246: Chapter 246 About Car Orders

"Does this mean we won't need to charge cars in the future? Just letting it sit in the sun for a day will give us enough range to commute for tens of kilometers, right?"

"Don't get your hopes up too soon. Without mass production, what will the price of such advanced photovoltaic technology be? Won't the cost skyrocket once it's installed on a car?"

"Transsion will be able to drive the price down. Just look at how they did it with their phones and you'll know."

Relevant media outlets were also following up with reports, though they focused more on Transsion's technology and the launch of pre-sales.

However, regarding sales volume, various information media outlets were very conservative and not particularly optimistic about Transsion's first car.

There is an "old saying" that applies to every industry: No matter how large a company is, do not hold high expectations for the first product of their new business line. The user experience is rarely particularly good.

"Reserve it now, get it mass-produced later. It's only a 5,000 yuan deposit."

"Exactly. What are you afraid of? Mr. Zhang already said that as long as you don't lock the order, it's refundable."

"Heh, since when has there ever been a 'refundable deposit'? Transsion just made up a new term to scam you out of your money."

...

Meanwhile, half an hour after the press conference ended, the entire technical team had not left the venue.

It wasn't that they didn't want to leave, but rather that their own battlefield had yet to begin.

Zhang Bin stood in the temporarily erected monitoring center, facing an entire wall of screens.

Various data points were jumping on the screens: concurrent traffic, number of orders, payment success rates, and server load.

"Mr. Zhang, the pre-sale servers are ready." Technical Director Han Mingyang walked over, holding a steaming cup of coffee.

"I've made ample preparations. I conducted stress tests based on a capacity of 100,000 concurrent users and 20,000 orders. A car isn't a phone; this is definitely enough."

Han Mingyang's tone was full of confidence. After all, this data was based on five times the capacity of industry hit models; he didn't believe it could possibly overload.

Zhang Bin nodded, but he still felt a bit uneasy.

"Where is the boss?"

"In the backstage area, talking with Mr. Liu."

"Alright. Call me before sales start." Zhang Bin took two steps, but his heart grew increasingly anxious, so he quickly stopped. "Connect to the cloud servers and add another 200,000 in concurrent capacity.

We are in the spotlight right now. There might be quite a few curious consumers who will visit our official website.

We must ensure their experience is smooth; don't miss out on these unexpected consumers."

Han Mingyang was a bit skeptical, but he still chose to execute the order.

Time ticked away, second by second.

The press conference ended at 11:30, and the pre-order channel was scheduled to open at exactly 1:00.

This hour and a half in between was time left for users to digest the information, and also for the technical team to make final checks.

At 12:45, anomalies began to appear on the monitoring screens.

"Mr. Zhang!" an engineer shouted. "Look at this."

Zhang Bin and Han Mingyang hurried over and saw a curve slowly climbing.

"What data is this?" Zhang Bin asked.

"The official website's traffic. It's 12:45 now, 15 minutes before pre-sales. But the traffic has already exceeded our predicted peak."

Currently, the traffic to the Transsion Mall and Transsion official website had reached 150,000, far exceeding the usual traffic to the mall.

Based on the data, most of these people's target was Transsion Auto.

At 12:50, the number of online users surpassed 200,000.

At 12:55, it surpassed 250,000.

At this moment, Han Mingyang wore an expression of admiration. Mr. Zhang really had vision to have made preparations in advance; otherwise... he could have retired early.

At 12:58, Zhang Bin hurriedly ran to Shen Fei's side.

"Boss, the situation is a bit off. The data has exceeded our expectations; the current number of online users has already surpassed 350,000.

Our initial sales expectation might have been set a bit too conservatively."

Shen Fei leaned over quickly. He looked at the data on the screen—400,000 people.

A 10:1 conversion rate for small deposits meant roughly 40,000 units, and a 100:1 conversion rate for locked orders meant roughly 4,000 units.

Indeed, things were already stable.

"Don't worry about the sales volume for now, just manage the servers. Connect to the cloud servers; absolutely do not try to tough it out. If any problems arise, it will have a huge impact on our reputation."

"I've already had the technical staff do it. There absolutely won't be any problems in that regard."

...

At exactly 1:00, the pre-sale channel opened on time.

Zhang Bin stared at the curve on the screen, and then his pupils dilated.

It wasn't that the curve was rising; it was flying.

Within one second, concurrent requests soared from 400,000 to 650,000.

The servers began to sound alarms, and at the same time, the technical staff began to divert traffic, with some requests starting to connect to the cloud servers.

Han Mingyang also began to direct operations. Fortunately, Transsion had a collaborative logic system in place; otherwise...

With his 100,000-user capacity, it wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps in his teeth.

The order numbers were also growing frantically. In no time, the number of orders had already surpassed 8,000, then quickly jumped to 15,000, then 20,000, 30,000...

Finally, at 1:59, the number settled at 62,852 units.

Zhang Bin and Han Mingyang looked at that number and read it three times.

Sixty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty-two units.

And their expectation had been 20,000 units.

"Mr. Zhang, the order statistics are out." Li Zhang walked over with the same dazed expression on his face.

"Small orders: 62,852 units.

Deposit per unit is 5,000 yuan, totaling 314.26 million yuan in deposits."

One hour of pre-sales, and the amount reached 300 million.

There was no excitement in the conference room as imagined; after all, the sales revenue of Transsion phones in their first hour of sale was more than just this amount.

However, this was just the deposit; the amount was still quite staggering.

Shen Fei walked over and patted them on the shoulders.

"I've seen the data. The results are very good."

Zhang Bin looked up, looked at Shen Fei, and said, "Boss, I think I owe a mountain of cars."

Shen Fei smiled and said, "We've barely even started."

Although this number was quite staggering, it wasn't the largest number Shen Fei had ever seen.

After all, he had seen a fellow competitor whose first car, after the press conference ended, received 200,000 locked orders in just one hour, without their servers crashing at all.

That was what you called impressive. In front of them, Transsion really still needed to practice.

That afternoon, Transsion Auto, Transsion Terminals, Huawei Terminals, and Shen Fei's personal Weibo all posted a celebratory announcement.

Transsion First-Day Orders: "82,250 people. Thank you to everyone who trusts Transsion."

Below this line of text was a real-time updating order counter.

Every time it ticked, it represented a user who had paid a deposit.

After the Weibo post was published, the entire online media scene was filled with news about Transsion Auto.

The comment section was filled with various voices of jealousy.

"Is the 20,000+ units real or fake? Did they fake the orders?"

"Fake orders? You try faking it. 5,000 deposit, 80,000+ units, that's 400 million. Who can afford to fake that?"

"You guys are still too young. To Transsion, this is just a set of numbers..."

Meanwhile, a certain singer had originally wanted to officially announce their new song, but after seeing this Weibo post, they ultimately chose to give up. After all, releasing it at this time would only have a negative impact on their public image.

He didn't like that title.