The document outlines a plan to develop an affordable vehicle designed for the needs of African terrain. It notes that current vehicles are unsuitable, having issues like low clearance and poor suspension. The solution is to set up an auto assembly plant in Nigeria to import vehicle parts at lower costs than fully-built vehicles, and produce key components locally using stamping, molding, and die casting machines. This would allow producing vehicles reliably for under $10,000 to meet the needs of African consumers. Funding is requested to help make the $5 million goal for setting up the assembly plant a reality.

2. Back Ground
OVERWIEW
The slogan of Meentech automobile manufacturing
company is , ‘giving you the best product at the
cheapest prices’
MEEN is an acronym of Micro Entertainment
Enterprises Nigeria. It’s a registered company with
Nigerian Corporate affairs commission.

3. THE NEED
In more than one hundred and forty years history of
automobile, no vehicle has been designed to meet the
peculiar needs of African terrain. For example all
vehicles designed for today's urban use generally has
low clearance, has no so rugged tyres or suspension
that will withstand the rough terrain of most African
urban dwelling.
Let me list the areas where today’s urban vehicle falls
short in design

4. 1 low clearance: Vehicle often hits the ground on
rough and get stuck.
2 They do not have rugged tyres that can withstand
the intense heat and rough terrain of African urban
dwelling
3 poor tolerance of the electrical parts to mud water,
parts like kick starter often fail due to water gaining
entrance into the coils,
4 poor suspension and bow joints

5. 5 often fragile / low thickness of the metal used in the
making of the chassis and often the body
6 they do not put the power needs of African into
consideration in any of their designs
7 very expensive
I can go on and on. The fact is , We African have no
choice, so we take the poor quality products dished
out to us without complaints.(Please do not get me
wrong, I define quality as the product that gives the
nearest satisfaction to consumers needs in terms of
utility, durability and aesthetics)

6. SOLUTION
The solution does not lie in re-inventing the wheel,
it’s something simple use of the already existing
technology can solve.
HOW TO MAKE IT CHEAP:
PLS TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURE BELOW

7. A brand new 2 tonne truck like this cost about
$25,000,. A 4 tonne truck about $30,000
Apart from the cabin, chassis/ frame, tyres, seats and
engine what exactly made this vehicle so expensive.
For your information let me give you the
prices of major components
Cabin:$600
Chassis / frame: $100
6 Tyres: $500
Engine: $1000
2 Seats: $250
Total $2450.

8. I have deliberately inflated the prices of some of these
components I know if we give the remaining
accessories $2000 we will be having the total product
still lower than $10,000. So even if we are not
producing anything but just importing and
assembling trucks here in Nigeria we can still do them
cheaply and still make a killing.

9. MORE SAVINGS:
Nigeria charges 5% cif of the automobile parts, while
cbu (completely built up) or FBU (fully built up) is
charged at 35% cif, (cost insurance and freight)
So importing the vehicle in parts you will save about
30% of the cost
Now a 40 foot container containing FBU cars will
only carry about 4 cars but in SKD will be about 8
vehicle and in CKD will be about 15 cars.
So this will make you save about 50% of the cost just
importing CKD or SKD and assembling locally.

10. To reduce the cost of production further, we are going
to
Set up an auto assembly plant with the following
Carbon Steel cold forging/ stamping factory line
produce the body
Plastic injection molding machine to produce some of
the plastic parts
Set up aluminum die casting factory to produce
engines and aluminum parts
With these we can produce vehicles cheaply.

11. Stamping Machine Picture

12. Plastic Injection moulding machine

13. Gravity Die casting machine

14. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS DREAM!!
DONATE TO THE CAUSE:
https://www.crowdfunder.com/micro-entertainment-ente
http://www.gofundme.com/irzemg
We are working hard to raise $5,000,000 to make this
dream a reality