Chapter 318: Entering the Automobile Industry

"The first generation of Polo: Germany in the 70s, with small toys from the UK, France and Italy flooding the small sedan market. Volkswagen launched the groundbreaking Audi 50 in September 1974 in an attempt to regain market share. The Audi 50 is 3.49 meters long and can seat up to four adults, with a well-made interior equipped with a number of small features such as electronic watches and temperature displays, which were very fashionable at the time. The engines are available in two versions, 50 hp and 60 hp. The Audi 50 was indeed a safe and practical family sedan at the time, but the only fly in the ointment was that some unnecessary and impractical gadgets made the price of this car a little too high, preventing it from entering the homes of ordinary people.

Volkswagen began experimenting with a small sedan that would inherit all the advantages of the Audi 50, but at a much cheaper price. In March 1975, the first generation of the Polo, derived from the typical Audi 50 body, was born in Germany with a much more modest and practical configuration, and an engine displacement of only 40 hp with a 0.9-liter engine"

Later, Zhao Kuantao said a lot of professional terms, which were directly ignored by Lin Nan. Because when he heard that Polo appeared when he was seven or five years old, the accident was no less than eating an egg.

"Stop, let's not talk about it now, polo will polo, now that the engine is out, then it's time for us to enter the automotive industry below. Now when do you estimate when the next generation of engines will need to be studied? Lin Nan asked a question that he was more concerned about, because what the product was most afraid of was the generation.

"It's hard for us to say yet, because this thing really doesn't say when it will come out, we need to verify the design, but with the supercomputer I think a new generation of engines will appear next year, and at that time our engines will be more energy-efficient and more performant." Zhao Kuantao frowned slightly when he heard Lin Nan ask this question. As a part of the study of automobile engines, it is natural to understand what Lin Nan meant, which is nothing more than the fear that the next generation of engines will not come out for a long time, so that the product will be discontinued.

Such a situation can have a big impact on the credibility of the company.

"In this way, do you have enough human resources now?" Lin Nan thought for a while and asked, wanting to speed up research and development is nothing more than to enrich talent resources. As the saying goes, there are many people, and there are many liliang big.

"Serious shortcomings, although there is fresh blood to join, but the development of an engine is definitely not a simple few people can do. If there are enough capable people to join, it will speed up the process of designing our products. At this time, an old man came over and said.

"Teacher Ou!" Hear the old man's voice. Zhao Kuantao turned around and said to the old man who came over.

"Teacher Ou, hello? We are very glad to have you join the Qianlong family! Lin Nan walked over, stretched out his right hand, shook hands with the old man and said.

"Hehe, Lin Dong, you said this to make me, an old man, a little flattered, it should be that I thank you, xiexie, you provided me with a place where I can do what I like." Teacher Ou said with a faint smile.

"Hehe, Mr. Ou said he was smiling!" Lin Nan smiled and said, and at the same time had a general impression of this Teacher Ou. This teacher Ou is a technology obsessive.

His interests and life are based on scientific research.

"Well, let me tell you about the condition of our engine and the difficulties we are facing in our research." Mr. Ou is obviously not very sociable. Or I don't want to have anything to do with Lin Nan. Changed the subject.

"Yes, Xiexie!" Lin Nan nodded and said with a smile.

After all, Old Man Ou's ability is definitely not comparable to Zhao Kuantao's half-material.

"I won't talk about the fuel consumption of this engine, Zhao Kuantao must have told you just now, but one thing I said was that he said that it was tested when there was no load. Depending on the load calculation, the fuel consumption of the lowest configuration of this engine needs to be increased by 5 to 10 percent.

The normal service life of this engine is five years, and the driving distance is 250,000 kilometers, and it will be scrapped. I would like to make this clear.

Then there is the material of this engine, which is currently a first-class alloy material, and the noise is negligible, because we have used noise treatment in the place where the noise is generated, and its noise will not be heard at all if you don't listen carefully. This is something we are proud of.

The cost price is 37,000 per unit! Saying this, the old man's voice paused, glanced at Lin Nan, and continued: "In the case of mass production! ”

Lin Nan couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard the news, and then asked.

"Is that the starting price?"

This question is one thing that Lin Nan thought of, that is, the price of engines with different configurations should be different.

"No, it's the average price!" Old Man Ou said, frowning.

"The average price? How so? Lin Nan asked.

It was the first time Lin Nan had heard such words, and he had heard of the starting price, final price, auction price, and contract price before, but he had never heard of the average price when buying a certain product.

"There are four versions in total, and the average price of the four versions is thirty-seven thousand!" Old Man Ou said lightly, for fear that Lin Nan would not understand and continued.

"The lowest version only needs 12,000, but the highest version needs 71,000."

"I see, now you're telling me that the institute now has a project that is also being studied?" Lin Nan asked, although this is an engine research institute, according to the data, there are other research on automobiles.

"Development of ground and 4WD drive and braking systems!" Old Man Ou said that he knew about Lin Nan's problem, because she was the person in charge of this aspect.

Although it is an engine research institute, it does not prevent other research from being carried out here, mainly for the purpose of support.

And here it is mainly the engine, and the rest is supplemented!

"Is there any new progress on their side?" Lin Nan asked, hearing him basically talk about the several major modules of the car.

"Yes, there have been new developments on their side for a long time, but some places still need to be verified because of the theoretical data we give." Old man Ou said lightly, before the engine was successfully researched, give them a theoretical data and established data for them to pair this research and development.

"How's the money?" Zhang Haihua asked, seeing that Lin Nan did not react, Zhang Haihua asked. He knew that Lin Nan was thinking about something at this time, and this was where he, the general manager, came forward.

There is bound to be no shortage of things to win over people, and at this time, Zhang Haihua will not come forward to win people's hearts.

What is the most hode attraction for these scientific researchers, isn't it research funding!

"It's a bit compact." As soon as Old Man Ou heard the funds, he suddenly came to his senses, and looked at Zhang Haihua with fiery eyes, just like looking at Zhang Haihua like the God of Wealth.

And that expression almost says you give a little!

"I will ask the people from the review department to review how much money you can get this time, if what you say is true, it is estimated that 30 million will not be able to run, or even more." Zhang Haihua smashed a bombshell, which immediately shocked the old pedant.

Thirty million! When have I seen 30 million, I just came by myself, Qianlong Technology only gave 8 million funds or gave them one after another, and now I give 30 million, and I suddenly thought of one thing I wore in the research base before, that is, as long as the head office sees that you have research results, it will give you corresponding research funds, this fund is very generous, and the more valuable the product, the more you give. It's like a supercomputer now has more than 500 million dollars.

"Really?!" Old Man Ou seemed to be in disbelief and asked seriously.

"Really!" Zhang Haihua looked at the old man Ou and didn't know whether to be bitter or laugh, the old man's spirit moved him to cry, but this age, such an expression and such an action

"Hey, that's really going to be xiexie!" Old Man Ou is like a child who has received candy, and his satisfied expression is evident on his face

(To be continued......)