On the second day after the five arrived in Munich, the pre-match event began. More than 80 participating teams from various countries arrived and gathered at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in the north of Munich.

In Li Fanyu's memory, this should have been the location of BMW's headquarters. However, the development history of automobiles was enhanced a little and it was replaced by Mercedes-Benz's base camp.

There is nothing good about the museum itself, it's just that Mercedes is having fun.

In the exhibition hall, there are displays from the first Mercedes-Benz models to concept models full of science fiction, various antique research and development drawings, and experience-based automobile culture, with a time span of more than two hundred years.

The subtext of the entire museum is: cars were invented by my master, cars were invented by my master, cars were invented by my master...

However, the thoughtful service in the museum moved Li Fanyu a little. As soon as he entered the museum, the staff enthusiastically handed over the tour guide's photo album and a translator.

There is actually a Chinese option inside, which makes several young people in a foreign land feel warm.

Liu Qing is a madman who can't move when he sees the car model. He is so desperate that he bought three car models with a unit price of 30 euros, which made Li Fanyu look at him for a long time with a careful look of fools.

After handing over the goods, the money was dismantled. The bottom of the model was shining in English: madeinchina.yiwu.

Zhang Yu connected his mobile phone wifi and opened Taobao to make up for another trick: Tmall priced at 79.9 yuan. (The exchange rate of the euro to the RMB is about 1:7 o'clock.)

However, when visiting Mercedes-Benz's assembly line workshop, the few people were shocked.

The entire assembly line is almost unmanned, and there are only more than a dozen people in the huge factory building, responsible for program maintenance and driving away the assembled vehicles. Those who work are all robotic arms and welding robots.

After a very leisurely day, everyone arrived at an apartment not far from the venue of the competition according to the address sent by Lao Zhang.

The apartment is very simple and the area is not large. The layout of two bedrooms and one living room is two bedrooms and one living room. Four boys squeeze into a room. Cheng Ke is a girl and the owner sleeps on the sofa...

The owner is an uncle in his thirties, named Zhu Jiu. It is said that he is the senior brother of everyone. He has been working hard in Germany for almost ten years.

Although Lao Zhang had this aspect, he was still embarrassed to eat and live for free. So Cheng Ke, who was proficient in German, led the men to the supermarket like walking his dog, and bought vegetables and beer.

The ingredients in the supermarket are strange and you can't buy a lot of things you want. Cheng Ke could only show off his skills and cooked a big meal that was both average and foreign, but it made Zhu Yong's food cry.

I haven't eaten braised noodles for many years...

On the first day of the competition, as the sponsor, Mercedes-Benz chief designer Yannik personally arrived at the arena, gave a speech to the participating team, and designated the competition tasks.

As Professor Zhang analyzed when he came, it is indeed based on environmental protection. The technology that has been mature or popularized within five years is used as the basis. There are no restrictions on the rest of the models, levels, and interiors.

This means that you can open your brains at will, even if you design a ufo.

But! Technology must be existing technology. If you design it, it will be put into production in the near future.

Li Fanyu sniffed, as if he had smelled some different meanings here. Those who came to participate in the competition were all experts or academic masters in industrial design. Not only did he see that, but many people were excitedly wielding their fists.

Mercedes-Benz has a clear meaning. If the design is outstanding and the final award-winning work is likely to be adopted by Mercedes-Benz as a mass-produced model.

Mercedes-Benz's mass-produced models!

For college students who have not left school, those who can achieve such honors will undoubtedly achieve the best starting point in their future career development.

This feeling is like a high school student participating in an essay competition. Before the competition, the teacher told the students: You can take the exam well, and the first-class students are recommended to the Central Party School to give you a mayor.

Everyone looked at the task book in their hands and wanted to go back to the apartment and start creating.

Although the German style is rigorous, the opening is outrageous. After Janik announced the official start of the competition, he directly announced the start of the competition. Some German automobile design practitioners volunteered to guide everyone.

It is said to be a guide, but it is actually to popularize the experience of making sludge models. Others don’t mention any other design direction and technology application.

The game of such a large scale took only less than an hour in total.

This made the few people who had been tortured by the leaders for a long time feel a little empty. Without the leaders' speeches, the organizer's summary, and the representatives came forward to express their opinions... I was really a little uncomfortable.

In the apartment, the three academic masters had already made a big fuss.

The old lady in the apartment next door lay curiously on the window and peeked vigilantly - she thought her neighbor had been robbed.

The three had great differences on the starting point of the design; Liu Qing believed that the concept of pollution-free should be strengthened from new energy.

Xu Fufang insists that it should start with convenience and design cars that carry more people and have larger spaces and lower displacements, because from the perspective of the city, private cars mean additional expenses and taxes. Private cars that are ridden by multiple people will reduce more pollution, be more practical, and are easy to achieve from a technical level.

When Zhang Yu arrived here, it was completely opposite to Xu Fufang's idea. He believed that the development direction of environmentally friendly cars was to ride alone, have low cylinder count, and low displacement. Even the use of electric engines was the most in line with the purpose of environmental protection.

Zhang Yu accused Xu Fufang of being outdated in thinking, and Xu Fufang accused Zhang Yu of being too radical. Liu Qing fired his bow on both sides, accusing them of being touching with poor imagination.

The three of them were so noisy that their throats were dry, and they found that there were two people sitting next to them, eating fried chicken and beer, which was so exciting.

So Xu Fufang proposed to vote and use democracy to decide the design direction.

Li Fanyu and Cheng Ke wiped their hands clean and found that the final decision fell on them.

Cheng Ke tilted his head and glanced at the three of them.

After thinking for a long time, he bit his lip and said, "I think Zhang Yu's idea is quite reliable. Think about it, the traffic flow in cities is getting bigger and bigger, and the cost of taxis is getting higher and higher, so small cars for single people are still very marketable. Moreover, the car models are small and drivers with poor skills can easily control it."

Zhang Yu was proud and set his sight on Li Fanyu.

Li Fanyu grabbed his head and said embarrassedly: "Actually, I have an immature idea. Do you think hybrid cars are good to design?"

Three academic masters fainted. Aren’t you here to be a nanny? What a mess!

Li Fanyu ignored their eyes and continued: "According to my opinion, traffic is getting more and more congested now. When the engine is operating at low rotations, the oil and gas are not burned sufficiently, and the pollution caused is much greater than that of high-speed operation.

A lot of exhaust pollution occurs at this time. If you design a car that can be driven by electricity at low speeds and switch to a gasoline engine at high speeds, would it be a good way out?”

The other four people started to sneer, but after he said this, they felt that it made sense. This is a good direction. And from a technical perspective, it is not difficult to achieve.

The theory of oil-electric mixing has been proposed since the last century, but due to the immaturity of power engine technology and the difficulty in regulating the ratio of oil-electric mixing, no successful finished car has been released.

But what the competition wants is concept, not research and development. Hybrid oil and electricity is really a good gimmick.

Li Fanyu looked at their thoughtful appearance and blinked proudly at Cheng Ke.

In the past two days, he has not been idle and has consulted a lot of information on his computer.

As far as he knows, in this world, although the concept of gasoline and hybrid vehicles was established for a long time, there is no mass-produced model that uses this concept.

However, in Li Fanyu's memory, there are such as the Toyota Corolla with oil-electric dual-engine, BYD Tang, who accelerates within 200,000 yuan. There is also a quasi-supercar with a displacement of 1.5t and accelerating from 0 to 100 kilometers in just 4 seconds - bmw-hybrid version i8!
Chapter completed!