1159. Refinement of four-cylinder engine
Zhou Yuanchao in front of him was like an old monk watching the simplified picture held by Li Yifan in his hand.
These simplified pictures were all drawn by Li Yifan based on his memory of Nissan's transmission in his previous life. At that time, he also drove Nissan's car, so he also had a corresponding understanding of Nissan's car.
In addition, after Nissan was established in eastern Guangdong, he disguised himself as a purchasing staff and went to the factory to inquire, so he also had some memories of some Nissan's technology.
I have built a car factory in my life, and Nissan's technology is useless.
Although he is a half-baked bucket of water who is not very good at it, he doesn't have to do anything and just tell his general ideas and let his R&D personnel do it.
After all, these things are good things that have been rigorously practiced by the Japanese. If you don’t take them directly and use them to make a wise man, you will be sorry for your rebirth.
Zhou Yuanchao was dazed in front of him, which showed that he really understood and had figured it out.
With his abilities, coupled with the support his team can provide him and his own financial support, it is estimated that he will be able to produce the finished product in no time.
Mass production products will be launched in a few years, and they should be ahead of Nissan. Even if they are launched at the same time as Nissan, they will not be afraid.
Could it be that the Japanese can still go to China to sue themselves for their copycats?
Stop dreaming. As long as the dispute on that island is immortal, the Japanese will not dare to bomb stings in the country.
Haven't you seen that more than ten years later, many domestic automobile manufacturers are focusing on the Japanese and then speculating. Not only are the appearance of the car, but the engine is the same, let alone the chassis, so they simply take it over and develop it in reverse.
Why? If you don’t agree, you will sue!
If this were a German, I would probably be able to bring the lawsuit to the international arbitration court, but the Japanese would not even make a fuck. Why?
Because they know the relationship between China and Japan, if they want to do business and make money in China, they must honestly accept the unspoken rules of China.
This is also one of the main reasons why the Japanese never bring the top technology to China.
Just like Toyota's Lexus, it is obviously not inferior to the BBA and can open factories in the United States, but it dares not open factories in China. Why?
I’m not afraid that we will copy their skills. You should know that the most awesome thing about Lexus lies in their assembly technology and the training system of masters and apprentices.
Those are all things that will not be mentioned for the time being. Li Yifan is now taking out these things, and it is just the seventh generation of CVT technology that Nissan has developed to the point of great success by relying on years of technological accumulation.
Now he takes it out. That is almost equivalent to extinction of Nissan's ascension path in more than ten years.
You should know that among the three Japanese auto companies, Toyota and Honda are famous, and Nissan is actually the most low-key and most silent and rich.
In the United States, they can divide the world with Toyota and Honda. In China, they will be more than ten years later. When Toyota and Honda completely retreated from the market, they went against the current and became the leader of the three Japanese giants, relying on their unique CVT technology.
It saves fuel, has low noise, and smooth shifting. These are all the reputation Nissan has accumulated over the years.
Now Li Yifan has brought this seventh-generation CVT technology directly, and the effect may not be visible yet, but a few years later, when Nissan wanted to launch their seventh-generation CVT, he saw that China had already launched similar products, and I wonder what they would feel at that time.
Zhou Yuanchao and Li Yifan discussed it all morning, had lunch with Li Yifan, and then left reluctantly.
The reason why they are reluctant to leave is of course not because they have a romance, but because the things in Li Yifan's head are so precious to him.
I really don’t know how this guy’s head grows. Any point of giving me some advice can make me feel enlightened in a certain field.
This feeling is like you have been searching for a way out in a certain woods and never found it, but suddenly a guy jumped out and just a little finger will let you find the way out. Do you think this feeling is good?
But in the end he was driven away by Li Yifan. The reason he wanted to drive him away was because he had another person to deal with.
This person is Liang Qiming, who is in charge of the company's engine research and development department. This guy was dug from the original provincial capital car.
In fact, the reason why he chose him as the person in charge was a helpless move.
In the field of engines, the domestic industry has been blank for too long. In the era of planned economy, there was no so-called automobile market in China at all.
At that time, I bought two types of cars in China, one was BAIC 212, and the other was Jiefang or Dongfeng Truck.
