Chapter 640: Delphi's Conditions
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When it comes to the safe driving system of modern cars, it is impossible not to mention the ABS and ESP of Bosch, which can be said to be one of the greatest inventions about the automobile of this era.
This is because these two inventions are loud, which has greatly reduced the occurrence of car accidents, according to the statistics of the U.S. Road Safety Administration, since the birth of these two technologies, the number of car accidents on the U.S. roads has decreased by at least 30 percent.
Later, after realizing the importance of this active safety system, many countries have made it mandatory to add this system to new cars sold in their own countries, especially the ESP system, except for second-hand cars produced in the early years.
Especially in the United States, as well as some developed countries such as Western Europe and Japan, but in the Celestial Empire, due to the late start of the car, the underdeveloped car culture, and the special preferences of the people in the Celestial Empire, this body stability system ESP is not very concerning.
Many consumers who don't know much about cars and buy cars just to save face for themselves are more concerned about whether the car has boneless wipers, a sunroof every day, and even a rear seat heating function, but for driving safety, and even the ESP system that can play a life-saving role at critical moments, it turns a deaf ear.
Many foreign automakers, after many years of mixing in China and better understanding the consumption habits of the people of the Celestial Empire, began to exploit China's legal loopholes, and blatantly reduced this life-saving ESP system in terms of allocation, which lasted for many years before Huayang Power appeared.
In the previous life, those car dealers were able to bear to reduce Jin Xiaoqiang in other places, but any model that reduced the ESP system made him feel deeply disgusted, because in his opinion, this is a kind of neglect of life, for a little profit, disregarding the safety of consumers, such an act is absolutely undesirable in his opinion.
So in this life, after he founded his own automobile manufacturing company, Huayang Power. But all the models produced by Huayang Power are generally equipped with ESP systems as standard in all of his series, and he would rather make a little less money than be called a killer who ignores the lives of consumers.
Moreover, over the years, because of the rise of Huayang Power, as well as the development and growth of the Autohome website, the popularization of the safety awareness of automobile consumers, and the current awareness of the importance of automobile safety among Tianchao consumers. I also pay more attention than in my previous life.
A few years ago, when he had just created Huayang Power, when he came to Bosch to negotiate again, he had discussed the purchase of ESP systems from Bosch, and according to the requirements of both parties. The two parties also signed a long-term supply contract.
In the contract, both parties have made clear provisions, Bosch has long provided ESP body stability system for Huayang Power to use, and before Huayang Power produces a new model, Bosch will send engineers to participate, especially in the road test stage, test various data of the car, and then assemble the ESP system for the new car.
Moreover, the two parties also signed a long-term agreement price regulation, based on annual market fluctuations. As well as changes in the exchange rate, Bosch can adjust the price of the ESP system they provide, but the scope of the adjustment must be within the scope of the agreement between the two parties.
This is also an agreement acceptable to both parties, and the two sides have also done this in the past two years, Bosch has supplied a large amount of money to Huayang Power every year, and they have also made a lot of profits from it.
And Huayang Power does not expect this ESP system to make money from consumers. So generally this system, they are sold to consumers at a low price.
However, in recent years, with the increase of Huayang Power's production capacity, more and more holdings in the market, and the expenditure on Bosch is also increasing, but Bosch has been unwilling to open the database of the ESP system like Huayang Power, which also makes Jin Xiaoqiang feel very annoyed. …,
This time, he came to Bosch to negotiate, on the one hand, he hoped that the other party could open the ECU database to his side, and on the other hand, he hoped that the other party could open the ESP database to his side.
Like BMW. Mercedes-Benz, as well as Toyota, Honda, General Motors and other large enterprises, are doing their own data accumulation in this area, but after all, other people's enterprises have been growing for a long time. Therefore, they have a relatively rich data accumulation, so if you want to conquer such a database, it will be very simple.
