Genius of the Rules-Style System

After Musk and his party arrived at Yixing, a receptionist was in charge of contacting them. They waited for about two hours before finally meeting Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi's work schedule is still very busy. He went to Zhengyang University and personally discussed the construction of a new major. The name of the new major is not space transmission technology. The name of space transmission technology is too 'big' because it is for The specific skills course is named 'Electronic Beam Arrangement and Cryptography', which means relying on passwords to set the beam arrangement.

Zhengyang University attaches great importance to the new major. The university has negotiated a cooperation with Yixing Company. It is guaranteed that at least half of the first three batches of graduates of the new major will find employment in Yixing Company.

This cooperation has given Zhengyang University reassurance. At the same time, it will also make the "Electronic Beam Arrangement and Cryptography" major the most popular junior college-level course in the university.

In addition, Zhao Yi also arranged for technical personnel from several companies to work part-time as lecturers in professional courses at Zhengyang University.

After everything was settled, he returned to the company to receive the guests.

Musk has been waiting for a long time, but he and his team are not in a hurry. Zhao Yi is the world's number one scientist and has opened a company by himself. You can imagine how busy he is at work.

Zhao Yi met Musk when he returned to the company. He came over from a distance and apologized, "I'm really sorry. I was a little busy just now. I just came here now. I've been waiting for a long time."

Please be polite to each other.

Zhao Yi then took a group of people to visit various places in the company.

What Musk and his team are most interested in is the unlimited power car. There are no cars sold abroad. They have not seen the finished product yet. They can only see through the glass window from a distance in the open space outside, where there are several cool cars parked. Car.

During the visit, Musk couldn't help but point out the window and asked, "That's an unlimited power car, right?"

"As you can see."

"Very cool."

"Thanks!"

Musk asked with interest, "Can I ask which designer created this appearance?"

Car exterior design requires a college degree, but car designer is a very unpopular profession. Because the market demand is very low, many people who are engaged in car exterior design cannot find a job at all.

Because of this, a top car exterior designer will become a sought-after talent.

Many small car manufacturers do not have professional appearance designers at all, and the shapes of the cars they manufacture are all "copied and modified".

Musk was also very surprised when he saw the appearance of the unlimited power car. Just by glancing at the exterior design, he was sure that it was the work of a top designer.

Zhao Yi smiled and said, "It's exactly my design."

"you?"

Musk suddenly opened his mouth in surprise, and then exclaimed, "I didn't expect, Dr. Zhao, that you can design the shape of a car and have such a perfect work!"

He calls Zhao Yi 'Doctor' because Zhao Yi is a top scientist, which is a respectful title for scholars.

Zhao Yidao said, "It's nothing." He then continued, "I think you are probably interested in cars, right? I'll just take you to see the cars!"

Musk immediately smiled and said, "Thank you! This is exactly what we came for."

Zhao Yi led a group of people outside and surrounded an unlimited power car. He personally opened the front and rear covers of the car and introduced each part while pointing out, "Our design is to provide energy from the battery in the middle, and two motors at the front and rear. The main energy compartment is under the rear seats and is directly connected to the highest-power motor in the rear, which saves space and does not make the car chassis look too high."

"Because it is not purely electric, the car's battery does not take up much space and does not make the chassis look too high."

He gave a brief explanation and asked someone to open the bottom and remove the light energy receiving converter.

"This is the main energy device. The specific structure, of course, is confidential for the time being. It can provide continuous power supply of up to 45KW."

When this data was revealed, Musk and his team were immediately amazed.

"Are you sure? It's him?" Musk walked over in wonder, "Can I touch it?"

"sure."

Zhao Yi moved away and let Musk touch it a few times. He would definitely not be able to find anything just by touching it. Musk lost interest after touching it a few times.

The group of people walked back to the office area and directly entered the conference room.

At this time, the point comes.

Musk talked about the technology Tesla has mastered and its dominance in the field of electric vehicles, including how many high-end patents it has mastered, including the battery technology it has developed, and of course the most important thing, the development of the overall vehicle system.

