Chapter 242 The Importance of Safety (Ch 825956790)

June 24, 2027.
Jiang Miao signed the 35th acquisition contract this year.
At present, Hailufeng Company has officially been upgraded to a group, with the number of its wholly-owned subsidiaries reaching an astonishing 43, and 15 joint ventures.
Wholly-owned subsidiaries include Hero Dairy, Fengmei Takeaway, etc.
These subsidiaries cover many industries, such as aquaculture, feed, agricultural technical services, agricultural planting, deep processing of agricultural products, textiles, papermaking, sugar making, edible oil, pre-prepared meals, power generation, batteries, gas, snacks, retail, dairy products, tourism, logistics, seedlings, catering, airship manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, testing services, charging and battery replacement services, etc.
That’s right, Hailufeng Company currently has automobile manufacturing business.
Just in June, after more than three months of secret negotiations, Hailufeng Company officially acquired WM Motor’s Huangzhou factory and Yongjia factory for 3.5 billion yuan.
Just when Goldwind Technology came to inspect the new materials.
Hailufeng Company has taken over WM Motor’s two automobile assembly plants for half a month. After half a month of adjustment and recovery, factory management has begun to smoothen.
However, there is definitely no production capacity, because Hailufeng Company does not want the WM Motor brand, but plans to start a new business on its own, and has no intention of becoming a OEM factory. Without orders, there is naturally no production capacity.
At present, Hailufeng Company’s automobile subsidiary has completed the processing of various licenses. The name of the subsidiary is: Panshi Automobile.
“Panshi” symbolizes stability and indestructibility, which is in line with the technical advantages of passive safety (body structure); the English name “Panshi” retains the Chinese pronunciation to enhance cultural uniqueness.
This is the brand positioning that Jiang Miao gave to Panshi Automobile.
Why use safety as the brand positioning of Panshi Automobile?
The reason lies in Jiang Miao’s own abilities. He can easily discover problems with the current in-vehicle intelligent Internet of Things systems, and he can also easily control various smart cars.
Many people are unaware of this terrible danger.
However, Jiang Miao has already realized the huge risks involved.
Especially in recent years, AI technology has developed rapidly and humans have become more and more dependent on AI. However, the development of things often has two sides.
AI is like a double-edged sword.
With the increasing number of smart devices, once AI gets out of control or is secretly controlled by someone, the consequences will be absolutely disastrous.
If it is a smart phone, tablet or the like, even if an explosion occurs, as long as it is not installed with C4 or something like that, the power is generally not great and there is a great chance of escape.
However, once a smart car loses control and is driving at high speed, the death rate of people in the car will be very high.
As for the safety guarantees from those car companies, just listen to them.
After all, car manufacturers can lock the car’s battery through remote control. Obviously, car owners have lower management authority than car manufacturers.
In this case, once there is a problem with the intelligent system, the owner is very likely to lose control of the car.
This is not a contradiction between electric cars and fuel cars, but a contradiction between mechanical cars and intelligent cars.
After all, most fuel-powered cars now also use a large number of electronic devices to assist in control and realize functions such as autonomous driving.
Especially as AI becomes increasingly powerful, if there is an organization that specializes in training hacker-type AI to attack a car’s onboard intelligent system, what can ordinary car owners do to stop and resist?
Therefore, in March of this year, Jiang Miao asked the company to secretly look for an automobile factory that could be acquired in order to prepare to produce a safe car on its own.
The safe car he positioned is not only physically safe, but also cyber-safe.
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“Boss, this is a brief overview of the two automobile factories. Please take a look.” Li Fei, general manager of Panshi Automobile, handed him two documents.
Jiang Miao flipped through it casually and saw the general situation of the Yongjia factory and the Huangzhou factory.
Under the condition of two shifts, the annual production capacity of Yongjia factory is 200,000 vehicles, and the annual production capacity of Huangzhou factory is 150,000 vehicles. The two factories have a total annual production capacity of 350,000 vehicles, which is also the source of the acquisition price.
