Beijing Benz Automobile Factory, Liu Jin came here again.
I got out of the car and looked at the trees on both sides of the road at the Mercedes-Benz Automobile Factory. The autumn wind was rustling. In the blink of an eye, the autumn of the 26th year of Hongzhi had arrived, and winter was coming soon. Once winter arrives, a year has passed.
"Time is flying faster and faster!"
Liu Jin was slightly sentimental. As soon as this person passed thirty, time seemed to speed up. One year passed in a blink of an eye, four years passed in the blink of an eye. And when he reached forty, time probably passed faster. .
"Mr. Liu~"
Duan Hai, Ren Siheng, Lu Qing, Huang Zhiyuan and others have also been waiting for a long time.
Since cars began to appear, Liu Jin has been here several times a year, which shows that he attaches great importance to the car factory.
"Hmm~"
Liu Jin nodded and walked inside, asking about the relevant situation.
"How is the automobile industry in Ming Dynasty now?"
"Going back to Mr. Liu, there are many newly established automobile factories now. There are twenty or thirty automobile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area alone. However, currently, except for our Mercedes-Benz automobile factory, no other factories have yet manufactured cars. ."
"The BMW factory recently announced that it had produced a car, but the quality was very poor. It broke before it even left the factory. All kinds of problems continued."
"There are also many new automobile factories established in the south, some of which are quite large, with investments of several million taels."
Duan Hai also replied quickly.
Now cars have become one of the hottest topics in Ming Dynasty.
Car factories have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, and a large amount of capital has poured into them. However, building a car is not an easy task. It requires proper technical work. If the relevant technology is not understood, it will not be possible to build a car well.
Just like the BMW automobile factory under Sangong Trading Company, although it built a car, it couldn't even open the door and broke down directly. This shows how poor the quality is, and many things have not been figured out yet.
Of course, there are many problems with the cars produced by the Mercedes-Benz automobile factory. The car stores are constantly repairing the cars. Big and small problems are always emerging. Many times, the drivers are part-time maintenance workers, repairing the cars while driving. .
This is also a feature of early cars, so the cars are equipped with a complete set of maintenance tools, as well as spare tires and some parts, in order to facilitate timely repairs when problems arise.
Relatively speaking, the structure and functions of early automobiles were relatively simple, and maintenance was not difficult.
"Hmm~"
Liu Yuan nodded slightly, now he had some understanding of the rise of the automobile industry, and this was also the result he hoped to see.
With more man-made cars and more funds pouring in, more and more cars will be built, the quality of the cars built will be better and better, and the entire automobile industry will develop faster and faster.
I believe that in a few years, Daming will have more and more cars and the quality will be better and better.
"Our Mercedes-Benz automobile factories are already under construction in various places and are almost ready to go into production. By then our output will rise sharply."
"The sales of Mercedes-Benz cars are still very hot. So far, we have sold more than 3,000 Mercedes-Benz cars, with sales exceeding 20 million taels of silver."
When he said this, Duan Hai couldn't help but pause slightly.
The Mercedes-Benz cars sold now are really huge profits. A Mercedes-Benz car that costs more than 6,000 taels of silver is basically a profit. It is a big money-making business.
The key is that even if they are so expensive, people in Ming Dynasty are very rich. In less than a year, more than 3,000 Mercedes-Benz cars have been sold.
This shows how wealthy the entire Ming Dynasty was. There were too many rich people.
I almost bought a car for several thousand taels of silver without blinking an eye.
Of course, not only during the Ming Dynasty, Mercedes-Benz cars are now famous all over the world. Many cars have been exported to Korea, Japan, overseas vassals and colonies, and have begun to spread all over the world.
"The sales are very good."
"However, we must attach great importance to quality issues. Our Mercedes-Benz cars are on the mid-to-high-end route. The quality must be good, the comfort must be high, and the cars must be beautiful and grand. Only in this way can we continue to play in the mid-to-high-end market."
Upon hearing this, Liu Jin nodded with satisfaction.
