Because the performance of Cangqiong Car has far exceeded his expectations.
Both in terms of intelligence and cruising range.
So Musk can feel it keenly.
After entering 2018, global competition in new energy vehicles will become increasingly fierce.
And Qiong Automobile will gain great advantages.
Musk puts himself in the position of a consumer. He believes that as long as he is not stupid and gives himself 300,000 yuan, he will definitely buy a Cangqiong car instead of a Tesla.
Musk also believes that most people in Xia Guo can afford about 300,000 yuan, and car users are not fools.
Unless there is a very special reason.
Otherwise, no user would buy a Tesla at a price of around 300,000.
One of the issues that Musk is most worried about now is the mass production of Qiong Automobile.
If the mass production of Cangqiong Automobile can increase.
It is really a fatal danger for Tesla.
Musk got some news from Tesla's Xia headquarters.
At present, the reason why some users are willing to buy Tesla is not because they like Tesla so much, but because if they buy Cangqiong Auto, they will have a long waiting period to pick up the car.
There are many users who are in a hurry to use a car and are definitely not willing to wait.
Musk is not only a technological powerhouse, but also a very shrewd business wizard.
He immediately realized that Tesla must take measures, otherwise the market in 2018 would be very difficult.
Musk took immediate action.
The first point is to ensure that Tesla’s sales in markets other than Xia Guo can continue to grow.
To do this, it is necessary to prevent Cangqiong Auto from being sold overseas.
Musk doesn’t need to worry about this.
Because Cangqiong Auto is currently not eligible to be listed in markets other than Xia Kingdom.
It is impossible for many countries and regions to grant access to Cangqiong Automobile in a short period of time.
Let alone the European market.
Europe has always been one of the regions with the most developed automobile industry.
Many people in Europe work in the automobile industry and related industrial chains.
This launch also touched the cake of the European automobile market.
Now that Europeans are so angry that they are cursing their mothers, how can it be possible for Canqiong cars to be sold in Europe?
The second point is that Tesla’s technology needs to make greater progress.
Musk is planning to let Tesla do some activities, such as allowing users to experience L-level autonomous driving technology without spending money.
The third point is of course the price issue.
Tesla is bound to cut prices.
But the prerequisite for price reduction is that the production cost of cars decreases.
Tesla currently has factories all over the world, but its main production is still in the United States and the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Xia Guo’s Shanghai Stock Exchange is just an ordinary Tesla factory.
Musk hopes to reach cooperation with the managers of the Shanghai stock market and build a Tesla super factory in the Shanghai stock market.
As long as the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai can be built, Tesla's production costs can be greatly reduced. It is also foreseeable that Tesla's Muoshan sales price will be less than 200,000 in the future.
Musk immediately arranged for a negotiation team to go to the Shanghai stock market to demand that Tesla's Gigafactory be launched as soon as possible.
The conditions are still those conditions.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange provides Tesla with a low-interest loan, a joint loan of 9 billion from major banks over three years, with an annual interest rate of 3.9%.
Teslas can be withdrawn from time to time.
Tesla is 100% owned.
This incident is very rare for Xia State.
Because in the past, when foreign automobile companies entered the Xiaguo market, they had to establish joint ventures with domestic companies.
For example, the share of Volkswagen is 40%, that of Mercedes-Benz is 49%, and that of BMW is 50%, but the proportion of foreign investment is not higher than 50%.
This is the first time in history that the Shanghai Stock Exchange has approved Tesla’s sole ownership.
Of course, what is more important is the land issue where the factory is located.
Tesla requires that the Gigafactory be located in the Lingang Heavy Equipment Industrial Park, that the required land be more than 1,290 acres, and that the price of the land be 1/10 of the market price.
Of course Tesla will also pay.
That is an annual tax payment of 2.23 billion yuan after 2023.
This was the original requirement given to Tesla by the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Tesla's demand is even higher than here, so the negotiations between the two parties have never been reached.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange is very sincere.
The price tag for Tesla is relatively high.
Now because of Cangqiong Automobile, Tesla is also eager to reach such a cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Stock Exchange to reduce the production costs of its own cars.
Therefore, Musk is ready to fully agree to the conditions proposed by the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
It is hoped that the super factory in Shanghai will be completed in September or October 2018.
