City: I, A World Car Overlord

Chapter 94

When Hu Zhipeng took the two new car design materials to the R&D center, all the R&D engineers in the entire R&D center immediately boiled over.

Put aside the legendary Q3, because Q3 has many similarities with the models they are currently developing.

But the Q5 is a real C-class luxury SUV.

Whether it is from the chassis, suspension, central control, or the interior, model, and appearance, they are very different from the so-called C-class luxury SUV they are developing, or they are not in the same grade at all.

Think about domestic car companies still struggling with A-class cars, or at most, B-class cars.

And they have directly started to develop real C-class luxury car models, how can they not be excited.

Under Hu Zhipeng’s arrangement, the engineers of the R&D center immediately invested in the research of new models.

Although Baolong’s R&D engineers are not yet in place, this does not affect Guangqi’s R&D team in the first place.

Especially in Q5, the technical aspects are something they have never seen before, so theoretical analysis must be done first.

Without pre-research, when Baolong’s R&D engineers arrive and the project is launched, they are still groping, and they are the people from Guangqi.

Guangqi here is intensively preparing for the development of new models.

Lin Fan and Chen Huiyi were playing around in Guangcheng.

But Hong Qi was fidgeting.

Because Baolong Electric A6 has been sent to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, various inspections and tests have begun.

As the head of Hongqi Group, Tian Guangcheng had been paying attention to the progress of A6.

This abruptly knew that A6 had been submitted for trial, and was shocked, but also very disturbed.

The Ministry of State Assets has already been discussing the issue of bidding for official cars.

As a result of the allocation of 10 billion yuan to Hongqi to vigorously promote the Shengshi C9 project, it was not really implemented.

But these remarks undoubtedly brought tremendous pressure to the Shengshi C9 project and Hongqi.

With Lu Changsheng’s stepping down, this voice sang again and was suppressed by Tian Guangcheng’s take over.

It can be said that the Prosperity C9 is really ill-fated, not optimistic by many people, but also criticized by many people.

The purpose of the Shengshi C9 project is to solve the current chaos in car use and was specially established.

All the time, when the government meets the size of the meeting, the cars parked outside are all foreign brand cars.

This made the public see that there was an inexplicable unhappiness, and it became a joke of ridicule and ridicule.

Under this circumstance, the emergence of the A6 is bound to make people raise the issue of official car calibration again.

Baolong is a national brand, and its several electric models have been highly recognized by the market.

If the A6 is equally outstanding, is there still a need to continue research and development on the Shengshi C9?

Therefore, Tian Guangcheng is most concerned about the development process of A6, and A6 is also his biggest obstacle.

Of course, the A6 is also an Audi car, including the thorns and thorns of other foreign car companies, all want to get rid of it quickly.Tian Guangcheng found Walton again and asked Audi’s Nowitz design and R&D team to speed up the progress and make a test run as soon as possible to avoid long dreams.

In fact, with the full cooperation of the Novitz design and R&D team, within a month, the brand-new Shengshi C9 is almost at the trial stage.

Although it is designed and developed on the basis of the original C-class model developed by Yiqi, coupled with the full cooperation and support of Audi, this speed is still not undesirable.

But Tian Guangcheng is still dissatisfied, he must let the Shengshi C9 offline to be at ease.

Walton also felt bad, so he held a meeting with Audi’s top executives, including Nowitz.

Walton said at the meeting: “Gentlemen, you are very clear about the theme of today’s meeting. We must prevent the Baolong electric A6 from becoming an official car. Otherwise, the Baolong brand will increase their brand influence. Our Audi is very unfavorable.”

The high-levels present did not know what Walton said about Audi’s current problems.

In fact, the Baolong electric A4 has replaced the Audi A4’s dominance in the B-segment car market, and sales are still getting off the ground.

If the Baolong Electric A6 gets the official car bid, it will definitely have a huge impact on the Audi A6 in the C-class luxury car market.

Originally, new energy vehicles would be supported by various government policies.

In addition, the performance of Baolong electric cars is not inferior to traditional cars at all.

It also crushes traditional cars in terms of driving costs.

The most important thing about Damn it is that the research and development speed is so fast.

Tell me, how do you sniper!

Walton was also very helpless, so he had to say to Nowitz, “Mr. Nowitz, I hope to speed up the design and development of the Saatchi C9, and get the Saatchi C9 off the line as soon as possible.”