If they were brand new factories, the investment in these two factories would be very high.
According to the information on the document, the Yongjia factory covers an area of ​​about 1,000 acres, covering four major process workshops: stamping, welding, painting, and assembly. The total investment is about 6.7 billion yuan. It was completed in 2018. It has a high degree of intelligence and has produced models such as WM EX5 and W6.
The Huangzhou factory covers an area of ​​about 800 acres, with a total investment of approximately 20.2 billion yuan. It will be put into production in 2020 and is positioned as a new energy and SUV production base.
Now, after so many years of idleness, the value of the factory buildings and equipment has plummeted. If the land had not been worth some money, Hailufeng Company would never have bid 3.5 billion.
Jiang Miao closed the file and looked at the middle-aged man with a Mediterranean look sitting next to Li Fei: “Director Wang, how is the progress of your design department?”
Wang Muhua, the technical director of Panshi Automobile, stood up and replied, “Boss, our automobile design department has completed the first draft, but the details still need to be improved. We are now manufacturing the prototype. This is the first draft plan, please take a look.”
Jiang Miao took the document and looked at it. He asked as he browsed, “Did you add a lot of bean silk materials into your design?”
“Yes, Boss. We believe that modified soybean silk fiber can replace a large part of carbon fiber, steel, and aluminum alloy. This improvement can reduce the weight of the car a lot.”
Jiang Miao saw the material that replaced that part of the content.
If all replaceable parts are replaced with modified soybean fiber composite materials, the car’s weight can be reduced by 30% to 40% without batteries.
Moreover, this improvement will not only reduce the weight of the car, but also make its overall strength very high.
For example, there are a lot of testing contents in the design plan.
Wang Muhua’s team used their internal connections to have Dousi Lab produce a dozen simple frames in small batches. They then replaced these frames with cars purchased from the market and conducted various impact and crushing tests.
When a 10-ton steel coil falls from a height of 1 meter, the new material body can consume 94% of the kinetic energy through the energy-absorbing structure, and the remaining energy is dispersed through the rigid frame, thus avoiding the collapse of the passenger compartment.
Due to the modified soybean silk fiber composite material and the different processing methods of different steels and aluminum alloys, its strength is incredibly strong.
Car body structures made of steel and aluminum alloy materials often need to be fixed and connected using welding, rivets, and screws. This processing method leads to natural weak points, such as loose welding points.
However, the structure made of modified soybean silk fiber composite material can be formed in one piece.
As long as the structure is designed in advance, it can be formed into one piece through weaving, bundling and templates.
The one-piece structure, supported by such high-strength materials, will be very strong. Moreover, due to its one-piece forming characteristics, the car will not be easily deformed when hit, but will unload the impact force through overall offset.
During the testing process of Wang Muhua’s team, a high-speed rolling steel coil knocked a car away.
If a car is made of ordinary steel or aluminum alloy, it will be crushed into a discus if it encounters a high-speed rolling steel coil head-on.
As for the car made of the new material, no matter if it is pressed from a height of one meter or from the front, side, or back at high speed, there is no way to crush the core compartment of the car.
On the contrary, sharp steel bars, dense bricks and stones pose a certain threat to cars made of new materials.
For example, if dense steel bars penetrate from the front, the frame can indeed block the steel bars, but the car glass cannot withstand it, and the driver and passengers can easily have their upper bodies pierced by the steel bars.
all in all.
Cars made of new materials are absolutely very strong. In various impact tests, large-area impacts are actually the safest. As long as they do not collide with densely packed sharp tubular objects, the survival rate of general impacts can basically reach 95%.
Of course, this survival rate is based on the premise that the car does not exceed the speed limit.
If a car is speeding, even if the car body can withstand the impact, the reaction force generated by the impact will cause serious damage to the internal organs and bones of the driver and passengers.
Before he knew it, Jiang Miao had turned to the battery section of the first draft plan.
