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Chapter 1134

"However, Siebel Automotive can indeed accept a round of investment!"

Song Yang didn't talk to Anduran about things ten years later. Ten years is enough to change an industry. At that time, regardless of Chrysler, even if Anduran, the president of Siebel Motors, will be able to It's hard to be safe...

Perhaps, Anduran also thought of this point, fearing that he would fall from the position of president of Siebel Automobile, so he wanted Siebel to make some noise and achieve results, otherwise Song Yang and Chrysler Automobile's rivalry If he lost the bet, he might be sacrificed to the flag.

Siebel Automobile now mainly relies on Song Yang's investment, but the speed of burning money is lower than that of Apollo Space Company, at least there is no need to spend tens of millions of dollars to watch a fireworks show.

"Siebel's financing is mainly based on technical cooperation. You can try to find General Motors or other car brands for cooperation!"

Siebel Motors is now focusing on "hand rubbing" cars. The T1 Lizard sports car, just like those sports cars, sounds tall and hand-built, but in fact the root cause is that it does not have its own production line and its sales are not very good. So, it is not cost-effective to set up a production line...

Siebel Automobile does not have its own production line now, but Siebel's production center in Houston is about to be completed, and a production line will be set up at that time, and mass production of models will begin gradually. Lose it!
What Xibel Automobile needs most now is not a lot of dollars, but real automobile technology, from engine to suspension, gearbox, chassis, etc. But it is not so easy to mass produce a qualified model.

Electric cars, no matter how loud their bragging is, they must follow the rules of the auto industry. Tesla did not become invincible as soon as it came out of the mountain. The first car of the year was also a cooperation with Lotus Motors. "OEM" or more image.

Lotus Motors is responsible for the production of complete vehicles for Tesla except for the engine, that is, except for the power system, Tesla itself tinkers, and other auto parts are supplied by Lotus Motors!
This is the same as when electric cars became popular in later generations. The emergence of new electric car brands sounds very powerful, but if you go over and take a look, you will find that their cars are basically produced by established car manufacturers. Many of them are car brands that were criticized in the era of fuel vehicles. Now they have become part of the new force of car manufacturing, and they have begun to cooperate with emerging electric car brands. not coming out...

Now Siebel Automobile is much better than Tesla in the past. At least it really has its own technology. Although there are not many, at least Siebel Automobile still has models, exterior designs, and some engine technologies, not all of them. empty shelf.

Hearing that Song Yang agreed to let Siebel Auto start a new round of financing, Anduran's face showed joy. With Song Yang's investment, Siebel Auto would not starve to death, but he wanted to acquire certain technical patents and dig some automotive technology Da Niu, even to buy some car companies, it will take a lot of money!

"How about Siebel Automobile now, when will it launch an electric car?!"

Song Yang is not worried about the bet against Chrysler, but Song Yang also does not want Sibel to wait ten years.

"The sales of the T1 Lizard are not bad, but... the price of 600 million US dollars, the entry threshold is "slightly" a bit high, and then the T series models will exist as the super sports car series of Siebel Motors.

Next year, Pagani is expected to officially launch its first sports car, and it will form a sports car camp with the Siebel sports car at that time.

In addition, Siebel Motors is preparing to launch a second sports car, a new sports car that can be more acceptable to the public, with an estimated starting price of $45! "

Anduran said, the T1 Lizard sports car is used to improve Bige, regardless of its performance, the people who buy it are all executives from the Song Yang camp. Anyway, over the past few years, Siebel The brand of the brand has been erected, becoming a well-known automobile industry, and is also desired by many leeks. It can drive a new generation of sports car brand that can make people know its value at a glance!
But Bigger can’t take it as a meal, and Siebel Automobile also needs to be just right, especially when electric vehicles will not be launched until the year of the monkey, and it needs to make some performances so that those venture capital companies and Wall Street institutions can provide Siebel Automobile ammunition.

