I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 486, Chapter 280-281: Gambling! (4000 words)
The name of this chapter has not been changed: it should be: Sales of Hillhouse Xingyao!
Meanwhile, Masco, who was far away in the United States, was excitedly looking at the financial statements in his hands.

He now has a scruffy beard and messy hair. The financial director standing next to him can even see the messy quilt on the camp bed next to his desk.

"The boss is really working too hard. If this continues, we will all be in a panic!" the financial director thought with emotion.

He really had to admire Musk.

Such a big boss only likes to eat fried chicken and Coke, and eats a donut in the morning.

What’s the point of making so much money?

Musk is a workaholic. He usually goes to bed at 3 a.m. and wakes up at 9 a.m., and only sleeps about 6 hours a day.

This is how it has been for several years.

The key is that this guy likes to sleep in the factory.

Passively motivate your own engineer!
I really work too hard.

“Very good progress.”

"The first phase of the Shanghai factory has now been put into production and has achieved very good results."

“This has laid a very good foundation for our company’s continued profitability.”

Musk smiled and snapped his fingers excitedly.

Thanks to the foundation laid by Hillhouse, Tesla’s current sales in China are very good.

In 2016, the annual sales volume reached 38.41 vehicles.

Model 3 plus the newly released model Y can average more than units per month.

This amount is not small for Tesla.

In one year, sales in China alone reached nearly 1000 billion yuan.

Although Tesla has a plain design, its product strength is inferior to Hillhouse.

But in this era, the majority of people still worship foreign things, and you can't resist the large number of people buying them.

There’s no way, it’s a big brand, Tesla!
Now, Tesla has quickly turned losses into profits thanks to its Chinese branch, and its performance is still growing rapidly.

Musk has been frustrated for so many years and finally made money in this industry. It would be strange if he was not happy.

"But..." The marketing director at the side hesitated for a moment.

The boss was unusually happy today, and he didn't want to spoil his mood.

“But what?” Musk stopped laughing and looked at the marketing director in confusion.

"However, news came from China that the first month sales of Hillhouse's new car, Hillhouse Xingyao, have come out. The sales volume is..." Before the marketing director could finish his words, Musk snatched the report from his hand.

He scanned the contents of the report at a glance.

At the beginning, his brows were relaxed, after all, he was in a very good mood early this morning.

But when he saw the specific product introduction of Gaoling Xingyao, as well as the price and sales volume of this product, an incredible expression appeared on his face, "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible! It's too crazy!"

In this brief paper report, we can still see the crazy product power of Hillhouse Xingyao.

Behind this product, which is “less than 20 yuan” and “the global popularizer of AI smart driving cars”, is the classic coupe posture that brings a wide and low-lying visual effect. It has a low center of mass of 479mm, a length-to-height ratio of 3.31, a width-to-height ratio of 1.31, and a tire-to-height ratio of 0.47.

At the same time, the headlight group is equipped with more than 300 LED lamp beads, combined with thick-walled light guide technology to ensure recognition when lit at night.

In addition, the new car is equipped with AGS fully integrated active air intake grille as standard, which can balance wind resistance optimization and electric drive cooling requirements at different vehicle speeds and intelligently adjust the opening and closing.

According to the contents of the report, this car has undergone more than 1000 program analyses, 10 wind tunnel tests for more than 100 hours, and 15 key component optimizations, ultimately achieving a drag coefficient of 0.194, a 15% reduction in energy consumption per 60 kilometers, and a maximum increase in cruising range of km.

For reference, the drag coefficient of his model 3 is only 0.195.

This product strength is definitely comparable to its model 3!
Such a product that fully competes with model 3 is actually sold for only over 12 yuan?

Converted into beautiful dollars, the selling price is less than 2 beautiful dollars?

Does this mean that if there is no tariff increase, and this car is imported directly into the United States, will it kill the Model 3?
Three consecutive rhetorical questions had actually given Masco the answer he wanted.

But this answer was not what he wanted!
"Why did you take so long to send me this relevant investigation report? What do you do for a living? Tell me, why didn't you report it in time?" Masco stood there blankly for a moment, then became furious.

The marketing director grinned and said, "I made a special report on this at the semi-annual meeting six months ago, and again two months ago. Recently, Hillhouse opened its first business, and I also made a report at the weekly meeting."

The marketing director was already prepared and took out a report with some traces.

He had already predicted Masco's judgment.

When Masco is in a bad mood, he can be very cruel and ruthless.

If someone is unhappy, he will most likely be fired directly.

He made such preparations in order to protect himself.

Musk didn't expect that this kid had such a trick up his sleeve. He didn't vent the emotions in his heart. He glared at the marketing director fiercely, then took the reports and looked at them for a few times.

Sure enough, this was what he had reported before.

However, at that time, I was busy tinkering with my own large space rocket, wondering when I could send humans to Mars.

Naturally, I didn't focus on this.

Who would have thought that Hillhouse's product called Xingyao would have such amazing product power.

"What about our unmanned driving system? How long will it take to go online?" Musk asked with a frown.

He is very unhappy now!

"Our unmanned intelligent driving system is still in the initial stage of research and development. Not to mention their Yangwang series of unmanned driving, even this so-called low-end version of Gaoling Xingyao has a certain degree of difficulty in catching up with them. I'm not saying this to discourage you, it's really difficult."

The R&D director at the side also walked into the office at Masco's call. After taking a look at the report in his hand, he smiled bitterly.

How does the United States' R&D costs compare with China's?

According to him, Hillhouse's artificial intelligence department recruits PhDs with a salary of less than 40 to 100 million yuan, and ordinary masters are only paid between 20 and 50 yuan.

On average, the labor cost of one person is less than 40 Chinese yuan, or less than 6 American yuan.

