Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 80 The Subdued Tesla
Elon Musk has dropped talks with Raytheon Group.

However, considering Tesla's sales in Dongtang, it has to negotiate with other battery companies.

However, Biyadi, Ningde, and Lishen-Guoneng, which have been authorized by the first-generation Thor battery technology, will not show mercy, or Huang Haojie did not allow them to sell at a low price.

Members of the battery industry association must implement Raytheon Group's reference pricing, and it doesn't matter if they use it themselves.

However, all the batteries sold to the outside world must implement the reference pricing of Raytheon Group.

For the first generation of Raytheon batteries, the domestic reference price is 1 Chinese yuan per kilogram of batteries, while the foreign reference price is 150 dollars.

Although it is a reference price, the problem is that Biyadi and Ningde absolutely dare not sell below this price.

Therefore, after negotiations between Elon Musk and Biyadi, Ningde, and Liguo, the three companies all have a buy-out price of US$150 per kilogram.

Too expensive, then find someone else to buy it!

Elon Musk almost vomited blood, someone else bought it? Isn’t someone else the Raytheon Group, and their prices are even more cheating.

But even the batteries of Biyadi and Ningde are ridiculously high, at $150 per kilogram.

Tesla's high battery is about 300 kilograms, which means that each Tesla needs to buy 31.5 yuan of batteries, and the cost is obviously unacceptable to Elon Musk.

However, as the world's largest electric vehicle market in the future, it is difficult for Tesla to give up.

"President Musk! I have a proposal. It is better to move Tesla's factory to Dongtang, so that we can purchase Ningde batteries at a purchase price of 150 Chinese yuan per kilogram." A Tesla Dongtang Branch executives suggested.

Elon Musk pressed his temple and thought about it.

"If we build a factory in Dongtang, can the purchase price really drop to 150 Huayuan per kilogram?"

The executive gave a somewhat evasive answer.

"If the electric car produced is sold in Dongtang, it will be at this price. If it is not sold in Dongtang after production, it will be 75 US dollars per kilogram."

As we all know, Tesla's current most "cheap" model is the Model 3, which starts at $3.5 in Milijia's market, which is recognized as the lowest car price.

But so far, only the long-endurance version of this short-supplied model has been produced, which has caused the starting price of the car to change to $4.9 (about 33.6 Chinese yuan).

Don't forget, this is just its naked car price.

If you have the experience of buying a car, then you must know the miscellaneous fees such as "registration fee", "exit fee", "boutique decoration", etc. Unfortunately, this is not a feature of Dongtang.

Therefore, the real price of the car is 5.6 US dollars.

After paying $5.6 to Tesla, you still can't drive the car away because you have to pay consumption tax and buy insurance.

According to Milijia’s policy, this car with a price of 5.6 U.S. dollars needs to pay a consumption tax of 3422 U.S. dollars, but Milijia provided a tax deduction of 7500 U.S. dollars for the car, plus the vehicle insurance. The final pick-up price of the car was US$54422 (about 37.4 Chinese yuan).

In other words, even the cheapest Tesla electric car costs $4.9 naked.

If you switch to the first-generation Raytheon battery and produce it abroad, the battery alone will cost 1 US dollars.

If it is produced in Dongtang and sold back to Mi Li’s house, the cost of the battery will be $2.25.

Elon Musk kept calculating, and after a while he made up his mind that Tesla cannot lose the Dongtang market.

"Go and talk to Shanghai officials, I have decided to build Tesla's electric car factory in Shanghai."

"President Musk, you made a wise move, and I will do it right away."

After the executives of the Tang Dynasty left.

The vice president of the Mili family next to Elon Musk frowned and said:

"Elon! Our profits won't be too high if we do this."

"Hook! This represents the future of electric vehicles. If Tesla loses this place, it means that Tesla will lose its future." Elon Musk said seriously.

"Also, the low profit is calculated based on the current selling price. This is a brand new technology. With our unique battery management technology, it can be fully charged in almost one to two minutes."