Siebel's second-generation sports car also began to play the same routine as Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW and other sports cars, that is, to launch a few sports cars that maintain the Bige and cost tens of millions of dollars, but in fact they don't expect this kind of sports car at all. Making money from cars is basically used to improve Bigger. After all, how many people in the world can afford this kind of sports car that sells for tens of millions of dollars?
Then launch an entry-level sports car to reap the dollars. A model priced at hundreds of thousands of dollars will allow more people to buy it, but even Ferrari will have to wait more than ten years, and it is estimated that the annual sales volume will break one That is to say, a well-known sports car brand like Ferrari can only sell [-] cars a year.

Of course, in the Internet age, no one knows whether the person sitting in front of the computer and typing on the keyboard is a person or something, and the era of a Ferrari will come. The Ferrari headquarters is probably curious, and they are sold in a year. How many cars can make so many people happy to mention Ferrari every day...

Siebel Automobile is also preparing the same strategy. In the past few years, it has been touting constantly. In addition, the F1 team has also achieved some results. Bige has already established, and now it will start selling sales. After all, leeks are always It is not to be cut.

Ferrari's profit is the highest in the auto industry. Selling a car can earn 25%, followed by Porsche's 18%, and BMW's only 9.2%. Other car brands can earn 5%, and they have already burned It's very fragrant, as for the Xibel car... Anyway, Song Yang didn't give back.

"In the future, Siebel's benchmark will be Ferrari. Not only will it compete with Ferrari in the F1 field, but Siebel's sales will also surpass Ferrari!"

An Dulan shouted out his ambitions to Song Yang, no matter whether he could achieve it or not, he had to shout out the slogan no, he was timid before fighting in front of the big benefactor, how could he satisfy the big benefactor.

Song Yang didn't interrupt Anduran either, just laughed. As a sports car of the same Bige as Ferrari and Lamborghini, Siebel can't say that he can't beat these two companies. For the leeks, as for Song Yang, if he really believed this, his brain would be twitched. There are some things he can shout, but if he really believes it, then wait to be fooled!

"Where are the new energy electric vehicles?!"

Song Yang asked what he was most concerned about. To be honest, Song Yang also cared about the Siebel sports car business, but it was not indispensable.

Sports cars are indeed more representative of Bige, and they are more famous, but... that's all. Even if the sports car business has reached the level of Ferrari, how much money does Ferrari make a year, and what is its market value? !
If it is exhausted, the market value of Ferrari is only tens of billions of dollars, and it is absolutely impossible to reach the level of auto giants such as Volkswagen, BMW, General Electric, Ford, Toyota, etc., and Siebel relies on electric vehicles. When the wind comes, it is really possible Soaring to [-] miles, the market value surpassed Toyota, and may break through nearly one trillion US dollars!
At that point, even if Siebel Motors backhandedly buys Ferrari and treats it as a trophy and puts it in its collection room, why not? !
"Currently still under research and development, Siebel's first electric vehicle is expected to adopt the method of joint cooperation with other automobile companies.

Siebel Auto is mainly responsible for appearance design, power system, driving system, etc., and the rest is handed over to other automobile companies for "OEM". Of course, Siebel Auto will also master all these technologies in the future! "

Finally, An Dulan quickly added to Song Yang that he knew Song Yang's character, that is, he only believed in what he held in his hands, which is different from other companies in America who like to "outsource" their business It is completely different, just like Alcatel mobile phones, the entire industrial chain is completely in the hands of Alcatel itself, especially the most important chips, screens, and operating systems are firmly in the hands of Alcatel, and no one else can interfere!

After Song Yang heard it, he didn't react much. He is not a person who doesn't know how to adapt. Cars are much more crafted and complicated than mobile phones. This is no better than a mobile phone. That's killing it!

When Song Yang entered the mobile phone industry, he also bought Alcatel mobile phones first. With the foundation, he bought and bought all the way, invested a huge amount of research and development funds, and saved the current family property of Alcatel mobile phones, the current foundation of Siebel Automobile, It's really too weak, it's impossible to expect to become fat in one go.

