There are three major items in the car, the engine, the gearbox, and the chassis!

Chenhua Auto has already developed the technology for chassis training. Yang Rong asked Porsche engineers to specially help train the chassis of the intermediate car, which was enough for them to eat for several years.

However, Li Yifan still felt that this was not enough. He called the Japanese side specifically. He had someone there, and his request was nothing else, just to ask for the Atez chassis technology that Mazda had just launched recently.

This car was the Mazda 6, which was later popular in China. When this car was first launched on the market, it was very popular around the world.

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

The Mazda 6, which uses this platform, has won itself the reputation of the king of curves in a series of events because of its good handling.

It was even more rated by the picky and even harsh German media as a Japanese BMW, which shows the superiority of this chassis.

Later on, this platform was not only used by Mazda, but also used for Ford's Mondeo and French Peugeot's C5. Even ten years later, the chassis platform of the new models launched by Ford evolved from this platform.

So Li Yifan can be said to be determined to win this platform. He has so many helpers in Japan, and it is not difficult to get the platform parameters of this car.

The remaining training depends on the skills of our engineers. We have done positive research. We have just started in our country, but we are engaged in reverse research and development. To put it bluntly, it is a copycat. We have been doing it for decades.

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

dpin already has its own 4at technology. Around 2003, 4at was still the mainstream configuration of automatic transmission models in China, and some high-end models only use 5at.

Moreover, many of the 4at transmission technologies have passed the patent protection period. We cannot produce them in China now, because they are not qualified in three aspects.

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

But these are not problems for him, and materials are difficult. He now has a special metal smelting company, so some high-temperature and wear-resistant metals required in the automatic transmission are not problems for him.

He was not worried about processing. In the past, we were not as good as the precision of the machine tool, so we were not able to handle durable high-precision automatic speed change. But now, after he went to Japan and got on the line with Kobayashi, it was not a problem.

Almost every month, Kobayashi will bring him several high-precision machine tools from Japan, some of which are the most advanced at present, and some are not, but for him, they are just enough, so there is no need to worry about being stuck in the neck by the Japanese.

As for tcu, there is nothing we can do about this, we can only rely on a large amount of data accumulation.

The engine is equivalent to the heart of a car, the ecu is the brain of a car, and the tcu is equivalent to the left brain of the car brain. This control chip will accelerate, downshift, or self-judgment based on the depth of the driving pedal on the accelerator, or self-judgment of fuel-saving and upshifting. Cooperating with the engine is the key.

These require the accumulation of data. More than ten years later, the reason why our domestic automobile companies still cannot manufacture qualified gearboxes is the accumulation of data from ECU and TCU.

To put it bluntly, our automobile company has not invested enough in R&D, and is reluctant to invest in R&D at a high price.

For example, the data accumulation required by this tcu is the data accumulated by tens of thousands of engineers in Europe, America and Japan.

Then the data is entered into the computer, and the designed program is used to model it, allowing the chip to burn it, so that the chip has the logical ability to understand the driver's intentions. To put it bluntly, it is the simplest artificial intelligence.

If you want to build such an artificial intelligence program, you need the most original data accumulation, which is often huge.

Dozens of cars keep running and accumulating within a few years to collect enough data.

Later generations in China, Geely, which acquired D private, was probably the stunning Byd, and created such a thing and developed a dual-clutch transmission. Only then did the domestic automobile manufacturers not be able to produce automatic transmissions.

Byd is a typical example of working hard. The bosses are technically born, so even the importance of technology to a company, and they are willing to invest in technology research and development.

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

FAW and SAIC are obsessed with the huge profits brought to them by joint venture cars, and they are simply disdainful of R&D. A R&D project, such as an automatic transmission, often requires investment of billions and several years, and it may not be possible in the end.

If you succeed, you are afraid that others will pick peaches, and you will be set as a typical attack by your opponent, so why bother?

Isn’t it better if you have those billions, eat and drink?

As for private enterprises, they can’t afford it. After all, this is a large project with large investment and puts great pressure on funds.

Byd dares to do it because it is because not only car companies, but also profits from batteries and electronic projects, but other companies can't afford it at all.

Geely took the acquisition route and got a big advantage.

The Great Wall simply covered his ears and counted on foreign companies to provide accessories to it. As a result, the Germans were stuck in the neck on the h8 project, and then they woke up like a dream.

So now Li Yifan has been preparing for the future since the beginning, and he has to do these three items by himself.

Zhou Yuanchao joined the transmission, and he was not worried. As long as Zhou Yuanchao and his team came over, they would definitely bring a lot of data from D private. For the remaining accumulated data, they should do it themselves.

Others are afraid of investment, but he is not afraid. Now he has just obtained more than 2 billion from Chen Jiexi, and he doesn’t know how to spend it!

It is not his habit to get moldy in the bank.

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

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

Mitsubishi is not bad at all, and castrated the variable valve timing technology of the 4g engine it sent, but this cannot conceal the brilliance of the 4g series engine.

You should know that in the original history, this 4g series was not only the originator of domestic independent engines, but also the Koreans who came from behind. When studying automotive engines, they also started with this 4g series.

Even more than ten years later, the Japanese were changing the engine head and cylinder block for this 4g series, and adding a turbine, which immediately improves the effectiveness of this engine by several levels, which shows the benefits of this engine.

In the new Chenhua Automobile, an engineer named Liang Qiming was in his forties. He 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 Chenhua Automobile's engine project. He has been working on it for several years, has accumulated a lot of experience, and the people he brought are also very mature.

If it weren't for the fight between Yang Rong and Qi Mantian, their scientific research team would soon be time to achieve results.

"Lao Liang, I have no other requirements for you. I have enough money, so you can do it with confidence. In fact, the Japanese people understand the variable valve timing technology and physical changes. They just add two timing chains, but the key lies in their ecu. To put it bluntly, it is data accumulation, so that the computer can judge the time and angle of the valve opening and closing, and then control this time and angle through the associated device to grasp the air intake amount."

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 personal genius. He knows everything, not a bucket of water.

"That's right, boss, what we're not bad about is data accumulation. As long as you have enough money, haha, my test runners dare to run without stopping 24 hours a day. I can organize twenty or even fifty cars to run together. As long as you give me a year, I can get the variable valve timing technology for you."

What was the difference in the past? Isn’t it just a shortage of money? A car runs 24 hours a year. Try it. Just the salary of the test driver and the fuel expenses, it only cost millions a year. After persisting like this for a few years, how many bosses dare to invest like this.

Now that Boss Li said, "If you have enough money, what are you afraid of? I dare to organize 150 test drivers, fifty test vehicles, and run in three shifts for one year."

I can handle the data accumulated by you European and American engineers in a few decades.

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

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

An engineer in his twenties shouted, causing laughter from the people around him.

It is true that everyone’s health is not a problem. In the past, they only had money shortages and they didn’t dare to let go. Now that there is a boss who is so willing to spend money, what are you afraid of?

The new company is thriving, and everyone has held back their energy. They all want to achieve results in the fastest time to prove themselves.

With all three major items in mind, Li Yifan was relieved. This Chenhua car has come to his hands and has stabilized!
Chapter completed!