This is the price after mixing in a high-cost algorithm PhD!

That’s not all. This group of people can actually work overtime for free. Everyone can work until 10 pm or even 12 am!
Isn't this equivalent to one person being used as 1.5 people?
But in the United States, the price of a qualified master of algorithms is as high as 100,000 US dollars!

There are even fewer PhDs in algorithms and more vacancies. All major companies are vying for them after the rise of artificial intelligence. There is no other way. The best talents in the United States have gone to study business. There are not many people studying difficult subjects like mathematics, and among those who do, there are only a few excellent ones. How can the price not be high?
And now Hillhouse's artificial intelligence team has a few more years of research and development time than Tesla.

Are they going to surpass Hillhouse Capital?
"This new car from Hillhouse is no longer just an ordinary new car. Their monthly sales have exceeded a terrifying 18."

"18 million!"

"The monthly sales of a car can exceed 250 billion! The profit is more than billion, easily."

"This does not include the long-term cost of after-sales maintenance after the car is sold."

"The profit from that money is another 200 to 300 million."

"Our annual sales of Model 3 and Model Y are only about 30."

"The sales of our two cars combined are not as good as that of Hillhouse's new car."

"You guys, stop thinking about going home after get off work and think about the future of the company!"

"In this place in California, if I, Tesla, don't offer you jobs, do you want to work for the so-called Volt and Chrysler?"

“You should think of the company as your own!”

Musk felt even more upset when he heard the R&D director talking nonsense.

Don't I know what you are talking about?

R&D staff salaries are high and the advancement of driverless cars is extremely slow, so should we just sit there and wait for Hillhouse to take over?

This is actually the biggest difference between boss thinking and employee thinking.

When a company is big, there are all kinds of people.

As employees, it is impossible for them to be as innovative as they were during the start-up phase, so they will naturally think about problems based on their own situation.

When you think about it this way, the problem arises!
The promotion of the company's work now naturally requires the strong promotion of Masco.

Most ordinary employees actually just want to get by.

In this world, most of the teams are made up of makeshift teams. Don't think that the employees of Tesla, Pingguo, Lili, and Tengxun are all elites and strong soldiers.

This doesn't exist!

If we remove the so-called racial diversity of LGBTQ with ulterior motives, most people are still ordinary people, and ordinary people are accustomed to slacking off.

Without anyone pushing him, you allow him to burst out with powerful innovative power.

That is impossible!

This is actually the core reason why Pingguo has been lacking in innovation since Qiaobusi's death. Each generation of products is, if not exactly the same as the previous one, completely identical.

And now, apparently, Tesla has the same problem.

"Jack, tell me, what should we do now?" Masco asked the marketing manager beside him.

"First, we need to strengthen our ability to forecast and analyze market demand to ensure that production plans are more in line with market demand. This can be achieved by strengthening market research and optimizing sales data analysis. Second, we need to speed up the sales of inventory vehicles and reduce inventory backlogs. This can be achieved by increasing marketing efforts, optimizing sales channels, and launching promotional activities. In addition, Tesla can also consider accelerating the sale of inventory vehicles in China to overseas markets through exports to ease market sales pressure."

“For example, the beautiful country!”

The marketing manager named Jack Slowat hesitated for a moment and then said.

Masco frowned when he heard this.

This group of management.

He doesn’t know how to do practical things, but he can talk about abstract things very well.

This sounds like a solution.

But in reality, nothing was solved!

but. . .

His last impromptu idea of ​​producing cars in China and then selling them abroad turned out to be a rare good idea!
Tesla's Gigafactory in Phoenix, USA, is still selling cars, but the costs are very high.

The cost of a car is basically the same as in China, or even 10,000 US dollars higher!

God!

what does that mean!
This means that a car produced in the United States will be completely uncompetitive in a market without tariff protection.

It's not just that.

Now the hollowing out of the American industry has spread to all areas, including automobile manufacturing.

It can be said that the Tesla Gigafactory is actually a microcosm of the United States.

After the entire United States deindustrialized, a large number of production lines disappeared, a large number of upstream and downstream industrial chains died out, and a large number of industrial workers became unemployed. The quality and level of industrial workers on major production lines in the United States today are a world apart from those in the 90s.

The empire's later years were like this. They would not allow industries to return to revitalize the real economy. Instead, they were adept at bragging, talking nonsense, engaging in party struggles, writing PPTs to fill their stomachs, and using espionage methods to kill people and silence them (I am talking about the late Ming Dynasty).

Tesla now has a shortage of white blue-collar workers in the United States. Due to the shortage of employees, it has hired a large number of Mexicans.

These guys can't even speak fluent English.

And the leaves will fly!
Musk can fly leaves himself, but he doesn't like the people below him to fly.

So, we threw away every one we found, and only then did we manage to control the situation.

However, if you import cars from China now, you can indeed make more money!

"It is indeed a good idea to produce in China and sell in the United States and Europe. However, Jack, you need to pay attention to the methods and approaches," Masco reminded.

Now that Tesla's construction plants in Europe have been shut down due to strong protests from environmental protection organizations among the damn Germans, it is time for Chinese products to be sent there to supplement the production.

Tesla's expansion plan for its German factory requires the felling of more than 100 hectares of forest, sparking strong opposition from environmental groups.

Members of environmental groups adopted a "tree hugger" strategy to prevent logging by occupying trees, which hindered the factory's expansion plans.

It is also said that the construction of Tesla will affect the fertility of a kind of butterfly?

What the hell is a butterfly!

It’s all the fault of Dazhong’s gang!

"In addition, the Model 3 has not been upgraded for a long time. Masha, you need to hurry up and do this." Masco said to the R&D director beside him.

(End of this chapter)