Chapter 811 Low-Cost Car

In the past, when China was very poor, how did we build airplanes and rockets without any industrial foundation?

The answer is to rely on people.

A hand-made DIY fighter jet, using a pair of hands and simple tools such as a wrench to make every part of the rocket. The older generation of Chinese technicians have relied on their astonishingly superb skills to accomplish things that only foreign countries can do with the help of high-precision instruments.

Calculating their ages, aren't the old masters Zhao Jincong hired from the original factory exactly that generation?

Maybe they are not that high in professional titles and a little behind in technology, but no one can deny their abilities. The capable masters worked together and it was really not a problem to build a car from scratch.

The only question is whether the technology of this car is our own.

If it is, then it can be used commercially and can be sold in the market to make money, and then it can be used to support the operation of the factory.

Otherwise, there is no need to say it.

This is also the reason why many Chinese factories will close down in the future even though they have a group of skilled workers.

After China joins the WTO, it will have to abide by international rules. If you use other people's technology, you must have other people's technology authorization. Otherwise, if your products dare to be put on the market, you will be waiting for trouble.

This is a lesson learned from the past, and the lesson is profound. Only then did Xu Ang repeatedly tell Zhao Jincong that the core technology must be owned by oneself, and no one else could get stuck in his neck.

Judging from the current situation, Zhao Jincong has remembered Xu Ang's words, otherwise he would not have specifically said that the core technology is our own.

After a visual inspection of the four-wheeled electric car that can be charged with solar energy, Xu Ang found that there was something wrong with the design of the body.

He asked Zhao Jincong: "What is the design of this car? It is a small car? Look at the length and height. It is obviously smaller than the normal car standard. If I sit in it, I can't stretch my body. I can't drive." My legs still need to be curled up.”

The car is small, so the space inside the body cannot be large. In fact, it is quite tight. It gives Xu Ang the feeling of a Japanese car.

If this car hadn't been driven by Zhao Jincong, and Zhao Jincong was still introducing it to himself as a new model developed by Xiaoxiao Electric Vehicles, Xu Ang would have simply treated it as a Japanese car.

Thinking that Xu Ang was dissatisfied with the design of the new car, Zhao Jincong hurriedly explained: "This car does refer to the Beetle series. After all, that model is also easy to sell in the United States. We thought that since Americans can accept it, there is no reason why domestic consumers can't. Accept it. After all, when comparing hatchbacks, Americans eat better than us, their physical development is better than ours, they are generally taller and stronger than us, and they can drive such a car, so we will not be uncomfortable with it.”

This... no matter how I put it, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

Because the food supply in Laomi, especially the supply of beef, is much better than that in China at this time, they are better than China in terms of body and physical development.

In this era, the proportion of individuals in China who are 1.8 meters tall is actually very small, and those who are over 1.8 meters tall are even smaller. However, it is very common for Lao Mi.

"Boss, you feel crowded inside because of your body shape. In fact, the vast majority of domestic consumers will not feel this way."

Zhao Jincong's voice dropped by three points when he said this. He was very worried that Xu Ang would be unhappy with his words.

The boss didn't expect it, but you thought of it, and you still have to point out his negligence in front of the boss. If you don't do this well, you will have to wear small shoes. If you are short-tempered, you will be asked to pack up and get out.

With Zhao Jincong's temperament, he would not have said this originally, but he felt that it was actually easy to see. If he didn't bring it up now, if Xu Ang realized it later, it would be a negative point for him, so he said this bravely.

After Zhao Jincong reminded him, Xu Ang did realize that he had not thought carefully about it.

There are many people in China who are as tall as him, and how many are as strong as him. Very few people can achieve one of the two, let alone both.

"That makes sense." Xu Ang asked Zhao Jincong, "You haven't told me why you should refer to Japanese cars and make the car so small. If it is just to reduce power consumption and let it run a few more kilometers, the reason is not sufficient."

Xu Ang remembered that although his solar charging technology was given to the laboratory in a simplified version, it was more than one generation behind the power supply system on the Golden Cruise Ship. But with it, as long as it was not driven three or five times in a row The two-hour high-speed one is not much different from the popular Poussin in China at that time.

"save money."

Zhao Jincong's answer is also very simple. Just two words explain everything.

When a car is made small, less materials are used and the cost is low. And with lower costs, there will be greater flexibility in price and a broader market.

Zhao Jincong told Xu Ang: "Boss, you don't know that the cost of this car is very low. Since it uses its own technology and its own production line, there is no need to spend a lot of money on foreigners' technical fees. This cost alone is saved." It’s about one-third to one-half. Even though the whole car is small, we have tested it and it is much stronger than the cars that foreigners sell us at high prices.”

There are some stories about this. The steel formula used for the frame of the car was bought by Zhao Jincong from a domestic brother factory through his own channels.

That factory had done work for the army before, and I didn't know about the other technologies in it, but the formula Zhao Jincong bought was absolutely top-notch.

Military industry and civilian use are never on the same level in terms of quality.

That is to say, people's profits are not good, factories will be merged during restructuring, and workers need to

Appeasement, especially the money needed to settle the previously arrears of wages, allowed Zhao Jincong to find an opportunity in the chaos, otherwise this good thing would not have come from.

"Using this material to make the frame, our car is not only light, but also very strong. With the advantage of low cost, the sales volume will definitely be huge when it is launched on the market in the future."

Zhao Jincong is full of confidence in the new cars in the factory.

“How low is the cost?”

Xu Ang asked him.

"If we build 10,000 vehicles, the cost will be around 12,000. If we can produce 100,000 vehicles, we are confident that we can reduce the cost to less than 7,000. This is still the price in the first two years. In the following years, as long as the annual output exceeds 10,000 , the cost can still be reduced.”

The advantage of modern industry is that the more mass-produced things are, the more effectively the costs can be controlled. The more products a production line produces, the lower the cost of a single product.

The most expensive thing in modern industry is not mass-produced goods, but the things that are produced in limited quantities.

It's like a production line worth hundreds of millions. It produces ten items. The production cost is the price of the production line plus the cost of the ten items. Naturally, it cannot be cheap. If it produces one million items, once the total cost is divided, the price of the product will drop many times in an instant.

"So low!"

Xu Ang was surprised.

He thought the cost would be low, but he never thought it would be so low.

So, what's the reason?