After Divorce, I Can Hear the Future

Chapter 365: ’New Energy’, Clearing the King’s Side

"Over the weekend, Lu Liang visited Li Xiang.

In recent years, among the newly emerged brands of new energy vehicles, Li Xiang and Weima have been the best sellers.

Although two Weima EX5s can only buy one top-equipped Li Xiang ONE, due to different market audiences, both have broken through the ten thousand unit sales mark.

If Weima is snatching food from BYD’s mouth, then Li Xiang ONE, with its ridiculed range extender, as well as features like a refrigerator, colorful TV, and large sofa, has carved a path to success.

"Mr. Lu, the styling of the car isn’t particularly important, the key is the driving experience and comfort.”

Li Xiang wore a full smile, in a very good mood, knowing that Lu Liang was still focused on developing a brand-new car shell and chassis, he couldn’t stand it and shared some of his successful experience.

The success of ONE represents among the four Weiwei and Li Xiang brands, they have achieved a phased victory.

According to Li Xiang’s user profile, 90% of ONE owners are around 30 years old with a family.

These people, not too old yet open to new things, also have to consider family needs.

So, they also concluded that being handsome doesn’t matter; what’s important is being useful and comfortable.

For their next mass production vehicle, they also plan not to waste time on styling, and directly use Lifan’s models.

The focus is on upgrading the interior, configuration, and intelligence to firmly follow the family-oriented car use path.

"Perhaps, you’re right.”

Lu Liang smiled, though not completely agreeing, he did not object. The future market is going to be huge, enough to accommodate a diversity of thriving developers.

Li Xiang ONE has achieved a phased victory, but it doesn’t represent the only answer.

However, at the time of its initial launch, the ridiculed range extender actually had its merits.

Short trips charge, long trips fuel up, perfectly solving the lack of widespread charging stations and range anxiety problems.

As for being criticized for not being environmentally friendly, an oddity among electric vehicles, it didn’t even count as a problem.

‘New energy’ explains it all.

Environmental protection is just a slogan, like the proclamations of a doomed sky, a rising new power, not worth mentioning just like saying a stone statue sparked a major rebellion.

The essence is energy security and industrial upgrading.

The range extender worked without solely depending on gasoline, and Li Xiang ONE made some who would buy imported luxury cars choose it instead.

Then it is a vehicle that officially qualifies as a legitimate new energy vehicle by official standards.

"Mr. Lu, how is the Tianxing Car Machine system’s development?”

"In two more months, L2 level assisted driving will be ready for use.”

After a long silence, Li Xiang awkwardly smiled, “Then please make sure to authorize us to use it first.”

With Li Xiang ONE’s sales breaking ten thousand, he got a bit carried away, so he had secretly decided to allocate some funds in the next financing round for in-house system development.

Lu Liang’s words hit him hard, realizing that with L2 assisted driving nearly ready, investors would definitely not agree to spend money on developing their own systems.

Technological re

Little Wang frowned and reluctantly put aside his confusion temporarily, quickly making a call to Long Fei to inquire about the latest progress.

After a while, he said, “Long Fei said, even if we start preparing for the IPO now, it’ll take at least three months.”

"Three months?”

Lu Liang appeared thoughtful. He had already decided to assist Cheng Wei with Clearing the King’s Side, but DiDi’s scale was huge, and the situation was complicated.

If they back down and list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, it definitely wouldn’t appease neutral foreign investors like Temasek and Saudi Sovereign.

Although Xiangjiang was East Country’s financial port to the outside world, its influence was quite limited—it could only radiate across Asia, nowhere near the global reach of the New York Stock Exchange.

A 30% chance of success, to increase it to 50%, Lu Liang should also suggest listing on the New York Stock Exchange like Liu Qing.

If they all set their sights on the New York Stock Exchange, given Lu Liang’s cooperation with Sergey, he could at least pull him over.

After all, the premise of friendship fostering cooperation is that both parties’ interests remain unharmed, so friendships are considered.

This way, the faction of Lu Liang and Cheng Wei would be on par with the Liu Family and Liu Qing’s faction at fifty-fifty strength.

But a 50% success rate isn’t secure enough; they need to increase it slightly more.

The Liu Family, father and daughter, had decades of close relationships with foreign capital.

In contrast, Lu Liang’s ability to seize opportunities was obvious to all, but whether he could replace Liu Qing and assist DiDi in listing in the US was still a question mark.

He thought of Panda—if using Panda as a model, successfully listing in the US and achieving good results,

Clearing the King’s Side’s plan could at least improve the success rate by 10%, even above 20%.

The balance of victory would start to tilt.

"Are you in a hurry?” Little Wang couldn’t help but ask.

"The sooner Panda goes public, the better. If you need help, just let me know.”

"Why?” Little Wang frowned, unable to understand what Lu Liang was scheming.

"Don’t worry about what I’m plotting. When have you ever seen me harm you?” Lu Liang looked displeased.

"Come to think of it, never.”

Since knowing Lu Liang, Old Wang has found him more pleasing to the eye, and he stopped bothering about his daily changing girlfriends.

"There you go.”

Lu Liang appeared righteous, a flicker of guilt flashing in his eyes.

If Little Wang knew he was using his Panda as a model, if it worked, great; if not, Little Wang might very well want to kill him.

Rushing out a prototype was like a preemie; it might grow healthy or might suffer from lingering health issues later.