Chapter 1707

Li Mu's efforts have made traveling to China the most popular choice for international tourism.

Since the panda has spread all over the world, the number of overseas tourists to China has increased by more than 200% compared with the same period last year. Moreover, the entry-exit administration even speculates that in the near future, the number of overseas tourists to China will be doubled on the existing basis.

The reason for this great assurance is that there are so many tourists applying for Chinese tourist visa now, and embassies around the world have received several times more visa applications than before.

For overseas tourists, applying for a visa is the first step for them to come to China. They may not be ready for travel for the time being, or they may not have planned the travel time and route for the time being, but they already have this idea, so they all want to apply for a visa first.

The embassy has been relaxing and speeding up the examination and approval of tourist visas, not only because these overseas tourists can bring huge income to the domestic tourism industry, but also because through these overseas tourists, they can modify the inherent overseas understanding of China and transmit the scenery and culture of China to overseas.

On the British side, the Windsor family is also actively promoting cooperation with pastoral technology.

Although the Windsor family is not in power, its influence in the UK is still very strong, and its own industry is also widespread in all walks of life. In Europe, it is one of the most powerful families in terms of comprehensive strength, so it immediately began to help Li Mu and all kinds of tourism resources needed in the UK.

Davidson Cooper, the current manager of Goldberg family, who has a certain friendship with Li Mu, also received the message that Li Mu wanted to develop European exports, so he immediately called Li Mu and brought him good news.

Davidson told Li Mu: "Mr. Li, our Goldberg family has shares in several European airlines. If necessary, I can make these airlines cooperate with Muye technology in depth and cooperate with Muye technology in the future European tourism routes to China."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Gao Bai," Li Mu said pleasantly. "I didn't expect that your Goldberg family has such a wide range of businesses, including banking, finance and investment banking industries, as well as airlines."

Davidson said with a smile: "in fact, the situation in Europe is different from that in North America and China. There are many new industries and new rich people in North America and China, especially the Internet rich like Mr. Li. But in Europe, the overall situation is still supported by old money, and most of the funds are in traditional industries such as finance, industry and energy. These traditional industries are also our family The industry that ethnic groups have been cultivating. "

Said Davidson: "in fact, we also have some shares in Daimler. This time I'll contact you with Mr. Li, but there's still a small matter I want to cooperate with you."

Li Mu asked curiously, "is Daimler the parent company of Mercedes Benz?"

"Yes." "Mercedes Benz is one of several Daimler brands," Davidson said

Li Mu asked again, "what do you want to cooperate with me on?"

Davidson said with a smile, "Daimler has been promoting a sub brand since 1998. This brand may not be available in China. It's called smart. It's a small car brand that Mercedes Benz and swatch cooperated with earlier. It specializes in the production of ultra micro cars. I wonder if you have heard of Mr. Li?"

“Smart？” Li Mu frowned. Of course, he had heard about Mercedes Benz's smart. He had not only heard about it, but also drove this car in his last life.

To tell you the truth, smart car is not suitable for a man like Li Mu. Even if the car is small, the driving force is ordinary, the car can't run fast, the driving noise is not small, and the driving experience is not worth more than 100000 yuan, but the win is based on the brand, shape and ultra micro concept.

When driving smart, you don't need to worry about parking. It's no problem to be able to park it in a free way. It's much more convenient to drive it in a big city than a big car. In addition, it's also very convenient to add a plug and the fuel consumption is very low. It has some unique advantages.

So Li Mu asked, "I know smart, but what do you want to do with smart?"

Davidson said with a smile: "I'm also entrusted by others. You have not authorized BMW to use the image of panda bear. BMW just launched the concept map yesterday. In the next one or two months, it will launch a limited edition Mini Cooper of panda bear. The whole front face of the car is the shape of panda bear and the pattern of flower. Just after the concept map came out, European dealers received a lot of intentions The sales volume of the order is expected to be very good in the future. Both smart and mini are small cars, which are very suitable for cartoon modeling. Therefore, we hope to get the authorization of panda bear to produce a limited smart of panda bear. "

Li Mu said with a smile, "do you need to make a phone call to communicate this little matter? I'll arrange the marketing department to send the letter of authorization to smart. "

Davidson said with a smile, "that's great. Thank you Mr. Li. Smart has been looking for a suitable opportunity to launch. It seems that this good opportunity has come."

"You're welcome." Li Mu said with a smile, "it's just a matter of raising hands for us."As he said, Li Mu suddenly thought that he would like to lay out the production line before Tesla can mass produce, so he asked Davidson, "by Davidson, if I want to buy an automobile manufacturing enterprise, do you have any good recommendations?"

"Automobile enterprises?" Davidson asked in surprise, "Mr. Li wants to get involved in the automobile industry?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "I want to come in and try the water."

