A remote section of a national highway.

Song Weiyang, Li Sufu, and Wang Chuanfu are surrounding a sports car, and there are several engineers next to them, as well as the first phase of "Ma's Whampoa" who is interested in electric sports cars.

"The exterior design of this car is okay, which one is copied from abroad?" Song Weiyang asked, patting the hood.

Li Sufu explained: "The imitation of the Lotus 111S, the chassis is also a Lotus. ”

"Did Lotus agree?" asked Song Weiyang.

Li Sufu smiled: "I still have an unexpected gain in this matter." Malaysia's Proton Motors, in 1996 on the British Lotus sports car, some time ago is further talking about acquisitions, Proton 100% control of Lotus has become a sure thing. In order to find a chassis for an electric sports car, I personally went to Malaysia to visit the CEO of Proton. After a quick trip, Proton agreed to authorize us to use the Lotus chassis, and also gave me the exclusive distributorship of the Lotus sports car in Chinese mainland. ”

To put it bluntly, it is mutually beneficial, the Lotus sports car has not been sold in the mainland, and 99.9% of Chinese do not know that there is such a brand. Proton, on the other hand, is optimistic about Geely's car sales channels and handed over the exclusive agency of Lotus to Geely, just to let Li Sufu help develop the Chinese market.

And Li Sufu doesn't suffer a loss, anyway, he wants to sell Geely cars, just sell the Lotus sports car together. Its own car owners focus on the low-end market, and Lotus sports cars focus on the high-end market, which can just fill their own market gaps - in order to open up the mainland market, Proton has almost zero agency fees, and all of them use the method of sales sharing.

The world is so ingenious, more than ten years later, Li Sufu not only acquired 9.69% of the shares of Mercedes-Benz's parent company, but also acquired 49.9% of the shares of Proton, and the Lotus sports car is also equivalent to Li Sufu's brand. Unexpectedly, in order to make an electric sports car, Li Sufu and Proton had contact and cooperation in advance.

Song Weiyang asked again: "I heard you say on the phone, this electric sports car still has many shortcomings?"

Without an engineer to explain, Wang Chuanfu said directly: "First of all, the battery pack is too heavy, a full 0.52 tons, and the car is full of batteries when it is disassembled." ”

"It's really heavy. Song Weiyang nodded.

Wang Chuanfu said: "Then there is the problem of the motor, let Cheng Gong talk about this." ”

Cheng Gong's name is Cheng Xianghuai, and he is an electromechanical engineer from a state-owned enterprise. Pointing to the car, he explained in detail: "At the beginning, we planned to use a 180KW AC motor with a 2-speed gearbox. But before this plan was officially launched, he directly chose to give up. First, the structure of the AC motor is too complex, the instantaneous overload capacity and the increase of motor speed are very limited, and the long-term work will produce losses and greatly increase the maintenance cost. In addition, this kind of motor will cause excessive power when working for a long time, and sparks from the internal brushes will heat up the rotor, causing high-frequency electromagnetic interference, which will affect the performance of other electrical appliances in the car. The second is that electric vehicles are very different from traditional fuel vehicles, and the gearbox problem cannot be solved with my ability. ”

Song Weiyang heard the seven tricks and understood the six tricks, and didn't know how to pretend to understand: "And then?"

Cheng Xianghuai said: "Then we chose the asynchronous motor, which has a simple structure, low design difficulty, low production cost, and easy maintenance, but at the same time the efficiency is also low, and the speed regulation performance is poor." We abandoned the 2-stage gearbox program and went with an asynchronous motor with a single-speed gearbox. In this way, the previous problems are solved, but new problems are created. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE EXPECTED RANGE AND SPEED, THE BATTERY PACK WAS INCREASED FROM 60KWH TO 80KWH, WHICH NOT ONLY GREATLY INCREASED THE WEIGHT AND VOLUME OF THE BATTERY PACK, BUT ALSO WAS VERY WEAK AT MEDIUM AND HIGH SPEEDS DUE TO THE USE OF A SINGLE-SPEED GEARBOX. The car can only accelerate gradually in fixed gears, and cannot change gears at high speeds, which is not qualified as a sports car. ”

Peng Qiu, a battery expert from BYD, said: "The single-speed reducer equipped with this car has better performance than traditional fuel vehicles in medium and low-speed environments." However, in the medium and high speed stage, because the motor needs to maintain a very high speed, the temperature and power consumption of the motor are greatly improved, which affects the endurance of the whole vehicle. We tested it, and the car was driven at low to medium speeds, and it could go about 450 km. However, if you maintain a medium and high-speed driving state for a long time, the cruising range will be directly reduced to less than 380 kilometers. This is the opposite of traditional fuel vehicles, the faster the fuel vehicle runs, the lower the fuel consumption. ”

Song Weiyang finally understood: "I understand, now there are three questions." The battery pack is too heavy and too large to be able to change speed at high speeds, and driving at high speeds will reduce the range. ”

"That's right. Peng Qiu said.

