After chatting with Li Mu, Schwarzenegger couldn't wait for the cooperation with Li Mu after taking office.

He expects California to change dramatically under his rule, with GDP growth, a reduction in the fiscal deficit, a reduction in unemployment, and an increase in foreign trade, finance, and tourism revenues.

Before talking to Li Mu in detail, although he was full of ambition, he didn't have strong confidence, but now it's different, he feels that everything is close at hand.

Li Mu slept overnight at Schwarzenegger's house, and the next day, his inauguration in Sacramento.

The inauguration ceremony was held in the Sacramento state government, according to the media, this is the most watched gubernatorial inauguration ceremony in the United States in the past 50 years, more than 100 Hollywood celebrities, as well as California entrepreneurs attended the ceremony, and it is said that even Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft headquartered in Seattle, was also present to congratulate.

There were even media headlines saying that this was the Oscars of California politics, and for a time the attention of the whole country was focused on the small city of Sacramento.

Unlike Schwarzenegger, who went to the state government early in the morning to prepare for his inauguration, Li Mu did not leave Schwarzenegger's villa in Sacramento until noon, as did Celine Dion and his wife, who lived in the villa.

Schwarzenegger's wife stayed to entertain the guests at home, and in the afternoon, she went to the state government with Li Mu, Celine Dion and other guests to attend the inauguration ceremony in the evening.

There are very few people who know that Li Mu is in the Schwarzenegger family, and Elon Musk is one.

In fact, Li Mu informed him in advance and asked him to come to Schwarzenegger's villa in advance to find him.

Li Mu wanted to learn from him about the current progress of Tesla.

In order to do online takeaway in Huaxia, Li Mu also specially asked Tesla's team in charge of battery pack research and development to come up with a set of lithium battery pack design suitable for electric vehicles, which can only be regarded as a dimensionality reduction application for the real strength of this team, so a perfect design plan has been given soon.

Although the concept of new energy is still many years away from the global popularization, Li Mu still has great hopes and importance for Tesla, which is not to make money by selling electric vehicles in the future, but more importantly, he values the long-term accumulation of new energy vehicles in the development.

Companies like Tesla, since the beginning of the 21st century, began to study electric vehicles, and almost from scratch, first research batteries, then research battery management, then research motors, research electronic control, research kinetic energy recovery and autonomous driving, with such a strong accumulation, in order to be able to ride the dust on the new energy vehicles.

On the other hand, those car brands that entered the field of new energy after 2015 because of subsidies, Tesla is like a top student who has studied all the way from kindergarten to doctorate, and those companies that have become monks halfway are like semi-literate people who suddenly mixed up with a pheasant university diploma.

In later generations, those companies took a frame at will, removed the fuel engine, gearbox, and fuel tank, and then got a bunch of lead-acid batteries into it, and then installed an ordinary motor, which can basically be taken out and sold.

The reason why he wants to invest in Tesla now is that he hopes to accumulate a complete set of technical solutions for new energy vehicles in advance, so that he can ensure that he can lead the industry for at least five to ten years.

Toyota's advantage in hybrid power is unique in the world, and it has not been broken by other car companies, which is not because of how difficult Toyota's technology is, but because Toyota has long erected a super defense line composed of a large number of patents around hybrid technology.

With Toyota holding a large number of hybrid technology patents, almost no company can make a set of hybrid technology comparable to Toyota without touching Toyota's patent group.

What Li Mu wants to pursue in Tesla is also such a patent barrier.

In his previous life, Elon Musk had successfully established such a patent barrier on Tesla, but the buddy himself announced that he would make all the patents public, and some people praised his generosity, but Li Mu felt that it should be Elon Musk's last resort.

Li Mu has always felt that Tesla's most failed point is that it has been "cloud car-making" in the past few years of development, and the so-called cloud-made car, to put it bluntly, can't be built, you can only rely on thinking.

Elon Musk doesn't understand the truth of Taoguang's obscurity, and the Chinese ancestors said that digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming the king are definitely good warnings for Tesla.

Tesla has just dug two holes, and the grain has not been saved a few grains, showing the forced style of domination, the concept product came out too early, and the mass production follow-up is too slow, which gives fuel car manufacturers time to play with Tesla.

It's like two countries declaring war, ten years ago they issued a war letter to each other, and ten years later, before the army was assembled, the other side had already erected an iron wall waiting for you, even if you didn't fight him, he would come to fight you.

At the beginning, Tesla stood on the opposite side of the entire traditional automotive industry, and you can imagine how great the pressure and difficulty are.

Therefore, Li Mu feels that Elon Musk's disclosure of Tesla's patents in his last life should not be really generous, but actively disperse pressure, win over allies, and even tempt traditional car manufacturers to turn back.

