Xu Zhengyang did a simple calculation: "The price of Yaha 80 in Southeast Asia is US$1,900, which is only 4,370 yuan when converted into RMB."

After entering 1984, the exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar was adjusted. It was no longer 1.9, but 2.3, to be precise, 2.327.

In the past few years, the RMB has been depreciating, or the exchange rate has returned to normal.

Their selling price is lower than Mota Industrial’s ex-factory price.

The exchange rate on the black market has nothing to do with Motta Industries.

To export Mota industrial products, you must go through formal channels.

Chen Huaiqing: "The price of our motorcycles must be less than 1,900 US dollars, preferably 1,700 US dollars, or even lower in the future. After all, if there is a price war, the other party is likely to significantly reduce the price. In other words, we export

The price must be below 1,500, at least US$1,300. In other words, our cost must be reduced to 3,000 RMB.”

The current cost of a Mota80 motorcycle is 3,300. If you reduce it by 300 yuan, there should be no problem.

Xiao Weidong: "Can they be willing?"

The factories currently cooperating with Mota Industrial are all state-owned enterprises. It is nonsense to want them to lower prices!

Chen Huaiqing said with a smile: "They will be willing, because this is export and the profit is US dollars. If they want to introduce new production equipment, they must have foreign exchange."

How important is foreign exchange at this time!

In the 1980s, China was constantly buying and selling from other countries. In addition, China and the United States were in a honeymoon period at this time. Basically, the United States was free to sell all kinds of things to China.

You know, the Soviet Union at this time was extremely powerful.

At this time, the United States had its own economic problems and was in a relatively weak state, so it had to win over China.

"I plan to settle all exported motorcycles with them in U.S. dollars. If this is the case, I believe they will be willing to lower the price."

For many companies, they are still willing to export even if they do not make money or even lose money.

Just to earn foreign exchange.

Xiao Weidong naturally knows very well how eager companies are for foreign exchange today.

"In that case, there is no problem."

Xu Zhengyang did not express any opinions. He positioned himself very accurately, which was to take good care of Mota Industrial's money bag.

You have to spend money that should be spent, and you can't spend money that shouldn't be spent.

As for Zheng Xiaping, he was in charge of production and had no objections. Chen Huaiqing would do whatever he said.

After the three of them had a brief meeting, Chen Huaiqing and Zheng Xiaping went to the workshop together.

"Boss, our annual motorcycle production has now reached 150,000 units, and the new mota125 motorcycle is also in trial production."

"Let's go and see mota125."

The research and development of the mota125 motorcycle has already been started and we are waiting for the engine.

After Motta Institute of Technology perfected the engine technology, Motta Industries rushed into production.

Now the engine workshop of Mota Industrial is fully engaged in the production of MT125 engine. This engine is a single-cylinder four-stroke engine. The engine starting method is pedal start.

Electric starter is also being researched and will definitely be available in the future.

Chen Huaiqing is planning to develop an engine with electric start and pedal start. When the electric start technology matures, he will directly cancel the pedal start on the engine.

Electrically starting the engine is the future development trend. You can start the engine by pressing the start button directly. Who wants to use the pedal?

Mota Industrial currently does not have a good industrial design team, and most of the product design is done by Chen Huaiqing.

Chen Huaiqing basically just took the motorcycle designs seen by later generations, roughly drew a shape, and then asked them to perfect it.

The importance of industrial design really goes without saying.

Products with industrial design look full of technology, exquisite and beautiful.

Otherwise, it will look like a fool, but there must be no problem at all in terms of function.

But it just doesn’t look good.

It doesn’t look good, but you still want people to buy it. Isn’t that embarrassing?

In the past, there was no way, because this was the only thing sold.

As long as you have a choice, you must buy something that looks good and is easy to use.

The shape of the mota125 motorcycle is definitely a classic shape. Even in the 21st century, you can still see it on the street.

Anyway, the styling of the motorcycle has not been changed that much.

The color is red and black, and the words mota125 are sprayed on the fuel tank.

The fuel tank is quite large and can hold more than ten liters of oil. The fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is quite low, just over 2 liters per 100 kilometers.

That is to say, with a full tank of gas, you can run hundreds of kilometers without any problems.

"Boss, the MT125 engine has a power of 6.5KW and a torque of 7.8N.M. With 1L of engine oil alone, the horsepower reaches 8.6 hp. The power can be said to be quite strong, which is comparable to the engine of Neon Country."

Chen Huaiqing didn't say anything. In fact, the data is really easy to match.

He knew this very well.

But the product cannot just look at the data, but also the manufacturing process.

The manufacturing process determines the quality of the product.

No matter how strong the data is, other people's products can last for ten years, but yours can only last for three years. So everyone knows which technology is superior and inferior.

"How is the MT80 improved engine?"

The improved MT80 is a single-cylinder horizontal four-stroke engine. Mota Industrial is not the Mota Industrial a year ago, but Mota Industrial with an annual output of 150,000 motorcycles.

Before Chen Huaiqing went to Xiangjiang, he asked the Mota Technical Research Institute to set up research and development project teams for different engine models.

Horizontal and vertical engines, and transmissions.

Chen Huaiqing wants to develop a CVT, but he doesn't know much about CVT.

Anyway, I know one feature, that is, there is no need to step on the clutch and it will not stall.

Therefore, Chen Huaiqing asked the project team to research a transmission that can automatically change gears after the motorcycle engine reaches a certain speed.

Continuously variable speed!

Chen Huaiqing explained the requirements, and the rest is up to the R&D personnel.

In fact, the continuously variable transmission technology has been around for a long time. I believe that with their ingenuity, it will not be too difficult to improve on the basis of their predecessors and introduce new ones.

"Several prototypes of the MT80 improved engine have been produced."

Zheng Xiaping is very concerned about engine technology. He knows that there are several engines under development at Mota Research Institute, and the progress is quite good.

After receiving support from Mota Industrial, Yuzhou University invited some people from other universities. The mechanical major has become the most important major at Yuzhou University.

There is no way, Mota Industrial has given too much.

Chen Huaiqing was flipping through information about the MT80 improved engine. This engine is a horizontal engine and is intended to replace the MT80.

Two-stroke engines have high horsepower, high fuel consumption, and high pollution.

The pollution is great because the lubricating oil also participates in the combustion process, so the pollution is great.

Therefore, it is inevitable that two-stroke engines will be eliminated under current technical conditions.

Of course, in the face of the shortcomings of two-stroke engines, it does not mean that no one has considered improvements.

For example, the direct injection in the cylinder and the lubrication method are also changed to the same as that of a four-stroke engine.

"Is it difficult to produce the improved MT80?"

Zheng Xiaping said with a smile: "We really wouldn't be able to produce it last year. We have introduced several new machine tools from abroad. Our processing capabilities have been greatly enhanced, and there is no problem in producing four-stroke engines."

Compared with two-stroke engines, four-stroke engines are more fuel-efficient, cleaner and more environmentally friendly, and their mechanisms are more complex.

Mechanical products are not afraid of simple structures, but they are afraid of complexity.
Chapter completed!