Automotive Black Technology Chapter 455: : Amazing load capacity (please subscribe!)
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The automobile inspection standards in the United States are different from those in China. In addition to the higher quality requirements for the cars themselves, they are also very strict in terms of safety and environmental protection.
But Zhengxin Manufacturing has never been afraid of any form of inspection.
Mason has recently been busy filing patent applications for various technologies of the F150, and has left some of the completed testing to the familiar little Culber.
Although the emotional intelligence of this product is very low, testing is just that, and there is no need to do anything tricky in order to be strict. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't work. This kind of relatively straightforward job is really suitable for little Culbo.
With the cooperation of some supporting manufacturers, the test was carried out quickly. Except for a few outsourced parts, we encountered some problems in the environmental testing project. Almost all tests are done once.
Seeing this miraculous progress, Li Fanyu estimated that the F150 was not far away from rolling off the assembly line.
The test part is about to end, and the various data and costs of the F150 have been calculated.
If there are no major changes in the subsequent tests, the maximum power of the V6 basic version of the engine can reach 255KW and 330 Nm of torque. Even as a pickup truck with a dead weight of 2.7 tons, the acceleration from 100 kilometers to 100 kilometers is close to within ten seconds, and preliminary calculations are 9.5 seconds. Thanks to the use of high-strength steel in the rear axle and the use of a variable transmission ratio rear axle, the theoretical load of the rear axle reaches an astonishing 1,800 pounds. If the user chooses to install a drive differential, this figure can be increased to 2,000 pounds!
You know, this is just the low-profile basic version of V6.
As for the V8 and V10 versions, with the enhancement of engine power and suspension, the theoretical rear axle load values have reached 3000 pounds and 4500 pounds respectively!
What is the concept of 4500 pounds?
Two tons!
What is the concept of a load of two tons?
Have you ever seen the boxes of vegetables at the farmer’s market? That's a two-ton truck.
However, this data is still only theoretical data.
After completing the trial production of the first batch of three engine versions of the F150, Li Fanyu, who was in a state of excitement, led a group of technical engineers to conduct a load experiment.
The method of experiment is to load the high-strength steel plates stored in the production line into the vehicle to see how much the F150 can weigh at most without affecting normal driving.
The high-strength steel used by Zhengxin comes in rolls. The standard here in the United States is 28X3700X1000 per roll. That is, the thickness is 28 mm, the degree is 3700 mm, and the length is 1000 mm. Converted according to density, one roll is about 0.7 tons.
The result of the test is...
The V6 version of F150 can still be used freely after installing three volumes. When I loaded the fourth volume, it started to be a bit difficult. Based on this calculation, the ultimate load is approximately between two and three tons. Take a conservative value, 4700 pounds!
The V8 version easily loaded five volumes, but struggled to start when it reached the sixth volume, with a maximum load of about 6,000 pounds!
V10...not tested.
Why wasn't it measured? After installing six rolls of steel, it started easily. After installing it... the shock absorption of the rear axle was not all the way, but it couldn't fit in the car...
You know, six rolls of steel are more than four tons!
If overloading is not included, it can be used as a medium-sized truck - the load capacity is adequate!
Seeing that the R&D work was set, Li Fanyu and Mason, who had just completed the patent application, began to study the off-line marketing plan for the F150.
At the same time, Stewart has also completed the work on the "Topgear" channel.
After repeated screening, he gave up invitations from several TV stations and finally chose YouTube, the largest video website owned by Google.
Li Fanyu is actually no stranger to the website Youtube.
This website was established in 2005. It has developed from a single social video website to now, and has become a website with artistic animation, vehicles, comedy short films, entertainment and entertainment, music appreciation, blog community, human words and deeds, pet animals, It covers fifteen major categories including science and technology, sports, tourist attractions and online games, with an average of 100 million video visits per day.
After seeing the sample of the first episode of the first season of "Topgear", Youtube's editorial department was deeply impressed by the unique style of the host, the extremely well-produced car variety show, and the high-level personality that makes it almost impossible to have any friends. interest.
After a week of discussions, it was decided to buy out the network rights for one million dollars an episode.
Faced with this price, Stewart decisively refused.
You know, the production cost of a single episode of "Topgear" has reached five million US dollars. I want to buy out the exclusive rights to broadcast online for just one million, which is a bit cheap.
So after communicating with Li Fanyu, he proposed the priority broadcasting rights of US$500,000 per episode, but the requirement was to share the advertising traffic.
You must know that Youtube has developed to this day and has become a giant in the North American online video advertising market. Its main business income is to earn revenue from advertising through high-quality and highly publicized videos.
This proposal is actually within the scope of Youtube's acceptance.
After all, car variety shows have always been an unpopular category. Although the show in front of us is very unique, it is still unclear whether the audience will buy it.
Buying an episode for one million dollars definitely involves a certain amount of risk. The current approach, which is similar to cooperation, avoids risks to a certain extent.
So after some arguing and no concessions from Stewart, the deal was signed.
I learned that the show has been signed and the channel has been secured. Clarkson, who was still in Mexico, immediately led the film crew back to the United States, and completed the rest of the film except for the exterior scenes in the newly renovated studio in Colorado Springs. To this end, Li Fanyu also deliberately stepped away from the final stages of the F150's research and development and made a cameo appearance on the show, serving as a "corpse brother" test driver covered in a helmet and racing suit.
Soon, everyone integrated the entire content of the first episode and posted it to Youtube.
In the first episode, in order to save trouble, the three bastards, under Clarkson's suggestion. In the vehicle evaluation section, Li Fanyu directly brought the out-of-print classic cars that had not yet been auctioned to the show and gave them the most authentic evaluations.
While on location, these three guys each spent a thousand dollars each to buy a handcart, using three old-fashioned cars to complete their first journey across North America!
Along the way, they experienced breaking down in the desert with no help, chasing the thief who stole the camera in a Maryland motel, and encountering drug traffickers at the Mexican border. Even while passing through the state of Mexico, James was almost bitten by a snake.
All kinds of hardships were put into this episode.
As a result, after the editors watched the first episode, they were deeply impressed by this unique automotive variety show. After a series of optimized editing, it was directly posted on the homepage of the "Delivery Vehicles" section.
But the initial effect was not very good.
Twelve hours after the show was released, the number of views was only over 10,000. Faced with this result, Carlson, the editor-in-chief responsible for signing "topgear", felt cold in his heart.
Even when I was on the phone with Stewart, I expressed gratitude - thank you Stewart for proposing the split method and avoiding losses for the website...
But!
After watching this incredibly cool show, the first batch of viewers went crazy.
Although only more than 10,000 people watched it, nearly one-third of the topics about cars on Facebook that day were forwarding the content and program screenshots of "Topgear"!
With such word-of-mouth publicity, the number of searches and views of "Topgear" on Youtube soared. Just twenty-four hours later, the total number of views on the first episode reached 650,000!