Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

Since Honor went public, Qu Li didn't go to the United States very often, and had fewer contacts there, including Tesla's Musk.

Geometry’s current global popularity is definitely not lower than Tesla’s, but Qu Li did not overwhelm others with power, but supported Musk many times, and voluntarily promoted Tesla on Twitter, and Geometry, and combined the two brands Said to be the apple and glory of the auto industry.

Is the bundling marketing strategy any good? It depends on the company. If Qu Li is from the United States and founded an American company, he will not let others rub his enthusiasm. Dongying people have rounded up the patents for hydrogen energy vehicles, and no one is playing with them. Assuming that China has rounded up the patents for pure electric vehicles and has an absolute advantage, will Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea compete with China?

Any advantage is relative. The chrysanthemum factory was so closely connected with the global industrial chain at the beginning, did it really do something wrong? Decoupling is always a last resort, and some people always think it is the best choice. Qu Li didn't want to decouple, so he chose to "support" Tesla, support "Infineon", support "Spansion Semiconductor", oh, the latter one is his own.

Although people can do well without his "support", who knows, people in the country will ridicule Qu Li for raising tigers in the future, but no one can deny his contribution to "Tesla", so geometric cars are not Will be worse than Tesla.

Don't think about whether there is a causal relationship, even if there is no, relying on the current product strength, this has become a reality.

Musk quickly called Qu Li and communicated with him about the appearance of Tesla cars in "Iron Man 3". How could Qu Li blame Musk, the "light of humanity", he could only blame Disney and Marvel.

"Have you encountered any pressure from traditional auto companies?" Qu Li asked

Tesla has expanded its production capacity this year, and its sales have soared. Geometry’s production capacity has just been full and is expanding production. Therefore, the number of pure electric vehicles sold by Geometry in the first quarter of this year is not as good as Tesla’s. There should be no surprises in the second quarter. In the third quarter, Geometry Auto has the hope of overtaking.

Anyone who has experienced it knows that it is a very refreshing thing to produce as much as possible and sell as much as possible. Tesla has basically enjoyed this kind of treatment since this year, which is similar to many cars.

Traditional car companies have stock cars. Future Geometry and Tesla don’t know what stock is. There is also a direct sales model. Even if it has just started, can it not be taken seriously?

"Of course, no one wishes us well." Musk

Qu Li talked about the experience of Qiancheng Geometry in China, being excluded in various ways. Some people even don’t ask whether it is right or wrong, but the charging standard for Geometry cars. You must know that the charging standards for new energy vehicles in the 2015 version are very backward and unsafe. defect.

"We're going to disrupt an industry, and their counterattacks won't succeed..."

"Maybe." Qu Li didn't know, is Musk confident now?

"Electric vehicles will inevitably replace fuel vehicles. This is a major trend in history, but Tesla may not be able to do it..."

"Did I never target Tesla?" Qu Li didn't take the blame

"I said that GM Ford and their fuel vehicle companies, they don't..."

It cannot be said that they did not take action. GM purchased Arima’s motors and Honeycomb Energy’s batteries, but their electric vehicle products are hard to describe. I don’t know what the previous battery materials are. Anyway, they are not as good as Honeycomb Energy in all aspects.

It is a very normal strategy to stumbling "friendly businessmen". Qu Li has never been angry about this. Musk also accepts this fact, but it does not mean that he will acquiesce.

"Is there anything you can do?"

"I can't think of it for the time being. Tesla doesn't sell many pure electric cars now..."

"How many patents do you apply for now?" Qu Li asked

"Not much, maybe two or three hundred."

"It seems that there are no more than us." Qiancheng Geometry seems to have 300 international patent applications through PCT, which does not include battery patents and other industrial chain directions. It is more like the future of a mature foreign-funded enterprise, and the investment in patents will not be small.

"What do you want to do?" Musk felt bad

"I want to open up most of the patents of pure electric vehicles to the outside world, so that more entrepreneurs can join our industry, and give traditional fuel vehicle companies a chance, and at the same time accelerate the popularization of electric vehicles around the world..." Qu Li is following someone else's lead Lu let others follow his ass

There are always people in China who say that Tesla’s disclosure of patents is just for show, which is meaningless. They also give examples of when Modi started building pure electric vehicles. Such people are either brainwashed or trolls. Electric vehicles have existed since the 19th century.

The EV1 that General Motors gave up in 2003 can barely be regarded as the first pure electric vehicle in the sense of modernization. It has made a lot of innovations. The BYD E6 did not surpass GM EV1, Tesla Roadster, especially the Model S. The real innovation, and later almost all electric vehicles They are all advancing in the direction pioneered by Model S, such as abandoning the gearbox.

In fact, there is a very simple method of comparison. Before Tesla disclosed its patent, did BYD have any cars that reached or approached the level of Tesla Model S. There are also new car-making forces. Was it established after Tesla disclosed its patents? Where did their technology come from?

"You step on the horse..." Musk sprayed

Qu Li didn't get angry, and waited for him to finish scolding: "Why don't you think about it again, what do we want, what will we lose, and what will we gain?"

"You can't do this..." Musk subconsciously felt that it was dangerous

"I want Tesla to do this with Geometry." Qu Li continued

"..." Musk was silent at this time, how many shares of Tesla does Qu Li hold? Does he want to?

"I'm discussing with you. The specific time to disclose the patent must wait until we have established certain advantages and the external pressure is increasing." Qu Li, their disclosure of patents is not public technology. New forces want to build cars. You have to rely on yourself. While infinitely exaggerating the significance of public patents, while belittling them to nothing, there is a position.

The patent application seems to have opened up a passable road in the desert swamp area and marked the key nodes. Under normal circumstances, others are not allowed to pass, such as Intel and AMD's X86 architecture authorization; there are also some such as Qualcomm, which can leave after paying.

"Our public patent is that everyone can use the geometry, the method, design and technical route in the patent application of Tesla Motors at will, instead of teaching them how to build a car." Qu Li continued. The meaning of his doing this is: let Competitors directly save the time, money, material resources, and labor costs of trial and error. Therefore, many car companies, even those without car manufacturing experience, have the opportunity to catch up.

"There is also good publicity value!" Musk is more like a marketing master than Qu Li,

"Of course, it depends on how we choose." Qu Li (end of this chapter)