Chapter 1359 Magnetic Weighting Technology
Marcos Moseley did not understand why Jürgen-Hubert, the president of "Mercedes-Benz", and Lin Feng were able to reach an agreement so quickly, knowing that this not only involved hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, but also related to one of the most advanced automobile production lines of "Mercedes-Benz". Rao Marcos Moseley has been the president of the FIA for more than ten years, and he has never seen such a quick negotiation.
Compared to Marcos Moseley's surprise, Lin Feng was not surprised. Because even if "Mercedes-Benz" sells this automobile production line to itself, it will not conflict with the "Mercedes-Benz" market "Mercedes-Benz" family car market orientation is mid-to-high-end, and this production line can only produce low-end cars, and it is an extremely entry-level low-end car, there is no conflict between the two. What's more, "Mercedes-Benz" never wants Japanese cars to gamble on this sales and eventually dominate the Chinese market.
China has a population of 1.3 billion and about 3.3 billion households, and according to China's current development, it is entirely possible for an average household to have one car in less than 15 years, that is, 3.3 billion cars. What's more, this is only the sales market, the annual car maintenance market, the car modification market, etc., so calculated, China can be said to be a gold mine in the eyes of everyone in the current global car market, depending on who can obtain the right to mine.
Therefore, the "Mercedes-Benz" company is willing to help Lin Feng this time and sell this automobile production line to Lin Feng, which is also the trend of the times on the one hand, not to mention that the "Mercedes-Benz" car will also get enough profits from this automobile production line. The second plan proposed by Jürgen-Hubert is that the car production line "Mercedes-Benz" will be sold to Linfeng for 200 million US dollars, and "Mercedes-Benz" will be responsible for renovating it to meet Linfeng's demand for energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, and provide after-sales service for five years, and bear all the costs of after-sales service. However, correspondingly, for every car sold by this automobile production line, the "Mercedes-Benz" company will extract O5% of the profit.
For Lin Feng, this condition, although a little harsh, because in Lin Feng's view, in the future, this automobile production line will produce millions, or even tens of millions of energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, "Mercedes-Benz" each car is a bit too much, but at present, Lin Feng can not find a more haode automobile company than "Mercedes-Benz", and now he can only accept this condition.
After bidding farewell to the "Mercedes-Benz" company, Lin Feng visited the Shijie environmental protection organization, the Shijie meteorological research organization, and the Shijie archaeological organization, all three of which promised to make a report on global warming and energy conservation and emission reduction in the near future. As for why these three global organizations are willing to sell Lin Feng's face, it is very simple, Lin Feng promised to provide the three organizations with annual sponsorship of 10,000 US dollars in the future to help them study earth change and other topics, and these three organizations naturally did not promise. It is true that such a report is not against their conscience, so why wouldn't they do it!
A month later!
When the time entered the early summer season, when Lin Feng came to the "Dongfeng Automobile again", the "Mercedes-Benz" company had already changed the production line of energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars ordered by Lin Feng at a cost of 200 million US dollars, and the installation and commissioning were completed.
"Boss, you're amazing. This production line cost $1.5 billion to the Mercedes-Benz company, and if you count the refurbishment, it will cost about $200 million, and it will be sold to you for $200 million!"
Originally, Mark proposed to let Lin Feng go to the "Mercedes-Benz" company to buy the car production line, but that was just that, and Mark himself did not have any hope for this. He was poached from "Mercedes-Benz" by Lin Feng with a high salary before, and he knows the principle of "Mercedes-Benz" very well. With such an advanced automobile production line, "Mercedes-Benz" will never sell people, and would rather rot than sell it to Lin Feng this time.
Lin Feng smiled. This time it really can only be a coincidence. If it weren't for the gamble between himself and the Japanese car, if it weren't for the outside world looking down on the "Shenlong Automobile", if it weren't for the "Mercedes-Benz" car production line that happened to be rotten in his arms, if it wasn't for the fact that he was shijie rich, "Mercedes-Benz" hoped to be able to establish a little relationship with himself, and under so many coincidences, I am afraid that the "Mercedes-Benz" company would never sell this automobile production line to the "Shenlong Automobile".
"Lin Dong, with this new automobile production line, as well as our transformation of other automobile production lines, the company's annual production capacity can now reach 850,000 units!" Zheng Jie said with bright eyes.
