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Chapter 1063 Li’s Power Company’s Attack

Since Tangshan Machinery Company developed the electronic ignition gasoline engine, the people of Liaodong Machinery Company and Hekou Machinery Company have had a very difficult time.

Especially the Liaodong Machinery Company is under great pressure... After all, although Hekou Machinery Company does not have an electronic ignition engine, they still have a backward heat-pipe ignition gasoline engine to temporarily replace it. Although it does not sell well, it There are also some markets.

But as for Liaodong Machinery Company, they don't even have heat pipe ignition technology, so they can only give it a try and develop electronic ignition.

This has been going on for several years... In the past few years, hundreds of thousands of R&D funds have been spent every year, but the entire company's revenue can only be supported by steam tractors that are getting worse year by year. The revenue is at the bottom, and the profit is even worse. Bottom.

In order to raise funds for research and development, they were even forced to introduce strategic investors and sell some patents at the same time, which finally enabled them to survive until now.

Now... it's finally done. While I feel proud, it also means that good days are coming.

In October of the 48th year of Chengshun, after preliminary preparations, Liaodong Machinery Company officially announced that it had obtained a pledge loan of up to one million Chuyuan, and at the same time introduced a strategy of 1.5 million Chuyuan from the Liaodong Provincial Department of Industry. The investment will be used to build a large-scale comprehensive automobile factory, including engine production lines, transmission production lines, tractors, trucks, and automobile production lines.

At the same time, it signed gasoline engine supply contracts and purchase contracts for many core components and industrial equipment with a number of strategic partners.

Among the strategic partners, there are military vehicles and armored vehicle manufacturers affiliated with the five major arms companies. Among them, Songjiang Motor Vehicle Company, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Arms Company, is the most active. They are the unit of Jiangnan Arms Company that develops military trucks and armored vehicles. Currently, It has obtained multiple small-volume procurement contracts and research and development contracts from the military.

After they contacted Liaodong Machinery Company, they learned that Liaodong Machinery Company would develop a fifty-horsepower engine, so they took the initiative to ask for cooperation.

Hekou Machinery Company has a very deep accumulation in heat pipe ignition technology. They have launched a new generation of heat pipe ignition technology and applied it to their own gasoline engines, further improving the performance of their gasoline engines while continuing to maintain low prices and adopting The company will continue to attack the mid- to low-end market by upgrading without raising prices, especially the small tractor market in the agricultural market.

Even after Liaodong Machinery Company's large-scale factory is put into mass production next year, the price of this car will not be reduced for a while.

Li's Power Company in Guangzhou in the south also officially announced in November of the 48th year of Chengshun that they had independently developed an independent electronic ignition system... At first, people were shocked. , especially those in the know would directly exclaim!

Electronic ignition is not so easy to do, otherwise so many companies would not be helpless about it.

Although Lee's Power Company has money and people, it started too late, and it failed to get technical support from the three major electrical companies... They cooperated with their own electrical company, Lee's Electric Company, to develop this electronic ignition system.

In response to the emergence of new competitors... Tangshan Machinery Company was also a little restless. After entering October, it began to slightly reduce the price of gasoline engines in order to compete for more market share, but the overall reduction was not significant.

This large-scale mass production factory has not yet started construction. Liaodong Machinery Company has signed a large number of sales contracts with multiple cooperative manufacturers, and even withdrawn a deposit of more than 300,000 yuan in advance.

But now... they modified existing factories and began to produce gasoline engines in small batches. In addition to supplying their own tractors and complete automobiles, they also began to supply small-scale supplies to partners for them to conduct research and development and small-scale trials. Production.

Hekou Machinery Company has developed an electronic ignition gasoline engine for Liaodong Machinery Company. On the one hand, it has increased its investment in the research and development of electronic ignition. On the other hand, it has also introduced its latest closed ignition technology to improve Their gasoline engine performance.

After all, the entire automobile market is still an incremental market, and there are still a large number of blank markets waiting for them to open up. The existing production capacity of Tangshan Machinery Company is in short supply, so large-scale price reductions are impossible.

