All round car designer

Chapter 445 Turmoil
Of the two cars selected by Zhou Fei, the price of one car is between 30 and 40, and the price of the other SUV is between 40 and 50. If the cost is well controlled, the price is not bad. Further decrease.

In addition, according to the news on various forums, Nikola’s first electric car ES1, which is about to be released, will start at a price of at least 30 yuan, and may even be higher. The positioning of the two cars selected by Zhou Fei is similar, just right. Can form a direct competitive relationship, very similar in price.

As for the specific performance, taking the most important cruising range as an example, both cars have a cruising range of more than 500 kilometers. The better Model 3 can even reach 650 kilometers, far exceeding Nikola’s. ES1 this car.

Therefore, once the development is successful, Zhou Fei is confident to form a direct blow to Nikola!
After considering all this, Zhou Fei no longer hesitated, and began to devote himself to the development of these two electric vehicles.

Compared with the previous development of traditional cars, Zhou Fei's development work this time is much simpler, because Zhou Fei does not need to do it himself for the motor and battery. What Zhou Fei has to do is nothing more than the development of the body.

So even though there were two cars under development, the actual workload was not that big. Zhou Fei completed his work in only five days.

After finishing all this, Zhou Fei went to Ninghang City the next day, planning to meet with the electric vehicle development project team there.

At this stage, Tesla is still in preparation and is expected to be formally established in May. In addition, Ma Huafu is the actual person in charge of this project. In order to facilitate management, Zhou Fei temporarily put the project team in the Ninghang City.

As for where Tesla's headquarters will be located in the future, Zhou Fei has two choices for the time being. One is simply to place it in Ninghang City. Anyway, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz are all here, and Tesla is not bad.

As for the other option, it is to put it in Shencheng, the magical capital. Tesla’s domestic super factory in the previous life was also built in Shencheng, which happens to be the third production base for Mercedes-Benz.

But which one to choose, Zhou Fei has not yet decided, and he plans to discuss with Ma Huafu before making a decision.

On the afternoon of his arrival in Ninghang City, Zhou Fei urgently held a project meeting, and at the meeting showed two Model series electric vehicles developed by himself.

"These two cars are the first generation of electric cars I developed for the Tesla brand. Of course, I am mainly responsible for the design of the body, and the specific performance depends on the performance of the battery. So next, I will mainly look at How is the battery pack going?"

As he said that, Zhou Fei turned his attention to Xu Chaoyang, the person in charge of the battery pack. He is a chemistry expert from a domestic university, and his main research direction is the development of high-performance batteries. He is also the key target of Ma Huafu.

"Professor Xu, can you tell us about the current progress of your battery pack?"

"At present, we haven't made much progress. The current plan is to expand mainly by referring to the battery design ideas of the Nikola ES1 car. However, since Nikola has not disclosed the specific information of the battery, so There's not much we can get..."

"Wait a minute, besides reference, do you have any ideas of your own? As far as I know, Nikola uses lead-acid batteries. I think Professor Xu should understand the shortcomings of this battery better than us." Zhou Fei frowned. Wei Wei, he spent so much money to invite these people, not to let them imitate other people's patents.

"Of course I understand the disadvantages of lead-acid batteries. The main reason is that the storage capacity is average, and the pollution after being scrapped is serious." Xu Chaoyang also felt a little displeased when Zhou Fei interrupted his speech, and his tone of voice seemed a little bit stiff.

Everything is low-grade, except for high-level studies. He is a university professor anyway, and Xu Chaoyang feels a little insulted by a boy who graduated from a bachelor's degree.

"Since you know that lead-acid batteries have mediocre power storage capacity and serious pollution problems, why don't you consider using lithium batteries? Why do you have to be on par with other companies?"

Zhou Fei could see Xu Chaoyang's dissatisfaction, but he didn't mean to give face at all. It was the same sentence, since Xu Chaoyang joined Feichi Company, he had to show the ability that was in line with his salary. If you can't stand the anger, then don't come to the company.

"The storage capacity of lithium batteries is indeed very high, but has Mr. Zhou ever thought about how to control the cost if you manufacture such a large lithium battery? Battery, follow the electric car with a trailer, so that the cruising range can be guaranteed infinitely." Xu Chaoyang's tone became more and more dissatisfied.

Zhou Fei is now very much like the idiot Party A he met before, completely disregarding other facts, he just put forward his request for granted.

"Professor Xu, I know you are an expert in batteries, but if you throw the problem of cost control to me, then what do I want you to do? The reason why I let you join this project is to let you compare power storage capacity and Find a balance between costs? If you just blindly imitate Nikola’s battery design, why don’t I just poach their core team, do you think I can’t poach?”

Zhou Fei is very dissatisfied with Xu Chaoyang's attitude. There is nothing wrong with borrowing Nikola's battery design ideas, but the key point is that more than ten days have passed since the project team was established, but they are still at this stage of learning without any plans of its own.

This is the most unacceptable thing for Zhou Fei.

"Old Xu, why don't you go back first." Ma Huafu saw that the atmosphere was wrong, and quickly said to Xu Chaoyang and the others.

"Mr. Ma, I chose to join your Feichi company because of your face. You promised me at that time that I have absolute authority in the development of batteries. Now the project has just started ten years ago. In a few days, laymen came to give us pointers, and if this continues, I will not be able to accept this project." Xu Chaoyang showed his cards directly.

Zhou Fei smiled instead of anger. It was a good day, but unexpectedly, such an incident happened. It is also interesting to say.

"You think so too?" Zhou Fei looked at the rest of the project team.

But these people didn't have the confidence like Xu Chaoyang, they just lowered their heads and didn't dare to say anything.

"Let's put it this way, Professor Xu, you can go to the company to find out how I usually treat employees, but it's a pity that you managed to anger me today, and I won't say anything else. Since the small temple of Feichi Company can't accommodate You are a big Buddha, so I can only ask you to find someone else."

Xu Chaoyang was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

"I mean, you were fired." Zhou Fei said lightly.

(End of this chapter)