My Age of Investment

"Daerun, I feel relieved to see that you are satisfied."

Chief designer Franz stood up with a smile on his face. Facing the Tesla executives standing around him, he explained: "Many people may not know that this Model S is actually not my design work alone. , I also have a partner.”

Franz opened his palm and pointed at Xia Jingxing, "Darren is my partner, he is responsible for coming up with the design concept, and I lead the team to be responsible for the drawing and cooperate with the vehicle engineering team to implement the relevant design.

There were rumors in the industry that Darren participated in the design of Fuxing FX1. I didn't believe it at first. It was probably the guys from Fuxing Mobile who were trying to please the boss, or the media was deliberately creating talented people to increase the attention of the news. "

People around him smiled knowingly. Anyone who knew Franz knew that this guy never kept his mouth shut.

His design talent is outstanding, but his nature is relatively loose and his speech is relatively direct. Maybe this is the flaw of genius. This professional skill is full, and other skill values ​​are all negative.

Xia Jingxing crossed his arms and listened with interest.

He didn't mind adding an aura of genius to himself through Franz's mouth, because these things could be converted into tangible benefits.

Many of the auras and names that Lao Qiao and Musk had in their previous lives, such as "technology madman", "minimalist", and "design master", were deliberately created by the public relations department, and the founders endorsed their products.

This is the new marketing science. Domestic Lao Ma, Lei Jun, Boss Jia, Chen Ou and others are all its loyal fans, and they have really tasted the benefits from it.

Therefore, when the time comes for this technology entrepreneur to be high-profile, he must not be low-key.

This is somewhat different from the low-key shorting of the global financial market that he pursues. After all, shorting does not have a good reputation most of the time, and finance is often equated with some derogatory words in the eyes of ordinary people.

Franz suddenly changed the subject, "But after I worked with Darren's close partner once, all these prejudices and narrow-mindedness were flushed down the drain.

Okay, I admit, my lack of experience limits my imagination.

If one day Darren suddenly no longer wants to be a boss and wants to be a hardware designer, I have to remind my colleagues in the industry: Be careful about your job. "

Tesla's executives all listened attentively, and even the looks they looked at Xia Jingxing changed.

Based on what they knew about Franz, this guy would never be able to make such a fresh and refined flattery. There was only one possibility, and that was the truth, without any exaggeration.

This is terrible!

If you are not born an all-rounder, you can only learn it later.

But this learning ability is too powerful? Feel free to cross borders and industries.

Considering the age of the boss, I really wonder what the upper limit of his future achievements will be?

There is a kind of arrogance among people in the technology industry, and Tesla has gathered countless arrogant soldiers. Many people took salary cuts from other car companies and technology companies to join Tesla. They came to this company that they think is cool. Businesses pursue and realize greater ideals and ambitions.

Therefore, they only maintain superficial respect for Xia Jingxing, the chairman and major shareholder. If they really admire him, it is only for the sake of money.

But at this moment, many people put away their arrogance and contempt, and Xia Jing Xinglu's professional skills won their respect.

"The 17-inch central control screen was the first one that Darren proposed to install. He said he wanted to move the Fuxing mobile phone to the car. At that time, I thought this guy was crazy. He really made the car like a mobile phone. …”

Under Franz's vivid description, everyone got to know a different Darren Summer from their impressions.

Many executives were immediately relieved. No wonder Darren was more familiar with this car than they were. It turned out that he was the father and original creator of Model S.

CEO Straubel showed a smile on his face. He and Franz were insiders of this matter.

More than a year ago, he almost went crazy because he was driven crazy by the car idea proposed by Xia Jingxing.

Central control touch screen, vehicle OTA, centralized electronic and electrical architecture, the fewer the better, the electronic control unit ECU...

The degree of difficulty in realizing these ideas is hellish. First of all, it needs to integrate countless cutting-edge technologies. Secondly, it needs to solve compatibility issues. Thirdly, it needs to control costs and not cause an own problem with Roadster.

He gritted his teeth and accepted the task. In the process, he found that although it was difficult, there was no technical threshold that could not be overcome.

This shows that the technical conditions for manufacturing Model S are available, but no one has ever proposed to build such a car.

Therefore, he also admired Xia Jingxing, which showed that his boss was technologically forward-looking and was not just assigning tasks without thinking.

As a professional manager, I feel very lucky to have a boss like Xia Jingxing, who has clear rewards and punishments, is keen on technological innovation, and has a good business sense...

After Franz praised Xia Jingxing fiercely, he entered the queue and returned to the team. There was a warm round of applause from all around.

Just when everyone was feeling complacent, a distraught voice sounded, "This car is still not perfect enough!"

Everyone looked for the sound, and a middle-aged man with half-white curly hair said with a heavy face: "First of all, we have not yet found a balance between the dual-motor four-wheel drive system and energy consumption and acceleration performance!

The Model S we envision has two motors, a main motor and an auxiliary motor, which are placed on the front and rear axles of the vehicle to drive the front and rear wheels.

When traditional fuel vehicles are equipped with four-wheel drive systems, fuel consumption will increase.

The goal of Model S is to solve this shortcoming. In other words, our four-wheel drive structure should reduce energy consumption and increase cruising range.

This requires that the dual-motor structure must optimize power output, and the two motors cooperate with each other to improve energy utilization efficiency.

For example, if our electric car wants to have the acceleration performance of a cheetah, it must explode at maximum torque when starting, and the energy consumption at this time will be very high.

At the same time, when the car reaches higher speeds, the torque will drop significantly, weakening the acceleration performance.

The role of the auxiliary motor is reflected at this time, which can supplement part of the torque to maintain sufficient and powerful acceleration in the second half of the vehicle.

This solution is not only to reduce energy consumption, but also to make Model S a fast horse.

However, this requires that the auxiliary motor must be designed to have a relatively gentle torque curve, and the torque peak can be lower, but drastic torque changes are not allowed due to the increase in vehicle speed.

During the high-speed test of the prototype car, we discovered the flaws exposed by the current motor design.

Let’s talk about acceleration first. The acceleration from 0 to 60 miles (0 to 97 kilometers) takes 4.5 seconds, which is far behind the Roadster’s 3.7 seconds. "

Many executives present nodded in recognition of this flaw.

Straubel frowned, "Although the acceleration performance has been weakened, our cost and planned selling price have also been reduced."

Even if the CEO spoke in person, the curly-haired middle-aged white man still replied, "But this is the four-wheel drive version of the Model S, and it is a new car we designed from the beginning to the end. It carries our bigger dream."

If the market price is lowered, but the acceleration performance and battery life are better, how much impact will this have on consumers' minds? "

Franz saw the excitement and said with a smile: "If the lower-priced Model S has better performance, I wonder if the Roadster owners will scold us and ask us to return the car or pay for the difference?"