Owen Electric Scooter Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has been established for several decades. The boss, Liu Wenhu, started his business by imitating electric scooters. After more than a decade of hard work, the factory has become a success. His total assets are close to 30 million.
Since he started his business by imitating electric scooters, he naturally has to pay attention to the new electric scooter models on the market.
For this reason, Liu Wenhu specially hired two workers to do nothing but wander around the electric scooter market in Zhongyun. Once they find a new electric scooter, they will immediately buy one for analysis.
Yesterday, one of the workers came back to report that a very beautiful electric scooter had just come out. It's selling like crazy. The nearby delivery men all praised this electric scooter to the skies. Long range, fast charging, and comfortable riding.
Moreover, only one dealer was selling it.
Today, the worker waited in line for an entire afternoon before finally getting the goods.
When the electric scooter was pushed into the inspection room, Liu Wenhu and several technicians immediately surrounded it.
This electric scooter's exterior is very beautiful. Even though it's a traditional electric scooter, the front and body are very streamlined. Even though it's just sitting there, it gives people the illusion that it's moving.
"Haha ~ it's never too old to learn." Liu Wenhu laughed: "Just this exterior alone is worth our effort to imitate. This is much cooler than the traditional electric scooters on the market."
"Boss, look at this electric scooter, it even has a charging port." The worker pointed at the control panel of the electric scooter.
"Good design, let's do it too." Liu Wenhu ordered the technicians nearby to record all of this.
After seeing the exterior, it's time to examine the electric scooter's performance.
Several technicians first pushed the electric scooter onto the electronic scale, and meticulously recorded the weight of the electric scooter.
Then they carefully removed the plastic outer shell of the electric scooter. Each shell was marked with 3D coordinates, and then they took detailed photos.
After removing the outer shell, the electric scooter's main frame was naturally exposed.
When Liu Wenhu and the technicians saw the main frame, they couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Any product, in the eyes of a professional, all of its flaws would be exposed.
But this electric scooter, they couldn't find any flaws.
Even if they used a vernier caliper to measure, there was no error in the center axis of the scooter.
The scooter's main frame is the most technologically demanding part of the production process.
Just like a human's skeleton, if it's malformed and crooked, it's possible to sprain your ankle while running.
But the scooter's main frame processing, if you want to achieve high precision, wouldn't that increase the cost?
The higher the precision, the more expensive the processing cost.
The boss Liu Wenhu and several technicians looked at each other, thinking that this electric scooter factory must have gone crazy.
On the main frame of this electric scooter, all of the welded joints were exactly the same. It was obvious that this was the work of a fully automated welding robot.
Could it be that there was a change in the competitive market? Even if they wanted to build an electric scooter, they would need to use a fully automatic welding assembly line?
"Even the parameters for the main frame have been calculated. The design of this scooter's main frame is too perfect," Liu Wenhu said as he sucked in a breath of cold air.
After the main frame was measured, the technicians turned on the switches of various instruments.
The core technology of these two electric scooters was not the main frame, but rather the long range and fast charging technology.
Since the battery and motor were from a conventional brand, then the secret must be in the electric scooter controller.
Even if the batteries were of the same brand, the charging and discharging parameters of each battery were different. If these batteries were simply stacked together, the different data would only interfere with each other and cancel each other out. It was a serious waste of energy. The longer the battery ran, the greater the parameter error between them, and the more serious the waste of energy.
There must be a special management device to accurately test each battery cell and intelligently coordinate the output and input coefficients of each battery cell.
Only then could the battery efficiency be maximized and achieve long endurance.
The technicians carefully connected the various instruments and wires to the electric scooter.
Then they fixed the electric scooter on the special inspection track, and turned the electric scooter's control handle, making the electric scooter quickly rotate.
The instrument faithfully recorded the electric scooter's operating data and the battery's working condition.
The test continued until the battery's power was completely depleted. Liu Wenhu and the technicians' eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
The data showed that the electric scooter's endurance was up to 90km, and this was after the computer simulated the driving record with people and normal wind speeds.
Then the charging test was carried out. After half an hour of testing, Liu Wenhu told the technicians to turn off the instrument.
There was no need to continue the test. The instrument could easily estimate the charging time based on the changes in electrical resistance.
"Remove the controller, I want to see what mysteries are hidden inside."
The technicians carefully removed the controller, and then removed the outer shell of the controller, exposing the electronic components inside. They then sent it to the electronic components inspection station, and used a more accurate electronic inspection device to inspect the controller.
But the inspection result made Liu Wenhu very puzzled.
The electronic components in the controller were all components used in normal electric scooters. Other than the power parameters being different, it was no different from a normal controller.
The controller was used to control the electric current of the electric scooter, and to protect the scooter from abnormal operation.
If changing the power parameters of the electronic components could achieve long endurance, then wouldn't that be mocking the designers' incompetence?
Any mature product had to go through tens of thousands of experiments to find the most scientific structure. If changing the parameters could solve the problem of long endurance, then the designers should just hang themselves.
That being the case, Liu Wenhu still decided to reverse engineer it. He had the technicians immediately copy the design of the controller and make a new one.
Liu Wenhu didn't even have time to eat dinner. He waited until his stomach was empty before the technicians finally finished copying the controller.
Liu Wenhu excitedly connected it to a testing electric scooter. Just as he inserted the key and turned on the power switch, the controller suddenly short-circuited, and then black smoke came out.
"This doesn't make sense?" The technicians were confused: "The electronic components inside are all common goods on the market. Why would it work after adjusting the power, but ours would burn?"
"Make more, make three more." Liu Wenhu said with a gloomy face.
The technicians worked overtime to copy three more controllers. But without exception, as soon as they were connected to the power source, they would instantly burn.
Failure after failure, made Liu Wenhu completely dumbfounded. This was the first time he had encountered this kind of situation. It was clearly the simplest electronic components, but after copying them, they would short-circuit and burn again and again.
"Let's not worry about the controller for now. Let's make the outer shell and the main frame." Liu Wenhu paced around the room: "These electric scooters are very popular, but the supply is pitifully low."
"Let's seize the time and immediately release a counterfeit model to steal their share."
"Then how do we solve the endurance problem? We can ignore the charging, but isn't endurance the scooter's biggest selling point?" The technicians asked.
"We'll also use six batteries, and use a normal controller. The endurance will be 10 kilometers longer than a normal electric scooter." Liu Wenhu suddenly thought of something: "This electric scooter, other than the brand, there's no other information about the manufacturer. The warranty card was issued by the dealer, so it's definitely an unlicensed product. "
"Now they can't sue us even if they want to. I'll call the mold master and have him come over to start the mold. We'll try to make the outer shell mold by tomorrow."
"You guys just follow the structure of this electric scooter and arrange the production."
Once the outer shell mold of the electric scooter was made, the rest was simple.
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