Later, SAIC cooperated with Volkswagen to introduce Santana, FAW also cooperated with Volkswagen to introduce Audi, Dongfeng cooperated with the French, and introduced FUKAN.
The domestic automobile market has begun to take shape, but its only scientific research ability has been castrated with its joint venture with foreign auto companies.
For those leaders of joint ventures, foreign car companies are already responsible for the research and development of engines and transmissions, and even the producers have finished. All we have to do is take back the things they produce and assemble them together.
Moreover, those products can make money as long as they are launched. Why should you spend a lot of money and do research and development by yourself? Isn’t this full Chengde?
It’s like the person in charge of a big plane that said something about it. It’s better to buy it than to make it!
It can be used directly, so why do you have to do R&D by yourself? So those who were the only R&D personnel were gradually rotated to other positions.
What is design, research and development, and having that money, it is better for everyone to pay more money.
So although the new millennium has entered, at this time, the domestic engine research and development can almost be said to be zero!
I won’t talk about state-owned joint venture car companies, they are not very good at research and development.
Private car companies cannot afford R&D. It is not a matter of short-term development, but requires large investment. At present, there is no suitable talent in China.
That's why Chery is jointly developing engines with an Austrian company. To put it bluntly, they give them money, and then ask them to do experiments and scientific research, and finally get results but share them...
And Li Yifan's headache now is this. Even though Liang Qiming and others used to do engine research and development, their skills are not a little behind now.
Let’s not talk about design for now. Now, what I want them to do is to follow the path of imitation first.
Anyway, the introduction of Mitsubishi's 4G series is also a classic. In the future, the engines of many domestic private vehicle companies have almost evolved from the 4G series.
And what Liang Qiming and the others have to do now is to imitate it.
"You must not only focus on the displacements of 2.0 and 2.4, but also on the displacements of 1.8 and 1.6, and even the displacements of 1.4. In the future, the path our domestic automobile engines will take is to miniaturize the displacement, which will definitely not be bad."
Li Yifan explained to Liang Qiming that Liang Qiming had a little unhappy expression after hearing this.
"Mr. Li, no! I see that the current high-end cars have displacements of more than 3.0, and they all go with V6 or V8. Germans have even created V10 and V12. Why are we only focusing on the four-cylinder engine?"
People’s concept of cars these days is that the bigger the horsepower, the more awesome it is, and the more cylinders it is, the more luxurious it is. They don’t understand the market at all, and they have no judgment on the future development trend of automobiles and the development trend of the country.
You should know that after more than ten years, China became the world's number one energy importer, importing hundreds of millions of tons of oil from the Middle East every year. The country is also facing problems such as smog. The country has to limit the number of motor vehicles, and even shouted the slogan that the fuel consumption of cars must be reduced to less than 6.9 in XXX. This shows the future development trend of domestic automobile engines.
That is, it is necessary to miniaturize, lightweight, energy conservation and emission reduction in the future, and new technologies are the mainstream trends of engines.
Four-cylinder engines will become mainstream for a long time.
Of course, these things cannot be explained in detail to Liang Qiming, so Li Yifan could only change his opinion.
"Master Liang, I said this to lay a solid foundation. Now we can't even handle four-cylinder engines, so what are we going to do with V6? What V8 engines? Look at the Germans, especially Volkswagen, who have created several types of four-cylinder engines, including 2.2 displacement, 1.6 displacement, and their next generation golf claims to be 1.4 displacement. And small displacement does not mean that the horsepower must be small. Look at the engine and add mechanical supercharger, and the power will go up in an instant, so I wonder whether we will take the small and refined step at the beginning. Look at Honda's Civic, their 1.6 engine, with a variable valve timing technology alone, we can effectively increase the power. Should we also think about the new technology?"
Liang Qiming likes to hear Li Yifan's words.
Don’t want to use large-displacement engines, but it does not mean that it rejects new technologies. If these new technologies are integrated into a small engine, is it possible for this small engine to compete with the large engine for power?
Well, this idea is interesting.
Lao Liang also listened, and Li Yifan felt relieved when he saw him doing this, and finally convinced him again.
Chapter completed!