After all, the special situation of new energy vehicles, destined to lower the threshold of other enterprises to make new energy vehicles, the field of new energy will thrive, all kinds of new energy vehicles continue to come out, countries also continue to pay attention to new energy, all new energy manufacturers together to promote new energy, promote new energy, no matter how bad, we can also build charging piles together.

Otherwise, if there is only one new energy vehicle manufacturer on the market, Tesla will not be able to solve the problem of building charging piles in first-tier cities in developed and developing countries if he gives him 20 years.

However, in the previous life, Tesla's practice has given birth to all kinds of garbage new energy vehicles, resulting in a huge waste of resources, which may not be a good thing for the environment.

Therefore, Li Mu feels that if Tesla is in charge by himself, then as long as any patent is within the protection period, he will never disclose it to friends and businessmen, and he is sure enough to let Tesla dig deep and accumulate grain.

Elon Musk didn't know that Li Mu had already had a very long-term plan for the business he was most concerned about, and when he came to Schwarzenegger's house to "report" to Li Mu, he was still popularizing some basic concepts of new energy vehicles to Li Mu.

He told Li Mu that Tesla has made great breakthroughs in the management technology of lithium battery packs, Li Mu nodded and said, "Has the supporting high-speed charging technology been developed?"

Elon Musk was stunned for a moment.

He looked at Li Mu's eyes, and Li Mu caught the information contained in it at a glance, which translated into almost eight words: "Ouch, I'll go, you can ......"

After being stunned for a moment, Elon Musk said seriously: "High-speed charging technology, our R&D team has considered this direction, but has not yet begun to invest energy in research and development." ”

Li Mu asked him: "Then your future user positioning is the user's second car, and it is difficult to leave the local second car." ”

Elon Musk nodded and said: "Our car has a range of about 400 kilometers after mass production, and white-collar workers working in the city generally do not have a daily commuting mileage of more than 50 kilometers, so that this car can basically work normally for a week, charging once a week, as long as the charging pile is installed at home, it is basically enough." ”

Li Mu asked him: "What is the maximum charging power of the charging pile installed at home?"

Elon Musk said: "According to our current plan, once the Tesla sedan is mass-produced, it will first come with the installation service of ordinary speed charging piles to the owner, which has a low threshold for charging technology, with a power of about 5-10 kilowatts per hour." ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "In this case, it will take about 8-15 hours to fully charge a Tesla car with a battery capacity of 80-100 kilowatts. ”

"That's right. Elon Musk said: "Basically, you can fully charge it in one night. ”

Li Mu asked him: "What if I want to go to Los Angeles from here? It is said that there is a mileage of five or six hundred kilometers. ”

Elon Musk said: "It's simple, park your Tesla in your garage and get in your gasoline car and go out. ”

Li Mu asked him again: "If you have positioned yourself behind fuel vehicles, how much room can you have for development in the future?"

Elon Musk said seriously: "Mr. Li, in fact, I understand what you said, and we have carefully considered that in the long run, our development must hope to replace fuel vehicles rather than supplement." ”

Saying that, Elon Musk said: "However, from the current point of view, it is too difficult for us to directly compete with traditional automobile companies, so we must develop steadily little by little." ”

Li Mu looked at Elon Musk and suddenly felt a little confused.

Doesn't this guy have the idea of using Tesla to impact the entire traditional fuel vehicle industry at the moment?

In this way, he should be constantly adjusting his thinking while doing it.

No wonder Tesla was pushed out first before the production capacity was solved.

Li Mu said: "The positioning you give to Tesla's sedan now is like the way a fighter jet is used without the assistance of a tanker. ”

In other words, theoretically, the car can reach 400 kilometers, and the maximum radius of activity of the user is 200 kilometers, just like the method of calculating the combat radius of a fighter without the assistance of a tanker. ”

Elon Musk nodded and said, "That's the case at this stage, but it's true that our target users at this stage don't have a strong demand." ”

"Our user positioning is an elite group, high income, high education, and high sense of social responsibility, just like Toyota Prius, the price of fuel in the United States is so low, Americans are generally used to large displacement fuel vehicles, Prius's fuel economy really does not have a big impact on money, so it is not liked by most people. ”

"Most people don't like the Prius, but it is very attractive to those high-income but environmentally conscious elites, you can go to Silicon Valley, Stanford, Harvard, MIT to see, most IT workers and university professors, they like cars with small displacement and low fuel consumption, and the recognition of hybrid cars like the Prius is very high, if you go to see it, you may think that Toyota has sold all the Prius to Internet companies and universities in the United States. ”

"So our first phase of target users, is this Caprius people, their life is simple, two points and one line, the sense of social responsibility is bursting, the pursuit of energy conservation and emission reduction, green travel, if we can provide them with a range of three or four hundred kilometers of luxury pure electric car, they will be very attractive. ”

Li Mu shook his head and said, "Elon, your eyes are too focused now, it's not good!"