According to surveys by some business organizations, not to mention other places, the total potential demand for gasoline agricultural machinery and equipment in the three provinces of North America alone is estimated to start at 500,000 units. This still corresponds to the high selling price of current gasoline engines. In this case, if the price decreases, the total market demand will further expand.

It is precisely such a huge market potential that makes countless people pay great attention to the automobile industry, and makes latecomers try their best to squeeze in.

Although the heat pipe ignition technology is not very good, and the natural type has many flaws, it has to be said that this thing is actually usable...it's just that the overall efficiency is lower.

This made the people of Liaodong Machinery Company see the wonderful prospects of the automobile industry... This comprehensive and large-scale factory will not be completed for a while. At least it will take at least half a year to lay the foundation, and it will not be put into production until the second half of next year at the earliest. went.

After all, the overall output is still too small, and the potential market is too big... If nothing else, the agricultural machinery market alone has a demand of at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of units waiting for them to develop.

So when many people in the know inquired about it, especially after seeing the temporary prototype of Li's Power Company, they discovered that Li's Power Company was not very capable, but it was very good at bragging!

The ignition technology they developed is indeed electronic ignition, strictly speaking, but it is not mainstream spark plug ignition. Instead, it places a set of contacts in the engine combustion chamber and uses a movable lever outside the engine to push the contacts. shuts off causing a spark to ignite the mixture.

Therefore, the automobile market is in short supply under the current production capacity and current prices!

If car prices are lowered in the future and production capacity is further increased, for example, if car prices are lowered to the level that ordinary middle-income families can afford, and if reliability is further increased and problems will not arise at every turn, then the market demand will far exceed everyone else's imagination!

It is possible to sell millions or even tens of millions of various gasoline vehicles in a year.

With a production capacity of several thousand and tens of thousands of units per year, it will take many years to fully produce to meet market demand.

People didn't think they could come up with electronic ignition technology so quickly.

Lee Power Company itself said that this is a more advanced electronic closed ignition system... Many media outside also boasted about it, but insiders could easily see the problem.

Because the movable lever must pass through the cylinder head opening, the engine's compression ratio is also limited... which means that the engine's power is also limited.

It is estimated that it is better than the heat pipe ignition technology, but considering that Hekou Machinery Company's heat pipe ignition technology is very mature and reliable, and has achieved a very refined level, the closed ignition system just developed by Li's Power Company will definitely be able to It is comparable to the mature heat pipe ignition technology of Hekou Machinery Company. In fact, the invention of this thing by Li's Power Company was also an accidental product... They have been working on spark plug electronic ignition. However, the technology of that thing is too difficult to develop. During the research process, some researchers in order to reduce the technology Difficulty, come up with such a closed ignition system.

Although the technology is not very good, and the service life of the built-in contacts is very limited and needs to be replaced frequently!

However, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of a listed company, in order to further increase the confidence of the parent company and many investors of the parent company, they have also come up with this technology and are preparing to promote mass production.

The car will not be finished for a while, and they have not solved many other problems with the car... Again, the accumulation is too little, the time is too short, and there are still many core parts of the car that they will not be able to finish for a while. Come out, like the gearbox...

However, it is not a big problem to sell engines to external parties and use them in our own engineering equipment at the same time. At least we can open a business first and make some money.

Besides, ordinary consumers don't know the huge difference between closed ignition and spark plug ignition... As long as they are well publicized, they are all electronic ignition!

After all, strictly speaking, closed ignition is actually a serious electronic ignition technology. It also requires battery or generator power supply for continuous ignition. It is not a purely mechanical ignition mode like heat pipe ignition.

As long as the publicity is good and the huge signboard of Lee Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. is placed above it, the sales volume may be very impressive.

