City: I, A World Car Overlord

Chapter 213

In the low-end car market with traditional fuel engines, they are basically small displacement and low fuel consumption. This is what consumers like.

A fuel-efficient and durable car, no matter how ugly its appearance, how low the configuration, how simple the interior, can be recognized by consumers.

It’s like those low-end A-class cars from Sun Country, including Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Nissan Sylphy, and Desi Volkswagen. There is nothing except the ugly sky, the configuration is low to the necessary parts of the vehicle.

But just like that, consumers are rushing to buy it. What they fancy is the consistent impression that Sun National Vehicle gives people, that is, fuel-efficient, durable, and of course, they have the influence of dominating the Tianchao A-class car market for nearly 30 years.

This is why traditional domestic cars have been pursuing, but they have not been able to change things.

No way, the three major parts of domestic cars come from these brands and are subject to the patent barriers of foreign brands.

But now, Baolong electric powered vehicles turned out, breaking the monopoly of foreign brands and going out of their own way.

What Lin Fan now requires is to appropriately reduce the electric powertrain while ensuring the performance and safety of the vehicle. While controlling the cost, the appearance and interior decoration must also be made to a certain height.

However, 29 is that Lin Fan can only select two models from the system at a time, and there is no way to meet the manufacturing scale and requirements of the 28 car companies, so he has to find another way.

The first is to let Zhang Kai make appropriate reductions in V-series pickups, reduce costs, and try to ensure the performance of V-series pickups, and develop a series of three models.

Holding the design drawings and design requirements, Zhang Kai really hurt his brain at the beginning.

To reduce the cost, it is inevitable to replace the 8000KWH battery with 4000KWH, but this cost reduction is less than 10,000 yuan, which is obviously far from enough.

Then the horizontal dual plasma engine is definitely not usable. The cost is too high, and it has to be changed to a single plasma engine at the expense of some performance.

The all-aluminum body is definitely not usable. The rear axle of the V-series pickup truck is replaced with high-strength steel. Zhang Kai simply changed the front body to high-strength steel, or uses a relatively low manufacturing cost of Class 1 X aluminum alloy. .

The seat made of carbon nanofiber is changed to leather or even bell-woven, the double-layer window is changed to a single layer, the platform chassis is changed to an A4 general platform, and the electronic control electric does not need to be so high-end…

After this whole set of combinations was completed, Zhang Kai got the evaluation from the production department and the purchasing department. The price of V6 in the free country is about 30,000 dollars, or about 200,000 yuan, and the cost is 130,000. After he changed it like this, The cost dropped directly to less than 100,000.

But it is still more than 10,000 short of the cost of not more than 80,000 required by Lin Fan.

It seems that this is the highest reduction he can do.

If you reduce it further, it will greatly affect performance and safety.

This is not allowed by Lin Fan, and it is also something his own conscience cannot do.

Zhang Kai tried to break his head in the R&D center, and he lost a lot of hair, but he couldn’t help it.

But he made a promise in front of Lin Fan and Xu Lao, and now it’s shameless to ask Lin Fan and Xu Lao for help.

……

The R&D and Design Center of Powerlong Group has established a separate R&D company, with a huge R&D site, several R&D divisions, and each R&D team has its own R&D department.

At the request of Lin Fan, Xu Lao, Lao Li, and Wu Xinnian also led a research and development team to research and develop general-purpose cars, compact cars and A-class SUVs.

These models without exception all use the A4 common platform and electronic control electrical system, in order to use a unified platform to unify the manufacturing processes of various car companies, which is conducive to reducing costs and improving production efficiency.

However, Lin Fan’s design requires that the cost of these vehicles be controlled at 60,000 to 80,000, or even lower. Moreover, in order to pursue performance, the super magnetic hub motor technology is abandoned and all plasma motors are used.

This is facing a great problem. The manufacturing cost of plasma engines is obviously much higher than that of in-wheel motors, which requires the transformation of plasma engines.

Not only Lin Fan, but also Xu Lao, Lao Li, Wu Xinnian, as well as the more experienced R&D engineers who have been in the group for a long time, have always hoped:

Since the plasma engine has always been applied to high-end models due to its powerful performance.

Can it be degraded design or cost control, and it can be assembled on the next-generation model with little performance impact.

Just like a traditional fuel engine, it has single-cylinder, double-cylinder, multi-cylinder, and has multiple methods such as air suction, supercharged self-priming, direct injection in the cylinder, and electronic control of DVT, so as to achieve different needs and performance.

The fuel engine injects fuel into the cylinder to generate high temperature and high pressure and output powerful power. The principle of the plasma engine is also somewhat similar. Electric energy is driven by the permanent magnet coil to generate kinetic energy output.

Theoretically speaking, plasma engines can also be similar to fuel engines and undergo a variety of modifications to form different versions of different output powers, which are suitable for different levels of vehicles.

Now, Lin Fan requires that the plasma engine be applied to low-end models.

The original intention is to let R&D engineers make drastic changes with plasma engines.

Form multiple power versions, fully replace the super-magnet motor, super-magnet hub motor.

In fact, after Lin Fan took out the plasma engine, the R&D center had this idea.

Now, Lin Fan has used almost the entire group’s research and development efforts to classify and modify plasma engines to form multiple power versions.

It can be said that the research and development task this time is not only the research and development of the A-class car, but also the comprehensive transformation of the electric powertrain.

Lin Fan is confident, Xu Lao, Lao Li, Wu Xinnian are confident, and other R&D engineers are equally confident.

finally.

One month later.

At the R&D seminar.

With messy hair and greasy Zhang Kai was the first to jump out and proclaimed with excitement: “Boss, Elder Xu, everyone, I have to announce a shocking event to you.”

Seeing this guy as if he had discovered the New World, everyone stared at him curiously, full of inquiries.

Zhang Kai took out several drawings and said loudly: “I finally found a solution to greatly reduce the cost. Our original graphene battery was limited by technical problems, and there were only two versions of 4000KWH and 8000KWH.

After more than a month of research with my team, we finally made a breakthrough, and made a graphene battery with a smaller volume and a relatively small capacity, 1000KWH and 2000KWH. ”

As soon as the words came out, the audience was silent, and each of them dropped their jaws in shock.

Even Lin Fan took the drawing in Zhang Kai’s hand unbelievably. .