanned driving system on the tractor.

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

Tieniu X should give full play to the greatest advantages of electric control, free adjustment of high and low speed modes.

In low-speed mode, the speed is slow and the torque is strong, which is used for plowing.

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

It can be used as fast as 60 kilometers per hour. Users can buy it home and use it as a two-seater car.

The identity of the tractor is just a cover for the real use of Tie Niu X. Liang Shicheng does not have the qualifications of an automobile company, and his products cannot go through a lot of related procedures.

But tractors are an exception. Tractors do not need these qualifications. Strictly speaking, tractors are not allowed to enter the city at will, and they are not under the jurisdiction of the traffic police.

The main scope of tractor activities is all kinds of roads in the countryside. You will not be restricted by how you modify them. In the countryside, there are still a large number of very formal concrete roads and, here, the traffic police will not come. People will manage.

However, Liang Shicheng knows a phenomenon. Many farmers use tractors as cars, load them with a cart, and run around in the urban-rural fringe without supervision, and occasionally sneak into the city to sell some watermelons. Traffic police Open one eye and close one eye.

Tie Niu X conforms to the usage of these people. It is a combination of a tractor and a sports car. When the farm is busy, it plows the fields and installs its accessories at other times. It is an electric car, but the company will not admit this if it is killed.

In this way, your unmanned driving system will inadvertently have a lot of opportunities to be tested in practice, mainly on rural dirt roads, and on regular roads in the urban-rural fringe. There are still traffic rules and avoidance. The demand for obstacles, sometimes there are not many vehicles here, it can be said that it is a slow-paced version of the city highway.

Of course, it will occasionally have the opportunity to study in the city, but even if someone drives it into the city, it is personally punished if caught.

What is going on today is the racing link of the performance test. As soon as the test began, the electric tractor instantly accelerated to a maximum speed of 35 kilometers per hour, while the old-fashioned tractor had just finished shaking its handle and was about to start.

In the end, all the links are over. In addition to the price and the need for a lot of time to charge, the other performances of the electric tractor completely win.

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

He asserted that because of the advantages of electric tractors, as long as they find a way to make up for those two disadvantages, the future of the industry is broad and it is the real outlet for him, 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 drones, knows that there are many wealthy farmers in China. Although he does not expect to occupy all the domestic markets, he is very concerned about electric tractors. I am confident that there will be a certain amount of sales in the future.

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

Regardless of the family's conditions, their thinking has changed significantly, and they are willing to invest more in equipment in exchange for higher efficiency at work, thinking that they will buy more time for other things instead of Just like my father's generation, he keeps on one-third of an acre of land.

There is such a trend in the domestic rural areas. Many farmers choose to work in cities. Although the original land is not allowed to be bought and sold, it can be rented to other people. Therefore, some organizations specializing in renting large amounts of land and large-scale planting have been born. They are happy Large quantities of equipment are purchased to improve efficiency and reduce labor costs. Now the number of people left behind in rural areas has decreased, and labor costs have increased.

In a word, Liang Shicheng learned about some pain points about the actual use of electric tractors through research work with a large number of previous customers. They are too slow to charge and cannot support a day when plowing the fields, but the jobs of the hired people are One day, no matter if you do more or less, families with fewer fields can still 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 say they can afford higher prices.

The original purpose of the tractor is to plow the field, and the torque is large and the speed is slow. However, the demand for farming and plowing is about twice a year per acre. There is no need for plowing at other times. In this case, the tractor is only needed. Idle.

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

Some people need to ship goods faster, so they have to buy another van.

Tieniu X can maintain a speed of 60 kilometers per hour for a long time, and it can barely get on the high speed, but it can't pass the stuck. It is not a problem to drag racing in the countryside and the urban-rural junction.

In the end, Liang Shicheng confidently issued to the newly purchased company the R&D plan of Tieniu X

When he asked the design department about the feasibility of the plan, he got an affirmative answer. This is not difficult. Anyway, there is really little difference between an electric tractor and an electric sports car in terms of structure.

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