Rebirth 2010: I add some points to be a boss

Chapter 247 The rocket chapter collects liquid fuel, Musk's authentic western food!

Chapter 247 The Rocket Recovers Liquid Fuel, Musk's Authentic Western Food!
"So far, how many Model S's have been delivered this year?"

Chen Heyu turned around and asked suddenly.

"31780, and some Roadster models. As for the Model X, it will not be officially sold until next month."

Musk replied frankly.

Compared with the sales figure of more than 100 million vehicles eight years later, Tesla at this time is a little immature, and it is extremely difficult to even achieve profitability.

"How much is the book loss?"

Chen Heyu smiled, as if he didn't care, and then asked about the financial situation.

As the company's third largest shareholder, his question was reasonable, and Musk could only give a wry smile and answer truthfully.

"The loss in the first three quarters was about 5.2 million US dollars, which has expanded compared with the net loss of the previous year. The money was used in research and development and process innovation, and at the same time increased investment in new factories, production lines and equipment..."

Musk quickly explained.

He conducted a detailed investigation on Chen Heyu, who began to purchase Tesla shares in his own name in 2010. After establishing Shanhai Capital, he continued to invest more and absorbed 9.7% of the shares from retail investors in just a few years.

The shareholding ratio is second only to itself and Fuda Capital, and even 1.5% higher than Baiji Investment, which is a proper core major shareholder.

That's why he was extra cautious, for fear that Chen Heyu would be dissatisfied and sell his stocks wantonly, which would affect other investors.

"Don't think too much, I can understand your decision. The continued decline in global oil prices will indeed benefit the sales of traditional fuel vehicles and have a certain impact on car buyers.

This shows that the demand for trams has not really been released, and the prospects are still promising. I have enough patience. "

Seeing his uneasy expression, Chen Heyu warmly encouraged him.

I have been waiting for five years, and I don’t care about waiting for the next five years. I still need to give more confidence, so as not to give up halfway, and cause the previous investment to be in vain.

Tesla was established in 2003. Musk took advantage of the A-round financing opportunity to join the board of directors. After spending three years, he successfully kicked out all the founders and took full control of this new energy vehicle company in 2008.

It wasn't until 2020 that Tesla turned a full-year profit for the first time.

The first stock price peak will wait until 2021. Before that, it was the darkest moment of Tesla and new energy vehicles.

"Thank you, Chen, let's visit the R&D center first, which is the most valuable source of wealth for Tesla."

Hearing this, Musk breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and walked ahead to lead the way, pointing to a large laboratory not far away.

The investor in front of him is more tolerant than he imagined.

"No problem, I am also very interested in intelligent driving solutions. In Huaguo, there is also a company that is devoted to autonomous driving research."

Chen Heyu replied casually.

"QIDU (thousand degrees), but as far as I know, it is a search engine company.

There may be breakthroughs in large-scale data training and deep learning, but I am not optimistic about them if they want to promote them commercially, because it involves a lot of testing in the middle of the application level, and they need to know enough about the vehicle. "

Musk shrugged, full of disdain.

A search engine company has no experience in automobile production, how can it control the stable performance of its products?

"Where's Tesla?"

Chen Heyu smiled lightly, noncommittal, and then asked.

"Considering the complex, dynamic, and changeable traffic environment, highly accurate perception and decision-making capabilities are required to achieve truly intelligent driving.

While Tesla has state-of-the-art sensor systems and automated driving technology, I am more focused on implementing assisted driving features in the face of safety, regulatory, and road infrastructure challenges. "

Musk replied.

His view is very clear, enter the automobile market with the role of assisted driving, and adapt to the needs of personal consumer-grade passenger cars through rapid iteration, instead of shouting "unmanned driving" as a gimmick, but still can't find a way to realize it.

Chen Heyu was silent.

Looking back on the previous life, Qiandu failed to make a profit on this project in 2024. It has invested a total of 1500 billion R&D funds in the past ten years, and it is still in the experimental stage. The day of realization is far away, which is embarrassing.

"Every row is like a mountain, I wish him success."

He thought in his heart that it wasn't meant to be ironic, at least Qiandu had worked hard and intended to invest funds in the advanced technology field. Compared with those Internet giants who went shirtless and competed with small vendors in the vegetable market, they were more or less decent.

