Can make cars and masks. Take stock of car companies that engage in "sideline business"

Since the outbreak, most car companies have been giving generously. Some of them donated money directly, while others donated cars. However, in the most urgent stage of epidemic prevention and control, protective materials such as masks and disinfectant are the most urgently needed materials. In this special period, many car companies have "switched careers" and started mask production, which provided a strong material guarantee for epidemic prevention and control. In fact, similar cross-border operations are not uncommon among car companies. Today, we will take stock of those car companies that engage in "sideline business".

● SAIC-GM-Wuling

On February 6th, a joint supplier of SAIC-GM-Wuling changed its production line to masks. According to the project construction plan, both the renovation of dust-free workshop and the construction of production lines will be put into use before the end of February, and 14 mask production lines will be set up, including 4 N95 mask production lines and 1 general medical protective masks production lines. The daily production capacity is expected to reach more than 1.7 million.

It took only three days from the idea of switching masks to the first batch of masks being rolled off the production line. On February 9th, the first batch of masks was successfully rolled off the production line, and on February 13th, the first batch of 1 million protective masks were produced. The slogan "Wuling will make whatever people need" on the mask production box even made the whole network tearful and moved.

in the long development history of Wuling automobile, it has been involved in many other industries. Wuling's earliest predecessor was an arsenal, which was then called Liuzhou Power Machinery Factory. In 195s and 196s, it successfully produced the 51 "Friendship" brand chain saw, and then trial-produced tractors, so that Liuzhou Power Machinery Factory became one of the eight tractor factories in China at that time. By the end of 197s, in order to meet the market demand at that time, Liuzhou Tractor Factory began to produce multifunctional sewing machines and automatic shuttle changing cotton looms. In the 198s, Liuzhou Tractor Factory was renamed as "Liuzhou Mini-car Factory" and officially turned into mini-cars.

●? Guangzhou Automobile Group

Guangzhou Automobile Group also responded to the call of mask production with practical actions. Also on February 6th, Ceng Qinghong, Party Secretary and Chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Group, personally led a team to Dongguan mask production equipment manufacturers for investigation. The next day, Guangzhou Automobile Components Technology Center sent a technical team to Dongguan to study and study the related technology and production process of mask equipment. In just a few days, engineers of Guangzhou Automobile Components Technology Center have successfully assembled the first mask production equipment, and completed the on-site installation and debugging of the equipment on February 11th.

It is estimated that the installation of 12 sets of equipment will be completed on February 22nd, and it will be increased to 3 sets by the end of February. If all these equipment are put into production, it is estimated that GAC can produce 1 million masks per day by the end of this month.

●? BYD

On February 8th, BYD officially announced that it would assist in the production of masks and disinfectant, and handed over this important task to the Ninth Division of Electronic Business Group. You know, for BYD, cross-border mask making is not a very difficult thing.

It is reported that BYD's Ninth Division was established as early as 26, mainly engaged in OEM, R&D and manufacturing of mobile phones, tablet computers and automotive electronic components, and brand mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Huawei are the main customers. More crucially, the Ninth Division also has the medical device system certification, and has been acting as a long-term agent for the production of medical device products.

At the same time, BYD subsidiary Shanwei BYD Industrial Co., Ltd. and BYD Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd. have successively changed their business scope, adding research, development, production and sales of disinfectant products, medical devices and industrial protective articles.

according to BYD's plan, the drawings will be designed within 3 days, the equipment will be designed within 1 week, and the products will be produced within 1 days. The mass production of masks and disinfectant will start around February 17th. It is estimated that the production capacity of masks and disinfectant will reach 5 million pieces/day and 5, bottles/day by the end of February.

●? Tesla

is a technology company rather than an electric vehicle manufacturer. In addition to building cars and selling cars, the energy business is also Tesla's main business, including Solar for individual/home users? Roof solar roof, Powerwall for energy storage, and commercial solar panels and corresponding Powerpack for energy storage. Among them, the solar roof is to install a solar power generation device at the top of the house, and use solar photovoltaic technology to generate electricity in urban and rural construction areas to achieve the goal of energy saving and emission reduction. But so far, Tesla's solar energy business is only sold in a few areas such as the United States, but in the long run, Tesla's energy business has a very broad development prospect.

Tesla CEO Musk said recently that Tesla is stepping up the installation of solar roof business in the United States, and is also preparing to expand the business to Europe and China later this year. In addition, as a star car company in the field of new energy, Tesla has also sold many peripheral products on its official website, such as surfboards, hats, shirts and other items that young people like.

