Rise of Australia

Chapter 122 The Plan of the United Automobile Factory

Seeing that Arthur was very satisfied with the performance and data of the new car, Benz breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Arthur's strong support can be obtained, this new type of car with a reduced price can definitely go to the world market, instead of being unsalable due to various shortcomings like the cars invented by Benz before. any real benefit.

"Mr. Benz, how about our car production? Do you have any plans for the pricing and release date of the car?" Arthur asked.

Although it is several years earlier than the original history, Arthur believes that Benz's new car will definitely not lose much to the Model T, and even slightly surpass it.

The Model T car can set a sales record of 1500 million units, so what kind of historical record will the new car create?

"Your Highness, according to our current scale of 1000 formal workers and more than [-] indigenous laborers, our daily output can reach more than [-] vehicles at most." Benz replied: "But it must be based on one foundation, that is Without securing our supply of steel and various hardware."

Although the assembly line production method is adopted, the time required to produce a car is greatly reduced.

This also allowed the Benz Automobile Factory to quickly accelerate from the original production of dozens of cars a week to the maximum production of dozens of cars a day, or even the current hundreds of cars.

However, the production method of the assembly line cannot go down without limit. In addition to the proficiency of employees in this production method, the number of employees, various materials, and the supply of hardware are also one of the factors that check and balance the speed of automobile production.

"Produce [-] cars per day?" Arthur pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "We can't blindly speed up the production of cars. At least we can pursue the acceleration of production speed after opening up the American and European markets. Before that, it is good to maintain the current scale of car production speed, but we must also be prepared to expand the scale of production at any time."

Benz nodded, and that was exactly what he had in mind.

Although Benz, Diesel and Arthur are all confident that the new car can become a pioneer in expanding the car market and can create a new world record.

But before that day comes, this is just a guess after all.Even if the possibility is great, you have to be prepared to fail.

"Your Highness, there is another issue we have to consider, that is, the cost of producing cars from Australia, transporting them to the United States, Europe and the tariffs of various countries. This will be a lot of expenses, and it will greatly increase the cost of our car production. Cost. Even in some areas, our car production cost will be brought to the same level as those of handmade cars, which will greatly reduce our price advantage.” Benz frowned, and said another thing he was worried about. question.

These days, if you want to transport, you can only use transport items to transport, which will be a lot of expenses and will take a lot of time.

At the same time, in order to strengthen their advantages in the domestic market, major industrial countries will also modify and increase tariffs to a certain extent.

Combining transportation costs and tariffs, Australia's proud car production costs may usher in changes, and even in some places with relatively high tariffs, they will directly rise to the same level as those handmade cars.

"That is indeed a question, Mr. Benz." Arthur nodded, frowning and thinking deeply.

In fact, most of the sales of Model T cars in history were also in the United States, and there were very few sales in other regions, even in Europe, perhaps because of relatively high tariffs.

There is only one way to solve tariffs and transportation costs, and that is to build auto factories in some parts of Europe and the United States, or even combine forces in Europe and the United States to jointly open these auto factories.

Although part of the benefits will be shared, it will also make the status of the automobile factory even more unshakable. After all, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake, let alone a weak dragon like Australia?
"How about this, select some cars with better performance and ship them to the UK and Germany respectively, and win their support to open new car factories in the UK and Germany respectively." After thinking for a long time, Arthur said: " By cooperating with local forces in Britain and Germany, especially nobles and official forces, to establish a joint automobile factory. This matter will be handled by the royal consortium, and you only need to authorize the relevant technologies. Of course, the inventors and owners of the technology People are still you, and the new car factory only has a production authorization."

It is a good choice to cooperate with local forces in the United Kingdom and Germany to establish a joint automobile factory.

First of all, Britain and Germany are the world's first and second powers respectively, and their auto factories don't have to worry about competition with other auto factories or even other countries.

Secondly, in terms of industrial strength and technological strength, the British Empire and the German Empire are also top in Europe, and the production speed can definitely keep up with the expansion of the automobile market.

Furthermore, Arthur was born in the British royal family and has won the favor of a large number of British people.It also has a good relationship with Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Australia and Germany also have cooperative relations.

Regardless of personal relationship or national interests, Britain and Germany are the preferred partners, and they can definitely protect the huge interests of automobiles.

The only problem is that Arthur may lose some of his profits, but the interests of the car market are absolutely huge, even exceeding one billion pounds.

Such a huge market is definitely not something that Arthur can eat alone, nor can Australia's size and capabilities.

After the United Kingdom and Germany are authorized to create a joint car factory for production and sales, the car factory will be divided among the British Empire, the German Empire and Australia.

As for how the British Empire and the German Empire compete for Arthur, it doesn't matter. As long as Australia's interests can be guaranteed, everything else is trivial.

It’s okay to let the British Empire and the German Empire earn more money. Anyway, after the outbreak of war in the future, Australia will be able to make a lot of money from arms sales, not to mention other benefits involved in the war.

The United States actually has a huge auto market, but Arthur does not agree with wooing American forces.

First of all, the United States is a purely capitalist society, and the power of capital is greater than everything else.

As long as Australia invests a lot of capital and carries out certain operations, it may not be able to compete with American car companies.

Furthermore, no matter how prominent the current status of the British Empire and the German Empire were, Arthur knew very well in his heart that the United States was the most threatening country.

The United States, with its unique geographical location and abundant resources, rose rapidly during the two world wars.

The way the United States rose was precisely through the sale of arms, making a lot of profits in the early stages of the war, and even putting most European countries into debt.

Subsequently, the United States relied on its own advantages to attract a large number of immigrants and refugees from Europe.

These people include a large number of European scientists and talents. These people are the crystallization of Europe's industrial revolution and technological development, but they eventually married the United States.

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