Author |Zhao try.
Zweig wrote in his epic book The World of Yesterday that when he first arrived in Berlin, it was transforming itself from an ordinary capital into a world famous city, but he was disappointed by the fast-paced pace of Berlin compared to the artsy and radiant Vienna.
Art is an eternal existence that transcends time and space, which not only represents the spiritual height of a city, but also the core driving force for the prosperity of any industry. The automobile is known as the "industrial pearl", and art is the second attribute of the car, which is often accompanied by new technologies and inventions, but its influence far exceeds the technology itself.
It's a pity that the car market is too volatile nowadays, and sales and traffic are like two knives hanging over the heads of car companies.
So, when I received the invitation to the Mercedes-Benz Tech Art Exhibition, I was inexplicably moved. The art exhibition is located in Beijing's 798 Art Park, divided into two theme exhibition areas: "Once Upon a Time: The Trend of the Times" and "Just in Time: The Trend of the Times", with a total of 10 exhibition halls, all of which are open to the public.
A tribute to great inventions
The "Wings of Longing" theme pavilion is not so much a visual feast as a feast of ideas, and the shocking naked-eye 3D vision presents us with the great inventions that have changed the development of mankind, from movable type printing to modern industrial printing, from cars to airplanes, from personal computers to human moon landing ......Every invention is a smashing of old knowledge and old forces: Brother Philippe Di Strata arrogantly said, "If there are scribes, why do you need to print words", but in the 15th century, movable type printing, one of the four great inventions of China, had reached Europe;The English physicist Lord Kelvin said that "a heavier-than-air flying machine is impossible", but the Wright brothers invented the airplane;Western scholars assert that "engaging in hybrid rice is ignorance of genetics", but Yuan Longping cultivated hybrid rice that promoted the world food revolution.
The German Emperor Wilhelm II once shouted "I still believe in horses, cars are just a flash in the pan", but the appearance of the world's first car "Mercedes-Benz No. 1" completely ended the history of horse-drawn carriages, and human travel has opened a new page.
Every brand has a heritage that history has given it, and from the invention of the automobile by Carl Benz in 1886 to the arduous trek of his wife Berta Ringle in the Mercedes-Benz One, "the love of invention never fails" has become a belief in Mercedes-Benz that has never faded. This belief translates into an infinite force that has led Mercedes-Benz to the heights of industry leadership.
For more than 100 years, Mercedes-Benz has made an indelible contribution to the automotive industry in engineering, aesthetics, technology, comfort, safety, sustainability and more.
In the field of safety, Mercedes-Benz was the first brand to start the first crash test in human history and ushered in the era of systematic safety testing.
In the field of performance, the "Silver Arrow Era" started by the Mercedes-Benz W25 is well known, and the Mercedes-Benz 300SL launched in 1954 won the crown of the world's fastest production car of that era with a terrifying speed of 263 km/h. The 300SL is not only a performance pioneer, it is also the embodiment of aesthetics, the world's first gullwing door.
In the field of comfort, the Mercedes-Benz 300, which was launched in the 50s of the last century and attracted by countless political and business celebrities, was the first to establish Mercedes-Benz as a leader in the global luxury car market with a handmade luxury sedan with a large number of soft fabrics in the interior.
In the field of environmental protection, we can see the use of new environmentally friendly materials in each generation of Mercedes-Benz classic models, such as the cockpit of the Vision EQXX, which is like an environmental museum full of art.
C111 was born in the Great Era
The moment I saw the C111 mirror art installation, an impact penetrated from my eyes to my soul. The mysterious laser is like the light of creativity, and the unfolding gullwing door is like the "wings of inspiration", leading us to the great era of personality explosion and flying ideas in the last century.
C111 was born in 1969, the year that the first message was sent by ARPANET, the founder of the Internet, when Neil Armstrong, the commander of Apollo 11, stood on the moon and said: "This is a small step for individuals, but a giant leap for humanity."
C111 has also taken a big step forward, the fourth generation of C111 has led an era, representing the most cutting-edge technology from 1969 to 1979, covering rotary engines, glass fiber reinforced plastic bodies, aerodynamics, styling aesthetics, lightweight design and other fields, and therefore, C111 is known as the "laboratory on wheels". Countless top billionaires want to get it, even at the expense of writing blank checks.