Although the annual output of 850,000 units is still very immature compared with the companies such as "General Motors" and "Toyota" that produce several million cars a year, it is quite gratifying that "Shenlong Automobile" has the capacity to produce 850,000 cars a year just after its establishment.
Of course, for the time being, what makes Zheng Jie a little entangled is that all the production lines of the current "Shenlong Automobile" can only produce energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, and there is no production line for other car series. This is undoubtedly quite embarrassing. The productivity is too single, once the energy-saving and environmentally friendly car series is not welcomed by the market, or it is not as good as expected, then the "Shenlong Automobile" is really dead and can no longer die.
At the beginning of the construction of the factory, plus the purchase of automobile production lines and transformation, the founding capital of "DPCA Automobile" was 100 million yuan, but it has already cost a lot, if you deduct the future advertising expenses, the working capital on the account of "DPCA Automobile" is only for the company to operate for 12 months. If the car cannot be sold within 12 months, there is only one result waiting for the "Shenlong Automobile" -- bankruptcy.
"Don't worry, energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars will definitely be able to sell well!" Lin Feng said confidently.
Everyone nodded. Anyway, now that it is forced to go to Liangshan, there is only forward and no retreat.
Three days later, the first energy-saving and environmentally friendly car officially rolled off the production line.
Lin Feng, as the chairman of the company, was naturally the first to test drive. A week later, Lin Feng nodded with great satisfaction. This energy-saving and environmentally friendly car, although the displacement of the car, but the degree can be as high as 12o kilometers per hour, and at the highest height of driving, the body will never have a feeling of floating, unlike the low-end car series of "Chery", once it has passed 8o, the whole car feels a little floating. Of course, the reason for such a strong contrast is the reference to a new jishu, which is also the only one in the world.
Of course, this jishu is known by Harvard's top student Thoreau and others. Originally, when it came to the requirements of energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, Lin Feng put forward several big suggestions: 1. Fashionable and beautiful, 2. Good quality and low price, 3. Driving feeling, 4. Sturdy and durable, 5. Degree.
For fashion and beauty, Lin Feng put forward an order, must not give people a shoddy feeling as soon as the car is produced, and must not let people say that energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars are parallel cars. Therefore, the appearance must not be worse than those high-end cars. For Lin Feng's request, everyone is difficult, the low-end car series looks no worse than the high-end car series, and it must be more distinctive, isn't it difficult for the strong.
After some deep thought, everyone shook their heads helplessly, for Lin Feng's request, everyone asked themselves if they couldn't do it, I'm afraid that no one in the entire automobile industry could do it.
"Lin Dong, I think this request is still too difficult. After all, a low-end sedan is a low-end car, how can it look similar to a high-end car, or even better!" Zheng Jie explained Lin Feng and said.
Lin Feng shook his head. The low-end cars of other automobile manufacturers are not as good as the high-end cars only from the appearance, which is the business of other automobile manufacturers, but the cars of "Shenlong Automobile" must not be worse than the high-end cars only from the outside, otherwise its sales will be affected. Now that people can't produce cars that meet their own requirements, it's up to people who aren't in the automotive industry to design them.
When it comes to design, Lin Feng naturally thinks of a person - Allegra.
"Allegra, long time no see, how are you doing?" Lin Feng greeted warmly. Because of the little relationship between himself and Allegra, Lin Feng has always felt a little guilty about Allegra and has always been a little embarrassed to see her, so he rarely has contact with her. Whenever you contact Allegra, there's always something going on. For example, the last time Lin Feng held a birthday party in "Warcraft Shijie", he used Allegra's connections to invite Shijie's top ten supermodels in the virtual Shijie, and he didn't want a penny. It can be said that Allegra helped Lin Feng a lot, and Lin Feng did not help Versace except for subsidizing him with 200 million US dollars and exchanging 2o% of the shares when Versace was in difficulty.
"Hmph, what, what do you want me to help with!" Allegra snorted.
Lin Feng was embarrassed for a while.
"Can't I just call and catch up with my old friends!" Lin Feng smiled awkwardly.
