Abel's approach to Sony is very effective for Sony.

But if he uses this trick in the same way, it will be used against another company that has taken the rights to Marvel, that is, to use it on Fox.

There is a high probability that the effect will not be so good.

Although at this time, News Corp. was not yet fully integrated into the United States.

But Murdoch and News Corp. have been trying to fit into American society.

In addition, Australia is also one of the five eyes, and it is also of the Anglo-Saxon race.

The defense and mind of the upper echelons of the United States against them is not very serious.

Even to a certain extent, they are the backyard and little brother in the eyes of Americans.

Sony suffers because it is a real foreign company, or a neon company.

These tactics were used against Abel.

Sony simply can't take it as calmly as Fox.

What's more, at this time, Parker has not yet fully demonstrated its huge ability to absorb gold.

The previously released superhero manga movies have relatively ordinary results.

Sony's importance to Spider-Man is actually just that.

In the case of possible injuries and bones, it may continue to be pitted by the Americans.

Although Sony is very reluctant, it is estimated that in the end it can only choose to cut love.

Fox is different.

Other people's comic movies have already been released, although the box office is average.

But it has already given Fox a sunk cost, and Murdoch is not so easy to give up.

The point is that News Corp has been in the United States for more than 20 years, and it has been more or less integrated.

It has begun to be regarded as its own by the Americans.

This is something that Sony can't compare.

In other words, Abel did the same thing to Sony.

If you use it on Fox, it will be greatly discounted.

There is another, more important factor.

Sony Columbia is in the United States, but there is no media giant's voice channel behind it.

And behind Fox is News Corp., which is able to counter this voice initiated by Abel.

and Abel's mentality towards Spider-Man can be regarded as a must-win.

But he wasn't that interested in the Fantastic Four and X-Men that Fox took.

Abel remembers that the box office of the Fantastic Four is all very average, and there is no sound when they are patted.

The X-Men can make a little money, but only a little bit.

Spider-Man is different.

Its own sales and fame are the boss of Marvel superheroes.

It is the only existence on Marvel's side that can compete with Batman on DC's side.

Even in the area of symbolizing the spiritual culture of Americans, Spider-Man surpasses Batman.

is mainly Parker's dick silk character design, which is deeply rooted in the hearts of Americans.

Fits the self-defined image of the majority of ordinary Americans.

Everyone in the United States wants to be like Spider-Man, who is usually just an ordinary person, and may even be weaker than Diosi.

But at critical moments, you can incarnate Spider-Man

Master Batman is different.

Although the characters of the super-rich are also very attractive, there are only a few super-rich people in the United States.

The so-called poor rely on mutation, and the rich rely on technology, which comes from these two "heroes".

In the next few days, Charlize Theron wanted to leave Hawaii for a long time.

But Abel won't let her go, and if she leaves, Abel will have to face two Hearst, who are a little troublesome and not easy to start.

In the end, Charlize Theron was left by Abel until the 25th.

Abel also left Hawaii on January 26, the day after Charlize left.

He went to Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles in late January, the average daily maximum temperature is 19°C and the average daily low is 10°C.

This is already the coldest time of the year in Los Angeles.

Looking at another Los Angeles data, it's the Los Angeles temperature for August, the hottest month of the year:

The average daily maximum is 25°C, and the daily average minimum is 18°C.

From these two data, it can be seen.

Los Angeles is a place where the weather is comfortable all year round.

Probably due to the lack of body hair, Abel is sensitive to ambient temperatures.

This made him dislike the winter in New York, and when winter came, he liked to run to Los Angeles.

But this is actually the choice of more and more wealthy Americans.

This is one of the reasons why Los Angeles is gathering more and more new rich Americans.

After coming to Los Angeles, Abel didn't stay for two days and went to the Bay Area again.

The weather in the Bay Area is actually more comfortable than in Los Angeles.

Abel goes to the Bay Area, and his destination is IDEO in Palo Alto.

This time, he came to IDEO and saw the exterior design of the future new energy electric vehicle for the second time, which made him more satisfied.

Bill Mogrid, Mike Nato, Bill Mogrid.

The three founders of IDEO, this time provided the blueprints.

It has allowed Abel to see the prototype of those new energy vehicles in the future.

To today's people, it looks even more technological.

The point is according to the IDEO Triumvirate.

This shape of this car, with the current industrial design and industrial technology, can be completely produced.

Even in the beginning, it can be more expensive to produce it.

But if the output can be spread out, the output can reach a certain level.

The more expensive production costs can also be reduced.

To put it simply.

It is the appearance and shell of the new energy electric vehicle that Abel wants, which can already be created.

This made Abel decide on the same day.

It is going to set up a new energy vehicle company in Palo Alto right away.

The name of the company has long been registered in the United States.

The name is Tesla, and the full name is Tesla New Energy.

In honor of the famous American physicist and inventor Nikola Tesla.

