This bet with Zhang Xuefeng is still more challenging, because Yang Bufan has not actually seen the questions of the Xingbang entrance exam for a long time, how difficult it is, whether it is really as perverted as said on the Internet, and it is time to verify it.

Originally, after recording the Tucao Conference, I should go back to Yicheng.

Yang Jianhe thought that the hotel was too expensive and resolutely opposed staying in the Shenkeng Hotel, but everyone wanted to take him to play in the magic capital for a few days, so they could only move out and find a hotel with a relatively cheap price.

Then Zhao Ying went home to see her mother, Yang Buyi led her father around, and Yang Bufan directly asked Pan Xiao's driver to go to the location of Tesla's super factory, and he made an appointment with a purchasing manager to talk about liquid-cooled cables.

When the other party heard about the liquid-cooled cable, he immediately reacted, if all the charging gun cables are matched with the corresponding connectors and charging guns, it can not only achieve the purpose of faster charging, but also reduce the outer diameter of the charging cable itself quite thick.

Whether from the perspective of charging efficiency, energy consumption or cost reduction, this new type of liquid-cooled cable is a very advanced concept that deserves to be studied.

Anyway, Yang Bufan and the purchasing manager had a very good chat, and both sides had enough sincerity and cooperation intentions, so it was almost a matter of how to talk about it.

Moreover, the charging guns and charging cables of Tesla's super factory have been localized, and it is a leading domestic cable company in supply.

From the perspective of the supply chain, it is not particularly difficult for domestic suppliers to switch to domestic suppliers, as long as the quality is high and the price is appropriate.

However, the location of Tesla's super factory is too remote, basically belonging to the most marginal area of the magic capital, and the same distance can go to multiple cities in the province to run a round trip, but in order to go to Tesla, it has not yet arrived.

On the way, Yang Bufan was faintly excited, and felt that he was still very right in this move.

In any case, Tesla is now the leader of domestic electric vehicle sales, and if it captures Tesla, the difficulty of public relations for other electric vehicle OEMs will plummet in the future.

After all, there are still many people in China who blindly worship imports or are superstitious about foreign companies.

This even includes many employees in the automotive industry, and the lack of confidence in their bones makes them so familiar when they mention car companies...... We are supplying BMW Mercedes-Benz, you can rest assured of the quality!

In the face of Xingbang's liquid-cooled cable, it is estimated that the attitude will be very friendly.

Because most people have a mentality like this.

Ah?

It's all supplied to Tesla, and this liquid-cooled cable must be fine!

This kind of thinking Yang Bufan is actually very disgusting, because domestic production has now become very strong, but as long as domestic production is mentioned, even the Chinese people themselves feel that it is not good, and they always say that they are inferior to foreign products, which makes people very annoyed.

However, at this time, under the influence of this kind of thinking, it may also play a certain benefit in the promotion of liquid-cooled cables, which is also very speechless.

Yang Bufan looked at the increasingly boring street scene outside the window, yawned, and casually asked the driver who was driving: "Xiao Song, how long will it take to arrive?"

Xiao Song is Pan Xiao's driver, but Pan Xiao likes to drive by himself, so he usually picks up and drops off Pan Xiao's friends.

Although Pan Xiao was not in the magic capital this time, he went to Yicheng to engage in charity, but Xiao Song still dutifully helped Yang Bufan drive.

Moreover, his attitude is more respectful than when he drove for Pan Xiao, because he knows this Mr. Yang too well, and even admires Mr. Yang very much, after all, this is a battle trench among local tyrants and an Internet celebrity among entrepreneurs.

Hearing Yang Bufan's question, Xiao Song said with a smile, "Mr. Yang, Tesla's super factory is near Lingang, the distance is quite far, and the location over there is also very remote, so we will have to get there in a while." Mr. Yang, why don't I adjust the angle of the seat and you can rest for a while?"

Yang Bufan waved his hand and said with a smile: "No need, then I'll swipe my phone, haha." Thank you for your hard work today, Xiao Song, I originally wanted to just drive Pan Xiao out in a car, but I didn't expect you to send it. ”

Xiao Song was flattered, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Yang, you are too polite, I stay and stay, I always stay and get paid, I can't get over it in my own heart." ”

Yang Bufan smiled, didn't speak again, and then took out his mobile phone to watch.

