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American Fortune Life - Chapter 917

Published at 7th of November 2021 08:26:21 AM


Chapter 917: 917

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Tesla's main headquarters is located at 3500 Luxi Road, Dirk, California. The headquarters of standard American style, without high-rise buildings, is a suburban bungalow factory "far away from the noise of the city". The high-end and bright building next to it is a direct store and delivery center of Tesla, and there is a Tesla maintenance service center not far away.

Andy's motorcade stopped one by one, the bodyguard quickly got out of the car and opened the door. Andy, dressed in a straight black suit, stepped out of the car with a smile on his face and watched a group of shareholders and Tesla executives, led by Elon Musk, with complicated expressions, come up.

"Hello, Mr. musk. Nice to meet you." Andy smiles and shakes hands with each other. This is the first time they meet. To be honest, Andy doesn't feel anything about this real iron man. He's a typical businessman.

"Hello, Mr. Smith. Nice to meet you. Let me introduce you..."

Andy has a calm smile on his face and shakes hands with unfamiliar and familiar Tesla shareholders.

"Larry, I didn't expect you to come, which surprised me so much..." Andy was surprised and surprised to shake hands with Larry Page.

"Ha ha, Sergey would have come, but you know, he is busier than me, so I have to be the representative to welcome you."

Andy nodded. These guys are all Tesla electric cars invested by private investors. To be honest, they are more optimistic about the future of clean and environmental energy. No one wants to make their own investment drift away. They can't pay. There is a problem in the capital chain. Tesla electric car company, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, can be taken over by someone, which is undoubtedly their favorite achievement.

"Mr. Smith, this way, please visit Tesla company and production plant first. I think you will be happy to be able to make this business after you have seen it." Musk said haughtily, as if he had suffered so much, and his face became more rigid.

Larry Page, eBay Jeff Skoll and other shareholders all looked at Andy with a smirk. To be honest, Andy's $200 million purchase price is really low, but for a car company that is on the verge of bankruptcy, if someone takes over, it will burn a lot of incense.

"Well, let's go. I can't wait to see the progress of Tesla. You may not know that I'm also very interested in industrial design. I even designed a car myself. I hope the engineers of Tesla can make it in the future.

Elon, didn't Downey talk to you about the shooting of iron man? I designed all the steel war clothes in it. After the movie is released, you can see the super cool effect. Believe me, you will fall in love with it... "

Watching Andy Smith talk about the huge interest of industrial design, it was a little astonishment to a group of shareholders and executives of Tesla, and there was a little change in mask's original rigid expression. It seems that the young talented billionaire's acquisition of Tesla is not just a simple investment.

A group of people walked through the direct store and directly into the factory. The first thing they saw was a huge Tesla logo. On the right, they began to visit the Tesla factory.

After walking out of the warehouse channel, it is the main entrance of Tesla factory. On the left side of the entrance, there are some senior executives' speeches and models pictures, and on the right side, there are Tesla models.

The whole car is a concept car with a black lotus sports car shape. It is the first "Aero buck", which is the design prototype for aerodynamic optimization. This is also the prototype of Tesla's first electric roadster.

This "mule 2" is a second version of Tesla's fully hand-assembled prototype car, which is closer to roadster. It's said that the iron man crew has made it into the movie, and it will appear in Stark's garage.

Andy stops in front of the car and looks at it. To be honest, roadster based on the shape of lotus sports car is not a success. Due to the small number of electric cars and its high price, this model only produces 2500 sets and then goes out of the market.

"If I remember correctly, the original price of this mass production car was $98000, right?" Andy's fingers glided over the roof, with a charming and warm smile on his face, but these words undoubtedly made Tesla, including musk, and all the executives' faces slightly stiff. Which one can't be opened, which one can't be held, which one is specially used for face fighting?

"I'm sorry, although I don't know the production process and raw material price of this car, but I guess the cost of this car is far more than 100000 dollars, right?"

"Cough..." Musk's face was a little ugly and he coughed a few times. He nodded awkwardly. "The cost is calculated. It's about 120000 dollars, far higher than the original cost estimate of 70000 dollars."

"Ha ha, are 1200 cars reserved at present? Tut Tut, this is a big loss. Can't we raise the price temporarily to 120000? I'm afraid the scheduled customer will open the delivery center... "

The smile on Andy's face hasn't disappeared, but what he said is extremely harsh to the public. Several people are looking at each other's faces with a wry smile. This is a poisonous snake indeed.

The group went on with their own thoughts and came to the spacious and clean assembly plant. The robot arm of a considerable scale was quite spectacular and frightening.Under the explanation of the engineer, Andy also learned that similar to most cars, Tesla's main production process includes four parts: stamping and making each component, connecting each component to the body, painting the body and installing other components to the body, including the production of motor and battery components.

Andy can see that Tesla is making cars in its own way. And Tesla did a lot of things on its own, while other car companies moved to suppliers. Including the production of their own car seats, on-site assembly of battery packs, that is to say, with the demand of production capacity, the current 160 person engineer team is not enough, or even hundreds of people are not enough. In addition, the body and many decorations are not produced in the traditional production line and need to be built separately.

Well, no wonder the cost of the car is so high.

Andy looks at Musk's mouth slightly upwardly. It seems that everything here makes him proud. Even though it's out of the question, everything here is very valuable in his view.

Andy turns to look at musk and the people around him and chuckles: "if I remember correctly, Tesla should be a technology company, not a manufacturing company, right? If you want to be a car manufacturer, you will have to spend billions of dollars to build a new factory. "

Alvertriel's eyes were full of smiles. Looking at the embarrassed expressions of Tesla's shareholders and management, he almost laughed. He knew better than anyone that his boss could stand up to the dead by throwing up his slot, and there were many strange words.

Now it's OK. It's impossible to show off. It's bloody. Of course, everyone knows that Tesla's real core technology is the motor and battery.

Musk was a little chatty with the shareholders. He wanted to make the buyer feel more valuable. But when Andy asked these questions, everyone felt that Tesla had become a big hole.

Musk led the group into the spacious and bright conference room with some listless interest, and the two sides sat on both sides according to the camp.

The rich people, including Larry Page, were a little surprised to see the position of Andy's side. Andy Smith, the big boss, actually sat on the side. In the center seat was alvette. The two principals who had been negotiating with Tesla sat on both sides. Andy sat in the corner on the right side. You talked. I only saw the leisurely appearance of not talking.

A group of Tesla executives make eye contact with each other, which is exactly the same as the legend. Being a professional manager under the young billionaire is the happiest, which can fully display their talents, without needing to be a responder.




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