Nowitz shrugged and said helplessly: “Mr. Walton, time is too tight. My team and I have almost given up all vacations, but the Tian Tian still wants to ensure a certain degree of autonomy.

With all due respect, Mr. Walton, we really did our best. If this continues, I am afraid that I will be given another three months, and there will be no way to guarantee that the Shengshi C9 will be offline. ”

Walton nodded: “I know this. I will explain to the ought to Tian later. If he doesn’t want to lose the official car order, he should not be stingy with the funds on hand. The patents and technologies that should be purchased must be purchased.”

Nowitz sneered: “That damn Tian, ​​he is too greedy. He knows that we have to deal with Baolong, so he wants our technology, but doesn’t want to pay for it. His behavior, in a word of the celestial dynasty. , Called a stone, two birds.”

Of course Woodon knew Tian Guangcheng’s thoughts, saying that he wanted to be independent.

It is nothing more than saving as much money as possible and putting it in your own pocket.

But no way, they are now using each other’s relationship.

So he said: “I will report this to the head office, and at the same time I will urge the damn Tian Shike to stop and speed up the development of the Shengshi C9.”

Walton looked at the senior executives again and asked again: “Gentlemen, don’t you have any way to beat Baolong? You have to understand that your salary is tied to the sales of Audi cars.”

Speaking of the possible impact on salary, the senior executives began to panic and came up with ideas one by one.

“Mr. Walton, I think we should strengthen the supervision of the following four sons’ stores, and let them stop those inexplicable price increase methods and charging items.”

“I think we should carry out a round of promotional activities that are as strong as possible, especially on the Audi A4, A8 and upgraded models, and make a big profit to grab back the market that belongs to us.”

“Well, yes, I suggest canceling the previous mandatory installation package, and giving discounts on decoration and matching, extending the free maintenance period, and strengthening the profitability of the after-sales part.”

“Mr. Walton, I think Baolong should be investigated in all aspects. I don’t believe it. They have launched so many models in such a short period of time, and there is no entanglement in patents…”

Hearing this, Walton suddenly brightened his eyes and asked: “Mr. Jonson, I think the plan you just mentioned is very feasible. Do you have a more detailed plan?”

The senior executive named Jonson looks very young, but he can be in a high position when he is young, which shows that he is capable and his IQ is definitely above the average.

Hearing Walton’s roll call, the conference room immediately quieted down. Everyone looked at Jonson, hoping that his suggestion would be a very effective blow to the Baolong brand.

Jonson appeared calm and even somewhat proud, saying: “First of all, we have to conduct all-round inspections and tests on all models launched by Baolong, and we must find overlaps in patents.

Then, we found those companies whose patents and Baolong electric vehicles overlapped and entangled, and promised them relatively huge benefits, in order to combat Baolong’s so-called autonomous image and turn them into patent-infringing scammers.

In the end, sing them badly on fishing vessels, but it is not enough. If possible, we can pull on the proud national brands such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW and deal with Baolong together. That way, our chances of winning will be much higher, and our efforts will be too. Relatively lower. ”

After Johnson finished speaking, there was a lot of discussion among the high-level people present, and they felt that this method was indeed feasible.

In just six months, Baolong has launched nine models in three series, and if the Baolong electric A6 is added, there will be twelve models in four series.

In such a short period of time, with so many models, the parts and technologies used in the cars are massive. If you want to be more serious, I don’t believe that there will be no patent infringement.

……

A few days later, Lin Fan and Chen Huiyi returned to the company.

Because the senior management knows that Lin Fan and Chen Huiyi are going to Guangqi for business.

The two had spent so many days in Guangcheng, and no one wondered what they had done.

Only when the negotiation of Lin Fan’s trip was too difficult, it was delayed.

However, careful people will still find something wrong, especially Liu Meimei, who is a past person, feels something wrong.

That is between Lin Fan and Chen Huiyi walking, the distance between the two has narrowed a lot, and Chen Huiyi’s eyes are more tender when seeing Lin Fan…

Of course, this is the boss’s business, and no one will say anything.

Besides, the boss is also an overbearing president in his early twenties.

Chen Huiyi is a beauty recognized by the entire company and a talented woman from Beijing University.

Such two people are simply brilliant and talented women. Something should have happened to them long ago…

In fact, what happened to Lin Fan and Chen Huiyi formally established the relationship between men and women.

However, Lin Fan still focuses on his career, and marriage and children are not so fast.

