After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 512: Billionaire

"Someone come and introduce yourself?"

Xiao Wang sat in the driver's seat, like a consumer who came to a 4S store to buy a car. He said to Lu Liang, "It's OK. The cockpit is not bad. The seats are well wrapped. The dashboard is also made of solid materials. It's not much worse than a high-end coupe."

"For this car, we use dual-motor all-wheel drive, with an acceleration of 2.81-259 m in just 3000 seconds, a top speed of km/h, and a wheelbase of mm..."

Liao Jie smiled and introduced various data like a shopping guide. Lu Liang was also pulled aside by Zhang Peiqiang.

He said seriously, "Mr. Lu, small details and other aspects can be modified, but there is still a big problem."

Their car passed the C-IASI collision test with no problems at all. Even for the problem of new energy vehicles being most prone to catching fire, they adopted a mode of loading the batteries in the reverse direction to protect the safety of car owners as much as possible.

But there is one problem that has not been solved yet, which is the chassis technology. With their technology, it is probably difficult to pass the moose test.

The moose test is an important international standard for measuring vehicle safety.

The test is named after the elk, an animal found in northern Europe and much of North America that often jumps out in front of vehicles unexpectedly and collides with high-speed vehicles, causing serious traffic accidents.

The moose test is to examine the vehicle's ability to avoid obstacles and its ability to make S turns at high speeds.

The test content is to load four people and counterweights, travel at an average speed of 70, and continuously avoid obstacles to the left and right. The better the performance, the higher the score.

Just like the Toyota Avalon which costs around 325 yuan and the BMW which costs over yuan, the BMW Series is under a bit of pressure but can pass, but the Avalon cannot and will overturn.

This performance depends on the chassis tuning technology. However, except for practitioners in China, I am afraid that most people have never heard of the moose test, so the technology is naturally far inferior to that of foreign countries.

Lu Liang smiled and said, "I've always remembered what you said last time, so I plan to spend some money to invite the technical team of General Motors to come and adjust the chassis."

Even if he cooperates with GM and invests a huge amount of money to build a factory in Detroit, chassis technology cannot be learned overnight, so he still has to spend money to hire people now.

"I feel relieved when you say that." Zhang Peiqiang let out a long sigh. Lu Liang asked, "Professor Zhang, have you made a basic budget for the whole vehicle?"

"Mr. Lu, I'm not too sure about this, but someone has been recording it." Zhang Peiqiang waved over another assistant: "His name is Zhong Shaoqing."

Zhong Shaoqing smiled and nodded, "Boss Lu, if we take the most basic version as an example, the cost should be between 22 and 27."

The reason why there is such a huge price difference of 50,000 is mainly because it is difficult to calculate now, because many accessories are customized and are charged very high prices.

We can only look at it from the supplier's perspective, add labor costs and add a 20% premium to estimate the future cost of the entire vehicle.

However, the 20% premium can be compressed. The key lies in the game between Lu Liang and suppliers.

If he is awesome enough, has high enough production capacity, or collects payments quickly, it is not impossible to reduce the premium to 5%.

Lu Liang suddenly asked: "How much is Tesla's profit?"

Zhong Shaoqing thought for a moment and replied: "I have done a survey using the domestically produced Maodou 3 as an example. The gross profit margin of this car should be between 20-25%."

I'm afraid only the manufacturer knows how much the real profit of a product is, and he can only speculate through disclosure documents.

"After full localization, the price dropped from 36 to 31. How can we still have such a high gross profit margin?"

Lu Liang could not hide his surprise on his face. At the same time, he also had a rough range for the pricing of his own coupe. At least the gross profit could not be lower than 25%.

It’s not that he wants to make more money, but any commodity in the country, except real estate, will start to enter an infinite volume and unknown price increase as long as the market develops.

Therefore, when new cars are launched in the early stage, the gross profit margin must be set high so that you will be eligible to lower the price and compete with them later.

While they were talking, Xiao Wang also finished his experience as a consumer, came over and said with a smile: "Old Lu, when the new car is on the market, remember to give me one."

"Don't you dislike driving the tram?" Lu Liang laughed.

"Mainly to support you."

Xiao Wang looked proud. In the past year, Lu Liang rarely appeared in the public eye unless something happened.

And with Panda's listing in the United States, his personal wealth once reached 265 billion, and he returned to the throne of the number one Internet celebrity.

If he is willing to take the advertisement, one of the advertisements will cost at least eight figures. Now it is being promoted for free. I hope Lu Liang will not be ungrateful.

"We'll talk about it when the time comes." Lu Liang laughed and picked up the suggestions provided by Xiao Wang, more than twenty in total, big and small.

"I tell you, why not just change it to a two-door, two-seater coupe? That way it will be more classy." Xiao Wang was very excited and kept helping to come up with ideas.

In his opinion, four doors and five seats are completely unnecessary. If you want to be cool, you should be thorough and have flashy scissor doors. I'm sure many people will like it.

"Then it wouldn't be a coupe, it would be a sports car."

Lu Liang rolled his eyes and firmly objected.

The reason why coupe models exist is mainly to meet the disadvantage that sports cars only have two seats and want to be ostentatious but not too ostentatious.