"Chen, the research and development center for electric vehicle technology, battery technology, and autonomous driving technology is here. It is divided into three major areas. Engineers use computer-aided design software, simulation technology, and experimental equipment to conduct research.

In addition, there are outdoor test sites and prototype car production workshops. If you are interested, we can learn more about them. "

Musk introduced unhurriedly.

"Oh? Let's take a look at the R&D members of the battery pack first."

Chen Heyu smiled, and a meaningful look flashed across his eyes.

He knows that Tesla's battery technology mainly includes battery pack design, silicon anode technology and super charging technology. Neon's pine company provides lithium-ion batteries as energy storage devices.

If he wants to enter the new energy vehicle industry in the future, the accumulation of these technologies is essential. Under the care of Musk, the "leading party", he easily included the core technologies in the system for later use.

In the communication with the researcher, he gradually figured out the salary and bonus system of Tesla, and planned to go back to upgrade Moss Electronics and speed up the layout of the manufacturing industry.

Because the Lucheng super factory is about to be completed, the production line of Dami Group needs to be transferred. A perfect and reasonable labor cost design plan can support the factory to go further and become stronger.

Subsequently.

He visited the Autopilot R&D Department, Energy Storage and Management Department in turn, and gained a lot along the way, and the system prompts kept ringing in his mind.

It's hard to make money!
"Elon, is Tesla short of development money?"

Chen Heyu took the initiative to mention it, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Chen, what do you mean, do you want to invest more?"

Musk's eyes lit up, and he was extremely excited. How could he have no shortage of money? The financial department estimated that the total loss this year would be as high as $9 million.

Insufficient orders and production capacity, and frequent errors in the supply chain have greatly affected the production and delivery of Model X.

Naturally, there was an urgent need for financing, but the vampires on Flower Street were too hard on the price, so he just gritted his teeth and carried it.

Chen Heyu's words are like a timely rain, extraordinarily refreshing!
"I respect your wishes. If Truss doesn't need it, I won't force it."

Chen Heyu pretended to be indifferent.

"Chen, thank you for your generosity. I am very happy to accept that for the next step of development, the company still has a funding gap of US$10 billion."

Musk pondered for a moment, then grinned.

Ah!
Good guy!
Is this putting next year's marketing budget and R&D costs on your own head?

Catch it and squeeze it!
Chen Heyu laughed, with the same expression as usual, nodded slightly, and said flatly: "10 billion, small problem, the detailed cooperation process can be communicated with Rob."

After finishing speaking, he pulled Zhou Xiaoyu from behind, and introduced them with a smile.

"Happy meeting!"

Old Zhou said seriously, but his heart was full of clouds and waves. He was shocked by the boss's generosity. He had just spent 20 billion U.S. dollars, and he was going to invest another 10 billion U.S. dollars.

Earn more, spend more!

Especially after Chen Heyu entered the chip semiconductor industry, he spent money like water, recruiting high-end engineers and digging overseas researchers, even paying 5-10 times the sky-high price, hiring technicians from Windmill Country, Neon Country, and Korea Country to come to China for "business trips."

In addition to software engineers, a large number of experts in precision instruments were also recruited, and even waved money to compete with the HNSA Aerospace Division.

He is very clear about his boss's ambition and structure, so he chooses to follow him wholeheartedly.

With high salary, heavy authority, and great room for advancement, he has made great strides all the way in the past few years at Shanhai Capital, from a micro-investment manager with a volume of tens of millions to a co-founder in charge of hundreds of billions of wealth.

Reputation, fame, wealth, Chen Heyu gave him everything he wanted.

This was something he could not have imagined before he joined Shanhai Capital.

"Rob, in the words of you Chinese people, please take care of me in the future."

Musk replied politely.

Facing the patron's father, the future richest man in the world, he spoke very politely.

Zhou Xiaoyu nodded, and immediately synchronized the news with Zhou Zi, because the funds needed to be provided by the overseas business department of Future Technology.

"Old Zhou, during this period of time, you should stay in the beautiful country, reorganize and restructure the newly acquired investment company, and run it well."

Chen Heyu exhorted in a low voice.

There is not a professional investment management company in foreign countries. In the future, the spread will be large, and mergers and acquisitions and financing of other companies will be extremely inconvenient to operate and will increase operating costs.

"Okay, boss."

Lao Zhou agreed and kept this matter firmly in his heart, guessing that the boss might increase the proportion of overseas investment in the next few years.