The electric cars that Tesla can manufacture are indeed at the top of the world in terms of performance, system, control, etc. Because they focus on manufacturing electric cars, their technology in the electric car field is very comprehensive.

After Musk finished speaking, he asked directly, "This time my team and I are here to seek cooperation with Yixing."

"What's the specifics?" Zhao Yi asked.

"Infinite power cars are not perfect." Musk said, "You have unimaginable technology, but there are many deficiencies in other aspects, such as power supply and control systems. In addition, if nothing else, you should We have not yet developed driverless technology, and we can cooperate in these areas."

Zhao Yi listened patiently and nodded. Musk was telling the truth, but that alone could not convince him to cooperate.

Musk found that these alone could not impress Zhao Yi, so he simply said, "If we cooperate, we can build a car that can drive for more than six hours with only 10 kilowatts of continuous power supply."

"If it is used intermittently, I think the driving time will not be less than 10 hours a day."

The meaning of this number could not be clearer.

Although unlimited power cars can continue to drive, the energy supply required is 10 to 30 kilowatts. When full power is turned on, it may even exceed 40 kilowatts. High power means high energy consumption.

If a car can be built that only requires 10 kilowatts of continuous power supply, the car's functional time will be longer, but energy loss can be greatly reduced, which means that it can support the manufacture of more cars.

For example, 10,000 units could be manufactured originally, but now 15,000 units can be manufactured.

This technology may sound simple, but in fact the solution is extremely complex and requires a complete electronic detection system and high-end charging and discharging battery pack technology.

Yixing Company is doing research and development in this direction and can solve some of the problems. However, if they do research and development alone and work hard for one or two years, it will be difficult to perfect the system, and the system may have various problems.

This cannot be solved by Zhao Yi alone.

Electronic systems, control systems, plus detection systems, on-board software are very complex, just like the operating system of a computer. If you want to have a complete operating system, it takes too long to code line by line.

Zhao Yi's ability is limited alone. He cannot type millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of codes.

Code of that magnitude would require a large team to complete.

However, Zhao Yi still shook his head and said, "Mr. Musk, I admit that you are right, and the technology you have is exactly what we need. If we cooperate to build cars together, we can create a perfect unlimited car." Power cars.”

Musk nodded as he listened, his expression unchanged.

Zhao Yi's voice changed suddenly, "But why do we want to create a perfect car? We have no competitors in the field of solar remote output technology."

"Now our company can only manufacture a limited number of cars, and we can sell one after we build one."

"Although it is indeed attractive to produce more cars with the same energy supply, we can fully utilize the high profits and high returns and launch more energy-gathering satellites to provide more energy."

"To us, solar energy is like water in the sea, which is inexhaustible. When every drop of water can provide profits, all we have to do is to continue to expand the channels and bring more sea water over. That's enough, it's simple, convenient, and very efficient.

"On the contrary, in order to create more profits for every drop of water, we add a partner or even introduce a competitor. I think no one would be stupid enough to do this, right?"

Musk took a deep breath after hearing this. Of course he knew what Zhao Yi meant, and what he said was very clear.

Yixing Infinite Power Company does not need to improve its technology at all to create 'more perfect cars', because even if it is not perfect, their cars will not worry about sales. All they have to do is launch more satellites and build more cars. .

In terms of improving car performance and reducing energy consumption, they can do it slowly and accumulate slowly, without having to find a partner for this.

Negotiations have stalled.

Zhao Yi said that there was no need to cooperate or improve technology. He was sincere in the first part, but not necessarily in the second part.

Musk also knows this.

At the same time, he also knows that Tesla is a passive party. As long as Yixing Infinite Power Company develops slowly, Tesla's market will be cannibalized sooner or later. Internationally, more people will definitely choose Infinite Power cars instead of just trams. It's Tes.

The world's top and comprehensive tram technology is Tesla's advantage.

Unlimited power cars can indeed eat away at Tesla’s market share, but how long will it take? Maybe ten, twenty, or even longer.

At the rate Infinite Power cars are being built, it will take a long time to cover the market.

Musk was silent for a while and communicated with others before continuing, "Maybe we can change the way of cooperation."

