50 years ago, the rotary engine was because of the amazing speed of many car companies at first sight, and invested heavily in research and development, but its high fuel consumption, wear and tear fatal defects soon made these car companies scattered, only Mazda persevered, and continued to invest money to improve it.

When the oil crisis broke out in the 70s, countries were too busy dealing with various difficulties to consider the development of rotary engines, but Mazda was still convinced of the potential of rotary engines, and independently researched and produced rotary engines, and paid a considerable price for this.

However, their efforts were also rewarded, and they gradually overcame the defects of the rotary engine, successfully transitioned from experimental production to commercial production, and entered the hawk sauce market with a sports car equipped with a rotary engine, causing a huge sensation and gaining many fans for Mazda.

It is also this unique technology that Mazda has mastered that has saved it from being banned by the government of the Neon Nation.

The outbreak of the oil crisis in the 70s made the neon government greatly reduce the major domestic automobile brands, and banned a lot of miscellaneous brands without core technology, and the requirement is that every car company must come up with reliable core patented automobile technology, otherwise let him go bankrupt and ban.

Those who stayed were powerful car companies like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi Subaru, etc., Mazda itself was weak, so it had to turn to the unpopular rotary engine technology, and finally developed the world's leading rotary engine, so that the company turned the crisis into safety, and obtained the license to make a car, so that it could continue to survive.

This is also the real reason why Mazda is obsessed with the development of rotary engines, it can be said that without rotary engine technology, Mazda would have long ceased to exist.

In fact, the sense of crisis exists in the bone marrow of these Mazda companies all the time, because they are also afraid that one day the oil crisis like the 70s will break out, and if some core technologies are not mastered, Mazda will be banned.

Like most neon companies, it is precisely because of its obsession with technology research and development that Mazda's market sense is relatively dull.

Mazda's three major pieces of technology are not bad, in terms of power, driving control are very satisfactory, but Mazda in addition to a little better driving control, other aspects are almost lackluster, brand influence is not as good as the Japanese Sanjie, the interior space and configuration are relatively bad, sacrificing the wheelbase and interior space, and even part of the comfort to create a unique driving control.

Mazda focuses on driving control, and other aspects are not very good, the rear space is generally small, the suspension is hard, the comfort is not enough, the price is generally more expensive, and there are too many places to complain about, which have become Mazda's hot-selling roadblocks, and are destined to become niche vehicles.

Now that Zhongyuan Automobile Group and Guanghua Bank have become the majority shareholders of Mazda, Mazda has to rely on Huaxing Group to support it, so Yang Jie can't let this company be so capricious.

Yang Jie also asked in detail about the technical details of hydrogen rotor engine and rotary engine and generator hybrid.

At this time, Masadi Kogaku, who was the president of Greater China, was also engaged in technology and production management, and he also explained to Yang Jie in detail.

Hydrogen rotor engine technology is naturally an engine technology that uses hydrogen fuel combustion to push the hydrogen rotor engine to do work, while the rotary engine electric range extension technology is a technology that integrates the rotary engine and generator to make the electric motor do work, which is a hybrid technology unique to Mazda.

The fuel consumption of the rotary engine in the low-speed range is lower than that of the traditional fuel engine, and the life of the engine is also very long.

Because the rotary engine can be made so small, it can be the size of two shoe boxes, and it can be easily integrated with the generator.

Because Huaxing Group is at the forefront of the world in hydrogen fuel cell technology, Zhongyuan Automobile Group has not developed hybrid technology, either fuel cell vehicles or fuel fuel power systems.

These domestic automakers in Neon Country have deep technical accumulation in hybrid technology, but now these automakers are fully turning to fuel cell version of vehicle technology, of course, they are also stimulated by Zhongyuan Automobile Group Company.

At present, the fuel cell version of the automobile products of Zhongyuan Automobile Group Company accounts for a large proportion of the new energy vehicle market.

At present, the annual sales volume of fuel cell vehicles produced by Zhongyuan Automobile Group has reached more than 2 million, occupying a monopoly position in the fuel cell vehicle market, and the market scale of fuel cell vehicles is still expanding.

Toyota also launched commercial fuel cell vehicles only last year, and there is a big gap between the technical performance and the Zhongyuan Automobile Company, and the sales volume is not very large.

Mazda has little technology accumulation in fuel cell technology, and the technology they have accumulated is hydrogen rotor engine technology and hydrogen storage material technology, but compared with Huaxing Group's hydrogen fuel technology, the hydrogen storage capacity is much less.

In fact, Mazda's rotary engine technology is basically used in its sports car series, and Mazda's sports cars are very stable because of their affordable prices, so the number of sports cars sold every year is very stable, one of which is a classic two-seat hardtop roadster, basically more than 30,000 units can be sold every year, and the revenue of such a single one can reach tens of billions.

However, after the Ford Group acquired a controlling stake in Mazda, it decided to cut Mazda's overseas sales channels and reduce losses, and Mazda's 7 Series sports cars became only available in Australia and Neon Country, and from the 8 Series onwards, they could only be sold locally.

However, this still did not dampen Mazda's enthusiasm for rotary engines, so after changing owners this time, Mazda also wanted to get more resources from Yang Jie.

"Huaxing Group can provide you with more R&D funds and technical support for rotary engine technology, but Mazda's previous concept of focusing on driving control can be continued in sports cars, and adjustments must be made in other models. ”

Yang Jie said: "In the future, Mazda must take more into account the needs of customers in its design and development, and provide more users with products that are comfortable and pleasant, reliable and safe in quality." ”