My Age of Investment

  Chapter 828 Move the Fuxing mobile phone to the car

The bearded man took Xia Jingxing and Straubel to a conference room on the second floor, and then carefully locked the door and closed the curtains.

  The sneaky look of this man made Xia Jingxing amused successfully, "Man, what are you doing, this is not a shameful thing."

  Straubel couldn’t help but laugh out, “Daren, life needs a sense of ritual!”

The man with a beard made sure that the doors and windows were locked, he turned his head and smiled and said, "This work of mine is epoch-making and will redefine the car. It is better to be cautious. It would be troublesome to expose it to be plagiarized by opponents."

  Xia Jingxing smiled slightly. Although more than half a month has passed since the launch of the Fuxing mobile phone conference, the slogan of redefining mobile phones has resounded throughout the United States and has become a famous online sentence, which has derived a "redefinition" body.

   "Don't lose your appetite, show it, hurry up!" Xia Jingxing couldn't wait to see Luhu's work.

  Franz von Holzhausen walked aside with a smile, and started to turn on the computer and projector on the desk.

  Xia Jingxing quietly watched this guy tinker with various equipment.

  Franz joined Tesla a few months ago as the chief designer.

Prior to this, this guy had served as assistant chief designer of Volkswagen, General Motors' design director, and design director of Mazda North America Design Center. He was well-known in the industry and led the design of Mazda RX-8, Tribute, and Opel GT. Waiting for many classic models.

  According to common sense, Franz doesn't like small companies like Tesla.

  But this guy is obsessed with design, construction and fashion. He also likes to collect and drive cars very much. He is a heavy car enthusiast.

  Franz really appreciates Tesla's R&D and design concepts. When Tesla sent a headhunter to contact him, this guy agreed to join Tesla without hesitation, and even was willing to drop a portion of his salary.

  Xia Jingxing values ​​Franz very much, because this guy is the chief designer of the previous Tesla, leading the design of ModelS/X/3/Y, Cybertruck, Semi and other models.

  ModelX gull-wing doors, the cyberpunk style of the Cybertruck electric pickup truck, the minimalist interiors of Tesla's entire series of cars... These are all made by Franz.

  The appearance of the original Roadster is very different from the familiar Tesla appearance.

  This is because Franz joined Tesla late and did not catch up with the design of the original Roadster.

  And the first generation Roadster was a built-up car. 2500 sets of chassis and shells were ordered from the Lotus Sports Car. In addition to the 2,450 sold out, another 50 cars were used for various experiments and tests.

  After two minutes of tinkering, Franz suddenly clapped his hands, "Okay!"

  Xia Jingxing and Straubel raised their heads, the projection screen hung on the wall lit up, and the appearance of ModelS appeared.

   Then, the screen flashed, and a detailed structure drawing of the car that did not appear at the press conference appeared. The entire car was disassembled into different parts such as the body, chassis, and motor.

  "Daren, you see, ModelS will use a load-bearing body. This body design has excellent passenger protection performance and vehicle handling performance...

  For electric vehicles, the battery is the core component.

  ModelS creatively lays the battery on the bottom, which not only lowers the center of gravity of the vehicle, but also makes the handling performance more powerful.

  At the same time, the battery pack is protected by three layers of armor. This structure makes the vehicle chassis safer..."

  Xia Jingxing looked at the design drawings on the screen, listened to Franz's detailed introduction, and nodded from time to time.

  For ModelS, he and Tesla both have high hopes, hoping that this car can cut through the monopoly of fuel vehicles on transportation like a sharp knife.

  As long as the first Model S is successfully delivered, even if Tesla’s development is on the right track, it can be regarded as a real car company. Now it can only be called an assembly car company, just like a conscience computer.

After the introduction, Franz shifted his sight from the screen to Xia Jingxing, smiling and saying: "Dalun, during the time I went to Fuxing Mobile and Android to communicate, I had a deep insight and realized that technological changes may have an impact on the automotive industry. Cause an impact.

  So, I poured these insights into the interior design of ModelS. "

  After finishing speaking, Franz clicked the mouse, and a picture of the interior of the car appeared on the screen.

   "My God, did you move the Fuxing mobile phone to the car?"

  Straubel's eyes widened, his expression looked like Xiao Yueyue, he was really shocked by this picture.

  The left side of the picture is a steering wheel, unremarkable, but on the right side of the central control is a large vertical display, like a small TV.