He found that the battery designed by Wang Muhua’s team was very large, almost twice the size of an ordinary electric car.
“Why are batteries so large?”
Hearing this question, Wang Muhua immediately explained: “Boss, after we use the new material, the car’s weight will be reduced by about 30% to 40%. Although the car has become lighter, its wind resistance and high-speed driving stability will also decrease due to the reduction in weight.”
“I understand.” Jiang Miao already knew the thinking of Wang Muhua’s team.
“Therefore, we use batteries to add weight to keep the overall weight of the car in a dynamic balance. And because the current batteries are generally integrated into the chassis, when we increase the weight of the batteries, the center of gravity of the car is pressed downward, which can further improve the stability of the car.”
This method can indeed improve the stability of the car.
Wang Muhua went on to add: “Since the battery weight has been nearly doubled, the power of the new car will be further improved.”
If the previous sponge battery only increased the car’s range a little, then now with the addition of a body made of new materials, the overall range of electric vehicles can almost reach about 2.5 times that of old electric vehicles.
This improvement reduces mileage anxiety during driving and can also reduce the layout density of battery swap stations.
However, Jiang Miao, Li Fei, Wang Muhua and others are not worried about the construction density of battery swap stations, because various investors have been developing battery swap station projects recently.
Including the three major oil companies that focus on the traditional fuel industry, they are using their own gas station network to quickly deploy battery swap projects.
Therefore, there will definitely be a lot of battery swap station projects in the future, and there is no need to worry about not being able to find a place to swap batteries.
Instead, it was the safety of the car battery that Jiang Miao had to consider. He picked up the phone and dialed the number of Lei Bo, the head of the battery business unit.
“Hello, Manager Lei, it’s me.”
“Boss, what can I do for you?”
“Are you at headquarters?”
“I’m doing some stuff at the bus company. Do you need me to go back to the headquarters?”
“No, I want to ask about a project that I arranged before, the safe battery project. How is it going now?”
“Safety battery?” Lei Bo on the other end of the phone immediately responded: “There are currently two plans for this project.”
“Tell me something.” Jiang Miao took out a notebook and a pen.
“The first solution is to use aluminum hydroxide powder, which can reduce the explosion of soybean oil in sponge batteries, but this solution will cause the number of cycles of sponge batteries to drop by 13%.”
“What about the second option?”
“The second option is to use phosphate esters. Soybean oil combined with phosphate esters will also reduce its combustion characteristics, but the consequence is that the upper limit of the battery’s charging and discharging power drops to 88 kilowatts, and the energy density drops to 330 kilowatt-hours per cubic meter. It will also lead to too high a phosphorus content when refining biodiesel. If the phosphate esters cannot be completely removed, the phosphorus content of the biodiesel combustion waste may be too high, causing exhaust gas pollution.”
Jiang Miao thought for a moment and said, “Give up the phosphate ester solution and adopt the first solution.”
“Okay, boss.” Lei Bo added: “I suggest that we conduct joint research and development with Beijing Energy Battery and Guodian Battery to determine the flame retardant composition of power batteries as soon as possible.”
“Well, you arrange it!”
“yes.”
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Miao also put down his pen and looked at Li Fei and Wang Muhua who were sitting upright: “Sponge batteries contain soybean oil. If they come into contact with a fire source, they may catch fire. What do you think?”
Li Fei thought for a moment: “In essence, to reduce combustion, we must either suppress the combustion characteristics of the combustibles or isolate the combustibles from contact with the oxidant.”
Jiang Miao didn’t look up and continued to write down Li Fei’s thoughts.
“I think there are three aspects to enhance the fire resistance of new cars.” Li Fei paused for a few seconds: “First, enhance the overall strength of the battery compartment to prevent deformation during collisions, causing the battery box to rupture and leak out the soybean oil.”
“This is a method.” Jiang Miao also thought this method was good.
“The second point is the safe battery solution that the boss just mentioned. By adding aluminum hydroxide powder, the soybean oil solution inside the battery can reduce its combustion characteristics.”
