Chapter 1359 Magnetic Weighting Technology

Marcos Mosley doesn’t understand why Jürgen Hubert and Lin Feng, the president of Mercedes-Benz, can reach an agreement so quickly. You must know that this not only involves an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, but also concerns Mercedes-Benz. It was beyond Marcos Mosley's imagination that the two parties could reach an agreement on the most advanced automobile production line in the world in just a few words. Although Marcos Mosley has been the president of the FIA ​​for more than ten years, he is well-informed and has never seen such a fast negotiation.

Compared to Marcos Mosley's surprise, Lin Feng was not surprised. Because even if "Mercedes-Benz" sells this car production line to itself, it will not conflict with the "Mercedes-Benz" market. The market orientation of "Mercedes-Benz" family cars is mid-to-high-end, and this production line can only produce low-end cars, and it is An extremely entry-level low-end car, there is no conflict between the two. What's more, "Mercedes-Benz" never hopes that Japanese cars will eventually dominate the Chinese market with this sales volume bet.

Chinese market! China has a population of 1.3 billion and about 330 million households. According to China's current development speed, it is entirely possible that within 15 years, there will be one car per household on average. That is 330 million cars. How big is this? A market. What's more, this is just the sales market, the annual car maintenance market, the car modification market, etc. Calculated in this way, China can be said to be a gold mine in the current global car market that has been exposed to everyone's eyes. It depends on who can Mining rights were obtained.

Therefore, "Mercedes-Benz" is willing to help Lin Feng this time and sell this car production line to Lin Feng. On the one hand, it is the general trend, not to mention that "Mercedes-Benz" will also obtain sufficient profits from this car production line. The second plan proposed by Jürgen Hubert is that the automobile production line "Mercedes-Benz" will be sold to Lin Feng for US$200 million, and "Mercedes-Benz" will be responsible for remodeling it to satisfy Lin Feng. To meet the needs of producing energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, we also provide five-year after-sales service and bear all the costs of after-sales service. But correspondingly, for every car sold by this automobile production line, Mercedes-Benz will withdraw 0.5% of the profit.

For Lin Feng, this condition is a bit harsh, because in Lin Feng's view, this automobile production line will produce millions or even tens of millions of energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, "Mercedes-Benz" A 0.5% increase for each car is a bit much, but for now, Lin Feng cannot find a better car company than Mercedes-Benz, so he can only accept this condition.

After bidding farewell to Mercedes-Benz, Lin Feng visited the World Environmental Protection Organization, the World Meteorological Research Organization, and the World Archeology Organization. All three organizations promised to release a report on global warming and energy conservation and emission reduction in the near future. As for why these three global organizations are willing to sell Lin Feng's face, it is very simple. Lin Feng promised to provide each of the three organizations with a sponsorship of US$10 million per year in the future to help them study issues such as earth change. Naturally, these three major organizations all agreed. Originally, publishing such a report does not violate their conscience. This is a fact. Why not do it!

One month later!

When time entered the early summer season, when Lin Feng came to "Shenlong Automobile" again,

Mercedes-Benz has modified, installed and debugged the energy-saving and environmentally friendly car production line ordered by Lin Feng at a cost of US$200 million.

"SS, you are so awesome. This production line cost Mercedes-Benz 150 million U.S. dollars at the beginning. Including this modification, it costs about 210 million U.S. dollars, but it was sold to you for 200 million U.S. dollars!" German Deputy Minister Mark exclaimed.

Originally, Mark proposed that Lin Feng go to "Mercedes-Benz" to purchase a car production line, but that was just that. Mark himself did not have any hope for this. He had been recruited from Mercedes-Benz by Lin Feng with a high salary, and he knew the principles of Mercedes-Benz. With such an advanced car production line, "Mercedes-Benz" would never sell it to people. It would rather rot and never thought of selling it to Lin Feng this time.

Lin Feng smiled. This time it can really only be said to be a coincidence. If it weren't for its bet against Japanese cars, if the outside world didn't look down on Shenlong Motors, if it wasn't for Mercedes-Benz to have a rotten car production line in its arms, and if it wasn't for itself to be the richest man in the world, Mercedes-Benz hopes to be able to compete with itself. Establish a little relationship, and with so many opportunities and coincidences, I am afraid that Mercedes-Benz will never sell this car production line to Shenlong Motors.