The company's management personnel and R&D personnel are also in place quickly.

Because before that, Abel had been expanding the team of think tanks.

They have long been looking for Tesla to lay it all down.

The president of the new company is Jackster Cage, 40, who graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 with a Ph.D. in computer science.

Before becoming the CEO of Tesla Inc.

Jackster Cage works for a startup in Silicon Valley.

The startup, they developed a product that brought computers into cars.

The company's slogan is "Giving Intelligence to the Most Powerful and Used Tools of Americans."

In fact, it is a company that developed early in-vehicle intelligent systems.

It was last year that the dot-com bubble burst.

The startup cracked, and Jackster Cage, the CEO, lost his job.

But that's the environment, before Jack Cage became the CEO of that startup.

He also has a rich and successful track record.

Jackster Cage once held a senior position in Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce, two luxury car companies.

In addition, I have a doctorate in computer science, and I have both new ideas and the experience of working in an old car company.

The previous work happened to be related to the idea of Tesla's new energy car.

After a comprehensive investigation, the think tank believes that Jackster Cage may be qualified for the position of CEO of Tesla.

As for the chief technology officer of Tesla, it is a professor from ASU University, and the team he brought with him.

ASU University, also known as Arizona State University.

Don't look at ASU University, which is not well-known internationally, and it is still a public university.

It is far from being comparable to any high-end private schools such as Stanford and Yale.

But it is one of the most innovative and research-capable universities in the United States.

What's more, the professor, Hans, and his team have a number of battery patents in their hands.

Professor Hans may not be the best scientist or technologist.

But he is probably the chief scientist who best meets the requirements of Tesla today.

So after Tesla bought the patent.

Professor Hans joined Tesla with his team, mainly researching battery technology for the company.

In addition, the other scientific researchers arranged by Abel's think tank for Tesla are also elites in their respective industries.

Abel's initial capital for Tesla's new energy alone exceeded $100 million.

This is too far from Tesla in parallel time and space.

Tesla in parallel time and space.

When it started, it had only a few million dollars.

Millions of dollars in money, and salaries and research products.

So a little bit of money, can produce good results, there is a ghost.

The follow-up was also the addition of Musk, a marketing genius, that saved Tesla from bankruptcy.

It can be said that Tesla can succeed, and the two founders are actually not important.

The important thing is still Musk.

Because with the ability and financial resources of those two founders, it is impossible for them to let Tesla out of the circle.

There is no way to support Tesla to choose the new energy track from the two giants.

If Tesla can't get out of the circle, it won't be popular, and if it can't be popular, no one cares about it in the early stage.

From the appearance of Tesla, to the beginning of Tesla's first product.

Tesla in parallel time and space only burned about $100 million in nearly five years.

Naturally, its economic conditions are very poor.

There's Abel's Tesla of this plane.

Of course, there will be no shortage of initial funds.

Therefore, in terms of scientific research strength, Abel's Tesla.

To beat parallel time and space, the early Tesla is more than dozens of times.

You must know that in the early days, Tesla didn't even have the money to customize a dedicated power battery.

The first few products are all Panasonic 1860 batteries that were bought directly.

Tesla then wound it up one by one and assembled it on its own.

How could it be like Abel, who came up with a professional scientific research team from the beginning to study batteries for the company.

Even in the follow-up, the work of Jackster Cage's CEO is mainly engaged in research and development.

R&D of motors, R&D of electronic controls, research of chassis and even interior styling.

The company's marketing is completely unattended by Jack Cage.

Jackster Cage is a research-based company executive.

After all, no matter how good you can be marketing, in the case that the character has been established.

In the United States now, there is no one who can compare to the influence of Abel, the first generation of traffic kings in the United States.

Tesla New Energy was officially established.

After the establishment of this company.

Abel handed over to his own team of thinkers and assigned a new task.

He's about to start laying out lithium mines around the world.

What is the most important thing for new energy vehicles in the future?

Is it battery technology?

Is it branding?

No, the most important thing is actually the most important thing of the so-called new energy vehicles.

Battery!

Mind you, it's not battery technology, it's the battery itself.

To put it simply, it is the lithium ore used to make the battery itself.

With current technology, minerals such as lithium, nickel, phosphorus, and cobalt are needed to manufacture power batteries.

Among them, lithium is the most important.

In nature, there are more than 150 kinds of lithium minerals and lithium-bearing minerals that have been discovered.

Internationally, Chile, Huaxia and Weeping Country are the three countries with the largest lithium carbonate production capacity.

In 2000, the three countries met 84% of the world's demand for lithium carbonate

See that, right?

Huaxia has its own lithium mines.

This is also the reason why in later generations, Huaxia will also choose the track of new energy vehicles.

Because the Celestial Empire itself is also a lithium-rich country.

Although the United States is not a lithium-rich country, the other lithium-rich countries are in South America.

And for Americans, South America is their backyard, RBQ.

