The car has three major parts, the engine, the gearbox, and the chassis!

Chenhua Automobile already has the technology of chassis tuning, and Yang Rong asked Porsche engineers to help tune the chassis of the intermediate car, which is enough for them to eat for several years.

However, Li Yifan still felt that this was not enough, he made a special call to the Japanese side, there was someone there, and his request was nothing else, that is, the chassis technology of the Atez that Mazda had just launched recently.

This car was the Mazda6 that became popular later in China, and when this car was first launched on the market, it was a smash hit around the world.

The chassis of this car is the CD-3 platform, which was jointly developed by Mazda and Ford at the R&D center in Japan, and is very reliable.

The Mazda6 using this platform, because of its good handling, has won itself the reputation of the king of corners in a series of events.

It was evaluated by the critical and even harsh German media as Japan's BMW, which shows the superiority of this chassis.

Later, this platform was not only used by Mazda, but also used in Ford's Mondeo, as well as the French Peugeot's C5 and other models, and even until ten years later, the chassis platform of the new model launched by Ford evolved from this platform.

So for this platform, Li Yifan can be said to be ambitious, he has so many helpers in Japan, it is not difficult to get the platform parameters of this car.

The rest of the tuning depends on the technology of their own engineers, and we are engaged in positive research, which has just started in our country, but we are engaged in reverse research and development. To put it bluntly, it is a copycat. We've been doing this for decades.

As for the gearbox. With Zhou Yuanchao and his team joining, Li Yifan is not worried at all.

DSI originally had its own 4AT technology, and around 2003, 4AT was still the mainstream configuration of automatic transmission models in China, and some high-end models only used 5AT.

And now the technology of 4AT gearbox, many of which have passed the patent protection period, we can't produce it in China now, because the three aspects are not good.

On the one hand, there is the material. On the other hand, it is processing, and on the other hand, it is TCU, that is, the data accumulation of automatic transmissions.

But these are not problems for him, the problem of materials, he now has a special metal smelting company, so some high-temperature, wear-resistant metals that are needed in the automatic transmission are not a problem for him.

In terms of processing, he is not worried, in the past, we were not accurate enough because of the machine tool, so in terms of finishing. It's a little worse, so I can't get the durable, high-precision automatic transmission. But now the machine tool, after he went to Japan and got on the line with Kobayashi, is not a problem.

Now almost every month, Kobayashi will get him several high-precision machine tools from Japan, some of which are currently the most advanced, some are not, but they are just enough for him, and he is not afraid of being stuck by the Japanese.

As for TCU, there is no way to do this, and it can only rely on a large amount of data accumulation.

The engine is equivalent to the heart of the car, the ECU is the brain of the car, and the TCU is equivalent to the left brain of the car.

These need the accumulation of data, after more than ten years, the reason why our domestic automobile companies can not manufacture qualified gearboxes, and others are worse than the accumulation of ECU and TCU data.

To put it bluntly, our automobile companies do not invest enough in research and development, and they are reluctant to invest a lot of money in research and development.

For example, the data accumulation required by this TCU is the data accumulated by tens of thousands of engineers in Europe, the United States and Japan, and it has taken decades to accumulate.

Then the data is entered into the computer, and the designed program is used to model, so that the chip can be burned, so that the chip has the logical ability to read the driver's intention, to put it bluntly, it is the simplest artificial intelligence.

And to build such an AI program, you need the most primitive data accumulation, which is often sky-high.

Dozens of cars have been running non-stop for a few years to accumulate enough data to collect enough of this data.

In later generations, in addition to Geely, which acquired DSI, I am afraid that BYD made such a thing, and made a dual-clutch transmission by itself, which can be regarded as solving the problem that domestic automobile manufacturers have not been able to produce automatic transmissions.

BYD is a typical example of hard work, and the boss of the family is from a technical background, so even the importance of technology to an enterprise, and people are willing to spend money on technology research and development.

On the other hand, other domestic automobile manufacturing enterprises do not have such awareness.

FAW, SAIC is intoxicated with the huge profits brought to them by joint venture cars, and they simply disdain to engage in research and development, and a research and development project, such as automatic transmission, often requires investment of billions, and it takes several years, and it may not be possible to do it in the end.

If you succeed, you are afraid that others will pick peaches, and if you can't do it, you will be set up as a model of attack by your opponent, so why bother?

