Mixed In the United States As a Local Tyrant

  Chapter 174 The Big List of GP Energy

   A few days later.

  Bazel's conferment went smoothly. After the ceremony at Buckingham Palace, a celebration ball was held at the hotel the next day, and friends from all walks of life were invited to attend. An Feng and Joanna were naturally among them. They attended on time and found that not only rich businessmen but also some politicians were present.

  It seems that Sinclair's stall is very large. No wonder Bazel often travels between the two places. His children are also studying in the UK, so part of the business falls here. This made An Feng's assessment of their strength once again improved, no longer limited to the United States, but to Europe and the United States.

   But going down, I am afraid that it will have to be defined again.

  Because he met Khaled. This guy is also wearing a suit and dress, and the female partner next to him is the Lebanese mixed-race female singer. She is wearing a red suspender dress with a high profile, just like Khalid's extroverted temperament. Perhaps because of his education in Western culture, he didn't grow a beard and put a suit on his body. If he didn't have a dark complexion, he might not be able to tell that he is an Arab.

   "Hey, Bruce!" Khalid apparently also found An Feng, and walked over in surprise.

   "The world is so small!" An Feng greeted him.

  Khalid said: "At the invitation of Mr. Sinclair, I came to celebrate his knighthood."

  An Feng chatted with him for a while, and clinked wine glasses with him, but what An Feng drank was champagne, while Khalid drank ordinary fruit juice, which he still had **** taboos. Then they went to socialize separately, and An Feng was introduced by Matthew to meet many businessmen and politicians.

  An Feng glanced at Khaled who was talking with Bazel, and asked curiously: "It seems that the relationship card also has business elements in it?"

Matthew nodded: "Of course, we have cooperated with Qatar in oil in recent years, and we have a lot of business dealings. This time, the other party is rushing to LNG in Texas. Once an agreement is reached and approved by the US government, we will have a sum of money." Tens of billions of orders."

Ten billion is a big deal. Xinshi Energy cooperates with Qatar Petroleum, and Qatar cooperates with them in natural gas. Under the background of mutual benefit, in-depth collusion will be indispensable in the future... Therefore, Anfeng believes that Xinshi Energy's business scope spans three continents. involved in high-level operations. The members of the royal family this time are undoubtedly making connections. If they want to go further in the future, they must contact these princes and nobles.

  Later, Matthew also said: "Africa's oil is also in the strategic plan. As we all know, Libya and Nigeria have more oil reserves than Texas."

An Feng admires that the strategic vision of a real big company will never be limited to the present. Like a general company, it may plan three years or five years later. Multinational companies will have ten or twenty years. The most classic is Google. Achieved the development strategy of fifty years later.

It is normal for Sinclair's African oil strategy to be included in the plan, and new energy is also their plan, but it has already begun to be implemented. From this friendly conversation with the British business community and the Middle East oil tycoon, they have put some Focus on new energy.

  …

   Soon after, An Feng and Joanna returned to the United States.

  The winter vacation for American college students is a bit short, and they have to start school in January, and I’m afraid the domestic ones just have a holiday... After sending her to school, I went home and carefully made plans for this year. The reason for being able to calm down and make plans is naturally that money is no longer enough to spend lavishly, and planning is equal to saving money.

According to Hardy Locke's calculations, after deducting the 100 million in taxes, there are more than 60 million left in his US account, and 50 million of them will be included in the land expenditure-the auction of the land in Santa Barbara is determined to be won The standard must have more than 50 million funds.

  The remaining ten million yuan is no longer enough for him to be extravagant. If it is included in GP International, it is quite a lot, more than 600 million is a considerable scale, but it is not convenient to use it in the name of a person. If you want to use it, you will pay it as a dividend and then deduct a tax. An Feng doesn't like this kind of depression.

   "Do you really want to go abroad for consumption?" An Feng was entangled. He invested in so many industries, but in the end, few of them could give him profit dividends.

   It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t generate profits, some companies still keep swallowing money, such as robot companies.

  Depressed, a phone call came from the assistant Eve.

   "Hi, girl?" An Feng said casually.

Eve said: "Mr. An, hello. Let me inform you that workshop 1 of the battery factory has been put into operation, and the recruitment and training of workers have been completed. Next, we will negotiate with Tesla, Apple and other companies. Would you like to attend in person?"

  An Feng said: "Isn't there Hawley hosting? It's not interesting for me to participate in these things. Just tell me something briefly and see how it's all planned."

Eve said: "In terms of car batteries, according to the contract, at least 1.5 billion single car batteries will be provided to Tesla within three years. The car batteries in the first year can only be provided to Tesla, which are divided into high-end version and low-end version. There are two types, and the demand for each of them is around 2,000."

Anfeng experienced it in Texas last time. The high-end version of MODEL-S has a range of 850 kilometers—actually, it is about 800 kilometers according to the driver’s driving habits, because you always have to drive with air conditioning, listen to music, or occasionally use a large battery. door, racing other cars...

  The range of the low-end version is 550 kilometers, which is actually slightly lower. Although the battery cost is lower, the charging time is not much worse.

  An Feng asked: "Have you calculated the battery profit of the low-end version?"

   "Yes, according to the current cost, the profit of each battery can be maintained at about 5 dollars."

  An Feng calculated that a car has 2,000 batteries and a profit of $5, so its selling price is estimated to be around $10, and 30% of Tesla’s cost is batteries.