This is also the reason why Americans will also choose electric vehicles as a new energy track.

Now in 2001.

In this era when mobile phones don't even need big batteries yet.

The global demand for lithium ore can be said to be very small.

This makes it very cheap at this time.

Let's take a look at a set of data comparisons:

In 2022, lithium was sold for up to US$7,150/t for 5.5% virgin ore.

Now in 2001.

The data given by Abel's think tank is from last year, and the price of the same thing is $118.5/ton.

Counting inflation, it has increased almost seventy-fold in twenty-two years.

If there is any mining giant, buy a few lithium mines at this time.

If you don't develop it there, wait for more than 20 years, and it is estimated that you can directly earn a hundred times.

Abel's idea is that at this time, he will start to lay out lithium mines.

But you can't buy them all, if you really buy most of the world's lithium mines-

At the current cheap price of lithium ore, Abel can really do this.

But doing so will kill those who come after you.

There is no shortage of smart people in this world.

If the time comes, China and other interest groups in the United States will not take this track because they can't get meat to eat.

Then Abel wanted to weep without tears.

Like the neon people, this group of little cabinets does just that.

They chose the new track of hydrogen energy.

He also applied for all the patents very "smartly".

The consequence of this is to block the practice of latecomers to take this road.

Let every latecomer who wants to take the hydrogen energy track, if they want to take this road, they have to pay patent fees to Neon people.

They want to make money by collecting this kind of "travel fee", how easy it is.

As a result, the two giants directly changed the track.

Don't follow the script given by the neon man at all.

In the end, electric vehicles were forced, which is not a new energy source at all.

In fact, electric cars were invented before real cars.

The first electric car in history appeared in 1881.

The first automobile in history appeared in 1886.

With the lessons of the neon people first, Abel naturally wouldn't be so stupid to eat alone.

Abel's idea was to eat the biggest piece of meat himself.

At least occupy more than 30% of the world's future lithium resources.

The rest is left to the rabbit and other interests in the United States.

Let's work together to promote the new energy track of electric vehicles.

Wouldn't it be nice for everyone to get rich together?

You want to eat everything alone, unless you can physically resist Muhai bullets.

Otherwise, on this planet, you really don't want to think about such beautiful things.

Confrontation and cooperation are the eternal themes of this planet.

Tesla's development is not in a hurry with lithium mines.

There's no need to rush now, because you won't see much effect in two or three years.

Even if Abel pushes the two giants to enter the market in advance, he estimates that the effect will not be seen until around 2010 at the earliest.

So in this regard, he just buried some chess first.

What he is more concerned about now is actually the Pacific Commercial Bank of the United States.

Abel, who has the heart to become one of the real Wall Street giants.

He doesn't just want to expand Smith Capital.

At the same time, he must make the Pacific Commercial Bank of the United States keep up with the footsteps of Smith Capital.

It is a medium-sized commercial bank with assets under custody of 100 billion US dollars and assets of 10 billion yuan.

Obviously, there is no way to be called a giant.

The giants of commercial banks are Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Bank of America.

The assets under custody of each of them are calculated in trillions of dollars.

Their own assets, as of 2001, are more than $300 billion.

These giants are the symbols of America's real financial capital.

Compared with them, the more famous investment banks on Wall Street are more like tool people.

I want the American Pacific Commercial Bank to grow up quickly.

Of course, it is not possible to operate slowly and slowly.

Those giants have a history of hundreds of years.

It has been several generations of business to have the current achievements and scale.

U.S. Pacific Commercial Bank, if you want to rely on normal means to operate.

In a few decades, there was absolutely no such effect.

Of course, Abel doesn't like this slow way.

The other way can also make the Pacific Commercial Bank grow rapidly.

That's it. Acquisitions and annexations.

Just like the American Pacific Commercial Bank itself, which was also a small bank that Abel bought in the beginning.

In just a few months, it has quickly reached the size of a medium-sized bank.

It relies on violent acquisitions and annexations.

And this time, Abel and Pacific Commercial Bank have set their sights on a bigger target.

The name of this target is American Express.

Well. It's David Jones, the company he worked for before.

Amex was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York.

Amex is the world's largest global company in travel services and integrated finance, financial investment and information processing.

It is also the only service company in the Dow Jones Industrial Index, which reflects the U.S. economy.

Amex has a leading position in the world in the area of advanced customer service.

But don't think that Amex only has high-level customer service.

Renjia Express has three major businesses, one of which is American Express.

The other two are American Express Travel, American Express Finance.

Like American Express Finance, it's actually the investment bank of Amex.

This is a giant that involves three major businesses: tourism services, investment banking, and commercial banking.

As early as 1999, American Express had about $150 billion in assets under custody and about $20 billion in its own assets.

It's not as big as the behemoths of rich countries, but it's one of the giants in commercial banks.

It's about the same as the current Pacific Commercial Bank.