"Elon, about the Space M starship base, is it convenient for me to visit?"

Chen Heyu asked directly.

Before coming, he inquired about the shareholding structure of Space M. The main investors are Gugou, Founders Foundation, BFJ and Fuda Group. More importantly, there is also the shadow of PLSA Aerospace Division behind it.

While coveting, he was also worried that he would not be able to reach the core.

"Of course, you have to know that I am the majority shareholder of Space M, and I have the most voting control."

Without the slightest hesitation, Musk readily agreed.

In his view, Chen Heyu is the big backer of Tesla, with a net worth of hundreds of billions, and it is only normal for him to be interested in aerospace elements.

"What about investing in shares?"

Chen Heyu asked tentatively.

"No No No, there will be some difficulty in this aspect, unless you are willing to give up your identity as a Chinese nation and join the beautiful nationality."

Musk shook his head and directly refused.

"After all, the PLSA Aerospace Division has equity. Although the proportion of holdings is very low, there are some technical security and policy restrictions.

Chen, it is too inconvenient for me to speak too clearly, but I think you should be able to understand the reason behind it. "

Musk was afraid that his misunderstanding would affect his investment in Tesla, so he added in a calm tone.

"It's okay to take a stroll."

Chen Heyu was a little disappointed. He probably could only go inside the company to take a look. The starship bases outside can be visited by ordinary people, so it is difficult to gain any major gains.

"Chen, if you can stay in the Golden State for a month, you can just watch the launch process of the Falcon Heavy. This is the most powerful launch vehicle at present, and it can send heavier cargo into space."

Musk advised.

"Let's talk again when we have a chance."

Chen Heyu's performance was not very positive, and he replied perfunctorily.

"It consists of the first-stage cores of three Fcoaln 9 rockets, each of which is an independent Falcon 9 rocket, with a total thrust of about 2300 tons, equivalent to the full thrust of 18 747 airliners.

Similar to Falcon 9, Heavy also has the ability to be reusable. It can vertically land the first-stage spacecraft of its main engine back to the ground and reuse it, which greatly reduces the cost of space transportation. "

Musk said triumphantly.

Compared with Huaguo's technology companies, Space M is indeed making great strides forward. He also proposed the PLSA commercial manned plan, preparing to send people to the space station and return to Earth safely.

"Oh? At this time, Space M already has mature rocket recovery technology?"

Chen Heyu thought to himself, he became interested in an instant, isn't this the biggest purpose of his trip?

No matter how well-prepared Space M is, as long as he is given a gap, he can take away all these technologies.

"I don't know much about aerospace technology, Elon, can you tell me more about it?"

Chen Heyu frowned deliberately, and asked in doubt.

"The Falcon 9 adopts a vertical landing method and achieves vertical landing by controlling the combustion and trajectory of the thrusters. Therefore, I led the team to improve the thruster control system, fuel and propellant management, and the effect was surprisingly satisfactory."

Musk shook his head and said confidently.

"Recycling is to protect the rocket from damage during high-speed re-entry into the atmosphere. The structural design and heat-resistant materials must be different?"

Chen Heyu pretended not to ask.

"Of course, heat-resistant materials can withstand high temperature and high pressure environments to ensure the safety and integrity of the rocket when it re-enters the atmosphere. In this regard, PASA provides a solution.

The liquid fuel ensures the adjustability again, using a mixture of liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene (RP-1)... More specific details, I can't disclose. "

Musk raised his eyes to look at Chen Heyu, and said full of deep meaning.

"Ding! System entry skill: rocket recovery!"

"Ding! System entry skill: liquid oxygen kerosene fuel!"

"I'm not an aerospace professional, and I can't understand the details."

Chen Heyu said with a smile.

Hearing the notification sound in his head, he couldn't help but feel very pleasant. There are some technical difficulties. As long as he can step in, he has the confidence to re-optimize on the original basis.

For example, the Fan-Out packaging technology, which was originally only a semi-three-dimensional packaging structure, was transformed by him and upgraded to a full three-dimensional packaging process.

"There's a big dance party for you tonight, and Rob, everyone can relax."

Musk changed the subject, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile.

"By the way, Chen, do you prefer Western food or Chinese food?"

Chen Heyu suddenly remembered the old Paul's manor dinner, but he didn't know whether Musk's western food was authentic or not?
(End of this chapter)

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