Chapter 1278 Fremont Factory

  Xia Jingxing took Ao Guanhai and his party to visit Tesla's design, battery and other departments, and then came to the last stop of the vehicle engineering department.

   In the super-large workshop opened up, Ao Guanhai saw five or six Model S prototypes, and he approached and touched the cars with joy.

   "Looks cool! Very futuristic tech!"

  Xia Jingxing pulled out Franz who was standing behind him, and introduced: "The shape was designed by our chief designer and is also one of our great heroes."

  O Guanhai glanced at Franz, smiled and praised: "Great! The design is simple and stylish, I think this is in line with Tesla's environmental protection concept."

   was praised by the commander himself, and Franz was still very excited.

   He glanced at Xia Jingxing, who gave him an encouraging look.

   Franz, who was in a great mood, began to introduce the appearance of Model S to Ao Guanhai in detail. Ao Guanhai listened very carefully and asked a few questions from time to time.

   "Why is there no door handle?"

  Ao Guanhai subconsciously opened the car door, but his hand felt empty.

  Xia Jingxing smiled and stepped forward and handed Ao Guanhai a key that looked like a mini car.

   As soon as Ou Guanhai got the key, the door handle automatically popped out before he made any movement.

   "Inductive?"

  Ao Guanhai squatted down and looked at the door handle, then turned to ask Xia Jingxing.

   "Yes, in the future, we also plan to add a mobile phone to simulate the car key function. If the key is lost or forgotten one day, you can open the door and drive the car normally."

  Ao Guanhai nodded lightly, opened the car door and sat in, and began to observe the interior and central control of the car in detail.

  Xia Jingxing and the others all stood outside the car with a smile, watching this scene through the front window glass, as if the students had found some beloved toy, touch them here and touch them there.

  Suddenly, Ao Guanhai lowered the car window, stuck his head out and asked, "Can I drive it with a fire?"

  Xia Jingxing was startled, if the battery caught fire and exploded, wouldn't he be sentenced to a thousand years in prison?

  Xia Jingxing didn't dare to gamble and wanted to persuade Ao Guanhai to be more prudent, but he didn't know what to say, saying that you were sitting on a powder keg? Is there a small chance to experience the feeling of heaven?

  Fortunately, before Xia Jingxing could speak, the entourage on the side had already begun to dissuade him, listing a lot of reasons, barely dispelling Ao Guanhai's idea of ​​a test drive.

   "Hey, I really want to drive this car to 101 Highway. It would be even better if I encounter a supercar on the road. Everyone can speed up."

  Ao Guanhai got out of the car with regret and started to say some inappropriate words.

  Xia Jingxing said with a smile: "Let's do it, I will arrange for the test driver to go off the track to perform for the students of the Datong Leader."

"That's great!"

  Ao Guanhai agreed without thinking.

  Just like that, the group came to the racing venue not far away.

  Two Tesla prototypes were arranged to end, and a chase battle was staged.

   On the stand, Ao Guanhai was so addicted to it that he turned his head and said to Xia Jingxing, "When this car starts to go on sale, I will be the first to pre-order."

   "No problem, we promise to deliver the first car to your official residence."

  Xia Jingxing smiled and understood that this was Ao Guanhai's reward to him, the spokesperson of the great commander, which was quite significant.

   Zhu Liwen, who was watching silently on the side, smiled and said, "I'll order one too. The performance of this car is somewhat beyond my expectations in all aspects."

   Zhu Liwen saw that the commander had made a statement, and immediately expressed it.

  The new energy industry represented by Tesla is not only an important support object in the ruling policy of the great leader, but also the direction of their Ministry of Energy to expand their achievements.

  Xia Jingxing was very happy and felt that the loan should be settled.

   Sure enough, Ao Guanhai began to take the initiative to talk about the loan.

   "If you give Tesla a loan, how soon can you mass-produce the Model S?"

  Xia Jingxing replied vigorously: "We are currently raising a new round of financing. After the loan and financing are in place, we will start pre-sale and build a new factory. Mass production will be delivered in the first half of next year."

  Ao Guanhai frowned and said, "You don't have a factory yet. If you build a new factory, it won't delay mass production, right?"

   Speaking of this, Xia Jingxing also had some headaches. The construction progress of the US factory was moving. He was indeed a little worried that the long construction cycle would affect the car mass production plan.

   Seeing that Xia Jingxing did not speak for a long time, Ao Guanhai's face gradually darkened.

   "Daren, I don't like people giving me a bad check! If you feel uncertain about something, don't let it go."

   Seeing that Ao Guanhai suddenly got angry, Zhu Liwen chose to watch from the sidelines. He had no friendship with Xia Jingxing and could not help talking.

   He is a native Chinese, born in the United States, and Xia Jingxing has almost nothing in common except for his skin, and he is not close.

  Xia Jingxing sighed, "Building a new factory is just an option for us, in order to save time, we actually prefer to acquire an automobile manufacturing plant.

  Recently we are looking for targets, but we haven't found anything yet. "

   "Acquisition of a factory?"

  Ao Guanhai thought for a moment, then suddenly turned his head to look at Zhu Liwen, and said, "Steven, we visited GM the day before yesterday, is there a factory that is in trouble?"

   "Yes, the Fremont plant, which mainly produces economy models of Chevrolet and Toyota, is a joint venture between GM and Toyota.

   Now GM's operations have encountered major problems, and maintaining this factory is a huge operational burden. "

  Xia Jingxing listened on the sidelines, his mind changed.

  How to forget about this, Centennial General Motors is going to go bankrupt!

  GM's family base is as strong as its debts. It has more than a dozen factories in many states in the United States, and there are joint ventures SAIC-GM and SAIC-GM-Wuling in China.

  Would you like to buy Wuling?

   If you buy it, you will also have the car-making qualifications of Fuxing Automobile.

   The more Xia Jingxing thought about it, the more he felt that this could be done.

   But then again, GM is in trouble with its current financial situation. Some talk about it, but SAIC doesn’t.

   Just as Xia Jingxing was stunned, Ao Guanhai turned his back to him and completed an eye contact with Zhu Liwen, and they both understood the meaning of the other party.

   "Daren, Fremont, less than half an hour from Palo Alto, looks like it was built for Tesla?"

  Xia Jingxing said with a smirk: "We have known about that factory, it is very big, and it is estimated that the selling price is not cheap.

  Tesla is not listed yet, and the financing channels are relatively simple.

   I can inject more capital into Tesla myself, but other shareholders object.

   Vision Capital now holds more than 40% of Tesla’s shares. If it continues to inject capital, it will control Tesla. "

  Ao Guanhai frowned. If the Chinese-owned Envision Capital completely controlled Tesla and asked the Ministry of Energy to provide interest-free loans and carbon credit subsidies, it would inevitably be criticized.

   "Well, I'll arrange for someone to talk to General Motors to see if they can get you a relatively favorable price."

  Xia Jingxing was waiting for these words, and quickly thanked Ao Guanhai.

  O Guanhai waved his hand, "Don't thank me, you should thank the American people.

  The best way to repay is to produce environmentally friendly cars as soon as possible so that everyone can drive them. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "If all the problems are resolved, and if I still can't mass-produce cars, I will be ashamed to see the American people."

   "Just understand! You must know that Tesla is not only an electric car manufacturer in the United States, but Faraday's products are also doing very well. I heard that their cars are about to be mass-produced.

  Musk is also a great guy, he can even play with rockets, and NASA speaks highly of him. "

   After a little warning to Xia Jingxing, Ao Guanhai put the suit jacket in his hands on his shoulders and left very elegantly.

   (end of this chapter)