Chapter 917 Believe Me, Tesla Is a Trap!

The main entrance of Tesla's headquarters, located at 3500 Deer Creek Road in Deer Creek, California. Standard American-style headquarters, no high-rise buildings, a suburban plus bungalow factory that is truly "away from the hustle and bustle of the city", the high-end and brightly decorated building next to it is a direct-sale store and delivery center of Tesla, and there is a Tesla not far away Pull the repair service center.

Andy's convoy stopped one by one, and the bodyguard quickly got out of the car and opened the door. Andy, who was dressed in a slim black suit, stepped out of the car with a smile on his face, and looked across at a group of shareholders headed by Elon Musk with complicated expressions and Tesla The executives greeted them.

"Hello, Mr. Musk, nice to meet you." Andy smiled and shook hands with each other. This was the first time the two met. To be honest, Andy didn't have much feeling for this real-life Iron Man. A typical businessman.

"Hi, Mr. Smith, nice to meet you, let me introduce you..."

With a calm smile on his face, Andy shook hands with unfamiliar and familiar Tesla shareholders.

"Larry, I didn't expect you to come too. This surprised me..." Andy shook hands with Larry Page in surprise and surprise.

"Hehe, Sergey was also coming over, but you know, he is busier than me, so I have to be the representative to welcome you."

Andy nodded. These guys are all Tesla electric cars invested by private investors. To be honest, they are more optimistic about the future of clean and environmentally friendly energy. There is a problem with the capital chain, and the Tesla electric car company that is on the verge of bankruptcy can be taken over by someone. This is undoubtedly what they are most happy to see.

"Mr. Smith, this way please, let's take a tour of Tesla and the production plant first. I think you will definitely be happy to be able to make this deal after seeing it." Musk said a little arrogantly, as if What a disadvantage he was, and the expression on his face became more and more rigid.

Larry Page, eBay Jeff Skoll and other shareholders all looked at Andy with a smile on their faces. To be honest, Andy's purchase price of 200 million US dollars is indeed very low, but for a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy As far as the car company is concerned, it will be very popular if someone takes over.

"Hehe, let's go. I can't wait to see the progress of Tesla. You may not know that I am also very interested in industrial design. I even designed a car myself. Tesla engineers can make it.

Elon, didn’t Downey talk to you about the shooting of Iron Man? I designed all the iron suits in it. After the movie is released, you can see super cool effects. Trust me, you guys Will love it. . . "

Watching Andy Smith chat about the enormous interest shown in industrial design,

Instead, a group of shareholders and executives of Tesla were slightly stunned, and Musk's original stiff expression has also changed a little. It seems that this young genius billionaire's acquisition of Tesla is not just a simple investment.

A group of people walked through the direct-sale store and entered the factory directly. The first thing they saw was a huge logo, and they started their journey to visit the Tesla factory when they turned to the right.

After walking out of the warehouse aisle, it is the main entrance of the Tesla factory. On the left side of the entrance, there are some executive speech quotations and pictures of models, and on the right side are Tesla models.

The entire body is a concept car in the shape of a black Lotus sports car. It is the first "Aero Buck", which is a design prototype optimized for aerodynamics. This is also the prototype of Tesla's first electric sports car, the Roadster.

This "Mule 2" is the second version of Tesla's fully hand-assembled prototype, which is closer to the Roadster. I heard that the Iron Man crew has also filmed it into the movie, and it will appear in Stark's garage.

Andy stopped in front of this car and looked at it. To be honest, the Roadster based on the shape of a Lotus sports car was not considered a success. Due to the small number of electric cars and its high price, this model was withdrawn from the market after only 2,500 units were produced.

"If I remember correctly, the original price of this mass-produced car is 98,000 U.S. dollars?" Andy slid his finger across the roof of the car with a charming and warm smile on his face, but these words undoubtedly made Tesla The expressions of Musk and all the executives froze slightly, which pot is not opened and which pot is typically lifted, is it specially slapped in the face?

"Sorry, although I don't know the production process of this car and the price of raw materials, but I guess the cost of this car is far more than 100,000 US dollars?"

"Ahem..." Musk coughed a few times with an ugly face, and nodded embarrassingly, "The cost is calculated, and it will cost about 120,000 US dollars, which is much higher than the original cost estimate of 70,000 US dollars."

"Hehe, 1,200 vehicles are currently reserved, right? Tsk tsk, this is a big loss. We can't temporarily raise the price to 120,000, right? I'm afraid the customers who booked will tear down the delivery center..."

The smile on Andy's face never disappeared, but what he said was extremely harsh to everyone's ears. Several people were all smiling wryly at each other. This one was indeed a poisonous snake.

A group of people continued to move forward with their own thoughts, and came to the spacious and clean assembly factory. The robot arm of a considerable scale was quite spectacular and very bluffing.

Under the explanation of the engineer, Andy also learned that similar to most cars, the main production process of Tesla cars includes four parts, stamping and making various components, connecting various components to form a body, painting the body and installing other components to the body, including Fabrication of electric motors and battery components.

Andy understood that Tesla was adopting its own manufacturing method to build cars. And Tesla does a lot of things itself that other car companies offload to suppliers. Including the production of its own car seats and on-site assembly of battery packs, that is to say, with the demand for production capacity, the current engineering team of 160 people is not enough, even hundreds of people are not enough. In addition, the body and many decorations It is also not produced on a traditional production line and needs to be built separately.

Well, no wonder cars cost so much.

Andy looked at the corners of Musk's mouth slightly upturned, as if everything here made him proud, even though the pot has been sealed, but everything here is very valuable, in his opinion.

Andy turned his head to look at Musk, and the people around him with a chuckle: "If I remember correctly, Tesla should be a technology company, not a manufacturing company? If you want to be a car manufacturer, you will have to Without spending billions of dollars building new factories . . . ”

Alvetrie's eyes were full of smiles. Seeing the embarrassing expressions of Tesla's shareholders and management, he almost laughed out loud. He knew better than anyone else that his big boss could piss people off. There are a lot of weird words.

It's all right now, I can't show off, and I was bloodied by the big boss. Of course, everyone knows that Tesla's real core technology is the electric motor and battery.

Musk and the shareholders were also a little embarrassed. They wanted to make the buyer feel that it was worth the money, but after hearing these questions from Andy, everyone felt that Tesla had become a big hole.

Musk led the crowd into the spacious and bright conference room with some disappointment, and the two parties sat down on both sides according to the camp.

These rich people, including Larry Page, were a little surprised to see Andy's seat. Andy Smith, the big boss, actually sat on the side. The two persons in charge of the negotiation were seated on both sides, while Andy sat in the corner on the right hand side, with a laid-back look that you talked, I just watched, and didn't speak.

A group of Tesla executives made eye contact with each other. As expected, it is the happiest job to be a professional manager under this young billionaire. echo.