reborn industrial empire

As mentioned before, when Lexus announced in 2006 that they had successfully developed an 8-speed manual transmission, the effect was simply to drop a bombshell in the automotive industry.

At that time, the mainstream mid-range transmission in the automobile industry was still stuck at 6 gears, while at the higher end, it was the 7-speed transmission used by Mercedes-Benz on some models.[..com]

As for Lexus's 8-speed transmission, once it was launched on the market, it had the feeling of competing with others!

It can even be said that in the mid-to-high-end market, it has some invincible taste!

Lexus relied on this powerful transmission to sell well in the market, while BMW and Mercedes-Benz could only swallow the bitter pill, and then began to jointly develop 8-speed transmissions with ZF.

After spending billions of dollars and spending three years, ZF finally figured out their new 8-speed transmission. If we were to let them know that the transmission they spent so much effort on was only a few short seconds away.

If all of Tian's effort was plagiarized by a boy who had traveled through time and space and was reborn, I really don't know if these engineers would be so angry that they vomited blood and died.

But Jin Xiaoqiang can't take care of that now. He is currently busy drawing the drawings of the 8-speed transmission!

In fact, the main principle of this 8-speed manual transmission remains the same. It mainly relies on hydraulic pressure to change the gear selection, and the most important thing is that it is equipped with electronic throttle technology, which will change the gear selection according to the driver's pedaling force.

, to adjust the gear position.

But in terms of the internal structure of the transmission, ZF engineers still put a lot of thought into it. They redesigned and arranged the inside of the gear box.

At the beginning, they designed no fewer than thousands of internal layouts. In the end, they only selected the simplest and most effective one, which was a system with only 4 planetary gear rows and 5 shifting elements. In this way,

Greatly simplified gearbox internal layout.

4 planetary gear rows, each responsible for two gears and 5 shifting elements, greatly reduce the loss of torque in the transmission and achieve simple and efficient transmission efficiency.

Moreover, the redesigned gear ratio has greatly improved the efficiency of this transmission.

One of the few major highlights of this transmission that is different from previous transmissions is its main clutch and variable modular package.

This main clutch adopts the characteristics of the clutch in the dual-clutch transmission, which makes the power more flexible.

The variable modular package is the hydraulic control data unit and electronic control unit at the core of this transmission. This set of equipment is mainly prepared for future technology upgrades and expansions.

It can modify and match the future power system without changing the installation controls and other modules.

It is mainly designed to match future mild-hybrid and heavy-hybrid hybrid vehicles.

This aspect is quite interesting. Moreover, this transmission is also equipped with the His system inside, which is the automatic start-stop system announced by Jin Xiaoqiang and others at the Shanghai Auto Show.

In this way, this transmission will appear more versatile!

It only took more than ten days for this transmission to appear on Jin Xiaoqiang's computer, and it was quickly turned into a drawing.

You must know that the reason why this transmission was able to be produced so quickly was all because of Jin Xiaoqiang's golden finger.

You must know that Lexus engineers secretly spent several years working on this transmission, and Toyota also invested billions of dollars.

The situation at ZF is almost the same. Billions of dollars were invested, dozens of engineers drew thousands of drawings, and finally this one was selected to complete the design of this transmission.

But what did Jin Xiaoqiang do before he was reborn? He was a senior technical engineer. To put it bluntly, he was a time-honored name in the car repair shop. Whether it was a Lexus or a BMW 7 Series, as long as it was equipped with such an 8-speed transmission, he

But they have all been dismantled.

The technical controllers at that time not only tore these transmissions into pieces and studied them thoroughly, they even went out of their way to search for information and study this transmission thoroughly.

Finally, he decided to use the strengths of both companies to develop this ultimate 8-speed transmission!

In short, he will take advantage of this pitfall of ZF in the future. As for what kind of 8-speed transmission ZF will choose in the future, that is their business.

Anyway, they have made a lot of money from China over the years, so let them have a headache in the future!

Finishing these drawings does not mean that everything will be fine after that. You must know that this is just the beginning. If you want to turn everything on these drawings into reality, it will take a lot of effort!

Back then, Lexus engineers re-researched the entire manufacturing process and materials for this 8-speed transmission. This alone took them a lot of effort.

Just to manufacture the casing of this transmission, they specially developed a casting machine with a height of more than three meters to produce the aluminum alloy casing of this transmission.

