Age of Dreams

Although the Tesla touch dels of the previous generation showed up in 2009, it was actually officially launched at the end of 2011, and the first car was delivered in 2012.

This life is different. With Xiao Qi’s strong financial support and various technical support from the Fairy Lab, Tesla’s R&D pace has been further accelerated, coupled with the existing foundation, so touch dels can be so fast Successfully launched.

Of course, according to Masco's request, it should actually be released at the end of 2010 at the earliest.

But what Xiao Qi’s major shareholder meant was to bring the car to the market first, let the market test the capabilities of this car, and then talk about subsequent improvements.

Because there is never a perfect time for a car.

In fact, Xiao Qi made this decision after seeing the enthusiasm of Americans for electric vehicles and Tesla, and knowing how popular the dels car would be.

Moreover, originally Tesla's Fremont factory did not even have a monthly production capacity of 30,000 vehicles. Xiao Qi actively supported it. Then, he invested 50 million in this factory to make the production capacity reach 30,000.

Facts have proved that Xiao Qi’s decision is equally correct. Tesla, which has been struggling, got an order for 170,000 vehicles in one fell swoop, and the pre-tax profit is estimated to be as high as 1.5 billion. US dollars.

Although this amount is not too much, and it is an average of six months or more, but for Tesla, which has lost money for several years and exhausted Musco’s last cent, it is already a delight. Encouraging achievements.

Masco, who was so drunk, called Xiao Qi. After a series of "thank you", he actually started crying. This shows how much pressure he has been carrying over the past few years and how heavy the burden he has been carrying.

Masco regarded Xiao Qi as his own Bole, if it weren't for Xiao Qi to invest more than $700 million in it. If it were not for Xiao Qi to let the Fairy Lab fully support the intelligent integrated system and support the use of LCD touch functions, the research and development of touch dels would not be so fast, and various follow-up tasks would not be able to do so well. The effect cannot be so good.

In fact, he didn't know that if he hadn't come to China a few months in advance, he would have received hundreds of millions of dollars in interest-free loans from the U.S. Department of Energy.

It was just that Xiao Qi had good luck. He entered the company at its lowest point and became the company's largest shareholder.

Wait until Masco wakes up. Another call was made to Xiao Qi.

He wants to discuss with Xiao Qi about the expansion of the Fremont plant again and what Tesla will do next.

It is imperative to expand the production capacity of the Fremont plant.

It's just that Masco still has a trace of doubt about the follow-up of touching dels, for fear that this is a beautiful dream, and the dream will reveal itself when he wakes up.

So he just wants to expand the factory to an annual production capacity of 500,000 vehicles.

But Xiao Qi’s opinion is to directly expand to 800,000 vehicles, and this is only the first step. The second step is to wait until Tesla has developed several other vehicles in the laboratory, and the scale of the factory will reach 2 million. .

Yes it is.

Tesla's technical reserves are very strong.

The current touch dels technology was actually almost mature two years ago. Otherwise, where can it be launched so soon?

For bad products, Masco will never go public, and even if Xiao Qi is the largest shareholder, he will not change his persistence.

In their laboratory, in addition to the dels coupe, there is also an off-road vehicle, a pickup truck, and a small family car.

Among them, the technology of family small cars is fully mature, while off-road vehicles and pickup trucks are stuck in power output, but they have bought some technology patents from Ford and Toyota. In the midst of desperate research, I believe there will be good news in one or two years.

Xiao Qi's shares are 42%, Masco is 28%, and the combined shares of the two are 70%. Enough to determine everything about the company.

So in the case of slight disagreement, they gave in a little bit, and reached a decision to produce 250,000 vehicles in the first half of next year and 400,000 vehicles in the second half of next year.

This matter is easy to solve, but the second matter is a bit troublesome.

Musco has a comprehensive design for Tesla's future.

Tesla represents the future of electric vehicles. It is also the development direction of clean energy vehicles in the future.

So this requires a huge investment to enable Tesla to develop more and better vehicles, and even cars that will be driven in the air by magnetic levitation in the future. Tesla also wants to do it.

High-tech necessarily represents high investment.

It is conceivable how much money Tesla will spend to achieve this goal.

