Chapter 889 Separate Actions

The amount subscribed by the five people was soon in place. After interviewing a financial manager, Musk didn’t stay long, and flew back to Los Angeles in his Falcon 9. His rocket company, which had just opened, was now full of clues. It's all things, it's not good to leave for too long.

Straw and Mark are now staying in the NEXTDOOR campus under construction all day, preparing to design a battery testing laboratory.

The most ostentatious is Martin Eberhard. After renting an office space near NEXTDOOR, he was very efficient and only took a few days to set up an administrative team that can make the current company operate normally. , dragging a suitcase to Detroit.

Electric vehicles and gas-powered vehicles are both cars, and many things are similar. In particular, the board of directors has always decided that everything should be started from scratch, and the company needs a lot of professional technical personnel.

On the flight to Detroit, Martin was a little emotional, and in a trance, he seemed to have found the state when he first started his business.

The little unwillingness before has disappeared after confirming the amount of everyone's investment and being officially appointed as CEO.

Instead, he is now extremely honored and proud to be a part of the cause.

With the leadership of Feng Yiping, an entrepreneurial idol of young people around the world, and the joining of an astonishingly talented entrepreneur like Musk, the two of them, especially Feng Yiping, who is the chairman, have a particularly rich net worth, which was not what I originally planned at the beginning. Instead of making small fights of several million, he directly poured down nearly 100 million in cash, which made him full of confidence in the future of this business.

High investment means high output and fast progress. This principle is the same everywhere.

If he and Mark were just relying on them to fumble around with the combined millions, the company might go bankrupt without any results.

Martin, who was passionate when he started his business again, has not been idle all the way. He has been browsing the information of some people he has already mastered, thinking about what to say to them after meeting, which will interest them the most, and finally It is possible to join Tesla.

These people have chassis experts, experts in transmission systems, suspension systems, traction control systems... Detroit is only his first stop, and Germany and France in Europe will be his second stop. The last stop will be Japan. I have to say that Japanese cars do a good job in terms of interior design.

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On the construction site of NEXTDOOR Industrial Park, Straw and Mark, wearing overalls and hard hats like other construction workers, followed by a few newly recruited assistants, in a small building that has been sealed, excitedly Planning the battery lab of the future.

"The walls here should be equipped with explosion-proof facilities and structures. I don't think it is necessary to strengthen them. What do you think Mark?" Straw asked.

"We are not testing explosives. There is no need to strengthen the structure. However, I think the ventilation system needs to be redesigned," Mark said, pointing to the small building that was originally used as an office.

"It is very necessary. Does it need to do some processing on noise reduction? I don't want to be complained by people around me in the future,"

"I think it should be like this..." The two of them were the same, and they both devoted themselves to this new career with unprecedented enthusiasm.

"By the way, before you decide to cooperate with Feng, where are you planning to carry out this work?"

"Where else?" Mark said. "Either Martin's or mine, of course, more likely to be mine,"

Straw imagined such a beautiful scene. Mark’s quiet backyard exploded once in a while, and then a few engineers screamed strangely and took foam fire extinguishers to put out the fire. The people behind them sprayed fire on them with fire extinguishers. , Because the battery that exploded and caught fire affected them, the burn doctor simply sat in the backyard of Mark's house for consultation, and the neighbors knocked on the door of their house if they had nothing to do...

He shook his head, "If you do that, do you think it will affect your family?"

"Who knows, isn't it happening now?" Mark laughed, "So I strongly suggested from the beginning that we should cooperate with people like Feng,"

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As the chairman of the board, Feng Yiping was not idle either. He enrolled in his first interest class in two lifetimes: clay model making.

The purpose is self-evident, he wants to grab the designer's job and take care of the shape design of Tesla cars.

This seemed to be an easy task at first, because although he did not own a Tesla before his rebirth, he paid a lot of attention to this car that has been busy for a long time, both actively and passively. Less times.

Tesla TESLAMODELS, which was officially launched in the United States in June 2012, has been a domestic star for a long time.

Although it was not officially launched in China until after the Spring Festival in 2014, before that, many fans of this product tried their best to buy some TESLA MODELS electric vehicles that were not licensed or on the road at that time. , frequently appearing on various occasions, of course there are auto shows, there are also house shows, shopping malls promote it, and it will be dragged to the platform...

Every time it appears, it attracts many people to watch, and every time it appears, the appearance fee will kill those various car models, and it will catch up with the appearance fee of some celebrities.

It is said that the earliest car owner in China who imported a MODELS from abroad at a high price paid back his money quickly.

Tesla has become synonymous with environmental protection, high-tech, and new-age cars before it is officially sold in China.

After it was officially launched in China in 2014, the media should have taken advantage of it, and even reported overwhelmingly on this car, Tesla, and Musk.

Although Feng Yiping has only seen it a few times on the road, he has seen it many times on the Internet. He is very familiar with its appearance, remembers its approximate size, and is deeply impressed by its very sci-fi interior.

However, it is one thing to think he is familiar with it. When he wanted to draw the two cars on paper, he realized that he was very wrong. He didn’t have a picture, and he only remembered the main dimensions and appearance of the wheelbase, length, width and height. , is of no use,

After drawing many pictures, there was not a single picture. In desperation, he thought of trying to make a clay model. Anyway, when the real car is launched, and it is old, maybe he can restore it by himself?

