Chapter 211: Tepid Bidding
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"Two hundred and thirty thousand!" The Volkswagen Group followed suit with an increase in auction prices.
Just the first set of anti-gravity core components staged a dragon battle, which made the surrounding medium-sized car companies feel eye-opening. 230,000 US dollars per unit, 1,000 units is 230 million US dollars, which is more than their annual profits.
However, someone will soon find out that Toyota, as the world's No. 1 automobile group, did not bid and acted as a quiet melon eater, and Daimler, Honda, BMW and other companies did not make a sound.
The host of the big back shouted hoarsely: "Volkswagen Group bid $300,000, is there anything higher?" $300,000 First ...... For the third time, congratulations to the Volkswagen Group. ā
The first set of anti-gravity core components was purchased by the Volkswagen Group for $300 million, which is a small amount compared to the Volkswagen Group's profit of $14.4 billion in 2015.
As the world's second-largest automotive group, a giant that sold 9.9 million cars in 2015, $300 million is a drop in the bucket for the entire group, but it's just a piece of cake. Everyone has no doubt that if the Volkswagen Group is determined, it can win at least three groups.
Thinking of this, the medium-sized automobile companies that have died feel that it doesn't matter, but the senior executives of SAIC and Ford are a little nervous. If you can't buy anti-gravity core components, you can only watch Volkswagen launch the flying car, sales soar all the way, and profits skyrocket.
The host of the big back took a sip of water, and his voice lowered: "The second group of auctions will start now, with a reserve price of 100,000 US dollars." ā
"Three hundred thousand dollars!" Toyota shouted the sum price to the highest price in the last auction in one go, showing its confidence that it must get the second group in its hands.
Not to mention the medium-sized car companies, even the Volkswagen Group did not participate in the auction and watched Toyota successfully win the second set of anti-gravity core components.
The company that photographed the third group was somewhat unexpected, not a traditional car group, but Google Auto.
The top executives of the automobile company in the audience were in an uproar, you a company that has not sold a car for several years, and you actually came to participate in the auction? It's shameless.
I'm rich, and you bite me? Google Auto is safe, and it doesn't pay any attention to the old-timers. The puzzle that plagues Google's self-driving car is how to keep its distance from a human-driven car and how to deal with sudden accidents, such as a car that suddenly changes lanes.
The emergence of the anti-gravity core component has given Google Auto a great hope, the sky is very empty, there are not so many accidents, and the existing self-driving technology is enough to cope.
The senior management of Google Auto smiled: "Haha, Google Auto will be actually launched soon!" ā
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The first five groups of anti-gravity core components, most of which are around 300,000 US dollars, and no automobile group has speculated the price too high, as if there is a tacit understanding.
Seeing this, Chen Xi said angrily: "These old foxes are very restrained, as if they have reached an alliance, and it seems that this time they will not be able to account for more than three billion dollars at most." ā
"Still not satisfied? 10,000 anti-gravity core components can be produced in just a few days, and it can easily make three billion dollars. Being able to sell a car for a high price of more than a million is not something that ordinary car companies can do. Zhang Jie didn't care too much about how much money he earned, but thought that he could buy a lot of supplies.
In particular, Ceylon has no capacity to produce titanium alloys for aerospace, and can only be purchased from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation at present. Of course, this situation of being controlled by others will not continue, and the magic energy company has begun to purchase titanium alloy production lines, and in the future, it will only need to import titanium ore.
"Three hundred and twenty thousand dollars." Someone from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation shouted out the price.
Zhang took a look at it, and he was still an old acquaintance. It was Peng Zhicheng, who had worked with him before, and I don't know how he rose from a middle level to a high level. In order to build a space car, he also contacted the Aerospace Science and Technology Group through him and purchased a batch of special titanium alloy shells.
"Three hundred and thirty thousand." An official representative of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) offered a higher price in a-for-tat manner.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is a well-known Indian space agency and the world's largest government space agency. Its main objective is to advance space technology and use its applications to serve the country. The Agency was established in 1969 to replace the former National Commission of India for space research with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as the responsibility for space activities in India.
India has always had a strong desire to compete with the big powers in the north, and if you launch the Yutu lunar rover, I will launch the Mars exploration satellite. In any case, India, although it has received help from the space agencies of Western countries, is at least not lagging behind on the surface.
This time, the anti-gravity core component appeared in Ceylon, which was like a bowl of fragrant braised pork next to India, and if it weren't for the reaction of China and the United States, India would have wanted to send troops to rob it.
"Three hundred and sixty thousand dollars!" Peng Zhicheng gritted his teeth, and after discussing it with the people next to him, he raised it by 30,000 at once, wanting to scare off the Indians.
Zhang Ju had no intention of interfering, since it was an auction, he had to abide by the rules of the highest bidder, even if he was no exception.
Besides, he and Peng Zhicheng don't have much friendship, but they have only cooperated a few times, and they can't make an exception. What's more, China has the world's largest foreign exchange, and $360 million is just a small matter, just buy less US Treasury bonds.
In the end, India chose to give up, and it was still far behind the big country in the north compared to the level of wealth.
Zhang found that the first five bids were all bidding by automobile groups, and the official aerospace representatives of major countries did not participate in the bidding; From the sixth time, the automobile group seemed to give up, and the official representatives of the great powers began to come alive. Needless to say, these countries will definitely not use the anti-gravity core components to build flying cars.
He scolded secretly: "What a bunch of cunning old fritters, all as fine as old foxes." ā
China, the United States, Russia, Japan and the European Union are responsible for the latter five sets of anti-gravity core components. It's not that other small countries don't want to bid, but they just got involved, and it didn't take long for them to get a call, and then they didn't bid again.
Not to mention Chen Xi, even Zhang Ju saw such a situation, and there was a flame of anger in his heart. It's just that the magic energy company chose to move its core business to Ceylon, and there is no big country behind it. The advantage is that it is not too contained, but the disadvantage is that the waist pole cannot be stiffened.
The auction ended in an atmosphere of insufficient competition and fierce intensity. The magic energy company sold 10,000 units of anti-gravity core components, with a total of 3.5 billion US dollars, but many people on the Internet said that Zhang Jie's head had decreased in IQ, and even sold this core competitiveness. (To be continued.) )