Chapter 1681

After talking with Li Mu, Schwarzenegger can't wait to cooperate with him after taking office.

He is looking forward to great changes under his administration, such as GDP growth, fiscal deficit reduction, unemployment rate reduction, and the promotion of foreign trade, finance and tourism.

Before talking to Li Mu in detail, although he was full of ambition, he didn't have strong confidence, but now it's different. He feels that everything is close at hand.

Li Mu slept in Schwarzenegger's house all night, and the next day, his inauguration in Sacramento.

The inauguration ceremony was held in Sacramento state government. According to the media, it was the most concerned inauguration ceremony of the governor of the United States in the past 50 years. More than 100 Hollywood stars and entrepreneurs from California attended the ceremony. It is said that even Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft based in Seattle, also attended the ceremony.

There are even media headlines that say it's an Oscar in California politics. For a time, people all over the country focused on Sacramento, a small city.

Unlike Schwarzenegger who went to the state government to prepare for his inauguration in the early morning, Li Mu didn't leave Schwarzenegger's villa in Sacramento until noon, as did the Celine Dion and his wife, who lived in the same villa.

Schwarzenegger's wife stayed to entertain the guests at home. In the afternoon, she and Li Mu, Celine Dion and other guests went to the state government to attend the evening inauguration ceremony.

Few people know that Li Mu is in Schwarzenegger's house. Elon Musk is one of them.

In fact, Li Mu informed him in advance to find himself in Schwarzenegger's villa.

Li Mu wants to know about Tesla's progress.

In order to take out the product online in Huaxia, Li Mu specially asked Tesla's team in charge of battery research and development to come up with a set of lithium battery design suitable for electric vehicles. For the real strength of the team, this demand can only be regarded as a dimension reduction application, so a complete design scheme was given soon.

Although the concept of new energy is still many years away from the global popularization, Li Mu still has great hope and attention to Tesla. This is not to make money by selling electric cars in the future. More importantly, he looks at the long-term accumulation of new energy vehicles in the development.

Enterprises like Tesla have been studying electric vehicles since the beginning of the 21st century, and almost from scratch. They first study batteries, then study battery management, then study electric motors, research electric controls, research kinetic energy recovery and automatic driving. Only with such a strong accumulation, can they survive in new energy vehicles.

In contrast, those auto brands that entered the new energy field only after 2015 because of subsidies, Tesla is like a school bully who has been studying hard all the way from kindergarten to doctor's degree, while those halfway home enterprises are like a semi illiterate who suddenly got a diploma from pheasant university.

Those enterprises in the future will take a car rack, dismantle the fuel engine, gearbox and oil tank, then put a pile of lead-acid batteries in it, and install a common electric motor, which can basically be taken out for sale. In Li Mu's opinion, such a car is no different from the old electric car.

The reason why he wants to invest in Tesla now is that he hopes to accumulate a whole set of technical solutions for new energy vehicles in advance, so as to ensure that he can lead the industry for at least five to ten years.

Toyota's advantage in hybrid power has never been broken by other car companies. The big reason is not how difficult Toyota's technology is, but that Toyota has long established a super defense line composed of a large number of patents around hybrid technology.

Under the condition that Toyota holds a large number of hybrid technology patents, almost no enterprise can achieve a set of hybrid technology that can be compared with Toyota without touching the Toyota patent group.

What Li Mu wants to pursue in Tesla is such a patent barrier.

In the last life, Elon Musk has successfully built such a patent barrier on Tesla. But his friend announced that he would open all the patents and was praised for his generosity. However, Li Mu felt that Elon Musk had to do it.

Li Mu always thought that the most failure of Tesla was that it had been "building cars in the cloud" for several years before its development. The so-called "building cars in the cloud" simply means that it can't be built and can only be thought of.

Elon Musk didn't understand the principle of keeping low profile. The ancient Chinese ancestors said that digging deep, accumulating grain and slowly becoming king were absolutely warning words for Tesla.

When Tesla just dug two holes and didn't save a few grains, it showed that it was forced to dominate. The concept products came out too early, and the follow-up of mass production was too slow. This gap gave fuel automobile manufacturers time to play games with Tesla.

It's like a declaration of war between the two countries. Ten years ago, the war was waged against each other. Ten years later, the army has not been assembled. The other side has long been waiting for you. Even if you don't fight him, he will fight you.

At the beginning, Tesla was on the opposite side of the whole traditional automobile industry. How much pressure and difficulty can we imagine.

