Valley Emperor

The adoption of engines and various new technologies has made today's automobiles a veritable flower of industry, with extremely high technical content, so the cost is naturally not cheap.

The cost alone often costs several thousand Tang Yuan, which is destined to be impossible to produce and sell on a large scale and enter ordinary people's homes.

Therefore, the car market is actually very single, that is, the private car field of the rich.

Secondly, there will also be a certain market in the field of heavy construction machinery and heavy transportation. For example, the market for heavy machinery such as excavators and tractors is a potential large market.

Then it is estimated that it is industrial applications and ships.

However, except for private cars, the technical content of other fields is even higher. I haven't seen Songjiang Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. tossing for so long, and they can't even come up with a concept car. .

Datang's steam engine technology is already very mature. It is not so easy to grab these markets from steam engines.

The most critical use cost is a difficult problem to solve.

Although steam tractors are a little less powerful and troublesome, steam engines are cheap, and the fuel cost is very low. This coal is much cheaper than gasoline or something.

It's really not possible to burn wood directly...

Gasoline engines, as soon as you hear the name, know that they are high-end goods, and the gasoline they burn is also very expensive.

Therefore, it is not enough to have good performance, and the cost of use has to be reduced, otherwise it will be difficult to **** the steam engine market.

In the original time and space of the earth, gasoline engines have appeared in the passenger car market in the 1880s, but steam tractors have been produced until the early 20th century and even after World War I.

This is also the reason why Zhongyuan Automobile Co. and Hangzhou Power Machinery Co., Ltd. chose luxury private cars as their entry point.

Only the rich do not care about the price, let alone the cost of use.

But Li Xuan looked at the two cars, although many new technologies were adopted, but the appearance made him unsatisfied.

Because these two cars have the style of the previous four-wheeled carriage, it is said to be a car, but it is more like a carriage without a horse, and it is still an open top!

However, Li Xuan naturally would not say anything on such an insignificant issue as appearance, especially to express dissatisfaction.

Given Li Xuan's current prestige status, casual remarks of dissatisfaction will probably cause a certain blow to these two companies, but the entire emerging automobile and even internal combustion engine industry.

Therefore, Li Xuan will not talk nonsense, nor will he express disgust for the two primitive cars in front of him because he used to ride in cars worth hundreds of millions when he went to work.

On the contrary, he looked around for a few laps with great interest, and went up to experience it, but the handling of this car was completely different from that of later generations.

This thing is controlled by a joystick, not a steering wheel. Although there is a very detailed explanation by an engineer on the side, Li Xuan also stops when he starts driving.

Fortunately, the speed of this car is slow enough. The Central Plains type A car is only 20 kilometers per hour when driving at full speed on the flat and hardened road. As for the Xihu brand car, this is even slower, and the maximum speed is only 15 kilometers per hour. .

Because of the slow speed, the square in the palace is large enough, so you don't have to worry about problems if you toss around.

After a few tossing, Li Xuan had completely lost interest in driving such primitive cars. The handling was too troublesome and tiring.

On the contrary, the comfort of sitting in the back row is good. After all, these two cars are actually private luxury cars specially built for the rich. Not to mention the other, luxury and comfort are a must.

If you sit in the back row, you can hardly feel the bumps. In addition to the leaf springs, it is actually more because soft springs are installed under the rear seats.

In fact, there will still be relatively large vibrations during the driving process of the car, but the passengers in the rear seats basically cannot feel it.

After seeing these two cars, Li Xuan specially instructed the Palace Affairs Office not to forget to promote the two companies to support the development of the imperial automobile industry.

Of course, it is absolutely impossible for the royal family to advertise directly to a certain company. Even the Taihu perfume under the name of Empress Dong cannot be advertised in the name of any royal family. The royal family cannot afford to lose face.

But there are still methods. For example, in the palace, Empress Dong used various products such as perfumes and soaps from her own company. The perfumes used by the concubines in the harem were naturally the perfumes used by perfume companies under the name of Empress Dong. And those noble ladies will naturally follow after seeing this, and those middle-class women will follow.

Therefore, Taihu Perfume unknowingly became the most high-end perfume brand in the empire.

In order to support the development of the automobile industry, and Li Xuan also hinted a few words, so the Palace Affairs Office arranged for cars to replace the previous carriages during the subsequent visits of the Son of Heaven.

When Li Xuan traveled by car several times in a row, only the ministers saw the other times, but once again he rode outside the palace and was seen by the majority of the people.

For a time, the topic of cars was discussed more.

The personal demonstration of the Son of Heaven is actually because Hangzhou Power Machinery Co., Ltd. received more than 2,000 orders in just one month.

Because the first group of people who buy cars are almost all powerful.

In any case, the West Lake brand car was an instant hit, and the people from the Zhongyuan Automobile Company behind them were eager to get angry. Although they made two prototype cars, they later obtained an engine from the Royal Institute of Technology. and requested technical assistance from the Royal Institute of Technology.

However, they were still unable to come up with a gasoline engine that could be industrially produced in a short period of time. They could only watch the Hangzhou Power Machinery Company eat the fattest meat first.

However, in the face of the popularity of the West Lake brand vehicles ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the most anxious is not the Zhongyuan Automobile Company, but the numerous carriage manufacturers throughout the empire. Because they realized that the appearance of the car will gradually impact the carriage market.

We are not fools. When many owners of carriage production companies see the car in the newspaper, their first reaction is that this thing is a threat.

Although the current car is very expensive, with the advancement of technology, the price will gradually come down sooner or later, and finally form a direct competition with the carriage.

But it's certain that a horse-drawn carriage can't compete with a car.

But the first reaction of more carriage company bosses, this thing is an opportunity!

The Datang people of this era are not the Datang people of a few decades ago.

Today's Datang people understand and fully understand the huge role of science and technology, and they keep pace with the times.

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