Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"Mr. Xu, we have completed all the test items. Our car has withstood all the test items, especially the engine, gearbox and chassis, and the failure rate is very low..."

In the conference room of the Automobile Research Institute, the person in charge of the test project began to report the work progress to Xu Huasheng.

After their rigorous testing, multiple versions of the car have withstood the most rigorous tests and can now be fully finalized for mass production.

After listening to the report, Xu Huasheng laughed.

"Everyone has worked hard during this period. Give our testers a two-week holiday. At the same time, the test team needs to recruit, because next, we have more cars to test, and we need to quickly improve our product line..."

Xu Huasheng started to arrange the work directly.

Now the car model being developed in the Automobile Research Institute is not just one model, but many models.

In the past so long, Xu Huasheng has taken out a lot of car design drawings, covering various models.

Not only different models, but also different gearboxes and engines. Shanhai Automobile has begun to lay out in the automotive field.

In the past six months, Shanhai Automobile Research Institute has registered a large number of technical patents. Various technical patents will be the technical moat of Shanhai Automobile in the future.

In addition to the patented technologies of traditional fuel vehicles, these patents also include patented technologies of various hybrid technologies in the future. This is the killer weapon of Shanhai Automobile Group. Compared with traditional fuel vehicles, hybrid technology is a dimensionality reduction attack.

Before the full advent of the electric era, hybrid technology was a very high-end technology. Powerful hybrid technology can make cars have lower energy consumption and better performance experience.

Whether it is light hybrid, strong hybrid, or plug-in hybrid and Zengcheng, they will lead an era in the future and directly reduce the dimension to attack pure fuel vehicles.

At present, major car companies around the world don’t even understand fuel vehicles, let alone hybrid, so hybrid is impossible to develop. The earliest large-scale hybrid model was Toyota’s Prius, but the original time and space car was not launched until 1997, and its sales volume was relatively small.

After the simple meeting, Xu Huasheng announced the adjournment. The testers who worked so hard for so long also got a two-week vacation, and everyone also received a considerable bonus.

Shanhai Automobile has also officially finalized several models for testing, and has started the application and mass production of these models.

Shanhai Automobile's first automobile factory is already under construction.

Shanhai Automobile's first automobile factory was not located in Henan Province, but in the seaside of the headquarters industrial zone. The reason why this factory was chosen here is mainly to facilitate exports.

Although the domestic market has great potential, in this era, potential is really just potential.

At present, the main direction of Shanhai Automobile will be on exports. First, with the help of excellent products, it will carve out a niche overseas, while slowly nurturing the domestic market, shaping the brand, cultivating loyal users, and establishing a complete sales channel.

At present, the factory has been built for the most part, and many of the equipment of the production line commissioned by Xu Huasheng to be built in China have been successfully accepted by Shanhai Group. The entire automobile factory is expected to be put into use in the first half of the year.

The production capacity planning of this factory is not low. The production capacity planning of the first phase of the project is to produce 200,000 vehicles per year, and there will be second and third phase projects later. After the completion of the third phase of the project, the annual production capacity of this factory can reach millions of units.

After the meeting, Xu Huasheng came to the R&D base of the Automotive Research Institute.

After entering the experimental workshop, several prototypes came into view. Seeing these cars, Xu Huasheng laughed. If a time traveler came here and saw these cars, he would definitely think he had come to Audi's base.

Three city SUVs, three sedans, and one MPV.

Seven cars, six of which were directly designed by Audi.

Q7, Q5, Q3, A8, A6, A4...

Three SUVs and three sedans were designed by Audi. There is no concept of city SUV in this era. Now, the cars produced by major car companies around the world are off-road vehicles and sedans are sedans. The real trend of city SUV is the first generation RV4 launched by Toyota a few years later. From that time on, the trend of city SUV was set off in the world.

Now, Xu Huasheng directly took out the city SUV and directly took out three models, large, medium and small, to fill the product line directly.

Of course, the routine will still be the nesting doll routine, but this time the routine is different from the Land Cruiser routine. This time the high-end is placed on the White Tiger and the low-end is placed on the Vermillion Bird.

To put it bluntly, the high-end is Audi and the low-end is Volkswagen. Not onlyOnly three SUVs look like this, and the three sedans also follow this pattern.

The lines of the six cars are not angular, but futuristic curved, which looks more beautiful.

In terms of design, these three cars are decades ahead of this era.

As for the MPV, Xu Huasheng directly took out the design of the first-generation GL8. This car is a god car in China. Since its release, it has been the sales champion in the MPV market for more than 20 years.

"Mr. Xu, the testing of these seven cars is almost over. Next, we need to do road testing. According to the road testing process, if everything goes well, these seven cars will be finalized by the end of the year."

The technician said with a smile, his eyes full of excitement.

Shanhai Automobile finalized the models very quickly. The designs that Xu Huasheng took out were basically complete designs. They only needed to make parts according to the design drawings, assemble the existing cars and make simple modifications, which directly saved a lot of design time.

Moreover, Shanhai Automobile's current models are blank, and there is no need to conduct market research like large car companies to explore whether this model needs to be developed.

In this era, the development of a car takes a very long time. Many car companies usually need five years or even longer to develop a car.

Shanhai Automobile does not have this process. Now Shanhai Automobile's main task is to improve its product line. After the product line is improved, the next generation of models will be considered.

As for R&D expenses, market and other issues, Shanhai Automobile has not considered them at present. Xu Huasheng did not let them consider it. Shanhai Automobile has just started, and it must continue to spend money. If you want to make a profit, you need to do it slowly. In the early stage, it is mainly to burn money to build a brand and increase the sales of your products. When the products are improved and the sales increase, it will naturally make a profit. At that time, Shanhai Automobile Group will be able to gain a firm foothold.