Vol 6 Chapter 196: Conquer Death Valley

On the blue-black cliffs, heavy clouds are piled up, and when seen from a distance, it looks like a sea surging like raging waves.

But the wind in this place is not as refreshing as the seaside, and it blows over, like steam.

As soon as Eberhard got out of the cool car, he suddenly felt as if he was in a steamer on the fire, up and down, left and right...every place around his body was radiating heat unscrupulously to him.

The sweat glands that were closed in the cool breeze of the air-conditioner were all opened at once, and sweat rushed out immediately. From the carriage to the container car in front, there were only a few cars in between, at most 20 meters away. , The red t-shirt on his body has been mostly wet.

He opened the door of the cargo box and suddenly entered a cool world again.

He took off his glasses, wiped his clothes, and saw that several engineers were busy surrounding the tightly disguised Tesla in the carriage. When he came in, no one stopped working. .

The air conditioner in the car should be very powerful, but the sweat bead can be clearly seen on the faces of those people.

"How's it going?" he asked.

"It will take about twenty minutes," one of the engineers said without looking up, and then called to the colleague next to him, "Coolant, check the coolant again..."

Eberhard looked around for a while, feeling that he was still in the way here, turned and pushed the door to get out of the car, and put himself in the steamer.

"This **** place," he mumbled, walked to another logistics support vehicle and took out a bottle of mineral water. "How much is it?" he asked a staff member next to it.

"The data from 5 minutes ago was 105.8 (Fahrenheit, 41 degrees Celsius)," the one who wiped the sweat on his face with a towel, said loudly, "The next temperature will not be lower than this,"

"105.8?" Eberhard's face became severe.

He glanced to the side and back, about 100 meters away from their temporary work site on the side of the road. At this time, several off-road vehicles were also parked. Next to the off-road vehicles, some guys wearing fisherman hats were up and down. Yes, to ensure that the camera on the side is working properly.

The camera is directly facing their direction.

"I hope that their cars will have problems for a while," said an employee who squatted in the small shadow next to the car.

The guys next to him laughed innocently at all when they heard the words, "I keep the air conditioner on here, at least, let their radiator tube burst."

"Haha, then they may have to ask us for help. At that time, shall we help or not?"...

Eberhard listened to the employees talking and laughing with his arms akimbo, without interrupting. Such a situation would certainly not happen. Since those cars can follow here, they are naturally prepared accordingly.

Because this is Death Valley.

Yes, this is the tourist attraction in California with a lot of mystery, Death Valley.

Unlike the name, this place is not gloomy at all. On the contrary, it is full of dazzling sunlight.

This valley, located in southeastern California, is nearly 230 kilometers long, less than 10 kilometers at its narrowest point, and more than 25 kilometers at its widest.

There are more than 500 square kilometers of land here, below sea level, and the lowest place is 85 meters below sea level.

The three mountain ranges around Death Valley, including the Sierra Nevada, form a rain barrier to block the moisture carried by the sea breeze from the Pacific Ocean, so this is one of the driest areas on earth, with average annual rainfall. , Only slightly higher than the Sahara Desert.

The special geographical environment makes it one of the driest and hottest areas in the world. From May to October every year, the mountains next to it are okay. The roadsides at the bottom of the valley are really life-threatening. .

Because of this, this is also the ideal place for many automakers to choose to test their new cars for high temperature resistance, and many of them are selected during the hottest summer.

As we all know, for pure electric vehicles like Tesla, the high temperature test has more meaning, because the lithium battery will emit high temperature during the working process, so here is the road test , A point that must come.

I believe that many people are paying attention to the results of this test. The few cars over there are obviously cars from various media, which are the best proof.

Although the battery module has successfully passed many extreme tests including fire, vibration, acceleration shock, and squeezing, Eberhard was still a little nervous at this time.

models This can be regarded as a tail that caught up with the hottest time in Death Valley. Who knows the temperature of these few days, so that it gives them face, it is not lower than 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

He looked at the road leading to the invisible end in front of him, and tested the car on this road. There had been accidents more than once before, and those accidents were of course spontaneous combustion.

I believe many people are looking forward to their road test at this time. It would be best if that happens. Eberhard certainly does not want that to happen, otherwise, he will not rush to the scene deliberately.

The battery sector of pure electric vehicles is unstable and easy to catch fire. This is the main point of view in many previous articles attacking Tesla. If this time, no matter what the reason, as long as that happens, Eberhard believes that absolutely It is an unprecedented setback, because it is useless to explain it.

And he also knows very well that if the models really burn up, the result may be the most ugly, because it uses an all-aluminum body.

The all-aluminum body is good everywhere, with light weight and excellent energy absorption... But the downside is its melting point, which is generally 600 degrees, which is much lower than the 1200 degrees of iron and over 1300 degrees of steel.

When the vehicle ignites spontaneously, it can easily reach about 700-800c, which can completely melt the aluminum body...that is, it may not even have a shelf in the end.

The phone rang, "Straw, yes, I'm right here, the road test will start right away, um, I believe there will be no problems,"

He saw that some of the media cars over there were moving. He looked back and saw that the car used for the road test was moving along the track slowly from the container.

It's going to start!

The work crew who were still lazy just now got busy immediately, and the media vehicle over there also kept shouting, "Hurry up!"

They hope to record the whole process of Tesla's road test here.

If you run too slowly, chances are you will miss some very interesting and spectacular scenes.

Under the care of some people in the distance, and the different expectations of the people present, the models roared in place for a few times, and then in an instant, like lightning, suddenly soared far away.

It turned out to have a rapid impact as soon as it came up, and when it came up, it maximized the power.

"Yeah!" Eberhard applauded along with the people around him, but his heart was raised.

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More than 40 minutes later, the model that had been so much anticipated by everyone, with dust all the way back to the place of departure, the two guys who came out of the driver's cab opened the door in twos and threes. Pulling off his clothes, yelling and throwing them into the sky, "Yeah!"

Suddenly ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the employees who stayed here swarmed and surrounded them. Many people were so excited that they jumped and screamed. Finally, I don’t know who suggested it. Those two naked-chested guys, Lifted and thrown into the air by everyone.

"Although this is just the beginning, it doesn't mean anything, but I'll come, I'll come," Eberhard squeezed in with a smile, and together with the others, caught the two people and threw them up high. .

Next to the container truck, the engineers who had been confident in their faces exchanged silent glances, "It's so hot, so hot," they let out a long sigh in unison.

The few media cars that were rushed back with the support car after being thrown back at this time are such a happy scene. Some of them are also very excited, while others are emotionally complicated. "What's the matter, it's just a trip,"

When Eberhard squeezed out of the crowd, he felt all his clothes were soaked. Only then did he remember to report to Feng Yiping and the others, "Feng, the first phase of the road test in Death Valley was very successful. Our battery management system is working. It was outstanding..."

Soon, this news, along with the media present, quickly spread out. The headline of one of the reports was, "Tesla, Conquered Death Valley!"