Rebirth of the Wild Age

A remote section of a national highway.

Song Weiyang, Li Sufu, and Wang Chuanfu are surrounding a sports car. There are also a few engineers beside them, as well as the first phase of "Ma Shi Huangpu" who is interested in electric sports cars.

"The exterior design of this car is okay. Which foreign one did you copy?" Song Weiyang asked, patting the hood.

Li Sufu explained: "The model of the Lotus 111S also uses the Lotus chassis."

"Did Lianhua agree?" Song Weiyang asked.

Li Sufu smiled and said: "I still have unexpected gains in this matter. Malaysia's Proton Motors held the British Lotus sports car in 1996. Some time ago, it was further discussing the acquisition. It has become a certainty that Proton has 100% ownership of Lotus. In order to find the chassis for the electric sports car, I personally visited the Proton boss in Malaysia. I was familiar with it after two visits. Proton agreed to authorize us to use the Lotus chassis, and also gave me the exclusive right to represent the Lotus sports car in mainland China."

To put it bluntly, this is mutual benefit. The Lotus sports car has not been sold in the mainland. At this time, 99.9% of Chinese people did not know that there was such a brand. Proton is optimistic about Geely's auto sales channels and handed the exclusive agency rights of Lotus to Geely, just to let Li Sufu help develop the Chinese market.

And Li Sufu doesn't suffer, he wants to sell Geely cars anyway, just sell the Lotus sports cars together. Its own cars focus on the low-end market, and the Lotus sports car focuses on the high-end market, which can fill the gap in its own market. In order to open up the mainland market, Proton has almost zero agency fees and all adopts a sales sharing method.

The world is so ingenious. After more than ten years in another time and space, Li Sufu not only acquired 9.69% of Mercedes-Benz's parent company, but also 49.9% of Proton. The Lotus sports car is equivalent to Li Sufu's brand. Unexpectedly, in order to make an electric sports car, Li Sufu and Proton had contact and cooperation in advance.

Song Weiyang asked again: "I heard you say on the phone that there are still many shortcomings in this electric sports car?"

Without the need for an engineer to explain, Wang Chuanfu said directly: "First of all, the battery pack is too heavy. It is 0.52 tons. The car is full of batteries when it is disassembled."

"It's really heavy." Song Weiyang nodded.

Wang Chuanfu added: "Then it's the motor problem. Let Cheng Gong talk about it."

Cheng's name is Cheng Xianghuai, an electromechanical engineer from a state-owned enterprise. He pointed to the car and explained in detail: "In the beginning, we planned to use a 180KW AC motor with a 2-speed gearbox. But this plan has not been officially launched, so we chose to give up. One is that the AC motor structure is too big. Complex, the instantaneous overload capacity and the increase of the motor speed are limited, long-term work will produce losses, and the maintenance cost will be greatly increased. In addition, this kind of motor will cause excessive power when working for a long time, and the sparks from the internal brush will make the rotor heat up. , Causing high-frequency electromagnetic interference, which will affect the performance of other electrical appliances in the car. Second, electric vehicles are very different from traditional fuel vehicles. The gearbox problem cannot be solved by my ability."

Song Weiyang heard that the seven orifices had mastered the six orifices, and he didn't know how to pretend to understand and asked, "What then?"

Cheng Xianghuai added: "Then we chose the asynchronous motor. This motor has a simple structure, low design difficulty, low production cost, and easy maintenance, but at the same time it has low efficiency and poor speed regulation performance. We gave up the 2-stage transmission. The box plan uses an asynchronous motor with a single-speed gearbox. In this way, the previous problem is solved, but new problems arise. In order to achieve the expected endurance and speed, the battery pack is increased from 60KWH to 80KWH, not only the battery The weight and volume of the group are greatly increased, and because of the use of a single-speed gearbox, it is very weak when driving at medium and high speeds. This car can only gradually accelerate in a fixed gear, and cannot change gears at high speeds. It is unqualified as a sports car. "

Peng Qiu, a battery expert from BYD, said: “The single-speed reducer equipped on this car has better performance than traditional fuel vehicles in low-to-medium-speed environments. But at the middle-to-high speed stage, the motor needs to maintain a very high speed. The speed greatly increases the temperature and power consumption of the motor, which affects the endurance of the vehicle. We tested it and the car can run at a low-to-medium speed and can run about 450 kilometers. But if it is maintained at a medium-to-high speed for a long time, The endurance is directly reduced to less than 380 kilometers. This is the opposite of traditional fuel vehicles. The faster fuel vehicles run, the lower their fuel consumption."

