Let you build cars, and you will be happy to produce them?

I heard that Qin Hao invited a top intelligent driving expert and established an intelligent service center.

The technical engineers in the factory were very curious as to which big boss was invited by the boss.

The installation of the server was very fast. After the purchase, the system sent someone to install it the next day.

Wuling now has enough houses, and the servers are installed directly in the R&D center building.

And the top floor of the R&D center is directly used as a laboratory for Zhang Muzhi to develop and incubate the learning of intelligent driving systems.

If an intelligent system is to be applied to a car, it must go through the most important process.

Learn!

Learn how to deal with various road conditions, various extreme situations, or various emergency situations.

This learning process is called intelligent growth.

If you want to learn quickly, you must rely on the computing power of the server.

The stronger the computing power, the faster the learning speed.

Of course, the most important thing is to use artificial intelligence to learn.

So the first thing Zhang Mu did after taking office was to make 10 sets of electromagnetic radars and install them on 10 Lightning S vehicles.

Let the engineering engineers drive out every day to collect various data.

This process is boring, but engineers enjoy it.

"Lao Zhang, let me go with you to test."

Xu Zilai is the most interested. He has nothing to do recently and is curious about the development process of this intelligent driving system.

So he volunteered to drive with Zhang Muzhi, and the two went out for walks every day to collect data.

"Row."

Zhang Muzhi nodded. It was certainly a good thing to have someone driving for him.

Just leave the matter of the intelligent driving system to Zhang Muzhi and others.

Qin Hao found Pan Congyun.

"Lao Pan, all models produced have electromagnetic radars pre-installed in the car. The position has been reserved when designing new cars."

The radar locations of other brands are on the roof of the car or on the windshield.

Lidar is used.

Because of lidar scanning, the modeling speed is the fastest and the penetration is currently the strongest.

The only disadvantage is that it requires a special location and cannot be blocked.

However, electromagnetic radar is not used. The radar position is directly integrated into the vehicle, above the rear mirror.

Although photoreceptors and rain sensors are integrated here, when Qin Hao designed the model, he had already reserved a place for installing electromagnetic radar.

The electromagnetic radar firmware is not large and can just fit in.

In addition to the radar here, a total of 18 radar probes must be installed around the entire vehicle.

Therefore, the radars originally installed on Lightning models need to be replaced with electromagnetic radars.

"Mr. Qin, isn't this thing different from lidar?"

"And the cost is high, right?"

Pan Congyun was a little unhappy, because everyone knew that the price of a top-level radar was very expensive.

The cost of a set of lidar is tens of thousands.

If it is pre-installed now, the cost of the entire vehicle will increase.

Controlling profit margins is not a good thing.

"Don't worry, the price of this radar is only a little higher than the ordinary radar used before."

“It’s nowhere near as outrageous as lidar.”

Lidar is expensive because it involves many patents and the supply of foreign spare parts.

Electromagnetic radar can be 100% domestically produced, and the price of electrical components is not expensive.

Removing the radar system from the original car and replacing it with electromagnetic radar will increase the cost of a car by more than 2000 yuan at most.

Qin Hao can still accept this increase in cost.

Because in the future, he will rely on this intelligent driving system to make a lot of money.

Qin Hao has already thought about it. Wuling's intelligent driving system is definitely not free and open.

If users want to use it, they must activate it themselves in the software center.

the price!

How much does Tesla’s smart driving cost? We are only a fraction cheaper than him.

"Also, the chip processor used in the vehicle must also be replaced, and the software should be kept upgraded to prepare for future system replacement."

The on-board chips currently used in vehicles are from Qualcomm.

Although the computing power of the 28nm chip is sufficient, it can only be said to be barely sufficient.

"Mr. Qin, what chip should I replace it with?"

"Uh...replace it with a 14nm one. Use two pieces to prevent insufficient computing power in the future."

Two 14nm automotive-grade chips are definitely enough.

Car chips, unlike mobile phone chips, need to be so small. Even top mobile phones now do not have 7 nanometers, which is like not calling them mobile phones.

The car is bulky and the central control screen is larger.

No matter how large the chip is, it can be installed.

Two 14nm chips are installed, which is definitely enough for use.

"But Mr. Qin, there is a problem. 14-nanometer chips are very expensive, and they cost two pieces. The cost will go up a lot."

"A 14nm car-grade chip is estimated to cost more than 2000."

"The 28-nanometer we used before only cost 1000 yuan."

Suddenly the cost increased by more than 3000.

Coupled with the increase in the cost of electromagnetic radar, the cost of a car directly increased by 5000 yuan.

It may not seem like much, but it adds a lot to the cost control of factory production.

Add 5000 yuan for one car, 10 cars, 1000 cars, [-] cars, [-] cars.

That's not a small amount of money.

Many car companies, in order to reduce the cost of a car by several hundred yuan, deduct various safety configurations.

For example, Japanese cars.

It is famously cost-effective. Not only is the vehicle's body as thin as paper, but it is also a pit when you sit on it.

In order to save costs, Japanese car companies even replaced anti-collision beams with foam.

Just to save hundreds of dollars on a car.

In order to reduce costs, Volkswagen directly spent tens of billions to develop the world's first modular automobile production platform.

A production line can produce cars of different sizes and types.

Moreover, the universality rate of spare parts has reached 80%.

Nowadays, modular production platforms are almost standard equipment for car companies.

Wuling's three production lines are all modular platforms.

Moreover, the spare parts common rate of Wuling Lightning S and Lightning X has reached more than 80%.

In order to reduce costs, other car companies are frantically cutting expenses.

Qin Hao, on the other hand, added 5000 yuan to the cost of the vehicle in just two sentences.

This made Pan Congyun feel very disadvantaged.

"We can definitely launch an intelligent driving system on the second-generation model. Then the price of the new car will increase and the cost will be added."

"If you add it now, I feel like we are at a loss."

He specializes in production and is absolutely unwilling to increase costs.

Even Pan Congyun has recently been thinking about how to further reduce vehicle production costs as much as possible and control profit margins.

"Old Pan, just listen to me on this matter. Tras has been going crazy recently and has taken a lot of orders from us."

"We haven't delivered the first batch of cars yet. If we wait until the second batch to add intelligent driving system accessories, it will be too late."

"And I have already bought the electromagnetic radar production line. We can produce it ourselves, so the cost is not that high."

When you get the electromagnetic radar, it comes with a production line.

As for the chip, there's nothing you can do about it.

You can only buy Qualcomm chips, so why should domestic chips not be powerful?

"Okay, I don't know if the technical expert you hired will work. Don't look back. We have installed the hardware and the cost has gone up. In the end, he can't make the software."

This is what Pan Congyun is most worried about.

He was not very optimistic about the engineer named Zhang Muzhi whom Qin Hao had recruited.

Because Pan Congyun checked, there is no outstanding figure in domestic autonomous driving who has his name.

He was afraid that Qin Hao would be cheated.

"Don't worry, just wait two months and see. Lao Zhang won't let us down."

"Also, the delivery time of the first batch of cars does not have to be so fast. The previous arrangement was two months. Now you should take it slow. The first batch of cars will be delivered after one month."