"Director Lin, with this new automobile production line and our transformation of other automobile production lines, the company's annual production capacity can now reach 850,000 units!" Zheng Jie said with shining eyes.

Although the annual output of 850,000 units is still very immature compared to companies such as General Motors and Toyota, which can easily produce millions of vehicles annually, DPCA has an annual output of 850,000 units right after its establishment. The capabilities of the car are already quite gratifying.

Of course, for now, what troubles Zheng Jie is that all the current production lines of "Shenlong Automobile" can only produce energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars. As for other car series, there is no production line at all. This is undoubtedly quite embarrassing. The productivity is too single. Once the energy-saving and environmentally friendly car series is not welcomed by the market, or is not as good as expected, then "Shenlong Automobile" will really die.

When the factory was built, the original capital of "Shenlong Automobile" was 10 billion yuan, including the purchase of automobile production lines and renovation, but most of it has been spent. If the future advertising expenses are deducted, the working capital in the account of "Shenlong Automobile" will only be enough for the company to operate for 12 months. If the car cannot be sold in 12 months, there is only one result waiting for "Shenlong Automobile" - bankruptcy.

"Don't worry, energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars will definitely sell well!" Lin Feng said confidently.

Everyone nodded. In any case, now it is a desperate situation, there is only progress and no retreat.

Three days later, the first energy-saving and environmentally friendly car officially rolled off the production line.

As the chairman of the company, Lin Feng was naturally the first to test drive. After a week of driving around the company, Lin Feng nodded with great satisfaction. Although this energy-saving and environmentally friendly car is a car with a displacement of less than 1.0 liters, its speed can reach up to 120 kilometers per hour, and at the highest speed, the car body will never feel floating, unlike the low-end car series of "Chery", once the speed exceeds 80, the whole car will feel a little floating. Of course, the reason for such a strong contrast is that a brand-new technology is used, which is also the world's unique and pioneering technology.

This technology was invented by Harvard's top students Solo and others. Originally, when it came to the requirements for energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, Lin Feng made several major suggestions: 1. Fashion and beauty; 2. Good quality and low price; 3. Driving feeling; 4. Strong and durable; 5. Speed.

For fashion and beauty, Lin Feng made an order that the car must not give people a feeling of shoddy production as soon as it is produced, and people must not say that energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars are parallel import cars. Therefore, the appearance must not be worse than those high-end cars. For Lin Feng's request, everyone was in a dilemma. The low-end car series should not look worse than the high-end car series, and it should be more distinctive. Isn't this too much to ask?

After some deep thought, everyone shook their heads helplessly. For Lin Feng's request, everyone asked themselves that they could not do it. I am afraid that no one in the entire automotive industry can create a god to do it.

"Mr. Lin, I think this requirement is too difficult. After all, low-end cars are low-end cars. How can they look similar to high-end cars, or even better?" Zheng Jie said to Lin Feng.

But Lin Feng shook his head. Low-end cars from other car manufacturers are not as good as high-end cars in appearance. That is the business of other car manufacturers, but the cars of "Shenlong Automobile" must not be worse than high-end cars in appearance, otherwise its sales will be greatly affected. Now that everyone can't produce a car that can meet their requirements, let's ask people outside the automotive industry to design it.

Speaking of design, Lin Feng naturally thought of a person-Allegra.

"Allegra, long time no see, how are you recently?" Lin Feng greeted enthusiastically. Because of the little relationship between him and Allegra, Lin Feng has always felt a little guilty about Allegra and has always been a little embarrassed to see her, so he rarely contacts her. Whenever he contacts Allegra, there is always something. For example, when Lin Feng held a birthday party in World of Warcraft last time, he used Allegra's connections to invite the world's top ten supermodels in the virtual world, and he didn't ask for any money. It can be said that Allegra helped Lin Feng a lot, while Lin Feng didn't help Versace at all except for funding it with $200 million in exchange for 20% of its shares when Versace was in trouble.

"Huh, what do you need my help with again!" Allegra snorted.

Lin Feng was embarrassed.

"Can't I just call my old friend to chat about the past when I have nothing to do!" Lin Feng smiled awkwardly.

