Chapter 1239
"I remember that Waffa Motors is led by Luci, so what does Waffa management think?" Li Linfei looked at Li Bingling.
The latter nodded and whirled, "It is Lu Qi who is in charge, and the management has not yet come up with a final decision on whether to choose to cooperate with BYD, FAW, or Tesla."
Li Linfei could not help but wrinkle his brow at hearing this and asked, "Why did even FAW make it to the final candidates?"
Li Bingling smiled and said succinctly, "I guess it's the strong PR ability."
Li Linfei: "Forget it, granting a trillion dollars is nowhere to be seen up, frankly I wouldn't want to play with such people, I can't bring myself to do it."
After thinking about it, Li Linfei said, "Let's go with Tesla!"
Li Bingling: "Tesla? BYD is also good in these years, after all, it is still a domestic brand, choose Tesla after all this is the old American ah ...... I can almost conclude that the news announced, will certainly face the netizens soul torture - why not choose a domestic brand?"
At the words Li Linfei choked a leather smile, and then said faintly: "It is because Tesla is the old American car brand to choose him, one is a cross-border trade balance issues, the other is to enter the North American market knocker, Musk was forced to this side is also holding his breath to do up in the Greater China market, and then a strong return to North America, a cooperation, Tesla went back to my business of course also followed the past."
"Can you do this by choosing a national brand? A basic technical problem, a policy problem, a country problem."
"What about playing with them in the nest living in the mud? Future Technology doesn't earn profits overseas and they say they're in a nest, heck, a bunch of people who are fed up and don't know anything and are pointing the finger in the right direction."
"And not at all take themselves as outsiders are not afraid at all, after all,...... across the phone screen you can not hit him right."
The last sentence that Li Bingling heard him say couldn't help but "puff" and cover her mouth and laugh, so reasonable, not only can't hit may not even see the person.
With a nod of her head, she said, "Got it."
After all, Elon Musk's Tesla is a public company in the US. If he can take off first on the Chinese side, he will be able to return to the North American market and soon beat his competitors.
And Huafa Auto could also ride on the Tesla electric car and enter the North American market in full, competing with Youbou in the process and defeating this rival.
If it were a national brand, it would be very difficult to gain a foothold in the Western market, even if it had the technological advantage.
Tesla is different, he is an American company, and Musk cooperation, he rose, sitting on the Tesla shares of vested interests of the old American shareholders that is certainly to support the Huafa car into North America.
If you make all the money, then the US will not be happy, they are not stupid.
When you go to someone else's market where you are unfamiliar, it is wise to at least make a few friends with the locals, so that if there are any problems in the future, the locals will be able to deal with them better than you, the outsider.
And they will do their best to help you out, after all, if you are having a hard time, his life will also be affected, it's as simple as that.
"I heard Elon Musk came over here, went back?" Li Linfei asked in a whirl.
"In Shanghai." Li Bingling said.
"Didn't he want to meet with me? Then contact him and meet to talk." Li Linfei said.
"I'll go and arrange it." Li Bingling nodded and said.
Li Linfei attached great importance to this issue, which involved the pilot development of the high-tech zone, even the Yanjing side had made important instructions, and it was also crucial for the two subsidiaries of Huafa Auto and Life Light.
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BYD company headquarters.
"Mr. Wang, there's inside news."
The assistant knocked on the door and entered, and upon hearing this, Mr. Wang hurriedly asked, "Who?"
"Tesla!"
The assistant hesitated for a moment or spoke truthfully, and added: "I heard that it was personally approved by President Li, and we are only waiting for the official announcement to come out."
Upon hearing this, Mr. Wang could not help but let out a long sigh, shaking his head with a helpless, bitter smile and muttering, "It was expected and justified."
However, the news still made the "battery king" feel a sense of reluctance, but more of a sense of crisis.
In the past, a major competitive advantage of BYD's new energy vehicles was battery technology, and many of the world's leading car brands used BYD's batteries when they were engaged in new energy vehicles.
However, times have changed, and once the new wind comes in, battery technology has fallen behind.
The future is the era of wireless power transmission, and is when and where that transmission is used, that the battery is in a very awkward position, even if not to say out of the historical stage, but was marginalized is not much doubt.
The battery has a very fatal problem, that is the decay problem.
When and where the wireless power transmission that is used is really to the battery has the advantage of crushing nature, the problem of range is solved, the key is that the energy brought about by the security risks are also gone.
Because the future supporting the wireless power transmission system of the car, itself is no electrical energy reserves, are ready to use that is to lose, sensing system under the control of the speed of power off is the speed of light, there is no danger of explosion such.
Not only for BYD, but also for the world's battery manufacturers, who were inexplicably killed by a wave of "descending blows" from Coastline.
It can be said that in the current era of ever-changing technology, any giant is haunted by a sense of crisis, except of course for a certain giant company headed by a man who is open for business, none of whom dare to say that they will be able to hold a dominant position in the market and a monopoly pattern forever.
Because of the increasing frequency of "downward strikes" in this era, an industry or monopoly is often overturned not by its direct competitors, who are watching it 24/7, but by other, completely unrelated companies.
As in the case of the "downgrade", who would have thought that the global battery manufacturer would be disrupted by a future technology group that is completely unrelated to them?
It could be said that they were caught unawares and did not even have time to react before announcing that a mature industry had officially entered its sunset phase.
"Mr. Wang, should we gu some water army ......" the assistant asked tentatively.
Chapter 1240
"What do you need a water army for? Hack Future Technology?"