Cheng Xianghuai said again: "There is another problem. The motor we are using now is a motor from General Motors. Buying someone's car, dismantling the motor and installing it on our car is simply not commercial, unless it can be authorized. I also led someone to make an imitation, but I was able to make it, but the performance was far inferior. ”

Song Weiyang said: "Then go and get the authorization of General Motors." ”

Cheng Xianghuai said with a smile: "GM's electric car has actually been discontinued, but it has not been officially announced. The main reason is that GM's electric vehicles have too poor range, theoretically they can only run 140 kilometers, but in practice they can't run 120 kilometers. Thanks to Mr. Song's whimsical idea, connecting thousands of laptop batteries together directly increases the battery life several times. ”

"I'll just say it casually, and you're still doing the specific battery pack. "Song Weiyang is very modest.

Cheng continued: "GM's electric motor technology is not their own, but comes from a studio called AC Propulsion. First there was this studio to produce electric motors, and then there were GM's electric vehicles, and the two were relatively independent partnerships, and GM invested in the AC Propulsion studio. In order to find the right motor, I paid a special visit to Mr. El Koconi at ACP Studios, who was preparing to break off his cooperation with GM and form his own ACP Electric Vehicle Company. ”

Song Weiyang smiled: "You mean, let me dig that El Kocconi over?"

"Yes, his funds are limited, and it is definitely not enough to make his own electric car, I estimate that 2 million US dollars can be dug up with people and technology. Cheng Xianghuai said.

Song Weiyang said: "That's okay, just dig him, and you can accept it within $3 million." ”

In fact, when Song Weiyang, Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu established Tesla, they said that it was a small fight, and one person invested 5 million. The money has now been almost used, and Song Weiyang later added an additional 5 million investment and directly became the company's major shareholder.

Spending another $2 million to dig up American engineers along with motor technology is definitely a very cost-effective thing.

This obviously belongs to the leakage of technology and talents, the first general electric car to eat crabs, sold for several years only sold more than 1,000 units, the production workshop has been stopped for more than half a year, and now there are hundreds of stocks that have not been sold. There are several foreign car manufacturers that are developing their own electric vehicle technology, but the range cannot be improved to more than 200 kilometers, and the charging speed is so slow that people are desperate.

As a result, industry insiders generally believe that electric vehicles have broad prospects, but they have entered a dead end at this time.

At least General Motors, for its part, has given up on the development of electric vehicles, and the relevant electrical engineers have only one way to resign.

Historically, the engineer named Al Koconi did leave GM to start his own ACP electric vehicle company. But in less than half a year, it fell into an embarrassment, and not a single electric car produced by it could be sold, and Eberhard invested $150,000 to acquire a lot of shares in the company.

Eberhard gave Al Koconi the idea to tie thousands of lithium batteries together to power the electric car and immediately give the electric car a range of 480 kilometers. But Al Cocony was already disheartened and didn't want to make electric cars anymore, so Eberhard simply set up his own car company, which was Tesla.

If Song Weiyang digs up El Cocony and his motor technology, then there is a question mark whether Eberhard, the "father of Tesla", will make electric cars again, because many things here happen by chance. Even if Eberhard still wants to make electric vehicles, then the motor technology is also looking for another way, because it has been bought by Song Weiyang, and the Tesla brand has also been registered by Song Weiyang.

Song Weiyang asked again: "How about the battery control system?"

Peng Qiu said: "The electronic control system is done by Zhang Jiabing, and he has something to do today." But he told me that the electronic control system is basically fine, but it needs to be further optimized to reduce energy consumption, reduce the weight of the battery pack, and achieve greater power output. ”

"I'll try it open. Song Weiyang sat in the cab.

Peng Qiu hurriedly sat in the co-pilot to guide, this thing is a little different from a fuel car.