"Cut it out, Mr. World's Richest Man, you go to pick up girls when you have time, how can you come to me when you have time? Tell me, what do you need my help with!" Allegra mercilessly exposed Lin Feng's hypocrisy.

"Well, it's like this. My 'Shenlong Automobile' wants to design the appearance of the car. My requirement is that the low-end car looks similar to the high-end car, and it should be more distinctive. The designers in our company are too incompetent to do it, so I can only come to you, the master of design!" Lin Feng kept praising Allegra.

"Hehe, you are smart and know what I do. Lin, there is absolutely no problem with this. But I have a condition." Allegra said.

Condition? ! Lin Feng was instinctively shocked. What kind of condition would this be? It's not like he is going to force me to get married! ——If you don't do bad things in your life, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night. Lin Feng is obviously the kind of person who has done bad things.

"Tell me." Lin Feng agreed vaguely.

"Don't worry, it's not what you think." Allegra was dissatisfied with Lin Feng's tone and said coldly and sarcastically.

Lin Feng smiled helplessly.

"My request is very simple. You and Zhiyou will come to Milan on the 18th of this month." Allegra said.

The 18th of this month? Lin Feng thought for a while, why did Allegra want him to go to Milan on the 18th, and why did she insist that Li Zhiyou and the others go with him.

"Lin, you can't have forgotten everything!" Allegra's voice suddenly rose eight degrees on the phone.

Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Lin Feng's forehead. This, this, it seems that he really forgot something. What on earth did he have to go to Milan for? ——Lin Feng was quite entangled.

"Hmph, Lin, if you can't remember, forget it, you don't have to come. But I won't help you design any car appearance!" Allegra said and was about to hang up the phone.

I have to say that Lin Feng sometimes really admires his quick wit. Whenever he encounters some difficult or threatening things, at that critical moment, Lin Feng can always think of a way to solve the problem in a hurry.

"Haha, Allegra, look at what you said, I was just joking with you. Isn't it your coming-of-age ceremony on the 18th of this month? You said it half a year ago, how could I forget it! I will definitely attend on time with Li Zhiyou and others!" Lin Feng's forehead was sweating. Fortunately, Lin Feng remembered it at the critical moment.

June 18th is Allegra's coming-of-age ceremony. Half a year ago, Allegra formally sent invitations to herself and Li Zhiyou and others. This time, she reminded herself specially, which was really thoughtful.

Hum! ——Allegra hummed a few times and expressed satisfaction with Lin Feng's answer. But for some reason, she felt secretly happy that Lin Feng remembered her coming-of-age ceremony.

"By the way, who will be attending then?" Lin Feng asked casually.

"Well, everyone in the fashion industry will probably come back, Pierre Cardin, some of the world's top models will be there, and Mr. Berluscori, by the way, my master will be there too!" Allegra said proudly.

"Your master?" Lin Feng was stunned, he didn't expect Allegra to have any master.

"Huh, you forgot, the car king Schumacher is my master!" Allegra said proudly.

Schumacher! —— Lin Feng's eyes lit up when he heard it.

His team will join F1 next season, those external hardware facilities and software implementation are easy to do, just spend some money, but the driver problem is not solved. And the technology of "Shenlong Automobile" is definitely not as good as other teams for the time being, so it must have the best racer to make up for the gap. Who is the best F1 racer today? There is no need to ask - the car king Schumacher. Lin Feng has been thinking about Schumacher, but he has always felt that there is no chance to do it. Now God has given him an opportunity.

"Hmph, Lin, why are you laughing so weirdly? Well, I won't talk to you anymore, I still have things to do. I will give you the car design you want within 3 days." After saying that, Allegra hung up the phone in a hurry. Allegra, who is about to hold her coming-of-age ceremony and officially take over the Versace Empire, obviously has too many things to do.

Three days later, Allegra sent the design drawings from Milan. According to the three grades of energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars of "Shenlong Automobile", Allegra designed a total of three different styles of design drawings. The low-end ones give people a sense of simplicity and generosity. Although they are simple, they do not make people feel vulgar, but have a fresh feeling; as for the mid-range ones, they are fashionable and beautiful, which makes people unforgettable at first sight; as for the high-end car series, there is only one feeling-low-key luxury. The appearance does not look impressive at first glance, but the more you look at it, the more you like it, and the more you look at it, the more you feel it is elegant and luxurious.

