Tesla was founded in July 2003.

Strictly speaking, it is not yet time for Tesla to be founded.

However, before Tesla was founded, the source of Tesla's technology, AC-Propulsion, had been developing for a long time.

AC-Propulsion was the first to produce an electric car called T-Zero, and later Tesla's founder Martin Eberhard invested a sum of money in AC-Propulsion, and hoped that they could use laptop batteries to build a new T-Zero for themselves, this new battery car was produced, and the range reached an astonishing 480 kilometers. Eberhard wanted AC-Propulsion to perfect the car and mass-produce it, but AC-Propulsion didn't see any potential for this car, so the two didn't reach a consensus, and then Martin Eberhard decided to do it himself, so he founded Tesla.

However, now that before Tesla was officially established, and judging from Elon Musk's words, the T-Zero with a lithium battery has come out, Li Mu speculates that the current time node may be the stage where Martin Eberhard is holding this project and looking for investment everywhere.

Li Mu has read Elon Musk's biography and remembers that he only invested in Tesla in 2004, so in fact, he should have learned about this project in 2003, but before 2004, he had no interest in investing in this project and was in the wait-and-see stage.

At this moment, Elon Musk has only heard about the project, but has not yet found the time and energy to find out about it for himself.

Thinking about this logic, Li Mu's heart suddenly became excited.

In his last life, he was still very yearning for Tesla, after all, the first to pursue Tesla was almost all people in the Internet circle, and then its products continued to improve their influence, so that more people knew and accepted, and then followed suit.

In Li Mu's eyes, Tesla is the most perfect combination of the Internet spirit in traditional products.

As an Internet person, Li Mu has had a unique question about countless traditional products, take the car as an example, Li Mu has driven a lot of various models of cars in his last life, he has always had a question in his mind, a 9.7 inches, display effect, visual effects are very good, and the iPad that runs very smoothly is only 3,000 yuan, why is it as low as tens of thousands of yuan, as high as millions of cars, no car can make its central control screen into the size and visual effect of iPad?

Why is it that in the era when people hold retina screen mobile phones in their hands, the visual effect and system experience of the car's central control screen are as rough as the copycat MP4 in 2005? Why can't they directly use a screen like iPad? Is it a cost limit, or an industrial limitation, or do they not think that the car needs that kind of central control screen at all?

Later, Tesla was born, when Li Mu saw Tesla's huge and shocking central control screen, he knew that it was not that car manufacturers could not do it, but that no one wanted to do it, or no one wanted to do it, and the moment Tesla was born, it meant that people in the IT industry finally entered the automobile market.

In addition, in the eyes of Li Mu, the automotive industry has some very serious IT technology lagging, when the Internet people are desperately developing the Internet of Things, the arrogant automotive industry has been dragging forward in its own dimension.

For example, after the advent of the Internet of Things, even a hot water kettle at home can be remotely started and turned off using a mobile phone, why do most vehicles not even support mobile phone control?

The first few minutes of entering the car in winter and summer are simply tormented, in winter the car is as cold as an ice cellar, and the water temperature can only be warmed up, and in the summer the car is hot everywhere after being exposed to the sun, and the air conditioner can not lower the temperature for half a day.

Some people often forget to bring the car key, or lock the car key in the car, and finally can only break the window to enter, if the car solves the problem of the Internet of Things, click on the mobile phone, the door will not open?

Some car companies will make excuses for security, saying that the car joins the Internet of Things, which will bring hidden dangers to the safety of the car, Li Mu feels that this is simply an excuse to escape progress, this year, mobile banking can even be controlled by hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of funds, people are not worried about mobile banking to bring hidden dangers to the account, what do you have to worry about a ton of cars?

After the development of the Internet of Things, even the black boss of the upside-down mortgage car knows to install a GPS in the car to monitor the location and information of the vehicle at any time, and most car manufacturers have never thought of installing one in their car.

All in all, before Tesla appeared, the automotive industry has been developing freely with its own unspoken rules, until the emergence of Tesla, which really gave them a slap in the face and finally made them realize the importance of technological innovation.

With such a complicated mood from long-term accumulation, Li Mu has his own respect for Tesla, so he is also very interested in this project after he is reborn, but he didn't expect that when he asked casually, he really asked the current situation of this project from Elon Musk's mouth, which made Li Mu's brain instinctively reflect a motive:

Li Mu, who couldn't afford to buy a Tesla in his previous life, wants to buy the entire Tesla in this life!

No!

