Chapter 1278 The people who are full of blood and resurrected
At the Volkswagen Group headquarters, the staff are busy. This press conference is too important for the Volkswagen Group.
On the stage of the press conference hall, a set of Audi's new A6 was placed there. This is Audi's latest A6, which is also an electric car.
The battery used in this car is a lithium battery, but its comprehensive range is only 500 kilometers. This is already the limit of what the public can achieve.
In addition to the short cruising range, this new car is actually very good in other aspects. Whether it is the driving experience, handling and interior, it is very good.
However, the car on the stand now is different from the A6 currently on sale. The powertrain of this car is all Tesla's powertrain.
In fact, the installation is very simple. You only need to replace the battery and hub motor of the original car. The battery is replaced with Tesla's all-solid-state battery, and Tesla's battery attenuation technology and electronic control technology are used.
The wheel hub motors were also replaced with Tesla's latest permanent magnet motors, and the trip computer was replaced with a trip computer provided by Zhang's Group.
No modifications are needed, only parts need to be replaced. It is the replacement of these parts that completely transforms this car.
After switching to an all-solid-state battery, the car's comprehensive cruising range has reached 800 kilometers. The comprehensive cruising range has been increased by a full 300 kilometers.
At the same time, this battery can also use a new generation of fast charging technology. It only takes half an hour to charge the car from empty to full.
The 100-kilometer family has improved from the original 5.7 seconds to the current 3.6 seconds. The performance has been greatly improved. After replacing these things, the competitiveness of this car has been greatly increased.
Luxury brands such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz of the same level can no longer compare with this car. This car's current competitor in Europe is Tesla's MODEL 6, which is Tesla's mid-level car.
However, compared with Tesla, some data of this car are still worse. The cruising range of the standard version of Tesla MODEL 6 reaches 900 kilometers, which is 100 kilometers more than this car.
At the same time, the 100-kilometer range reaches 3.2 seconds, which is 0.4 seconds longer than this car. This is also part of the negotiation. Although Tesla chooses to cooperate with Volkswagen, it cannot threaten Tesla's profits.
Therefore, it can only be slightly inferior in terms of performance. If Audi wants to compete with Tesla, it can only have a slightly lower price. In this way, the brand influence will naturally be reduced a lot.
Over the past few years, Tesla's brand has been well established. Tesla has never lowered its price in any country or region. There has also been no promotion. This strategy has made Tesla's current brand very strong.
Coupled with Tesla's top-notch after-sales service, Tesla now has a firm foothold in the luxury brand camp.
Although there is a slight gap, for Audi, the current situation is enough. After all, Volkswagen does not expect to directly compete with Tesla.
Although the cars owned by the Tesla Group are good, they are all on the expensive side. Tesla has a high market share, but the remaining market is still very large.
The most important thing is that the current cooperation is the most cost-effective for Volkswagen. There is no need to design new models. Just replace some parts.
This reduces a lot of costs. For the current Volkswagen, the most important thing is to get rid of losses as soon as possible. As long as they regain profitability, they will have time to design new cars, increase research and development, and get rid of their dependence on Tesla bit by bit.
However, the Volkswagen Group has already been prepared. Once it cooperates with Tesla on a large scale, it will be difficult to get rid of it.
Look at the current three American giants. Since they cooperated with Tesla, their investment in self-research and development has become less and less, but their profits have become higher and higher.
Nowadays, the three American giants are not even willing to design their own cars. Instead, they just use Tesla models.
Tesla is also very generous here, directly letting them put the price on the matryoshka doll at a very low price. In this way, the three American giants do not have to work hard on research and development, and can only make high profits.
And Tesla’s profits are not low, and at the same time it directly kills the self-research and development capabilities of the three American giants. Although the three American giants know that there are many disadvantages to this, this poisonous apple in front of them is too tempting.
Those major shareholders simply cannot refuse such profits. Therefore, they spend less and less on self-research and development, and their dependence on Tesla becomes more and more serious.
It's not that they can't see the essence of the matter, but that capitalists are too chasing profits. In addition, even if they invest in research and development, it will be too difficult to catch up with Tesla.
Looking at the amount of money Tesla invests in R&D every year, they feel powerless. Their annual net profit is not as much as the amount of money others invest in R&D, so what's the point?
On the one hand, it provides partners with a worry-free cooperation method, and on the other hand, it invests large-scale funds in research and development. It makes those partners feel desperate. This is Tesla's current approach.
Tesla, in particular, always shows off some of its research and development products every once in a while. This makes those companies even more desperate.
The public is very familiar with this set of gameplay. In the fuel era, they played like this. It was just that they were bookmakers at the time.
Now that their identities have been swapped, they can only sigh at how great the times have changed.
At the press conference, more and more reporters came to the scene. Volkswagen Group notified major media around the world this time. Such a formation is still rare.
"Thank you. Thank you very much to all the media friends for coming today. Our Volkswagen Group will announce some important things here today..."
George got straight to the point, and everyone was very curious.
"First of all, let me introduce you. The person next to me is the representative of Zhang Group. He was entrusted by Mr. Zhang Fan to attend this press conference. At present, Mr. Zhang Fan is also one of the shareholders of our Volkswagen Group. And he is
The largest shareholder, Mr. Zhang Fan, currently holds 33% of the shares of the Volkswagen Group through his subsidiaries. However, Mr. Zhang Fan said that there will not be too many people who dare to operate the Volkswagen Group in the future..."
George began to introduce that Zhang Fan is the largest shareholder of the Volkswagen Group. This matter is completely a good point for the Volkswagen Group and can significantly increase the stock price.
So George took the lead in introducing Zhang Fan's shares, 33% of which belonged to seven companies. These seven companies were all Zhang Fan's companies.
However, although Zhang Fan has a large number of shares, he will not interfere too much in the development of the Volkswagen Group. The state government has the greatest say, because they have a veto power.
Even if they don't dare, it doesn't mean they don't ask. Zhang Fan's people will also participate in the Volkswagen Group. They will participate in management and have a great say. Now Zhang Fan can directly affect many things in the Volkswagen Group.
After listening to George's introduction, countless reporters couldn't help but swallow their saliva. Here, Zhang Fan finally took action against the top three Germans.