Song Weiyang finally understood: "I understand, now there are three problems. The battery pack is too heavy and too large to change gears at high speeds, and driving at high speeds will reduce the cruising range."

"Yes." Peng Qiu said.

Cheng Xianghuai added: "There is another problem. The motor we are currently using is a General Motors motor. We bought other people’s cars and installed the motors on our cars. This is not commercially available unless we can get them. Authorization. I also brought someone to fake it, but I was able to make it, but the performance was far from as good."

Song Weiyang said: "Then get the authorization from GM."

Cheng Xianghuai smiled and said: "GM's electric vehicles have actually been discontinued, but they have not been officially announced. The main reason is that GM's electric vehicles have poor endurance. In theory, they can only run 140 kilometers, but in fact they can't run 120 kilometers. Thanks to Mr. Song’s whimsy, connecting thousands of laptop batteries together can directly increase the battery life by several times."

"I'll just say it casually, the specific battery pack is still being made by you." Song Weiyang is very humble.

Cheng Xianghuai continued: “The motor technology of GM electric vehicles is not their own, but comes from a studio called. First, this studio produced the motors, and then GM’s electric vehicles. The two are relatively independent. In order to find a suitable motor, I paid a special visit to Mr. Al Koconi from the ACP studio. He is preparing to dissolve the cooperation with GM and form the ACP electric car company on his own. "

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "You mean, let me dig up that Al Cocony?"

"Yes, he has limited funds. It is definitely not enough to build an electric car by himself. I estimate that 2 million US dollars can dig together with people and technology." Cheng Xianghuai said.

Song Weiyang said: "That's it, just dig him, and it's acceptable within 3 million US dollars."

In fact, when Song Weiyang, Li Sufu, and Wang Chuanfu formed Tesla, they said it was a little trouble, and each invested 5 million yuan. The money is now almost used, and Song Weiyang later made an additional investment of 5 million yuan and became a major shareholder of the company.

It is definitely a very cost-effective thing to spend another 2 million US dollars to dig up American engineers and motor technology.

This is obviously a leak of technology and talent. The first General Electric car to eat crabs has only sold more than 1,000 units after being sold for several years. The production workshop has been closed for more than half a year, and there are still hundreds of units in stock that have not been sold. There are several foreign car manufacturers that are developing their own electric car technology, but the endurance cannot be increased to more than 200 kilometers, and the charging speed is extremely slow.

Since then, industry insiders generally believe that electric vehicles have a bright future, but at this time they have entered a dead end.

At least GM has given up on the research and development of electric vehicles, and the relevant electrical engineer has only one way to resign.

Historically, the engineer named Al Cocony did leave GM to start the ACP electric car company. But in less than half a year, he was in a dilemma. None of its electric cars could be sold. Eberhard invested US$150,000 to obtain a lot of shares in this company.

Eberhard gave Al Kocconi an idea to tie thousands of lithium batteries together to power him, and immediately let the electric car have a range of 480 kilometers. But Al Kocconi was already disheartened and didn't want to be an electric car anymore, so Eberhard set up his own car company, and this company is Tesla.

If Song Weiyang digs up Al Kokoni and his motor technology, it will be a question mark whether "Father of Tesla" Eberhard will be an electric car again, because many things here are accidental. of. Even if Eberhard still wants to make an electric car, he has to look for another motor technology, because it has been bought by Song Weiyang, and the Tesla brand has also been registered by Song Weiyang.

Song Weiyang asked again: "How about the battery control system?"

Peng Qiu said: “The electronic control system is being done by Zhang Jiabing. He has nothing to come over today. But he told me to convey that there is basically no problem with the electronic control system, but further optimization is needed to reduce energy consumption and reduce the weight of the battery pack. Greater power output."

"I'll try it out." Song Weiyang sat in the cab.

Peng Qiu hurriedly sat in the co-pilot to give guidance, which was a bit different from a fuel car.

