Chapter 1241
After the hiccup, with Elon Musk coming to receive him personally, he had wanted to treat himself to a wave of hospitality, well, although he is American, the old man doesn't care about that at all.
But Li Linfei asked to see his factory, to which Musk, of course, would not refuse, and out of the airport went along to the Tesla Shanghai Super Factory.
The media swarmed to see them drive away.
But the latest news was already spreading fast on the internet.
But he is now a "super internet sensation", and Elon Musk is already a "long-time internet sensation", so it's hard not to be noticed by the outside world.
The Tesla mega factory in China is located in Shanghai's Suitang River, which is not a wide river, but stretches along a bow-shaped coastline across two districts, from Chuansha in the north to Fengxian in the south.
At the junction of the two districts, along the Suitang River, a modern super factory rose four years ago.
The Tesla Shanghai Lingang factory opened four years ago, a super factory with an investment of 50 billion rmb, and the first wholly-owned car factory to be built by foreigners in China, from which it can also be seen that China's embrace of globalisation is now better than ever.
After driving for more than 40 minutes, Li Linfei arrived at the intersection of Liangang West Avenue and Zhengjia Road and finally saw this modern car factory.
Four years ago, this place was still a piece of mud, but now it has taken on the air of a modern factory. The old US is always shouting about returning to manufacturing, and as a result, a large number of new industries have been forced out, so I guess Mr. Exploding Head is going to be furious.
A convoy of trains pulled into the entrance of the factory gates and three security personnel dressed in teslasecurity lettering opened up the access junction.
The super factory, built in Shanghai to produce the model 3 electric car and future new models for the Chinese market, will be able to soar to 500,000 pure electric vehicles per year when it is fully operational.
In fact, this factory has been extremely topical since the early stages of construction, and more importantly, it is the first wholly foreign-owned car factory since the opening of the foreign shareholding restrictions on new energy vehicles, which is a direct reflection of the extent to which the Chinese market is currently open to the outside world.
After getting out of the car, Elon Musk personally led Li Linfei and his team to the interior of the factory, where almost all the so-called commercial secrets that are not revealed to the public were opened up for inspection without reservation.
After all, it depends on who is being shown around.
The cooperation with Future Technology could be a milestone turning point for Tesla, and Elon Musk, as a business veteran, was well aware of how important the cooperation with Li Linfei was.
Arriving at one of the model3 production lines, Elon Musk danced around the body language and spoke eloquently, "There has always been a voice in public opinion that claims the success of Tesla Inc. appears less than glowing because of fetishism."
"The early famous autopilot system was supplied by the Israeli mobileye, 18650 and 21700 batteries from the small book Panasonic, integrated circuits from STMicroelectronics, the local letter quality induction motor and the three-ring permanent magnet motor ....... "
"Precisely because a large number of Tesla's core components and pivotal links are in the hands of suppliers, the cherry-picking party is quite vocal about this, arguing that Tesla lacks sufficient voice in front of its suppliers and appears to be in a passive position."
Here, Musk added with a splayed hand and a shrug, "But what I'm curious about is why so many brands around the world have poured all their efforts into creating new energy flagship models that threaten to rival Tesla? Except for you, of course, Warfa Motors."
Li Linfei smiled but nodded silently, the composition of the various components of Tesla's car was clearly the result of participating in a global package and international division of labour, and Elon Musk's aim in doing so was clearly to base the Tesla electric car on the world market, rather than a regional market.
After all, if you let the Americans take all the money from multinational trade, other regional markets will not be happy about it, and if they are not happy, they will trip you up, which is tantamount to hindering the advancement of globalisation.
This is similar to the idea of future technology.
"It's just a good thing that the trees are so big."
Elon Musk said with a sigh, "In the global push for electric cars, the super fast pace of traditional car companies to follow new brands and the accumulation of more than a century of rich experience in production chains and supply chains."
"It is not only the seemingly farsighted start-up car companies here that are scared and trembling with fear, not only the new car-making forces that are springing up, but also my company Tesla."
Indeed, the global policy winds of the automotive industry have been set and traditional car giants are flocking to the new energy market, bringing an end to the dominance of Tesla, which has met its match, and not just one or two.
It is no exaggeration to say that the new energy vehicle market is now a blue ocean market that is quickly becoming a red sea as the traditional car giants are following suit and spending money like crazy to play.
There is no way that the traditional century-old car giants can't follow suit, now that the timetable for banning the sale of fuel cars in various countries has been put on the agenda, if they don't follow suit and play for real.
If they don't follow suit and play it safe, even the century-old giants will be left unattended in the future, leading to their eventual demise, and these traditional giants are not afraid.
Li Linfei looked at him with a smile and said, "Mr. Musk, you think the tree is big, but I don't think the tree is big enough."
"Agreed."
Elon Musk agreed with this frankly, and two minutes later he finally brought Li Linfei and the others to another production line. Walking into the production hall, the crowd saw that the site was very busy, and the staff on site were still working fast and furiously to catch up with the work.
