Tianming Group Headquarters, Chairman's Office.

"Chairman, at present, we have received sponsorship applications, mainly including ExxonMobil oil, Michelin, Bosch and other large companies, there are also many domestic companies who want to become our sponsors, including PetroChina and Sinopec in the three barrels of oil, if all accepted, the annual sponsorship fee is as high as nearly 400 million US dollars. ”

As he spoke, Jonathan handed a copy of the material to Zhou Jingming.

"Four hundred million dollars? That's twice as much as the Scuderia Ferrari. Zhou Jingming took the document and said with a smile while reading it carefully.

Generally speaking, the sponsors of F1 teams are automobile-related industries, such as Shell Oil, Michelin tires, etc., which are sponsors of the Scuderia Ferrari. This time, there is no difference in the sponsors received by the Tianming team, but at the same time, three oil companies want to become the sponsors of the Tianming team, which makes Zhou Jingming very surprised.

At that time, the "three barrels of oil" were definitely at the level of a Big Mac!

"Sponsor matter, you will discuss with Mr. Zhao in a while, see what suggestions he has, and then you will operate the next sponsorship matters. After reading the document, Zhou Jingming handed the information to Jonathan again.

Although the sponsorship fee of 400 million US dollars is very attractive to Zhou Jingming, Zhou Jingming also knows that it is definitely impossible for all three oil companies to accept them, and he has to give up one or two of them.

"Okay, Chairman. After Jonathan took the document, he nodded quickly.

"Schumacher and Fei Xiaotian, are they already on vacation?" Zhou Jingming continued to ask.

"That's right, I gave them a month's vacation, and from next month, the team will enter the winter training period, Schumacher has now returned to Germany, but Fei Xiaotian still stays in the team and trains very consciously every day. ”

Every March, the new season resumes, leaving little time for the drivers and the team to recuperate, but Jonathan gave Schumacher a month's break considering he hadn't been home for a long time.

"Okay, if you have any needs for the improvement of the car, feel free to come to me, if it involves the engine, you can also contact the powertrain directly Mr. Wang, I have said hello to them, and I will fully support you." Zhou Jingming nodded and said.

Tianming Racing Team has now become one of the important business cards of Tianming Group to enhance its brand value, thanks to the outstanding performance of Tianming Racing Team in the F1 Championship, Tianming Group's sales in the past six months have also increased significantly, so for the investment of Tianming Racing Team, Zhou Jingming will definitely not be stingy.

Not long after Jonathan left, Wang Yuanchao and Zhao Ke came to Zhou Jingming's office.

"Jingming, call us here, is there anything you want to order?" After sitting down, Zhao Ke asked.

"What is the current progress of the research on electrification?" Zhou Jingming asked directly.

Seeing that this year is coming to an end, and the electrification project has been established for more than a year, there should be some progress.

"It's an electrification project, I held a project meeting a few days ago, and I have overcome the problems related to battery compatibility and battery life, and I will soon be able to enter the actual car loading link. Wang Yuanchao hurriedly replied.

Because it is not currently developing pure electric vehicles, but only in the hybrid stage, hybrid technology is not as cutting-edge as imagined, so it is not difficult to study, and after overcoming several technical problems one after another, the research on hybrid vehicles has been fully rolled out.

"That's it, the three of us can't say clearly, tomorrow afternoon we will have a meeting, the meeting will be held in your powertrain company, third brother, you go back and make arrangements, then I will go with my senior brother in person, and by the way, take a look at the specific research results." Zhou Jingming thought about it seriously, and then said.

"That's fine, I'll arrange this meeting right away. Wang Yuanchao nodded.

After the two of them talked in Zhou Jingming's office for half an hour, they came out of it, and Wang Yuanchao also rushed back to Gusu urgently, ready to arrange tomorrow's project meeting in person.

Under Wang Yuanchao's arrangement, Zhou Jingming and Zhao Ke attended the electrification research project meeting on time the afternoon of the next day.

"At present, the direction of our electrification research is modeled on the technical route of the Toyota Prius, using a full hybrid system, the power system consists of a gasoline engine and an electric motor, which can realize the independent drive of the motor. When the gasoline engine is less efficient, such as at low speeds, the gasoline engine is stopped and the vehicle is driven only by the electric motor, which improves fuel economy and reduces CO2 emissions......"

At the meeting, the head of the project team was showing Zhou Jingming and others the latest progress in electrification research.

In the development of hybrid vehicles, Toyota is definitely the most authoritative, the Prius launched in 1997, created the originator of hybrid vehicles, hybrid technology is also one of Toyota's core technologies.

Therefore, it is completely feasible for the project team to learn from the power control system of the Prius.

When dealing with the connection between the engine and the motor, there are generally three ways for hybrid vehicles, one is the "parallel mode" with the engine as the main power source and the motor as the auxiliary power, and the other is the "series mode" in which the engine is only used as the power source and the motor drives the car completely.

The last one, which is also the connection method that the Prius and Tianming Group will adopt, is a hybrid method, which takes into account the advantages of parallel connection and series connection, and when the speed is increased, the engine and electric motor share the power together efficiently.

Of course, the disadvantage of hybrid connection is that the structure is quite complex, and it also has to bypass Toyota's patent barriers, so it is not easy to develop.

"In addition, in terms of the configuration of the motor motor, our initial plan is to use an 80 kilowatt motor, which will save more than 50% fuel with the use of the motor, which is more fuel-efficient than Toyota's Prius. At the same time, an energy recovery system is adopted, and part of the kinetic energy generated by the gasoline engine is used to generate electricity from the generator......"

Immediately after, the person in charge continued. The use of the energy recovery system is borrowed from the design of the F1 car, but the structure of the system is greatly simplified, otherwise the cost of the vehicle will be greatly increased.

In addition to the above, the technicians have also made a number of innovations in hybrid technology, in addition to bypassing the patent barriers of the Prius, and more importantly, they want to compete with the Prius.

After listening to the report of the project team, Zhou Jingming, accompanied by Wang Yuanchao, visited the electrification research laboratory and observed the research results of hybrid and battery up close.

"The problem now is that the battery research of pure electric vehicles, because of the lack of engineers in this area, it is difficult to make further breakthroughs by relying on the team of scientific research institutes, which is the most urgent problem we are currently on. After coming out of the laboratory, Wang Yuanchao said.

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