The relevant person in charge of Geely Holding Group mentioned that the front line of Wuhan epidemic is always busy, and personnel ferry and material transportation are the last few kilometers of epidemic prevention and control work, which cannot be ignored. Let Cargill, which has large space, high comfort and high safety, not only increase the transportation capacity, but also provide a temporary rest place for tired medical staff, killing two birds with one stone.
In addition to medical staff, Geely has not ignored the travel needs of ordinary people. Although Academician Zhong Nanshan, the "God of War against Epidemic", emphasized that reducing travel is conducive to epidemic prevention and control, and Chinese people are willing to actively cooperate, most people still have travel needs. In order to better prevent and control the epidemic, Najiri used its Cao Cao travel platform to set up an "emergency prevention and control support group" with hundreds of people. In the case of self-protection and vehicle disinfection, the motorcade provides free door-to-door services such as food delivery, vegetable delivery and medicine delivery to residents in various communities in Wuhan, and helps the necessary non-fever diseases to be rushed to the hospital, so that our general public can meet the material needs of the community as much as possible without going out. Recently, Geely announced in Guan Wei that it will spend 370 million yuan to start the research and development of "all-round health car" with anti-virus function. What exactly is this project?
In the view of An Conghui, president of Geely Holding Group and president and CEO of Geely Automobile Group, virus epidemic prevention is a work that needs the long-term efforts of the whole society. As a common means of transportation for consumers, cars are frequently used and have great mobility. On the basis of the "new four modernizations" development direction of electric, networked, intelligent and enjoyable automobiles, automobile enterprises should devote themselves to developing products that help protect the health of drivers and passengers. This will also be one of the key research and development directions for Geely Automobile's long-term investment and continuous investment.
In An Conghui's description, we should consider the preparation for novel coronavirus's long-term "battle". At present, in most densely populated cities, most people's main means of transportation is cars. Geely's research and development of vehicles with the function of protecting the health of drivers and passengers is one of Geely's current key research and development directions. By what means does Geely's research and development ensure the safety of users?
Even if we are not technical R&D personnel, we also know that it is impossible to develop a car overnight, especially to combine the car with "anti-virus". Even though Geely has a deep "family background", the technical barriers that this "cross-border R&D" needs to break through cannot be discovered by just a few researchers. Even for ordinary production models, it costs money to complete a series of links from design, R&D, production to practical use.
According to Geely's explanation, the "all-around health car" will be different from the professional medical protection car, and it is a consumer-grade product mainly for ordinary consumers. It not only has the existing functions of Geely automobile products, such as isolating harmful substances from the outside air and purifying the air in the car quickly and efficiently, but also will focus on breaking through the virus prevention functions and technologies in the car to effectively eliminate the virus or reduce the harm of the virus to the human body. At the same time, all materials in the car are not only environmentally friendly, but also have the ability to inhibit bacteria or surface sterilization by adding certain antibacterial substances, thus achieving more practical "all-round health".
These sounds comprehensive, but we know that there is no example of a production car relying on car software and hardware to prevent viruses before. Although Geely Automobile provides a new perspective for automobile research and development, the technical difficulties it will face and the cross-disciplinary cooperation projects it needs are unprecedented.
For this research and development, Geely Automobile said that it will make full use of the global system and resources, cooperate with relevant professional medical institutions and scientific research and development institutions at home and abroad, and set up a special project team to carry out technical research. Once Geely's "all-round healthy car" is officially put into the market, the evaluation standard of "in-car ecological environment" will also usher in great innovation.
However, this research and development direction is also accompanied by negative voices: for example, the "anti-virus car" seems to want to strengthen the anti-virus function and technology in the car, but it will adopt ways such as adding antibacterial substances. This means that this car may indeed have the ability to inhibit bacteria or surface sterilization, but it may be "powerless" to the real virus. This practice is suspected of speculation.
Some netizens even asked why ultraviolet lights can't be installed in the car. You can disinfect the car when no one is in it. However, we should know that the interior of most vehicles now contains a lot of plastic and leather materials, which will be damaged if exposed to ultraviolet rays frequently.
Bian Xiao concluded that Geely's "all-around safety car" can not only cope with the epidemic situation, but also improve the evaluation standard of "ecological environment inside the car" by more than one step. However, Geely should take actions such as research and development progress and specific implementation.
Once Geely completed the research and development and put into production, it not only responded to the slogan of "Let users buy China brand cars with higher technology, higher quality and higher added value", but also proved to global car companies that China cars have been ahead of them in some fields.
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