And for each design drawing, Allegra is accompanied by a variety of replaceable partial modification drawings. For example, in terms of exterior color, each model has four colors, representing the four seasons; each model also has a small distinction in appearance, the more masculine ones are for men to drive, and the more feminine ones are for women to drive. It can be said that Allegra took great pains to design the sedan for "Shenlong Automobile".

"Mr. Lin, great! I didn't know until today that sedans can be so fashionable!" Zheng Jie exclaimed.

The rest of the people were also amazed. It turned out that Lin Feng solved the problem that was so difficult to solve in their eyes in just three days, and the solution was so perfect. It can be said that they all wanted to buy such a sedan immediately.

As for the appearance problem, it was perfectly solved. Of course, as for Lin Feng's favor to Allegra, he could only let Lin Feng repay it himself.

As for the good quality and low price, there is no problem. The three sedans developed by "Shenlong Automobile" this time, the low-end (less than 1.0 liters) is only 38,000 yuan, the mid-range (1.0-1.4 liters) is only 58,000 yuan, and the high-end (1.4-1.6 liters) is only 78,000 yuan, which is absolutely good value for money. It can be said that it is definitely the most cost-effective sedan on the market.

As for the driving feeling, Lin Feng hopes to give all drivers and passengers the most comfortable environment. Originally, many people also made many suggestions, but most of them were not satisfied. After all, this is an energy-saving and environmentally friendly sedan with limited space inside the car. It is impossible to be as comfortable as a luxury car. After all, space determines everything. But obviously, this does not meet Lin Feng's requirements. If the sedans of "Shenlong Automobile" want to surpass the sales of Japanese cars, they must strive for perfection. And the driving feeling is one of the keys.

Therefore, Lin Feng found the leader of the international furniture decoration industry-IKEA. IKEA is responsible for the design of all the sedans of "Shenlong Automobile". Finally, when IKEA came up with the plan and created a model for everyone to experience temporarily, it once again proved how wise Lin Feng's decision was. IKEA used their decades of experience in the furniture decoration industry to fully utilize all the space of the "Shenlong Sedan" energy-saving and environmentally friendly sedan. Although the energy-saving and environmentally friendly sedan looks small, after sitting in it, it does not feel small at all due to the combination of various interior decorations and the design of the seats. Its matching automatic ergonomic equipment allows people from the shortest 1.4 to 2 meters tall to feel a comfortable driving experience.

As for durability, don't forget that the deputy director of the production department is German. Although he is nominally the deputy director, he is actually the future director. Once Zheng Jie is promoted from deputy general manager to general manager, Mark will be promoted to director. Therefore, Mark proposed that we should not build cars like Japanese cars that disregard human lives. We should be able to withstand collisions and impacts, so the steel plates must be good. As a result, in the end, if we don't count the invention costs of Harvard top students Solo and others, the cost of all low-end cars is as high as 350 million, the mid-range is as high as 500 million, and the high-end is as high as 65,000 yuan. This does not include advertising costs. If we calculate it this way, the production of low-end cars will almost lose a little money, the mid-range cars will not make money, and the high-end cars can only make a little money.

If we count the invention technology usage fees of Solo and others, not only will we not make money, but we will lose money.

Therefore, at first, everyone had a verbal battle over Mark's proposal. After all, the purpose of opening a company is to make money. Although "Shenlong Automobile" carries the hope of Chinese automobiles, it cannot operate at a loss. This matter caused the several managers to quarrel whenever they met and almost turned against each other.

In the end, everyone handed the decision-making power to Lin Feng, who would make the final decision. After thinking it over again and again, Lin Feng decided to use the German Mark's proposal to use good steel to ensure the safety of every driver and passenger. Although the company produces energy-saving and environmentally friendly cars, it is absolutely not energy-saving in the use of steel materials.

As for the problem of production costs, Lin Feng naturally considered it, that is, to get the goods directly from the source. To purchase iron ore veins, the cost can be reduced to the minimum.

The above three points are easy to solve. The real problem is speed. Although good steel has been used, it can greatly enhance the safety of drivers and passengers, but the speed cannot be guaranteed. For a car, if you want to speed up without floating, then its own weight must be increased, especially the chassis must be heavy. But if the chassis is heavy, the car consumes a lot of fuel, which is definitely not energy-saving and environmentally friendly. Therefore, this problem has been bothering everyone.