But for Huayang Power, they have been established for a short time, and although they have launched a lot of models in recent years, the accumulation of the database is really not worth mentioning compared with the database of others for decades, but Jin Xiaoqiang does not want such a key thing to be held in the hands of the other party.
Although it is now an era of international division of labor, after all, between countries, no one knows when problems will occur, and Jin Xiaoqiang has upgraded his Huayang power to an economic bargaining chip in the hands of the government for the order of the Beijing Olympic Games.
If the other party really made a move, then he would be the unlucky one at that time, so he came to Bosch so forcefully and asked the other party to open the database.
But apparently Bosch doesn't want to give in, but they ignore Delphi, which is now a bit desperate, and now Delphi is willing to do anything in order to continue to survive in the market.
And behind Delphi is the powerful GM, and behind GM is the more powerful US government, so they are not afraid of Huayang Power's side to turn the face.
Although the Stabilitrak system developed by Delphi for GM is not as famous as Bosch's ESP system in the world, almost all GM models are equipped with this system.
And after so many years of verification, the safety performance of this system is self-evident, at least there has been no mess in the market.
Delphi agreed to Jin Xiaoqiang's request to open the ECU database of the driving computer, but Jin Xiaoqiang didn't like it, but Jin Xiaoqiang coveted the database of their Stabilitrak system for a long time.
Although the tuning of Delphi's trip computer ECU may not be as good as Bosch's, the tuning of their body stability system Stabilitrak system is not weak at all.
The reason why ESP is famous in the world is simply because Bosch was the first company to study this kind of body stability system and the first to apply this system to the safe driving of cars, and it was very successful.
But when it comes to advanced technology, Delphi's system may not be as famous as Bosch, but its performance is really not much weaker than Bosch's ESP.
After hearing Jin Xiaoqiang's request, Delphi also reacted quickly, anyway, even its core technology, the database of the driving computer ECU, has been opened to Huayang Power, not to mention such a driving safety system?
And their abacus is also very fine, the reason why Bosch's ESP system is famous is because their set of products are installed on the models of many automobile manufacturing companies.
But Delphi because it was exclusively for GM before, so the entanglement with other companies is not very big, and their system has not appeared in some models of Mercedes-Benz except for GM's accidents.
The installation of ESP on many models of different brands is also indirectly equivalent to advertising to Bosch, and now Delphi wants to go out of the United States and no longer be limited to the position of only providing services to GM, so it must not follow the same route as Bosch? …,
So now many models of Huayang Power are selling well in the market, and the sales are steadily increasing, so if the best-selling models of Huayang Power can be equipped with this stabilitrak system, wouldn't it also advertise for Delphi?
At present, if you want to get an order from Huayang Power, it seems that you have to pay something, forget it anyway, a melon is also sold, not to mention that what the other party wants is just an addition to a date?
So Bolton discussed with the company's senior management and smoothly agreed to Jin Xiaoqiang's request, but their request was that they could open the database of the driving computer ECU and the body stability system Stabilitrak system to Huayang Power.
However, the condition is that the two sides must set up a driving electronic system control research and development center near the headquarters of Huayang Power, and the proportion of shares of the two sides must be 50 percent to 50, and if the models of Huayang Power are equipped with the electronic control system provided by Delphi in the future, then they must pay 50 percent of the profits of the electronic control system.
Moreover, in the future, the R&D results of both parties will be jointly owned by both parties, and Huayang Power cannot leave Delphi alone.
When Jin Xiaoqiang heard this, he immediately felt that this Bolton was shrewd enough, this kid must know that he was surrounded by a car alliance of the Celestial Empire's own brand.
If they can cooperate with their own side, then it means that they will open the market of other brands, which is really shrewd!
However, if carefully calculated, they do not seem to have any losses, after all, they are really not specialized in the aspect of driving electronic numerical control, and the CNC engineers of Huayang Power, after more than three years of careful training, are just getting started in the aspect of driving electronic control, if it is compared with the accumulation of GM, Bosch and other century-old enterprises, it is still very weak.
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