Chen Huiyi naturally listens to Lin Fan. As long as she can see Lin Fan every day, she will be satisfied.

Back at the office, Lin Fan was still immersed in the joy of these days, and didn’t want to work at all.

But Pan Qiang and Chen Lianqing from the Legal Department came to Lin Fan’s office.

As soon as he entered the door, Pan Qiang asked mysteriously: “Mr. Lin, it seems that you are in a bad state today. Did you do anything with Secretary Chen last night? I tell you that you can only serve as a dish, you can’t. For dinner…”

Lin Fan’s old face was dark: “Old Pan, this is not like you, when did you become so gossip?”

Pan Qiang said seriously: “What do you call gossip? You are the only seedling of your Lao Lin family. Now that you run such a big company, it is time to determine the position of the prince sooner.”

“¨”How do I listen to your tone, like my parents?”

Lin Fan rolled his eyes, then turned to the point and said, “Well, nothing happened to the company these days when I was away.””There are a few clowns who are doing things, deliberately clocking our Baolong brand.”

Pan Qiang restrained his thoughts, said helplessly, and motioned to Chen Lianqing.

Chen Lianqing put a report on Lin Fan’s desk and said: “In recent days, we have received a few patent entanglement issues. Most of them have passed verification, which is pure nonsense, and a small number of them are suspected of rubbing off. It’s not difficult to solve, but there are still two headaches.”

“Which two?”

Lin Fan was taken aback. He received the report and looked at it. He was still a little weak in his heart. After all, he used it out of the system, and he had never considered this aspect.

There is no need to worry about technology and software, but a car is made up of more than 30,000 parts, some of which are purchased from spare parts companies. It is really hard to say that it is foolproof.

Chen Lianqing replied: “Some of the suspension assembly of A4 overlaps with a free-country company called DILA’s zero-part patent, but this is an old-brand zero-part company. Their patent is about to expire, but it can be solved. , It should be possible to buy it with a little money, this needs President Lin’s signature.”

Chen Lianqing stepped forward and pulled out another report and put it in front of Lin Fan, saying: “But the daytime running lights produced by the AUDA driving light factory are the same as the matrix daytime running lights on the A4 and A6. The appearance is very similar, their patents are only a few years old, and it’s a bit tricky to operate.”

Lin Fan took a look at the company’s information. This is a driving lamp manufacturer in China. The company is not large in scale, but it is very good at manufacturing driving lights. It specializes in providing driving cars to manufacturers such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. Lamp accessories.

“This is a bit troublesome.”

Lin Fan rubbed his eyebrows, not because he was unwilling to pay for the patent.

It is impossible for all the cars manufactured by any car company to be its own patent.

You will always use other people’s homes (Wang Zhao’s) and it is most normal to pay some royalties.

Only Lin Fan’s Baolong Company is different, and has never considered using other patents.

Because the cars produced by Baolong are system products, all data packages are also provided by the system.

Lin Fan always believed that with such a powerful system, how could it collide with other things.

However, there are no absolutes. There are indeed a few spare parts that overlap with patents applied by some domestic and foreign manufacturers.

And this time, these manufacturers issued patent misappropriation warnings to Baolong at almost the same time, which is worth pondering.

Lin Fan had to say: “It’s up to you to do what you should do, whether it’s compensation or the patent fee, or you can directly purchase their entire set of patents. These things should not affect the company’s reputation.”

“Okay President Lin, I will discuss with these two companies to minimize the impact of patent infringement incidents on the company.”

Chen Lianqing received Lin Fan’s instruction and turned around and walked out of the office.

Lin Fan stretched his waist before getting up, pulling Pan Qiang to the R&D department.

As he walked, he said: “I have negotiated with Guangqi. You select ten engineers involved in the development of A8 to go to Guangqi to help them develop the legendary Q3 and the legendary Q5.

In addition, we must also pay close attention to the research and development of new models. The imitation work of the production line on Xu Lao’s side has already started, and there can be no more waiting for the rice to be cooked. ”

The corners of Pan Qiang’s mouth twitched.

He has been to the super production line.

That was the most advanced assembly line he had ever seen.

Its precision and production efficiency are definitely not comparable to the production lines in China.

With such a production line, if you don’t want to wait for the rice to be cooked, how can it be possible, unless you occupy the entire world or the world’s automobile market is almost the same.

At the same time, Pan Qiang also mourned the mules in the R&D department…ah no, the R&D engineers were silent for three seconds, and they had to develop new models day and night. .