Chapter 210: Car Catalog

Pick up the previous one: It takes up to several years to run in, during which time we can find out which parts are unreasonably designed, which parts are shortcomings, which materials are unqualified, and which materials are much more redundant. After a few years of grinding and many improvements, we have the potential to build several cars that perform well and are built to last.

Therefore, it is definitely not enough time to build a car factory and then design a car. When the time comes, there will definitely be a rush to launch a few immature models, and it is easy to smash the brand. In the automotive industry, we are newcomers and don't have that much credit for us to splurge. So if we don't do it, we must be mature and reliable products, and strive to launch them on the market.

That's why I'm going to explain to you why we're designing cars now.

There is also an external reason, that is, automotive technology is in a period of deep change. The previous car was a purely electromechanical product, without the slightest trace of microelectronics. Now that the major international automobile companies have begun to join the microelectronic control technology and some system software technology, it is the right time for us to start entering at this time, and if it is too late, various important patented technologies will be preemptively registered by other automobile companies.

That's why the external environment forces us to start designing cars now. From the above two points, we can see that it is time to design cars now.

A car is a complex machine made up of multiple systems. Therefore, I plan to divide into several subsystem research teams, each of which studies or designs the system for which it is responsible. But before we can do that, we need to have a head who will lead the subsystem research teams in a unified manner.

I have decided to appoint President Guo of the Institute of Mechanical Technology as the head of the Automotive Division, and everyone should obey his assignment and command. Let us now applaud and welcome Dean Guo. After Shen Danqing finished speaking, he took the lead in applauding. For a while, the venue remembered the deafening applause, and Guo Dong also stood up and bowed slightly to each of them. He sat in the audience below, and there was no microphone to give a thank-you speech, so he had to bow instead.

Shen Danqing looked at all this with a smile, and when the applause stopped, he began to speak again: "A car is first and foremost a commodity, so the first impression it gives is very important. That said, its appearance is very important. Therefore, I decided to form a car exterior design team with excellent product designers from various group companies. I'm the chief designer, and of course, I can't be in charge of specific things. This appearance design team also needs to set up a full-time team leader, which will be appointed by Dean Guo, and I will not go beyond maggots.

In addition to the form, the car has several important subsystems. The first is the undercarriage. The chassis system includes subsystems such as shock absorption system, brake system, steering system, and transmission system. It can be said that the comfort and safety of the car, the chassis system accounts for a considerable proportion. Especially since the car we are going to build in the future is a luxury car, comfort and safety are even more important.

Now is the period of rapid development of microelectronic technology, which is deeply affecting all aspects of our production and life, but the era of our predecessors did not have these technologies, so we can not completely copy the experience of our predecessors, but to boldly reform and innovate. Microelectronic control technology is also integrated into the chassis system.

Due to time constraints, I will explain my specific ideas to you in detail at the future special design meeting.

The second important subsystem of the car is the power system, which includes the engine and transmission. To measure whether a car has excellent performance, the powertrain accounts for a large proportion. There are several important indicators to measure the excellence of the powertrain: first, whether the engine is silent or whether the sound is clear and pleasant. Second, whether the connection between the engine and the transmission is smooth or whether the power take-off acceleration is linear. Third, whether the engine is fuel-efficient or whether the combustion is sufficient. Fourth, whether the engine exhaust emissions are environmentally friendly. Fifth, whether the engine compression ratio is better.

This system can use too much microelectronic control technology. So I also have too many ideas about the design of this system. Due to time constraints, I won't talk much about it here, and I will explain it to you in detail at the future special design meeting.

The third subsystem of the car is the frame, which is a part placed on the chassis and its main function is to protect the passengers in the car. Therefore, its first priority is safety, to be able to withstand collisions, and to protect the passengers in the car as much as possible. There's a lot of material and mechanics to be learned, so we can't take it lightly.

On the basis of ensuring safety as much as possible, we need to find a way to lighten the weight of the frame. It is not only beneficial to lower the center of gravity, but also effectively saves fuel.

In addition, the shape of the frame directly determines the shape and wind resistance, but when designing, the shape of the frame is affected by the shape, followed by the chassis. So in addition to the power system, the shape design should be ahead of all designs.

Finally, there is a hub and tires. Why do I want to focus on it? It's because the wheels and tires in the world don't meet my requirements. So we have to build our own wheels and tires. The wheel hub should be made of aluminum-magnesium alloy. Tires require airless tires. I also have ideas for specific shape design. After the meeting, relevant technical personnel can come to my office to listen to my explanation.

