The proud Martin in Detroit, encountered an unexpected blow, he made an appointment with the three experts on the list, and the result, with his recent proposal for electric vehicles, and Mark to find those venture capitalists are very similar, they are not even polite, so they directly refuse.

Only one of them said a little more to him, "Young man, this is a car, not the gadgets you built in Silicon Valley, do you know how many parts a car has? thousands!"

These parts come from all over the world, and you know how complex it is to manage that supply chain?"

"The things you build in Silicon Valley, like computers, you don't have to produce any parts at all, you go to the parts store and buy accessories and assemble them yourself, and then you install the drivers, install the operating system, and you build a working computer.

However, did you know that in the automotive industry, each of our companies has its own an agreement, and simply diǎn said that Ford's car light control device cannot be used in our general car at all, and the same doctor's SP, which is used in our car, cannot be installed in Ford's car,"

He looked at Martin, who was very surprised, playfully, "So, do you understand how complicated it is to build a car?"

"I see," Martin diǎn head.

"That's good," the expert diǎndiǎn head, "you'd better pack your bags and go back to Silicon Valley and do those gadgets you're familiar with,"

Martin drank the whiskey in his glass, "I can see why the two of them said they wanted to make a difference in the automotive industry,"

"I can't believe it at all, and I can't imagine that today, when technology is so developed and cross-border collaboration is popular, the automotive industry is so closed, no, so primitive,"

"This is definitely not a healthy format, this is not a healthy format, if you still stubbornly adhere to these outdated, anachronistic, and long-overdue exclusive habits, you will eventually drink the bitter wine you brewed, I don't think this time will be too long, don't you realize this problem?"

At first, Martin felt a little angry, but later on, he slowly perked up, feeling like Don Quixote, full of mission.

"If before that, I said to ∝dǐng∝diǎn∝ small ∝, .⊙.o≦s_ (); This project, only 9 points of confidence, now, I have 12 points of confidence, Dr. Stephen, I believe that in a few years, you will get to know us guys who only do gadgets in Silicon Valley,"

His declaration-like remarks made Dr. Stephen a little stunned, and a friend next to him, who was naturally also in the automobile industry, smiled and asked, "What's wrong Stephen? Who is that young man?"

"It's nothing," Stephen shook his head, looking at the young man who had already walked out of the bar, "just a drunk guy,"

Martin's rhetoric was, in his opinion, madness.

He never imagined that Martin would have the potential to be a super crow's mouth, and the words he said today really became a prophecy later.

Martin, who walked out of the bar, looked at the lively bar behind him, the surrounding buildings, and the towering GM headquarters in the distance, standing on the streets of this brightly lit modern metropolis, but he really saw the dull twilight under the glamour of the city.

Detroit, which was originally a symbol of the frontier of machinery industry and technology in his mind, is now in his eyes just a wild tribe dressed in a modern coat.

He called Feng Yiping to express his feelings.

"So, Martin, that's why I said that all the parts of our car are made from scratch," Feng Yiping said on the other end of the phone, "We just want to use some common parts, and you will find that the cost is also high,"

After deciding to do this project, Feng Yiping found that some of Tesla's later innovations may not be so much their insistence, setting off to perfection in every detail of the vehicle, but rather being forced.

The automotive industry, like the aerospace industry in which Musk is engaged, is also a very exclusive industry that has no spirit of sharing at all.

Musk and Tesla later decided to open their patents to all their peers, in addition to wanting more people to make this cake bigger, I am afraid that there are also considerations in this regard.

On this diǎn, Feng Yiping is somewhat fond of the domestic automotive industry.

Although it is difficult for domestic cars to enter, at least the sharing spirit of the domestic automobile industry is not bad.

He clearly remembered that when S first became popular, there were so many brands on the market, and the biggest difference may be only the brand, from spare parts, to production processes, to production lines, which may be exactly the same.

Of course, whether they followed the same path as the American auto industry, Feng Yiping didn't know very well.

"Martin, I think, can you change your mind? These experts who have been famous for a long time will cherish their reputation, and because of their excellent income, they dare not and do not have the courage to innovate, so I think it may be more difficult to convince them to join, such people, joining our young company, whether it is a help or a resistance, it is really hard to say. ”

"So, can we consider starting with the young assistants of these experts? they have the experience, they have the technology, but fortunately the ideas are not solidified, and more importantly, they are not opposed to innovation and change, don't you think?"

"Thank you Feng, what you said is very reasonable, I will adjust the goal, mainly looking for those young and middle-aged experts,"

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Thanks to Comrade Musk, who is very good at publicity, Feng Yiping once again made headlines in the United States, but this time, unlike the two one-sided praises he led his companies to successfully go public, there were some mixed reviews like the time when his blue ocean strategy was first launched in the United States.

However, the controversy over his book seems to be an academic controversy, but this time the controversy over Musk's rhetoric is like a regional controversy.

The media in the west are very supportive of Musk, Feng Yiping, and their start-up Tesla, and many reports are very predictable, saying, "We believe that the cooperation between these two outstanding young people in the United States and China will subvert the industry in the future,"

"Maybe Tesla is a baby who can't walk yet, and the giants may disdain him, but we believe that in the future, more and more imitators and followers will enter the industry, and at that time, those auto giants who stick to the rules and have not innovated for a long time will eventually tremble. ”

As for those media in the east, they are like chicken blood, and they are extremely ridiculous about Tesla and Musk's rhetoric in their reports.

According to the Detroit News, "Two so-called business geniuses are a realistic version of Grimm's fairy tale: They don't even know how to change a tire, but now they threaten to disrupt the entire auto industry," said the Detroit News Newspaper.

The Detroit Free Press said, "When thousands of our researchers work hard for new technologies, and when our production plants update our car products every few years, Musk says that our automotive industry has not changed for too long...... ，”

"We all know that the genius Mr. Musk treats everyone as a computer, and we kindly remind him whether he should check his software and hardware, because normal logic cannot deduce such a conclusion. ”

Feng Yiping couldn't help but want to laugh when he saw this, Musk's view of diǎn he knew that he really compared people and computers to people, he said, a person's hardware is his body and brain, and his software is the way of thinking, the way of thinking, values, habits and personality.

So Musk has always believed that learning is equivalent to the process of downloading numbers and programs to the brain, and listening to the teacher in the classroom is like a ridiculously slow download, so he prefers to learn by himself, which is why this guy who graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was later known as "Iron Man", and he learned more by self-study than in business school.

I don't know how Musk dares to think when he sees these reports in the east, anyway, the current Feng Yiping feels that these reports are not enough, and the current trouble is not big enough, because no heavyweight has come out to oppose it.

The opposition of these heavyweights is actually free publicity for Tesla, which will make more people pay attention to their start-up company, and given that it will take a long time to launch the product, it is very important for Tesla to continue to maintain its popularity in front of the public. (To be continued.) )