Song Weiyang drove a Tesla in his previous life, and now he drives a Tesla produced by himself, and he feels that the start is significantly slower, and the motor is much more noisy. At the beginning of running, it was fine, but when it entered the high speed, it was uncomfortable because it was impossible to change speeds, and people who like drag racing were afraid that it would be unacceptable. And the positioning of this car is precisely a sports car, a sports car that cannot change speeds at high speed, and has lost the charm of a sports car.

After going a few kilometers back, Song Weiyang said to a few "students": "You should also feel it, if you are willing to buy it, I will sell it at cost price, it doesn't matter if you don't buy it, just play a strange game." ”

The "student" tycoons immediately sat down to experience it, and the result actually felt good, even if the motor was noisy, they thought it was quiet to drive, at least negligible compared to the engine sound of a gasoline car.

"How much did I buy?" asked a rich man.

Song Weiyang didn't know, so he could only ask Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu.

Wang Chuanfu shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

Li Sufu said: "The chassis of the car is imported from Lotus, and most of the other materials of the body are also imported, and the import tariffs on auto parts are very high. The motor was also dismantled from GM's new car, and the cost could not be calculated at all, because after the dismantling of the car, the original car was scrapped directly. ”

"Uh......" Everyone was speechless for a moment.

Li Sufu thought for a while and said: "You are all students of Lao Song, I will sell it at a loss, and a car will be 2 million." ”

The "student" rich man smiled and took the initiative to raise the price: "Then give an auspicious number, 2.88 million." The first electric sports car in China, it is hard enough to drive out, and we will definitely not suffer. ”

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "If the car has a problem, it will be sent back directly, and we will repair and maintain it free of charge, and replace imported spare parts for free within 5 years." ”

This is to treat their "students" as experiments, and to replace them with online games is to be open beta players, mainly to get feedback from customers, so as to make follow-up improvements step by step.

Of course, it will definitely not be as easy to catch fire and explode as the original Tesla, because the batteries used are different, although BYD's battery is less powerful, but the performance is more stable and safe.

3 cars were sold at once, and Song Weiyang ordered 4 cars, and the sales of the Song version of Tesla got off to a good start.

Wang Chuanfu kept staring at the sports car, and he had decided to buy a car factory by himself, first to make BYD fuel cars, and then to make BYD electric cars. The electric car he made belongs to the mass type, which is different from Tesla's sports car positioning, and there is no competition between the two sides.

Li Sufu has also gained something, he has obtained a car production license under the guise of developing electric vehicles.

Historically, Li Sufu did not have a share in the batch of automobile production licenses just issued by the government. He found the media and made himself a tragic hero, which instantly attracted national attention and triggered a big discussion about the dilemma of domestic automobiles. Then Li Sufu quietly went to the relationship and told the matter to the sky, and Geely Automobile finally obtained a reissued production license.

Now there is no need to operate anymore, Li Sufu directly got the production license. He even wants to apply for financial subsidies for new energy vehicles, but unfortunately the country is only a pilot research and development, and has not yet begun to promote and support on a large scale.

Song Weiyang said to Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu: "Before, it was just technology research and development and copycat imitation, but now we have to start doing it seriously." I plan to invest another 10 million yuan to continue to make electric sports cars, and at the same time transplant electric vehicle technology to motorcycles to make civilian electric bicycles. Which of you would like to invest more?"

"That's a good idea, I'll invest another 5 million!" Li Sufu's eyes lit up instantly. He started as a motorcycle himself, and if he can produce and sell electric bicycles, he will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

Wang Chuanfu said: "Then I will also invest another 5 million." ”

Of course, electric bicycles can't continue to use the Tesla brand, otherwise the price of electric sports cars will drop, and the three of them took a name casually on the spot: Fengxing, referred to as Fengxing.

And Tesla Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd., the shareholding structure has also become: Song Weiyang (50%), Wang Chuanfu (25%), Li Sufu (25%).

In the future, the company will rely on electric sports cars to maintain its strong standards and rely on electric bicycles to make money, otherwise it will not be sustainable at all, and it can only survive by constantly obtaining financing like the original Tesla.

If you are simply an electric sports car, you don't want to make money within ten years, and it is great if you can lose it without losing it!

As for the president of the company, Shenzhou Technology sent someone to serve as the president, Geely and BYD also sent one as vice president, and the rest of the matter was solved by the three presidents themselves.

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