Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

Qu Li came to the United States to watch basketball in the NBA. Lei Jun and Lu Qi were interviewed by Te. Originally, Te wanted to meet Qu Li, but he refused. What is the future? Car sales in the United States are limited, plus Mitsubishi's Mexican factory will be able to switch to producing American-style SUVs within half a year. He is not in a hurry.

Qu Li has always wanted to build a factory in the United States. The trolls may not understand. What if the company is confiscated by the Americans? But what if the money earned before was not confiscated? In addition, if they really do this, the impact on their domestic legal system will be considerable. The maritime law system is case law, which means that if they confiscate the assets of Chinese companies, they may confiscate those of any country.

As for targeted legislation, of course we can have it, but if we start with this, who knows whether it will fall on us. If we are not afraid of poison, it will be more difficult, and Turkey and Brazil are not afraid?

A country's loss of credibility will seriously affect its development speed. Uncle Liu Huang once said: "Every time you go against your will, things will come true." If you go against the grain and I go with the flow, people's hearts will be won over.

It's a pity that Qu Li has his heart, but when it comes to building a factory, there are still many difficulties. The foundation of the entire pure electric vehicle industry chain is in China, and it is impossible for Qu Li to relocate to the United States. And we must take into account the conservative forces in various states in the United States, which may have special measures. This was what he noticed during his inspection in Texas. The existence of this risk made him choose to build a factory in California.

California's market environment may be the best in the United States, and it is also the most friendly state to Chinese Americans. Unfortunately, various taxes are too high for companies to appreciate it.

I saw that Geometry G9/Y9 sells about 2,000 units a month in the United States, which is about half of Tesla. The reason for this may be related to product selection and pricing strategy.

Geometry G9/Y9 basically only has two versions: long-range and high-performance. The three-motor version has not yet been released. Tesla has more choices, but the low-priced model has a too short range and the software update speed is relatively slow. , Chassis tuning is not as good as geometry and other defects. The advantage is that the level of electronic control is high, and Tesla can run farther with electricity of the same quality and degree.

However, there are also bloggers who run two cars at the same time. The results have ups and downs, so the outside world cannot distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of the two cars very well. In the European market, Geometry has taken advantage of Swedish factories and has gained a leading advantage in many markets after reducing taxes and fees, such as the Nordic markets of Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Of course, Geometry's biggest advantage over Tesla is the Chinese market. Musk has been to the country many times, including for interviews with the central government, and wants to lower import tariffs or build a factory in the country. Qu Li has already told Musk about building a factory in the country. The benefits, how could he not be moved?

In addition, Tesla is more radical in autonomous driving. Musk has publicly said on many occasions that autonomous driving will replace humans; while Geometry is more conservative. Qu Li believes that autonomous driving must first do auxiliary work, and then consider using artificial intelligence to replace humans. operate.

When it comes to selecting specific application scenarios for autonomous driving, Geometry Priority has to do well in high-speed cruising and automatic parking scenarios, while Tesla has to do well in urban and rural roads. The difficulty of the two scenarios is very different.

Tesla and Geometry both build charging piles in the United States and adopt the same standards. Qu Li is not stingy in this regard. Because there is also Sabot, the number of charging piles built in North America is only slightly less than Tesla. It has made a huge contribution to the construction of charging infrastructure in the United States, which is quite helpless.

After the domestic charging national standard came out, the construction of charging piles accelerated greatly, so that the main consideration was the construction of fast charging stations, especially super fast charging stations on important high-speed routes.

In the North American market, Tesla and Geometry are mutually reinforcing. There is nothing wrong with everyone. You support me and I support you. By the way, I want to criticize traditional car companies for not making progress. As for the emerging pure electric car brands, haha, they are happy. good. Qu Li really didn't pay attention to the new American car-making forces that were boasting loudly.

Weilai released a concept car in the United States, which was supposed to be shown to investors. At that time, there were already founders. How to compete with Tesla and Geometry, and how to build cars were all unanswered.

Fortunately, Qu Li committed suicide and chose the extremely difficult geometry Y6. Now the whole world knows that in order to reduce costs, he adopted a centrally integrated electronic and electrical architecture, part of the body using integrated die-casting technology, and Gigafactory 2.0, resulting in the car Dystocia.

There are car enthusiasts around the world who believe that Qu Li innovates for the sake of innovation, and some even speculate when Qiancheng Geometry will go bankrupt. Haven't they seen the volume and price of Qiancheng's fuel vehicles rise? The Qiancheng CS8, which costs more than 150,000 yuan, was not accepted before but is now very popular, with sales doubling.

So Qu Li went to the United States to watch football and at the same time accepted interviews with American media, just to show his confidence and optimism.

"Why did you choose this time to resign from Time Jumei and Glory?"

"Because these two companies are already good enough, I want to make them even better."

"Are you saying that you are not good enough and can't lead them to become better?" Reporter

"It's not that I'm not good enough, it's that each of us has our own strengths and limitations, so we need to build a team and start division of labor and cooperation..." Qu Li

"Would the two companies be better off without you?" Reporter

"I believe they can definitely do it." Qu Li smiled tolerantly at the reporter.

"Why don't you go to the United States with Ma Yun to meet Te so-and-so?"

"I think there is nothing to say. He wants to make American manufacturing great again, and I also want to build factories in the United States. Over the years, I have discussed it many times on the board of directors of Honor and Future Geometry Company, and done a lot of research, and every time I found that it is really necessary It is too difficult to build a factory, so it has been delayed until now. There is really no way, unless American consumers are willing to increase the cost of each smartphone by about half."

What Qu Li said is true. There are indeed minutes of the meeting. Honor’s overseas executives can prove it. But who doesn’t know that the United States is not suitable for building factories? He had ulterior motives for holding the meeting.

"Why?"

"The quality of the labor force, work efficiency, completeness of the industrial chain, etc..."

“Isn’t the quality of the American labor force good?”

"This question is difficult to explain and is prone to ambiguity. I won't say it anymore. You can investigate on your own." Qu Li thought for a while but still didn't say anything.

The Tesla Magic City Gigafactory is supposed to be a sweat/slave factory with the lowest wages and the highest work intensity among all Tesla factories. However, it turns out to be a high-welfare factory that "everyone aspires to" in China. Not to mention, minor problems in domestic factories can be solved in one working day, while American factories may take a week.