Chapter 446: icar
Mr. McCord's reminder was correct, there were indeed too many people tonight.
Not to mention the fear, a little worry must be there, Laura quickly left with the child, entered the special elevator and handed over to the nanny to take care of, accompanied by the bodyguards to send upstairs to rest, and continued to accompany friends to go shopping.
Even the biggest party will come to an end, the Cobra Building opened, and almost half of the citizens of New York City have come to visit, and it has been lively for more than half a month before returning to normal.
As soon as it opened, it became a new landmark in New York, attracting countless tourists to come, and even the entire Hudson Yards were lively, and the surrounding housing prices were soaring.
A huge "cobra" that now looks down on the whole of Manhattan every night really makes the city a little cooler, and Ye Dongqing recently lives on the top floor of this building, occasionally taking time to visit the company.
Best location at the entrance on the ground floor.
On one side was the Ferrari booth and on the other side was Apple's flagship store, and at the end of March, there was also an extra car in the Apple store, with a cool look, just like a sports car.
With a lot of money invested, coupled with the cooperation of major automotive research institutes, the electric vehicle project that was originally planned to be manufactured is nearing completion, and road tests are about to be carried out, followed by production and listing.
Unlike Tesla, Tesla chooses to build a high-performance supercar first, pull the brand and then create a flagship product that is acceptable to consumers.
Apple from the very beginning, gave up the flashy high-performance sports car, the cool Apple car in the showroom, almost the first flagship product finalized, the price is expected to be about 150,000 US dollars, the range span is not large, 150,000 to 200,000 US dollars, nothing more than the length of the range, color, wheels, etc.
Only Ye Dongqing himself knows, it refers to the Mercedes-Benz AMG· The design language of the GT four-door version, both in terms of materials and exterior design, is quite outstanding.
As soon as it was transported into the store today, it attracted a large number of reporters and tourists who came to visit, three layers inside and three layers outside, almost crowded the store, Ye Dongqing has already tested the drive, both inside and outside, the only thing that makes him regret is that there is no automatic driving function, the autonomous driving laboratory he created has not come up with any bright finished products, it will take some time.
The estimated price of more than 100,000 US dollars is destined to make this product named iCar-S, become a small number of high-yield toys, more civilian products are still in the design, is expected to be launched next year, that is, in 2011, smaller size, slightly shorter mileage, this is Ye Dongqing's hope to overturn the existing automobile manufacturing market fist products, it can be like a fuel sports car to set up a variety of sounds, in addition to cool, but also for safety considerations, a quiet car is not easy to be perceived by passers-by.
There has not been a special press conference, the concept car that is about to be finalized has been unveiled first, a rich big company wants to do something, it is indeed easier, Tesla is still struggling in the capital chain problem, Mr. Jobs originally wanted to buy it, but unfortunately a group of shareholders, especially Elon Musk, did not agree, now there is no need to acquire, after investing nearly six billion US dollars, Apple's electric vehicle technology reserves, has far exceeded Tesla, an electric car factory, A super battery factory is now being built in the Santa Clara area.
Most of them will not make money in the early days, and they will lose a little bit when they sell one, but they have the strong support of Ye Dongqing, a major shareholder, and after the iPhone series, the iPad tablet just released at the end of last year has also become a money-absorbing weapon, even if some Apple shareholders complain about burning money, they will not really jump out against anything, because no one dares to say that their vision is better than Ye Dongqing, not to mention that the process of building a car has been very smooth, and he also released his words, saying that as long as he loses money for five consecutive years, he is willing to pay money according to the expenses to separate the entire department from Apple and take over by him。
As a result, other shareholders are reluctant to let go.
Recently, because the stock price of a single share is too high, which is not conducive to circulation and trading, Apple's board of directors decided to split five shares in one share, and Ye Dongqing is still a major shareholder with more than sixty percent of the shares.
Honestly, I really saw this iCar· S time, Ye Dongqing has already regretted a little bit of the time to build electric cars through Apple, judging from the current situation, more or less lost, since Tesla has succeeded, he feels that he can this time, and it will be more successful.
Two products are expected to be launched next year, and it is likely that the entry price will be lowered to 40,000 US dollars, as long as the product is good enough, it should be profitable in a few years, and it is already talking to Washington about building charging stations, expanding from key cities in the east and west to the center, funding is not a problem, and it is easier to do.
This is just a small point in Ye Dongqing's huge business territory, at present, it is not even as good as Android company, last year's global Android smartphone shipments reached more than 14 million units, and more than 200 million US dollars were earned by licensing alone, and the income of advertising was higher, with the rise of smart phones, it directly led to the development of a group of Internet companies.
Many of his casual actions have become the dream success in the eyes of others.
Looking at the hedge fund again, the billions of dollars in assets back then have now risen all the way to more than 60 billion US dollars, compound interest does not dividends, and recently got another sum from the gold market, excluding the money belonging to customers, the total assets belonging to Ye Dongqing are more than 20 billion US dollars, and the group of people who believed in him back then have made a lot of money, successfully dodged the subprime mortgage crisis that evaporated trillions of dollars, and made a profit.
Ye Dongqing persuaded and stopped, those Wall Street businessmen are still dying, no wonder he entered the market to make a fortune, and now most of the funds are invested in the upstream of the industrial chain of intelligent products such as LCD screens and processors, the layout is relatively early, the purchase price is low, and the return is high, so he doesn't need to worry too much, but he makes a lot of money.
On the top floor of the Cobra Building, a new day has just begun.
Laura went to England for a friend's wedding party, and he stayed at home, and was successfully woken up by his son and daughter, lying on the bed and seeing two smiling faces beside the bed, he had an indescribable wonderful feeling in his heart.
Because of his gift, the two little ones were born billionaires, but they didn't know it, and they were still at an age when they didn't care about money, and everything seemed to be so natural.
He said to his daughter Ye Ying: "Take my brother out to play first, and I will talk to you later, and talk about your going to school......"