"Cut, my Mr. Shijie Fu, you have time to pick up girls, how can you come to me when you have time, say, do you want me to help with something!" Allegra ruthlessly exposed Lin Feng's hypocrisy.
"Well, yes, my 'DPCA' wanted to design the car, and my requirement was that the low-end sedan looked similar to the high-end sedan, and it had more features. Those designers in our company are too poor to do it, so I can only come to you, a master of the design industry!" Lin Feng kept holding a top hat for Allegra.
"Hmph, you're smart enough to know what I'm doing. Lin, there's no problem with that. But I have one condition. Allegra said.
Lin Feng was instinctively startled. What are the conditions for this, what will this be? I won't want to force myself to marry! -- I don't do anything bad in my life, and I am not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night, Lin Feng obviously belongs to the kind of person who does bad things.
"Let's go. Lin Feng vaguely agreed.
"Don't worry, it's not what you think. Allegra didn't resented Lin Feng's tone, and said coldly.
Lin Feng laughed helplessly.
"My request is very simple, you come to Milan with your friends on the 18th of this month. Allegra said.
On the 18th of this month, Lin Feng thought for a while, what did Allegra want to go to Milan on the 18th, and he had to go with Li Zhiyou.
"Lin, you shouldn't have forgotten it!" Allegra said on the phone, and his voice rose an octave sharply.
Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Lin Feng's forehead. This, this, it seems that I really forgot what was wrong. What exactly do you want to go to Milan?--Lin Feng was quite entangled.
"Hmph, Lin, if you can't think of it, forget it, you won't use it. But I'm not going to help you design any car shapes!" Allegra said before hanging up.
I have to say that Lin Feng sometimes really admires his quick wit. Whenever Yujian had some problems or threatened things, at that critical moment, Lin Feng could always be in a hurry and come up with a way to solve the problem.
"Haha, Allegra, look at what you said, I was joking with you just now. On the 18th of this month, isn't it your ceremony, you said it half a year ago, how could I forget! I will definitely attend on time with Li Zhiyou!" Lin Feng had a cold sweat on his forehead, fortunately, fortunately, Lin Feng remembered at the critical moment.
On June 18th, it was Allegra's coming-of-age ceremony. Half a year ago, Allegra issued an invitation to himself, Li Zhiyou and others very formally, and this time he specially reminded himself that he was really very careful.
Hmph!--Allegra snorted a few times, satisfied with Lin Feng's answer. But for some reason, for no reason, I felt a burst of joy at Lin Feng's memory of his ceremony.
"By the way, who will be there then?" Lin Feng asked casually.
"Well, the fashion industry is probably back, Pierre Cardin, some of the top Shijie models will be there, and Mr. Berluscori, by the way, my master will be there!" Allegra said proudly.
"Your master?" Lin Feng was stunned, he didn't expect Allegra to have any master.
"Hmph, you forgot, Schumacher is my master!" said Allegra proudly.
Schumacher!--Lin Feng's eyes lit up when he heard this.
My own team is going to join F1 next season, and the external hardware and software are easy to implement and spend some money, but the driver's problem has not been solved. And the Jishu of "Shenlong Automobile" is definitely not as good as other teams for the time being, so there must be the most haode racer to make up for the gap. If you ask who the best F1 driver is today, it's not like Schumacher. Lin Feng has been playing Schumacher's idea, but he has always felt that there is no chance to start. Now, God has given him a chance.
"Hmph, Lin, why are you laughing so weirdly. Okay, I won't talk to you more, I still have something to do. If you want a car design drawing, I will give it to you within 3 days. With that, Allegra hurriedly hung up the phone. Allegra, who is about to hold a ceremony and officially take over the Versace empire, obviously has too many things to do.
Three days later, Allegra sent in the design drawings from Milan. According to the three grades of the "DPCA Automobile" energy-saving and environmentally friendly sedan, Allegra has designed a total of three different styles of design drawings. The low-end gives people a kind of simplicity and generosity, although it is simple but does not make people feel vulgar, but has a fresh feeling; as for the mid-range, it is fashionable and beautiful, which is unforgettable at first sight; as for the high-end car series, there is only one feeling - low-key luxury. The appearance looks inconspicuous, but the more I look at it, the more I like it, and the more I look at it, the more I feel graceful and luxurious.
