Since Sina is an internet business controlled by capital, it is not surprising that capital has succumbed to more powerful capital.

Han Hao's financing capabilities are unmatched by Shanda Group's Chen Qiao, and when he announced that he would raise overseas financing for the acquisition of Sina, many foreign banks offered to help. After all, compared with Chen Qiao, Han Hao's cash acquisition plan proposed by Han Hao compared with Chen Qiao is both a disadvantage and an advantage.

Unlike Shanda's acquisition plan, which included a share exchange clause, China Group was unable to exchange shares with Sina, a U.S. company, due to its listing on A-shares and Hong Kong stocks. Shanda is a listed company in the United States and can conduct share exchange transactions with Sina without barriers. Therefore, Han Hao must pay a considerable amount of real money for this acquisition.

A share swap can greatly reduce the financial pressure on the acquirer, but for shareholders who are eager to cash out, getting cash is the best option. This also became another major reason for them to publicly vote for Han Hao.

After receiving Han Hao's commitment to not move the management and not interfere with the company's operation direction within three years, the Sina management publicly expressed a statement welcoming Han Hao to Sina.

This means that the poison pill plan will only be aimed at Shanda, and Han Hao will be the master as a "white knight" at a very small price, the trend of Sina's surname Han is inevitable, and Chen Qiao has no power to return to the sky.

After receiving the support of Sina's management, Han Hao contacted Chen Qiao through personal relations and expressed his willingness to acquire the other party's shares at a premium. Of course, if Shanda also wants to enter the board of directors of Sina, Han Hao also welcomes it, but he only enjoys the rights and interests of investors and has no right to decide.

There is no eternal enemy in the mall, only interests are eternal.

In the face of Han Hao's high profile, Chen Qiao, who was already in the trend, decisively decided to terminate the acquisition plan and sell his shares to the other party at a high premium.

"This battle is very unwilling, but there is still a long way to go in life, and losing to Han Hao is not a shameful thing. ”

When Chen Qiao announced the termination of Sina's acquisition plan under his subordinates, he returned to the office and muttered to himself.

In the domestic Internet industry, Shanda Group is known for its high profit margins, and its game revenue is far more reliable than that of advertising and SMS SP. The failure of the acquisition of Sina has only slowed down the pace of Shanda's efforts to build an entertainment empire, and it will not change Chen Qiao's vision and determination to achieve this goal. He has just agreed with Microsoft to promote a revolutionary product that will occupy hundreds of millions of home entertainment terminals in China, televisions, and if this strategy succeeds, he can easily replicate the new portal in another way.

I thought it would be a fierce three-kingdom killing melee, but I didn't expect that under the premise of Han Hao's slight exertion, the other two parties lost their armor and lost their combat effectiveness. Such a scene disappointed many media who were ready to watch the excitement, and Han Hao, as the richest man in China, initially showed the power of capital behind him.

"It's arguably a business war with no losers!

Han Hao got his wish and became the owner of Sina, Sina also changed its door to obtain more powerful capital to settle in, and Shanda also made a lot of money through financial investment.

We hope that following the rules of business to compete and the market to play a role in resource regulation, we hope that such business behavior can play a guiding role for domestic enterprises. ”

Although the process was not as exciting as everyone expected, a well-known financial media in China still spoke highly of the acquisition.

The successful acquisition of Sina was just a side dish in Han Hao's car-making business, and he rushed back to the Jiangzhou headquarters after attending a press conference in a hurry.

Because there, there was a good thing that he was looking forward to even more.

At the test site of Zhonghua Group, a 12-meter bus with the logo of "Huaxia Yaxing" is quietly waiting for the moment of transformation.

The electric drive technology provided by Tesla was first used in electric buses after being improved by Chunghwa Group.

Although the appearance of this Huaxia Yaxing bus on the site is roughly the same as that of ordinary buses, it can be found that there are three cabinet doors on each side from the side, and all of them are open to six encapsulated 18650 lithium battery packs.

Walking into the driver's seat, it is clear that it is completely different from the traditional bus console, the transmission is gone, and it is replaced by a push-button electronic gear control. The control of each gear only needs to transmit a "0 or 1" signal to complete the gear shifting action, which is the most cutting-edge technology trend in the world.

