The black technology empire started with a debt of one billion

Chapter 482 Chapter 497: Make money by selling software

“If Tesla doesn’t have GM’s support, Tesla’s final result will be bankruptcy once Deep Blue enters the European market. GM now owns 17% of Tesla’s shares. If you are unwilling to accept GM’s acquisition.

It’s just that we haven’t reported it to the Securities Regulatory Commission yet, if Tesla is unwilling to accept GM’s acquisition.

Then GM can only consider selling these shares on hand.

I just don’t know how Tesla’s stock price will fall if so many shares are thrown into the market. "Marco Ruisi added with a smile.

Tesla's stock price has now fallen to more than 70. If GM sells its shares, Tesla's stock price will fall to at least 50. After all, the market may not be able to bear so many chips. Of course, Marco Ruisi Just to scare Max.

Their goal has been Tesla from the beginning to the end. How could they throw their stocks on the market? This is not an opportunity for other friends to acquire Tesla.

Of course, Max couldn't be deceived by Marco Ruisi so easily.

"Mr. Marco, I know you want to obtain a controlling stake in Tesla, but don't even think about it. I will not sell my shares. There are countless people in the market waiting to take over this share.

If you don’t believe me, just throw out your shares and take a look. I believe BMW and Volkswagen are willing to take over, and even Deep Blue Motors is interested in Tesla.

I think it's better for us to get along as equals. Max smiled.

Although Max holds only more than 30% of the shares, he controls 80% of the voting rights. Tesla can be said to be his voice, and the 17% of common shares held by General Motors have no say at all.

Seeing that Max was not threatened, Marco Ruisi's face was also very ugly. He did not expect Max to be so difficult to deal with.

"Mr. Max, if you sell your shares now, you can still get a large amount of funds. If Tesla's stock price continues to fall, you will have nothing by then." Marco Ruisi said seriously. .

"Even if Tesla's stock price drops to 1 yuan, I won't sell it. In fact, I am more looking forward to Tesla's decline than you are, so that I can buy back the stock more cheaply." Max smiled.

If Max's oil and salt don't enter Marco Ruisi, there is nothing he can do.

"I hope you can still maintain your composure when Tesla's stock price falls to the floor." After Marco Ruisi said this, he stood up and left Max's office.

It’s not that GM doesn’t have the ability to manufacture electric vehicles. It’s not difficult for GM to use Tesla patents to produce electric vehicles. Marks announced all the patents as early as last year. GM’s acquisition of Tesla was based on their team.

"Even if Tesla goes bankrupt, I can still remain calm." Max smiled as he looked at Marco Reiss's leaving back.

Not long after Marco Reiss left Tesla headquarters, GM's purchase of Tesla spread online, and Tesla's stock price rebounded.

Netizens are also talking about this matter.

"Is General Motors planning to acquire Tesla? No wonder the stock price rebounded by 5 points."

"GM's acquisition of Tesla is a strong alliance. Tesla may use this to take it to the next level. I will buy some Tesla stock later."

"I personally think that GM's acquisition of Tesla is not a good thing. A company will be different if it is led by another person. Tesla may decline faster."

"Is it possible that after GM acquires Tesla, Tesla will continue to operate independently."

"Actually, this possibility is not impossible. I think another possibility is greater. Tesla knows that it is going to decline, so it wants to find someone to hug it. General Motors is a very good partner."

"I personally feel that even GM plus Tesla may not be able to beat Deep Blue Car. After all, Deep Blue Car is not comparable to Tesla. Lithia is currently testing Deep Blue Car. We will know later whether Deep Blue Car has data fraud." .”

"Since Lithia dares to do a live test broadcast, Deep Blue Car will definitely not fake it. There will be a serious price to pay for cheating in the United States."

"Whether GM wants to acquire Tesla or not, I personally will choose Deep Blue Cars. If you have used Deep Blue products, you will know that the quality of Deep Blue's products is very good and cannot be compared with other brands."

"Have you noticed that there have been more Deep Blue mobile phones recently? I mean the daily shipment volume of Deep Blue stores. The New York store only has 5000 units per day. Now the New York stores supply 8000 million units every day. The supply volume is higher than in the past. That’s more than half as much.”

"It seems that there is such a thing."

However, at 02:30 in the afternoon, Tesla's stock price suddenly plummeted 10%.

Major institutions and stock investors were confused. Why did Tesla's stock price plummet if it wasn't that General Motors wanted to acquire Tesla?