And for each design drawing, Allegra is accompanied by a variety of replaceable local modification drawings. For example, in terms of exterior color, each model is equipped with four colors, representing the four seasons, and each model also has a distinction in appearance, with the masculine one belonging to the male driver, and the feminine one belonging to the female driver. It can be said that Allegra took great pains to design the sedan "Shenlong Automobile".
"Lin Dong, praise! I didn't know until today that the car could be so fashionable!" Zheng Jie sighed.
The rest of the crowd was also amazed. It turned out that what was so difficult to solve in their eyes, Lin Feng actually solved it in only three days, and it was so perfect. Suffice it to say, they all want to buy one of these cars right away.
As for the appearance, the problem is perfectly solved. Of course, as for Lin Feng's debt to Allegra, then Lin Feng can only repay it himself.
As for the good quality and low price, then it is even more fine. This time, the three sedans driven by "Shenlong Automobile" are only 38 yuan for the low-end and below, 58 yuan for the mid-range 4 liters, and 78 yuan for the high-end 4 liters, which is absolutely good quality and low price. It can be said that it is definitely the most cost-effective car on the market.
As for the driving feeling, Lin Feng hopes to give all drivers and passengers the most comfortable environment. Originally, many suggestions were made, but most of them were not satisfied. After all, this is an energy-saving and environmentally friendly car, and the interior space is limited, so it is impossible to be as comfortable as a luxury car, after all, space is everything. However, it is clear that this is by no means in line with Lin Feng's requirements. If the sedan of "DPCA" wants to surpass the sales of Japanese models, it must strive for perfection. And the driving feeling is one of the keys.
Therefore, Lin Feng found the leader in the international furniture decoration industry - IKEA. IKEA is responsible for the design of all the cars in the "DPCA". In the end, when the "IKEA" plan came up and created a model for everyone to experience temporarily, it once again proved how wise Lin Feng's decision was. "IKEA" uses their decades of experience in the furniture decoration industry to make full use of all the space of the "Shenlong Car" energy-saving and environmentally friendly car. Although the appearance of the energy-saving and environmentally friendly car looks very good, but in fact, after sitting in, due to the combination of various interior decorations, as well as the design of the seats, it does not make people feel that it is equipped with automatic ergonomic equipment, from the shortest 14 to 2 meters tall, you can feel a comfortable driving experience.
As for durability, don't forget that the deputy minister of production is a German, although he is nominally a deputy minister, but in fact he is the future minister, and once Zheng Jie is promoted from deputy general manager to general manager, Mark will be promoted to minister. Therefore, Mark proposed that the Japanese car should not be built without regard for human life, and that it must withstand collisions and impacts, so the steel plate must be haode. As a result, in the end, if you don't count the cost of Harvard high-achieving students such as Solo, in terms of cost, all the costs of the low-end are as high as 350,000, the mid-end is as high as 50,000, and the high-end is as high as 65 yuan. This is not counting the cost of advertising, if you calculate it like this, almost the production of low-end cars loses a little money, the mid-range cars do not make money, and the high-end cars can make so much money.
If you count the Ming Jishu usage fee of Solo and others, not only will you not make money, but you will lose money.
Therefore, at first, over Mark's proposal, everyone had a verbal battle. After all, the purpose of opening a company is to make money, although "DPCA Automobile" carries the hope of Chinese automobiles, but it cannot continue to operate at a loss. In this matter, the management at that time quarreled when they met, and almost turned their faces.
In the end, everyone handed over the decision to Lin Feng, and Lin Feng decided. After thinking about it again, Lin Feng decided to use the proposal of the German Mark to use steel to ensure the safety of every driver and passenger. Although the company produces energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, it is absolutely not energy-saving in terms of steel materials.
As for the issue of production costs, Lin Feng naturally also considered it, that is, to take the goods directly from the source. to acquire iron ore veins, so that the cost can be minimized.
These three points are easy to solve. The real challenge is degree. Although good steel has been used, which can greatly enhance the safety of drivers and passengers, it cannot be guaranteed in terms of degree. For a car, if you want to not float, your own weight must rise, especially the chassis must be heavy. However, as soon as the chassis is heavy, the fuel consumption of the car will be large, so it will never be energy-saving and environmentally friendly. Therefore, this conundrum has been bothering everyone.