After attending a few classes, he bought back a large pile of books, a complete set of nearly a hundred tools, and several boxes of various oil sludges. Huang Jingping watched him empty out a garage and stuff it with these newly purchased things. , shaking his head and laughing, "None of your men's hobbies are cheap,"

"Again, I'm not a hobby, I'm a job, right Amanda,"

"Yes," said Amanda, who was most interested in this matter. Wearing a set of specially bought work clothes, she sat on the ground and began to create with clay without a teacher.

After that, Feng Yiping spent most of his spare time in the studio opened by the garage. At this time, what he hated most was the various arcs.

After painting a rough outline on the foam plastic, he started from the front of the car. However, there are so many places on the front of the car that are curved. How much is this curvature? Should these curved surfaces be bulging or inward, should the curve be adjusted up by a millimeter or down...?

I really thought it was very easy when I thought about it, but when I did it, I realized that everything was unclear. If he was a professional designer, he might choose to simply redesign it himself.

However, it is easy for him to calm down now, and he is also unwilling to admit defeat. He also very much hopes that Tesla's future products will have more of his own brand, and at worst it will take a longer period of time. In short, I must roughly restore the exterior designs of those two cars.

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It was Musk who made the biggest move. A few days after he returned to Los Angeles, Feng Yiping saw him in a news article.

Musk, who used to be a film producer and has always been close to Hollywood and the media, gave a high-profile interview,

He was wearing a black T-shirt very casually, riding Feng Yiping's electric car very cooperatively, and took a few reporters who were also riding electric cars to visit the huge factory building that SpaceX originally belonged to a Boeing factory.

He first emphasized his dream of spaceflight, as well as the help of his career to the entire human race, "We believe that SpaceX will be able to send humans to Mars within 20 years, making our life on Earth a multi-planetary reality." change,"

He seems to have always had a soft spot for Mars.

"We expect SpaceX to dominate the solar system in 2100 or 2200," he always said.

"So when will your first launch event begin?"

"We plan, no later than 2005,"

"05? You are sure,"

"Of course I'm sure," Musk said proudly, leading the reporters through the engineers wearing ipods in the workshop and said, "There are world-class scientists gathered here, and our working mode can make the most of it. With their enthusiasm, coupled with the world's top equipment, our rocket will definitely be able to make its first flight in 2005 at the latest."

There is naturally moisture in his words, but at least it sounds better than those domestic entrepreneurs who later said at the new product launch conference that their products are better than Apple here, and stronger than Apple there.

Speaking of it, Musk is a bit like Yu Dazui from Huawei, and he also likes to talk big. However, unlike another guy who bought a hammer, the big words he said may come later in time, and most of them can really be realized.

Moreover, the American people who worship individual heroism still like people like Musk who can not only talk, but also do a decent job. The behavior and ideals of private research and development of aerospace technology and immigrating to Mars in the future are very popular in the United States.

Feng Yiping obviously felt the excitement of those reporters. One of them, presumably arranged, asked, "Apart from SpaceX, do you have any other investment projects?"

"Yes," Musk stopped at the door of the workshop, crossing his arms and talking, "Just recently, I and a few partners who are particularly concerned about the environment have established two companies in Silicon Valley. Among my partners, there are That Yiping from China, Feng,"

"Is that the young richest man in China, Feng from JS?" The reporter directly used the first two letters of Jiasheng's transliteration.

"Yes, that's him,"

This is big news. The richest man in China is cooperating with the technology elite in the United States. "What is the main business of this company you established?"

"When I was in college, after a long time of thinking, I finally set my work goals in three directions, the Internet, space exploration, and renewable energy,"

"The first two goals have been achieved or are being achieved. Next, the renewable field is my next investment direction,"

"Feng has also been paying attention to environmental protection issues. In today's world, the most harmful to the environment is greenhouse gas emissions, and the most greenhouse objects are various vehicles. He has made many attempts and accumulated some experience, and , He believes that the current related technologies are mature, so he wants to create a pure electric vehicle to reduce our environmental pollution, and at the same time, he plans to develop sustainable energy such as solar energy to charge electric vehicles, "

"I have to say, what he envisioned is what I want to do, so after talking to him for just a few hours, we decided to cooperate, and at the same time, we set up this company in Silicon Valley, hoping to use IT thinking to build a car,"

"The electric car company Tesla we established this time, and the solar power generation company Suncity, will be another focus of my future work. I believe that in a few years, you will be able to drive our electric sports car without any obstacles. Yes, from Los Angeles to New York,"

Fortunately, he did not give a clear timetable this time.

"Electric car Tesla? Excuse me, are you and Feng really optimistic about this field?" the reporter asked.

"Some things have to be done by someone. Feng and I are willing to be such pioneers. Moreover, Feng and I both believe that the automotive industry has not changed for nearly a hundred years. We are willing to bring some shocks to this industry,"

Feng Yiping is a little helpless, please, this is your own bold words, please watch me!

Now I just want to make various preparations for the electric car quietly, and I don't want to be denounced by the media related to those major automakers in Detroit tomorrow.

However, he has to admit that Musk is not only a talented engineer, but also a guy who is familiar with publicity and marketing. Tesla became so popular later, it should have a lot to do with his specialty.

Compared with Musk, the various bundled marketing of a certain person is at least ten people who buy hammers.

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As Feng Yiping expected, both he and Musk were on the headlines the next day, with praise and criticism, but Martin, who was in Detroit at this time, felt quite pessimistic.

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