Therefore, Li Mu thinks that Elon Musk's patent disclosure in his last life should not be really generous, but actively disperse pressure, attract allies, or even tempt traditional automobile manufacturers to turn back.After all, the special situation of new energy vehicles means that only by lowering the threshold for other enterprises to build new energy vehicles at that time can the new energy field thrive. All kinds of new energy vehicles are constantly coming out, countries are paying more attention to new energy, all new energy manufacturers are together to promote new energy and promote new energy. If not, we can also build charging piles together.

Otherwise, if Tesla is the only new energy vehicle manufacturer on the market, giving him 20 years' time, it may not be able to solve the problem of building charging piles in the first tier cities of developed and developing countries.

But on the contrary, Tesla's practice in the last life has given birth to a variety of garbage new energy vehicles, resulting in a huge waste of resources. For the environment, it is not necessarily a good thing.

Therefore, Li Mu thinks that if Tesla is in charge by himself, he will never disclose any patent to his friends and businessmen for use as long as it is within the protection period. He has enough assurance to let Tesla dig deep holes and accumulate food.

Elon Musk didn't know that Li Mu had a very long-term plan for the business he was most concerned about. When he came to Schwarzenegger's house to "report to Li Mu", he was still talking to Li mupu and some basic concepts of new energy vehicles.

He told Li Mu that Tesla has made a great breakthrough in the management technology of lithium battery pack. Li Mu nodded and said, "is the supporting high-speed charging technology starting to be developed?"

Elon Musk was stunned.

He looks at Li Mu's eyes, and Li Mu catches the message contained in it at a glance, and translates it into almost eight words: "ouch, I'll go, you can..."

After a moment's hesitation, Elon Musk said seriously: "high speed charging technology, our R & D team has considered this direction, but has not yet begun to invest in R & D vigorously."

Li Mu asked him, "then your future user orientation is the second car of the user, and it is very difficult to leave the local second car."

Elon Musk nodded and said: "after mass production, our car has a endurance mileage of about 400 kilometers. For white-collar workers in the city, the daily commuting mileage is generally no more than 50 kilometers. In this way, the car can basically work normally for a week and charge once a week. As long as the charging pile is installed at home, it is basically enough."

Li Mu asked him, "what's the maximum charging power of the charging pile installed at home?"

"According to our current plan, once the Tesla car is mass-produced, it will first provide the owner with the installation service of the universal charging pile. The threshold of this charging technology is not high, and the power is about 5-10 kilowatt per hour," said Elon Musk

"In this case, it will take about 8-15 hours to fill a Tesla car with a battery capacity of 80-100 kilowatts," Li said, nodding

"That's right." "It's basically one night to get a full charge," Elon Musk said

Li Mu asked him, "what if I want to go to Los Angeles from here? It's said that it's like five or six hundred kilometers. "

"It's easy to park your Tesla in your garage and drive your fuel car out," Elon Musk said

Li Mu asked him again, "if you position yourself behind the fuel car, how much room can you have for development in the future?"

Mr. Li, in fact, I understand what you said, and we have considered it carefully. In the long run, our development must be to replace rather than supplement the fuel vehicles

As he said, Elon Musk added: "however, for the moment, it's too difficult for us to fight directly with traditional automobile enterprises, so we need to develop steadily a little bit."

Li Mu looks at Elon Musk, and suddenly he is a little confused.

Doesn't this guy have the idea of using Tesla to impact the whole traditional fuel vehicle industry?

So, he should adjust his thinking while doing it.

No wonder Tesla was pushed out before the production capacity was solved.

"You're positioning the Tesla car like a fighter without the help of a tanker," Li said

"In other words, in theory, the vehicle can reach a range of 400 kilometers, and the maximum active radius of the user is 200 kilometers. Just like a fighter without fuel dispenser, the method of calculating the operational radius is the same. To exceed the active radius basically means that it can't go back to the starting point."

Elon Musk nodded and said: "this is the case at this stage, but our target users at this stage do not have strong demand."

"Our user orientation is an elite group with high income, high education and high social responsibility. Just like the Toyota Prius, the fuel price in the United States is so low. Americans are generally used to large displacement fuel vehicles. The real impact of the fuel economy of the Prius on money is not big, so it is not liked by most people."

"Most people don't like the Prius, but it's very attractive to those elite groups with high income but environmental awareness. You can go to Silicon Valley, Stanford, Harvard, MIT. Most IT workers and university professors like cars with small displacement and low fuel consumption. They have a very high recognition of the Prius hybrid car. If you go to see it, you may feel that Toyota sold all Prius to Internet companies and universities in the United States"So our target users in the first stage are the people of this group. Their life is simple, with two frontlines and a strong sense of social responsibility. They pursue energy conservation, emission reduction and green travel. If we can provide them with a luxury pure electric car with a endurance of 340 kilometers, it will be very attractive to them."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "Elon, your eyes are too focused now. It's not good!"