Rebirth of the Evil Life

Be Lin Feng's enemy?

This requires a lot of courage. At least for most people, it is difficult to muster up the courage to be Lin Feng's enemy. Besides, the price offered by Lin Feng is really tempting. $500 million to buy his controlling stake, it is difficult for him to say no.

Then the only deal is done!

"Mr. Lin, it is said that being friends with you is better than being enemies with you! Deal!" Elon Musk held Lin Feng's hand.

"Indeed, I have four words for friends - loyalty and loyalty, and one sentence for enemies - autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves!" Lin Feng laughed, "Thank you Mr. Musk for your help!"

"Mr. Lin, I have another premise, that is, I hope to retain a little bit of shares. I want to see where Tesla will eventually go under the leadership of Mr. Lin!" Elon Musk pleaded.

"Of course, that's what I wish for!" Lin Feng smiled slightly.

All he wanted was the controlling stake, while Elon Musk held 73% of Tesla's shares, and he only needed 51%. Of course, after paying $500 million, Lin Feng finally got 70% of the shares, leaving 3% to Elon Musk. After all, Elon Musk has paid a lot for Tesla in the past four years to enable it to be mass-produced. The only problem at present is that the cost is too high. The pre-sale price was originally $100,000, but now the cost price is $120,000!

How to sell this? Sell one unit and lose money.

"Mr. Lin, the biggest problem of the company now is cost control besides money. I wonder if you have any ideas?" Elon Musk asked.

Lin Feng smiled.

"About this, I think we have to wait for someone to come!" Lin Feng looked at his watch. "Well, he should be here!"

Waiting for someone? Elon Musk was stunned. Who else would Lin Feng pull into the game? But when he saw the person coming, he was stunned. He was very familiar with this person, Martin Eberhard, the founder of Tesla. He was originally an engineer, and he was not planning to set up a car company at first.

At the beginning. Martin Eberhard just saw an electric car once developed by General Motors-EV-1, and thought it was good to use an electric car. However, after GM produced more than 2,000 EV-1s, it was found that it was a money-losing product and closed it. At that time, the media also wrote an article "Who Killed the Electric Car" to comment on this matter.

Later, Al Cocconi, the chief engineer who participated in EV-1 at the time, was unwilling to fail, and later independently developed a lead-acid battery car t- for one person. Martin Eberhard was very interested in this t-. He spent $150,000 and asked Al Cocconi to modify it with a lithium battery. As a result, after the first charge, it ran 480 kilometers.

This made Martin Eberhard interested in making electric cars. But Al Cocconi was not too interested in it. He could customize it privately, but he was unwilling to build a company. So in the end, Martin Eberhard founded Tesla.

However, it lacked funds, and later Elon Musk was brought in to invest. Elon Musk became the largest shareholder and asked for the chairman and management rights. Martin Eberhard, on the other hand, became the chairman of the board of directors of the company. Unfortunately, cost control has not been ideal in recent years. It was originally believed that it would only cost $70,000 to manufacture a Tesla. As a result, the cost was as high as $120,000. So, Elon Musk fired Martin Eberhard in a rage. Today, although Martin Eberhard still holds a portion of the shares, he is not employed by the company. And it is said that his shares have been sold to Sergey Brin of Google and Jeff Skoll of eBay. Of course, in this situation, the two companies also want to inject capital, but they were rejected by Elon Musk. Unexpectedly, after rejecting Sergey Brin, Elon Musk still failed to reject Lin Feng. Of course, this is already a done deal. Now Elon Musk is concerned about how Lin Feng can solve the cost problem. "Regarding the cost problem, it's very simple, increase the price!" Lin Feng said easily. Increase the price? Elon Musk and Martin Eberhard both looked black. The original reservation price of 100,000 was raised to 110,000, and many customers complained. Many customers even canceled their reservations and raised the price... Are they still selling it?

"Martin, your original idea was very good. Selling the concept of environmental protection can indeed attract some successful people to buy, but you can't make money just by relying on this. Since we are playing with concepts, we must take the high-end route!" Lin Feng said, "How many rich people are there in the world now? A lot, a lot, what do they care about? It's the concept! Since Tesla is not selling cars to civilians, then hype the concept of electric cars to the end!"

Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk both frowned. They naturally understood this hype concept. But the only concept that Tesla can hype is electric cars. What else can be hyped about environmental protection?

Lin Feng laughed, then took out paper and pen, and drew a model.

Martin Eberhard saw what it was and cried out, "Perpetual motion machine!"

A perpetual motion machine is a so-called machine that can continuously move and perform work without external input of energy, energy, or only one heat source. A machine that can do work forever without consuming energy violates the law of conservation of energy, so it is called the "first type of perpetual motion machine". A machine that continuously absorbs heat from seawater or air in nature and continuously converts it into mechanical energy without a temperature difference. It violates the second law of thermodynamics, so it is called a "second type of perpetual motion machine."

"What we are going to do is the second type of perpetual motion machine! This is our biggest gimmick!" Lin Feng chuckled, "Boy, when the concept of perpetual motion machine is introduced, how many people do you think will pay for it?"

Martin Eberhard immediately became excited. To be honest, he was very unwilling to be kicked out of Tesla. Now that he has a chance to come back, he is very happy. Even though he doesn't own shares now, he is still happy. In particular, the concept of the second type of perpetual motion machine proposed by Lin Feng, he believes, will be very attractive.

Elon Musk also strongly agrees with the concept of hype. What today's rich people like most is to play with concepts. They don't care about the price, they just care about whether it is unique and whether others can't buy it. This is the most important thing.

Solar powered car! Under this concept, Tesla instantly became a hot topic of discussion. Originally, the concept of Tesla's electric environmentally friendly car attracted a lot of attention from the outside world, but now that the concept of a solar-powered perpetual vehicle has been launched, it is even more attractive.

Perpetual motion is an incredible thing in physics. And now that it's come true, it's incredible. Although Tesla also announced that due to the launch of solar perpetual motion machines, Tesla will postpone its launch and will only accept reservations. Its price has also increased from the original US$110,000 to a high price of US$250,000!

US$250,000 is enough to buy a Ferrari 458 in the United States, because a brand new Ferrari 458 is sold for US$250,000! This price points Tesla’s target directly to the Ferrari 458!

Will anyone respond? Yes, not only there are, but there are many.

There are many rich people in this world, and they don't care about spending $250,000 to buy a car. US$250,000 is an astronomical figure for poor people, but for rich people, it is really just pocket money. And spending a little pocket money to buy today's unique "solar-powered perpetual motion car" is a very cost-effective and interesting thing for wealthy people.

So the orders came in almost like snowflakes. In less than six hours, almost half of the people in Silicon Valley had ordered a ‘solar-powered perpetual motion car’. In other countries around the world, there are even more orders from wealthy people.

The solar-powered perpetual motion car is too much of a gimmick.

And because Lin Feng launched a solar-powered perpetual motion vehicle, international oil prices fell even more. Originally, OPEC wanted to suppress the price of oil to US$70 to compete with new energy sources and make everyone feel that fuel vehicles are not expensive at all. But when the concept of this solar-powered perpetual vehicle was launched, the price of oil plummeted to $60! This is a bit unbearable.

Arab sheikhs such as Zaid and Al Thani were even more frightened and angry. Before, it was just solar cars, but now they are launching perpetual motion cars. Isn’t it such an exaggeration? Is this solar technology so powerful? If this is the case, then who will buy their oil! Since a solar-powered perpetual motion car can be used, it is natural that a solar-powered perpetual motion machine can be used. When the time comes, who will need oil? And if no one buys oil, they will just be a group of local tycoons, and they will not become the Arab oil sheikhs that everyone envies now.

Damn it, aren't those people jealous? Zaid and other chiefs gritted their teeth.

If this is really developed, they will be doomed!

But is this solar perpetual motion machine possible? How can there be such an exaggeration!

Indeed, this sounds a bit exaggerated. But it's not an exaggeration at all. In fact, with current solar technology and Tesla's battery technology, installing a 200kwh battery pack on each car in the early stage is enough to ensure that the car can run about 1,500 kilometers (enough to meet the needs of almost an absolute majority of the population) . According to the current solar technology that Lin Feng has mastered, it takes almost 4 days, that is, 16 hours of sunshine, to be fully charged.

However, Lin Feng had a compromise to solve this problem. (To be continued)