Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 37 Surging and Elegant
Although the surging car factory is not yet complete.

But this does not prevent Huang Haojie from designing electric vehicles.

Three car designers dug from Shanghai Volkswagen are currently designing the first electric car of Surging Power according to Huang Haojie's request.

Huang Haojie's request is very simple, take the Volkswagen Beetle as the prototype, integrate the classical style of classic cars, and use a large number of arc lines.

Especially the wrapped sheet metal of the four wheels, almost showing a hemispherical shape.

Judging from the design drawings of several designers, it basically conforms to Huang Haojie's idea.

This newly designed electric car is the surging power and is expected to launch a new car in the spring of 2017. The surging-elegant.

Surging—elegant, is a typical A-class car, that is, a compact car, with a body length of 4.52 meters and a wheelbase of 2.46 meters.

The front single motor has a power of 120 kilowatts, and the battery pack and the motor are arranged together.

The reason why it is not arranged in the chassis like Tesla or Biyadi is mainly because the Thor battery will not burn and release heat, and there is no need to expand the heat dissipation area to cool down.

The whole is a bit similar to the Beetle, but with a lot of arc lines, it makes people feel softer and cute.

Since it is an A-class car, it looks bigger than the Beetle.

However, the drawings did not look intuitive, so Huang Haojie asked them to start building a one-to-one model.

In addition, after discussing with the three designers, Huang Haojie initially decided on some configurations of Pagoda-Elegant.

As an electric vehicle positioned as a scooter or used in the city, it is obvious that the battery life does not need to be too large.

The Raytheon 1st generation battery, combined with the Pengpai 1 motor, is equivalent to one kilogram of battery for one kilometer of battery life when fully charged.

Therefore, Surging-Elegance is only equipped with a 280 kg Thor 1st generation battery, and the actual battery life is about 280 kilometers.

As for the data that the low-speed cruise can be close to 400 kilometers, Huang Haojie disdains to use it.

Like Tesla, their cruising range has reached 500 kilometers this year. The problem is that this figure will be discounted by 350%, which means that they can actually reach a maximum of about [-] kilometers.

It's simply crooked, don't mark it if you don't have real materials, and the same is true for domestically-produced cars.

They claim to have a range of 400 or 500 kilometers, but the problem is that when they actually run, they shrink to death, especially for car owners in the north, they are called cheaters when it comes to winter, and the performance of lithium batteries plummets, making consumers miserable. .

Therefore, Huang Haojie requires surging power, must use the actual battery life, and do not mislead consumers.

When he came to the laboratory of Thor Battery, he saw a dozen researchers or engineers testing the battery pack.

These are battery packs in groups of 280 kilograms. They are mainly used in experiments. The charging speed of [-] kilograms of Raytheon batteries is the most suitable.

"How did the test go?" Huang Haojie asked directly.

"Mr. Huang, we have tested more than 100 combinations these days, and these are three of them. We think the combination is more suitable. You can take a look." An engineer with thick glasses said while handing over a copy of the test results. To Huang Haojie.

After taking it, he slowly flipped through it.

急速型组合：单块电池0.5公斤，集成560块，家庭电压（220伏）下充满4分钟，特制充电站（500伏）下充满1.3分钟。

Pros: Fast charging.

Disadvantages: The cost per kilogram has increased by about 6 Chinese yuan, and battery management is difficult.

适中型组合：单块电池2公斤，集成140块，家庭电压（220伏）下充满16分钟，特制充电站（500伏）下充满5.3分钟。

Advantages: The charging speed is moderate, the cost per kilogram increases by about 1.5 Chinese yuan, and the difficulty of battery management is average.

Cons: Charging is slower.

低价型组合：单块10公斤，集成28块，家庭电压（220伏）下充满80分钟，特制充电站（500伏）下充满27分钟左右。

Advantages: The cost per kilogram increases by about 0.3 Huayuan, and the difficulty of battery management is simple.

Cons: Slow charging.

Huang Haojie frowned after reading it, obviously not satisfied with these combinations.

Asked again: "Is there a combination of one kilogram per piece?"

The thick glasses engineer quickly took out one of the test reports and handed it to Huang Haojie: "Mr. Huang, this is a combination of one kilogram per piece."

Huang Haojie took it directly and looked through it.

快速型组合：单块电池1公斤，集成280块，家庭电压（220伏）下充满8分钟，特制充电站（500伏）下充满2.7分钟。

Pros: Faster charging.

Disadvantages: The cost per kilogram increases by about 4.5 Chinese yuan, and battery management is relatively difficult.

This is what Huang Haojie wants. After all, Pagoda-Elegant is positioned as a scooter or used in urban areas.

With Raytheon's increasingly sophisticated charging station network, the pursuit is fast charging and convenience, otherwise how can the charging station make money.

Therefore, the charging speed of the battery must be fast, and fast charging for 2.7 minutes is obviously very suitable.

After all, few people will charge until almost the same time. Generally, it is about 10-30% left, and most people will choose to charge.

Therefore, the charging time of car owners is generally about 2 minutes, and 2 minutes is less than the time for smoking a cigarette, and no one will feel impatient.

If it takes 5 minutes or the like, it is obviously easy for the car owner to lose patience.

Huang Haojie did some calculations. Using a 1 kg combination, the cost of a 280 kg battery is about 8800 Chinese yuan.

The total manufacturing cost of a domestic gasoline car is about 50% of the selling price including R&D, assembly, materials, etc.

If the engine, gearbox and other gasoline power system components are removed, the cost of a car shell is almost 30% of the selling price.

So, for an electric car worth 10 yuan, the cost of the shell is 2.1 yuan.

In total, a battery electric car shell costs 2.1 yuan, the battery costs 4.4 yuan, and the motor and electronic control cost 2 yuan.
A 10 yuan electric car costs 8.5 yuan to build, which is almost twice the cost of a 10 yuan gasoline car.

Sympathy Group released a "New Energy Vehicle Industry Report", which contains data on the cost allocation ratio of electric vehicles. This is how it comes from: 30% to 45% for batteries, 20% to 25% for motors and electronic controls, and 20% for other parts. %.

It can be seen that if there is no policy subsidy for domestic electric vehicles, they would have hit the street long ago.

Of course, with the surging power of the Raytheon battery, the cost of the battery cannot be so expensive. The battery costs 8800 Wah, plus some auxiliary equipment, it is about 1 Wah.

Surging motor plus electronic control equipment, about 2 Huayuan.

The chassis and body cost about 2.1 Huayuan.

Then there are other equipment (air conditioners, speakers, etc.), about 1 Huayuan.

That is to say, the cost of surging-elegant is about 6 yuan.

After some calculations, Huang Haojie felt that some costs should be added to the body, chassis, and other equipment to make the quality better.

Of course, Pagoda-Elegant, he doesn't intend to sell it too cheaply, and the price is estimated to be around 12 to 15 Chinese yuan.

According to Dongtang's latest "2016-2020 New Energy Vehicle Subsidy Standard", pure electric vehicles with a battery life greater than or equal to 250 kilometers can receive a subsidy of 4.4 yuan.

In this way, Huang Haojie can set the price of Pagoda-Elegant higher, so that consumers can buy it at 11 to 12 yuan.

Of course, the final pricing will be discussed after the car is built.

(End of this chapter)