In fact, to build a large battery, it is enough to connect dozens of pieces in parallel, but Tesla is arrogant, but to build a precise battery control system, it takes thousands of pieces to reflect its high technology... the safety of graphene batteries It is very high, but since it is required by the customer, let's do it.

  An Feng asked: "What about the high-end version of the battery?"

Eve said: "The demand for the high-end version accounts for about 30% of the total, and the profit of each battery can be maintained at about 8 US dollars. According to the three-year demand, it is estimated that the high-end version of the battery can bring a total of 3.6 billion in net profit. , with an additional minimum profit of 5.2 billion, for a total of 8.8 billion U.S. dollars."

  An average profit of 3 billion a year—ideal state. Assuming a net profit margin of 30%, its turnover will be at least tens of billions, which is a very high figure compared to the battery industry, and it is only Tesla’s car batteries, what about the broader car brands? ? And away from the automotive field, what about mobile devices?

  An Feng said happily: "This is definitely the company's biggest new year's order."

"Congratulations!" Eve congratulated with a smile, "There is also good news. The company is currently negotiating with Apple and will also provide them with batteries for mobile devices. In order to maintain their technological leadership, they require us to offered exclusively for three years, but Mr Hawley disagreed."

  An Feng thought about it and agreed with Hawley. Three years is too long, but he intends to introduce new batteries to mobile devices all over the world. In addition to making money for himself, there is also a noble saying that it will benefit mankind-in fact, the more you sell, the more you earn-but it's not easy to say?

Eve continued: "Except for the time difference, the negotiation in other aspects was very good. The company intends to develop high-end batteries for mobile devices. Compared with twice the capacity of car batteries, the capacity of mobile phone batteries will be increased by at least three times. , the charging time of ordinary chargers is shortened to 20 minutes, and the profit is more than 11 US dollars."

  An Feng thought of something: "Workshop No. 1 can only use 20% to produce other batteries, right?"

   “Yes, 80% goes to making car batteries.”

  An Feng asked: "The other two workshops will not be able to operate until the end of the year at least?"

   "It is expected to be so, and the No. 3 workshop may be slightly beyond the plan."

An Feng said: "The output of 20% is not high. At most, it can be supplied to two mobile device manufacturers at the same time. It is better to provide it exclusively to Apple within one year after the completion of other workshops, so that we can properly charge some exclusive fees. How about the cost, plus the profit?"

  Eve wrote down his plan: "I will give my opinion to Mr. Hawley later."

  An Feng smiled: "It's troublesome."

  …

  The development of batteries has given Anfeng the dawn of making money, and it is expected that he will definitely be able to pay dividends in January next year... Unfortunately, there is still one year left. However, the development prospects are good. The first workshop alone can get so many orders, and Tesla and Apple have put forward various conditions to get ahead.

If the second and third workshops are built, there will be more businesses that can't wait to come around, from car batteries, to mobile phones, tablets, notebooks... Anyone who doesn't want to be connected by wires will choose their extremely cost-effective ones. Super batteries also mean mountains of wealth.

If cost savings are considered, it is more appropriate to build the next factory in a third world country, because the Americans are really **** up, workers' wages continue to rise, and various trade union representatives will come to threaten the factory to raise wages... Next time the factory will be built In China, offering higher treatment than the local level ensures that everyone has no complaints, and it is also conducive to expanding the market. It can also be regarded as overseas Chinese businessmen contributing to GDP.

  …

  Benjamin Hawley is really in high spirits recently.

As the CEO of GP, he manages the work of GP Energy downwards. For an epoch-making company, many people are struggling to get their orders. As far as mobile phone batteries are concerned, Apple and Samsung also have to compete. Even though the company has leaned towards Apple, Samsung is still not reconciled, saying that if this year's exclusive plan fails, they will try their best to compete for the No. 2 workshop next year.

  Hawley appropriately let out a little bit of news, gave them hope, but did not give promises. The result would naturally be competition, exhausting all methods, and showing the benefits—even at a loss. Because of the long-term vision, what is grabbing now is not the battery profit, but the future market.

  Even if buying batteries is a loss-making operation, but the future market has been seized, do you still care about this loss?

Hawley naturally understands the other party's psychology, so he, who has the power of life and death, almost laughs at the battle of the princes, trying to expand the company's interests and win the favor of the shareholders behind him-he understands that so many giants are crowded together, and he stands out. It's easy, but you have to keep your seat.

  The most effective way to keep your status is to show your grades.

   For Hawley, who likes a challenge, this is exciting. After constant negotiations, Apple finally won 20% of the output, and GP will exclusively provide them with batteries for a period of one year. In addition to paying for the batteries, they will also give them an exclusivity of up to 2 billion U.S. dollars. cost.

   To put it in a disguised form, the 2 billion is equivalent to Apple’s advertising expenses—declaring to the world that their mobile phone batteries are invincible, which is stronger than other forms of advertising.

   It is almost effortless to get the money. Even the battery has not been shipped, and 2 billion has already been received. According to the agreement, Apple will pay half of it in July and the rest in January of the following year. Other merchants who lost their opportunities naturally lamented for a while, but they also ignited their fighting spirit to compete for the No. 2 workshop.

  GP energy will be a hot word for a long time.

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  (end of this chapter)