In addition to masks, car companies can also produce planes, sewing machines and sausages across borders.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, there has been a sharp decline in sales in the auto market for a short time. The biggest news in the car circle is that car companies have started to produce masks. SAIC-GM-Wuling, BYD and Guangzhou Automobile Group "switched careers" and began to produce masks, which provided strong material support for epidemic prevention and control. In fact, similar cross-border operations are not unique among car companies-apart from masks, what car companies can produce can be described as all-encompassing and unexpected.

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Honda: Small planes have advantages.

Honda's engine strength is even better, and this advantage has been extended to small aircraft. Recently, HACI (Honda? A plane? Company) announced the delivery of 36 small business jets-Honda Jet on 20 19 * *, which is the third consecutive year since 20 17 that this type of aircraft has ranked first in the world in terms of the delivery volume of products of the same level.

The maximum speed, maximum flying height, climbing performance, maximum cruising range, fuel economy and quietness of this small business jet have reached the highest level. It also has the largest cabin space in its class, and is equipped with a small food preparation area, a toilet (with optional safety seats) and a Bongiovi speaker-free audio system, and allows single driving.

This HondaJet? The cockpit of HA-420 has only five seats and is equipped with the turbofan engine HF 120 jointly developed by GM Honda. The maximum thrust is 2095 pounds, the climbing rate is 20.2m/s, the cruising speed is 778km/h, and the maximum ceiling is13100m.

In addition to airplanes, Honda has also developed and introduced mechanical products used in daily life, such as water pumps, lawn mowers, brush cutters, small ship engines, Honda walkers, UNI-CUB balance cars, and robots.

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Tesla: The "sky-high price" solar roof is planned to enter China.

"Join the solar roof business team!" This is a link title recently forwarded by Musk on social media. It is reported that this means that Tesla will expand its solar roof business in international markets such as China and Europe this year.

Tesla's development in solar energy can be traced back to previous years. 20 16 Tesla invested in the acquisition of Solar? Cities, began to vigorously expand this business; /kloc-in may of 0/7, Tesla launched the first batch of photovoltaic roof products. By May of 20 19, Tesla introduced the third generation of solar roof tiles.

Does Tesla have the strength to promote solar roofs? Take Tesla's third generation products as an example. It replaces the traditional installation mode of "roof+solar panels" and has the characteristics of low production cost, high power generation and convenient installation. But in terms of price, Tesla set the price of solar roof at 2. 1 1 USD per watt, equivalent to RMB 14 yuan. Converted, a house of 180 square meters needs 230,000. According to insiders, if you enter the China market at the domestic price in the United States, there will undoubtedly be some "sky-high prices".

Tesla is a technology company, not an electric car manufacturer. In addition, as an innovative star car company, Tesla also sells many peripheral products on its official website, such as surfboards, hats, shirts and other items that young people like.

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Toyota: an aristocrat in sewing machines

A few decades ago, the sewing machine was one of the "three big pieces" that China people valued very much. Nowadays, with the development of manufacturing industry, people have become accustomed to buying clothes directly in shopping malls or online, and few people will make beautiful clothes by sewing machines.

However, for some enthusiasts and fashion designers who like to do it themselves, a fully functional sewing machine that keeps pace with the times is essential. OEKAKI, a subsidiary of Toyota, a famous automobile manufacturer? Embroidery sewing machines are "artifacts" in their eyes.

Toyota will OEKAKI? 50 has been promoted to a new height, which has changed the meaning that ordinary sewing machines can only provide a single pattern under difficult working conditions and made sewing more interesting. We can integrate our creativity into sewing, and even apply it to home decoration or personal wearing accessories.

In fact, Toyota started from the ancestral sewing machine factory before becoming the most successful enterprise in the automobile industry. Before switching to the automobile industry, Toyota was a famous textile family business in Japan at that time. From this point of view, Toyota's sewing machine is not unprofessional, but inherits the ancestral business. Not only that, Toyota is also involved in yachts, robots, biotechnology and other fields.

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Mazda: The egg cooker adopts rotor engine technology.

At the beginning of 20 16, Mazda released a design of rotor modeling, Mazda? EX-7 metal casting egg cooker. Amazingly, the egg boiler claims to use Mazda's famous rotary engine technology.

This kind of "rotor" egg cooker is not only excellent in workmanship, but also very practical. High-precision nickel plating manufacturing process with appearance similar to automobile metal parts. The egg boiler has a diameter of 15.5cm and a height of 9cm, and can put 6 eggs at a time. And it mainly incorporates the concept of environmental protection. Just put 2 cm high water in the pot. If you want to eat boiled eggs, you need to cover the pot and cook for 14 minutes. If it is fully cooked, you need to cook for 18 minutes.

Mazda? EX-7 egg cooker adopts the triangular rotor shape of Wankel engine in its design, and adds the environmental protection concept of SKYACTIV technology to it. Mazda's excellent corporate culture and excellent "artisan spirit" ensure the reliability of products.

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Peugeot: We are professionals in making kitchen utensils.

In Peugeot's eyes, Mazda became a kitchen appliance halfway, which is not worth mentioning. After all, they are professionals. Taobao has all kinds of beautiful kitchen utensils, from bottle openers to coffee machines. Peugeot began to produce coffee grinders from 1840, and then began to produce pepper grinders from 1874. It was not until 1890 that Peugeot entered the field of automobile production.

After nearly two centuries, Peugeot series grinder has become a world-famous brand, and Peugeot coffee pepper grinder is deeply loved by chefs and diners. In addition to pepper grinder and coffee grinder, Peugeot has also produced cross-border items such as motorcycles, bicycles, metal umbrellas, hacksaws, wine sets and clothing. From this perspective, cars seem to be Peugeot's "sideline".

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Volkswagen: Sausages outsell cars.

The cross-border of the above brands is nothing more than pioneering and innovating in the field of machinery. Now the most shocking thing is coming, that is the sausage of the public!

As one of the best car companies in the world, Volkswagen's car-making strength needs no elaboration. But who would have thought that as early as 1973, when many people had not touched the car, the public made their own sausages. At first, Volkswagen's sausages were only for workers to eat, but after so many years of development, Volkswagen's sausages have been sold in supermarkets all over Germany.

In recent years, Volkswagen produces millions of sausages every year, which is higher than the output of automobiles. Taking 20 13 as an example, Volkswagen * * * produced 6.4 million sausages, which reached 1376 km end to end. In other words, sausages produced by Volkswagen in two or three years can circle the earth. Is it much better than one?

Write it at the end

It is still very common for car companies to do "sideline" across borders in the whole industry. Because of the epidemic, everyone is concerned about the cross-border production of masks by car companies, and even the ability behind cross-border production by car companies. In fact, automobile production, as a master of large industry, has very strong reserve production capacity, technological innovation capacity, raw material supply capacity and industry integration capacity, and the production of civilian products such as masks is nothing.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.