A famous economist once said that as long as any commodity achieves large-scale industrial production, its price will inevitably decrease significantly.

Wang Hai's engineering expertise clearly convinced everyone present.

It is theoretically feasible to utilize the existing mature off-road vehicle production system and develop a "lunar off-road vehicle" suitable for missions on the moon.

Hu Lai also agreed with this plan.

Although the conversion of a civilian commercial solution into a lunar exploration vehicle is unique in the world, Hu Lai is willing to try on the road of commercialization.

That afternoon, engineers from the Phoenix Group's automotive department were notified that in the next few months, they would work with engineers from the aerospace department to develop a lunar rover for use on the moon.

The model development content is not complicated. There is no need to consider the driving experience, strong power, or human-computer interaction. On the one hand, we should try to reduce the weight of the "lunar off-road vehicle" as much as possible.

On the other hand, the "off-road vehicle" must be guaranteed to have strong passability and stability, and there are no more requirements other than that.

And this "lunar off-road vehicle" project was also officially named - Look Up.

As various performance data were determined, the "Looking Up to the Moon Rover" research and development project team quickly began to invest in research and development.

The Phoenix Group did not refuse, accepting orders from all space agencies and scientific research institutes around the world, but the only requirement was that payment must be made before delivery, and all products would be sold at the originally announced price of US$10 million per gram.

After hearing this, Hu Lai was already very convinced of the "four-wheel four-motor system" developed by the automobile department. This four-wheel drive system can definitely be regarded as a black technology in the automobile industry.

Now, the Phoenix Group is at least doing well on this step. It depends on the actual situation after actually landing on the moon.

"The two channels of AI recognition and original manual recognition are separated from each other and do not interfere with each other, which also minimizes the problem of missing selections."

"After this technology is applied to the lunar rover, the most common situations of wheel slipping and sinking into gravel will be effectively avoided. Even when the vehicle is stuck or about to roll over, the 'four-wheel four-motor system' can rely on

Quickly intervene with millisecond-level reaction speed to adjust the status of the lunar rover body urgently!"

In a short period of time, Phoenix Group's business was good and it raised more than 2 billion US dollars in funds.

"If you ask me, Phoenix Group is really awesome, its efficiency is so high!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of excitement flashed across Wang Hai's face. This was his most professional point.

Once used on the "Lunar Rover", it will undoubtedly greatly increase the lunar rover's off-road capabilities and escape capabilities.

"Mr. Hu, despite its small size, this 'pocket-sized' design is definitely in line with the future design trend of 'lunar development'."

Hu Lai nodded affirmatively and praised again. At this moment, Wang Hai, who was introduced earlier, took the topic.

Thanks to Phoenix Group's technological accumulation in the automotive industry, the "Looking Up to the Moon Rover" directly adopted the chassis technology and power drive technology of a mature SUV model of Phoenix Motors. Just one month later, the Looking Up Moon Rover was the first to be produced.

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter around Hu Lai, and everyone was amused by these words.

Wang Hai continued:

And just when many buyers were looking forward to the Phoenix Group's "lunar solid water" collection business, the Phoenix Group also lived up to their expectations. Three and a half months later, the Phoenix Group announced that it would conduct the first human lunar south pole "in half a month."

Solid water collection”!

As soon as the news came out, the temperature that had dropped around the world immediately heated up, and the world's attention suddenly focused on the Phoenix Group's collection of "solid water."

"In addition, despite its small size, the structural strength of the body is not bad, and it has all the functions it should have. It is completely customized according to our mission needs with high requirements!"

"It is no exaggeration to say that this technology is absolutely leading and crushing compared with any car company in the world."

When he first walked into the project team and saw the "Looking Up at the Moon Rover" in front of him, Hu Lai was a little surprised. The prototype in front of him was very different from the SUV he expected in his mind.

Four-wheel four-motor system?

At this point, Hu Lai looked stunned, and Li Kenan, the head of the automotive department in charge of this cooperation, quickly explained:

"Boss, that's it."

Hu Lai was quite satisfied.

If each lunar rover requires a project team to keep an eye on it, and ten or twenty are acceptable, then if there are hundreds of lunar rovers, wouldn’t hundreds of project teams have to keep an eye on them?

At this time, Hu Lai's interest was completely lifted. He waved his hand and said enthusiastically:

"Li Kenan, are there any other functions? Let's introduce them all."

Li Kenan nodded and continued:

"This design, coupled with our unique electronic control technology, can make the response speed of the entire four-wheel drive system 100 times faster than before. It can independently adjust the wheel end status of the four tires in milliseconds, thereby achieving complete control of the vehicle body.

precise control.”

"It is no exaggeration to say that even if one of the 'Looking Up to the Moon Rover' falls or overturns, we won't feel as distressed as before."

"The core of this system is to install a total of four motors at the front and rear of the car, so that each motor can output torque independently and drive the four tires of the vehicle independently."

"The mass of our 'Looking Up to the Moon Rover' is only 500KG. Its powerful power gives it various possibilities. In our words, it is a 'big horse-drawn rover'. If we install wings on it, it can even

It took off straight from the moon."

