Rebirth of England.

Chapter 997 It’s too early
"Build a factory in China?"

In California, Barron met with Tesla's chairman Musk.

Musk was a little surprised when he heard the other party mention going to China to build a new factory together:

"It's still too early for Tesla to talk about a new factory. The current factory in California is sufficient to meet our production requirements, and we still have room for expansion here."

Barron was not surprised by Musk's words.

Tesla currently has two super factories in the United States. The earliest one is the Fremont factory in California, which is Tesla's main vehicle assembly plant. It currently produces the Model S. The luxury electric SUV Model X, which will be launched in the second half of this year, will also be produced here.

In addition, there is the super factory in Nevada, which was jointly invested and built by Tesla and Panasonic to produce its batteries and electric vehicle accessories.

Although the British Motor Group is working with Tesla to develop the global electric vehicle market, Tesla's current sales cannot be compared with what it will be a few years later. Last year, Tesla sold nearly 2.5 Model S units in total, and its sales this year are expected to be around 3.5 units. If it follows the original progress of time and space, then in 2017, three years later, Tesla's global sales will exceed 10 units for the first time.

Of course, it now seems that this time can be brought forward, but it will take until 2016 at the earliest to achieve this goal.

After all, judging from the prices of Model S and Model X, these two models are competing with Mercedes-Benz E-Class and BMW 5 Series. After they launch the Model 3 for the mass market, the production capacity of Tesla's domestic factories in the United States will reach a bottleneck, and a new factory will be needed.

At that moment, Musk himself would not have expected that Tesla would develop so rapidly and soon be in short supply, so he was confused about Barron's proposal to build a factory in China.

And for Musk, even if he wants to build a factory overseas, China is still not his first choice.

In addition to the fact that Hua Xia currently only allows joint ventures with its local companies to enter, although Hua Xia has advantages in policies (encouraging the development of new energy vehicles) and a complete supply chain, it has not yet encountered financial pressure and capital shortage difficulties like in 2017 in the original time and space. With the preferential policies and support from Hua Xia, it chose to build a factory in Shanghai.

Now Musk’s first choice for building a factory overseas is still Germany.

Well, that's because he hasn't yet been educated on the mess that will happen in German factories in the future.

In this case, Barron decided to postpone the British Motor Group's construction of a wholly-owned production plant in China.

It also gives him more options. The Nanjing Automobile Group in China can launch Kirin-branded electric vehicles for the public to seize the Chinese market.

"Let's not just talk about these things. We can go to the company to discuss it tomorrow. Let's enjoy it tonight. I have invited many celebrities."

Although he is considered a workaholic most of the time, Musk is still very relaxed when it comes to playing.

Just as he said, many Hollywood stars were invited to the party held in his mansion in Los Angeles today.

"Let me introduce you. This lady is Ms. Hilde. She gave a stunning performance in the movie 'Three Days to Kill' released this year..."

The first person Musk introduced to Barron was a beautiful woman...

Uh, this woman Barron looks familiar, isn't she the "Queen of the Sea"...

Her divorce dispute with Johnny Depp was a big deal in Barron's previous life.

Oh, by the way, the two were not married at that time. After making their relationship public last year, they just got engaged at the beginning of this year... It is said that in the original time and space, after the end of his two marriages, Musk saw Amber Heard in "Machete Kills" and was amazed. Then he contacted the director of that movie and asked the other party to introduce him to Amber.

But now, Musk’s “second wife” does not exist yet - Talulah Riley has been taken over by Barron in advance and became his personal assistant.

But Musk's "taste" remains unchanged. He said that he took the initiative to get to know Amber after seeing her in the movie "Three Days to Kill" which was released earlier this year.

Now Barron sees various signs between the two. Even though Amber, who just got engaged to Johnny Depp, a Hollywood man 23 years older than her, has not substantially "crossed the line" with Musk, there is some ambiguity between the two.

However, it must be said that this "Queen of the Sea" is considered to be outstanding in appearance among Hollywood actresses, so it is no wonder that Musk is fascinated by her.

"Hello, Your Highness, it's an honor to meet you."

When shaking hands with Amber, Barron felt her little finger scraping across the palm of his hand, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

interesting……

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"Netflix also felt the pressure from DailyVedio's IPO in the United States and the United Kingdom. Hastings had contacted me before, hoping to give them more support, at least in the North American and Asian markets, they should be favored."

Although there were many Hollywood actresses at the party at Musk's house last night, Barron is not so interested in these actresses now - if in his previous life, his identity still gave these Hollywood actresses the aura of fame and the filter from the movies, then with his current identity and knowing the "red sofa" that is popular in Hollywood, it is no longer an unspoken rule, but an explicit rule.

Well, no matter men or women, like Hollywood actor Ben Affleck once said, "In order to get a good role, I don't mind playing the flute for someone all night"...

Therefore, he no longer has much interest in these actresses - but speaking of it, after parting with Musk yesterday, when he was studying with his assistant Talulah Riley at his Flower of Leith Manor in the evening, he felt something special...

Now he met Annika Dawson, the CEO of Blue Valley Capital.

Currently, through DS Holdings and Blue Valley Capital, Baron holds a total of more than 30% of Netflix shares, making him the company's largest shareholder.

Thanks to the cooperation with Marvel-MGM and Baron's financial support for Netflix, Netflix's transformation to self-produced content has been very successful, leaving Hulu behind in the competition among streaming platforms.

Now, after consolidating its market share in North America, Netflix is ​​preparing to expand into overseas markets.

Because the European market has DailyVedio, a streaming platform supported by European local media groups, Netflix's expansion in the European market has been somewhat disappointing, mainly because the series it cooperated with local European production companies did not have very satisfactory on-demand volume. Now they are starting to target the Asian market and have begun to prepare to cooperate with some film and television companies in South Korea and Japan to launch local Asian series.

However, after DailyVedio went public in the United States, the other party's remarks that it intended to expand into the North American market made Netflix somewhat wary.

They don't want to be "robbed" by others when they are expanding overseas markets.

Although both DailyVedio and Netflix can be considered as Barron's industries, DailyVedio's shareholders are all British companies, while Netflix's shareholders, in addition to DS Holdings, also include Blue Valley Capital.

Hastings hopes that Blue Valley Capital can give him sufficient support in this regard.

(End of this chapter)