759 Too Many Restrictions
Sanling's two joint venture engine factories, one in Shencheng and the other in Bingcheng, Wang Haoan made a few phone calls to understand the specific situation.
It turns out that this joint venture engine factory not only has shares in Huaxia and Sanling, but also shares in two companies in Malaysia, which are owned by Malaysia's Proton Motors.
Proton Motors has just acquired Rust, a luxury car brand in the United Kingdom, a few years ago, and has all the family car-related technologies, which can not only be independently developed and produced, but also exported to Europe.
Of course, they also want to export Huaxia, but unfortunately Huaxia no longer wants more joint venture cars, so Baoteng Company and Sanling, after negotiation with Huaxia, decided to come up with gearbox technology for cooperation.
They sold the transmission technology to two joint venture engine factories in Huaxia for 200 million RMB. In other words, the two domestic engine factories can also produce gearboxes.
The 4G series engine taken out by Sanling was priced at 350 million RMB, plus some less important technologies, at a price of 400 million, and invested in two engine factories, and at the same time authorized the right to use the Sanling trademark.
Sanling is a relatively poor enterprise in the automobile industry of the island country at this time, and it is controlled by Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz has always been a luxury car, a high-end car, two years ago after the acquisition of Kellesle Automobile Company, even more felt that Sanling's technology of producing low-end engines was useless.
Because in the markets of developed countries in Europe and the United States, everyone prefers large displacement and powerful engines, and only Asia likes small displacement, which pays attention to energy saving, because of the lack of energy, it is also relatively poor.
At the beginning, Mercedes-Benz controlled Sanling in order to balance the island country's crazy fields and other automobile companies. But later I found out that everyone took a different path, so I didn't take those car companies seriously.
Huaxia is looking for the three major technologies of automobiles everywhere to revitalize its own automobile industry, and the car companies in developed countries in Europe and the United States have a tacit understanding, and would rather we scrap this technology, not produce it, and not sell it to Huaxia, so as to ensure that Huaxia's automobile industry has been backward and in a state of hunger, so that they can sell cars in the future.
But Sanling's side has been losing money year after year, and Mercedes-Benz wants to sell some technologies that they can't use, which are ready to be eliminated, and it is good to create some profits.
Anyway, the biggest competitors of this displacement engine are all companies in island countries, including Volkswagen, etc., which will not affect their Mercedes-Benz company, which is a high-end luxury car.
Another is that Huaxia political axe through the influence of politics ~~~ governance, and Malaysia's Proton Motors, which has just acquired Britain's Rust Motors, if the original technology is sold to Huaxia, then Sanling's eliminated technology will really be scrapped.
Therefore, Sanling suddenly relented, took out their previous generation of automobile engine technology, established a joint venture with Huaxia and Malaysia, and also took out some less important technologies with great sincerity, plus their brands.
In fact, Sanling's original engine, Huaxia also has no purchase volume, except for Mitsubishi Motors' joint venture in Huaxia. In this way, we can continue to promote Sanling's brand.
In this way, the two engine joint ventures were established, and the controlling party was Huaxia, because only Huaxia took out real money, and the other two parties took out the eliminated technology.
But even if the technology is to be eliminated in the eyes of others, Huaxia does not have it.
Just technical drawings are worth hundreds of millions, and they are still obsolete technologies. If it is a new technology, how much should it cost? If you count the technological blockade, let alone 350 million RMB, the 350 million US dollars may not be sold by the other party.
But in any case, Wang Haoan does not accept such a joint venture with a foreign-funded enterprise, unless the other party comes up with the latest technology, the international advanced can be considered.
Otherwise, looking at the value of these obsolete technologies, there is no need for joint ventures at all, and the money in Wang Haoan's hands can buy a lot casually.
The delegation of the negotiators has already set out to negotiate with several automobile companies, all of which are loss-making automobile companies.
This is true in any industry, there are those who make money, and there are those who lose money. Big fish eat small fish, and there are always some that grow slowly and will eventually be eliminated.
This time, they are all aiming at the car companies of the Commonwealth countries, and now with the rise of the automobile companies of Germany, the United States and the island countries, the car companies of the British Commonwealth are gradually going downhill.
And some companies are willing to sell some second-rate technologies for the sake of money, which will be eliminated anyway. When they have the money, they can invest in new product research and development, or invest in product promotion to make the company rise again.
As for whether it will allow the development of China's automobile industry, they themselves are about to go bankrupt, so why are they thinking so much? Besides, what they sell is second-rate technology, and they want to catch up, and they can't do it in ten or eight years?
Moreover, in a poor place like Huaxia, can you have the money to invest heavily in research and development, maybe it is to make a little improvement in the original technology, and then it will be introduced to the market, and there may not even be any change, and it will be used directly, which will drag down the development process of Huaxia's automobile industry.
The technology of the engine, in fact, is very simple, is to add or subtract in a hexagonal diagram to reduce fuel consumption, what to do if the power is insufficient, add a turbo into it.
It seems that the power is increased, but the service life of the engine is shortened, and the oil requirements are also higher. The engine is too heavy, and the material is changed from steel to light aluminum alloy, which reduces the weight, but the cost of the material increases, and the life will still be affected.
Moreover, the balance of various values should also be mastered, some are too high, or too low, and the performance and life of the engine will be affected.
It's easy to do in theory, but it's hard to do in practice because there's no good material. Some theories can be used abroad, but they can't be used in China, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.
Huaxia is not sure that it will not be able to sell top-notch materials abroad, but in this way, the cost will go up. The material blockade of foreign developed countries alone has made China's industrial development difficult.
You procure your own materials for R&D and production, and as a result, the products you produce are more expensive than those directly imported, do you say that you still want to produce?
The state compulsorily has to use domestic ones, but others have made more money in terms of materials, but in fact, Huaxia has spent energy and still lost money.
Wang Haoan also looked at those materials, so to speak, only buying second-rate technology, his own research and development will not be very smooth. The limitation of materials is too critical, how do you feel like you have to stare at and lose money?