Davidson asked, "I don't know what kind of car are you interested in? Do you want to buy a super run brand to play? "

"No, no, no, I'm not interested in super running, just ordinary civilian cars, such as ordinary cars, luxury cars, or SUVs," Li said

Davidson thought for a moment and said, "there are two car brands in the UK, one is Jaguar and the other is Land Rover. I wonder if Mr. Li has heard of them?"

Li Mu said, "I heard that which company owns these two brands?"

"It's in Ford's hands and it's not very good," Davidson said

Said davinson: "Ford bought Jaguar more than ten years ago, and bought Land Rover from BMW four years ago, and then integrated the two brands together, but the overall performance is relatively poor. Jaguar Land Rover is now one of the several burdens in Ford's hands. Ford has the intention to sell, but there seems to be no interested buyer in the industry, everyone feels that It's hard to make these two brands work. "

Li Mu frowned.

Jaguar Land Rover sold very well in China in the last life. Jaguar is inferior to others, but Land Rover is a real bomb. A "Snail House" makes Land Rover's fire in China irremediable.

However, Ford seems to be more miserable that they sold Jaguar Land Rover to Tata in India before the Land Rover fire.

This operation is very coquettish. It means cutting meat at the lowest point, and then letting Tata buy it and then soaring all the way.

If there is a chance to buy Jaguar Land Rover now, it will be a very cost-effective thing.

Although Li Mu didn't know much about the specific content of automobile manufacturing, he talked with Elon Musk that Tesla and traditional gasoline vehicles have several general large-scale technologies, and the chassis is the most important one.

Chassis, to put it bluntly, is a set of platform, which is a complete set of solutions from wheelbase to engine gearbox layout, to suspension, to adjustment, to various electric control systems, stability systems and so on.

Even if Tesla is a pure electric vehicle, it can't do without a set of mature and reliable chassis technology. In addition to the earliest roadster chassis technology from lotus, the following major models, from model-s to SUV model x to cheap 3, are all based on their own flat platform.

If there is a ready-made traditional gasoline vehicle platform, Tesla's R & D and production will be easier.

For example, to produce Tesla's model-s with Jaguar's XJ platform, you only need to lighten the chassis, put the battery compartment in, and then replace the engine, gearbox and transmission parts. The remaining front and rear suspension and electric control systems are reserved. A large and medium-sized luxury Tesla is basically right.

Jaguar also has a model XKR sports car. Building roadster based on this platform is not necessarily worse than lotus.

As for Land Rover, the brand will make money properly in the future, even if it can't be used to produce pure electric hard off-road with Tesla, it can at least make money.

What's more, buying Jaguar Land Rover now should be an absolute bargain.

After entering 2000, Ford's business has been in a mess and its losses have become more and more serious. In the next few years, Ford has been selling its own industries. Jaguar Land Rover has been sold to Tata, India, while Volvo has been sold to Jili in China

Oh, and Volvo!

If you want to mix with Tesla, Volvo is actually more suitable than Jaguar Land Rover!

Volvo's models are more comprehensive, ranging from small cars to large cars, luxury cars, and SUVs. The product line is very complete. Although it's a little ugly, the safety aspect is really in place.

Volvo now has three main models: S-Series, V-series and XC series. S40, 60 and 80 have a complete product line. Xc6 and 90 also cover medium-sized SUV and large-scale SUV. Moreover, XC series is not a hard off-road vehicle, so the concept of model-x can be transplanted to XC series.

What's more, Volvo has many patented technologies in the field of safety, which can be taken out together and integrated into Tesla, which can save Tesla a a lot of basic work in the future of automatic driving.

In the simplest way, semi-automatic driving can be achieved by using a set of adaptive cruise, pre collision system, pedestrian protection system and lane departure system. On the basis of this system, adding more intelligent navigation, safety and identification functions, the threshold of automatic driving can be basically touched.

If we take Volvo down, Tesla will be too carefree in the future. We can directly build our own product system and technical barriers on the basis of Volvo.

Moreover, Tesla can feed back its technology to Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover.For example, Tesla can take out its own intelligent driving function to improve the intelligent level of these three brand models. At the same time, based on Tesla's own motor and battery technology, it can help these three brand models realize the expansion of hybrid power.

The small power motor, small capacity battery pack, municipal charging module and energy recovery module are inserted into the oil motor car, and then the overall optimization is carried out, which becomes a plug-in hybrid car.

Plug in the smaller motor, battery pack with smaller capacity, vehicle charging module and energy recovery module, and it will become a common hybrid car.

Tesla itself has its own motor technology, battery technology, charge and discharge technology and energy recovery technology. Isn't it all alive?