"The development of the driving system is relatively smooth. The R&D team led by Mark Anderson has initially successfully developed a driving system, and is now developing the battery management system and other car adaptation software.

Siebel is preparing to organize the world's first auto-driving challenge competition next year to show the world the driving system of Siebel electric vehicles!

The main problems we are facing now, one is the battery and the other is the charging problem! "

Speaking of Mark Anderson, Anduran also admired him a little. He really deserved to be a Silicon Valley figure who was as famous as Song Yang back then. Since he became the chief technology officer of Siebel, Anderson has led the team to research and develop the driving system in the dark. After getting a glimpse of Anderson's level, Anduran admired him quite a lot.

But he is also a little worried. Thinking about the current battery technology, the battery that powers a mobile phone or a computer can have frequent problems, let alone power a car.

"Car batteries, we are going to develop our own. Now we are working with Houston Dikoller to jointly develop car batteries. We have also contacted Panasonic before, but they are not very willing to jointly develop car batteries with us..."

Anduran glanced at Song Yang's face and said, in terms of batteries, there are basically only a few companies in the world that are playing around now. Houston Decole Chemical Company is a dark horse in the battery industry, but it relies on Alcatel Those who became famous in the first battle because of the supply of lithium batteries for mobile phones do not have a deep technical reserve.

On the contrary, Panasonic and Sanyo of Japan Benzene are considered to be among the best, and their battery technology is very powerful. At the beginning, Siebel Automobile also wanted to steal from Panasonic... No, it was a joint research and development of car batteries, but Panasonic did not even think about it. Refused, because Panasonic did not want to be smashed signboard.

Now the batteries on laptops can cause problems, let alone cars. It sounds unreliable to install batteries in cars. Can it be sold?
Cooperating with Siebel Automobile may not make much money, and it may cause a lot of trouble. The choice of Panasonic is understandable, but it makes Anduran very dissatisfied.

For people like Anduran who grew up in the red-necked state, the impression of Riben is that the suzerain country’s leek fields have no money in hand, so they cut a crop of leeks to save the emergency, and now they dare to refuse his cooperation. , and even Anduran has the guts to let Song Yang repeat the drama against Alstom and Alcatel France against Panasonic, and let Riben know what will happen if he offends the American master...

Good guy, Song Yang doesn't know what Anduran thinks, otherwise he would have to call him a good guy, cutting the leeks in France is also the right time and place, and the same is needed for cutting the leeks in Japan. Even the commander-in-chief probably couldn't wield a knife to cut the leeks of Japan, and if he cut too much, even the leeks would be impatient.

"In addition to the battery, there is also the problem of charging the battery. Now I can only use the slow charge of 13A to charge the battery of the Siebel car. It takes [-] hours to fully charge. This is the case in theory, but the actual charging time required , may be far more than that!"

Anduran told Song Yang about the plight of the Xibel electric car in one breath. He must have developed something. There are a lot of things stuffed in the empty shell, and he can barely pull it out to show off to bluff others, but counting on this When the thing hits the road, it's purely overthinking. To be honest, Anduran, the president himself, dare not sit in the experimental car of Xibel electric car, who knows what will go wrong...

"Then find more companies to develop new car batteries. If Panasonic is unwilling to cooperate, we will find those who are willing to cooperate. Go to Old Europe, Singapore, and Yanjing to find battery manufacturers who are willing to cooperate and develop car battery technology together!
In addition, the most important raw materials for the development of automobile batteries, such as nickel ore, lithium ore, cobalt ore, and neodymium ore, must be purchased in advance! "

When mentioning Yanjing, Song Yang slightly accentuated his tone. It is impossible for a human like Andulan not to hear it. Although he has never heard of how advanced the technology of the battery manufacturer in Yanjing is, but Still nodded.

"Charging is slow, so we will develop new super charging piles to charge the batteries of Siebel cars, and cover the entire America with Siebel's super charging piles like Chevron's gas stations!"

(End of this chapter)