Therefore, in Masco's view, if you want to get more research and development funds, you must list Tesla, so that more money can come in to support their research and development.

But Xiao Qi thought differently. He told Masco, how much money do you want, I will give it all, and everything will be calculated based on the shares.

Anyway, going public will dilute everyone's shares, and the effect is the same as my injecting capital.

If it is not listed, Tesla can also have a more flexible way of development. It does not need to care about the supervision of the stock market or the issue of profit returns, as long as it concentrates on research and development.

Masco agrees with Xiao Qi's statement very much. He is a pure idealist. He doesn't like doing things for the benefit of money, and he doesn't like other people disturbing his own research and development for the benefit of money. Don't doubt. Since he sold paypal, all his money has been invested in Tesla and spaex, and finally he has continuously borrowed money to invest. No one can do it without a lot of love.

Tesla is currently the company most likely to shine. If it continues to develop, its development will be very good. To be precise, it will be very profitable. The initial investment is absolutely nothing, so if it is not listed, it will be for Masco It's better.

But the point is, there is another reason that Masco has not said.

That is related to the rocket launch company spaex.

Tesla is enough to burn money. Xiao Qi invested more than 700 million US dollars this year.

But compared to spaex, this little money is nothing.

70% of Masco’s property was actually invested in spaex, and Xiao Qi also invested $600 million in it, but in just six months, it has been spent.

Seeing that there is still a long way to go before output, this group of wealthy shareholders of spaex can only invest once again in January, which is a full 500 million US dollars, but no one knows this 500 million. When can the U.S. dollar be used?

Masco worries that these shareholders will not be able to bear the high sums of money in the end, as well as the delay in waiting for the return, and finally withdraw their capital and leave.

At that time, he can only undertake the continued development of spaex by himself, so he needs astronomical amounts of money.

And where does this money come from?

It can only come from Tesla.

Tesla’s profit alone cannot be supported. Therefore, Musco thought of listing Tesla and letting people in the market pursue it. This would increase Tesla’s value tenfold or tens offold, so he would You can continue to support the development of spaex by selling shares for cash out.

If according to Xiao Qi's idea, Tesla's market value intelligently expands to ten times, it is already a limit, far from reaching the market value amplified by the market bubble.

In this regard, Masco felt a bit sorry for Xiao Qi, an investor, but for the sake of his own ideals, he could only think of this way.

Moreover, he felt that Xiao Qi bought Tesla's shares to make money, and now he helped Xiao Qi make a lot of money, which is not a bad result.

But this is unspeakable, so he can only insist stubbornly that he wants Tesla to go public.

Xiao Qi didn't know what Masco was thinking, and he was a little helpless about Masco's stubbornness, but he also knew these Americans.

Few Americans who start a company don't want to go around the stock market to gain fame and fortune.

Therefore, Xiao Qi has also made plans for Tesla to go public, hoping to acquire as many shares of Tesla as possible. After all, Tesla represents the huge development potential of smart cars in the future and should not be missed.

The reason why the automobile industry is so difficult now is that on the one hand, the labor force is increasing, and on the other hand, the government is becoming more and more stringent, whether it is taxation or other restrictions.

But electric cars are different. Clean energy has always been supported by the government~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For this reason, the government can not only reduce taxes, but also create various favorable conditions for it, so that it can continue to be popularized.

This is also an important reason why Tesla has received so much support in the previous life and is so popular in the stock market.

If the Xiao family can obtain large enough rights and interests in this area, then it will certainly have more room for development in the future intelligent field.

However, I think so, but Xiao Qi will not be so easy for Masco to list Tesla.

An important reason is that Tesla has just launched touch dels. This is a big killer that can push Tesla's stock price to 200% after it was born for more than a year. It is absolutely necessary to wait for its full release. Only after gaining one's own strength will people better understand Tesla's value and will not sell gold as a stone.

Another important reason is that the current U.S. stock market is still at a low ebb, and it needs to wait until 2013 before it has room for a gradual recovery.

Moreover, in the past two years, the fae wave has been ready to go public in turns. Tesla does not need to compete with them for funds in these markets. It is the best strategy for you to separate and move forward step by step. (To be continued.)