Internally, the new electric bus is named "Kunpeng", which is jointly built by China Automobile Research Institute and Huaxia Yaxing Bus Factory, which will carry the new hope of Zhonghua Group in the field of buses.

A large group of engineers were surrounding the "Kunpeng" bus to make the final preparations before the test, and the group boss Han Hao came to the site to test the operation, which made them feel a certain pressure.

Under the advocacy of the "Green Olympics", Chunghwa Group, as a car sponsor of the 2008 Olympic Games, promised to provide new energy and green travel solutions for the event.

The "Kunpeng" project was born specifically to solve this problem, and before the Olympic Games, Zhonghua Group will complete the launch of zero-emission vehicles in the Olympic Village.

It is initially estimated that 50 pure electric buses, 400 venue shuttle buses, and 80 electric taxis will be needed for transportation in the Asian Games Village.

They will be used as a tool to showcase China's green Olympic achievements, and will be experienced by athletes and journalists from all over the world. On the other hand, it was also a great opportunity to promote the technological strength of Chung Wah Group.

"Let the world know China through the Olympics, and let the China Group go to the world through the Olympics. ”

This sentence is Han Hao's goal to compete for the sponsorship of the Olympic car, and the Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the China Group.

With such ambitions, Han Hao's attention to his company's first pure electric vehicle can be imagined.

The bus area is large, the operating space is more, compared with the car, the difficulty of pure electric bus is relatively small, so the electric vehicle business of Zhonghua Group started with the bus to break the game. After getting the bus, the venue shuttle bus is not a problem, followed by a more technically difficult pure electric car.

An SUV "Song" carried Han Hao, who was in the dust, directly from the airport to the test site, and he couldn't wait to see this mysterious "Kunpeng".

After simply waving hello to the engineers present, Han Hao, accompanied by relevant people, sat in the driver's seat of "Kunpeng", and he was ready to start and test the car himself.

Different from the traditional instrument panel design, there is a 7-inch screen larger than MP4 in front of him, and there is no start hole under the steering wheel with a key, which makes Han Hao, who is about to twist the key to start the car, a little embarrassed, and he can't find the ignition device.

Fortunately, Yu Guang saw a red button on the left side of the center console, with the word "START" printed on it, Han Hao smiled and pressed it hard, but he didn't expect to hear only a "ding dong", but the car didn't move.

"I'll just say it's not that easy for you to tame this beast, it's loaded with state-of-the-art technology. ”

Zhao Quanfu, who was accompanying him, said with a smile.

When he introduced the situation of the vehicle just now, he deliberately concealed a key piece of information and gave Han Hao a surprise.

"Well, I searched for the mysterious key on the car you said and didn't find it, so I'm really out of the way. ”

For the "Kunpeng" project, Han Hao only controls the general direction, and he is involved in the specific operation for the first time, but he didn't expect that he was helpless to even start the vehicle in the first step.

"You said you wanted to add more high-tech elements to your products, and our young engineers came up with a great idea. ”

Seeing this, Zhao Quanfu pressed the red start button just now while introducing.

With the sound of "ding dong", he immediately opened his mouth and shouted a sentence as if he had read out a password.

"Love me China!"

As soon as the voice fell, the "Kunpeng" bus was immediately connected to the power supply, and the 7-inch display screen lit up, and a digital signal appeared, with information such as time speed and battery capacity on it.

It was actually a voice to start the vehicle, such a cool operation made Han Hao stunned, when did his company create such a high-tech product.

Such a fun thing, of course, you have to operate it yourself, Han Hao childlike pressed the red button to turn off the vehicle and stand by again.

According to Zhao Quanfu's demonstration, Han Hao did not hesitate to shout the words "love my China" after pressing the button and hearing the sound of "Ding Dong".

"Tick-"

The 7-inch display in front of me lit up, and the entire bus was connected to the power supply, ready to move forward and set off at any time.

"This is a great step forward, and it belongs to a certain sense of human-vehicle interaction. ”

After Han Hao finished feeling it, he was full of praise and said.

This was the idea that one of our young engineers came up with, and he said that he was inspired by the idea when he told his daughter a bedtime story about the sesame seeds opening the door.

