Vol 4 Chapter 21: Split action

The amount paid by the five people was quickly in place. After interviewing a financial manager, Musk didn't stay much longer. He sat with his Falcon 9 and flew back to Los Angeles. His rocket company, which had just opened, now has a lot of clues. It's all things, it's hard to leave for too long.

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

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

Electric cars and gasoline-powered cars are cars, and many things are connected, especially the board of directors has always decided to start from scratch. The company needs a lot of professional technical talents.

On the flight to Detroit, Martin was a little upset. In a daze, he seemed to have found the state he was in when he first started his business.

The little unwillingness before, after determining everyone's investment quota and being formally appointed as CEO, has disappeared.

On the contrary, he is now very honored and proud to be involved in this cause.

With the dominance of global young entrepreneurial idols like Feng Yiping and the joining of such amazing entrepreneurs as Musk, the two of them, especially Feng Yiping, the chairman of the board, are very wealthy. They were not originally planned. He is full of confidence in the future of this business, instead of directly throwing down nearly 100 million in cash.

The input is high, the output is definitely high, and the progress is definitely fast. This principle is the same everywhere.

If you just rely on yourself and Mark to flop with the millions that you put together, you may not have achieved any results and the company will go bankrupt.

I found Martin who was passionate about starting a business again. I didn’t have a leisure time on this road. I kept browsing the information of some people I had already mastered, thinking about what to say to them after meeting, so that they were most interested. It is possible to join Tesla.

These people include experts in chassis, masters of 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 have done a good job in interior design.

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On the construction site of the NEXTDOOR Industrial Park, Straw and Mark, like other construction workers, are wearing overalls and hard hats. Behind them are a few newly recruited assistants. They are in a small building that has been capped. Planning the battery laboratory of the future.

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

"This is not an explosive test. The structure does not need to be strengthened. However, I think the ventilation system needs to be redesigned," Mark said, pointing to the small building originally used as an office.

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

"I think it should be like this...," The two of them are the same, both devoted to this new business with unprecedented enthusiasm.

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

"Where else?" Mark said. "It's either Martin's or mine. Of course, it's more likely to be my home."

Straw envisioned such a beautiful scene. Mark’s quiet backyard exploded with a “pump” every certain period of time. Then a few engineers called to put out the fire with foam fire extinguishers, and the people behind him sprayed them with fire extinguishers. , Because the battery exploded and caught fire, it affected them, so the burn doctor went to the backyard of Mark’s house to see if nothing happened, and the neighbor knocked on their door when he had nothing to do.

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

"Who knows, didn't it happen 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 mold making.

The purpose is self-evident. He wants to grab the job of the designer and arrange the exterior design of the Tesla car.

This originally seemed to be an easy task, because although he did not own a Tesla before his rebirth, he was active and passive with this car, which had been lively for a long time. Few times.

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

Although it was officially launched in China after the Spring Festival in 2014, many fans of this product tried various ways to purchase some of these products, and these TESLAMODELS electric vehicles that were not licensed or on the road at the time , Appearing frequently in various occasions, naturally there are auto shows, also at housing shows, shopping malls will also drag it past the platform.......

Every time it makes its appearance, it attracts many people to watch, and every time it makes its appearance, the appearance of the various exposed car models is exhausting, and it catches up with the appearance fees of some stars.

It is said that the owner of a MODELS was the first to transfer in a MODELS from abroad at a high price, and he quickly paid back that year.

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

After it was officially listed in China in 2014, it should be the media that took advantage of it, and even more coverage of this car, Tesla, and Musk.

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

However, he thought that being familiar with himself was one thing. When he wanted to draw the two cars on paper, he realized that he was very wrong. There was no photo. He only remembered the main dimensions and appearance such as wheelbase, length, width and height. , And it's useless,

After painting a lot of pictures, there was no one portrait. In desperation, he thought of trying to make a clay model. Anyway, when the actual car was launched, and there are years, maybe he can restore it by himself?