The accumulation of manuscripts and the old computer bear witness to the brilliance of the C111, the world's first car designed entirely on a computer, an innovation that allowed Mercedes-Benz engineers to calculate dynamic loads and significantly shorten the development cycle by four months.
The wedge-shaped body was a major step forward in the history of automobile styling, a design that was completely aerodynamic and has been used to this day and has led to countless classic supercars known for their speed. And the C111 itself is also a legend of speed - the third-generation model has broken 9 diesel engine world records, and the ** model has 403The top speed of 978 km h broke the world speed record, and today's F1 cars have a top speed of only 372 on the track5km/h。
The gullwing door is on C111, which is a secondary application. Mercedes-Benz is the inventor of the gull-wing door, as early as the 50s of the last century, 300SL and SLR took the lead in using the gull-wing door, originally because of the lightweight, high-stability tubular body caused by the ordinary swing door can not be used, the designer can only install hinges on the top of the car, but did not expect to "unintentionally insert willows into the willows", the gull-wing door has since become popular all over the world, representing the noble design of performance and aesthetics.
The C111-II is like an angel in the Pop Art work, which was completed by Andy Warhol, the "leader of Pop Art", in 1986, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mercedes-Benz Motors, to commemorate the centennial glory, Mercedes-Benz invited Andy Warhol to create the "Cars" series, including the C111-II.
With the yearning of the heart of art, depict the dream of perseverance. The development history of Mercedes-Benz is a history of human travel, with the spirit of fearless exploration and innovation enthusiasm to provide human beings with the most wonderful and safest way to travel, is an indestructible part of Mercedes-Benz as an industry leader.
Start another great era
The "Wings of the Future" pavilion represents the future of Mercedes-Benz. "Future Beach" adopts the combination of digital images and physical beaches, and at the same time echoes the "fireworks master" Cai Guoqiang's fireworks works at sea in Quanzhou, and the high-performance pure electric vehicle Vision One-Eleven stands in the middle of it, jointly interpreting the new trend of the era of "harmonious coexistence of people, technology and nature".
Vision One-Eleven is Mercedes-Benz's commitment to the future, but also an expression of its willingness to disrupt itself. Paying tribute to the C111's bow-shaped body design and high-performance pure electric power, it will surely become the killer feature of Mercedes-Benz's future pure electric models.
Many people don't know that Mercedes-Benz's electric drive technology has made a revolutionary breakthrough, and the secret ** is the Yasa axial flux motor that represents the "light wing". Reflected by the light, this motor radiates a holy glow like a lean work of art.
The YASA axial flux motor was developed by YASA Motor, a 100%-owned subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz, and will be installed in high-performance electric vehicles such as AMG. Its subtlety lies in the fact that it changes the magnetic field law of ordinary radial flux motors, and the magnetic field generated by its stator is perpendicular to the rotor shaft, while the stator magnetic field of the axial flux motor is parallel to the rotor shaft, which can be simply understood as everyone making force in one direction. Therefore, the weight of the axial flux motor is lighter, the structure is more compact, and the torque density is higher, and its weight and volume are only 1 3 of the ordinary motor, but the power density and torque density are 3 times and 2 times that of the traditional motor respectively.
The times are rushing forward, and the tide is galloping. Yes, the change of track has changed the technical track of Mercedes-Benz to a certain extent, and the engine may be the same as the horse-drawn carriage of more than a hundred years ago, which will be the end of the era, but what does it matter?Mercedes-Benz's new technologies and inventions that are enough to lead the industry, which one is not from scratch?
Finally, let's talk about it
All those who break the situation are fearless of challenges, set aside the trend of innovation, and define the trend of the times". This is the true heroism portrayed by Romain Rolland. In this era of great change at the best and worst, Mercedes-Benz is a leader cultivated over a century, with the courage and determination to face change without asking anything, and with the never-ending spirit of exploration with a love for invention.
This is perhaps the deeper meaning of the Mercedes-Benz Technology Art Show.
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