With those billions, wouldn't it be better for everyone to eat and drink?

As for private enterprises, they can't afford it, after all, this is a big project with a lot of investment, and there is a lot of pressure on funds.

BYD dares to do it, because people not only make cars, but also batteries, and the profits of electronic projects to support, and other companies can't afford to play at all.

Geely took the acquisition route and picked up a big bargain.

The Great Wall simply covered its ears and stole the bell, counting on foreign companies to provide accessories for itself, but in the H8 project, it was directly stuck by the Germans, and it was like waking up from a dream.

So now Li Yifan has been taking precautions since the beginning, and these three major things must be done by himself.

The transmission has Zhou Yuanchao joined, he is not worried, as long as Zhou Yuanchao and his team come over, they will definitely bring a lot of data from DSI, and the rest of the accumulated data, then it is good to come by himself.

Others are afraid of investment, but he is not afraid, now he has just got more than 200 million from Chen Jiexi, and he doesn't know how to spend it!

It's not his habit to put it in the bank to get moldy.

The rest is the engine, this piece Wang Zhongfa helped him poach a group of veterans who engaged in engines from the original provincial car.

These people were all engaged in engines in the company during the Yang Rong period, and Yang Rong introduced the 4G project from Mitsubishi of Japan, and these people participated.

Mitsubishi is not bad intentions, and the 4G engine sent to it castrated the variable valve timing technology, but this cannot hide the shine of the 4G series engine.

You must know that in the original history, this 4G series was not only the originator of domestic independent engines, but even the Koreans who came from behind also relied on this 4G series when they were studying automobile engines.

Even more than ten years later, the Japanese are changing the engine head block to this 4G series, and adding a turbo can immediately improve the efficiency of this engine by several grades, which shows the benefits of this engine.

In charge of engine research and development in the new Chenhua Automobile is an engineer named Liang Qiming, who is in his 40s, used to be a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, and has been immersed in the field of engines.

Later, he was poached by Yang Rong and was responsible for the engine project of Chenhua Automobile, which has been engaged in for several years, has accumulated a lot of experience, and the people he brings are also very mature.

If it weren't for the battle between Yang Rong and Qi Mantian, their scientific research team would soon have come to the time to produce results.

"Lao Liang, I don't have any other requirements for you, I can manage the money enough, so you can rest assured and bold. In fact, the Japanese variable valve timing technology, the physical changes, are understood, is just to add so two timing chains, but the key is their ECU, to put it bluntly, is the accumulation of data, let the computer judge for itself, the time and angle of valve opening and closing, and then control this time and angle through the associated device, and grasp the problem of air intake. ”

Li Yifan's words made Liang Qiming look at him with admiration, this little boss is really the same as Wang Zhongfa said, he is a good person, people know everything, not half a bucket of water.

"That's right, boss, what we're bad about is data accumulation. As long as you have enough money, haha, my test drivers dare to run 24 hours a day without stopping, I can organize 20 or even 50 cars to run together, as long as you give me a year, I can give you the variable valve timing technology. ”

What was bad before, wasn't it just bad money? A car runs non-stop 24 hours a year, you try, just the salary of the test driver, as well as the fuel cost, a year down to millions, so insist on a few years, a few bosses dare to invest like this.

Now that Boss Xiao Li has said, the money is enough, so what are you afraid of, Lao Tzu dares to organize one hundred and fifty test drivers, fifty test cars, and three shifts for a year.

Decades of data accumulation by your European and American engineers can be done for you in one year.

Li Yifan laughed: "Lao Liang, money is not a problem, but you can't joke about the life of the test driver, and you engineers, but the wealth of our company, you also have to pay attention to your body." ”

"Mr. Li, don't worry, we are in good health."

An engineer in his twenties shouted, causing a burst of laughter from those around him.

Indeed, everyone's body is not a problem, in the past, when they engaged in scientific research, they were poor in money, and they didn't dare to let go of their hands and feet, and now there is a boss who is so willing to spend money, so what are you afraid of?

The new company is thriving, and everyone is holding back their energy, and they all want to make achievements in the fastest time to prove themselves.

The three major pieces have been settled, and Li Yifan can be regarded as relieved, this Chenhua car has been stabilized in his hands!

When he took over, the research and development of Zhonghua Automobile was already halfway through, and now with his capital injection, it is twice the result with half the effort, and the rest will wait for a year to see the results! (To be continued......)