When General Motors purchased Tesla shares, it used brokerage vests to do so.

Each shareholding account did not exceed 5%, so they did not need to report to the Securities Regulatory Commission for selling. After being rejected by Max, the think tank gave the opinion of selling stocks, so Marco Ruisi chose to sell Tesla shares.

Of course, the opinion given by the think tank is not to sell all stocks.

The suggestion given by the think tank is to use the chips on hand to continue to suppress Tesla's stock price and absorb more shares at low cost.

at the same time.

A piece of news spread online after Tesla's stock price fell.

[GM and Tesla did not reach an agreement, and GM decided to abandon Tesla. 】

Netizens only found out why Tesla fell after seeing this news. It turned out that Tesla had not reached an agreement with GM. Those investors who were buying the bottom suddenly lost hope. In the end, they could only choose to follow the market and avoid bigger losses. Loss.

Dearborn, Michigan, USA.

Ford headquarters.

President Hackett immediately held a meeting after returning from France.

Although Hackett's name sounds a bit Asian, in fact Hackett is an authentic American, and Hackett is just his Chinese translation.

"Edmond, what do you think about the dark blue car?" Hackett asked.

Edmond Downer is the chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company. Regarding market matters, you must first ask the chief operating officer.

“The pricing of Deep Blue cars in Europe will not have a great impact on our European market, but it will have a certain impact on us in China, especially cars priced at 25 yuan.

Although the retail price of Deep Blue Car is 30 RMB, the Chinese government subsidizes electric vehicles.

The subsidy that a Deep Blue car can get is about 5.5 RMB, which means that a Deep Blue car only needs 27 to be launched.

Deep Blue Auto basically has no rivals at the price of 25.

Their electric cars are so good that not even Tesla can compare with them. Fortunately, their price is 30 RMB. If their price were any lower, cars under 20 RMB would be affected. " said Edmund Donner.

"Based on your assessment by the R&D Department, can Deep Blue Cars make money at this price? What will their manufacturing costs be?" Hackett looked at the person in charge of the R&D Department and asked. "The core components of Deep Blue Cars are independently developed by Deep Blue Technology, so we have no way to estimate the manufacturing cost of Deep Blue Cars. We try to bring similar accessories to Deep Blue Cars for estimation. The manufacturing cost of a Deep Blue Car is at least 25 yuan. Or so," replied Stefan Walsh.

"The production cost of 25 yuan is sold for 30 yuan, which means that the profit of a car is only [-] yuan. If operating costs are included, how can they make money?" Hackett said in disbelief.

"Boss, I doubt that Deep Blue Motors has never thought about making money by selling cars. Deep Blue Motors is most likely making money by selling software. This is why their prices are so high in Europe. They have to sell an AP auxiliary function for 3 soft sister coins.

I believe they will sell other software to make money in the future. Deep Blue Auto already has the conditions for autonomous driving.

Not surprisingly, they will definitely sell driverless features in the future. " said Edmund Donner.

Hackett was a little confused when he heard what Edmund Donner said. Electric cars can actually be profitable in this way. You must know that the cost of software development is very low, and software can be sold to users repeatedly.

Will you buy it or not when Deep Blue Auto launches autonomous driving in the future?

Deep Blue Auto may sell it to users on a monthly or annual basis.

Hackett suddenly felt that the Chinese sales tactics were too deep. Free games and free software were invented by the Chinese. The problem was that free things were the most expensive.

"Stefan, your R&D department is fully committed to developing electric vehicles. I will double your R&D expenses and build a higher-performance electric vehicle as soon as possible." Hackett looked at Stefan Walsh and said.

It's not that Ford doesn't have electric cars. They have developed an electric car, but their electric car is too far gone.

Their electric car is equipped with a 105kW (143PS) electric motor and a 40KW battery.

This electric car can only travel 160 kilometers when fully charged. Even a grocery shopping lady may not be willing to buy it with such a range.

"Boss, the only limitation for us now is the battery. BYD batteries are not sold to the outside world. The performance of traditional ternary lithium batteries is too poor. It is not cost-effective to use traditional ternary lithium to build cars. Compared with traditional ternary lithium and graphene, their prices are There is only a 30% difference.

But their graphene batteries are better than traditional ternary lithium batteries in all aspects. ” said Stefan Walsh.

In Stephen Walsh's opinion, it is not cost-effective to use ternary lithium to make electric vehicles. If opponents use graphene batteries to make electric vehicle batteries, then cars built with ternary lithium will be directly crushed by the opponent.