After Hu Lai learned the news, he immediately came to check it out.

"You have indeed done a lot of work and done a good job."

But next, the Phoenix Group is about to conduct an unprecedented large-scale data collection on the moon.

Li Kenan responded, then took Hu Lai to the position of the "Lunar Rover" where the tire pointed at the motor and said:

"On the 'Looking Up to the Moon Rover', our 'four-wheel four-motor system' uses four motors. Each motor has a maximum power of 160KW-180KW and a maximum torque of 260-280N·m. The entire lunar rover's

The horsepower exceeds 1,000 horses!”

"For example, the previous 'Lunar Exploration Rover' completely required remote control driving by the project team on Earth, and then the staff analyzed the image data collected by the 'Exploration Rover' to see whether there was 'solid water', but now..."

"Just do it as you say, and you'll really get the job done after receiving the money!"

If ordinary SUV cars give people the biggest impression of large space, then the first impression given by this prototype car is that it is "pocket-sized"!

It is too small compared to ordinary SUVs.

"In other words, after equipped with our 'four-wheel four-motor system', even if the vehicle has a tire puncture at 120KM/H, our car will not be affected. The system will pass through the remaining three wheels at the moment of the tire puncture.

Each tire adjusts the tire status in real time, and there will never be life-threatening situations such as drifting or rollover due to tire blowouts!”

What everyone present was thinking about was whether this project could be successful, but what Hu Lai was thinking about was whether it could be continued in the long term, considering the overall situation.

"You see, the body design of 'Looking Up at the Lunar Rover' is 1.6 meters long and 0.8 meters wide. It's not that we can't make the size larger, but this size not only greatly reduces the weight of the lunar rover, but also makes the most effective use of its carrying capacity.

The rocket’s transportation space makes it more economical and lower cost.”

"Good guy, the Phoenix Group is going to single-handedly promote the progress of human lunar exploration!"

Under the leadership of Zhang Feiyang, the automobile department has really been doing well in the past few years. Gradually, the original technical shortcomings have begun to catch up.

He pointed to a camera on the prototype car in front of him and introduced:

"Mr. Hu, in addition to the advanced technology of the lunar rover's 'off-road capability' and 'escape ability', colleagues from the automotive department of the original image information acquisition program also gave a lot of opinions."

"The 'four-wheel four-motor system' is the latest patented four-wheel drive technology we have developed in recent years to achieve the world's top four-wheel drive technology."

Hu Lai became more and more interested.

The Phoenix Group is working in full swing. On the one hand, the "lunar solid water collection" project team is proceeding with the manufacture of the "East China Sea Dragon King" probe in an orderly manner. On the other hand, the "Moon Looking Rover" is also progressing rapidly.

He said "very good" several times, and everyone could see that he was very satisfied.

"besides."

This is obviously unreasonable.

To be honest, these words made Hu Lai the most gratified after the whole meeting.

Reasonable use of AI intelligent recognition can obviously reduce a lot of work.

"On the other hand, after the 'Looking Up to the Moon Rover' loses weight, it will have stronger endurance, more power, and improved off-road capabilities and escape capabilities!"

If "lunar development" wants to continue, it must be commercialized, and the most important thing for commercialization must be cost control.

"oh?"

"The most important thing is that because the 'Looking Up to the Moon Rover' is based on the mature commercialization plan of our automotive department, and after listening to their suggestions on commercial mass production, we also adopted modular production and standardized production.

The cost of the entire lunar rover has been reduced by 70% compared to before!”

Li Kenan's expression was also relaxed, with a little pride on his face, and he said:

"We have installed a 'star' chip specially developed by our chip department for space computing on the moon, and are preparing to use 'AI image recognition' technology on the moon, which is the image used previously in the 'satellite department'

The identification method - after the 'Lunar Rover' collects the lunar surface images through the camera, and transmits them back to the earth, they will first be screened through the chip inside the 'Lunar Rover'."

"Although there is not enough data analysis on 'lunar solid water' at present, our researchers will work hard to improve the relevant algorithms in the future, and I believe that it will not be long before the identification ability can be greatly improved."

"For example, the 'off-road capability' and 'escaping ability' that are most needed by the lunar rover, this time we used the latest patented technology of our automotive department - the 'four-wheel four-motor system', which greatly improved the 'lunar rover'

'Ability to drive on the complex terrain of the Moon's South Pole."

He nodded confidently, with a bit of pride on his face, and said calmly:

"Mr. Hu, we theoretically believe that the detection efficiency of the 'Looking Up to the Moon Rover' will be greatly improved."

Other organizations have a "small moon project" with a project cycle of three to five years. Phoenix Group started a new project in just half a year...

In the past, there was only one lunar rover when exploring the moon, and it is understandable that a lot of work was done by the staff.

Naturally, NASA will not approach the Phoenix Group to purchase it, but several well-known universities in North America, such as Princeton, MIT and other material research laboratories, hope to order the "lunar solid water" brought back by the Phoenix Group for research.
To be continued...