Chapter 102 (2/2)
The car used 4000 man hours. According to the German mechanic's per man hour of $40, his labor cost is about $160000.
Eight tons of tungsten titanium alloy were used, about 120000 US dollars per ton, which was secretly transported back. You can't buy it in the market at all. Even if you buy it, it's a sky high price. After all, this belongs to materials with relatively high control level.
Two tons of hardened ceramic materials were used, and the price per ton was US $200000 per ton. This is still the friendly price given by the Soviet Union. After all, this is the ceramic insert of the latest version of bulletproof clothing.
Various accessories such as engine and gearbox are imported from Rhine metal. The cost of a car is 80000 US dollars. After all, they are military grade, and only Rhine metal can provide them all over the world. They are sold exclusively.
As for bulletproof glass, $50000 each, there is no bargaining. This is a special glass for the cars of the highest level leaders. It can't produce a few pieces a year. Knight XV has 10 pieces of glass of different sizes.
Looking at this, the production cost is large. The labor and material cost of each vehicle alone reached about 2.5 million ~ 2.8 million US dollars, which fully doubled the cost of baozixuan plan at the time of project establishment. This was still under the condition that the overall price of many controlled materials in the Soviet Union secretly transported the Games was not high. If the materials are purchased according to the international market, the cost of each vehicle will exceed US $5 million.
Few people in the world have the purchasing power, but this is just a product of their own ticket nature. Let the workers have work first, and the rest can only be done slowly.
As an engineer of aircraft engine, Bao Zixuan is also very familiar with automobile engine. However, there is no advantage in producing cars in Xiangjiang, that is, all parts on this car are purchased from outside.
Xiangjiang's exports depend more on light industrial products such as clothing and plastic flowers. At present, Xiangjiang can't even produce a car lamp. If a large-scale automobile factory is established here, it will certainly lose its life.
After fully understanding the performance of the car, baozixuan said to Hector, ”I've tested it several times. How's the situation?”
Hector: ”boss, we have done all-round monitoring without any problem. After all, our power system and sensor system are mature products of Rhine metal military.”
”We have been dealing with these parts for a lifetime and have been debugged repeatedly. And the materials used in the car body are the highest grade alloy in the Soviet Union. Although these alloy technologies are available in Germany, they will never be used in automobiles. We don't have so many resources. Only the Soviet Union and China have large-scale mineral deposits of tungsten and titanium, and Germany only imported them in large quantities in the 1930s. Now there is little left. ”
”I'm sure it's definitely the safest car. Even if the container truck rolls over, the people in it won't have anything to do. In theory, his metal is strong enough. ”
Hearing this, baozixuan couldn't wait to sit in the driver's seat. Because they were bulletproof thickened glass, the definition of the front windshield was not very high, but it was enough.
Baozixuan, who had not driven for a long time, started the test run after getting familiar with the situation in the car. After stepping on the accelerator, he saw the car start slowly. After all, it was a 13.5-ton steel beast. However, after running, the car is very stable on the road. Fortunately, the factory area of heiyun group is large enough, otherwise it really can't run.
Now there is also a problem, that is, the issue of production license. If you can't get the mass production license, you can only drive in some sections as a modified vehicle. It seems that Phil Hawkins can only apply first in the United States, which is difficult to get in Xiangjiang. As long as the American Automobile Industry Association passes the certification, it can be produced after going through a supplementary procedure in Xiangjiang,
The employees of heiyun group have no expression after seeing the car. They often test drive the car recently. But after baozixuan drove the car to the construction site, the constructors who helped heiyun build the plant were very frightened. After all, no one had ever seen such a car.