BYD is now relying on graphene batteries to crush all its rivals. After tasting the sweetness of monopoly, Wang Chuanfu is holding on to graphene batteries. If they sell graphene batteries to other rivals, they will be fooling around and just make money from selling batteries. The little money they make is not as much as the money they make from their monopoly.

"Nicholas, please contact BYD later and find a way to buy batteries from them." Hackett looked at purchasing director Nikolai Fehr and said.

"Boss, I contacted them when graphene batteries came out. They rejected our purchase due to insufficient production capacity. Not only our other manufacturers were rejected by them." Nicholas Fair said with a bitter smile.

If the battery is used in mobile phones, BYD will 100% have it in stock, but if it is used in electric vehicles, it will not be available. This is BYD's current sales strategy.

Hackett's mouth twitched when he heard Nicholas Fair's words. He didn't expect that Ford would also get stuck one day. The most important thing that stuck their necks was the Chinese.

"If we communicate with them a few more times, we can exchange interests." Hackett said.

"Okay, BOSS." Nicholas Fehr nodded.

"Edmond, find out which companies in China are developing autonomous driving and see if these companies need financing." Hackett looked at Edmond and said.

"Okay, boss." Edmund Donner said.

German BMW headquarters.

BMW also convened company executives to discuss the Deep Blue car.

The impact of Deep Blue Cars on BMW is very large. You must know that a BMW worth 30 yuan is still very popular. The emergence of Deep Blue Cars has a great impact on them. What's more, there are state subsidies for purchasing Deep Blue Cars. After the subsidy, the price is only 25. about.

BMW, which costs around 30 yuan, has no advantage at all against Deep Blue Cars.

"In other words, the manufacturing cost of Deep Blue cars is around 25, so how do they make money at this price?" Harold Krueger asked after hearing the analysis of the R&D department.

"Boss, they should make money by selling software." Dedalo Amato said.

Dedalo Amato is the current chief operating officer of BMW. His ideas are similar to Edmund Donner. The profit of 5 yuan for a car seems very profitable, but Deep Blue Motors invests a lot in advertising. .

I don’t know how much money Deep Blue Motors spent on those celebrity spokespersons.

In addition to celebrity endorsements, there are also R&D costs, factory construction costs, etc., so in their view, this 5 yuan is not profitable at all. After all, cars are not like mobile phones that can be sold for tens of millions. If they cannot sell a certain amount, they will be sold off. .

According to their calculations, Deep Blue Technology has invested at least 800 billion in this.

In other words, Deep Blue Cars needs to sell at least 200 million units to recover its capital.

"Selling software to make money?" Harold Krueger asked in confusion.

"Boss, their AP auxiliary function has been sold for 3 soft sister coins. The research and development cost of software is much cheaper than hardware. They can sell AP auxiliary function today, and they can sell automatic driving function tomorrow.

At that time, maybe they will sell it on a monthly or yearly basis.

When they accumulate a certain number of users, they can make considerable profits just by selling software. ” explains Dedalo Amato.

"Software isn't something that everyone can buy, right?" Harold Kruger said with a frown.

"Boss, if Deep Blue Cars provides self-driving capabilities for only 100 euros per month, will you purchase this service?" Dedalo Amato asked.

If Deep Blue Cars sells 200 million cars, and if 100 million cars are equipped with self-driving services, Deep Blue Cars can earn 1 million euros every month, which will provide Deep Blue Cars with a profit of 12 billion euros in a year.

If an electric car is driven for ten years, it means that Deep Blue Technology can earn 120 billion euros. Maybe Deep Blue Auto will also provide other services. By then, Deep Blue Auto will earn more than this.

Harold Kruger was surprised after making calculations. He felt that the cost of Deep Blue Cars should not be that high. Deep Blue Technology’s products have always been very expensive. If a Deep Blue Car costs 25, based on Deep Blue Technology’s You have to sell the car for at least 40 yuan.

It is said that the price of 30 soft sister coins is only China's sales price, but Deep Blue Auto sells for 10 US dollars in Europe. Deep Blue Auto's profits in Europe are higher than that of China.

In addition, Deep Blue Auto can make money by selling carbon credits in addition to selling cars.

Deep Blue Auto is really a tough opponent.

"I need you to customize a price reduction strategy for China and appropriately adjust the sales prices of the 3 Series and 5 Series. If we continue to sell at this price, the sales in China will definitely fall to the bottom." Harold Kelu Ge said.

(End of this chapter)