Song Weiyang drove a Tesla in his previous life. Now he drives a Tesla produced by himself, and he feels that the start is significantly slower, and the noise of the motor is much louder. It was okay when I first started running, and it was uncomfortable to enter a high-speed state, because people who like drag racing may not be able to accept it because they can’t change gears. And the positioning of this car is precisely a sports car, a sports car that cannot change speed at high speed, has lost the charm of a sports car.

After traveling for a few kilometers, Song Weiyang said to a few "students", "You should also feel it. If I am willing to buy it, I will sell it at a cost price. It doesn't matter if I don't buy it, just treat it as a curiosity."

The rich "students" immediately sat in and experienced it. They actually felt pretty good. Even if the motor was noisy, they thought it was very quiet to drive, at least negligible compared to the engine noise of a fuel car.

"I bought it, how much is it?" a rich man asked.

Song Weiyang didn't know, so he could only ask Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu.

Wang Chuanfu shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Li Sufu said: "The car chassis is imported from Lotus, and most of the other materials for the body are also imported. The import tariffs on auto parts are very high. The motor is also removed from a new GM car. The cost is simply impossible to calculate, because the car is dismantled. After that, the original car was scrapped."

"Uh..." Everyone was speechless for a moment.

Li Sufu thought for a while and said, "You are all Lao Song students. I sold it at a loss. A car is only 2 million yuan."

The rich "student" smiled and took the initiative to raise the price: "Then give an auspicious number of 2.88 million. The first electric sports car in China is enough to drive out, and we will definitely not suffer."

Song Weiyang smiled and said: "If the car has a problem, send it back directly. We will repair and maintain it for free, and we will replace imported parts and accessories for free within 5 years."

This is to treat my "student" as a test product, and to replace it with an online game is a public beta player, mainly to get customer feedback and make follow-up improvements step by step.

Of course, it will certainly not catch fire and explode as easily as the original Tesla, because the battery used is different. Although BYD's battery has lower power, its performance is more stable and safe.

Three vehicles were sold at once, and Song Weiyang ordered four vehicles, and the sales of the Song version of Tesla made a good start.

Wang Chuanfu kept his eyes on the sports car. He has decided to buy a car factory by himself, first to build a BYD fuel car, and then a BYD electric car. The electric car he made is of the mass type, which is different from Tesla's sports car positioning, and there is no conflict between the two parties.

Li Sufu also gained a lot. Under the guise of developing electric cars, he has obtained a car production license.

In history, Li Sufu had no part in the batch of car production licenses just issued by the government. He found the media, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, who made himself a tragic hero, instantly attracted the attention of the whole country, and caused a big discussion about the predicament of domestic cars. Then Li Sufu quietly left the relationship and heard the matter up to the day, Geely Automobile finally obtained a replacement production license.

Now there is no need to show up anymore, Li Sufu directly got the production license. He even wants to apply for financial subsidies for new energy vehicles. Unfortunately, the country is only piloting research and development, and has not yet begun large-scale promotion and support.

Song Weiyang said to Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu: “Before it was just technology research and development and copycat imitation, now I have to start doing it seriously. I plan to invest another 10 million yuan to continue making electric sports cars while transplanting electric car technology to motorcycles. Electric bicycles for civilian use. Who of you is willing to invest more?"

"This is a good idea, I'll invest another 5 million!" Li Sufu's eyes lit up instantly. He started his career as a motorcycle. If he could produce and sell electric bicycles, he would definitely make a lot of money.

Wang Chuanfu said: "Then I will invest another 5 million."

Of course, the electric bicycle cannot continue to use the Tesla brand, otherwise the price of the electric sports car will drop.

And Tesla Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd., the shareholding structure has also become: Song Weiyang (50%), Wang Chuanfu (25%), Li Sufu (25%).

In the future, the company will rely on electric sports cars to maintain its compelling status, and rely on electric bicycles to make money, otherwise it will not be able to sustainably develop. It can only survive by continuously obtaining financing like the original Tesla.

Just make an electric sports car, and don't even think about making money for ten years.

As for the company’s president, China Science and Technology sent someone to serve in the past, and Geely and BYD each sent one to serve as the vice president. The three presidents will take care of the rest.