After a few classes, he bought a lot of books, a complete set of nearly a hundred tools, and several boxes of various sludges. Huang Jingping watched him vacate a garage and stuff them in these new things. , Shook his head and smiled, "You men’s hobbies are not cheap,"

"To reiterate, I am not a hobby, I am a job, right, Amanda,"

"Yes," Amanda was most interested in this matter, wearing a set of specially bought work clothes, sitting on the ground, and starting to create with clay without a teacher.

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

After coating a rough outline on the foamed plastic, he started making it from the front of the car. However, so many places on the front of the car are curved. What is the curvature? Should these curved surfaces be bulged a bit or inward, and should the curves be adjusted upwards by one millimeter or downwards...?

When I think of it, I thought it was very easy. When I did it, I found that everything was unclear. If he was a professional designer, he might choose to redesign one himself.

However, now he is easy to calm down, and he is also a temperament not to admit defeat. He also very much hopes that Tesla's future products will have more of his own brand, and it will take a longer time. In short, I must restore the exterior design of those two cars roughly.

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The biggest move was Musk. A few days after he returned to Los Angeles, Feng Yiping saw him in a piece of news.

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

He casually wore a black t-shirt, and rode Feng Yiping's electric car very well. He took a few reporters who also rode electric cars to visit the huge factory building of SpaceX originally belonging to Boeing.

He first emphasized his dream of spaceflight and the help he is engaged in to the whole mankind. "We believe that SpaceX can send mankind to Mars within twenty years, so that the lives of our people on Earth will be multi-planetary. Change,"

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

"We expect that SpaceX will dominate the solar system in 2100 or 2200," he always has such rhetoric.

"Then when will your first launch event begin?"

"We plan to not exceed 05 years at the latest,"

"05? You are sure,"

"Of course I'm sure," Musk said proudly, taking reporters through the workshop, and the engineers who were working with iPods said, "The world's first-class scientists are gathered here, and our working model can be used to the maximum. Their enthusiasm, coupled with the world's top equipment, our rocket will definitely be able to fly for the first time in 2005 at the latest."

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

Speaking of it, Musk is a bit like Huawei’s Yu Dazui, who also likes to talk big, but unlike the other who bought a hammer, the big talks he said may be later in time, and most of them can really be realized.

Moreover, the American people who admire individual heroism also like people like Musk who can not only speak, but also do decent work. The behavior and ideals of private research and development of space technology and immigration to Mars in the future are very popular in the United States.

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

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

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

"Yes, it's him,"

This is big news. The richest man in China is cooperating with the technological elites 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 always been concerned about environmental issues. In today's world, the most harmful to the environment is greenhouse gas emissions, and the most greenhouse objects are all kinds of vehicles. He has made many attempts and accumulated some experience. He believes that the current related technologies are mature, so he wants to build a pure electric car to reduce our environmental pollution. At the same time, he plans to develop sustainable energy sources such as solar energy to charge electric cars."

"I have to say that what he envisioned is what I want to do. So, after talking with him for just a few hours, we decided to cooperate. At the same time, we set up this company in Silicon Valley in order to use IT thinking. To build a car,"

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

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

"The electric car Tesla? Excuse me~www.wuxiaspot.com~Are you and Feng really optimistic about this field?" the reporter asked.

"Some things always have to be done. Feng and I are willing to be such pioneers. Moreover, both Feng and I believe that the automotive industry has not changed much for nearly a hundred years, and we are willing to bring some shock to the industry."

Feng Yiping is a little helpless, please, this is your own rhetoric, please show me it!

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

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

Compared with Musk's various bundling marketing, there are at least ten fatteners who buy hammers in the middle.

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As expected by Feng Yiping, he and Musk both made headlines the next day, with praise and criticism, but Martin, who was in Detroit at this time, felt rather unoptimistic. (To be continued.)