Under normal circumstances, Yang Bufan would brush up on a short video, but today there was something about Tesla, but Yang Bufan directly opened Weibo.

Tesla's legendary boss Musk also has Weibo, and the update frequency is still very high, so Yang Bufan wants to see what Musk has said recently, and it can be regarded as understanding Tesla's movements, and it is a common topic when he arrives at Tesla's factory for a while.

At this moment, Yang Bufan admires himself, even if he is not the boss, even if he goes to sales, he must be a gold medal salesperson!

Looking at Weibo one by one, Yang Bufan had a little headache.

Because except for some big strategies, Tesla's Weibo is basically.

There are links with the game and peace elites, and the cars in it are all out of Tesla, and there are links with movies, saying that there are movies that can be seen in Tesla drive-in theaters, which are basically this kind of Weibo content.

Yang Bufan feels that the mentality of this middle-aged Musk is still very young, even younger than the mentality of some post-90s, infinitely close to the post-00s.

Just as Yang Bufan continued to flip through, Musk's Weibo was updated at this time.

Yang Bufan just glanced at it, and was stunned at that time.

Because this Weibo is a little serious, it is Musk who is promoting his strategy.

"In the next two years, we will deploy 4,000 V3 Superchargers in China! Tesla Superchargers can be charged for free, charging Tesla electric vehicles in minutes, not hours. Thanks to the new charging architecture and power electronics, the V3 Supercharger not only has faster charging speeds, but also has a more intelligent charging power distribution. In the event that the charging station is not operating at full capacity, the idle charging station supports the active charging station to reach a maximum charging power of 250 kW.

It is worth mentioning that due to the new liquid-cooled wire and charging gun head used in the V3 charging pile, the weight of the overall charging cable has been reduced, making it more convenient for users to charge the operation!"

This is a long post posted by Musk, which is very rare.

But it's clear that this Weibo post is promoting a strategy for the future, and the prospects are very beautiful!

But for Yang Bufan, there was a feeling of chills all over his body.

That's a coincidence!

Xingbang has just taken the lead in the development of liquid-cooled cables, and as a result, Tesla has even made plans for future supercharging stations!

What does this mean?

This shows that Tesla's engineering R&D team may have started working on liquid-cooled charging systems last year, or even earlier!

However, this also shows that Zhao Qiang's research is really a stroke of genius, and he has single-handedly flattened this gap.

But the end result is still uncomfortable.

Tesla has its own research and development, and even has a charging station plan for a period of time in the future, which means that this technology has been developed and matured at Tesla, but it is only now announced.

With Yang Bufan's understanding of Tesla's style of doing things, the possibility of using Xingbang Group's liquid-cooled cables has become minimal.

Tesla's style is like this, and a lot of R&D is willing to do it itself.

The most classic example is that Tesla Motors is preparing to launch a furious driving mode.

At first glance, this furious mode requires a stronger power system, a motor that instantly increases its output capacity, and more stable tires.

Tesla's engineers researched and thought that all of this could be achieved, but in the end, the hardware that restricted them from turning on this berserk mode turned out to be the on-board fuse.

The instantaneous output of the huge current will directly penetrate the high-voltage fuse in the battery pack, and all the fuses on the market cannot meet this berserk mode of Tesla.

Typically, OEMs either seek help from their suppliers or wait for the product to become available on the market.

But Musk's engineering R&D team directly chose to develop a fuse!

Yes, a car company went directly to develop a fuse, and because the comprehensive strength of the R&D team was too strong, they really succeeded in R&D.

After that, there was a furious mode on Tesla cars.

One thing that can be seen from this example is that Tesla is a very ambitious company that even wants to overthrow the traditional car giants.

If you can develop and master the technology yourself, you won't let others come.

If mass production or cost reduction is needed, then Tesla will find its own suppliers to cooperate, but the core technology is still in the hands of Musk.

Yang Bufan sat in the car and thought about it carefully, and suddenly felt that he was a little unoptimistic about going to the Tesla Gigafactory this time.

