Rebirth of the Industrial Empire

As mentioned before, when Lexus announced in '06 that they had successfully developed an 8-speed automatic manual transmission, the effect was to throw a bombshell into the automotive industry.

At that time, the mainstream mid-range transmission in the automotive industry was still stuck in 6th gear, and in the more advanced level, that is, the 7-speed transmission used by Mercedes-Benz in some models.

And Lexus's 8-speed transmission, once it was launched on the market at that time, it was quite a taste of relying on the sky, who competed with the sky!

It can even be said that in the mid-to-high-end market, there are some invincible tastes!

Lexus relied on this powerful transmission to sell well in the market, while BMW and Mercedes-Benz could only swallow the bitter fruit, and then began to cooperate with ZF to start a strong development of the 8-speed transmission.

Billions of dollars were smashed, and it took three years for ZF to get their new 8-speed transmission, if they knew that they spent so much effort on the transmission, just a few days of effort, by a boy who crossed the rebirth, to such plagiarism, I really don't know if these engineers will be angry vomiting blood to death.

But now Jin Xiaoqiang can't take care of those, he is now in full swing to draw the drawings of the 8-speed transmission!

In fact, the main principle of this 8-speed automatic manual transmission is still the same, mainly relying on hydraulic pressure to change the gear selection, and the most important thing is that it is equipped with electronic throttle technology, which will adjust the gear according to the strength of the driver stepping on the accelerator.

But when it comes to the internal structure of the transmission, ZF's engineers still put a lot of thought into it. They redesigned and arranged the interior of the gearbox.

In the beginning, they came up with thousands of interior layouts. In the end, only the simplest and most effective one was selected, which was a system with only 4 planetary gear rows and 5 gear shift elements, which greatly simplified the layout of the internal gearbox.

4 planetary gear rows, each responsible for two gears, 5 shift elements, which greatly reduces the loss of torque in the transmission, can achieve simple and efficient transmission efficiency.

And the gear ratio has been redesigned. All of them have greatly improved the efficiency of this transmission.

And one of the few big highlights of this transmission that is different from previous transmissions is its main clutch and variable modular package.

This main clutch uses the special features of the clutch inside the dual-clutch transmission, which can make the performance more flexible.

The variable modular package is the hydraulic control data unit and electronic control unit at the core of this transmission, which is mainly prepared for future technology upgrades and expansions.

He can modify the future powertrain without changing the mounting controls and other modules, and match them.

It is mainly a design unit that flows out to match the future mild hybrid and heavy hybrid vehicles.

This aspect is interesting. Moreover, the interior of this transmission is also equipped with a HIS system, which is the automatic start-stop system of the car announced by Jin Xiaoqiang at the Shanghai Auto Show.

So. This transmission will be even more versatile!

It only took more than ten days for this transmission to appear on Jin Xiaoqiang's computer, and it quickly became a drawing.

You must know that the reason why you can get this transmission out so quickly is because of Jin Xiaoqiang's golden finger firepower.

You must know that Lexus engineers spent several years secretly for this transmission, and Toyota also invested billions of dollars.

That's pretty much the case with ZF. Billions of dollars were invested, dozens of engineers were made, thousands of drawings were drawn, and finally this one was selected and the design of this transmission was completed.

But what did Jin Xiaoqiang do before he was reborn? He is a senior technical engineer, and to put it bluntly, he is a time-honored brand in the car repair industry, whether it is Lexus. It's still the BMW 7 Series, as long as it's a model equipped with such an 8-speed transmission, he has dismantled it.

At that time, the technical control not only dismantled these transmissions and studied them well, but even went out over the wall to find information and study this transmission well.

In the end, he decided to take the best of both worlds and develop the ultimate 8-speed transmission! …,

In short, he will occupy this pit of ZF in the future, and as for what kind of 8-speed transmission ZF will choose later, that is their business.

Anyway, over the years, they have made money from the Celestial Empire, and the rest of the matter will be left to them to have a headache!

Getting these drawings done, doesn't mean that everything will be fine after that, you must know that this is just the beginning, to turn all the things on these drawings into reality, it will take a lot of effort to do it!

At that time, Lexus engineers re-studied the entire manufacturing process and materials for this 8-speed transmission, and it took them a lot of effort to do so.

Just to make the housing of this transmission, they specially developed a casting tool more than three meters high to produce the aluminum alloy housing of this transmission.

