Chapter 2280 Fits the Theme

Once the Nest smart thermostat was released, it immediately caused a sensation in North America and even Western Europe after continuous media reports and agitation.

North America and Western Europe are absolutely different from us Chinese and even people from most other countries in terms of using air-conditioning and electric heating facilities.

Take Huaguo as an example, needless to say heating, it is used for heating in winter in the north, and basically every room has it.

But except for the winter in the north, we Hua people still use air conditioners during the hottest and coldest times.

How is it used in general?

Of course, each room uses an air conditioner, the living room uses the living room, and the room uses the room, which is convenient to turn off and use in the area at any time, so as not to waste electricity.

Only a small number of families will install central air conditioners at home. To put it bluntly, although this kind of central air conditioner includes all rooms and living rooms, the cooling and heating effect will not be fast and effective. Secondly, the load on the circuit is very heavy, and the power consumption is also very large, so it is not practical at all.

But people in the United States and Western Europe are different. Except for the poor who live in low-cost apartments, every household is basically equipped with central air conditioning or electric heating equipment.

As long as they are at home, as long as the weather is hot or cold, they are all turned on, sometimes 24 hours a day.

Everyone can imagine what a waste of resources this is.

In this way, they still have the face to say that China is overpopulated and consumes too many resources, which is really shameless.

Of course, it's not that Americans don't know that saving is good, but there was no way to save before—well, their brains are really not enough, can't you turn on the air conditioner less?

Now that the Nest smart thermostat comes out, it not only has a dazzling appearance and intelligent control, but also saves about 20% of electricity and heating costs for the public every year. This is the best of both worlds!

The public found it very interesting, and the government grasped the connotation of it even more, that is, energy saving!

To be honest, the current European and American countries. Especially most developed countries in Europe have basically become countries of lazy people. It's delicious and lazy to act like an uncle, and the country's finances are almost completely dragged down by them.

It is a great thing for these people to save a little energy and consume less resources, both for the country's finances and for the green and clean direction of the country's future development.

Therefore, an official from the US Department of Energy stood up and said that day. Although the government has not formulated measures yet, he will definitely buy Nest smart thermostats personally, and actively promote the federal government to enact a bill to support the development of Next Labs and issue subsidies for the promotion of Nest smart thermostats.

Next to the United States is Canada. The life style of this country is basically the same as that of the United States, so the officials in charge of their environmental affairs department directly shouted that Canada is willing to open green channels for Nest smart thermostats, including tax relief, policy support, etc. . Let them develop better in Canada.

At the same time, officials from the Ministry of the Interior of the United Kingdom and Germany also stated that they are very much looking forward to the Nest smart thermostat coming to their countries. Contribute positive power to the energy conservation, emission reduction and green life of the two countries.

After such a toss, people's interest in Nest smart thermostats has also increased greatly. They wanted to buy it one after another to see if it was as magical as in the legend.

The price of the Nest smart thermostat is not cheap. Xiao Qi’s price is 288 US dollars, which is about 12% more expensive than the 250 US dollars when it was just launched in the previous life.

But it is worth the money.

Because Xiao Qi not only made a level beyond the first generation of Nest smart thermostat, but also used some skills of Lyric, the enemy of Nest smart thermostat, on it.

Lyric was originally ready to release products in 2014, but many of their details have been disclosed in 2013, which is convenient for Xiao Qi to access.

Now that Lyric doesn't even have a shadow, Xiao Qi uses it with peace of mind.

On the day of the press conference, Amazon, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart were online. The Nest smart thermostat sold 30,000 units, and the next day's sales reached 80,000 units. The number of inquiries and reservations on the Internet has skyrocketed.

In addition to the urgent stock of Next Labs, it also greatly exceeded the expectations of the company's top management.

Xiao Qi was also shocked, because the Nest smart thermostat in the previous life only maintained a monthly shipment of 40,000 to 50,000 to 50,000 after it was released for one year. The sales volume of the device has been released for 3 months.

Originally, Xiao Qi was still thinking about whether to wait for a while, and wait for the government to subsidize the Nest smart thermostat slowly. You know, if the US government hadn’t taken the lead in buying Nest for everyone in the previous life. Smart thermostat users are subsidized, and God knows how long it will be before Nest smart thermostats catch on.