“Third, I think we can set up several baking soda fire extinguishing devices inside the battery compartment. We can even consider placing a baking soda fireproof layer directly on the battery compartment. Once it encounters high temperature, it will explode instantly and cover the leaked soybean oil with baking soda powder.”
Jiang Miao turned his head and looked at Wang Muhua and asked, “Director Wang, is the third method technically difficult?”
Wang Muhua nodded: “Mr. Li’s third plan has no technical difficulty, but it requires increasing some of the vehicle’s weight. However, considering that the weight of a new car can be compressed a lot, by adjusting the battery weight, some of the weight can be used to set up a fire protection system.”
“Okay, the brand positioning of our Panshi Automobile is safety. Our philosophy is to enhance the safety of the car as much as possible without affecting the performance.” Jiang Miao has decided to take a three-pronged approach.
Wang Muhua replied while taking notes: “I understand. We will incorporate Mr. Li’s three improvement ideas into the new car plan as soon as possible.”
“Well, let’s talk about network security next.” Jiang Miao turned to the auxiliary system part of the first draft plan: “Now the functions of autonomous driving and in-vehicle intelligent systems are becoming more and more powerful, but their safety is very uncertain. We must pay attention to this.”
Qin Xingzu, the head of the Internet Division, who had been silent, knew that he was about to speak, so he stood up and said:
“Boss, Mr. Li, Director Wang, regarding the issue of network security, I think it is impossible to guarantee absolute security at the software level.”
“Manager Qin, do you think we should abandon the intelligent system in our new car?” Li Fei frowned.
Qin Xingzu said with a serious expression: “Our department has discovered loopholes in various car intelligent systems through technology. Some time ago, I led a team to use AI technology to train a hacker AI that specializes in deciphering car intelligent systems. With this AI, we only took about three hours to conquer the systems of most smart cars in China.”
“What?” Li Fei was shocked.
Wang Muhua proposed another idea: “Can AI be used to enhance firewalls?”
However, Qin Xingzu’s next words directly poured cold water on them: “How can the computing power of the chip of the car computer compete with the computer of professional hackers or even large servers?”
Faced with this fundamental problem, Li Fei and Wang Muhua were speechless for a moment.
Computing power is the natural weakness of in-vehicle intelligent systems.
Hackers or some organizations can mobilize large servers to brute force attacks on in-vehicle intelligent systems.
As long as the car’s onboard intelligent system is connected to the Internet, there is a possibility of being hacked, and the possibility is very high.
Li Fei was very troubled: “If the network is physically disconnected, many functions of the car will not be usable.”
“No, there is a way to solve it.” Wang Muhua thought of a solution: “The functions that cars need to be connected to the Internet are mainly navigation systems, autonomous driving and assisted driving. As long as the navigation system is independent and autonomous driving and assisted driving are removed, then other systems inside the car will not need to be connected to the Internet.”
Qin Xingzu narrowed his eyes and reminded: “Director Wang, I need to remind you that if you use foreign automotive chips, the other party may leave a backdoor on the chip. This type of backdoor program can sometimes be actively connected to the Internet through smart devices such as smartphones and tablets.”
“Can’t even foreign chips be used?” Li Fei was overwhelmed.
Wang Muhua shook his head: “It doesn’t matter. Domestic car chips are OK. It’s okay not to use foreign ones.”
Jiang Miao finally spoke: “Then let’s decide this first. We will isolate the car from direct control by the networking system as much as possible, and use safe domestically produced car chips. In addition, we will set up a fully mechanically controlled backup system to prevent problems with the onboard chips that would cause the car to become paralyzed.”
“Okay, I will follow the boss’s instructions and improve the design of the new car.” Wang Muhua nodded.
Although he doesn’t know the prospects of this safe car, Wang Muhua wants to buy one if the experience is good.
After all, no one wants to entrust their life to an intelligent system that may get out of control.

Người mua: TheAn, 06/02/2025 18:37