"Elon, you mean to raise the price? But Milijia is now banning the sale of Thor batteries. What should we do about this problem?" Hook still asked worriedly.

"Has the sale of Thor batteries been banned all over the world? No, we still have markets such as Xizhou, Tianzhu, and Southeast China. Besides, I don't believe that Milijia will ban the sale of Thor batteries forever."

Elon Musk is not that stupid.

Now it is necessary to keep up with the trend. If you lose the market, you will lose the future.

If Tesla does not keep up now, once the market is crowded, it will only form a vicious circle.

What's more, batteries are expensive, and Tesla can use technology upgrades as an excuse to directly raise prices.

Look at how many hours it took to fully charge in the past, but now it only takes a few minutes to fully charge. Such awesome technology, of course, has to increase the price.

Tesla, which is so expensive and fast, quickly reached an agreement with Shanghai officials at the end of April, agreeing that Tesla will build an electric vehicle factory in Shanghai.

On the other hand, Tesla’s Dongtang executives also reached procurement contracts with Ningde and Liguo.

Of course, Raytheon Group also received a small order from Tesla.

The main reason is that Elon Musk considers that high-end models are equipped with 1st-generation Thor batteries, which seems too low, so he can only buy small batches of 1.5th-generation Thor batteries with tears in his eyes.

As for Panasonic's batteries, Elon Musk only considers installing them on Tesla in the restricted area of ​​Thor batteries. After all, the explosion and spontaneous combustion of Panasonic batteries also caused Elon Musk a very headache.

If it wasn't for Mili's ban on sales and the high price of Raytheon batteries, he would have wanted to replace all of them with Raytheon batteries.

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On the other hand, Biyadi, Ningde, and Liguo, which have obtained the authorization of the first-generation Thor battery technology, are also making frequent moves.

Biyadi is self-produced and sold, so the plan to be equipped with Thor batteries came out very soon.

However, the production line of Raytheon batteries is not cheap. For a production line with an annual output of 1 tons of Raytheon batteries, Raytheon Group offered 8000 million Chinese yuan. This is a friendly price, and no one else can buy it.

BYD has ordered [-] production lines, two of which are already under commissioning.

Ningde Group ordered [-] production lines, and Liguo ordered [-] production lines.

The most exaggerated Guodian Battery Company and China Energy Battery Company respectively ordered 36 modified battery production lines and [-] modified battery production lines in the first batch.

Of course, this is because BYD makes power batteries, while Guodian Battery and Zhonghua Energy Battery produce storage batteries, and the usage of the two is not of the same order of magnitude.

After all, an electric car has hundreds of kilograms of batteries, and a storage power station with hundreds of tons of batteries is the start.

Thanks to a large number of favorable policies, surging and elegant, the pre-orders have exceeded the 1 mark, and as of May 5, the cumulative order is 1.

More than 6 vehicles have been sent to car owners.

On average, a Surging Elegance can bring a profit of 5 Chinese yuan to The Paper. The order of 1.3 vehicles here alone will bring a profit of 6.5 million Chinese yuan to The Paper.

Of course, these profits need to be used to make up for last year's investment losses.

However, according to this momentum, annual sales of [-] vehicles are expected.

Wen Weiping has launched an expansion plan, not only to increase the production capacity of Pagoda, but also mid-to-high-end cars, buses, and special vehicles.

The [-] new energy buses promised to be donated to Shanmei City should also be ready to fulfill the promise.

As one of the shareholders of surging power, Yin Xitian directly invested in five electric vehicle parts factories in the eastern part of Lingnan by waving banknotes.

Because he was already planning to start his own business, Lifan left the old man to toss about. He knew that the era of surging power had come, and it was still too late to get in the car.

Not only Yin Xitian, but Dong Xianxing, Huang Hailan, Zhang Jian and others have also directly entered the electric vehicle spare parts market in eastern Lingnan.

An electric vehicle industry chain with surging power as its core is growing rapidly in the east of Lingnan.

(End of this chapter)