The scissor doors are even more unnecessary. The fact that the NIO EP9 is still gathering dust in the corner is the best proof.

Thinking of NIO, Lu Liang suddenly remembered that Li Bing seemed to have called him a few days ago and asked him to meet. Building battery swap stations is a bottomless pit, and he can't wait to get NIO listed to raise money for development.

So they asked Lu Liang to introduce them to some reliable market makers. NIO also wanted to go public in the United States and raise funds in US dollars.

"That's it for now. I have something else to do this afternoon. Just go do whatever you need to do."

Lu Liang planned to leave. Although today was New Year's Day, it was also the first of the day, and the first day of the new year.

His schedule for the afternoon and the following few days was fully arranged, and he really had no time to chat with Xiao Wang.

Talk to Zhang Peiqiang and ask them to take Xiao Wang's opinions into consideration, conduct market research, and finally determine the final version.

Lu Liang left very decisively without looking back.

Xiao Wang looked resentful and turned to Zhong Shaoqing and said, "Isn't your boss a scumbag? He treated me like a condom and threw me away after use. Not only did he not treat me to lunch, he didn't even give me a sip of tea."

Zhong Shaoqing tried hard to hold back his laughter. It was the first time he heard someone describe him like this. He quickly poured a glass of water and said, "Mr. Wang, have some water."

Xiao Wang glared at him and walked away.

On the first day of the new year, Lu Liang was very busy and news about him on the Internet was spreading rapidly.

Hurun Magazine has learned their lesson; last year they were just a few days behind Forbes, but ended up not getting any share of the spoils.

Therefore, after learning from the painful experience, the Fortune 12 Pig Killing List was announced on time at noon on the st.

The top three are still Evergrande CEO Xu with $443 billion, Penguin CEO Pony Ma with $422 billion, and Ali CEO Jack Ma with $402 billion. Their net worths have all increased this year, but the rankings have not changed.

Hurun also knew what netizens wanted to see, and directly pointed out that Lu Liang ranked 25th, after JD.com's Daqiangzi, and recorded in detail that Lu Liang's wealth is composed of five parts.

TikTok is valued at $450 billion, and he holds a 7.07% stake worth $31.8 billion.

Ningde Times has a market value of US$265 billion and holds a 10.664% stake worth US$28.24 billion.

Tianxing Technology has not yet received a new round of financing, and its market valuation has not been updated, tentatively set at US$30 billion. Lu Liang holds a 72% stake, worth US$21.6 billion.

As of the 29th of last month, Panda still had US$101 billion (current market value of US$85.5 billion), holding 8.235% of the shares, worth US$8.31 million.

Finally, there is Tianxing Investment and Tianxing Private Equity.

It is estimated that no one knows the exact value except Lu Liang himself, and the total value can only be tentatively estimated at 10 billion US dollars.

Statistics show that Lu Liang's wealth is US$99.95 billion, RMB 669 billion, ranking 25th on the Hurun Rich List.

"Mr. Lu, the speed at which your wealth grew last year was truly astonishing. You should know that the year before last, it was only $13.35 billion, a year-on-year increase of 648%."

As soon as the pig-killing list was announced, Hurun specially reprinted the article and named Lu Liang, fearing that netizens did not know his ranking last year.

As a domestic copycat of Forbes, their list has always lacked traffic, and Luliang is synonymous with traffic.

"580 billion RMB a year, and a lot of it is valuation. Am I getting carried away? Why doesn't it feel like a lot?"

"Whenever there is a big event at home or abroad, Liangzi is usually there. I thought he would have been worth hundreds of billions."

"Tsk, tsk, 25th place, not even billion dollars."

"Where's Xiao Wang? He was praised so highly by the media a while ago, how come he is not on the list?"

"The share price of Panda has been cut in half and cut again under his watch. You have to wait 200th to see his name. He is indeed a spendthrift. Even Ryouko can't help him."

"Liang Zi pulled it, Xiao Wang also pulled it, these two are really a pair of brothers in distress."

"Hey guys, don't you understand the significance of being ranked 85th on the Hurun Rich List for people born after 25? I guess most people will never earn that much money in their lifetime."

"I gave myself the identity to surf the Internet. If you meet me offline, you will address me as Mr. Lu, but online, I'm sorry that I'm only No. 25. Liangzi, I'm very disappointed in you!"

At the same time, Lu Liang took a break from his busy schedule and surfed the Internet for a while while going to the toilet.

I also learned that this year's pig-killing list has been announced. Seeing the online public opinion, I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

He is a super-rich man who is only five million dollars away from becoming a billionaire, so how could he be so lacking in appearance?
"But Hurun seems to have underestimated something."

Others only have a vague idea about Lu Liang's industries in Tokyo, but it is public knowledge that he invested $200 million in Detroit.

If we take into account the investment proportion of Bitcoin, the wealth can be increased by at least US$40 billion. There are also the third and fourth private equity funds that are about to distribute dividends, which will amount to at least US$30 billion.

"So I'm already a billionaire?"

Lu Liang was immediately delighted. From now on, when he drank soy milk, he would drink one bowl at a time, not for anything else, just to have money.

　No, my eyes feel a little blurry and I can’t write anymore.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)