Now it is clear that Tesla has a corresponding countermeasure, and the probability of choosing to use the supplier's product is basically zero.

But Yang Bufan still wants to try, what if there is a chance, after all, no one knows what Tesla's R&D progress looks like, maybe Xingbang is one step faster than them?

But the reality is really cruel.

Just when Yang Bufan was thinking so, the purchasing manager of Tesla's Shanghai factory called directly.

"Hello Mr. Yang, I'm really sorry, we may not be able to meet today. ”

Of course, Yang Bufan knew what was going on, and when he was about to make a final effort, the other party directly said the Weibo posted by Musk just now.

"Just now, Mr. Musk has released the news around the world, Tesla is going to start building super charging stations around the world, which uses liquid-cooled cables and charging guns! Mr. Yang, this shows that Tesla Group has developed this kind of product, although your company has also developed the same type of product, but we will not choose to purchase, I'm really sorry!"

It's all said and done, what else can Yang Bufan say, he is also very helpless!

Originally, the situation was very good, and I was able to win Tesla's order, but I didn't expect my luck to be so bad.

And Tesla's purchasing manager is not very lucky, if there is no liquid-cooled charging system made by Tesla's foreign R&D team, maybe he can still make a great contribution because of the introduction of liquid-cooled cables.

What now?

The hair is gone.

Yang Bufan smiled and quickly adjusted his mentality.

"Manager Wang, it's okay, I'm very happy to know you, this project can't be cooperated, maybe there are other projects. ”

"Okay, Mr. Yang, let's keep in touch in the future. I need to travel right now, so I can't meet this time, I'm sorry!"

Yang Bufan was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that this Manager Wang was so cruel that he didn't even want to meet him.

But whatever, go to meet now, Xingbang can't get other competitive products, in the past, it was just to talk to this Manager Wang in person, and it has no substantive effect, if you don't see it, you won't see it.

"It's okay, Manager Wang, then you're busy, we have a chance to cooperate again. ”

"Okay, goodbye Mr. Yang!"

"Well, goodbye!"

Putting down the phone, Yang Bufan felt a little irritable, and for the first time felt that Xingbang Group was crushed by other companies.

Even he was turned away, and the complacency just now suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Even if this company is Tesla and its leader is called Musk, that won't work!

Yang Bufan gritted his teeth and instructed the driver Xiao Song: "Xiao Song, turn around and go back!"

Xiao Song was stunned, but he didn't say anything, he turned the car around at the intersection in front of him, and drove back to the Demon City.

Yang Bufan sat in the back seat, watching the rows of trees quickly retreat backwards, and fell into deep thought.

Tesla has already engaged in the liquid-cooled charging system, which is a setback for Xingbang Group, but this also shows that the liquid-cooled charging system will become a relatively hot outlet.

With so many domestic electric vehicle OEMs and many new car-making forces, will they be greedy?

Don't think about it, the greed is certain, although it may be that these domestic electric vehicles at this stage do not need such a high charging power, generally 60KW power is enough.

But now that everyone is taking Tesla as the benchmark, charging power and efficiency can also be a breakthrough.

Now Xingbang proposes that this kind of liquid-cooled cable can be produced domestically, isn't it just in time?

Thinking about it like this, Yang Bufan felt that his thoughts were suddenly clear again, and all the frustration just now disappeared.

Although we can't supply Tesla, except for Tesla, we Xingbang all supply goods, isn't the market bigger?

Even, it is okay for Xingbang Group to invest in the construction of charging piles.

Thinking about it this way, Yang Bufan not only lost his frustration, but even broadened his mind a lot.

Around new energy vehicles, Xingbang Group actually has a lot to do, and some areas that are not valued or widely known by everyone may have more business opportunities.

For example, the operation of fast charging stations, such as the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries, etc., there are business opportunities here.

Thinking of this, Yang Bufan suddenly smiled, and directly called Wu Xuanxuan.

"Manager Wu, take a look at Musk's Weibo, and then immediately start promoting liquid-cooled cables in new energy vehicle companies, I'm waiting for your good news!"