Until Solo and others came up with a completely new idea - magnetic weighting.
This is a new concept and a new attempt. Considering the car problem of the "Shenlong Car", everyone has not been able to find a solution that can perfectly solve this problem. By chance, when Harvard high-achieving student Solo and others witnessed the news of China's maglev train, they suddenly thought that since they could use the earth's geomagnetic force to levitate such a heavy train, could they do the opposite, and use the geomagnetic force to temporarily increase the weight of the car, so as to ensure that it would not drift because the body was too light during the driving.
After the attempts of Solo and others, and went to Harvard University to move the rescue soldiers, half a month, under a chance attempt, "magnetic weighting" Jishu came out. Through this "magnetic weighting" jishu, even if the car is light, as long as Cage "magnetic weighting" jishu, the weight of the car can be guaranteed in a short time, without worrying about the phenomenon of floating under high driving. And this kind of "magnetic weighting" jishu, it is amazing that it does not increase the additional fuel consumption of the car, and there is a certain improvement effect on the degree. Otherwise, how can an energy-saving car below the liter drive to 12o kilometers per hour.
However, it is very strange that the possession of this "magnetic weight" jishu does not belong to the "Shenlong Automobile", but to Lin Feng. The reason is simple. At the beginning, Solo and others proposed to develop solar panels, but they were rejected by many shareholders of the company. For this, Solo and others are naturally unwilling. At this time, Lin Feng came forward to build a research institute with his own funds for Solo and others to study the projects they were interested in. Of course, Solo and others are still members of the "Shenlong Automobile", but they are also researchers at the "Forest Wind Research Institute".
At the "Shenlong Automobile", Solo and others are responsible for the improvement of the car, and at the "Forest Wind Research Institute", they are responsible for researching various projects that they are interested in, such as solar energy, such as aerodynamics, such as this magnetic weighting, in short, they can study whatever they are interested in, without any restrictions. And Lin Feng guaranteed that they had enough funds.
And this time, this "magnetic weighting" jishu was successfully researched in the "Lin Feng Research Institute". Its ownership naturally belongs to Lin Feng. It's just that for every car equipped with a "magnetic weight" jishu, Solo and others can enjoy a 2o% profit share.
As for the current "Shenlong Automobile" car equipped with a "magnetic weight" jishu, Lin Feng symbolically charges a usage fee of RMB yuan.
"Everyone, try it!" Lin Feng got out of the car and opened the car door in a spirited manner.
"I'm coming!" Zheng Jie was the first to jump up.
Boom! -- With the wild sound of the motor, the first energy-saving and environmentally friendly sedan flew out like a speed. 1o minutes later, it was back at a brisk speed.
"Haha, it's so cool! You can really drive up to 12o kilometers, and there is no floating feeling, and I didn't hit it just now, the body is so strong, far from being comparable to Japanese cars! As for the driving feeling, it is not to mention, it is no worse than 'BMW'!" Zheng Jie said proudly.
Although the car of "DPCA Automobile" is not the most durable and durable in the world, you must know that this is an energy-saving and environmentally friendly car, which has always given everyone the impression that it is light and not durable, but now it has completely subverted this tradition.
Then everyone tried driving one by one, and after getting out of the car, they were all excited. They are proud, this is a car produced by "Shenlong Automobile", but it is so good, and the low-end price is enough to be comparable to the mid-to-high-end sedan (in terms of appearance and driving feeling), can you not be proud!
"By the way, boss, what do you think is the name of this car?" asked Zheng Jie.
Everyone looked at Lin Feng in unison. Now the sedan is off the assembly line, but it doesn't have a name yet.
Lin Feng thought about it for a while.
"Do you have any good opinions? I can't think of any haode names for the time being, so it's better to call the low-end ones 'Shenlong 1 Series', the mid-range ones 'Shenlong 2 Series', and the high-end ones 'Shenlong 3 Series'!" Lin Feng said.
Everyone thought about it and temporarily approved the proposal. Wait until you have a good name and then change it.
"By the way, boss, how are you going to publicize it?" Zheng Jie asked. Lin Feng's "Second Entertainment" has many stars, and in this regard, Lin Feng has the most right to speak.
Lin Feng smiled weirdly. Which celebrity please? This is too childish.