We have cooperated with iFLYTEK to develop a voice control gadget, which starts when the start button is pressed, and the pre-recorded voice is confirmed and the vehicle power is turned on, so as to achieve the effect of voice control.

Technically, it is not very difficult, and the recognition of several fixed Chinese character combinations is not a problem for the existing technology of iFLYTEK, and the difficult thing is that the first person who thinks of such a method is the first to think of such a method.

You've been emphasizing that cars will be closely integrated with new technologies from the Internet in the future, and this interesting experiment is our new attempt at this.

Of course, it will occasionally malfunction, especially after being exposed to high temperatures in the sun, and the stability of the system is not good, and we will continue to optimize and improve this. ”

Zhao Quanfu explained the ins and outs of the new invention on this issue, and he was proud of the outstanding engineers in the institute, who are the future of Zhonghua Group.

Pressing the gear down to D gear, the electronic shift technology made Han Hao, who was used to the mechanical transmission gear operation, a little unaccustomed, and he began to carry a bus of people on the test track track.

When you press the accelerator, the 7-inch screen shows that the car is accelerating slowly, and soon the "Kunpeng" bus reaches the designed maximum speed of 50 km/h, which takes about 28 seconds.

The self-improved dual-motor drive mode is a little rusty for the bus, and the short-term acceleration ability needs to be improved, which is the first feeling of Han Hao's test run.

There is another feeling that it is very quiet, compared with the roar of the traditional internal combustion engine, there is almost no sound when the electric bus is driving, and only the sound of the motor rotating at high speed can be heard when it is constantly accelerating, which makes Han Hao, who is used to listening to the roar, not accustomed to mastering the speed.

"The design range is 250 kilometers, and the actual range can reach 150 kilometers when fully charged at one time, which initially has the capacity of urban use. It takes 2 and a half hours to fully charge the battery, so we designed the battery to be a detachable module to coincide with the Olympics.

After the electric bus power alarm, the power battery can be quickly replaced at the charging station, and the replacement time of 6 batteries is expected to be controlled within 15 minutes, which will not affect the on-time departure of the shift.

Different from the new energy buses launched by other companies, our products are born with practical mass production in mind, so they have more advantages in practicality than them. It is no exaggeration to say that in another half a year, pure electric buses can be commercialized on the road. ”

Zhao Quanfu acted as an introducer of his products, explaining to Han Hao the various parameters and performance of the "Kunpeng" bus.

The big boss of the group personally acted as the test driver, and there were more than 20 sub-project directors who participated in the development of the bus, and the "Kunpeng" bus was extraordinary since it landed.

"How about cost control? To mass commercial production, the cost should be within the acceptable range. ”

Accustomed to driving a small car, driving this new bus, Han Hao has the feeling of driving a boat, but this does not affect his enthusiasm to go around the test site with great interest. On the contrary, it worked hard for the passengers in the car, and they had to keep putting up with Han Hao constantly making the car swing back and forth in order to test acceleration and braking.

After a sudden brake, Han Hao asked one of the questions he was most concerned about.

"You drove this bus and cost us a total of nearly 200 million yuan in research and development funds, if you really calculate, the conservative estimate of the cost of such a bus in the future will be more than 4 million yuan.

Of course, it is not excluded that our technological progress can further reduce the cost, so as to reduce the price. ”

Vehicles prepared for the Olympics can be said to be a political task that must be completed regardless of the cost. When it comes to the cost price of 4 million, Zhao Quanfu also feels that this figure is a bit more than the psychological price of the bus company.

"The birth of new technologies will always bring high-cost products, such as the mobile phone used to cost tens of thousands, and now it has fallen to the price of a few hundred yuan of cabbage. At present, the whole vehicle uses imported Panasonic battery packs, and we have to find a way to find alternatives, especially in terms of batteries, so that ATL can come up with a solution as soon as possible to reduce the cost. ”

Tesla uses Panasonic batteries, and Han Hao plans to make the ATL company he acquired a battery supplier in the future, so as to greatly reduce the cost of batteries and prepare for mass production for civilian use.

With the rising international oil prices, new energy vehicles have seen the dawn of mass production on the historical stage, once the small-scale commercial effect of pure electric buses is good, the entire history of automobile development will open a new chapter.

The history of the era of internal combustion engine vehicles led by the West may end with the development of new energy vehicles in China.