Written by Dedee
Often heard from the old man in the car circle that, to some extent, China's car market and the U.S. car market are becoming more and more similar.
Such as year after year, lamenting that sales are not good, year after year, the data hangs in Europe; such as city roads let the car traffic jam is unlovable, the rural dirt roads let the car dirty is unlovable; such as love to buy big cars and SUVs, are particularly care for the local brands, are particularly superstitious about the luxury car ......
To this I have always been I've always been in the left ear and out of the right ear.
Until recently, there was a bit of truth to it. Because an incredibly crucial factor has emerged: Ford, who has successfully designed the Ford respirator.
I had good reason.
No Chinese would deny that the Wuling is a mole for half the Chinese and a white moonlight for the other half. Similarly, no American would deny that Ford is half American's Burger King and the other half American's Golden Arches.
Because they can be said to be their country's "masked car king" - China has Wuling chose to be quicker to build masks, while the other side of the ocean, including GM, Ford, Tesla and FCA and other American car manufacturers, to develop air purifiers, respirators and ventilators.
But not all car makers have been quick to revamp their medical device lines.
It's not just that many medical devices, which can be as dizzying as quantum mechanics, can take months for some companies to build from the ground up; it's also that specialized medical devices, like ventilators, need to be approved by the FDA before they can be marketed. The approval process generally takes ten days and a half a month.
At this rate, the U.S. is getting cold.
At this critical moment, Ford had a stroke of luck - it used its own home-grown blower to create a new respirator called the Power Air Purifying Respirator.
The whole thing looks crunchy.
Ford engineers disassembled the hooded air-purifying respirator and discovered that it works by drawing potentially virus-contaminated air from the outside into a filtration system that actively purifies it before giving it to the wearer to breathe.
Unlike a mask, which is a passive filtration device, it requires power to draw in air. So Ford fell in love with its own squirrel-cage blower that specializes in cooling seats, and a standard 12V power tool battery pack.
The blower draws air into the filter, then a 12V power tool battery pack drives a fan that blows clean air into the supply hose, which feeds the respirator hood.
Of course, in addition to the above small, self-sufficient parts, there's one other extremely important component - the HEPA air filtration material.
Ford first found 3M, which was being scolded for its substandard production, and we hit it off. According to Ford's estimates, this protective equipment can help 3M to increase production by a factor of 10 - enough to make the latter happy to two slaps on the back of a piece.
Not only that, but Ford brought in GE Healthcare to expand production of the simplified respirator. Everything is ready to go, it's just a matter of whether the FDA approves it or not. ......
The Chinese people have Wuling, and the American people have Ford.
It's not just that they make hooded respirators, it's also that they've always been the American people's "light of the nation," with unrivaled sales.
When we suddenly woke up in the past few years, we began to marvel at Wuling's success in the 1980s, when it took the top spot in China's micro-vehicle production and sales, and in 2003, when it built the Wuling Zhiguang, which Forbes called "the most important car on earth," and the "Drift King" which made the 86 and the Akira trembling, the Wuling Zhiguang was the most important car on earth. "Drift King" Wuling Hongguang and other national product legends - the American people have long known that they have been with the "light of the country" for more than a century.
Whether it's the Ford Model T, which changed the world of industry by pioneering the assembly line a century ago; or the Mustang, which drove young Americans and their parents crazy half a century ago; or the Ford F-Series pickup trucks, which have been selling in the U.S. for more than 40 years.
The F-150, in particular, is the stone lion of the pickup truck world, the indispensable roadrunner of rural America.
Five years ago, in GTA5, the three protagonists would drive around in F-150s of all ages and finishes, either killing themselves or the passers-by.
And its predecessor, the F-100, is still remembered by many. For example, in Mad?Max?2, it made an appearance as a heavily armed soldier's car, and it was definitely a must-have for home travel and killing people. A few years ago, Stallone also customized one, and appeared in "Daredevil", everyone along the way to kill and save people like chopping vegetables, have fun.
That said, born in 1948, Ford F-series pickup trucks, the beginning is not at all to take the raw route, the front face looks like a no horns, nostrils than the eyes of the cow is still bigger than the N times, times times more stupid and cute times more good to bully the Yazi.
