Chapter 457 Acquisition

Tesla's market value was not low before, although it was not as good as Mercedes-Benz, but the market value was also about 30 billion US dollars, but Tesla's market value was because of Tesla's leading position in the new energy electric vehicle industry, so Tesla's market value was very high, but after Zhao Chen held a Mercedes-Benz new product launch conference, Tesla's market value began to plummet.

Now Mercedes-Benz's market value has broken through the $200 billion mark, and this will definitely get higher and higher after Mercedes-Benz's new car goes on the market, because the current market value is only rising because of the performance of Mercedes-Benz's new cars and so on.

But in fact, the new car has not yet started to sell, and no one knows whether there will be any new problems in the production of the new car, after all, there is still a long way to go from the production of a new car to the sale on the road.

However, a fully designed new car, it is necessary to obtain a vehicle production certificate with many more procedures, just a simple road test, from a variety of terrain, environment, and even plateaus, plains, deserts and other areas to be tested, just this test scrapped dozens of cars are not an exaggeration.

A new car from design to finalization to the final production is not as simple as ordinary people see, just like these new electric vehicles of Mercedes-Benz have been divided into several groups and started testing at the same time, because it is necessary to test the performance of a car in various environments, so it is impossible to test several cars in different environments, but to use a car to drive a variety of terrain, high temperature, and low temperature, plateau plains, etc., all have to be driven.

It will take time, but at present, because Zhao Chen has produced more than a dozen cars before, and the testing work has already begun, including the tests in various countries, which have been carried out simultaneously, so this is not a problem, and the testing process of these new Mercedes-Benz cars is also very eye-catching.

The most eye-catching thing is that these new cars have excellent performance capabilities, you know, if you want to get the vehicle certificate, get the certificate of conformity allowed to be sold in various countries, there will naturally be special people in each country to view, but in fact, every new car of each company will have a lot of problems when conducting road tests.

This is inevitable, not to mention the road test, even after the sale of a new car, there are many small problems and small problems, and the road test can be passed as long as there are no major problems.

So theoretically, a car has to drive all kinds of terrain, environment, etc., but in fact, no company's car can really stick to it, especially the road test car, it is unlikely that all of them will stick to it, often after testing several extreme environments, it will be basically close to scrapping, and then continue by the new car.

And in the process of testing a car, there are all kinds of problems, in other words, the road test is to find problems.

But Mercedes-Benz's new car in the process of testing, all kinds of small problems are basically nothing, the most terrible thing is that the first Mercedes-Benz test of the new car, has been up to now, a total of nearly 100,000 kilometers, the motor and battery continue to run for more than 72 hours, but there is no problem at all.

And it has been driven, plateaus, deserts, forests, low temperatures of minus 40 degrees, more than 40 degrees above zero, and even high temperatures close to 50 degrees, rain, snow and other complex environments have been driven, and the whole car looks like a car that has been driven for five or six years or even seven or eight years, but even so.

I have to say that the stability of its overall system is as stable as ever, without any big problems, and its internal intelligent control system is also amazing to many people, and the loss of the body can be detected in the intelligent system inside the body.

And there is also a percentage and an electronic graph, which makes it clear at a glance where the whole car is lost, and any system like this is very amazing, and these testers and so on will naturally have some media reporters who can contact them, have their connections.

Therefore, these results in the whole process of automobile testing have been exposed, and with the exposure of these results, the outside world's expectations for the new car are getting higher and higher, and now the overall number of reservations has exceeded the 1 million mark!

When did the automobile industry become the same as the mobile phone industry? You can make a reservation for 1 million? That's 1 million taels! You know, although the profits of the automobile industry seem to be getting lower and lower, in fact, although the profits of automobile manufacturers are low, there are still profits of at least tens of thousands of dollars for a car.

Especially for some expensive luxury cars, the profits are naturally greater, and Mercedes-Benz is now booking out a million cars, not only mid-range cars, on the contrary, the million cars booked out, the price of more than 1 million RMB luxury cars has 700,000.