Now if Jin Xiaoqiang wants to change this transmission from drawings to reality, I am afraid it will be the same, and he will have to take such a step.

However, before he could start the formal research and development of the production process of this transmission, he got a notice that the first batch of scrap metal in Zmanov, Russia, had been recycled, and had been transported by this guy to the provincial capital of the Black Province in the Celestial Empire to wait for him to receive it!

After receiving a call from Zmanov, Jin Xiaoqiang remembered this stubble, and after returning from Russia some time ago, he completely forgot about it.

Now that everyone has delivered to their doors, of course I have to go and greet them.

At this time, Jin Xiaoqiang remembered that he wanted to send a working team to Russia to inspect the automobile joint venture factory, so he hurriedly called Zeng Jianxin and asked him to arrange it quickly, and immediately organize a team to go to Russia to organize an inspection.

At that time, there will naturally be people on the Russian side who will come to contact them, and they don't have to worry about all their trips after arriving in Russia.

Zeng Jianxin understood Jin Xiaoqiang's explanation, and immediately went happily, in fact, this inspection is equivalent to a tour, the boss's meaning is very clear, to invest in Russia is certain, but in the end, it depends on the conditions given by the company, so this inspection can be said to be a fat difference, and Wang Jiao's participation in the arduous negotiations with GM is different.

sent Zeng Jianxin away, Jin Xiaoqiang cleaned up slightly, and then found a few engineers from the smelting department from the company and flew to Harbin together.

Zmanov, this kid is very on the road, Jin Xiaoqiang didn't expect this kid to actually provide door-to-door delivery service, since people are here, of course he has to come forward to welcome him.

Jin Xiaoqiang arrived in Harbin, and then quickly got in touch with Zmanov, this kid will enjoy it, and stay at the Shangri-La Hotel in Harbin, which is one of the few five-star hotels in Harbin.

Because it was once occupied by the Russians, and had close contacts with Russia during the Republic of China, the city of Harbin has a strong Russian imprint.

So this Zmanov feels very familiar when he arrives in Harbin, after all, the customs of the two countries are very clearly reflected in this city.

And with the development of the Celestial Empire in recent years, the city of Harbin has also been revitalized, the momentum of economic growth is very strong, and many Russians like to come to the city to pan for gold, so he will not feel too much of a foreign country here.

After the two met, they exchanged pleasantries, and then Jin Xiaoqiang entertained him for a big meal in the hotel's restaurant, and then followed this Zmanov to the warehouse in the suburbs to inspect the goods.

Although Zmanov had never been to Harbin before, he hired a few people from the Celestial Empire who were eating in Russia, so under the leadership of these guys, he was quite clear about the situation in Harbin.

This time, these goods were cleared in some other names, so he didn't pay much tariff, Jin Xiaoqiang had to sigh that this kid is really hand-eyed, and it is nothing to him to be able to handle the Russian customs, but he can handle the customs of the Celestial Empire, which shows that this kid is still quite well-connected.

In the freight yard warehouse in the suburbs, Jin Xiaoqiang saw a scene that made him feel a little surprised, originally he thought that this Zmanov must have brought the same wreckage of those tanks, but he didn't expect to see a large pile, a large pile of dismantled steel.

"Kim, you also know that the shape of those tanks is too eye-catching, and it is too inconvenient to want to transport those things over, so I directly dismantled these things in Russia, how about it? You don't mind, do you? ”

"Don't mind, don't mind, how could I mind! That's great. ”

Of course, Jin Xiaoqiang won't mind these problems, you must know that the tank that has now been abandoned is probably the most valuable thing in its iron ingot.

This T72 tank has three layers of armor, the outermost and innermost parts are high-carbon steel plates with a thickness of 80 and 20 mm respectively, and the middle is a 100 mm thick fiberglass layer, this 100 mm thick fiberglass layer, but it is exactly what Jin Xiaoqiang does not want!

All he wanted was the iron ingots on these discarded tanks, but he didn't expect that Zmanov, who was well-served, would directly help him solve this problem.

The non-armored parts of the tank are made of steel of different materials, and when the time comes, as long as they are disassembled, sorted out by category, and directly returned to the furnace to repractice, it will be done directly.

"What I shipped this time is the dismantling part of about 1,000 T72 wreckage that I got from the Far Eastern Military District, each of which is about 30 tons, and 1,000 is 30,000 tons!"

"No problem, $30 a ton, I'll write you a check right away!"!