My Age of Investment

  Chapter 519 Global Supply Chain (seeking monthly ticket)

  After completing the funding, Xia Jingxing convened the three founders of ATL for a meeting, and formally finalized the business development direction of entering the car power battery, and sounded the clarion call for industrial upgrading!

  To this end, ATL will next initiate the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary CATL and transfer some skilled technicians to join this subsidiary, focusing on the research and development, production and sales of new energy vehicle power battery systems and energy storage systems.

  In addition to continuing to serve as the chief operating officer and president of ATL, Zeng Lequn will also serve as the general manager of CATL, taking full responsibility for the research and development, production and sales of automotive power batteries.

  Although he has several positions, Zeng Qianqun is very passionate about his work and he doesn't feel hard at all.

  He quickly dumped all the work of due diligence and docking to Chen Tanghua, and devoted himself to the preparation of CATL.

  Set up the team as quickly as possible, and began to browse, collect, and organize various vehicle power information. It also placed orders with many domestic and foreign battery manufacturers, and prepared to buy a batch of batteries for disassembly and research...

At the same time, Xia Jingxing also called Eberhard and Tarpening in the United States. In addition to routinely inquiring about Tesla’s development, he also told the two that he had acquired a company in China. Battery company, and intends to enter the field of automotive power batteries.

After listening to Xia Jingxing’s account, Eberhard said with joy on the other end of the phone: “Dalun, this is really good news. We are currently planning to purchase a batch of batteries in China and then set up a battery assembly plant in Thailand. "

  "Assembly factory?"

  Xia Jingxing frowned, "Why go to Thailand? I think it should be in China."

  Eberhard laughed and said, "No, no, no, I don’t think we need to build a factory now!

  Dalun, you said that ATL produces laptop batteries, and CATL produces automotive power batteries.

  These two companies are simply tailor-made for Tesla! Simply awesome!

   Tesla originally needed to place an order with a manufacturer that produces 18650 lithium-ion batteries, and then assemble it into a battery pack.

  It happens that ATL itself produces this battery. If the quality is satisfactory, Tesla can place an order directly with ATL.

  Then commissioned CATL OEM to help us assemble the battery pack, and then send it to the British Lotus Motor Company...

  Lotus car helps Tesla produce the car body, and when they get the battery equipment, they install it directly.

  A complete Roadsters car, just like this!

  Finally, the car will ship to San Francisco via the Panama Canal!

  Our global supply chain is so perfect!

  Tesla only needs to engage in R&D and sales in the United States! "

  Eberhard’s tone is quite complacent, proud of his intelligence.

  Xia Jingxing chuckled, I haven’t even said about placing an order yet, do you understand this arrangement?

  Mobile phone companies and Tesla placed orders with ATL and CATL. It is justified and within his plan. After all, the fertilizer will not flow to outsiders.

  The reason why he acquired ATL and created CATL is that he regarded it as an important part of the industrial chain.

  "ATL’s technical strength is okay. Apple’s iPods all use their batteries. You can send someone to China to investigate.

  However, CATL has just been created, and there is no accumulation of technology..."

  Until Xia Jingxing finished speaking, Eberhard couldn’t wait to interrupt: “It’s okay. Tesla authorized CATL for battery assembly technology.

  Of course, this technology cannot be leaked by CATL. The battery packs produced can only be supplied to Tesla. "

  Xia Jingxing understood what the other party meant, and said with a smile: "No problem, Tesla will be responsible for battery research and development, and CATL will help with foundry."

  Eberhard on the other end of the phone smiled. He meant that. Now multinational companies in the United States play like this. The US headquarters masters core technology and then distributes the industrial chain around the world. This saves labor costs!

  This is also the origin of the hollowing out of American manufacturing!

  Tesla’s money is a bottomless pit. Even though the latest round of financing was completed only a few months ago, Eberhard didn’t think it was too lavish. He continued to carry forward the arduous and simple spirit of saving and saving!

