Time flew by, and soon it was October 2001, and the second year of the new century was coming to an end in a blink of an eye.

This season's F1 Championship has also come to Asia again, and only the Malaysian and Chinese Grand Prix are left unfinished. Unlike last year's season with a smooth start and difficult middles, this season, Schumacher swept almost every Grand Prix, and before coming to Asia, he had already locked up this year's Drivers' Championship three rounds in advance, and won the fourth world championship of his career!

As for the team, as long as the Tianming team can get 12 points in the next Malaysian Grand Prix, then it will also lock up this year's constructors' championship one round earlier.

In doing so, Tianming Racing will become the first team in the history of the F1 Championship to successfully defend both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championship!

The Rolls-Royce, which was used to celebrate the Queen's 50th anniversary on the throne, has finally completed all the testing work, and has been assembled by hand in Creweshire, England, and will soon be presented to ****** for the final competition with Bentley.

At the same time, Zhou Jingming paid special attention to the electrification project, and finally made a phased breakthrough, through the joint efforts of the project team and the off-road vehicle company, the second-generation Yixuan S3, which is also the first hybrid vehicle of Tianming Group, has finally completed all the development and testing work, and will soon be able to go on sale.

This S3, using the hybrid system newly developed by Tianming Group, is upgraded on the basis of the original gasoline engine, and after repeated comparative tests by the technical team, the 85KW motor motor is finally mixed with the engine, which can make the fuel saving rate reach 50% while ensuring the power, far exceeding the fuel saving rate of the Toyota Prius.

In addition to the revolutionary innovation in the power system, the designers of the off-road vehicle company have also made corresponding changes to the appearance of the S3, the overall body length has been lengthened on the basis of the original, the interior space is also more spacious, and the dual-clutch automatic transmission is equipped to make this hybrid version of the S3 more maneuverable, giving people a new driving experience.

The release time of this car is also set in December this year, Zhou Jingming believes that this hybrid version of the S3 will definitely bring a huge shock to today's international car market.

The end of the hybrid vehicle research task means that the next electrification project team's entire task is to die for pure electric vehicles. In order to ensure the smooth development of electric vehicles, Tianming Group has transferred almost all the technical backbones to Martin Eberhard, especially the automotive electronics company, which has joined the project team in all aspects and is responsible for the research and development of all electronic control systems.

At the same time as the development of electric vehicles, the design of supercharging stations is also being carried out simultaneously, but the design of charging stations is not complicated, and the main control system is assisted by automotive electronics companies, and the problem is not big.

And Zhou Jingming also took the time to come to Gusu City again to pay attention to the development progress of electric vehicles, this year, Zhou Jingming will basically come to Gusu every half a month.

"At present, the focus of electric vehicles is also on the development of high-performance batteries, according to the original plan, we have carried out many tests, through thousands of batteries to form a battery pack to power the car, the third generation of the battery pack has a theoretical range of 300 kilometers, is currently undergoing the development and testing of the fourth generation of battery packs, our goal is to make the car have a range of at least 500 kilometers. ”

As usual, as soon as Zhou Jingming came to Gusu, he found Martin Eberhard, and he reported the progress of his work to him.

The endurance of 500 kilometers is almost the same as that of Tesla in the previous life. For example, the Tesla Model X 100D has an official range of up to 552 kilometers, and the Model S has an official range of 489 kilometers.

Of course, due to the influence of the quality of the body, the measured endurance may be very different from the official endurance, which is understandable.

"The size of the cruising capacity, in addition to the performance of the battery, the quality of the vehicle is also one of the important factors, can we start from reducing the mass of the whole vehicle to improve the cruising range of the vehicle?" Zhou Jingming said.

Compared with traditional cars, the heaviest assembly of pure electric vehicles is the battery component, and even Tesla's battery module has a mass of up to 900 kilograms, which is approximately half of the mass of the whole vehicle.

"The weight of the battery can not be easily reduced, because the materials involved in the battery components, to ensure safety performance, can not be replaced by the rest of the materials at will, as for the body and other components, you can consider replacing with light metals, such as all-aluminum body, carbon fiber materials, etc., of course, it is more important to control the cost, can not blindly pursue lightweight. Coconi on the side replied seriously.

"I'm just making a suggestion, how to implement it, it's up to you. Zhou Jingming nodded and continued, "In terms of body design, are there any renderings?"

"The renderings are out, and the next step will be to carefully optimize the design for every part of the body. With that, Martin Eberhard turned on the computer and called up the three-dimensional renderings of the body for Zhou Jingming to look at carefully.

The body design was personally reviewed by Martin Eberhard, so compared with the EV-1 of General Motors, this electric car of Tianming Group looks much better, full of technology and fashion.

In fact, in the previous life, there are not many pure electric vehicles that can be designed well, and most of the electric vehicles look very ordinary, just like old-age scooters, such as Hyundai's KONA Electric, Renault's Zoe R110, and even BMW's i3, which look ordinary in appearance, and can even be said to be "ugly"!

Among so many electric vehicles, Tesla can stand out, in addition to the high range, a very important reason is that Tesla's design is very in line with the aesthetics of young consumers.

"I have to say that having Mr. Martin in charge of the design of the body is indeed a wise decision, and if General Motors had been able to invite Mr. Martin when designing the EV-1 electric car, it is estimated that this will not be the case now. Koconi said with emotion.

"I think that since electric vehicles are going to replace traditional cars, they should be on par with traditional cars in all aspects, rather than just seeing electric vehicles as a means of transportation, so when designing, we should naturally pay attention to aesthetics, which is also the design concept of electric vehicles that I have always adhered to. Martin Eberhard replied with a smile.

Before this, Martin Eberhard did not have a platform to realize such a concept, and now that Tianming Group has given him this opportunity, he naturally has to fully implement it.

"I think it's very good to have this design. Zhou Jingming sincerely admired, "In addition, how is the design of the super charging station going?"

"This is basically over, and the first charging stations will be installed next year if needed. Martin Eberhard replied.

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