Just the day after the five arrived in Munich, the pre-race activities began. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoMore than 80 teams from all over the world gathered at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in the north of Munich.

In Li Fanyu's memory, this should have been the location of BMW's headquarters. However, the development history of the automobile was strengthened, and it was replaced by the base camp of Mercedes-Benz.

The museum itself isn't much to see, it's just Mercedes laughing at itself.

In the exhibition hall, from the original Mercedes-Benz model to the concept model full of science fiction, all kinds of antique research and development drawings, and experiential car culture, the time span is more than 200 years.

The subtext of the whole museum is that the car was invented by the master, the automobile was invented by the master, and the automobile was invented by the master......

However, the thoughtful service in the museum moved Li Fanyu a little. As soon as I entered the museum, the staff enthusiastically handed over the guide brochure and a translation machine.

There is actually a Chinese option inside, which makes a few young people in a foreign land feel hot.

Liu Qing is a hands-on maniac, and he can't move when he sees a car model. I bought three car models with a unit price of 30 euros, which made Li Fanyu look at him for a long time with a caring fool's eyes.

AFTER THE PAYMENT OF THE GOODS, THE GOODS WERE DISMANTLED, AND A SHINY ROW OF ENGLISH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MODEL: MADEINCHINA.YIWU.

Zhang Yu connected the mobile phone WIFI, opened Taobao and made up for it: Tmall is priced at 79.9 yuan. (The exchange rate of the euro against the yuan is about 1:7 points.) ）

However, when I visited the assembly line workshop of Mercedes-Benz, several people were shocked.

The entire assembly line is almost unmanned, and there are only more than a dozen people in the factory of Nuoda, who are responsible for program maintenance and driving away the assembled vehicles. The people who do the work are all robotic arms and welding robots.

After an extremely leisurely day of shopping, everyone arrived at an apartment not far from the venue of the competition according to the address sent by Lao Zhang.

The apartment is simply furnished and not too big in size. The layout of two bedrooms and one living room, four boys squeezed into one room, Cheng Ke as a girl in one room, and the master slept on the sofa......

The owner is an uncle in his thirties named Zhu Jiu. It is said that he is the senior brother of everyone, and he has been working hard in Germany for almost ten years.

Although there is Lao Zhang, he is still embarrassed to eat and live for nothing. So Cheng Ke, who is proficient in German, led the men like a dog and went to the supermarket to buy vegetables and beer.

The ingredients in the supermarket are bizarre, and many of the things you want can't be bought. Cheng Ke could only show his hand and made a big meal that was neither Chinese nor foreign, but Zhu Yong ate it to tears.

How many years have you not eaten lo mein......

On the first day of the competition, as the sponsor, Yannick, the chief designer of Mercedes-Benz, personally arrived at the venue, gave a speech to the participating teams, and assigned the tasks of the competition.

As Professor Zhang analyzed when he came, it was indeed based on the theme of environmental protection. Build on technologies that are already mature or ready to be ubiquitous within five years. The rest of the models, classes, interiors, everything, everything, there are no restrictions.

This means that you can think outside your mind as much as you want, even if you design a UFO.

But the technology has to be the existing technology, you design it, and you can put it into production in the near future.

Li Fanyu sniffled, as if he had sniffed out something different in it. The people who came to participate in the competition were all industrial design majors or scholars, not only he could see it, but many people were excitedly waving their fists.

Mercedes-Benz's meaning is clear, if the design is outstanding, the final award-winning work is likely to be adopted by Mercedes-Benz as a production model.

Mercedes-Benz's production model!

For college students who have not left the school, achieving such an honor will undoubtedly make the best starting point in their future career development.

It's like a high school student participating in an essay contest. Before the competition, the teacher told the students: You should take the test well, and the students who won the first place will be recommended to the Central Party School and give you a mayor.

Everyone looked at the task book in their hands, and they couldn't wait to return to the apartment and start creating.

The Germans are rigorous, but the opening is short and outrageous. After Yannick announced the official start of the competition, he directly announced the start of the competition, and some German automotive design practitioners volunteered to guide everyone.

It is said to be a guide, but in fact, it is to popularize the experience of making clay models. The rest of the design direction and technical application are not mentioned.

With such a big game, it took less than an hour to open the game.

This made a few people who had been tortured by the leader's speech for a long time feel a little empty. There were no leaders to speak, the organizers summarized, and the representatives stepped forward to express their positions...... I'm really not used to it.

In the apartment, the three top students have already quarreled.

The old lady in the next apartment leaned curiously against the window, peeking vigilantly - she thought her neighbor had been robbed.

The three of them had a great disagreement on the starting point of the design, with Liu Qing believing that the concept of pollution-free should be strengthened by starting with new energy.

Xu insisted that we should start with convenience, and design cars that carry more people, have more space, and have lower displacement, because from the perspective of the city, private cars mean additional expenses and taxes, and private cars with multiple people will reduce more pollution, be more practical, and be easy to achieve from a technical level.

When Zhang Yu came here, it was completely opposite to Xu Fufang's thinking. He believes that the development direction of environmentally friendly vehicles is single-seat, low cylinder count, and low displacement. Even the use of electric engines is the most environmentally friendly.

Zhang Yu accused Xu of outdated thinking, and Xu Fufang accused Zhang Yu of being too radical. Liu Qing opened his bow on both sides, accusing the two of them of poor imagination and touching.

The voices of the three of them were dry, only to find that there were two people sitting next to them, who were eating fried chicken and beer.

As a result, Xu proposed a vote to use democracy to determine the direction of the design.

Li Fanyu and Cheng Ke wiped their oily hands clean, only to find that the final decision fell on the two of them.

Cheng Ke tilted his head and glanced at the three of them.

After thinking about it for a long time, he bit his lip and said: "I think Zhang Yu's idea is quite reliable, you think, now the traffic in the city is getting bigger and bigger, and the cost of taxis is getting higher and higher, so the car for a single person is still very marketable." Moreover, the model is small, and drivers with poor skills can also be easily controlled. ”

Zhang Yu was proud and set his eyes on Li Fanyu.

Li Fanyu scratched his head and said a little embarrassed: "Actually, I also have an immature idea, do you think hybrid cars are easy to design?"

The three top students fainted, didn't you come here to be a nanny?

Li Fan ignored their eyes, and continued: "According to my thoughts, the traffic is getting more and more congested now. When the engine is running at low rpm, the oil and gas combustion is insufficient, and the pollution caused is far greater than that of high-speed operation.

A lot of exhaust pollution is generated at this time, if you design a car that can be driven by electricity at low speeds and can switch to gasoline engine at high speeds, will it be a good way out?"

The other four people scoffed at first, but when he said this, he faintly felt that it made sense, which was a good direction. And technically, it's not hard to achieve.

The theory of gasoline-electric hybrid has been put forward since the last century, but because of the immaturity of electric engine technology and the difficulty in regulating the proportion of gasoline-electric hybrid, there has been no successful finished car.

But the contest is about concepts, not tackling. Hybrid oil and electricity is really a good gimmick.

Li Fanyu looked at their thoughtful appearances and winked at Cheng Ke proudly.

In the past two days, he has not been idle, and he has consulted a lot of information on the computer.

As far as he knows, in this world, although the concept of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles has been around for a long time, there has not been a production model that uses this concept.

However, in Li Fanyu's memory, there are such as the Toyota Corolla with both oil and electricity, and the BYD Tang, which is the king of acceleration within 200,000. There is also a quasi-supercar with a displacement of 1.5T and an acceleration of 0-100 kilometers in only 4 seconds - BMW-hybrid version of the I8!