Chapter 122 United Automobile Factory’s Plan
Seeing that Arthur was very satisfied with the performance and data of the new car, Benz breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it can get Arthur's strong support, then this new type of car with reduced price will definitely be able to enter the world market, instead of being like the cars invented by Benz before, which were unsalable due to various shortcomings and had no name but no name. any actual benefit.
"Mr. Benz, how is our car production? Do you have any plans for the car's pricing and release date?" Arthur asked.
Although it is several years earlier than the original history, Arthur believes that Benz's new car will definitely not lose too much to the Model T, and may even surpass it slightly.
The Model T car can set a sales record of 15 million units, so what kind of historical record will the new car set?
"Your Highness, based on our current scale of 300 formal workers and more than 1,000 indigenous workers, our daily output can reach a maximum of more than 100 vehicles." Benz replied: "But it has to be based on a basis. Then That is to ensure the supply of our steel and various hardware."
Although the assembly line production method is adopted, the time required to produce a car is greatly reduced.
This also allowed the Benz Automobile Factory to rapidly accelerate from the original production of only a few dozen cars a week to a maximum production of dozens of cars a day, or even hundreds of cars now.
However, the assembly line production method cannot be infinitely fast. In addition to the proficiency of employees in this production method, the number of employees, the supply of various materials, and hardware are also factors that check and balance the speed of automobile production.
"Producing 100 cars per day?" Arthur pondered for a while, nodded and said: "Our car production cannot be fast. At least we must open up the American and European markets before we can pursue accelerating production speed. Before this, it is already good to maintain the current scale of automobile production, but we must also be prepared to expand the scale of production at any time."
Benz nodded, and this was exactly what he had in mind.
Although Benz, Diesel and Arthur are all confident that the new car can become a pioneer in expanding the automobile market and set a new world record.
But until this day comes, this is just a conjecture after all. Even if the possibility is extremely high, you have to be prepared to fail.
"Your Highness, there is another issue we have to consider, and that is the cost of producing cars from Australia, transporting them to the United States and Europe, and the tariffs of each country. This will be a big expense and will greatly intensify the impact of our car production. Cost. Even in some areas, our car production costs will be brought to the same level as those of handmade cars, which will greatly reduce our price advantage." Benz frowned and said another thing he was worried about. question.
These days, if you want to transport it, you can only use a transport ship, which will cost a lot of money and take a lot of time.
At the same time, in order to strengthen their advantages in the domestic market, major industrial countries will also make certain modifications and increases in tariffs.
Combined with transportation costs and tariffs, Australia's proud car production costs may usher in changes, and may even rise directly to the same level as those of handmade cars in some places with relatively high tariffs.
"This is indeed a problem, Mr. Benz." Arthur nodded, frowning and thinking deeply.
In fact, most of the sales of Model T cars in history were in the United States, and sales in other regions, even Europe, were very small. This may not be because of relatively high tariffs.
There is only one way to solve tariffs and transportation costs, and that is to establish automobile factories in some parts of Europe and the United States, or even unite the forces of Europe and the United States to jointly open these automobile factories.
Although some benefits will be shared, it will also make the status of the car factory more unshakable. After all, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake, let alone a weak dragon like Australia?
"Let's do this, select some cars with better performance, transport them to the UK and Germany respectively, win their support, and open new car factories in the UK and Germany respectively." After thinking for a long time, Arthur said: " Create a United Automobile Factory by cooperating with local forces in Britain and Germany, especially the nobility and official forces. The royal consortium will handle this matter. You only need to license the relevant technology. Of course, the inventors and owners of the technology will The people are still you, and the new automobile factory only has production authorization." Cooperating with local forces in the United Kingdom and Germany to establish a joint automobile factory is a good choice.
First of all, Britain and Germany are the first and second powers in the world respectively, and their automobile factories do not have to worry about competition with other automobile factories or even other countries.
Secondly, in terms of industrial strength and technological strength, the British Empire and the German Empire are also top in Europe, and their production speed can definitely keep up with the expansion of the automobile market.
Furthermore, Arthur was born into the British royal family and gained the favor of a large number of British people. He also has a good relationship with Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Australia and Germany also have a cooperative relationship.
Whether in terms of personal relationships or national interests, Britain and Germany are the preferred partners and can definitely protect the huge interests of automobiles.
The only problem is that Arthur may lose some of his profits, but the profits from the car market are absolutely huge, even exceeding one billion pounds.
Such a huge market is definitely not something that Arthur can capture by himself, nor can Australia's size and capabilities.
After authorizing Britain and Germany to create a joint automobile factory for production and sales, the automobile factory will be divided among the British Empire, the German Empire, and Australia.
It doesn't matter how the British Empire and the German Empire compete for Arthur. As long as Australia's interests can be guaranteed, everything else is trivial.
It doesn't hurt to let the British Empire and the German Empire make more money. Anyway, after the war breaks out in the future, Australia will be able to make a lot of money from arms sales, not to mention other benefits involved in the war.
The United States actually has a huge automobile market, but Arthur does not agree with wooing American forces.
First of all, the United States is a purely capitalist society, and the power of capital is greater than anything else.
As long as Australia invests a lot of capital and carries out certain operations, it may not be unable to compete with American car companies.
Furthermore, no matter how prominent the British Empire and the German Empire were now, Arthur knew very well that the United States was the country that threatened them the most.
The United States, which has a unique geographical location and abundant resources, rose rapidly during the two world wars.
The way the United States rose was by selling arms, which made a lot of profits in the early stages of the war, and even put most European countries into debt.
Subsequently, the United States relied on its own advantages to attract a large number of immigrants and refugees from Europe.
These people include a large number of European scientists and talents. These people are the result of the European Industrial Revolution and technological development, but they eventually became the wedding dress of the United States.
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