However, after thinking about it, the current excellent situation did not fall from the sky.

First of all, with the reminder of Xiao Qi's chart and concept, and with Xiao Qi's various algorithm ideas, the Nest smart thermostat has not taken detours from the very beginning.

Then Xiao Qi also gave Fadell and Rogers the best research and development funds. What professional equipment did they want? Xiao Qi approved the funds without hesitation. Strong will come together.

But even so, it has been almost a year and a half since the concept was proposed before Next Labs launched its first smart product, which shows how serious and professional they are about the Nest smart thermostat.

How can a product made with such excellence be unsuccessful?

For this reason, there is no problem at all for the investment department of Standard Chartered Bank to give Next Labs a valuation of US$1 billion.

In fact, the valuation given by the second HSBC Bank has exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars.

But these have nothing to do with Xiao Qi.

Next Labs is a very core component of Xiao Qi's future smart home and even life. Not only will Xiao Qi not sell shares in such a valuable company, but even the shares of Fadell and Rogers will continue to be diluted. The layer can only hold a maximum of 5% of the shares, and the rest will be held by member companies of the Shaw Foundation.

Therefore, no matter how high the external valuation is, even if it reaches US$10 billion or US$100 billion, it is impossible to buy shares in Next Labs.

A Nest smart thermostat certainly can't be called smart home living.

Another Protect smoke alarm is also built on the basis of intelligence. It is also different from traditional smoke alarms and is very dazzling and colorful.

The Protect smoke alarm is even more versatile than the Nest smart thermostat.

Because the Nest smart thermostat can basically only be used at home, or in restaurants in small places, etc., and there is no way to use it in large companies, commercial buildings, etc. If you do energy saving and emission reduction in these places, then definitely You will be scolded to death, and many people even think that you deduct the treatment of employees because you have no money.

When it comes to saving face, it's not just the Hua people, it's the same everywhere in the world, the difference is whether or not they have the ability to want face.

But the Protect smoke alarm is different. It can be used anywhere, whether it is at home or in the office, whether it is an office building or a shopping mall, or even on a ship.

The Protect smoke alarm has already been developed, and the product has been produced and stocked together with the Nest smart thermostat, but releasing two products at the same time involves a lot of energy, which does not conform to Fadell’s principle of concentration, so we have to wait until the Nest smart thermostat After the sales and feedback are good, it will be released in a few months.

When it comes to this specific operation, Fadell is an expert, so Xiao Qi naturally won't bother.

However, in terms of production, Xiao Qi greeted Fadell. From the beginning, he put the Nest smart thermostat and Protect smoke alarm in the winter hall for production, and still chose the foundry.

Instead of putting the factory in Rongcheng, it put it in Shuchuan. When Zhang Zhanzhao was chatting during the Chinese New Year, he half complained to Xiao Qi.

But Xiao Xu didn't care much. On the one hand, he was not a stingy person. On the other hand, Xiao Qi also told him that if all the factories were located in Shuchuan, it would undoubtedly be the kind that would attract hatred.

Benefits cannot be shared by everyone, but also shared with some people, so as to have reliable friends.

That's why Xiao Qi has a cloud computing and cloud storage center, a circuit board factory in the East, and factories of Star Electronics and Yinhuang Electronics in Nanwan and Dongguan, etc.

This time, the Nest smart thermostat and Protect smoke alarm were put into production in the winter hall, mainly because of the industrial technology advantages and the most detailed industrial supporting facilities there.

After the European and American markets are fully opened, the annual shipment volume of Nest smart thermostats will be about 3 million units, and the annual output of Protect smoke alarms will be about 5 million units. The number of workers required is small, but the added value is good.

Also because the foundry fee given by Xiao Qi has always been very high, when discussing cooperation in the Winter Hall last year, Baodao and the foundries in the mainland had a head start, and even Guo Taiming, Yan Chenglong and Li Xiaochao all got involved came in.

It can also be seen from this that Xiannv Company has already gained a reputation and has become a commissioned producer supported and loved by everyone! (to be continued ~^~)