When it comes to composite materials, many people think of engineering plastics, synthetic resins, and carbon fibers, perhaps many people think that as long as they are composite materials, they have nothing to do with metal, and composite materials must be high-tech products, in fact, this view is really wrong! In fact, the application of composite materials has a history of more than 3,000 years, and the earliest composite materials are the straw-reinforced clay used by ancient farmers to build houses in China, the city wall bricks mixed with glutinous rice juice when building the city wall, and even reinforced concrete is also a composite material.

So it's not wrong to say it's high-tech, but it's not exactly high-tech. As for the belief that composite materials must be non-metallic materials, it is a misunderstanding: various metal alloys, such as tungsten steel, manganese steel, etc., are not metal composite materials!

As for non-metallic composite materials, there are more variety, because of their high strength, light weight, better durability, the application range is naturally wider, aerospace and other high-tech aspects can be seen everywhere, and even now many helicopter rotors are made of non-metallic composite materials.

There is also a category of reinforced composite materials, such as glass fiber, carbon fiber, boron fiber and metal wire.

Zhang Lan is aiming at reinforced composite materials, which have a wider range of applications and a higher threshold for entry. But this is not difficult for Zhang Lan: a high threshold proves that the profit is large; Similarly, the high threshold also proves that the competition is not so fierce.

Although the domestic research on high-tech composite materials is in the initial application stage, Zhang Lan is not worried that he can't get these things: if he can't do it, someone will always do it, and now the network is gradually developed, and it just so happens that European and American countries have the habit of putting their own things in the computer.

This habit is really a good habit for Alice and Xiao Chenxi. It's also good to borrow something from them for free when necessary.

Tilting her head and yawning, Zhang Lan rubbed her eyes: I've been thinking about it for so long, I don't know what time it is? I feel a little sleepy. Get up and go to the toilet and come back to sleep.

As soon as I turned on the light, I casually glanced at the clock. Zhang Lan's eyes suddenly straightened: Fuck, it's half past four?! No wonder I feel sleepy! In less than an hour, the sky should be bright, how can I not be sleepy?

July. Zhang Zongjun and Yang Zhi will go to the United States, not to travel, but to Bill. Ford invited the Ford Group to celebrate the good cooperation between the two groups in the past three years.

Of course. Taking advantage of this opportunity to have a good time, it would be so sorry for myself, Yang Zhi, who had already begun to complain that he had not gone out to play well, had even begun to consult Alice about what fun places in the United States could make a good time.

For so many years, although she is also a billionaire woman worth billions of dollars, Yang Zhi has never been so conscious, she has always stayed at home to take care of her husband and two children, and then went to the company to deal with some things that she can handle. A typical traditional Chinese husband and wife who is a good wife and mother.

Thanks to the continuous learning in the past few years, Yang Zhi, a quasi-illiterate person who did not graduate from the second grade of primary school, is now able to have a few simple English conversations with Alice, not to mention the document processing of the regular company. If you don't talk about your academic qualifications, who would have thought that such a shrewd and capable deputy general manager of Alice Group would be just a rural woman who has not graduated from primary school?

In the summer of 1994, Ford successor Bill Brown came to attend the Alice Group car roll-off ceremony. Ford, after seeing several Alice Group cars for the first time, was immediately amazed. Immediately applied to Alice for authorized production, but unfortunately his old man was conservative, and he had to experience these cars himself before deciding whether to agree with his son's decision.

At the end of July, 50 Kirin cars of various configurations ordered by the Ford Group arrived in the United States. From the first glance at these cars, the elder Ford's mouth never closed.

Now he finally understands why his son is so impatient to ask the Ford Group to introduce these models of the Alice Group for local production in the United States, because even if he sees these cars, he has a strong purchase **. Although the cars came from a previously unknown car manufacturer, it didn't detract from the amazement that Old Ford felt when he saw them.

Since these people who are engaged in cars feel such experience, what about ordinary people? Naturally, you can imagine it. And fortunately, these cars are all the main models in the American car consumer market, what could be more perfect?