As long as the Gigafactory can be reduced to that size, Tesla's production costs can be significantly reduced.
At that time, it will still have a price advantage when competing with Cangqiong Automobile.
Of course, no matter what kind of competition it is, the most important thing is technology.
Musk announced that he would invest no less than 1 billion dollars in Tesla's scientific research department in 2018 to develop more advanced assisted driving technology and power technology.
After announcing this series of measures.
Musk thinks it’s still not safe.
After all, the gap between technologies cannot be bridged by other means.
Xia Guo Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Tesla's negotiation team has arrived in the Shanghai Stock Exchange to discuss the final cooperation situation with the managers of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Because the rise of Qiongqiong Automobile is too rapid.
Therefore, the Shanghai stock market managers had no time to react.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange and Tesla have been negotiating back and forth for more than a year, and various plans have matured.
Therefore, the managers of the Shanghai Stock Exchange did not seem to think that much. After seeing Tesla agree to the final plan, they signed a contract with Tesla to build the Gigafactory.
The Shanghai stock market media also reported extensively on the relevant cooperation agreement.
And we are proud to introduce this American super company.
At the same time, construction of Tesla's Gigafactory started immediately.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange assured Tesla that Xia Guo’s speed would allow Tesla to witness miracles.
When Wang Xiang and Gao Miao learned the news, they were so angry that they almost vomited blood.
After all, Cangqiong Auto felt that the factory in Ning City was not large enough and had also sought to build a factory in Shanghai.
But after contacting the relevant departments of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The other party first expressed welcome to Cangqiong Automobile.
But I just told Cangqiong Automobile about the land costs and taxes on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Wang Xiang gave up directly.
Cangqiong Automobile then expanded its temporary factory and updated its equipment, as well as two newly built factories in Chengdu and Zhengzhou.
And what about the Shanghai stock market’s policies for Tesla?
Other than that, the land is actually 1/10 of the market price.
This kind of preferential treatment was not available to Cangqiong Automobile at the beginning.
Wang Xiang kept complaining in Chen Xiao's office.
Chen Xiao expressed his understanding.
"Our negotiations with the Shanghai stock market and Tesla's negotiations with the Shanghai stock market are different in two dimensions."
"When Tesla was negotiating with the Shanghai stock market, it was already a well-known and successful car company in the world, and it represented a future."
"If the Shanghai stock market could cooperate with Tesla, the Shanghai stock market would feel extremely honored, and it would be a successful example of investment promotion."
"And when our Cangqiong Automobile was negotiating with the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the popularity of Cangqiong Automobile was not even as good as that of Lifan."
"If we negotiate with the Shanghai Stock Exchange in detail, we are very likely to get better treatment than Tesla. However, due to time constraints, we do not have the time to spend with the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Therefore, the cooperation we have reached with Chengdu and Zhengzhou has been
At present, cooperation with these two cities is no worse than cooperation with Zheng City."
After Chen Xiao explained this, Wang Xiang calmed down.
At the time, Cangqiong Automobile was indeed in urgent need of building a factory and had no time to waste on the Shanghai stock market.
If when Cangqiong Auto was negotiating with the Shanghai Stock Exchange, it was directly revealed that Changtian Technology was the parent company behind it, and if there were more negotiations, the conditions obtained would probably be similar to Tesla.
But the past has passed after all.
Chen Xiao joked to Wang Xiang and said: "Zheng City and Rongcheng introduced Cangqiong Automobile, while Shanghai City introduced Tesla. This seems to be a competition between future cities and old aristocrats."
"Tesla and the Shanghai stock market have signed a gambling agreement, and Tesla will need to pay 2.23 billion in taxes to the Shanghai stock market in 2023."
"Since we are in a competitive relationship with Tesla, we will use the efforts of Cangqiong Automobile to prevent Tesla from completing this task in 2023 and make the Shanghai stock market think that its introduction has failed."
Chen Xiao said: "Of course I know what Musk is planning. When Musk sent a team to Xia, he also sent a team to Europe."
"Tesla is very likely to reach cooperation with those established fuel vehicle companies in Europe."
"Tesla is very likely to provide electric vehicle driving technology to these European automobile companies and help some companies achieve technological upgrades."