After all, many ordinary customers, especially ordinary consumers, will subconsciously think when they see that the nameplate of this engine has the brand name "Li's" engraved in cursive letters, and then hear the salesperson say that it is powered by a battery or generator for ignition. I thought this was the electronic ignition engine that newspapers were talking about all the time, and that it was produced by a large company. No matter how bad the product was, it wouldn't be much different, so I readily placed an order.

This is just like the time when the fruit machine was first released in the original time and space. The name of smart phones suddenly spread all over the country. Nokia, Samsung and other so-called major international manufacturers produced a lot of messy functional phones, including touch screens and even Functional phones without touch screens are also sold in the market claiming to be smart phones... Still a lot of people buy them and insist that what they buy is a smart phone...

It was not until several years later that a large number of domestically produced smartphones were launched on the market, and the prices of smartphones were brought down, allowing a large number of ordinary consumers to have access to real smartphones. Then people suddenly realized: Oh, it turns out that this is a real smartphone.

Therefore, even if something is not good, it is still possible to sell it, and it may sell well...

What's more, the closed ignition developed by Li's Power Company can really be said to be a type of electronic ignition...it just takes a different technical route from spark plug ignition.

Therefore, we advertise that our closed ignition is electronic ignition, so there is no problem at all...

Since its establishment, Li's Power Company has been relying on the steam engine engineering equipment it acquired from several companies. It originally had some gasoline engine engineering equipment business, but Tangshan Machinery Company directly refused to continue cooperation after the contract expired. …So the gasoline engine engineering equipment business has also ceased operations.

In the forty-seven years of Chengshun, the revenue was only over 300,000 Chuyuan... But their expenses in thirty-seven years reached more than 1.7 million Chuyuan... The net loss was more than 1.7 million Chuyuan... One and a half million Chu yuan.

Some of the funds were used for various acquisitions, but most of the funds were invested in research and development.

Li's Power Company has always been very willing to invest in R&D. It has established R&D centers in Jinling City, Songjiang, Guangzhou and Tianjin. Among them, the Jinling R&D Center has directly cooperated with the Royal Institute of Technology. Carry out research and development of various materials needed for various automobiles, especially engines...such as high-temperature and pressure-resistant materials used in spark plugs.

The Royal Institute of Technology has always welcomed this kind of investment in cooperation in material research and development...

After all, doing material research and development is like burning money, and no amount of money is enough.

This is very attractive to the Royal Institute of Technology. After all, it is spending other people's money to conduct its own research... Although the Royal Institute of Technology only has the right to use this kind of patent, There is no ownership.

But professors don’t care about that, they just want research results.

It doesn’t matter who pays for this research or who gets the patent in the end, but as long as he makes it, the results belong to him. If the results are big enough, he can get a knighthood.

Lee Iron and Steel Company particularly likes to cooperate with these universities, especially the Royal Institute of Technology and several other top comprehensive universities, to conduct research. Anyway, they have money, and these schools have people who can complement each other very well.

In the field of automobile industry, Li's Power Company also follows this path. It is too difficult to do research and development on its own, even if you have money, because there are too few professional talents in the industry, and all the researchers in the company are paid They have a guarantee contract, signed a non-competition agreement, and the core members basically have stock options... Unless they really spend money, they can't be poached. The compensation from these non-competition agreements alone is enough to buy them. There are several Lee Dynamics companies.

Some of the remaining talents are in those universities, but people in these universities are even harder to find. Everyone is a professor or associate professor, and any one you pull out will be an official with a third- or fourth-level political treatment. , it is impossible to dig under normal conditions.

So we can only go to the researchers in the school for cooperation.

And this kind of cooperation has also brought great benefits to Li's Power Company. Although the money has not been spent less, the results are really there.

At least a closed electronic ignition has been developed. Although this thing is somewhat different from spark plug ignition, it can be used at least.

After the Lee Iron and Steel Company developed closed ignition, although it was nondescript, it also boasted that it had developed electronic ignition technology!

As a result, Hekou Machinery Company will be under greater pressure.

Among the four major internal combustion engine manufacturers, they are the only ones that have not developed electronic ignition technology.

(End of this chapter)