It was as if a huge pie had fallen from the sky, and now, the senior Ford board of directors who had come with the elder Ford to inspect the cars were praying that they would perform as satisfactorily as they looked.

After a simple test drive and test ride, the test drivers from the Ford team finally made these worried guys put their hearts in their stomachs: these cars actually performed like their amazing appearance! The engine is powerful, the engine, chassis and transmission are well matched, and the tuning is as if it were a seamless whole, and the ride comfort surpasses that of the current American vehicles of the same class.

Next, the cars are handed over to the design department for detailed inspection to determine whether they have design or hidden defects.

At this time, the strength of the designers of the Soviet automobile industry was undoubtedly revealed, and in the face of capitalism, which paid more attention to cost, it was natural that socialism that paid more attention to quality won -- the perennial design habits made the Soviet automobile designers not consider cost as the first factor, because the cars they produced did not need to be sold as painstakingly as in capitalist countries, but only needed to be produced according to the requirements of the state. The production of cars is naturally the responsibility of the state.

In such a situation, cost is naturally not the most important consideration.

The professional personnel did things naturally and quickly, and it did not take too long for the inspection report to be sent to the desk of the board of directors, and there was a thick stack of materials, and various evaluation reports accounted for the vast majority of them.

No one has taken a closer look at this thing, but in the end, everyone understands the product description: these cars are of excellent quality, scientific design, beautiful appearance, comfortable ride, and the design ideas are very humane, especially in automotive electronics, some originality, and its technology in automotive electronics, even if it is Ford Group, it is much worse.

The result shocked the Ford Group, they did not expect that the Alice Group would be able to go so far, especially automotive electronics, this branch of electronics, could be quickly held in the hands of the Alice Group in a few years. Ford introduced ABS+EBD car safety products with computer chip design from Alice Group and more advanced composite ceramic brake system for racing cars that also used electronic microchip design, and the old Ford finally realized that Alice Group had been preparing for this day for so long!

Since there are no problems with these cars, and the entire board of directors has no problems with the introduction of these models, it is only natural that the matter is handed over to Bill, who is still waiting for news in China. Ford. At the same time, a large negotiating team also arrived in China on a chartered plane to assist Bill. Ford is engaged in negotiations that are completely a major turnaround for Ford in order to achieve the maximum benefit possible in the negotiation process.

It was also when the negotiations were going on that the pickup truck designed by Zhang Lan was finally knocked out by old Andre: when he saw this prototype, Bill. Ford did not hesitate to add another model to the Ford Group from the Alice Group - although it had already been decided to introduce this car, when he saw this car, Bill . Ford still didn't expect this car to be so amazing.

By the end of 1994, the strategic cooperation agreement between Alice (China) Group and Ford Motor Group of the United States was finally reached, and after the contract was signed, it was officially approved by the board of directors of Ford Group: Ford Group fully introduced six models of Alice Group: four sedans, an off-road vehicle and a two-row large-displacement luxury full-size pickup.

On the day the cooperation agreement was signed, the large-displacement pickup truck that was hand-hammered out by old Andre was presented to Bill by Alice as a gift. Ford: For this car, Bill. Ford has long been covetous, and he doesn't plan to produce this car in China anyway, so it's obviously a very good idea to give it to this guy as a favor.

For the ability to receive this extremely commemorative and collectible pickup, Bill. Ford was overjoyed: it was the most valuable New Year's Day gift he had ever received.

After six months of production line adjustments, partial modifications to models to better suit American tastes, and trial production of a batch of models for various safety tests, the Ford Group finally obtained the qualification to go on sale for these models, and by this time, the time had reached the fall of 1995.

At this time, the six models introduced by the Ford Group finally made a high-profile debut at the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show, which is known as one of the world's five major auto shows, and made its world debut.

Of course, in the same way, in front of the almost right-angled sedans that are all in the audience, the six new cars launched by the Ford Group with beautiful and amazing appearances have naturally become the most eye-catching existence at the auto show, and even before the official sale, these six cars have been booked out of more than 30,000 units in major Ford car dealers around the world, and the long-term expected sales situation has made the Ford Group laugh crookedly. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )