Chapter 2126 The huge internal market of the empire
The number of various patents held by the Royal Institute of Technology ranks first in the empire. Other companies or institutions cannot compare with it. Moreover, most of their patents are invention and utility patents, and they are biased towards the bottom level.
For example, gasoline engine patents, gearboxes and other basic automobile patents are all patents owned by the Royal Institute of Technology, but these patents are open to licensing. As long as you sign a patent licensing agreement with the Royal Institute of Technology, you can obtain them.
Authorization, and the threshold for authorization is not high.
Therefore, so far, there are at least hundreds of companies or institutions that have obtained the overall basic patent authorization for automobiles.
The automobile industry-related patents held by the four major automobile companies are more subdivided patents, raw materials, structures, production processes, etc.
But these are the limitations for other companies.
They can produce a basic car based on the basic patent authorized by the Royal Institute of Technology, but this car will basically not be sold...
Leaving aside the Royal Institute of Technology, the institution with the largest number of invention and utility patents in China is Zhaoqing Machinery Company. Although compared with the Royal Institute of Technology in terms of total volume, it is not even the leader, but if compared with other companies, then in terms of quantity
It's huge.
Among these numerous patents, there are some old patents that have been authorized by the four major automobile companies, but the authorization period is about to expire and need to be renegotiated. There are also some new patents that they want to be authorized.
If you want to obtain these patent authorizations, then it’s not too much to ask the four major automobile companies to use some of their patents in exchange for authorizations!
Once the patent issue is resolved, the rest will no longer be a problem.
As for the production lines, well, the production lines of the four major automobile companies are all developed in cooperation with Zhaoqing Machinery Company. Zhaoqing Machinery Company has the technology and patents to build a most advanced automobile production line, and the cost is even lower.
Therefore, there are not big problems in terms of patents and production.
There are only two problems now, one is a specific technical issue.
Well, having a patent authorization allows you to use this technology, but it doesn’t mean you can use it. It’s okay if you don’t have enough technology to use it.
There is also the issue of market competition. The automobile market is a very huge market, including private cars, public trucks, sedan trucks, trucks, large trucks, various engineering vehicles, etc.
When a company has limited strength, it is unlikely to be involved in all market segments. Even facing competition from the four major automobile companies, it is very difficult to focus on even one of the market segments.
Based on market research, Pang Yanlun decided to directly enter the most competitive private car market!
Although the competition in the private car market is the most intense, a fierce price war between Qixiang Automobile Company and Zhongyuan Automobile Company has directly raised the entry threshold for the private car market countless times.
But similarly, their price war has also opened up a wider market!
It is now estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of private cars in the market every year. In a few years, won’t the number be in the millions or even millions?
Faced with a rapidly growing market, other car manufacturers currently have serious shortages of production capacity and time. Perhaps their cars are the most popular with the public and have many orders, but they are absolutely unable to satisfy such a large number of orders. There will always be some people who buy
If their cars are no longer available, they will instead go to car manufacturers.
And this is an opportunity for late comers!
This is also the reason why companies such as Fung Shipping, Tianjin AIA, and Eastern Dynamics have continued to invest heavily in research and development even if their automobile business has not made money in the past few years, because they all know the huge potential of the empire's automobile market in the future.
, the four major automobile companies cannot afford it!
How big is the potential of the empire's automobile market?
A calculation method that many people like is that the empire now has a population of more than 400 million. If one person buys a car, that is the number of 400 million cars. Calculated based on the average service life of each car for ten years, every year
There are 40 million vehicles in the normal replacement car market alone.
Although this algorithm is very extreme and idealistic, it is also a one-sided representation of how huge the internal market of the Tang Empire was.
This is not just the automobile market, but also the market for other products.
This can be clearly seen from the textile industry of the Tang Empire.
In the Tang Empire, the textile industry is still the leading industry in the light industry. This industry has been developing for decades in the Tang Empire, but it still maintains a very high growth rate.
The reason is that the population of the empire is too large. With the growth of the economy, the natural increase in population is enough to bring about a large enough incremental market. Not to mention that the service life of clothes is also very limited. The normal stock market every year is very large.
of huge.
In addition, this is also related to the fact that the people of the empire have gradually changed their consumption habits on clothes over the years.
Before the popularity of machine-made cloth, people, especially rural people, generally weaved their own cloth, sewed their own clothes, and some even grew their own cotton. This was a typical self-sufficient model.
Later, after the mechanical textile industry developed, a large number of machine-made fabrics began to appear on the market. Gradually, people no longer spun and weaved fabrics by themselves, but directly purchased finished fabrics to sew clothes.
This pattern has lasted for decades. Even now, most of the clothes worn by the people of the empire are sewn by themselves by purchasing cloth, or are sewn by tailors.
For most ordinary families in the empire, women's sewing skills were a must.
Of course, the ready-made garment market has always existed, but in the early years, the ready-made garment market was small-scale and unformed. Tailor shops mainly purchased fabrics and customized garments according to customer needs.
However, it is worth noting that due to the low efficiency of hand sewing, the tailoring model of tailor shops must have high sewing costs. Therefore, as long as only the middle and upper class can afford it, most ordinary people still buy cloth and sew it themselves.
system.
However, many people do not have the time to sew clothes, or their skills are not very good, which gives room for the development of machine-made garments.
With the development of technology, various types of sewing machines have appeared, and mechanical sewing machines are much more efficient than manual sewing. In a certain period, the efficiency and use of these sewing machines are still limited, and they are mainly promoted to the civilian market, such as
Various tailor shops and families.
During this period, there were actually factories that produced large-scale machine-made garments, but they mainly produced various types of uniforms of the same style, such as military uniforms, factory uniforms, etc. These uniforms had uniform styles and large orders.