And a considerable part of them are luxury cars with a price of more than two million, but this kind of thing is understandable, because such cars are ordered by rich people, and for rich people, what they care about is not money, money doesn't matter to them, but what they care about is to drive such an advanced car for the first time.

Therefore, just the one million cars scheduled out, Mercedes-Benz's profit is probably close to hundreds of millions of dollars, which is not counting the official listing, ordinary people's reservations, you know, just China's sales will exceed millions a year is not a problem, let alone the world's sales.

You must know that cars in Europe and the United States are more popular, and it is estimated that the sales of the whole world will be more terrifying, although Mercedes-Benz may not launch a car with a price of less than 200,000, but even so, it is already very scary, and it is not surprising that Mercedes-Benz can have the current market value.

And Tesla's market value is naturally getting lower and lower, and now Tesla's market value has fallen to about 10 billion US dollars, so it is not difficult for Mercedes-Benz to acquire Tesla now, not to mention Zhao Chen's cash flow support.

Of course, it is not easy for Zhao Chen to take out so much money at one time now, but Zhao Chen's is not worried, it is a big deal to borrow directly from the bank, and now the digital storm company wants to take out a loan, I don't know how many banks are lining up to send money, they are looking forward to the digital storm company If the investment fails, they can directly get these shares in their hands.

Of course, there is a better way, that is, to list the digital storm company, in that case, it is estimated that the amount of money that the digital storm company can cash out at that time is absolutely terrifying.

At least not worse than Apple and Google.

"Yes. Zhao Chen nodded and agreed directly, anyway, this is not too much of a problem for his layout, "But we may have to authorize a few car companies next, but for a while, I'm afraid we will only authorize some low-end car brands." ”

"It's the best, give us a chance to pull away from other car manufacturers. Cai Che immediately smiled happily and said, "In addition, Mr. Zhao, I don't know if we have more advanced technology and design in our hands to launch several high-end models." ”

"High-end models? The current top model is not high-end?" Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment.

"I'm talking about really high-end models, cars that sell for millions of dollars or more. Cai Che said quickly.

Millions of dollars, that is to say, at least tens of millions of cars in China, such a top luxury car is naturally more profitable, of course, it is not so easy to make such a top luxury car, and let the top rich people recognize.

"Yes. Zhao Chen thought about it, but nodded directly, not that there is no, of course there is, as long as you understand what these rich people care about, it will be very simple.

The first is safe, the second is advanced, and the third they have, but others don't, everything is top-notch, and it's not difficult to make people buy it.

"I'm going to take this matter to heart, and we'll launch high-end models when the time comes, but now we'll sell this ordinary car first, and then let's talk about it, as long as this shot hits, then high-end cars will naturally be favored." Zhao Chen nodded and said.

"Mr. Zhao, in fact, this is not the case, in fact, now we Mercedes-Benz has received many letters from the world's top rich people, wanting to ask us whether a car like this can be customized high-end cars, and they all say that money is not a problem, so I have this question. Cai Che said with a wry smile.

"Oh, are there many people like this?" Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect it to be like this, it seems that there are a lot of these rich people who like cars.

"Based on our current count, if we were to book a custom high-end car at $5 million, we'd probably have already received more than $1 billion. Cai Che said with a wry smile.

1 billion? Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, 5 million cars, that is to say, 100 cars is 500 million US dollars, 1 billion US dollars is a whole 200 cars, are there so many top rich people in the world? 5 million US dollars, converted into China, is 35 million cars, such a high price, there are so many people customized.

And most importantly, the sale of such cars is no longer just a matter of sales and profits, it represents a question of identity.

So many top billionaires use Mercedes-Benz cars, which also has a huge benefit for Mercedes-Benz's brand promotion.

"I see, you give me a plan, and in addition, tell these people that if they customize a car, we will give them a plan later, and the delivery time of their custom car is definitely shorter than that of ordinary people. Zhao Chen thought about it and said decisively.