Mr. Wang looked at him sharply and said solemnly, "I don't care what other companies do, but my company will never allow this kind of underhanded and silly tactics, whoever in the PR department dares to do this rolls up and leaves, humph!"
Seeing the top boss explode on the spot, the assistant nodded his head in an intelligent manner.
After a while Wang said with a sigh, "We lost in this competition, not because of the insurmountable gap with Tesla, in fact we are one of the biggest threats to Tesla, but we lost from the competition precisely because BYD is a national brand, ah."
"Why?" The assistant asked subconsciously.
"The pattern." Wang said succinctly.
"The pattern?"
"Yes, the pattern, Future Technology Group is looking at the big picture on a global scale, or in other words BYD itself can't satisfy the appetite of this man Li Linfei."
"If Future Technology cooperates with my company, it is destined to only play in the domestic market for a long time, this is a fact they can not tolerate, and the globalization layout of the coastline will be greatly rejected by North America."
"The old US, known as the 'country on wheels' ah, he is going to earn their money, BYD can't meet it, Tesla can, it's as simple as that."
"What about us? As soon as the launch of Future Technology Group's 'Life Ray' brand creation came out, the company's market value dropped continuously and has already dropped to the 100 billion mark."
Mr Wang fell into a burst of long thoughts, his assistant did not bother, after a long time, Mr Wang murmured, "Focus on the domestic market, terminate the research and development of battery technology, tighten up, lay off staff, Future Technology's orders will not need to be thought of, pulling out the top, even less."
"But the high-tech zone, even if it is a red sea, even if we kill until our heads bleed, we still have to squeeze in, this is the automotive industry's ticket to the future ah, losing this position is the real doom ...... immediately called a meeting with the company's management at the director level and above."
In the world are pushing cars into pure electric under the general trend, even Daimler, BMW Group these traditional auto giants are also walking on thin ice.
With the industry landscape changing dramatically, no one knows if a "gold bite" will suddenly emerge from the middle of the road to take advantage of the changing times and rise to power.
The traditional car giants are not sure that they will be able to continue to hold on to their position as industry giants in the next era.
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Shanghai.
The Future Technology Group's plane arrived at the airport that morning, and after a long absence, Li Linfei once again arrived in this fashionable and modern city.
The prosperous flowers were still there.
Li Bingling was originally on holiday, but Li Linfei had to bring her, the president who happened to be idle, to make a temporary guest appearance because he didn't have an assistant around yet, and he didn't get paid for overtime.
As Li Linfei led a dozen people from the Future Technology Group out of the terminal, he was caught off guard by a wave of media reporters.
In the crowd he quickly spotted an American, Elon Musk, the "Iron Man of Silicon Valley", and he was looking very good.
Li Bingling also quickly saw it and could not help but glance sideways, following Li Linfei and whispering: "Elon Musk personally came to the airport to receive you, giving you enough face."
Li Linfei did not move a smile, said: "must, but no profit is too early, this old brother is very smart, make such a high profile is to show the world the relationship between Tesla and the future of technology, more important is to the Wall Street gang of old bastards to see the ...... smile to the camera expression not too raw, hehehe ......"
Well, he said so but a smile is really pompous, Li Bingling suspected that he is deliberately to Musk.
"Hi~?Mr.Li, it's very good to see you." Elon Musk smiled and was as happy as a baby, Li Linfei as soon as he came over immediately shook hands and came to a warm bear hug, as if he had not seen his iron buddy for years, but to be honest the age gap between his two sides was more than 35 years.
But Elon Musk has been looking very good lately and looks about as young as 30.
Although Li Linfei is young but is also a new generation of big men who have been through the big game for a long time, Musk, although more famous than him before, still carries a calm mind at the moment.
After releasing the hug Li Linfei turned his head slightly sideways towards him, his hand at the corner of his mouth muttering in fluent English and snickering, "Man, you're a real old smartass."
Musk froze slightly and then snorted in response, "I swear, I definitely didn't arrange these press, and I can't stop them, I'm not their boss after all, and ...... oh shit, I don't know who leaked the story."
Oh...the thief shouting to catch the thief is also slippery, Li Linfei laughing at this parallel man of the old oil, said thoughtfully, "you say this of course I firmly believe, but if you do not tweet yesterday would be better, then it will not leak out."
What about Dangango not tweeting? Earlier, after contacting Elon Musk, the guy got the exact news and backhandedly posted a personal message on his Twitter revealing that Li Linfei was coming to personally inspect Tesla's super factory in Shanghai and discuss specific cooperation matters, well, he wrote in the tweet that he was looking forward to and excited about it.
Musk's tweet was worth $9 billion, as Tesla's market cap jumped 12% on the day after his launch tweet, pushing the total market cap up to $85 billion, and has already broken $90 billion today.
Li Linfei was justified in saying he was an old wit, such is the energy of the future of technology.
Elon Musk looked at Li Linfei with a surprised look on his face, "So you follow my Twitter number too?"
"Not really."
"Uh ......" Li Bingling, who was accompanying Li Linfei, pursed her lips tightly, slightly lowered her eyebrows sideways, her face gradually flushed, that was held in, her heart silently recited to be elegant and not to lose her attitude in front of the camera, it was very blue to suffer.
The "Silicon Valley Iron Man" was frozen for a moment before revealing an awkward but polite smile to suppress the shock, after all, so much media attention, the smile expression can not be too hard.
I think: Mr. Lee used to see you when also very good communication ah, you so a "NO" is not the topic of conversation dead well, is not just rubbing the heat up the stock well, up so much I was also very surprised ah.