Monday, July 6th.

At the regular meeting of Sprout Holdings on Monday, Senior Vice President Gu Mingzhang first reported on the latest sales of Mango Cars.

"As of yesterday, the total number of reservations for Mango M2 and Mango S1 has exceeded 180,000 units. Among them, the pre-sale data of Mango S1 continues to be ahead of Mango M2, with more than 110,000 units, and is expected to become the best-selling new energy vehicle in the world.

car model."

You know, this is only half a month of pre-sales data for Mango Cars.

Absolutely outrageous!

"Okay, Mango Car is finally ready."

Zhang Shuo was also very pleased after hearing this.

Mango Motors was established in April 2012. It has been more than three years since then. During this period, the cumulative capital invested by Germination Holdings in Mango Group has already exceeded 60 billion.

The research and development expenditure alone is no less than 40 billion.

It can be said that a lot of money was spent.

Fortunately, hard work pays off. After more than three years, Mango Motors was finally reborn.

"I would like to make three suggestions for the subsequent development of Mango Motors." This was originally discussed by Zhang Shuo in person with Tang Xiang when he was still in Shanghai, but because he was in a hurry, the negotiation failed.

Of course, the same goes for talking to Gu Mingzhang.

"Chairman, please say."

Gu Mingzhang also directly took out his notebook.

"First, Mango Group should consider setting up a dedicated battery research and development department."

"Battery?"

Gu Mingzhang was slightly surprised. After all, Germinal Holdings is the largest shareholder of Linde New Energy, and Mango Group has also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Linde New Energy.

The research and development of Mango car batteries should be fully entrusted to Linde New Energy.

Could it be that--

Is it because Linde New Energy raised money separately from the sprout this time, which caused the dissatisfaction of the big boss?

Seeing this, Zhang Shuo explained: "Mango Group established its own battery R&D department, not to terminate the cooperation with Linde New Energy, but to gain dominance in the field of battery R&D."

"Only by establishing an independent battery R&D department can Mango Group form close collaboration with other R&D departments and accurately grasp the latest needs and technical indicators of Mango Automobile in the battery field."

Those who best understand the needs of automobiles for batteries must be vehicle manufacturing companies.

rather than a pure vehicle battery manufacturer.

This can be seen from the counterattack and take-off of BYD in the original time and space.

On the contrary, although Linde New Energy is a giant in the field of vehicle batteries, there is actually some controversy in the industry regarding the choice of subsequent technology paths.

"On the basis of grasping precise needs, Mango Group needs to proactively issue technical indicators to Linde New Energy, guide, and even lead Linde New Energy's battery research and development path."

"Rather than saying that whatever batteries Linde New Energy develops, Mango cars can only use whatever batteries they develop."

"It's too bad -"

"It also needs to reach the point where Linde New Energy can customize batteries for Mango alone."

On-board batteries are as important to new energy vehicles as chips are to smartphones. They are key and core components. If Mango Auto wants to dominate the world in the future, it must not have shortcomings in this field.

Even if you say——

In a sense, Sprout Holdings can actually influence Linde New Energy.

But it's not safe after all.

Zhang Shuo also does not want to use the power of the largest shareholder to forcefully influence the business decisions of Linde New Energy, which will only further intensify the confrontation between Mei Ya and Zeng Qun.

A more clever approach would be to domesticate Linde New Energy as a battery supplier under the Mango Group and form a certain sense of bundling.

Just like Pingguo's control over its suppliers.

"Only if Mango Group itself has sufficient research on vehicle batteries and can continuously propose accurate technical indicators can it truly be invincible."

"In the future, even if something happens to Linde New Energy, we can easily change battery suppliers."

This is called stability!

"That's the truth."

Gu Mingzhang himself is also the president of Maili Group. He also has great experience in how to manage core suppliers, so he can explain everything in detail.

I couldn't agree more with the big boss's proposal.

I also admire the big boss’s foresight.

"Second point."

Zhang Shuo smiled and then raised his second finger, "It's time for Mango Group to consider planning and building a third super factory and continue to increase production capacity."

This is easy to understand.

With the unprecedented success of Mango m2 and Mango s1, the new energy vehicle market has been detonated in advance. I believe that before long, countless capital will end up.

In this case, the development of Mango Group needs to be advanced.

Exploding production capacity is one of the necessary means.

It cannot be like Teshila in the original space and time. After realizing that the production capacity was insufficient, he still talked with the Magic City for a year or two before finally finalizing the Magic City Super Factory.

If Mango Auto really wants to follow suit, then the day lilies will be cold.

"The third Gigafactory can be considered to be located in the central region to mainly supply the domestic market. The future Magic City Gigafactory and Binhai Gigafactory can be used to supply overseas markets."

Mango Auto's expansion into overseas markets is exactly what the title says.

nowadays.

Whether it is technical reserves, production capacity, or the quality of the product itself, Mango Automobile is enough to compete with Tessylla, and even surpass Tessylla in some fields.

Under such circumstances, it makes no sense for Mango Auto to limit its operations to the Chinese market.

Instead, we should follow the example of Maili Mobile Phone. After achieving great success in the Chinese market, our next goal should be to target the vast overseas market.

Only by establishing a foothold in overseas markets as soon as possible can Mango Motors truly compete head-on with Tesla in terms of brand influence and recognition.

Instead of letting Teshila be more beautiful than before!

Just like the original time and space, BYAT's new energy vehicles are clearly enough to compete with Tesla in terms of cost performance, appearance, hardware, etc., but they are unable to win the trust of high-end consumers.

This is the gap in brand awareness.

Speaking of this, Zhang Shuo also took advantage of the trend to make a third request, "Mango Group needs to establish an overseas marketing department as soon as possible, and with the assistance of the group's overseas business department, complete the research and development of overseas markets as soon as possible."

"clear!"

Gu Mingzhang himself has experience in operating Maili Mobile Phone overseas, so he seems confident.

"With this third super factory, it is estimated that various places will make a fortune again." Lu Kai added with a smile.

Before.

Before the establishment of the Mango Binhai Super Factory, Jiangxia, Luzhou, Jianye and other places had fought for it.

I definitely won’t let it go now.

"Then it depends on who is more sincere."

This kind of thing does not require Zhang Shuo to handle it personally. Gu Mingzhang and even Tang Xiang, the president of Mango Group, can easily handle it and strive to maximize profits while meeting the needs of Mango Group.

"Is there any latest progress in the negotiations with Dongzhi?"

Zhang Shuo looked at Gu Mingzhang again.

"some."

Gu Mingzhang smiled and nodded, "After the Vision Fund joined, Dongzhi, who was facing huge internal and external pressure, has a very positive attitude. At present, the negotiations between the two parties have entered the stage of detailed consultation."

"Including the purchase price, technical catalog, follow-up arrangements for Dongzhi flash memory, etc."

For this acquisition, Lin Zhengdong, the president of Daosui Group, flew to Japan every two days and formed the most luxurious acquisition team in the world.

Including hiring a third-party audit agency to conduct a comprehensive inventory of the assets of Dongzhi flash memory chips.

It's definitely a big project.

"If everything goes well, a formal acquisition agreement will be signed next month." Gu Mingzhang added with a smile.

"very good!"

Zhang Shuo was also very satisfied.

It’s no wonder that he is so concerned about the progress of the negotiations. In addition to the fact that the acquisition itself is very important to Germination, it is also a test for Zhang Shuo to join forces with the Dream Fund and the Vision Fund.

If the results are good, Zhang Shuo will also plan to make larger overseas acquisitions in the next step.

The kind that will definitely shock the world!

"By the way, Chairman..."
To be continued...