●? Honda

Honda is known as the technical house, and its full name in Japan is "Honda Technical Research Industry Co., Ltd.", and the word "technical research" is of great significance to Honda. As we all know, Honda once dominated the automobile and motorcycle fields, but it was not satisfied with being limited to the automobile and motorcycle industries. For this reason, Honda has successively developed and launched airplanes, water pumps, lawn mowers, small ship engines, Honda walking AIDS, UNI-CUB balance cars, robots and so on.

Take airplane building as an example. As early as 1986, Honda began research on small aircraft and aircraft engines. Until 215, Honda's first mass production aircraft HondaJet? HA-42 finally obtained the model certification of the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States and started the work of customer delivery. It is reported that this HondaJet? The HA-42 has only five seats in the cockpit, equipped with the turbofan HF12 engine jointly developed by GM Honda, with a maximum thrust of 2,95 pounds, a climb rate of 2.2m/s, a cruising speed of 778km/h and a maximum ceiling of 13,1 meters, which has a strong advantage in the same class. Besides, in NBAA? Under the condition of IFR backup fuel, HondaJet has a maximum range of 1,223 nautical miles (about 2,265 kilometers).

●? Volkswagen

Volkswagen's domestic influence and consumer recognition are very high, and it can be called the industry leader whether it is building a car or selling a car. In the past 219, Volkswagen brand delivered 6,278,3 new cars worldwide. However, it is very surprising that the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe has a "doing nothing" department in its German headquarters-Volkswagen Meat Processing Factory, which is dedicated to making sausages.

It is understood that as early as 215, the sales of sausages made by Volkswagen exceeded 7 million, which was higher than the sales of automobiles. The reason why we entered the meat products industry was that the headquarters of Volkswagen was short of materials in the last century. In order to solve the problem of food for employees within Volkswagen, we decided to start a meat processing factory and even set up a farm, so sausages became a part of the corporate culture of Volkswagen. However, Volkswagen sausages are only available for sale in canteens of Volkswagen factories and individual shops and supermarkets.

● Toyota

Toyota Motor is one of the most successful enterprises in the automobile industry, but Toyota started from the ancestral sewing machine factory instead of making cars. Before switching to the automobile industry, Toyota was a famous textile family enterprise in Japan at that time. Today, we can still see sewing machines made by Toyota, such as this Toyota OEKAKI? Embroidery sewing machine, the aristocrat in sewing machine.

It is worth mentioning that Toyota has also shown great interest in agricultural cultivation. Since 212, Toyota has established a new greenhouse with local farmers in northeastern Japan to grow sweet peppers, and at the same time launched the "Harvest Plan"? "。 Specifically, it is to apply Toyota's manufacturing concept to the agricultural field. IT? Management tools (PDCA) improve production efficiency. Provide the overall solution of indoor cultivation, and improve the efficiency, stability and added value of agricultural production. Not only that, Toyota has also been involved in yachts, robots, biotechnology and other fields.

●? Mazda

When talking about the brand Mazda, many people first think that it must be a rotary engine. After all, Mazda is the only automobile company in the world that develops and produces rotary engines. Mazda's sideline can also be related to the rotor, and launched an egg cooker product called "EX-7".

this egg cooker is made of nickel-plated aluminum alloy, and it is finely carved and shaped by hand. The most important thing is that the shape of this egg cooker incorporates the design elements of Mazda's rotary engine, which not only looks very pleasing, but also is quite practical. Mazda's egg cooker is 15.5 cm in diameter and 9 cm in height. It can cook 6 eggs at a time. Is it suitable for the whole family?

●? Peugeot

Compared with Mazda, French Peugeot has made greater achievements and fame in kitchen appliances. Peugeot began to produce coffee grinders in 184, followed by pepper grinders in 1874, and it was not until 189 that Peugeot entered the field of automobile production. After nearly two centuries, Peugeot series grinders have become well-known brands in the world, and Peugeot coffee and pepper grinders are deeply loved by chefs and diners.

In addition to pepper grinder and coffee grinder, Peugeot has also produced various cross-border items such as motorcycles, bicycles, metal umbrella frames, hacksaws, wine sets, clothes, etc. From this point of view, cars seem to be Peugeot's "sideline".

●? Written at the end

In fact, it is still very common for car companies to do "sideline business" across borders in the whole industry. After all, from the perspective of enterprises, a single revenue business is not conducive to the development and growth of enterprises. However, under the current predicament of "one mask is hard to find", the initiative of Guangzhou Automobile, Wuling, BYD and other car companies to "switch jobs" to produce masks really deserves our praise. Here, we also hope that more qualified car companies can participate in the production of epidemic prevention materials.

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