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When Musk lowered his stance, the negotiations were always under Yixing's control.

The two parties conducted several rounds of negotiations, and then reached an agreement on some issues. For example, cooperation is possible, but the bottom line is that Yixing will not provide relevant technologies, and it will not develop car products together with Tesla.

For example, Tesla needs to provide some electronic software technology.

Tesla's demand is that it hopes Yixing can sell a batch of light energy receiving converters.

Yixing also attaches great importance to negotiations with Tesla. After four consecutive days of negotiations, the two companies finally agreed on a cooperation method.

The first is the software aspect.

Tras provides some basic codes in the fields of electronic control and electronic detection.

In terms of software requirements, the two parties spent the longest time talking, because the content related to software functions is very complex, and every part must be fought for. At the same time, Tesla will definitely provide as little core code as possible.

The basic code of electronic software can greatly speed up Yixing Company's construction and improvement of vehicle electronic systems.

The second is that Tesla provides one billion US dollars, plus 0.5% of the company's shares, to replace 0.5% of the shares of Yixing Infinite Power Company.

Yixing Company is divided into Yixing Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. and Yixing Infinite Power.

What Tesla replaced was Yixing Infinite Power, which is the shares of the automobile manufacturing company.

This part sounds like Tesla is suffering a loss, but Musk is not a person who suffers a loss. He knows very well that the exchange of shares is an opportunity obtained by Tesla providing software code.

The main reason is that Yixing is not a company that you can invest in if you want to.

Even if financing is publicly conducted, the companies that can invest are mainly official companies, supplemented by private companies, and foreign companies are ranked last.

Tesla's current market value is very high, but in one or two years, Yixing's market value will most likely exceed Tesla's.

The third point is the benefit of Tesla. They will purchase 2,000 light energy receiving and converting devices that can continuously provide 10 kilowatts of electric energy at a price of US$250 million.

This order for the light energy receiving and converting device was finalized jointly by Yixing Infinite Power Company, Space Information Technology Company, and Advanced Compressed Materials Company.

US$250 million to purchase 2,000 light energy receiving converters that can continuously provide 10 kilowatts of electrical energy. The average price per unit is US$125,000.

This price can be said to be quite expensive, even about ten times the cost price, because it only provides 10 kilowatts of electrical energy, and the converter can be made much smaller.

However, for foreign automobile companies, they can buy the latest technology of light energy receiving converters, no matter how high the price is, they still make money.

Musk left with his team.

This time, even he himself didn't know whether he had made a profit or suffered a loss.

Tesla's exchange of shares in Infinite Power will definitely make money in the long run. They will definitely make money when they buy the light energy receiving and conversion device, but what they paid is a large amount of basic code for electronic software.

These are very valuable assets of Tesla and are the result of hundreds of engineers working hard for a long time.

However, Musk still has expectations. His main purpose is to buy a light energy receiving and converting device. In terms of the company's interests, the device costing US$125,000 is not expensive at all. They can use this to create unlimited The starting price of a power car can even exceed one million US dollars. If it is directly advertised as the top luxury car, it can easily double the money spent.

In addition, Musk also hopes to use a light energy reception and conversion device to study the secrets of space light energy transmission technology.

But in terms of research technology, he didn't have much hope.

Space light energy transmission technology comes from space information transmission technology. Many companies and institutions are researching space information transmission equipment, but until now, no company or institution has been able to crack the principle of space transmission technology, and even wants to imitate one. It is extremely difficult to access the target device, and counterfeit devices can only connect to the same target device.

The same is true for today's light energy receiving and converting devices. If Yixing Infinite Power Company dares to sell cars directly, it will definitely not worry about being counterfeited.

This is also true.

Even if a company or institution succeeds in imitating it, it is completely meaningless, because the core of light energy transmission is the solar-circulating energy-gathering satellite, and the light energy receiving device is like an 'accessed IP'.

They can control energy-gathering satellites and naturally deny access to certain IPs.

In other words, whether the light energy receiving and converting device sold can be directly linked to the energy-gathering satellite will also be controlled by the space agency and Yixing Infinite Power Company.