The first generation of Ford F-Series was also relatively poor in terms of load capacity, with the weakest F-1 carrying only 0.5 tons of load capacity - not much different from our Wuling Zhiguang.
However, from the second generation onwards, the F-series was like an ordinary young man on a diet of protein powder, running all the way from cute and weak to muscular and powerful, with looks, speed, and load capacity all developing by leaps and bounds. It is no wonder that after the 1970s, people began to gun for muscle cars, dominating the American car scene for 40 years.
And, the more the development of the more horizontal, the more horizontal the American people more like.
Normal people on earth know a truth: soft afraid of hard, hard afraid of horizontal, horizontal afraid of life-threatening.
But any pursuing car dealer on earth likes to try again and again between life and death.
So Wuling built the front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, hill-climbing, more drift-loving Wuling Hongguang in 2010. It replaced the 86 in China as the new god of Mt. Akira.
Ford, on the other hand, built the GT40, a super machine that could run for 48 hours without stopping, as early as 1966, and it kicked Ferrari out of Europe, dominating Le Mans for four years.
Ford took four years to get the GT40 right, and another four years to get Le Mans right, as last year's Hollywood blockbuster "Speed Racer" makes clear.
And there are two things that many liberal democracy-loving foreigners find intolerable about the Ford GT40 and its journey to the top of Le Mans.
The first is that from 1960 to 1964, Ferrari won four of the five Le Mans races - at the cost of running out of money, and the idealistic Enzo Ferrari declaring bankruptcy, gluttonized by Ford II, who had everything to do with practical benefits.
Can't stand it!!!!
The second was 1966, when Ford swept the top three places at Le Mans, at the cost of losing Ken Myers' first place. The story goes that Ford executives, in the interest of sensory thrills and team spirit, asked him to slow down and get to the finish line at the same time as the other two racers. Otherwise, Myers would have been the first legend on the planet to win Sebring, Daytona, and Le Mans in consecutive years.
Can't stand x2!!!!
But, from the perspective of a Chinese bystander who likes to watch the action, Ford's mindset at the time of hand-holding teams across the line was really rather socialist.
Of course, as the light of the national car, not only to be able to build a good car to build a fast car to build a car of unity, love and motivation, special times to build something special, but also need to be able to mediate the internal contradictions of the majority of the people.
For example, at the end of the 1970s, in order to make more Chinese people wear more decent, Wuling built a lot of sewing machines and cotton looms.
And in the last two years, to make American couples sleep more comfortably, Ford built two beds.
The first bed is called Max?Motor?Dreams.
What looks like a crib for BB is actually a well-being bed for sleep-deprived parents. That's because Max?Motor?Dreams is a "lathe" for those who love to sleep in the car, and then struggle to get home.
Also known as the "Mommy and Daddy Happy Bed".
It mimics the rocking of a car while it's moving, and there's a dimming and flickering LED light next to the bed - trying to mimic the nighttime driving scenario where streetlights keep appearing and disappearing.
The Max?Motor?Dreams even makes a slight vehicle-running sound. Parents can use the app to record all kinds of data on the drive, such as background sounds and the frequency of shaking, just so that the baby can sleep soundly at home, too. If he/she is safe and sound, then we can all be safe and sound.
The second is called the Lane-Keeping Bed, which translates to "Lane-Keeping Bed" - a bed that maintains or even saves a couple's relationship.
Also known as the "Happy Couple Bed".
After all, there are countless couples in the world who have fought and divorced and even tried to kill each other because of each other's outrageous sleeping positions and bed possessiveness.
The Lane-Keeping?Bed looks very Scandinavian ascetic, or like an irregular giant gift box. Only the bed frame is constructed of steel (you can break a bone if you don't kick it carefully, right?), and the mattress has a tank-track-like design.
Not only that, but the surface of the mattress is equipped with a pressure sensor that monitors the position of the person in the bed in real time.
The design was inspired by Ford's lane-keeping system - for example, when the person on the right presses infinitely to the left, the tracks silently adjust to the right to keep the person on the left in possession of the bed.
This bedlam is like a battlefield.
Of course, Ford designed these two beds not just to resolve internal conflicts and preserve the increasingly thin air of husband-and-wife or parent-child bonding, but also to show off - we're so good in bed, not to mention the car.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.