"At the same time, they also want to prohibit Sky Auto from gaining access to the European market through this method."
Wang Xiang nodded repeatedly.
After Cangqiong Automobile came out, it almost immediately became enemies of major car companies around the world.
Chen Xiao smiled and said: "But we don't care, because we don't need the European market."
"We only need to operate the extremely huge Xiaguo market well, otherwise the car companies in Europe, the United States and Japan will be very uncomfortable."
"If they lose Xia's market, they may still be alive, but they will be very involved."
"Under such circumstances, will their cooperation achieve good results?"
Chen Xiao took a sip of tea.
Wang Xiang thinks what Chen Xiao said is very reasonable.
The Xia Kingdom has a huge market, a large population, and a steady increase in per capita income.
A Xia country's car market is larger than a European car market and the entire American car market.
If Xia Guo's car market is lost, competition among major car companies around the world will become even more intense.
The major car companies are wary of each other and are ready to eat up each other's market at any time.
Under such circumstances, that kind of cooperation must be loose.
Moreover, Chen Xiao can clearly judge that after losing the Xiaguo market, only 2 to 3 European car companies may survive.
The European automobile industry will be on the verge of disintegration or even collapse.
As the European automobile industry collapses, it must be the European economy.
Look beyond the surface.
Chen Xiao has seen through the nature of overseas automobile companies, so he has clearly formulated the development direction of Cangqiong Automobile.
Cangqiong Automobile has strictly formulated its future development direction.
In Shenzhen Market of Xia Kingdom.
A high-level meeting related to the future of Biddy Motors has been held for three days.
There is only one theme at the high-level meeting of Biddy Auto - left or right?
Although Bidi Auto is producing and selling fuel vehicles and electric vehicles at the same time.
But Biddy Motors had already made plans last year to stop production and sales of fuel vehicles.
Around 2022, Bidi Auto will completely stop selling fuel vehicles.
Bidi Auto's new energy vehicle development technology is lithium iron phosphate battery drive technology.
But the emergence of the Sky series.
Suddenly, the senior management of Biddy Motors discovered that their efforts and research on lithium iron phosphate batteries in the past years seemed to be useless and meaningless.
Any lithium battery technology is as fragile as a baby and uncompetitive in front of Changtian Technology's bioenergy technology.
Go left, that is, continue to develop lithium iron phosphate batteries.
New energy vehicles produced in the future will continue to use lithium batteries.
If you go to the right, you will seek cooperation with Changtian Technology as soon as possible to obtain the technology and usage rights of bio-battery.
The focus of the debate is, how to proceed?
If lithium iron phosphate batteries are developed, then the initiative will definitely lie with Biddy Automobile.
But compared with Cangqiong Automobile’s bio-TV, lithium iron phosphate batteries seem to have no future.
If we continue to invest in it, what will the future hold?
According to the current sales growth rate of Cangqiong Automobile.
Every penny that Billy Auto invests in lithium iron phosphate batteries may be wasted in the future.
Going to the right is to seek cooperation with Changtian Technology and obtain the right to use the technology of bio-battery.
In this case, the initiative is not in the hands of Biddy Automobile.
This makes Biddy Motors very passive.
Biddy Automobile will become a subsidiary of Changtian Technology.
The market for new energy vehicles will first satisfy Cangqiong Automobile, and the rest will be given to Biddy Automobile.
And if the cooperation between the two parties breaks down due to some factors.
Biddy Motors will lose the entire market.
When Biddy Motors launched its new energy vehicle strategy, its purpose was to own the entire Xiaguo market and go global.
Now that he is being controlled by others, this feeling of being dependent on others is unbearable.
Therefore, after weighing the matter and holding nearly three days of meetings, Biddy finally decided to continue to take the path of lithium iron phosphate batteries and seize the initiative.
Give up cooperation with Changtian Technology.
In China, many small car companies on the verge of bankruptcy have other ideas.
Haima Automobile, Lifan Automobile and many other automobile companies have fallen far behind in the competition of fuel vehicles and do not have any technology for new energy vehicles. In order to survive, they strongly hope to purchase or technical cooperation with Changtian Technology
Bioenergy battery technology.
These automobile companies were directly led by their chairman and general manager to Changzezhou to seek cooperation with Changtian Technology.