At this point, Elon Musk pointed to this production line cheerfully made to say: "mr.li, I am very excited about creating an electric car model that most people can afford, and in the future Tesla will also launch cheaper and more advanced models, take the model3, our goal is to make more than half of the people can afford this model. "
Chapter 1242
"But with the future fifth generation, smaller models, our goal is to make this model affordable for everyone. For model 5, we have abandoned the system provided by mobileye in Israel in favour of your phc on-board system, ditched the battery system in favour of your wireless power transmission system, and also used odel which is also being improved." Musk added as such.
Future technology's huafa car and tesla have cooperation, this point Li Linfei is also aware of, earlier future transportation solutions conference.
The two sides had already reached a deep partnership at the time of the automotive world's unmanned autonomous driving finalization conference, and the model 5 model's major core suppliers were established at that time, and now that means a slight improvement.
After all, the model is not yet on sale, and with the recent creation of the "Life Ray" brand and the explosion of wireless power transmission technology, Elon Musk has decided to revamp the model 5 production line.
In short, the model 5 is essentially the world's first pure electric model to use wireless power transmission, apart from the latest Huffa car being developed.
As long as Future Technology's wireless power transmission system supporting supply is guaranteed and the wireless power transmission base station is down, the model5, which is also equipped with unmanned autonomous driving power supply, can be immediately marketed for supply.
"When will the model5 be available for the market and what is its production capacity?" Li Linfei watched for a while and turned back to ask Musk.
"There are two production lines for the model5, three weeks after the completion of the renovation, the weekly mass production can reach 4500 units, after the full operation can do 700,000 units per year, of course, the premise is that the future technology especially said Huafa Auto to prioritize the production capacity to supply the supporting of the model5." Elon Musk's spirits are high, as said.
"Mr. Musk, whether it is phc vehicle system, or wireless power transmission system, our company can definitely meet your supply requirements, you just need to tell us the quantity and time frame of procurement, ok!" one of the executives of Huafa Auto who accompanied with Li Linfei immediately answered him.
"That's great!"
Li Linfei looked back around at the team members accompanying him and once again landed his gaze on Elon Musk, saying, "Then let's sign the contract and supply me as soon as possible."
Although he was unprepared, this kind of thing was naturally a minor problem, and he immediately gathered a team of lawyers as quickly as possible.
The signing of the cooperation agreement took place on the same day, but with such a large cooperation project at the level of 10 billion, and the fact that it was drafted on the fly without preparation, it took a lot of time to draw up the contract before the cooperation was signed.
Both sides had professional audit teams and teams of lawyers, and even if it was provisional it did not prevent the contract from being formal and reasonable.
At around 17.00 pm, the contract was officially signed.
Once the contract was signed Elon Musk personally hosted a dinner party inviting Li Linfei and others to participate, and personally sent Ye Hua and others away at the end of the day.
When he returned to his temporary office, he sat alone in his boss's chair, took out the contract again and read it over, his face full of joy.
By now, it was already around 22:00 in the evening. According to the contract, Tesla had to complete the delivery of all 120,000 model5s and 30,000 model4s of the unmanned self-driving version by April next year, and to complete the delivery within July this year.
There are only about two time limits left.
The layout of the future technology side of the Xiangzhong High-tech Zone pilot must be completed within this year to start, that is, the business of Huafa Motors must be put into initial operation in the High-tech Zone before the end of the year, relying on 30,000 model4 models, of course, there is also a part of their own research and production models, but not much.
The opening is tough, have to shed a lot of money to open up the situation, the future and then expand the unmanned travel business in other cities when the future ordinary car owners to buy unmanned self-driving vehicles, willing to join his car to dolphin travel on it.
After all, for the ordinary man the car can still help him earn money outside, so why not?
It's just that during the opening of the Huafa car unmanned travel business, people are definitely waiting and watching, and it is very difficult to implement the business at this time without spending a lot of money.
As a pilot, the city is also a large and medium-sized city with a population of a million people, and to meet the travel needs of the people in the city and ensure that a car is called within 35 minutes, a minimum of 10.15 million cars would have to be invested in.
The average price of 30,000 model 4s for this partnership with Tesla, after taking advantage of the additional government subsidies, is 222,500 rmb.
The average price for 120,000 model 5 vehicles is 200,000 rmb. Because these cars are produced domestically, the tariffs are also excluded, and there are subsidies.
The total value of this business order with Tesla for 150,000 models of the model series is a large order of 30.6 billion rmb trading contract.
And the total investment budget of Huafa Auto in the high-tech zone is 50 billion, just the vehicles into the purchase went to more than 30 billion, in addition to maintenance costs, the garage to build, energy consumption issues, etc..
The good thing is that this investment is to open up the situation, not to make a profit, otherwise it will be a long time before the cost is recovered.
The final model requires thousands of ordinary car owners to join their unmanned cars in order to make a scale, and then share with Dolphin Travel.
Without the participation of ordinary car owners, a city with a population of one million like Xiangzhong City would be such a huge investment, and even if the company were sold, it would not be able to fill this huge mouth of gold even if Shanghai City, Peng City, or even the business expanded globally.
The amount of one contract order exceeds 30 billion, which is the largest single transaction contract for Tesla since the company was established.
The "Iron Man of Silicon Valley" was smiling from ear to ear as he stared at the contract.
"That's right!" Elon Musk's heart moved, unfolded the contract to the signature page, backhandedly took out his phone to take a picture, and then dumped it on his personal social media.
It was posted on ns and tweeted on Twitter.