Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 686: Europe’s Streetcar Market

"It's due to funding." The person in charge gave Chen Yiyang an unexpected answer.

The Dark Factory's investment is enormous, and the construction period is lengthy.

To put it simply, the Dark Factory is like a high-speed train.

High-speed trains are fast, but a country can't just have high-speed trains without roads and airports.

No matter how useful high-speed trains are, they need roads and regular trains to complement them.

Therefore, not all products are suitable for building a Dark Factory.

Because, at its core, the Dark Factory is a precise management system.

It requires timely suppliers, stable production plans, comprehensive logistics management, and extremely strict quality supervision.

So, at present, the only large enterprise attempting to promote the Dark Factory on a large scale is Tesla.

Because Tesla's models are singular, the demand for many parts is huge and won't change for a long time.

Even so, Tesla's progress in promoting the Dark Factory is still stumbling.

Besides the construction difficulty of the Dark Factory, there's also the issue of product sales.

Currently, in the European market, Tesla's sales have been left behind by Biya Mansion and Yiyang Automobile.

Yiyang Automobile sells well in Europe because of its cooperation with Beifu, adopting an environmental concept.

So, although the price isn't cheap, it still receives support and promotion from many environmental organizations, causing its sales to rise month by month.

And Biya Mansion's selling price in Europe is more than twice that of the domestic market. The main reason is that Europe has set a minimum selling price for Biya Mansion.

This has made Biya Mansion's sales in Europe more flexible, with service and after-sales better than other car companies, because profits have increased.

However, Tesla, in the European market, although there isn't a sales threshold like Biya Mansion, has unexpectedly been dragged down by its singular product.

Tesla's selling price in Europe is lower than Biya Mansion's, but its sales are still inferior.

The reason being Tesla currently only has two and a half models selling in the European market.

A Model 3, a Model Y, and a modified half Model Y.

For consumers in any market, new products are always more attractive. Tesla's models are relatively outdated.

And a significant reason Tesla can't launch new products is its push for fully automated factories and Dark Factories, making it difficult to make changes to many parts.

This is also one of the major drawbacks of the Dark Factory.

Once the factory is built, product innovation involves extensive system debugging, far less flexible than regular factories.

After finishing the conversation, Chen Yiyang took a tour around the factory's production line.

Purely from an appreciation standpoint, this heavily invested Dark Factory is indeed pleasing to the eyes.

Industrial robots with huge arms work methodically, logistics carts run along planned routes transporting raw materials to the production line, handed over to robots for manufacturing.

And this enormous production workshop requires only five people in the office to oversee production.

Many screens in the office operate on standby, lighting up only when there's a problem to catch the staff's attention.

This is why a Dark Factory is also called a Dark Screen Factory.

Such a factory represents the highest level that current human technology can achieve.

Even so, the supply of raw materials must also rely on regular factories that require significant manpower for production.

After leaving the Dark Factory, a junior accountant asked Chen Yiyang, "The Dark Factory seems really hard to achieve for humans now.

You previously planned to invest in an industrial robot company. Are you still going to invest? It seems like investing now would take a long time to get returns."

"I disagree with your view."

Pointing to the distant Dark Factory, Chen Yiyang said, "Such a factory seems expensive and a luxury with a very narrow range of applications.

However, when computers were first born, they were enormous and costly, weren't they?

If it weren't for wartime needs, humans wouldn't have invested such significant funds in computers.

Yet the ensuing development of computers opened a new era for humanity.

The same is true for the Dark Factory.

Although the current investment demand for Dark Factories is enormous, it will inevitably decrease alongside AI development.

By then, perhaps Dark Factories won't be as commonplace as regular factories, but they will surely not be rare.

After speaking, Chen Yiyang made up his mind.

This industrial robot company is definitely worth investing in.

He has a feeling this industrial robot company may also aid in the box-opening process his Yiyang Automobile is currently advancing.

He won't chase after having all parts automatically produced like Tesla.

Just having some key parts that won't change easily due to car model alterations produced steadily is sufficient.

Having understood the Dark Factory,

Chen Yiyang stopped bothering with negotiating investment matters with the industrial robot company mentioned in the intelligence leak, delegating a team to negotiate instead.

He needs to spare time to handle miscellaneous affairs of other businesses under his name.

And then patiently awaits the showdown with Tengxu in the game of breaking into craftsmanship.

The 1.4 billion marketing budget Tengxu has allocated sounds intimidating.

After all, many marketing channels in the market originally belong to Tengxu, and using them comes with discounts, lowering costs.

In such a situation, Tengxu's investment of 1.4 billion equals the effect of a regular game company investing 2 to 3 billion.

"Xibei accused us, saying a patent at the Sicily Western Restaurant was wrongfully approved. What's going on here?"

Chen Yiyang summoned the person in charge of the Sicily Restaurant.

Originally, Chen Yiyang thought his matters with Northwest were over with Hua Wei's temporary silence.

Unexpectedly, in the work report from his subordinates, he found that Xibei recently targeted the Sicily Restaurant once again.

Ever since its dispute with Luo Yonghao ended, Xibei has actively engaged in self-salvation, undertaking various public opinion marketing.

Apart from extremely abstract promotional articles.

Recently, they've even brought up the past dinner the former Hua Wei CEO had at their place, claiming that the meal gave the CEO firm belief in difficult times.

In reality, the Hua Wei CEO was moved by the spirit of the girls dancing at the Northwest Restaurant, performing earnestly despite meager pay.

It had nothing to do with eating Xibei's dishes at all.

It appears Xibei has indeed run out of ideas, using whatever can be marketed.

Still, this form of marketing is certainly better than publishing abstract articles about 'giving customers a bowl of soup, and in return, a house'.