Nowadays, cars in Ming Dynasty are very popular, but only the Mercedes-Benz car factory is the only one. Even if it is expensive, everyone is still willing to accept it. At the sky-high price of 6,000 taels of silver, more than 3,000 cars have been sold in less than a year. This shows that Ming Dynasty
People are really rich now, and there are many rich people.
"Yes, we understand."
"There are a lot of feedback issues now, and we are constantly making improvements in response to every feedback issue."
"Like this car tire, we are now making it wider and wider. We have found that larger tires can reduce a lot of problems, reduce vibration, and improve comfort."
Duan Hai nodded solemnly and said.
"How are the sales of passenger cars going?"
Liu Jin nodded and asked about the sales situation of buses.
"The sales of passenger cars are also quite good. There are currently many businessmen who are optimistic about the passenger transport market. However, our production is limited and the bus factory is still under construction, so the sales volume is not large."
Duan Hai quickly replied.
The Mercedes-Benz car factory is very busy right now.
On the one hand, we need to manufacture Mercedes-Benz cars, and we also need to continuously improve and innovate them technically, reduce problems, improve comfort, and at the same time make them as beautiful as possible.
Another aspect is that the production of bicycles cannot be stopped. This is also a profitable business.
Duan Hai, Ren Siheng, Lu Qing, and Huang Zhiyuan were all busy and confused as they also needed to produce passenger cars and research trucks and motorcycles.
Like this time, Liu Jin was invited here to see the newly developed Mercedes-Benz truck at the Mercedes-Benz automobile factory.
Liu Jin walked inside while listening to Duan Hai's report. He soon arrived at a factory and saw a large truck parked at the door of the factory.
Compared with the large trucks of later generations, this large truck is still much smaller, but it has already taken the prototype of a truck.
"Mr. Liu, this is the truck we developed. It uses our newly developed four-cylinder diesel engine."
"In the process of studying the distillation of petroleum, Imperial College found that diesel is more suitable for burning in high-horsepower internal combustion engines than cars."
"After research, we have developed a brand new diesel engine. This diesel engine is very different from ordinary internal combustion engines in that it starts through compression. The principle is to use compression to generate heat and high pressure.
This then ignites the diesel fuel in the cylinder."
When Lu Qing saw Liu Jin, he was immediately attracted by the truck in front of him, and he quickly began to introduce it in detail.
"Diesel engines?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he was slightly startled.
This development speed is really fast. How come we can produce diesel engines so quickly?
This diesel engine has more horsepower than a gasoline engine and is more suitable for large trucks, trucks, and engineering vehicles, while a gasoline engine is more suitable for small cars.
I originally thought it might take them some time to research it, but I didn't expect it to be done so quickly. This speed is really fast.
Liu Jin looked at the truck in front of him. It had a structure similar to that of later generations of trucks. There was a locomotive in the front, and a large carriage was dragged behind it for loading and pulling goods.
It's just that the front of the car in front of me is much worse than the front of later generations, and it doesn't look so beautiful.
"What is its carrying capacity and how fast can it travel?"
Liu Jin walked around carefully and found that this truck was like a car, it was front-wheel drive. Relatively speaking, the front-wheel drive was not as good as the rear-wheel drive. The rear-wheel drive truck was more powerful, especially when it was full of goods.
Rear-wheel drive is more suitable as it does not produce too much pulling force on the front of the car.
"Its load capacity is about 2,000 kilograms, and its speed can reach up to 100 miles per hour."
Lu Qing also said quickly.
"2,000 kilograms, or 1 ton, would be inconspicuous in later generations, but in this era, it is a huge leap."
"And this is just the beginning. If the technology gets better and better in the future, we can make it bigger and bigger."
"After all, this is Daming's first truck, so we can't ask for too much."
Liu Jin nodded, silently calculated in his mind, and then said: "Because this truck is pulling goods, the gravity is at the rear, so I think it is best to study the rear to drive it, which will be better."
"Rear drive?"
When everyone heard it, they immediately wrote it down silently.