Chapter 176 Engine R&D Direction
After a week, Bao Zixuan finally sorted out all the information about the car's engine and the variable box. I already have a plan in mind for what type of engine I want to develop.
If Heiyun wants to rise rapidly in the automotive field, it will overtake in corners. So judging from the strength of the major automobile manufacturing giants, we can only work engine fuel consumption. Otherwise, it is difficult to get a piece of the market, and Heiyun Automobile does not have any brand advantage.
Bao Zixuan is preparing to develop a hybrid car, and now he will prepare two sets of powertrains for the car. In the previous life, this technology was first developed by Toyota Motor in 1997, not only for its own use, but also through the licensing of other automobile companies to exchange a lot of practical technology. This is a car engine with great commercial value.
Hybrid electric vehicle, also known as composite power vehicle, refers to the car equipped with more than two power sources: battery, fuel cell, solar cell, diesel locomotive generator set, the current composite power vehicle generally refers to the diesel locomotive generator, plus the battery of the car.
There are many kinds of on-board power sources: batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, and generator sets for diesel locomotives.
There are currently three main types of hybrid vehicles. One is the "parallel mode" in which the engine is the main power and the electric motor is used as the auxiliary series hybrid electric vehicle principle. This method is mainly driven by the engine, and the electric motor is used to reduce the fuel consumption of the engine by using the characteristics of the electric motor to generate strong power when the engine fuel consumption is large when the car starts and accelerates. The structure of this method is relatively simple, and only needs to add an electric motor and battery to the car.
On the other hand, the engine and electric motor are driven in series or parallel at low speeds, and the engine and electric motor are driven together at higher speeds. When the speed increases, the engine and the electric motor share the power together efficiently, and the power is complicated because it requires a power sharing device and a generator.
There is also an electric vehicle "series method" that only uses an electric motor to drive and drive, the engine is only used as a power source, the car is driven only by an electric motor, and the drive system is only an electric motor, but because it also needs to install a fuel engine, it is also a type of hybrid vehicle.
At present, there are various shortcomings of the commonly used fuel engine vehicles, statistics show that in the road conditions accounting for more than 80%, an ordinary car only uses 40% of the power potential, and it will fall to 25% in the urban area, and more serious is the emission of exhaust gas to pollute the environment. Since the 90s of the 20th century, the call for improving environmental protection has been increasing in countries around the world, and various electric vehicles have come to the fore. While it is widely believed that the future is electric vehicles, current battery technology issues are hindering their adoption. Because the energy density of batteries is hundreds of times worse than that of gasoline, far from the required values, experts estimate that electric vehicles will not be able to replace gasoline-powered vehicles within a few decades (unless there is a major breakthrough in fuel cell technology).
Reality forced engineers to come up with the best of both worlds, developing a hybrid power plant (Hybrid-Electric Vehicel, abbreviated HEV) car. The so-called hybrid power unit is a combination of an electric motor and an auxiliary power unit to drive a car, and the auxiliary power unit is actually a small fuel engine or power generator set. Figuratively speaking, it is to make the traditional engine as small as possible, so that part of the power is borne by the battery-motor system. This hybrid power plant not only gives full play to the advantages of long continuous working time of the engine and good power, but also can play the advantages of no pollution and low noise of the motor, and the two "fight side by side", learn from each other's strengths, the thermal efficiency of the car can be increased by more than 10%, and the exhaust emission can be improved by more than 30%.
Bao Zixuan knows that the most critical core parts of a hybrid car are the gasoline engine, the brushless generator with permanent magnet, the battery, and the tuning technology for the two engines.
Now Heiyun Group has Philips motor technology, and there is no problem in the research and development of brushless generators with permanent magnets. The lithium battery has been developed, and the battery technology can meet the requirements. As for the training system and software for the two motivations, here is MIT, and there is no difficulty at all. Bao Zixuan himself presided over the research and development of this gasoline engine, which is his profession and what he wants to do the most.
It has always been the creed of Black Cloud that it does what it says, and now there is no board of directors to bind it. Bao Zixuan said that you can do it immediately, which has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the enterprise is efficient, and the disadvantage is that once the leader makes a wrong decision, it will bring serious losses to the enterprise. It is the first generation of founders who are wise and martial, and will not make mistakes in decision-making. However, when it is passed down from generation to generation, it is inevitable to encounter losers, which is likely to bring down the enterprise. This is the reason why many companies hire professional managers after they become bigger.
Bao Zixuan called John Chambers to his office, and now John Chambers is very busy as the head of Black Cloud America. Bao Zixuan is basically a hands-off shopkeeper, and many things need to be taken care of by the general managers of various regions.
John Chambers thought that the boss called him about the Los Angeles Electronic Technology Show, after all, this is the most important thing for the Black Cloud Group recently, and the products exhibited this time are still the most, and the Black Cloud has booked a large exhibition hall of 800 square meters at the exhibition. It costs twice the price of other businesses per square. So John Chambers has been following up on the show in Los Angeles.
Bao Zixuan smiled and said to John Chambers: "John, I called you back at this time because there is an important matter that needs to be negotiated with you. ”
John Chambers: "Boss, the pavilion is going well at the moment. Rest assured, Manager Hashimoto and I are well prepared. ”
Bao Zixuan: "I'm not worried about your ability at all, and now I'm in a hurry to call you back because I want you to look for an American car factory, and Heiyun is going to enter the field of mass-produced cars." It's about the future of the company, so you're leaving the exhibition work to Hashimoto-kun now. You have to look for automotive talents, we have to set up Heiyun's automobile company in the United States in the shortest possible time, and look for an automobile factory, and now the major automobile companies in the United States are having a hard time. It should be possible to purchase a car production plant and produce it directly in the United States. Then Heung Kong also set up an automotive factory, specifically for the Asian market. ”
John Chambers didn't expect his boss to enter the automotive field all of a sudden! The Black Cloud Group has its own car customization factory, which can only produce a small number of Knight XV every month, and the spare parts are ordered externally. The auto giants didn't pay attention to it at all, and now they suddenly want to enter the field of production cars, so they have to compete with these auto giants.
For the automotive field where the black cloud is not strong, it is not necessary to PK these century-old automobile giants. However, as a professional manager, he only has the right to suggest the work arranged by the boss, and he does not have the right to deny. Looking at Bao Zixuan's serious appearance, John Chambers knew that he could only unconditionally complete the tasks assigned by his boss.
Because he knows that Bao Zixuan is the kind of person who has to complete a decision once he has made it, even if the decision is wrong, he will implement it. However, so far, no mistakes have been made by the boss. It's that I often suffer losses when I negotiate, but it's much better now.