  Straubel also noticed that there are several icons in the vertical display, such as call, map, music, etc., which are exactly the same as the Fuxing mobile phone. This is why he said that the Fuxing mobile phone was moved to the car.

  Xia Jingxing glanced at Straubel, he is a CEO anyway, don't be like a hillbilly who has never seen the world all day long.

  He was not surprised by the advanced design of ModelS, because it was he who pointed to this large central control screen designed by Franz.

Franz smiled and said: "It is correct to say that the Fuxing mobile phone is moved to the car. The Fuxing mobile phone is 3.5 inches, and this large screen is nearly five times its size, 17 inches, and it can also be touched with fingers. Capacitive screen.

  The cockpit of a traditional car is very complicated, full of buttons and switches.

  In our ModelS car, the interior is like a small living room, with a plasma TV hung on the wall, and the rest is the support part, which is very urban and simple.

  This is a very big change. Just as people transition from touch-screen phones to touch-screen phones, the same thing should happen in the automotive industry.

  Before ModelS, no car had dared to use the touch screen to integrate so many functions so boldly.

In my design, the car owner can control various information such as Internet browsing, air conditioning, navigation, media, lighting, telephone, seat heating, sunroof switch, charging, suspension, and vehicle status through this large screen. The operation is extremely Convenient and easy to master.

  Tesla, as a technology-driven car company, I believe that Internet elements and intelligent concepts should be integrated into the vehicle to make it unique.

   Brand-new interior, brand-new central control, brand-new human-vehicle interaction, these should become Tesla's signs!

  Good design works can speak and tell users: Tesla is not the same as those bad-street fuel vehicles. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled and nodded, “Franz, good job, this is the dream car I want, maybe I can call it a smart car.”

  Straubel also came back to his senses at this time, and asked: "This kind of advanced design will add a lot of difficulty to the manufacture of our prototype car?"

  Franz smiled, "It will indeed add some manufacturing difficulty, but it can also make ModelS cooler and continue to surprise users. This is what Tesla should do as a disruptive company."

  Straubel said: "I support innovation, but can users accept this kind of innovation?"

  "Why can't you accept it? If you can accept a smart phone, you can naturally accept a smart car."

  Xia Jingxing smiled faintly, they have gone farther and farther on the way to catch up with the previous Tesla.

Musk was forced to slow down due to poor financial resources and several major mistakes in his previous life. He did not start to release ModelS until 2009. At that time, the coverage of smart phones was not low, and touch screens proved to be a kind of future. The development trend can be applied to cars.

  They are currently applying the touch screen to Tesla, and it is not too advanced. Objective conditions such as technology and user adaptability are all available.

  Straubel smiled, "Well, then we really have to define an industry with Fuxing Mobile."

Franz chuckled, "To define an industry, these innovations are not enough. We also consider adding software "over-the-air upgrade" to ModelS, that is, OTA service. Users can upgrade their cars at home without going to the store. Cars have the ability to continuously evolve themselves."

  Straubel’s eyes brightened. OTA service has only been applied to cars in recent years. It is also an innovation. The full name is OvertheAir online upgrade.

  The principle of technical realization refers to the network connection of servers, mobile communication networks, and terminals to finally update the data stored in the terminal, thereby improving the functions and services of the terminal.

  This technology was first applied to PCs. In recent years, it has gradually begun to be applied in the mobile phone industry, and the automotive industry has relatively few applications.

This is because traditional car companies mainly adopt distributed electronic and electrical architectures. Car companies integrate systems from different suppliers. At the same time, it also brings problems such as a large number of ECUs (electronic control units) and low unified update efficiency. The most complex car Has nearly a hundred ECUs.

   "You mean, let Tesla enter the software field?" Straubel looked at Franz.

   "It wasn't what he meant, it was mine." Xia Jingxing smiled and took the conversation.

  Under Straubel’s puzzled gaze, Xia Jingxing explained: “Traditional car companies have a century of history, and at the same time they have burdened themselves or restricted themselves because of this long history.

  Tesla is different. We don’t have any historical baggage. It’s as clean as a piece of white paper, and we can write and draw freely on it. "

  Straubel understood some of Xia Jingxing’s thoughts, that he wanted to overtake traditional car companies from the software field.

   "The major car companies now have a taste of OTA, and no one dares to go too deep." Straubel said.

  Xia Jingxing replied: “That’s because traditional cars use a distributed electronic and electrical architecture. We plan to adopt a centralized electronic and electrical architecture to minimize the number of ECUs.”

  (End of this chapter)