The so-called "New Four Modernizations" of automobiles is an automobile development concept widely recognized in the international automobile industry before Zhou Jingming's rebirth, and it is the core of the future development of the automobile industry, that is, what is commonly referred to as "electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing".

Before Zhou Jingming's rebirth, SAIC Motor has begun to carry out research around these four directions, among the four directions, the development of electrification and sharing has made the greatest progress, and electric vehicles and shared cars have gradually entered people's lives.

However, intelligence and networking are still making little progress, especially in the direction of intelligence, the focus of research is mainly on unmanned driving, but even Google, which is at the forefront of the world in unmanned driving, designs driverless cars that are far from meeting the standards of safe on the road, let alone commercialization in the later stage.

Not to mention the domestic side, although many car manufacturers have specialized in unmanned driving, what Baidu unmanned cars, but these are all gimmicks greater than the actual content, and there are few substantial breakthroughs. So until the day Zhou Jingming was reborn, unmanned driving was still just a slogan.

Of course, with the current level of science and technology, in the four modernizations of automobiles, Zhou Jingming can immediately carry out research and make breakthroughs in the short term, one is electrification, the other is sharing, as for intelligence and networking, because the development of Internet technology is not mature enough, so it is difficult to achieve it for the time being.

Even sharing is very dependent on Internet technology, so in the final analysis, Tianming Group can only study on a large scale in the direction of electrification.

"Electrification, it should be a pure electric vehicle among new energy vehicles, right?" Wang Yuanchao asked curiously. There are many classifications of new energy vehicles, but when it comes to the electric direction, one is pure electric, and the other is hybrid.

"Yes, mainly pure electric vehicles. Zhou Jingming nodded, "However, hybrid is also an important transition stage, so our next research will start with hybrid vehicles, and then gradually transition to pure electric vehicles." ”

In fact, it is not impossible to directly study pure electric vehicles, but people need a certain amount of time to accept electric vehicles after all, so it will be better to transition with hybrid vehicles.

"But Jingming, as you said before, electrification involves a lot of battery knowledge, whether it is our powertrain engineers or vehicle development engineers, the understanding of batteries can be said to be almost zero, so this is a big problem that we need to solve. Wang Yuanchao said.

"I have naturally considered this, I will seek cooperation with domestic universities or scientific research institutes, and then I will organize the establishment of a new energy research institute, and all projects will be attached to this research institute, and your powertrain will be responsible for management, what do you think?"

"Of course I'm fine, as long as you get the scientific research things done, I'll be fine with the rest. Wang Yuanchao replied with a smile.

"Okay, then that's it. Zhou Jingming nodded, "Since you have organized a group of engineers to learn the knowledge of new energy before, then when the time comes, let this group of engineers be assigned to the new energy research institute to cooperate with experts in battery for the development of hybrid vehicles and pure electric vehicles." ”

No matter when the car develops, it must be based on traditional cars, so the automotive design engineers of Tianming Group must all receive the training of "four modernizations of automobiles", otherwise they will definitely be eliminated in the future.

Next, the three of them had a detailed discussion on the development of electrification, and basically determined the general development plan, and the specific details need to be refined after the project team is established.

"In addition to electrification, what are the other three modernizations?" Zhao Ke asked curiously after discussing electrification.

When Zhao Ke asked, Wang Yuanchao also looked at Zhou Jingming curiously, "I was just about to ask this question." ”

"In addition to electrification, there are three other three are intelligence, networking and sharing, and at present, there are no conditions for development. Zhou Jingming replied.

"Intelligence, networking, ......and sharing," Zhao Ke read softly, "It is indeed a very novel term, I really don't know how you came up with these words, Xiao Zhou." ”

This so-called four modernizations of automobiles, Zhao Ke himself is very difficult to understand, but Zhou Jingming can explain the Tao, which has to make Zhao Ke sigh.

"Actually, there is nothing particularly esoteric, and you will all understand it by then. Zhou Jingming said with a smile.

The day after the three of them discussed this matter, Zhou Jingming held a group meeting, officially announced the development strategy of electrification, and arranged the relevant work to the corresponding departments, requiring these departments to implement the strategy of electrification, and began to form a project team.

In this way, electrification is being carried out in the Tianming Group.

Because there was only one week left before the National Day, Zhou Jingming postponed his plan to contact scientific research institutes, but came to Yanjing to prepare for the next National Day celebration.

On October 1, 1999, the celebration of the 50 th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was also held in Tiananmen Square, where tens of thousands of people from all walks of life gathered to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the founding of the motherland. Zhou Jingming, as a special guest, also appeared at the celebration.

On the other hand, Tianming Group is also in Shencheng, grandly released the Hongmeng supercar, and announced the price of this supercar, starting at 3 million, and the high-end version is only 5 million.

Such a price, among many supercar brands, is just an ordinary price, in front of supercars like Rafa and Enzo, which often cost tens of millions, Hongmeng is really worth the price.

Although the release of Hongmeng on the National Day is not as concerned as on other days, but before that, after the fermentation of the Frankfurt Motor Show some time ago, the fame of this supercar has already spread all over the world.

After the National Day celebration, Zhou Jingming began to focus on work, and in about ten days, he contacted several scientific research groups of Yenching University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to join the electrification research of Tianming Group.

In this way, even if Tianming Group's electrification research has really begun, the first stage of the research is hybrid vehicles.

"Hybrid is our first phase of the goal, in this regard, Toyota is already ahead of us, if the concept is not very clear, you can learn more about Toyota's hybrid research. ”

At the inaugural meeting of the electrification project team, Zhou Jingming was making his final speech.

"In addition, in addition to the need to study the feasibility of batteries, battery recycling technology is also the focus of our research, and my requirement is that we need to have both the technology to produce batteries and the technology to dispose of end-of-life batteries, and we need to pay attention to both at the same time. ”

Zhou Jingming finally emphasized.

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