Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 186
After Zhong Cheng returned to the company, he convened a high-level meeting again and proposed a revised plan.

But to Zhong Cheng's surprise, the company leaders became interested this time and unanimously approved the two-phase plan of the Xihai Project.

Zhong Cheng's prepared rhetoric was in vain.

In Li Changfeng's words, if you do something, you have to do something big, and it's meaningless to make small troubles.

Mr. Wan also said that such a big project is worthy of the identity of Red Star Heavy Industry.

However, Mr. Deng said that this project must be led by Red Star Heavy Industry, and Northwest Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. will do.

Otherwise, they won't be at ease.

Mr. Shao took the initiative to invite Ying, willing to go to Qaidam to take charge of this project.

Red Star Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (formerly Hongguang Optoelectronics) has been on the right track in recent years. The production technology of large-scale Fuxi optical brains and optical chips has matured, and the production scale is gradually expanding as planned.

Mr. Shao's recent work is very "easy", and he wants to find another place to use his talents.

Zhong Cheng understands his feelings. Under the supervision of a group of senior leaders, his sense of existence is really not great.

With Zhong Cheng's strong support, Mr. Shao successfully won this drudgery.

It is definitely not a good job to work in that inaccessible place for a few years!
The first phase of the project will be completed within one year according to the progress stipulated by the state, and the second phase of the project will be completed within five years according to Zhong Cheng's plan.

When the first phase of the project is about the same, Zhong Cheng will submit the second phase of the project plan to the state, because the situation may be different a year later.

The next day, Zhong Chengcheng flew to Northwest Chemical Headquarters together with Mr. Shao and related personnel.

After he was in charge of connecting the two sides, he let go of it.

Mr. Shao is definitely better than him in terms of business cooperation and project management.

As for Mr. Shao's desire to tie Northwest Chemical to Red Star's chariot, Zhong Chengcheng let him do what he wanted.

At the beginning of November, Zhong Chengcai finished his work on the Xihai Project and returned to the R&D Institute.

He began to ask about the progress of the three major projects he cared about.

The electric flying car project that Gui Bin's team is in charge of is the fastest progressing, and they have come up with a design plan for the electric flying car.

Mr. Zhang and Mr. Wan of Red Star Electric Car Company are [-]% supportive of the electric flying car project.

The R&D team under Minister Wan fully cooperates with the design work of Gui Bin's team. This R&D team has many years of experience in car design and is of great help to the design of the electric flying car.

In addition, the technology of the electric flying car is ready-made. The small Zhurong electric pusher and the Kuafu II power battery constitute the core technology of the electric flying car.

Therefore, it is not surprising to Zhong Cheng that the research and development of electric flying cars is at the forefront.

For a car body weighing less than three tons, six Zhurong electric pushers are installed, and the power is greatly surplus.

Vertical take-off and landing, hovering in the air is too easy.

For this reason, Zhong Cheng has asked Yang Xi to specially design a small Zhurong electric pusher, which has only one-fifth of the power of the Zhurong electric pusher on the Jingwei drone, which is about 200 kilograms of driving force.

The cost has been reduced to only one-tenth, so that 16 small Zhurong electric pushers can be installed on the electric speed car. The balance of the electric speed car has been greatly improved, but the speed must be sacrificed.

Of course, it is impossible for an electric flying car to fly too fast. Zhong Chengcheng has set a maximum speed of no more than 0.8 times the speed of sound, which is 1000 kilometers per hour.

In this way, the requirements on the car body structure and materials will not be too high, and the safety is also guaranteed.

In fact, most of the time, the speed of the electric flying car is limited to 300 km/h.

Speeds of up to 1000 km/h may only be permitted for long-distance driving.

The electric flying car they designed is actually a low-speed aircraft with variable-sweep wings, which has broken away from the scope of cars.

Just for business needs, it also carries the word "car".

There are retractable wings under the sides of the flying car, which can be adjusted according to the speed to balance the flying posture and reduce power consumption.

The most labor-intensive thing is the vehicle control system of the electric flying car. In the civilian field, safety is the primary consideration.

Before the drivers and passengers have obtained the strict flying car driver's license, the electric flying car can only be unmanned.

Gui Bin's team upgraded the Gonggong vehicle control system of the original daily electric car.

Combined with the automatic driving system of the Jingwei UAV, it constitutes a new Gonggong vehicle control system.

Furthermore, complete mandatory safety measures have been added, which has improved the handling authority of the on-board optical computer for emergencies or abnormal situations.

The on-board optical brain must maintain a real-time connection with the urban speed control center.

With such a design scheme, it is doomed that the electric flying car cannot be cheap.

At the end of the plan, a cost estimate was made. The cost of the electric flying car is around 200 million, and the market retail price should be more than 250 million.

Regarding the uneasiness of everyone, Zhong Cheng said that he didn't care. He didn't want to see electric speeding cars all over the city in a short time.

Everyone needs a period of time to adapt to the transition. In the future, when the technology improves, it will not be too late to reduce the cost and introduce it to the market on a large scale.

Gui Bin's team also made plans for future air traffic rules and air traffic control schemes.

These are rather simple. With the preliminary plan, it will naturally be revised and perfected by professionals.

In the future, Red Star will only be responsible for making cars.

After Zhong Cheng read it, he organized another discussion meeting, made some adjustments, and it was finalized.

He informed Mr. Zhang and Minister Wan that they could start to formulate the project implementation plan, and the production scale would be determined by their own market research.

Mr. Zhang has a lot of affection for the daily car they have been working on for many years, and decided that the new type of electric speed car will also use this name, called the daily speed car.

Because after the daily speed is mass-produced, according to the company's development requirements, Red Star Electric Car Company will gradually reduce the production of daily cars.

In the end, it will focus on the production of daily speed cars, and retain a small number of high-end luxury car series such as high-end versions of daily Titans and daily prosperity.

In the future, Red Star will no longer produce vehicles worth less than 200 million.

Mr. Zhang said very generously that he will give up the market for cars that run on the ground to his colleagues and will not compete with them.

But Zhong Cheng understands that this low-end car market seems huge, but under the fierce competition, there is not much profit, and it has become tasteless for Red Star Company.

Being able to let go now is something Mr. Zhang and the others can't wait for.

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Although Yang Xi is in charge of the civil aviation aircraft project, although the research and development has not been completed, Zhong Cheng is not worried.

In the future air public transport system envisioned by everyone, three types of civil aviation aircraft will be used.

The first type is a small aircraft carrying less than 100 people, which is used for inter-city transportation within a province within 1000 kilometers;
The second is a medium-sized aircraft that can carry 300 people and is used for domestic intercity transportation of about 3000 kilometers.

The third type is a large aircraft carrying 500 people, which is used for international routes of more than 3000 kilometers.

Everyone believes that there is really no need to build a super-large aircraft with more than 1000 passengers. On the one hand, the cost will rise sharply, and on the other hand, the number of flights will be affected due to passenger source problems.

The maximum take-off weight of the large civil aviation aircraft in the design will not exceed [-] tons, which is only a little heavier than the heavy Bifang fighter, which is not difficult for Yang Xi's team at all.

Because of the use of large Zhurong electric pusher with Kuafu power battery, the heavy aviation fuel engine and dozens of tons of aviation fuel carried by the large aircraft are reduced, so the weight is much smaller than the existing large civil aviation aircraft.

For Yang Xi, the most difficult thing is to work hard on the comfort of the ride.

(End of this chapter)