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Since Xingyi TV is just in its early stages, Wang Yi can serve as CEO and decide how Xingyi TV will operate and develop.

However, as the business grows in the future, Wang Yi will not be able to take care of them all, so he still needs to train a professional CEO to be responsible for the development of Xingyi TV.

The same is true for other business units, where the CEO and the technical director are separated, each performing their own duties, complementing each other and developing healthily.

For example, the construction progress and development of the Xingyi TV factory were previously handled by Xu Mingyi and Daocheng, and Wang Yi never asked about it.

As early as four months ago, Xu Mingyi calculated the expected delivery time of the factory and recruited employees and provided training in advance.

Now that it has been officially delivered, those people can go straight to their posts and feel much more relaxed.

Wang Yi saw all of this and after observing Xu Mingyi for a while, he found that he was indeed a talent, so he appointed him as the CEO of Xingyi TV.

Of course, the smooth development of Xingyi TV’s business is also related to the island city.

The island city already has Hisense TV, which is the largest TV industry base in the country and a gathering place for TV-related practitioners.

Whether it is workshop workers, technicians, or TV suppliers, the industrial chain is very mature in the island city.

It can be said that the existence of Hisense has supported the island city’s television industry cluster.

This is also the reason why Wang Yi placed Xingyi TV in the island city. By utilizing the existing industrial clusters, the development of Xingyi TV will also be able to advance by leaps and bounds.

This is the industrial cluster effect.

If it were placed in Jeju, it would be over. Jeju has no television industry, and the entire upstream and downstream industrial chain would have to be built from scratch.

Similarly, the Xingyi Smart Home Industrial Park is located in the island city for the same reason.

At present, the domestic electrical appliance industry is mainly concentrated in two major cities.

Island City in the north, Foshan in the south!

The island city is dominated by large appliances such as refrigerators, televisions, and washing machines, with brands such as Haier, Hisense, and Aucma.

In addition to large home appliances such as air conditioners and washing machines, Foshan also has small home appliance industries such as lighting. There are not only Midea, but also Foshan Lighting, Galanz and other brands.

It will undoubtedly be much easier and less costly to develop corresponding industries in places where industrial clusters are mature.

On the contrary, if the cost is too high, the product will not be very competitive.

Just like the new energy LiDAR, does Musk really think LiDAR is not good? Does he really think LiDAR is not as good as pure vision solutions?

of course not!

It was only because the cost of lidar was too high in 2016 and Tesla could not afford it that it chose a cheaper pure vision solution.

Many years later, the cost of LiDAR has dropped sharply, but Tesla has gone too far in the field of pure vision and has limited accumulation in the field of LiDAR. If it wants to switch to LiDAR, it has to start from scratch, and it will be difficult to reverse the situation!

If the cost of lidar in 2016 was as cheap as it would be five years later, Musk would probably have made lidar a standard feature on the first generation of Tesla.

After all, pure visual solutions have many disadvantages. For example, rainy days, foggy days, nights and other harsh environments are all disasters for pure visual solutions.

LiDAR may be more expensive, but it is safer.

Whether it is L4 or L2 autonomous driving, the most important thing is safety!

Safety must be put first, which means that pure visual solutions are unreliable.

At the very least, it should be a comprehensive solution of vision + lidar, or a full range of lidar.

Now that Xingyi TV has been successfully developed and will be put into mass production within a week, Wang Yi also has to prepare for the future.

Xingyi Automobile is the next big project, which will take several years to prepare.

But many technologies have already begun to be developed.

At the end of April, Wang Yi set about establishing the Xingyi Automobile R&D department and began recruiting various talents to carry out comprehensive R&D from the three-electric system to the entire vehicle solution.

The driving solution of Xingyi Automobile is vision + lidar.

Of course, in the initial stage, it can only be purely visual.

There is no other reason. The current laser radar is too expensive. One laser radar costs hundreds of thousands of RMB, which is more expensive than a car, so people cannot afford it at all.

前世直到2016年，16线激光雷达都要5万人民币，64线要50万人民币。

The detection range of a 16-line laser radar is only 64 meters, which is not enough. It needs at least lines.

However, the 64-line laser radar costs a whopping $50, and you have to queue up to buy it.

The model 2016, which was launched in 3, was priced at only 3.5 US dollars, or more than 20 RMB, which is not even half the price of a 64-line laser radar. Tesla naturally cannot afford it.

Even by 2019, the price of lidar will be 15 to 20 yuan.

However, in 2021, the price of lidar has risen to yuan.

In 2023, it dropped to three to four thousand.

More than a thousand in 2024...

When the price of LiDAR drops below 2000, it will become widely popular.

But at the moment, it is unrealistic, very unrealistic.

Wang Yi sighed, unless we develop it ourselves and then produce it on a large scale.

The reason why the price of lidar has not dropped in the past is not because the cost is really high, but because Velodyne has a unique way of thinking.

LiDAR, like chips, is a scale effect.

The mass production of 1000 64-line laser radars would cost 20 yuan per unit and sell for 50 yuan per unit.

If 10 64-line laser radars are mass-produced, the diluted cost will be only a few thousand yuan, and the selling price can be reduced to 1 yuan!

It's just an effect of scale.

But Velodyne has a unique way of thinking. With so many customers lining up to place orders, they not only do not increase production capacity, expand scale, and seize the market.

On the contrary, they still produce slowly, sell slowly, and sell at high prices.

In the past 2007 years from 2019 to 12, Velodyne's total sales of lidars were only 3 units, but its revenue was as high as 5 million US dollars, and the average price of a single unit was more than RMB.

It was not until the emergence of domestic LiDAR companies such as Hesai Technology and RoboSense that the price of LiDAR was lowered and it gradually became popular.

However, in its previous life, Hesai Technology built a team in the United States in 2013, returned to China to establish Hesai Technology in 2014, and only developed the 2016-line laser radar in 32.

Now that it has not been established and has no output, it’s all in vain.

Wang Yi couldn't wait and had to do it himself.

It just so happens that laser radar is not only used in electric vehicles, but also in sweeping robots.

Of course, the laser radar of the sweeping robot is much lower-level and cheaper.

After all, a sweeping robot only costs a few thousand yuan, and it is not realistic to equip it with a high-end laser radar costing tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan.

In 2010, Neato launched the Neato XV-11, which was equipped with a laser radar, thus opening a new era of popularization of sweeping robots.

The laser radar equipped in Neato XV-11 was stripped of all unnecessary structures and the final cost was reduced to 200 RMB.

Similarly, if Xingyi Technology wants to develop a sweeping robot, it also needs to master laser radar.

We will first practice with low-end LiDAR for the Xingyi sweeping robot, and also help build team coordination and accumulate experience before moving on to high-end automotive LiDAR.

No doubt just right.

Thinking of this, Wang Yi approached Jian Ziyan and said, "Ziyan, immediately recruit LiDAR R&D experts and experts, regardless of cost or funds. Set up the Xingyi LiDAR Division and develop our own LiDAR!"