Now if Jin Xiaoqiang wants to turn this transmission from a drawing into reality, I'm afraid it's the same, and he has to take this step.

But before he could start the formal research and development of the production process of this transmission, he got a notice that in Zmanov, Russia, the first batch of scrap metal had been recycled and had been recycled.

The guy was shipped to the capital of the Heilongjiang Province in the Celestial Empire and was waiting for him to receive it!

After receiving Zmanov's call, Jin Xiaoqiang remembered this incident. After returning from Russia some time ago, he had completely forgotten about this incident.

Now that people are delivering goods to your door, of course you have to go and greet them.

At this time, Jin Xiaoqiang remembered that he wanted to send a work team to Russia to inspect the automobile joint venture factory, so he quickly called Zeng Jianxin and asked him to make arrangements quickly and organize a team to go to Russia immediately.

Organize inspections.

When the time comes, someone from Russia will naturally come to contact them, and they don't have to worry about their itinerary after arriving in Russia.

After Zeng Jianxin understood Jin Xiaoqiang's explanation, he immediately went there happily. In fact, this inspection was equivalent to a trip. The boss's intention was very clear. It is certain to invest in Russia, but in the end it still depends on which company.

The conditions offered were good, so this inspection could be said to be a good job, which was different from the arduous negotiations with GM that Wang Jiao participated in.

After sending Zeng Jianxin away, Jin Xiaoqiang tidied up a bit, then found several engineers from the smelting department from the company, and flew to Harbin together.

This kid Zmanov is very popular. Jin Xiaoqiang did not expect that this kid would actually provide door-to-door delivery services. Since they are here, of course he has to come out to welcome them.

Jin Xiaoqiang arrived in Harbin and quickly got in touch with Zmanov. This guy knew how to enjoy himself and stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel in Harbin, which is one of the few five-star hotels in Harbin.

Because it was once occupied by the Russians and had close exchanges with Russia during the Republic of China, the city of Harbin has a strong Russian brand.

So this Zmanov felt very familiar when he arrived in Harbin. After all, the customs and customs of the two countries are very clearly reflected in this city.

And with the development of China in recent years, the city of Harbin has also been revitalized, and the economic growth momentum is very strong. Many Russians like to come to this city to pan for gold, so there will not be too many people in a foreign country here.

The feeling of a foreign country.

After the two met, they exchanged pleasantries, and then Jin Xiaoqiang treated him to a big meal in the hotel restaurant, and then followed Zmanov to a warehouse in the suburbs to inspect the goods.

Although Zmanov had never been to Harbin before, he hired several Chinese people who were working in Russia, so under the leadership of these guys, he had a pretty clear understanding of the situation in Harbin.

This time, these goods were cleared through customs under other names, so they did not pay much customs duties. Jin Xiaoqiang had to sigh that this guy was really good at handling Russian customs. It was nothing to him, but he could handle it.

China's customs, which shows that this guy is quite well-connected.

In the warehouse in the suburban freight yard, what Jin Xiaoqiang saw made him feel a little surprised. Originally, he thought that what Zmanov brought must be the almost dismantled remains of the tanks, but he did not expect that what he saw was a huge pile of

, a large pile of dismantled steel.

"Jin, you also know that the appearance of those tanks is too eye-catching, and it is really inconvenient to transport those things here, so I just dismantled these things in Russia. How about that? You don't mind.

Bar?"

"I don't mind, I don't mind, why would I mind? This is really great."

Of course Jin Xiaoqiang would not mind these problems. You must know that the most valuable thing about the now abandoned tank is probably its iron ingots.

This T72 tank has three layers of armor. The outermost and innermost are high-carbon steel plates 80 and 20 mm thick respectively, and the middle is a 100 mm thick glass fiber layer. This 100 mm thick glass fiber layer is exactly the metal

What Xiaoqiang doesn’t want!

What he wanted was just the iron ingots from these old tanks. Unexpectedly, Zmanov, who was so considerate in service, actually helped him solve this problem directly.

The non-armored parts of the tank are all made of steel of different materials. When the time comes, you just need to dismantle them, sort these materials into categories, and then re-skill them and you're done.

"What is shipped this time is the dismantled parts of about a thousand T72 wreckages that I got from the Far East Military Region. Each one is about thirty tons, and one thousand vehicles is 30,000 tons!"

"No problem, $30 per ton, I'll write you a check right away!"!