All round car designer

Chapter 443 Forming a Team
Dafeng Automobile turned out to be the second largest shareholder of Nikola?

To be honest, this was beyond Zhou Fei's expectation. He didn't expect that Dafeng Motor would be the first to set foot in the electric vehicle industry among the current Big Three automobiles.

interesting.

Regarding the sudden entry of Dafeng Automobile, Zhou Fei was just surprised. He didn't think there was anything to be shocked about. There is pressure when there is competition. If it is just a solo performance by Mercedes-Benz in the future, then it will lose the motivation to move forward!
"The capital injection of Dafeng Automobile should be in the initial period of Nikola's establishment." Zhou Fei asked with a smile.

"It was in the second year of Nikola's establishment, that is, in 2018. At that time, Nikola was seeking C-round financing. At that time, Dafeng Automobile invested 1000 million US dollars and got 23% of Nikola's shares. Equity has become the second largest shareholder of the company." Zhang Xiang replied.

The current valuation of Nikola is 100 billion US dollars, and the current equity value of Dafeng Motor has reached 23 billion US dollars. Increased by 1000 times!
Such a rate of return is absolutely rare in the world!

At this point, Dafeng Motor is a bit like Musk in his previous life. It only cost more than 600 million US dollars to get Tesla, which has a market value of 3000 billion US dollars. It has to be amazing.

"Which company is Nikola's battery supplier?" Zhou Fei continued to ask.

"It's himself, all of Nikola's batteries are developed by themselves, basically achieving full coverage of electric vehicle technology!"

This is where Zhang Xiang was surprised. From the Nikolai company, he even found Zhou Fei's shadow, and felt that all of this seemed to be Zhou Fei's layout.

"Full technology coverage?" Zhou Fei couldn't help squinting his eyes. This Nikola really interested him more and more. It felt like a competitor tailor-made for Tesla by heaven.

The current Nikolai has the potential of Tesla back then!

"Mr. Zhou, this Nikola, you must have secretly purchased and established it in the United States, right?" Zhang Xiang suddenly lowered his voice and asked.

Zhou Fei can build a Mercedes-Benz in Germany, why can't he build a Nikola in the United States?
Zhou Fei almost spit out a mouthful of tea, "If it's Nikola that I control, why would I ask you to do some research? Besides, I can let Dafeng Automobile take a stake?"

"Who knows what kind of big game Mr. Zhou is playing, what if it is to trap Dafeng Automobile." Zhang Xiang still felt a little suspicious, and couldn't help but look at Zhou Fei and said.

Zhou Fei rolled his eyes wildly, "It's nothing, I think about you too much, what kind of scale did Mercedes-Benz company reach six years ago, I don't have the spare money to make electric cars."

When Zhou Fei said this, Zhang Xiang felt that it made sense. Six years ago, Mercedes-Benz had just launched the golf car, and it really didn't have time to make any electric cars.

"What do you plan to do next week?"

"Since Nikola already has a climate, let's build a company to fight against him. Isn't their cruising range 400 kilometers? Then let's build an electric car with a cruising range of 500 kilometers. In short, everything has to pressure him. One end!" Zhou Fei laughed.

Seeing Zhou Fei's confident expression, Zhang Xiang couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Since Zhou Fei said that, it must mean that he has a plan, instead of just talking about it like others.

"Then the name of our electric car, does Mr. Zhou have any ideas?"

"It's called Tesla!" Zhou Fei replied with a smile.

Nikola Tesla!
This time it was Zhang Xiang who almost spit out water, "Mr. Zhou is serious? Are you really going to have trouble with the father of alternating current?"

One gave the first name with the surname and the other with the first name. Anyone with a discerning eye would know who the Feichi Company was targeting this time.

Zhou Fei smiled, "Of course it's serious, it's just a name, he can be called Nikola, but I can't be called Tesla?"

After hearing Zhou Fei's affirmative answer, Zhang Xiang could even imagine what kind of expressions those reporters would have when the news was announced.It must be very exciting.

With these materials, Zhou Fei no longer hesitated, and began to make intensive preparations for the development of electric vehicles within the company.

And the first thing is to set up an electric vehicle development team!
"This time, the electric vehicle development team is mainly composed of two parts of technical personnel, one is the traditional automotive engineer, responsible for the development of the vehicle architecture, and the other is the power system, that is, the development of the battery. Traditional engineers, from our headquarters and Select the best deployment among the remaining subsidiaries, and the product department and the project department will be responsible for this matter."

In the meeting room, Zhou Fei is holding an electric vehicle project launch meeting, and is now arranging the staffing of the project team.

"As for the battery experts, Wei Peng's Mr. Ma will be in charge, poaching people from universities and battery manufacturers." Then, Zhou Fei looked at Ma Huafu and said.

In the entire project team, the most critical thing is actually the development of batteries, which is also the most important core component of electric vehicles.

"The entire electric vehicle project team is led by the general manager of MCA Fuma. The two parts of the technical staff have to communicate frequently. The connection between the battery and the vehicle structure is still very close. The idea of ​​building a car behind closed doors is not good." Zhou Fei paused and continued. .

Later, Zhou Fei emphasized a lot about the electric vehicle project team, and then the meeting officially ended.

"The recruitment of battery experts will be troublesome to Mr. Ma." Zhou Fei said to Ma Huafu after he came out of the meeting room.

"It's nothing, this is what I should do." Ma Huafu replied with a smile.

"As for the registration of the electric vehicle company, we are already going through the process. After the preparation of the project team is completed, we will officially announce the establishment of the company. At that time, we will assign the rest of the people to be responsible for the next management work of Wei Peng. "Zhou Fei continued.

"I'll follow the company's arrangement. Mr. Zhou doesn't need to vaccinate me."

"Okay, then I will work hard on you."

In the following time, the focus of the Mercedes-Benz company's work was basically shifted to the electric vehicle project, and the formation of the development team was also proceeding in an orderly manner.

Among them, the formation of traditional engineers is the fastest. It took only one week to confirm all the members. Only the battery technicians were not as easy to find as expected.

However, Zhou Fei does not have high requirements for technicians in this area, as long as he can understand the most basic battery principles, and the rest can be gradually cultivated in the future.

With the efforts of Ma Huafu, Feichi successfully found battery experts who meet the requirements from several universities in China.

In this way, the formation of the team, even if it has come to an end, can then enter the substantive development stage.

(End of this chapter)