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Tesla's headquarters is located at 3500 Deer Creek Road, Deer Creek, California. Standard American-style headquarters, without high-rise buildings, a suburban plus bungalow factory that is truly “away from the hustle and bustle of the city”. The high-end and brightly decorated building next to it is a direct-operated store and a delivery center of Tesla. There is also a Tes not far away. Pull repair service center.

Andy's team stopped in turn, the bodyguard quickly got out of the car and opened the door. Andy, dressed in a black suit, stepped out of the car with a smile on his face, watching the group of shareholders headed by Elon Musk and Tesla on the opposite side. Executives greeted.

"Hello, Mr. Musk, it's nice to meet you." Andy smiled and shook hands with each other. This was also the first time the two met. To be honest, Andy didn't feel much about this realistic version of Iron Man, a typical Businessmen only.

"Hello, Mr. Smith. Nice to meet you. Let me introduce you ..."

With a calm smile on his face, Andy shook hands with strange and familiar Tesla shareholders.

"Larry, I didn't expect you to be here too, but this surprised me ..." Andy was a little surprised and unexpectedly shook hands with Larry Page.

"Oh, Sergey would have come here, but you know, he is busier than me, so I have to welcome you as a representative."

Andy nodded. These guys are all privately invested Tesla electric vehicles. To be honest, they are more optimistic about the future of clean and environmentally friendly energy. No one wants to invest in their own investments and fail to pay. There is a problem with the capital chain, and Tesla Electric Vehicles, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, can be taken over by someone. This is undoubtedly the most promising.

"Mr. Smith, please visit the Tesla company and the production factory first. I think you will definitely be happy to be able to make this business after seeing it." Musk said proudly, it seems How bad he was, and the expression on his face became more and more stiff.

Several shareholders, including Larry Page and Ebay Jeff Skall, looked at Andy with a smirk. To be honest, the purchase price of Andy's $ 200 million is indeed very low, but the For car companies, someone took over and burned incense.

"Hehe, let's go. I can't wait to see the progress of Tesla. You may not know. I am also very interested in industrial design. I even designed a car myself. Slav's engineers can make it.

Elon, hasn't Donny talked to you for the shooting of Iron Man? All the iron suits in it are designed by me. After the movie is released, you can see the super cool effects. Believe me, you Will love it ... "

Watching Andy Smith talking about the huge interest shown in industrial design, it made Tesla's group of shareholders and executives slightly surprised, and Musk's original rigid expression also changed slightly. It seems that this young genius is billions The billionaire acquisition of Tesla is more than a simple investment.

A large group of people walked through the direct store and directly entered the factory. The first thing that caught the eye was a large teslalogo. To the right, the tour of the Tesla factory began.

After exiting from the warehouse corridor, it is the main entrance of the Tesla factory. On the left side of the entrance are some speeches of senior executives, model pictures, and on the right side Tesla's models are displayed.

The entire body is a concept car in the shape of a black Lotus sports car. It is the first "aerobuk". It is a prototype optimized for aerodynamics. This is also the prototype of Tesla's first electric sports car Roadster.

This "mule2" is the second version of Tesla's hand-assembled prototype car, which is closer to the roadster. I heard that the Iron Man crew has also made it into the movie, and it will appear in Stark's garage.

Andy stopped in front of this car and looked at it. To be honest, the roadster based on the shape of the Lotus sports car was not a success. Due to the niche of electric cars and its high price, this model produced only 2,500 units and was delisted.

"If I remember correctly, the original sale price of this production car was $ 98,000?" Andy gently slid his fingers across the roof with a charming and humorous smile on his face, but these words undoubtedly made Tesla The expressions of Musk and all the executives were a little frozen. Which of the typical pots did not open which pot, and was specifically used to hit the face?

"Sorry, although I don't know the manufacturing process and raw material price of this car, but I guess the cost of this car is far more than 100,000 US dollars, right?"

"Ahem ..." Musk gave a slightly ugly cough, and nodded awkwardly. "The cost is calculated. It costs about $ 120,000, which is much higher than the original cost estimate of $ 70,000."

"Oh, have you booked 1,200 cars right now? Alas, this is a big loss, and you can't raise the price temporarily, and increase it to 120,000? I am afraid that the scheduled customer will tear down the delivery center ..."

The smile on Andy's face never disappeared, but what he said was unusually jarring, and a few people looked at each other with a wry smile. This really came from a poisonous snake.

The group went on with their own thoughts, and came to a spacious and clean assembly factory. The robot arms of considerable scale were quite spectacular and bluffing.

Under the explanation of the engineer, Andy also learned that similar to most cars, Tesla's main production process includes four parts, stamping and manufacturing various components, connecting each component into the body, painting the body, and installing other components to the body, including Manufacturing of motors and battery assemblies.

Andy sees it well, Tesla is adopting its own manufacturing method to build cars. And Tesla has done a lot of itself, while other car companies have moved to suppliers. Including the production of own car seats and on-site assembly of battery packs, that is to say, with the demand for production capacity, the current 160-person engineer team is simply not enough, even hundreds of people are not enough. In addition, the body and a lot of decoration It does not produce on the traditional production line, it needs to be built separately.

Okay, no wonder the cost of a car is so high.

Andy looked at the corner of Musk's mouth slightly upwards. It seems that everything here is very proud of him, even if it can't be opened, but everything here is very valuable, in his opinion.

Andy turned to look at Musk and the people around him chuckled: "If I remember correctly, Tesla should be a technology company, not a manufacturing company? If you want to be a car manufacturer, you will have to Don't spend billions of dollars to build a new factory ... "

Allvitel's eyes were full of smiles. Looking at the embarrassing expressions of Tesla's shareholders and management, he almost laughed out loud. He knew better than anyone else that he could suffocate by spitting up this big boss. There are so many strange words.

Now it's okay, it's impossible to show it, and the face of the big boss is full of blood. Of course, everyone knows that Tesla's true core technology is electric motors and batteries.

Musk and the shareholders are also a little bit surprised. Originally, he wanted to make the buyer feel value for money, but after hearing these questions from Andy, everyone felt that Tesla had become a big pit.

Musk led the crowd into the spacious and bright conference room with some enthusiasm, and the two sides sat side by side according to the camp.

These rich people, including Larry Page, looked a bit surprised at Andy's seat. Andy Smith, the big boss, sat side by side, sitting on the main seat of the center is Alvitre, who has been with Tes The two principals of the negotiations negotiated on both sides, and Andy sat in the corner on the right-hand side, talking about you, I just look at it, and talk leisurely.

A group of Tesla's executives communicated with each other's eyes, and it is indeed the same as outside legends. It is the happiest to be a professional manager under this young billionaire, who can fully display his talents without having to be a echo.