  Outsourcing the battery assembly business to a Chinese company instead of building a factory on its own should save a lot of costs.

  Eberhard pinched his fingers, and silently worked out his economic account.

  Tesla has many shareholders, and Xia Jingxing personally and Vision Capital together hold less than 50% of the shares.

  Even if he is a major shareholder, he cannot force Eberhard to transfer battery technology. This will harm the interests of other shareholders and will also cause opposition.

  To place an order for CATL, making money is second, and borrowing chickens to lay eggs is his real purpose.

At present, CATL does not have any technical accumulation. It has obtained an order from Tesla. Starting from the simplest battery assembly, while producing and practicing, this is a necessary process to gradually become stronger, and it is also in line with the current stage of CATL. need.

  It can be said that this is the current ideal result.

   "Okay, let's do it!"

  Successfully finalizing the matter, Xia Jingxing asked about the sales of Tesla Roadsters.

  Since Xia Jingxing has returned to China, and without the lead brother to help speculate, Tesla’s sales have declined a lot in recent months.

  Counting the more than 100 vehicles that Xia Jingxing personally brought, the current cumulative sales are less than 800.

   Discussing the matter, Eberhard sighed in German, "Daren, when will you come to America? Tesla needs your help very much."

  Xia Jingxing smiled, “Don’t be so frustrated. The first model has only been on the market for five months and nearly 800 units have been sold, which is also a good result.

  We are a sports car priced at $100,000 per car, and it is an electric sports car.

  Customers have to be rich, and they have to be people who are more receptive to new things. "

  Eberhard believes that this sales performance is actually not too bad, but compared to the expected sales, it is a lot worse.

  Compared with the mature sports car models of Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, the sales have been dumped more than eight streets.

  "But there is also good news. The founders series, which is limited to 100 vehicles, have all been booked."

  Eberhard laughed, "Someone hasn't bought it, and they are still complaining to us, and even suggested that we add a few more car reservations."

  Xia Jingxing was not surprised by this news. After all, the people who can afford Tesla at the moment are all rich people, and they all have a common problem, only buying the most expensive.

  Bill Gates and Bezos are the same cars. There are only 100 cars in the world. Who doesn’t want to own it?

  For this scarcity and topicality, it can be worth a few Ferraris.

  So, Xia Jingxing is not surprised that the founder series sold out so quickly.

   "If it is sold out, we will sell it out. Don't increase the number of places, just 100 cars! If you don't believe in words, changing things day and night will easily lower the style of our brand."

  Xia Jingxing thought for a while, and offered another coup.

   "You are like this, those who have not bought a car, or because they do not meet our "car purchase qualifications", you can ask them to buy "used cars", 300,000 US dollars, 400,000 US dollars... whatever they are!

  Planning a marketing event to heat up Trasgar, whose news has cooled a bit recently, and maybe it can stimulate a wave of sales! "

  Eberhard on the other end of the phone made a long series of "hehehe" laughter, "Daren, I know, you still have more ways to do it."

  This method is good. Just after placing an order, the car has already increased in value by one hundred thousand dollars and two hundred thousand dollars before getting the car. Isn't this better than stocks and investment? "

  Xia Jingxing smiled "Hey hey", "Don't be too far ahead. Everything is a spontaneous market behavior. Tesla respects the decision of every car owner..."

  Worrying that Eberhard would show his feet, Xia Jingxing was not at ease, and said a few more words to make things seamless.

"Oh, by the way, Dai Lun, Lifan Motors has sent us an invitation letter. Their first car, Lifan 520, will be launched globally on January 19th, and a car conference will be held at that time. Lifan would like to invite Let's go to the conference.

  You are in China, why don't you go to the conference on behalf of Tesla? "

  Eberhard’s words reminded Xia Jingxing that there is a battle at the New North Circuit waiting for Tesla.

   "Okay, I see, let me represent it!"

  Then, the two talked on the phone about the "Battle of New North Circuit". They talked for a full hour before ending the call.

  (End of this chapter)