Reborn Millennium Player

As the sun set and the evening breeze picked up, four Models formed a convoy and drove neatly to the holiday villa.

Musk walked out of the Model S with the license plate "00001" and saw an oven and grill set up in the yard. The chef was grilling steaks and skewers, and the aroma was wafting.

"Hey Elon, try this, just for you!"

Lu Fei was holding a plate full of fragrant grilled skewers.

"Thanks!"

Musk's eyes lit up, he grabbed the meat skewers and ate happily.

As the major shareholder, Lu Fei waved his hand and greeted the Tesla employees who followed Musk. While holding the string, he said: "I heard that you recently proposed a Mars colonization plan, which will bring 80,000 people to Mars in 15 to 20 years."

Is it possible to send people to Mars?"

"Hey, others may not know, but you don't know." Musk showed a shrewd smile, "Otherwise, how can we grab more orders from NASA, how can we get more orders from the federal government and state governments?

With so many subsidies and tax exemptions, how can we get loans and funds from Wall Street capital and banks?" After saying that, he chewed on the caramelized steak.

"You, you."

Lu Fei shook his head and laughed.

He talks about ambition, but his heart is all about business.

"Of course, the most important thing is to use the Mars colonization plan to build momentum for Tesla. SpaceX relies solely on orders from NASA and the funds injected by you and Larry, which is far from enough. Tesla also needs a blood transfusion for spaceX!"

Musk took a sip of cold beer.

"Speaking of Larry, he and I are very satisfied with the Model S's goal of completing mass production as scheduled. Although Tesla is still losing money so far, and its cumulative losses even increased to US$81.5 million last year, I still proposed to the board of directors,

Develop a 10-year equity incentive plan for you."

Lu Fei ordered the soft, tender and fragrant chicken wings.

"real?!"

"Is it still fake?"

"Lu, I... I really don't know how to thank you, I'll give you a toast!" Musk raised his glass excitedly.

"Don't drive when you drink, don't drink when you drive. Let's have a nice drink later. Now let's take a couple of laps."

Lu Fei took out a tissue and wiped his mouth.

No matter what country, drinking culture is indispensable. Of course, America has more fun. In China, when Hawking comes, he can only stand up and toast two glasses. But in the United States, not being able to stand up is a matter of ability. Whether he can stand or not

It seems to be a matter of attitude.

"No problem at all."

Musk's mouth was full of oil after eating.

The two walked straight to the first Model S and walked around it, making introductions and looking at it.

The four-door Coupe's styling design, streamlined body, and Porsche Panamera feel, aggressive headlights, and exaggerated large-size wheels.

"The interior uses Nappa leather seats and carbon fiber trim...the biggest highlight is the central control platform."

Musk pointed to the huge LCD screen on the central control, "The chip is designed and produced with multiple cores, and we adjust it accordingly."

"How do you feel after experiencing it?"

Lu Fei took a closer look and found that everything from Here map navigation and other software to the entire vehicle system, and even supporting chips and components, all came from logic. This was just the beginning.

"It's very good. The concept of the Internet of Vehicles has been hyped for four or five years, either falling into a price war or failing to gain traction. Now I finally see a real Internet of Vehicles product." Musk gave a thumbs up in praise.

"Because the Internet of Vehicles requires an easy-to-integrate, compatible, and high-tech communication module solution, thanks to Logic's previous acquisition of Nortel Networks and its cooperation with Huawei."

Lu Fei stretched out his finger and swiped the screen, "What's inside is the LTE 4G-based vehicle module ME909T."

"It can be said that you have created a revolutionary breakthrough in the basic equipment support platform for the Internet of Vehicles. Lu, are you planning to let Logic become the Bosch of the new energy vehicle era?"

An intriguing light flashed in Musk's eyes.

"To be precise, I am a good nanny for you new energy vehicles. Logic does not build cars, but helps car companies build good cars."

Lu Fei had a mysterious smile on his lips.

In the 3G era, the network speed is too slow, which limits the Internet of Vehicles and leads to insufficient user experience, so naturally they don’t buy it.

Moreover, these days, the development and upgrade intervals for IT products such as navigation systems, traffic monitoring systems, entertainment audio and video systems, and instant messaging systems should be measured in months, but the development cycles of automobile manufacturers are calculated in years.

For example, when conducting reliability experiments on mobile phones, the maximum time is generally 480 hours. However, for a vehicle-mounted module with a basic support platform, the optical reliability test needs to reach about 3000 to 4000 hours, not including the failure of the test after failure.

Without re-developing the time it takes to correct, this results in——

Vehicle-mounted products, even industrial-level solutions, are still unable to adapt to long-cycle products such as traditional oil trucks.

After all, how much manpower, material and financial resources have to be invested in the development of front-end vehicles and back-end applications. Which traditional car company is willing to spend so much money, and the only ones are Logic and Huawei with deep pockets.

"car key."

Musk wiped his mouth and hands, and got into the car with a shy stomach.

Lu Fei turned the key and drove familiarly. He gradually stepped on the accelerator and drove around the villa several times.

"It accelerates pretty fast."

"Hey, it is equipped with an electric engine composed of a 42-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery. It only takes 6 seconds to accelerate to 100 kilometers, and the rated endurance is 257 kilometers..."

"What about the price?"

"$740,000."

"The same price as a Porsche Panamera?"

Lu Fei braked lightly and let the car slow down slowly.

"Although the price was set a bit higher, the sales volume still exceeded expectations. We estimate that the annual sales volume of Model S can reach 20,000 units." Musk shook his head proudly.

"I'm afraid it won't be easy to achieve sales of 20,000 vehicles per year. After all, the Tesla brand is very unfamiliar to consumers and will not be accepted immediately." Lu Fei stopped the car.

Musk opened the car door, "So, we must rely on spaceX to promote Tesla's image, and we must also rely on the celebrity effect of big names like Larry, Gates and you."

"Which company did you purchase this lithium battery from?"

Lu Fei walked to the front of the car and touched the hood.

"Electric vehicles like General Motors and Ford use lithium-ion battery packs from LG, but we are different. Tesla chooses Panasonic." Musk raised his hand, "It's not like we haven't considered your recommendation.

The Ganxi era, or BYD's lithium iron phosphate batteries, but we prefer lithium batteries, which have extremely high energy density, long life, and good temperature characteristics..."

"How is the safety? Will it catch fire easily?"

Lu Fei glanced playfully.

"Fire? How is it possible? Impossible!"

Musk smiled and waved his hands, "Absolutely impossible!"