Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 495 Opel Scandal

"Is it possible for us to acquire Opel?" Qu Li didn't know who was targeting it, or someone was targeting Honor. How could such a small rumor be implicated in Honor's acquisition of Moto? The United States has always suppressed Chinese technology companies. ?

Since he doesn't understand, he should ask someone for consultation. Jumei and Honor have "consultant" teams, and information collection and analysis is very important.

"GM plans to sell 140 million Opel brand cars this year, which should actually be slightly more than 100 million, and Opel is the core of GM's "global unified platform" strategy..." Some people are not optimistic

"Because of their unified global platform, GM draws blood from their major subsidiaries. Even if it sells Opel, it can go through a series of agreements..."

This is easy to understand. This is how Saab was ruined by GM, and it couldn't be sold even if it wanted to.

“Since GM wanted to sell, why did it spend 19 billion euros to restructure Opel’s debt?”

"Opel has about 5 employees in Europe and can affect hundreds of millions of employees in the industrial chain. GM may want to force Germany and the EU to contribute to reduce its financial pressure."

According to various information from personal accounts, Qu Li has a better understanding of Opel. With 13 employees, this is beyond his management ability. If he really wants to acquire it, he can only "empower" it.

Labor protection in the EU far exceeds that at home and in the United States, and it is very difficult to lay off employees on a large scale. Therefore, Jumei employees are mainly concentrated in the United Kingdom () where layoffs are easier.Due to business relationships, Honor has invested heavily in the UK and Germany.

Qu Li dared to ask Qiancheng Motors to set up a research and development center in Europe, of course because Honor has legal talents from various countries. In the Internet era, he would not be fooled into thinking that every European company has a labor union and must be established.

"Opel Motors plans to lay off employees due to losses..." Lu Tao gave Qu Li the news. It seems that he really contacted Opel Motors.

Opel's 5 employees must have a union. Costs are high, car sales are declining, and layoffs are normal at a loss. Let him, a capitalist in a large Eastern country, lay off employees. The internal and external consequences will be huge, so he will not do such a thing.

It is very difficult for EU companies, especially the French and German automobile industries, to lay off employees, and they even need to "find good homes" for laid-off employees, so the arrival of Qiancheng Auto is an opportunity.

But Qu Li asked Lu Tao to go to Europe not to pick up garbage, but to increase the upper limit of Qianxiang's fuel vehicles. Domestic automotive engineers are much cheaper. With a monthly salary of [-] yuan, you can easily find people. But in Germany, you can only hire [-] yuan a month. ordinary worker.

Even if Qiancheng establishes an R&D center in Germany with only 100 engineers, the average annual salary can easily exceed 50. Calculating only the labor cost per year, it will be more than 5000 million.For example, the annual salary of BYD's global design director exceeds 1500 million. Top talents are not cheap.

But to raise the upper limit of Qiancheng Auto, there is no shortcut to success without wasting money.

Honor's acquisition of Moto will most likely fail, so arrange people to go to Germany to help Lu Tao recruit people from Opel's Rüsselsheim R&D center in Falak.Kimchi Country's Hyundai Motor has a research institute here, and Geely later established a R&D center nearby.

Before Qu Li responded to those rumors, GM contacted Honor North America to inquire about the acquisition intention, and asked Qu Li.

"How about we give it a try." Rumors spread more and more widely. Lu Tao, Xia Mingfei and others, including the local government, wanted Quli to acquire this European automobile company with annual sales of over one million.

"My purpose in establishing Qiancheng Motors was to build pure electric vehicles. Now I am selling fuel vehicles just to master the ability to build cars and build good cars to make money to invest in electric vehicles, not to become a new fuel vehicle giant.

Opel is a good company, but I don’t want to build too many fuel vehicles. Qiancheng already has two fuel vehicles, and will launch up to three fuel vehicles in the future. Buying an Opel with an annual sales volume of 100 million units is too much for me. So luxurious..." Qu Li refuted the rumors on Twitter, and then someone asked him to explain why Honor acquired a fuel vehicle company before it was listed.

"Because of legal restrictions..." Qu Li explained, but unfortunately the effect was very little. State-owned enterprises occupy the most advantageous resources in the automobile industry, but only the most dynamic ones can develop...

"What future is going on sale?" Someone took the opportunity to ask. There are many people queuing up to buy mobile phones at Honor. There are many people around the world who know that there is such a car.

"Qiancheng Geometry is not perfect. During the half-year demonstration, we collected a lot of improvement opinions. Some of them can be alleviated. Some of the problems our engineers think are very simple and can be upgraded now. Then there is a small problem that takes time to solve..."

“All buyers who paid in full can apply for a refund, and we will pay an additional $1000 worth of coupons to shop at Shopee; other users who made reservations including non-refundable ones can get Jumei or Shopee shopping coupons worth about $100. .”

"Future Vision will be officially launched at the Beijin Auto Show at the latest!" Qu Li communicated with netizens on Twitter, politely rejecting the acquisition of Opel.

But he didn't expect that GM seemed to misunderstand what he meant. Maybe Qu Li just met their needs. GM CEO actually called Qu Li personally and wanted to talk to him in person.

Can Qu Li refuse?No, he is not Zuckerberg or Musk.

The two made an appointment to meet in Beijin and visit the Qiancheng Geometry Factory and R&D Center.

The two negotiated well, and the GM CEO contacted Opel and asked them to provide certain conveniences to Qiancheng Motor, that is, they could package and buy certain departments of the Frankfurt R&D center, such as the continued chassis or platforms of Qiancheng Motor.

As for Saab, don't even think about it. Saab's CEO doesn't know how much he hates GM for destroying their vitality, so how can he take the initiative to cooperate.But they contacted the Ministry of Foreign Education and Qiancheng Motors through relevant Swedish departments, hoping that Quli would acquire Saab.

As for Saab's current major shareholders Da Da and Young, we cannot say that they are liars, but they are probably not businessmen who are down-to-earth in their careers and are destined to be bullied overseas.

People keep looking for Qu Li for various reasons through various connections. Xingsha, Hunan, and Yangcheng, Guangdong are very concerned about this matter. The stock price of Qiancheng Motor is affected and the stock price jumps up and down.

Lu Tao gave up contact with Saab and concentrated on recruiting people in Frankfurt. They were going to lay off 1400 people and only needed 100 people for their future. It seemed easy, but no one wanted to let go of the elite team.

So Qu Li had several Chroma Geometries mobilized from major cities in Europe and driven to the Opel Frankfurt Research Center, including a walk around the Hyundai Motor Research Institute, attracting a lot of attention and discussion.

All kinds of gossip and scandals are flying all over the sky. Qiancheng Auto is like a scumbag wandering between Saab and Opel. A well-known automobile media personally went to Frankfurt to test drive the Qiancheng Geometry. After being shocked, they praised Qiancheng Automobile as a great car in TV programs. Praise for:

"It's hard to believe that this car was made by a Chinese company, but after learning that Honor is the controlling shareholder of Qiancheng Motor, I finally understood..."

Thanks for the tip in Burning in August