Chapter 860 Musk Visits
Qiancheng Geometry is becoming more and more powerful both at home and abroad. It is still excluded by many car companies in China, and it goes without saying that it is definitely targeted by various parties abroad, either openly or secretly.
Qu Li does not want to know these things, at least not now. Before doing the "duty" of a car company, it is meaningless to discuss those things.
What is "duty"? Do a good job in quality control and after-sales service. If it were not for the holding of Mitsubishi and the support of a large number of talents, it would be difficult for Qiancheng fuel vehicles to provide good after-sales service in countries around the world. It is even difficult to think that cars sold in the Middle East need to optimize air conditioning refrigeration and special cooling treatment for key parts.
Xia Mingfei was originally responsible for establishing a sales system, including after-sales service. His promotion itself represents Qu Li's attention to some businesses.
Qu Li also emphasized in the meeting: "Use the money we save on brand marketing to improve the level of after-sales service..."
Although Qiancheng Geometry does not boast of zero advertising fees like Tesla, with its strong "influence" of public opinion, its advertising investment is indeed the least among well-known domestic car companies, because Qu Li has boasted about what should be boasted on Weibo and Instagram.
Who in China and abroad doesn't know that Geely is the world's largest new energy vehicle company? Unlike BYD, although it has relied on the domestic market to lead Tesla for a long time, it is not recognized globally.
Faced with the imperfect domestic electric vehicle industry chain, BYD made a big bet and finally decided to learn from Toyota to form its own system, while other car companies did not dare to gamble. They did not have a perfect supply chain to develop new energy vehicles, and they had no money to support suppliers. State-owned enterprises such as Shanghai Auto did not shoulder their due obligations, so they just watched BYD stand at the forefront.
It can be said that BYD's subsequent success was lucky, and more of it was the result of their efforts for more than ten years. There may really be no second car company in China that can replace BYD. If state-owned enterprises do nothing, they can't expect the Chrysanthemum Factory to be "far ahead" in all things, right?
Of course, it is a general trend that the upstream and downstream industrial chains of new energy will be concentrated in China, which is a manifestation of the strength of the "world factory". Otherwise, Tesla would not have promised to achieve a 100% localization rate in order to enter China.
Many issues must be viewed dialectically. Tesla's success in entering the Chinese market has increased the confidence of capital, ensured the inflow of funds into this industry, and promoted the upgrading of the entire industrial chain. It can be said that Tesla's contribution to China's new energy vehicle industry should exceed that of the self-contained Beta.
Now with Geometry Future, everything is different. Just like smartphones have Honor supply chain enterprise concept stocks, there are also Geometry Future concept stocks in the market, such as CATL.
Honor has Honeycomb Energy, and Geometry Future has built its own Geometry Energy, which focuses on lithium iron phosphate. It has begun to develop "blade batteries" with module-free design, but it is a "short blade + flying" battery prepared for plug-in hybrid vehicles. If the technology is feasible, it may be expanded into Beta's "long blade" blade battery.
These designs are basically prepared for battery chassis integration technology, and the short blade battery can use not only lithium iron phosphate but also ternary lithium. It depends on when it can be realized. According to Qu Li's attention, it should be mass-produced within three to five years, right?
Biyadi turns to ternary lithium, and Qianchengji develops lithium iron phosphate. The development direction of domestic power batteries presents diversified choices. In other words, under the demonstration effect of Qianchengji, domestic independent brands and major car companies have increased their investment in this area, and the number of companies in the entire industrial chain has increased.
The logic behind this is very simple. Using intelligent pure electric vehicles to open up the international market and achieve brand upgrading is the way Qianchengji has taken. More importantly, Qu Li not only did not set limits on this road, but provided various help. Honeycomb Energy and Great Wall Huaguan were separated to provide services to friendly companies. As for the shares of CATL, they were transferred to Tianming Fund, which is still a supply chain company of Qianchengji.
It can be said that the funds invested in the new energy vehicle industry in China are much more than in the same period in history. The strength of various car companies varies and it is difficult to evaluate, but with Qianchengji above and Biyadi below, they will not be afraid of Tesla. Therefore, the domestic hype that Tesla will enter the Chinese market during this period is generally opposed in the industry.
From a macro perspective, China is indeed not afraid of Tesla's expansion, but the key is that car companies are afraid. Geometry dominates the world, Tesla is the new energy vehicle company second only to Geometry, and BYD is eyeing it from behind. What about Wei, Xiaoli, and Li Auto? What about Great Wall, Changan, Geely, and Chery? What about the joint ventures that used to make money without doing anything?
Comrade Jianguo's three days passed quickly. Musk did not leave. He talked in Beijin for a few days and went to Xingsha to see Qu Li and his Super Factory 2.0.
"What do you think I should do to enter the Chinese market?" Musk
"I don't know how to do it specifically, but I can tell you which city Tesla is most likely to settle in, but you have to give my Galaxy Power some advice." Qu Li
"Deal!" Musk
"Magic City!" Qu Li recommended this city to Musk and gave a detailed introduction to some of the information he knew. Anyway, it is quite friendly to foreign investment and has abundant human resources.
Whether Qu Li said it or not would not have much impact. Tesla would not build a factory in Xingsha anyway, because it had to take into account exports, so it would definitely choose coastal cities, and then eliminate them one by one. Musk wanted to build a factory alone rather than a joint venture, so he must have a certain influence in the court, so cities like Tianjing and Ningbo could be eliminated, leaving Pengcheng, Yangcheng and Shanghai. The GDP of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai exceeded that of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, which was twice that of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
Qu Li and Musk soon arrived at the Galaxy Power headquarters in Yangcheng. In the eyes of Liu Baiqi and others, Musk was a "greater" hero than Qu Li, so he was warmly welcomed. You said confidentiality, yes, that's right, but the gap between everyone is too big...
It was just a joke to say that Musk gave Galaxy Power guidance. It was only a one-day trip, and at most asked a few professional engineering questions. Even if Musk had great feelings, he was not a "fool". In the final analysis, he was still a capitalist and would definitely give priority to his own interests.
Because of the short time, I only had a cursory look at the factory. The difficulties in the development of Galaxy Power are much greater than SpaceX. Qu Li only imagined that the two companies would establish a private international space station in the future.
However, Musk did not have a similar plan. Later, Bezos' Blue Origin wanted to build "Orbital Reef", a US consortium wanted to build "Starlab", and it seemed that other companies wanted to build private space stations.
"If you want to build a space station, I can help you launch it..." Musk said proudly
Galaxy Power first thought of surviving, but SpaceX no longer had to consider this issue. (End of this chapter)