Chapter 1808 (1/2)

With the development of the Mars migration program, more and more rich people in the world are interested in this project.

Li Mu asked people to build a website, which is only open to users with more than 100 million US dollars of personal assets.

Once you are interested in participating in the project, you can sign up for a website account to get more details about the Mars migration program.

At the same time, Li Mu also fulfilled his promise, first investing 500 million dollars to SpaceX for further research on recoverable launch vehicles.

Knowing that this is an extremely long project, Li Mu didn't continue to pay attention to the company after he finished the publicity and investment.

At present, he has more important things, that is, the overall relocation of Volvo.

China's capital construction speed is well-known in the world. Yanjing city has granted the land to Muye automobile group, and the construction of factory buildings, office buildings and dormitories for the first phase of the project has been started for a long time.

The first one to be completed is the factory building. The factory building here has been completed one after another. Volvo's team in Sweden began to dismantle part of the production lines and transport them to China.

When the first batch of production lines arrived at Tianjin port, hundreds of container trucks were used to transport them back and forth.

At the same time, installation technicians and engineers from Volvo, production equipment manufacturers and domestic outsourcing teams also gathered in Yanjing to start assembling Volvo's first production line in China.

Volvo has several production lines, each of which basically corresponds to different platforms. Li Mu's first priority is p24 platform, which mainly produces XC series SUV.

However, Li Mu is not ready to leave the production line to Volvo.

His idea is to take this production line and use it directly for the brand of Makino, and then use it to produce the first autonomous SUV of Makino, Makino aurora.

Aurora, the big model of the year, naturally didn't want to let it go.

He is going to describe and match with the designer to design a drawing. First, he will get the shape of Aurora, and then he will put the shell of aurora on the chassis of Volvo XC60.

To put it bluntly, it's an XC60 in Aurora and with the logo of the safari car.

Of course, there is also a problem. XC60 is a medium and high-end SUV with a market price range of 400000-600000. If it is sold domestically, it can only serve a small group.

Before Harvard, the best selling SUV in China was actually Honda's CRV and Tucson's 200000-300000 joint venture SUV.

Therefore, on the basis of XC60, it is necessary to reduce the cost and terminal price.

For example, the engine does not have the whole high-power. 2.0L naturally aspirated engine is the main power configuration, which is dedicated to walking volume. 2.0T and 2.5 naturally aspirated engines are used as high-end power configuration, which is used to walk luxury models.

besides, the gearbox should not be too high-end. 4-speed is the main speed on ordinary automatic gearbox, 5-speed on high-end models.

as for the four-wheel drive system, the middle and low-end are used No, only high-end models.

That is to say, on the basis of XC60, the overall configuration is reduced, and finally a set of models that can span the 200000-400000 range is created;

the appearance of evoque can be said to be immortal, so once the evoque is finalized, make a magnified version on the basis of it, and then upgrade all configurations, that is the Range Rover Sport.

When the assembly line was assembled, Chen Ze, who always liked racing cars, and Elon Musk, who was working on Tesla, came to the scene to watch.

Elon Musk is also preparing to build Tesla's own new production line in Yanjing. For him, in the future, it is natural to hold Li Mu's thigh tightly, and Tesla and Muye Automobile Group will advance and retreat together.

The assembly of the production line is a complex and tedious process, but due to the man's natural love for industrial products, Li Mu almost goes to the scene every day to stare at it.

At the same time, Volvo's car design team has arrived in Yanjing and started to work in Yanjing.

In the first week of their coming, Li Mu took them to work out the design drawings and renderings of Aurora models.

Li Mu doesn't know about car design, but he knows what the aurora looks like, what the overall shape is, and what the front, back and sides look like.

Describe all these to the designer, let the designer first draw a sketch, and then polish it a little bit according to his requirements.