Okay, that's all I have to say, and now I would like to ask President Guo to continue to preside over the meeting and select the responsible persons of each system. After Shen Danqing finished speaking, he stood up and walked out.

He still had a lot to do, so when he got back to the office, he called Lu Xiaodong of Dingtian Law Firm. As soon as the phone was connected, Shen Danqing said to Lu Xiaodong on the other end of the phone: "Director Lu, come to my office, I have something to tell you." ”

"Okay, boss, I'll come up right away. Hearing the boss's order, Lu Xiaodong hurriedly replied.

The office of Dingtian Law Firm is on the 33rd floor, so within a few minutes, Lu Xiaodong appeared in front of Shen Danqing.

"Boss," Lu Xiaodong bowed slightly to the boss and greeted.

"Director Lu, I have two important things that I need your Dingtian Law Firm to do. Shen Danqing nodded in response, and directly said the reason for calling him up.

"Boss, what's the matter? Lu Xiaodong replied to him briskly.

"Well, Director Lu, the first thing I want you to send someone to Changsha to register and set up an automobile manufacturing company called Tang Dynasty Group Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The company's address is planned in Changsha Industrial Park. When Shen Danqing talked about the company's legal ......person, he thought for a moment and said, "Just write Secretary Liu's name." ”

After several years of training, Secretary Liu has followed him and has reached the conditions for release. It just so happens that the automobile manufacturing company is a very influential company, and it is very suitable for Secretary Liu to be the CEO. He couldn't let Secretary Liu be his secretary forever, and he also needed more trustworthy subordinates, so he planned to use the system of taking the secretary with him for a few years in the future, and then letting him go out to be the boss. This can not only better stimulate the secretary's enthusiasm for work, but also increase the number of CEOs of his subsidiaries who can reassure him.

Then he went on to say, "The second thing is that I want you to send someone to buy a car company with automobile manufacturing qualifications across the country." Note that our purpose is not to ask for factories, nor to talents, let alone their brands, we only seek automobile manufacturing qualifications.

There are also two small car manufacturing companies in Changsha, so you can send someone to contact them first, and talk better there. But you have to keep in mind that we require all models to be catalogue manufactured except for the prefix catalogue. If those two car manufacturing companies can't meet our requirements, we will go to other car companies in China. In short, we must have all the automobile catalog manufacturing qualifications except for the seven-digit catalog. ”

The 7-prefix directory that Shen Danqing said is the car directory. The car catalogue was one of the most strictly controlled automobile catalogues by the State Council, and at that time, only the three major state-owned automobile companies had manufacturing qualifications. Other provincial and municipal local automobile manufacturing companies are not qualified to manufacture this directory. It was not until 2001 that the state allowed Geely, Brilliance, Hafei and Chery to have manufacturing qualifications for the 7-digit catalog. That's why Shen Danqing said this to Lu Xiaodong.

Of course, the absence of the prefix catalogue manufacturing qualification does not mean that other automobile manufacturing companies do not produce family cars. Everyone is a eight immortals across the sea, each showing their magical powers. By exploiting the loopholes in the documents, the purpose of manufacturing cars was achieved.

How did they do it? It turns out that the state has set the criteria for defining a car. It is the so-called 4-door three-box model. The 4-door is easy to understand, except for the small coupe and the small coupe, the rest of the family cars are basically 4-door models.

It turns out that the front of the car is counted as one box in the engine compartment, one box is counted as the space where the passengers sit, and one box is also counted as the luggage compartment in the back. Therefore, many car manufacturing companies have integrated the luggage compartment in the back into the space where the passengers sit, which is the so-called butt truck. One of the features of the butt lifter is that it can be equipped with a rear glass window rain bracket, which is not possible with a real three-box car.

Its typical representative is Chery Automobile. Chery QQ is okay to say, it was originally a small car, and it is understandable to remove the butt. But what the hell is Chery Qiyun, it's obviously a three-box car! But they just made a hatchback model and put it into a two-box car. So it can be used with the 6 prefix bus catalog, grandly put on sale. With Chery as a master taking the lead, Shen Danqing is not worried that he will not be able to build a car in the future, but he will not be able to make a makeover, selling dog meat on the head of a sheep! Anyway, everyone is doing this, and the so-called law does not blame the public, and the state will not do anything to him.

To be continued......