Chapter 514 Automobile Innovation
Red Sea, Hongku Port.
As the earliest area in North Africa to be developed by Homo sapiens companies, there are very few traces of North Africa here. The modern city, over 840,000 permanent residents, and a large number of tourists make this place very lively.
Of course, the bustle inside the Sapiens company is not the kind of crowded place.
Under the entertainment division of Zhiren Corporation, there is a subsidiary called "Tourism Data Network". The company is responsible for evaluating the tourism index of various regions.
The so-called tourism index is a reference indicator formulated based on the scale of a city’s infrastructure, service staff, and tourism facilities.
For example, in Hongku Port, where Simmons and Sofia's family came, the local tourism index is 2.6.
2.6 means that the local area can only receive a maximum of 26,000 foreign tourists every day, because the exclusive guesthouses + employee hotels + foreign guest hotels here have a total of 19,467 rooms.
As for why the hotel is not expanded, the reason is that there is no need to do so and doing so would be a waste of resources.
What Zhiren Company does is not to expand the scale of hotels, but to properly divert tourists to avoid crowding in a few cities.
As soon as Simmons and others got off the plane, they felt a heat wave coming towards them.
He had never been to Hongku Port for tourism before, but since this is an industry of the Sapiens Company, many things are similar.
On one side of the airport is the rental station.
"Sophia, Mom and Dad, please wait here for me. I'll drive over."
"Um."
Simmons walked into the rental station. When the attendant saw him coming in, he came forward and greeted him: "Hello, what kind of car do you need?"
Simmons considered that he needed to take four people, so he asked, "An SUV."
"No problem, here's the list ." The waiter projected a large list of SUV models and rental rates.
After watching for more than ten seconds , Simmons asked in surprise: "Huh? Why is the gas car gone?"
"Gas vehicles have been phased out, and now we use electric vehicles," the waiter explained with a smile.
"Why? It's too troublesome to charge an electric car, so a gas car is more suitable."
The waiter went on to explain: "Don't worry! We don't use plug-in electric vehicles, but liquid-filled electric vehicles."
"Filling? Charging electrolyte?" Simmons asked uncertainly.
“Yes, the Suez branch and the Numidia branch are the first batch of pilots.”
"Thank you. I'll take this Obsidian 5!"
"Okay, wait a moment." The staff quickly entered instructions on the operation panel.
After a while, the underground elevator rose up, and an Obsidian 5 SUV produced by Gem Automobile Company appeared in front of Simmons.
“You can activate it by swiping your card.”
"Thank you, I understand." Simmons took out his employee card and swiped it on the car door handle. Immediately, the car lights flashed three times.
After he got into the car, he didn't notice any major changes. He just replaced the gas meter on the dashboard with an electricity meter.
There are many reasons why Sapiens is eliminating gas vehicles.
On the one hand, because Sapiens has completely disconnected from the free world, there is naturally no need for it to comply with international patent law.
On the other hand, it is to save energy and reduce the waste of gold resources.
After all, the thermal efficiency of the micro gas turbine + lead-acid battery model is only about 50% at most.
If the generator of each micro gas turbine is replaced with a gold-based thermoelectric power generation system, the thermal efficiency can indeed be increased to 97%.
The problem is that the cost of doing so is to replace the gold-based thermoelectric power generation module in every car, which requires a huge amount of gold.
Therefore, it is better to switch to pure electric vehicles directly and charge them using the high thermal efficiency electricity generated by power stations.
However, pure electric vehicles also have disadvantages, namely battery life, battery energy density, battery charging speed, and battery safety.
In addition, current lithium batteries require the use of large amounts of lithium and some rare earth materials, which is not conducive to large-scale applications.
After research by the scientific division, they came up with a new material: fullerene-nano sodium aluminum material.
This thing has several advantages.
First, the energy density is high. The fullerene-nano sodium aluminum solution with a concentration of 5.7% can store 0.7 kWh of electricity per liter.
Second, its stability is very good. The charging process of fullerene-nano sodium aluminum molecules is to combine two fullerene-nano sodium aluminum together; and the discharging process requires irradiation with infrared light with a wavelength of 950 nanometers.
If not exposed to infrared rays, fullerene-nano sodium aluminum will not discharge.
Third, the temperature adaptability range is relatively large, and it can work normally from 253 degrees Celsius to minus 106 degrees Celsius.
Fourth, the discharge is complete, and there will not be a situation where the discharge cannot continue after reaching 20%.
Fifth, the production cost is relatively low and the service life can be as long as about 12.7 years.
With so many advantages, the advantages of liquid-filled electric vehicles are very obvious.
Moreover, the previous gas filling stations can be converted into liquid filling stations, without the need to deploy charging piles over a large area.
The advantage of liquid filling is that it is faster than plugging in electricity. It can be fully charged in a few minutes without having to wait for several hours.
After all, today's plug-in electric vehicles take half an hour to charge even with a 380-volt charging station. If you use a household 220-volt circuit or a North American 110-volt circuit, the charging speed will be even more impressive.
There is no comparison between the speeds of the two.
The energy density of fullerene-nano sodium aluminum solution is 0.7 degrees per liter, and the specifications of the electrolyte storage tank are similar to those of fuel vehicles.
Usually it is 40 liters for micro cars, 60 liters for small cars, 90 liters for medium-sized cars, and large and heavy-duty cars can be set according to needs. You can even hang an external liquid tank to increase the cruising range.
The Obsidian 5 that Simmons rented has a 90-liter electrolyte storage tank that can store 63 kWh of electricity.
In fact, some long-distance buses will add an auxiliary liquid tank to double the energy storage capacity.
Simmons drove an electric car to the door.
"Sophia, this way!"
Sofia got in the car with her parents.
After turning on the automatic driving assistance mode, the car drove towards the Binhai Hotel .
"Sophia, have you booked a room?"
"Book it. The double room here is cheaper than the single room."
"By the way, Sofia, there should be a yacht rental station here, right?"
Sophia searched on her phone: "Well, there are three yacht rental companies. Do you want to rent a yacht?"
Father-in-law Osta was a little worried: "Yacht? Don't waste money, we can just sunbathe on the beach."
Sophia smiled and shook her head: "Dad, what are you thinking about? How much does it cost to rent a small yacht? Simmons earns more than 4,000 yuan a month, and this 10-seater small yacht only costs 10 yuan a day."
"..." Aosta was shocked. Even after experiencing the golden age of Europe, they did not have such a luxurious life.
Sofia changed the subject: "The weather in Europe has been a little unusual recently. How about I find a nursing home for you here? Also, Mom's diabetes needs to be treated thoroughly. I will make an appointment at a local hospital."
"Can we live in the nursing home of the Sapiens company even though we don't have the insurance here?" Osta was a little bit incredulous.
Simmons interjected, "Sure, anyone with children working at Sapiens can apply. The company does not require employees to pay insurance premiums, and we do not play this kind of financial game."
"That's great." Osta could only sigh that the Sapiens Company was very wealthy. If there was a bargain to be taken, who would refuse such a benefit?