Until Solo and others came up with a brand new idea - magnetic weighting.

Magnetic weighting! This is a brand new concept and a brand new attempt. Considering the speed of the "Shenlong Car", everyone has not been able to find a perfect solution to this problem. By chance, when Harvard top student Solo and others witnessed the news of China's maglev train, they suddenly had an idea. Since it is possible to use the earth's magnetic force to suspend such a heavy train, can we do the opposite and use the earth's magnetic force to temporarily increase the weight of the car to ensure that it will not drift due to the light body during high-speed driving.

After Solo and others tried and went to Harvard University for help, half a month later, after an accidental attempt, the "magnetic weighting" technology came out. Through this "magnetic weighting" technology, no matter how light the car is, as long as Cage's "magnetic weighting" technology is used, the weight of the car can be guaranteed in a short time without worrying about floating at high speed. Moreover, this "magnetic weighting" technology magically does not increase the extra fuel consumption of the car, and it also has a certain effect on improving the speed. Otherwise, how could an energy-saving car with an engine below 1.0 liters reach a speed of 120 kilometers per hour?

However, it is very strange that the owner of this "magnetic weighting" technology does not belong to "Shenlong Automobile", but to Lin Feng. The reason is very simple. When Solo and others proposed to develop solar panel technology, they were rejected by many shareholders of the company. Solo and others were naturally unwilling to accept this. At this time, Lin Feng came forward to build a research institute with his own funds for Solo and others to study the projects they were interested in. Of course, Solo and others are still technicians of "Shenlong Automobile", but they are also researchers of "Linfeng Research Institute".

In "Shenlong Automobile", Solo and others are responsible for the improvement of automobile technology, and in "Linfeng Research Institute" they are responsible for studying various projects they are interested in, such as solar energy, aerodynamics, and magnetic weighting. In short, they can study whatever they are interested in without any restrictions. And Lin Feng guarantees them enough funds.

And this time, this "magnetic weighting" technology was successfully researched in "Linfeng Research Institute". Its ownership naturally belongs to Lin Feng. However, for each car equipped with "magnetic weighting" technology, Solo and others can enjoy 20% of the profit share.

As for each car equipped with "magnetic weighting" technology in "Shenlong Automobile", Lin Feng symbolically charges 100 yuan for the use fee.

"Everyone, come and try it!" Lin Feng got out of the car and opened the door with high spirits.

"I'll do it!" Zheng Jie jumped on first.

Rumble! ——With a burst of motor roar, this first energy-saving and environmentally friendly car flew out at lightning speed. 10 minutes later, it drove back at lightning speed again.

"Haha, so cool! It can really drive up to 120 kilometers, and there is no floating feeling. And I accidentally bumped it just now. The car body is so solid, far from being comparable to Japanese cars! I think only German cars in the world are better than us. As for the driving feeling, there is nothing to say, it is definitely not worse than "BMW"!" Zheng Jie said proudly.

Although the cars of "Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile" are not the most sturdy and durable in the world, they are energy-saving and environmentally friendly. They have always given people the impression that they are light and not durable, but now this tradition has been completely overturned. Isn't this amazing?

Then everyone took a test drive, and after getting off the car, they all looked excited. They were proud. This is a car produced by "Shenlong Automobile", but it is so excellent. The low-end price is enough to rival the mid-to-high-end cars (in terms of appearance and driving feeling). How can they not be proud!

"By the way, boss, what name do you think of for this car?" Zheng Jie asked.

Everyone looked at Lin Feng. Now the car is off the assembly line, but it doesn't have a name yet.

Lin Feng thought about it.

"Do you have any good ideas? I can't think of any good names for the time being. Why not call the low-end one "Shenlong 1 Series", the mid-range one "Shenlong 2 Series", and the high-end one "Shenlong 3 Series"!" Lin Feng said.

Everyone thought about it and temporarily agreed to this proposal. Just change it when there is a good name.

"By the way, boss, how are you going to promote it? Which star should I invite?" Zheng Jie asked. Lin Feng's "Second Entertainment" has many stars under its banner, and Lin Feng has the most say in this regard.

Lin Feng smiled strangely. Which star should I invite? This is too petty.

[Niu Wen's ad-free novel dedication]