Chapter 2542: Truck Demand II
It can be seen from this that although the British infantry division is a little less in 3-ton load-carrying vehicles, it is superior in other types of vehicles. , British infantry divisions and armored divisions both have very good battlefield mobility!
Well, now the question is, if these vehicles are equipped according to the standards of the British army in history, how many trucks will Germany need for combat units with more than 200 divisions on the Eastern Front in the future? Once the war starts, how many trucks need to be replaced every year to ensure the loss of the front line and the normal military expansion needs? This is probably a very large number.
Therefore, the development of the automobile industry, especially the truck industry, is really urgent! In the future, Ruprecht hopes that during the war, the truck production in the entire German region will reach more than 500,000 vehicles per year! Before the war, the number of trucks in Germany should have exceeded 5 million!
Do you think this data is scary? This is indeed the case in comparison with history. After all, in the early days of World War II in Germany, only more than 600,000 vehicles were available for use including the vehicles seized from other countries. And this plane, Germany alone must have more than 5 million people before the war, and the number has increased by 8 times!
But in fact, even compared with the United States, which has been called open in history, this inventory is actually very average. You must know that in 1941 before the war, the United States sold 3.763 million cars a year, and sold 902,000 cars. truck! The so-called country on wheels really lives up to its name!
This quantitative gap is naturally reflected in the industrial scale, but it also involves fuel, land area and transportation composition. Not to mention fuel, as the largest oil producing country in the world at that time, the United States, which produced more than 100 million oil annually, used gasoline for cars for only 17 cents a gallon in 1931! Such cheap fuel naturally makes the cost of using a car very low.
As for the size of the country, there is no need to say much about it. Before World War II, Germany was only 500,000 square kilometers, and the United States was more than 9.3 million square kilometers. There is also a huge gap in population, so Americans naturally have a greater demand for cars. In terms of transportation composition, Germany has the most efficient railway network in the world, so the demand for automobile transportation is naturally not very high. And the rail density in the US is much lower, so it will definitely take a lot of trucks to make up for it.
And what about this plane? Germany also has a lot of foundation and demand for the development of the automobile industry. First of all, let's talk about the foundation. Germany won the first World War! I won! I won! Say important things three times! The so-called ten thousand taels of gold with the sound of the cannon does not only mean that the consumption of war is huge, but also that the benefits of war are also huge! The huge amount of compensation has provided sufficient capital for the development of the empire, and with the prosperity of the empire, the living standards of ordinary people are destined to be greatly improved. This is the same as the prosperity of the United States and Britain after the end of World War I in history! The economic development and the improvement of people's living standards have naturally created prerequisites for the development of the automobile industry.
And at the same time. The high oil price that has restricted the development of the automobile industry in history is also not a problem for Germany now. First of all, Germany itself has become the second largest oil producer in the world! At this stage, the oil production in the Caucasus can be stabilized at more than 25 million tons per year, and it will be no problem to increase it to more than 30 million tons in the future! Although it cannot be compared with the hundreds of millions of tons of fuel oil produced by the Americans. But there is no problem in supplying Germany, Austria or even the whole of Europe!
In addition to the Caucasus oilfields, the crown prince currently controls the oilfields in the Mesopotamia Basin. Although the current Middle East is far less exaggerated than the so-called Middle East oil poles in later generations, the crude oil production in the Mesopotamia Basin alone is as high as 6 million tons. Coupled with the fact that the British withdrew their forces from Persia, Germany can take advantage of the trend and enter the Persian oil fields, and the output here is more than that of the Mesopotamia! So, quite literally,
As long as the crown prince is willing, it is not a big problem for the fuel production controlled by the German Empire to exceed 50 million tons! Therefore, after waiting for a large amount of fuel oil to be mined and a mature delivery system established, it is estimated that 17 cents a gallon of fuel oil in Germany is not a big problem! As for how high the fuel cost of the Germans was in history? If chemical synthesis is used to produce gasoline, it is about 6 to 7 times the cost in the United States!
Well, the foundation for vigorously developing the automobile industry is in place, so what about the demand? The demand is also huge. First of all, the area of Germany now exceeds 1.5 million square kilometers, and the area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is almost the same. The two countries together exceed 3 million square kilometers. The net increase in the territory of the two countries exceeds 1.8 million! Well, if you want to control and develop such a huge new territory, you must develop the transportation industry.
In Germany and Austria, in fact, the main means of material transportation are railways and inland waterway shipping. That is the benefit brought by the railway network built by Germany and Austria for more than half a century, but this set will not work for new territories. The reason is very simple. The efficiency of railway transportation in Russia is too low. The territory close to the east is better. Some, the railway density is about one tenth of that in Germany and Austria, but in places like Ukraine, the railway density drops to one tenth or even a few tenths...
It took Germany and Austria more than half a century to create a railway network extending in all directions, but they wanted to build a railway network of the same density in a place that was more than double their original territory. This is a bit difficult! The fixed asset investment alone is probably an astronomical figure! Moreover, the time for Germany to engage in domestic construction this time will definitely not exceed 20 years!
Someone once defined peace in this way. What is peace? It's just a short gap between the two wars! This may be radical, but in the turbulent early 20th century, it was true! Look at the situation in history, the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1905, and the First World War broke out in 1914. Then, between the two world wars, the flames of war never ceased on the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. And in 1939, World War II broke out! This is the product of intensified global conflicts.
And what about this plane? Although the Allies have won, the shadow of the war is still not far away! The contest between Germany and Austria and other powerful countries is only suspended rather than terminated! The two sides are just recovering and adjusting their diplomatic relations and global strategies at the same time. Once the time is right, the United States, Britain and Russia will definitely choose to take action, and if Germany and Austria complete their combat preparations one day earlier, they will do so without hesitation!
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