Ye Chen highly agreed with He Yuanjiang’s views.
He did not want to be a profit-driven businessman, nor did he want to be a benevolent person who violated business logic. He hoped to achieve a win-win with consumers, produce good products, and at the same time ensure that his products had the highest cost-effectiveness on the market.
If based on this original intention, then the profit margins of all Changying Automobile products must be maintained at a relatively low level.
And what He Yuanjiang advocated was controlling the profit margin.
On this point, the two could be said to coincide.
Therefore, Ye Chen said to him. “Professor He, just do it according to your ideas. We must make Changying Automobile a national brand that makes the Chinese people proud!”
He Yuanjiang nodded heavily, saying sincerely. “An automobile named after your father, I will definitely go all out and not disgrace his lifelong reputation!”
After saying that, he said to Ye Chen. “Young Master Ye, please give our new model a model name. Competitors have M-starting, S-starting, L-starting, and E-starting, each with their own logic. We also need different models to distinguish different types and vehicles.”
Ye Chen smiled. “I’m not professional in this, better leave it to you.”
He Yuanjiang said. “Young Master Ye, actually this doesn’t depend on professionalism. It’s just a name, anything casual is fine. Many competitors use a letter plus a number, some use two letters plus a number.”
Ye Chen thought for a moment and said. “Since it’s named after my father, let’s use the initial letter C of Changying. We are making sedans and SUVs, and in the future, we may also make business cars and micro cars, so the following numbers cannot be single digits, at least two digits.”
Speaking of this, he pondered for a moment and said. “How about this, sedans use odd numbers, SUVs use even numbers. The first model is a mid-to-large car, so name it C07. In the future, if we release a larger one, it will be C09, a smaller one C05, A-class car C03, micro car C01.”
“As for off-road vehicles, the same logic. If the next model is also a mid-to-large SUV, call it C06, higher level C08, lower level C04 and C02. If we also launch business cars, they can be named C10.”
He Yuanjiang nodded. “Good! Simple, clear, logical. Then according to what you said, the first model is called C07.”
After saying that, he made an inviting gesture and smiled. “Young Master Ye, let me introduce to you several key technologies of our first model’s white body.”
Ye Chen asked him. “What does white body mean?”
He Yuanjiang said. “It can be understood as the skeleton of this car. We first build the white body as the skeletal framework, then fill in the flesh based on the skeleton. The size of the white body, like the human skeleton, determines the person’s longitudinal size. In the future, when we install the doors, front and rear hoods, and anti-collision beams, it will be the completed size of this car. The technology, materials, and sturdiness it adopts determine the car’s anti-collision ability and safety factor. The integrated die-cast battery compartment at the bottom determines how large a battery it can accommodate. Once the white body is finalised, the main framework will not change, only minor adjustments in the later stage.”
Ye Chen nodded and asked him. “Is there any breakthrough technology in this?”
He Yuanjiang said truthfully. “In the automobile industry, as for breakthrough technologies, there are none at present. What we can do is to ensure that the materials are solid enough, the processes advanced enough, so that the produced car is safe enough. Therefore, our white body main framework is currently all aluminium alloy integrated die-casting. We upgraded the original production line of Gaoheng. The die-casting machine currently used is the most advanced 16,000-ton die-casting machine in China and even internationally.”
“In addition, our body welding all adopts the most advanced international robotic arms. The assembly process and painting process are integrated using the best international solutions. The hardware and software adaptation team is also the best in China. So in the future, when our car is mass-produced, its completion degree will also greatly lead products in the same price range.”
Ye Chen asked curiously. “So, car manufacturing actually competes in resource integration ability.”
