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Chapter 1395: Can manual transmission also be adapted to the hybrid system?

When he saw Zhang Qihang again, Deputy Director Kang smiled and said, "Comrade Qihang, I have something to tell you in advance so that you can have an idea."

Seeing Deputy Director Kang's jubilant expression, Zhang Qihang knew it was a good thing and nodded quickly: "Leader, you say."

"Leaders are discussing whether to force passenger vehicles to install 48V or 52V mild hybrid systems when implementing the National IV emission standards, but now it seems that the situation is relatively optimistic."

When Zhang Qihang heard this, his mouth slightly opened, and he was extremely surprised.

  It's no wonder Zhang Qihang was so surprised. He and Feng Guoqing had thought about this operation before, but they thought it was unlikely and finally gave up the idea. But now, what did Deputy Director Kang say? Is the country going to promote the mild hybrid system when implementing the National IV emission standards in a few years?

After a pause, Zhang Qihang nodded hurriedly: "This is a good thing. It can significantly reduce the emission of carbon oxides and nitrogen oxides in automobile exhaust. After installing this system, the effect of environmental protection, energy conservation and emission reduction is immediate."

Deputy Director Kang smiled and said, "It is precisely because of this that the leaders decided to force the implementation of this system through administrative means. However, considering the reality that it will take several years before the implementation of National IV Emission Standards, such a good system cannot be left unused. The leaders mean to use the few years before the implementation of National IV Emission Standards as a transition period. During the transition period, major automobile manufacturers are encouraged to install mild hybrid systems on their cars."

Zhang Qihang immediately grasped the point and asked quickly, "Leader, when will the transition period begin?"

"It's still under discussion," Deputy Director Kang responded, "but based on the current situation, it will most likely be in the second half of the year, or at most early next year."

Zhang Qihang nodded and said, "That's right. It will take time for the leaders to discuss this. Although this mild hybrid system is a relatively mature technology, the manufacturer still needs to do matching and debugging. It's just right to spend half a year to do this."

Deputy Director Kang responded: "That's exactly the truth, oh, right..."

At this point, although there was no one else in the office, Deputy Director Kang lowered his voice slightly to show the importance of the matter: "Although before the implementation of the National IV Emission Standard, this mild hybrid system is only encouraged for major manufacturers to use, but not mandatory, but considering the relatively high environmental pressure in first-tier cities, the leaders mean that they still support these first-tier cities to pass some local regulations, requiring that passenger cars sold locally must be equipped with mild hybrid systems starting next year.

Of course, these are just some ideas for now. Whether or not to do so will depend on the results of the discussion.”

Deputy Director Kang said so, but Zhang Qihang was not stupid. He understood that the matter was basically settled. For Huateng Group, with half a year of advance preparation time, it would be much easier to deal with many situations.

He said to Deputy Director Kang gratefully: "Leader, thank you for your reminder. You have helped us a lot."

“How can this be considered as helping?” Deputy Director Kang waved his hand, a little regretful: “It’s a pity that manual transmission models cannot be equipped with this mild hybrid system, otherwise…”

Zhang Qihang widened his eyes and said in surprise: "Leader, manual transmission can use the mild hybrid system."

Deputy Director Kang also widened his eyes: "Can manual transmission models use the mild hybrid system? I always thought that only automatic transmission models can use this mild hybrid system." "Manual transmission models can also use it, and the fuel-saving effect is also good." Zhang Qihang nodded affirmatively: "In fact, from a technical point of view, you only need to regard this mild hybrid system as part of the engine. The engine is the engine, and the gearbox is the gearbox. Whether the engine uses a hybrid system has nothing to do with the gearbox."

  I thought, let alone the mild hybrid system with manual transmission, have you ever seen an electric car with a manual transmission? Electric cars also have manual transmissions, and can even simulate the situation of a fuel car with insufficient fuel supply and ignition. If you don't see it with your own eyes, who would dare to believe it?

Deputy Director Kang was delighted when he heard this: "That seems to be the case... I always thought that this mild hybrid system could only be used on automatic transmission cars, but I didn't expect it could also be used on manual transmission cars. That's great."

Although this year's car sales are expected to reach 1200 million, more than 1200% of these 8 million vehicles are manual transmission models. If manual transmission models can also be adapted to this mild hybrid system and have good fuel-saving effects, then their significance in energy conservation and emission reduction will be much greater than if they can only be adapted to automatic transmission.

Deputy Director Kang became more and more excited the more he thought about it, and he instructed Zhang Qihang: "Comrade Qihang, please make a few manual mild hybrid vehicles and send them to me as soon as possible. I will ask the comrades below to do some testing as well."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements when I get back."

Zhang Qihang also knew the seriousness of the matter and quickly agreed.

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The leaders attached great importance to this matter, so Zhang Qihang naturally had to pay attention to it as well. After leaving Deputy Director Kang, Zhang Qihang called Mr. Feng and talked to him about the development of a manual transmission Excelle equipped with a mild hybrid system.

After listening to Zhang Qihang's explanation of the whole incident, Mr. Feng still couldn't believe it: "Qihang, are the authorities really planning to force the promotion of mild hybrid systems?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Qihang was also very emotional: "Yes, I didn't expect it at the beginning. After all, when we discussed it before, we all thought it was unlikely. Who could have thought that the leaders would be so determined?"

"Yeah, who says it isn't?" Speaking of this, Mr. Feng was also very emotional: "We all underestimated the leaders' determination in energy conservation, emission reduction and energy security. They are much more determined than we thought."

Zhang Qihang responded and said, "Master, during the past few days in Beijing, I have been thinking about a question, that is, how can we improve our brand image?"

When Mr. Feng heard this, his voice suddenly became anxious: "Have you thought of a solution?"

How to improve the brand image of Huateng Automobile has been a question that Zhang Qihang and Feng Guoqing have been thinking hard about in recent years.

Although Huateng Automobile is now the sales leader of a single brand in the domestic passenger car field, this is achieved at the expense of profit margins. For cars of the same level, Huateng Group's cars must be cheaper than those of joint venture brands, otherwise they will not sell well.

How to improve the brand image, increase the brand's added value, and enhance consumers' brand recognition of Huateng Automobile, Zhang Qihang and Feng Guoqing have almost turned gray with worry over this issue.