The main entrance to Tesla's headquarters, located at 3500 Deer Creek Road, Dell Creek, California. The standard American style headquarters, no high-rise buildings, a real "away from the hustle and bustle of the city" in the suburbs plus a bungalow factory, next to the high-end and bright building is a Tesla direct store and delivery center, not far from a Tesla repair service center.

Andy's motorcade stopped in turn, the bodyguard quickly got out of the car and opened the door, Andy, who was dressed in a straight and slim black suit, stepped out of the car with a smile on his face, and looked at a group of shareholders and Tesla executives led by Elon Musk with complicated expressions on the opposite side to greet him.

"Hello, Mr. Musk, nice to meet you. Andy smiled and shook hands with each other, this was also the first time the two met, to be honest, Andy didn't have any feelings for this real-life version of Iron Man, just a typical businessman.

"Hello, Mr. Smith, it's a pleasure to meet you, let me introduce you... ”

With a calm smile on his face, Andy shook hands with strange and familiar Tesla shareholders.

"Larry, I didn't expect you to come too, but I was very surprised... Andy shook hands with Larry Page with some surprise and surprise.

"Hehe, Sergei was supposed to come over, but you know, he's busier than me, so I'll be the representative to welcome you. ”

Andy nodded, these guys are privately funded Tesla electric vehicles, to be honest, more optimistic about the future of clean and environmentally friendly energy, no one wants their investment to be wasted, unable to pay wages, there is a problem in the capital chain, and the Tesla electric car company on the verge of bankruptcy can be taken over, which is undoubtedly the most happy for them to see.

"Mr. Smith, please take a tour of Tesla and its production plant, I think you'll be happy to be able to make this business happen. Musk said a little arrogantly, as if he was at a loss, and the expression on his face became more and more stiff.

Larry Page and eBay Jeffs Schol and other shareholders all looked at Andy with a light smile, to be honest, Andy's $200 million acquisition price is indeed very low, but for a car company on the verge of bankruptcy, someone will take over and burn high incense.

"Hehe, let's go, I can't wait to see the progress of Tesla, you may not know, I am also very interested in industrial design, I even designed a car myself, I hope that Tesla engineers can make it in the future.

Elon, didn't Donnie talk to you about the filming of Iron Man, all the steel suits in it were designed by me, and when the movie is released, you can see super cool effects, believe me, you're going to love it... ”

Watching Andy Smith talk about the huge interest in industrial design made a group of Tesla's shareholders and executives slightly stunned, and Musk's originally stiff expression also changed slightly, it seems that this young genius billionaire buys Tesla more than a simple investment.

The group walked through the directly operated store and directly entered the factory, and the first thing that caught their eyes was a huge TESLA logo, and the journey to the right began to visit the Tesla factory.

After walking out of the warehouse passage, there is the main entrance of the Tesla factory, on the left side of the entrance there are some quotations from executives' speeches and model pictures, and on the right side there are Tesla models.

The entire black Lotus sports car-shaped concept car is the first "Aero Buck", an aerodynamically optimized design prototype, which is also the prototype of Tesla's first electric sports car, the Roadster.

This "Mule 2" is the second version of Tesla's prototype assembled by hand, and it is already closer to the Roadster. I heard that the Iron Man crew has also made it into the movie, and it will appear in Stark's garage.

Andy stopped in front of the car to take a look, and to be honest, the Roadster based on the shape of the Lotus sports car was not a success, due to the popularity of electric vehicles and its high price, this model was discontinued after only 2,500 units were produced.

"If I'm not mistaken, the original price of this production car was $98,000, right?" Andy's fingers slid lightly over the roof of the car, with a charming smile on his face, but these words undoubtedly made Tesla, including Musk and all the executives' expressions stiffen slightly.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know how this car was made and the price of raw materials, but I guess the cost of this car is much more than $100,000, right?"

"Ahem... Musk coughed a few times with an ugly face, and nodded awkwardly, "The cost is calculated, and it will cost about $120,000, which is much higher than the original cost estimate of $70,000." ”

"Hehe, 1,200 cars are currently booked, right? Tsk, this is a big loss, you can't temporarily raise the price, raise it to 120,000? ”

The smile on Andy's face has not disappeared, but the words he said are unusually harsh to everyone, and several people are looking at each other with a wry smile, this is really a poisonous snake.

The group continued to move forward with their own thoughts, and came to a spacious and clean assembly factory, with a considerable scale of robot arms, which was quite spectacular and very bluffing.

Under the explanation of the engineer, Andy also understood that similar to most cars, the main production process of Tesla cars consists of four parts: stamping and making each component, connecting each component into the body, painting the body, and installing other components into the body, including the production of electric motors and battery components.

Andy understands that Tesla is taking its own manufacturing methods to build cars. And Tesla does a lot of things on its own, while other car companies transfer to suppliers. Including the production of its own saddle, on-site assembly of battery packs, that is to say, with the demand for production capacity, the current team of 160 engineers is simply not enough, or even hundreds of people are not enough, in addition, the body and many trim are not produced on the traditional production line, and need to be built separately.

Well, it's no wonder that the cost of a car is so high.

Andy looked at the corners of Musk's mouth slightly upturned, as if everything here made him proud, even if it was impossible to open the pot here, but everything here was very valuable, in his opinion.

Andy turned his head to look at Musk, and the people around him chuckled: "If I'm not mistaken, Tesla should be a technology company, not a manufacturing company, right? If you want to be a car manufacturer, you will have to spend billions of dollars to build new factories... ”

Alvitatre's eyes were full of smiles, looking at the embarrassed expressions of Tesla's shareholders and management, he almost laughed out loud, he knew better than anyone that his big boss could kill people when he vomited a groove, and there were a lot of strange words.

Now it's okay, I can't show it, and I was scared by the big boss, of course, everyone knows that Tesla's real core technology is the motor and battery.

Musk and the shareholders were also a little surprised, originally wanted to make the buyer feel that it was worth the money, but after listening to Andy's questions, everyone felt that Tesla had become a big pit.

Musk led everyone into the spacious and bright conference room with some interest, and the personnel of the two parties sat on both sides according to the camp.

These rich people, including Larry Page, looked at Andy's side in surprise, Andy Smith, the big boss, actually sat aside, sitting in the center of the main seat was Alvitatre, the two principals who had been negotiating with Tesla were seated on both sides, and Andy sat in the corner on the right-hand side, looking at the leisurely appearance of you talking, I just watch, not talking.

A group of Tesla executives made eye contact with each other, and sure enough, as legend has been made, being a professional manager under the young billionaire was the happiest thing, being able to fully display his talents without having to be an echo bug.