It's not just a Tesla, he wants to buy a Tesla, install a set of rocket boosters on it, and let it plunge headlong into the traditional automotive industry, rampage and crash into it!

So, Li Mu said to Elon Musk: "If you have time, help me inspect this project, let them prepare a BP for me, if it is OK, I will invest a few million dollars in them first." ”

Elon Musk was surprised and said, "Boss, are you interested in cars?"

Li Mu didn't answer his question, but asked him, "What about you?"

Elon Musk nodded: "I'm quite interested, but I don't know that you're also interested in this, boss." ”

Li Mu asked him again: "How many men do you think there are in the world who are not interested in cars?"

Elon Musk was instantly dumbfounded, and smiled awkwardly after a while: "You're right, men like cars, and they love cars as much as their lives." ”

Li Mu nodded and said to him: "I will definitely do multiple layouts in the future, and it is a multiple layout across countries, continents, industries and fields, the best situation is that all the industries that can make money in the world have my share, that is the most ideal state, the global industry market prospect of the automobile industry is so big, there is a chance to go in and experience it." ”

Speaking, Li Mu said: "When Muye Technology and Taobao Technology are listed and the funds are absolutely abundant, it is not impossible to acquire an automobile manufacturing company." ”

Li Mu didn't play tricks with Elon Musk, although all this he said was big and ordinary people couldn't believe it, but Li Mu didn't hide it at all.

In the future, we must continue to make new layouts, not only to create an Internet ecology, but also to create an ecology that combines multiple Internet with all possibilities, only in this way can we have room for improvement in any situation.

Elon Musk was extremely surprised, but he quickly figured out in his heart that when he reached Li Mu's level, what he had to consider was not vertical development, nor horizontal development, but three-dimensional cross-development and all-round development.

After thinking about it, Elon Musk nodded: "I'll go see them when I go back to Silicon Valley and ask them to prepare a BP with you." ”

Li Mu said: "You can also learn more about their actual situation, I hope that in these new fields of exploration, you can be bound to me." ”

Elon Musk asked in surprise, "Boss, what do you mean?"

Li Mu said seriously: "PayPal must have room to rise in the future, but for you, there is not much room for operation, he is like a hybrid crop you cultivate, you cultivate it for a long time, a lot of energy, that is the most important incubation period and cultivation period, but as long as it is finalized, most of your work on this new variety is over, you don't need to personally stare at it planting, Harvest, so in the near future you still have to come out of PayPal and do some other product incubation and cultivation. ”

"I believe in your ability, so if you are interested in this area, I hope that in the future the two of us can bind cooperation, there are good projects, we will invest together, I will be the big, you will be small, or you can even not come out, even if you don't come out, I will reserve a certain amount of shares for you, as long as you can help me do a good job in management and operation, I hope that in the future we can have similar cooperation in multiple projects, in that way, I will use my resources to improve the success rate of the project, and your interests will have a more stable guarantee." ”

Elon Musk was excited and excited, nodded solemnly, and said, "Boss, I will send you in the future!"

Li Mu smiled slightly, which was regarded as a recognition of his statement, as for the matter of "Tesla", Li Mu did not mention it again, because he knew that with his current strength and volume, it was really abnormal to pay too much attention to a small project that was still in the incubation period, Elon Musk is a smart person, he must know the benefits of taking his own ship, so he will definitely take this matter to heart, and this is enough.

Subsequently, Li Mu looked at Elon Musk and said with a profound face: "Why did you come all the way to Hollywood to find me, now you can talk about it." ”

Elon Musk laughed and said, "Nothing can escape your eyes, boss." ”

He was entrusted by Paul Keane to make peace this time, but he didn't expect to discuss the project he was planning with Li Mu, and accidentally got Li Mu's investment commitment, and was even pulled under his command by Li Mu, and Paul Keane entrusted him with serious things, and he didn't care about it at all.

So, Elon Musk said the motive for Paul Keane to entrust him here: "Paul's current consciousness is that he just wants to save his son's reputation, even if he himself bears the infamy, so he wrote such an article, not asking you to recover the reputation loss that you brought to the Keane family before, but just asking you to stop pursuing it and give him a chance to clear his son's reputation, he said that as long as you can let him go, he will definitely repay him twice in the future." ”

Li Mu waved his hand without hesitation, and said with a cold expression: "You tell him that the last chance I give him is that he gives up washing the floor for his son, and takes his son to publicly admit what they have done and apologize, if he accepts and does it, this matter will end here, and I will not violate the river water with him in the future; if he doesn't accept it, then you tell him, and say that I will announce to the whole United States the things related to senators in the next stage!"

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