Chapter 835: Manufacturing Reflow

One day at the end of February, Meng Qian was drinking tea at the West Lake Teahouse again. Ma Yun, Zhang Shuxin and more than a dozen entrepreneurs were there. Recently, the frequency of gatherings at the West Lake Club has become more and more frequent, and they sit together from time to time to chat about the latest situation.

"Have you heard that China Aviation Industry has been used as a case." Zhang Shuxin mentioned a recent incident.

Everyone nodded, the efficiency of obtaining this information is still there.

What does China Aviation Industry do? To put it simply, the J-31 "Falcon Eagle" stealth fighter, the FC-1 "Fierce Dragon" fighter, the J-10, the L-15 "Falcon" advanced education aircraft, the L-7 elementary education aircraft, The K-8 basic trainer, Wuzhi-10, Yun-8, Yun-20, Taihang, Qinling, Kunlun and other engines are made by this company.

A very important reason why China Aviation Industry is so powerful is acquisitions. Since 2009, China Aviation Industry has successively acquired Austrian Future Advanced Composites Co., Ltd., Cirrus Corporation of the United States, Continental Aviation Piston Engine Company of the United States, and Nexteer Automotive Systems. Company, German Thielert Aviation Piston Engine Company and other well-known enterprises.

Last year, China Airlines' overseas revenue directly exceeded 100 billion. This will naturally attract attention, because China Airlines represents one thing, that is, the crazy overseas acquisitions of Huaxia companies in recent years, especially in the Omi market. The rhythm of reason, so as to quickly establish the competitiveness of Huaxia enterprises.

"It seems that Huaxia Enterprise's acquisition of Omi will encounter obstacles in the future."

"There's no need for the future, hey, just as China Airlines was used as a case, the acquisition of Shen Machine Tool in the United States was rejected."

"We plan to speed up overseas mergers and acquisitions this year." Realizing that the general direction has changed, Ma Yun is a little bit worried.

At this moment, He Yating came over with Meng Qian's cell phone, "Mr. Meng, call."

"Who is looking for me?"

He Yating pointed to the note on the phone for Meng Qian to read by himself.

"Hey, leader, what's the matter?"

"Mr. Meng is not at the company today."

"Well, I'm drinking tea, what's the leader's order?"

"Harald Kruger tonight."

Meng Qian was a little surprised, "Didn't you just say you're going to come two days ago, and you're here so soon?"

"Yeah, we are more anxious than we thought, why don't you come?"

"where?"

"Yanjing."

"Okay, I'll fly over in a while. By the way, Mr. Zhang from Ying Haiwei is right next to me. Let me take her with me."

"Okay, some details, let's talk about it on the road later."

"clear."

After hanging up the phone, Meng Qian showed everyone the notes on the phone, "BMW is here first."

Recently, the first shot of the return of American industrial manufacturing has been fired in the auto industry, which has caused tremendous pressure on auto companies in China, Germany, and neon countries, and aroused strong protests.

Although the protest is obviously pointless.

However, China's biggest impact is on the parts industry. Everyone can't afford the huge tariffs on China's parts. The US market in this area will basically be taken away by Southeast Asia.

How to deal with it, Huaxia is actively considering countermeasures.

The impact on the vehicle sales of the Huaxia Automobile brand is not that great. After all, even if it grows faster in this life, Huaxia Automobile only has a 3% market share in the United States.

But for German and Nihong national car companies, the impact on vehicle sales is even greater.

Therefore, German car companies can't help but look more at the China market. After all, China accounts for 31% of Volkswagen's global market, 25% of BMW's global market, and 21% of Daimler's global market.

The CEOs of German car companies began to come to China one after another. Regardless of the time and space, the first to come was the CEO of BMW, probably because Mexico is a strategic manufacturing location for BMW. The United States does not allow car companies to build factories in Mexico. BMW's impact is greatest in the short term.

As the major shareholder of BYD and Geely, Meng Qian was naturally invited to attend this meeting with the CEO of BMW.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, Meng Qian, Zhang Shuxin, Kruger and some leaders had a dinner together at the Yanjing Hotel adjacent to the Forbidden City.

Kruger first praised the Chinese market, and then expressed the joy of BMW's cooperation with the Chinese market for so many years. Everyone also cooperated with the official speeches.

It's almost exaggerated, and Kruger proposed a key thing for this visit, which is to increase investment in China.

If there are any problems in the US market in the next few years, then it is naturally the best solution to make up for it from the Chinese market.

Kruger put forward three ideas, one is to accelerate the localization of more popular models, and the other is to provide more preferential policies for Chinese users and make a little compromise on price.

The third point is the most important point, to build a factory, and it is to build an electric vehicle factory.

The reason why this is important is firstly that it can bring jobs to China, and secondly that electric vehicles have become an obvious future direction in China.

Therefore, after including BMW, Mercedes-Benz will bring its first electric model EQC, and Volkswagen will clearly introduce 40 domestically-made electric models and build an MEB factory in China. Audi will also soon prepare to start producing pure electric vehicles in China.

When Kruger talked about this, Meng Qian finally found an opportunity to advance.

"Speaking of electric vehicles, is it convenient for Mr. Kruger to disclose BMW's views on the future of pure electric vehicles?"

Kruger looked at Meng Qian and said calmly, "In the era of green energy, environmental protection is a core topic, and pure electric power is an inevitable trend, but the problem of battery disposal now urgently needs a big breakthrough."

"Does Mr. Kruger think that the development of pure electric vehicles is only related to environmental protection?"

Meng Qian's question obviously caught Kruger a little bit by surprise. Maybe he didn't expect Meng Qian to be so straightforward in front of the leader. Kruger subconsciously glanced at the leaders of Huaxia, each of them ate in silence. Dish, was unusually calm.

Such an attitude allowed Kruger to confirm Huaxia's determination in the direction of pure electric vehicles in the future, and further confirmed the scale of this conversation, "Do we have any policy changes for the development of pure electric vehicles in the future?" ?”

As a result, Kruger was about to let go of the conversation, but Meng Qian stopped, and everyone began to be polite again. After a while, the leaders signaled to leave first.

"Is Mr. Kruger free?" Meng Qian hinted.

"Of course." Kruger is not a fool.

"Then how about we go to the factory of Haiwei Automobile?"

"OK."

Sitting in the car heading to Haiwei Automobile Factory, Meng Qian began to ask, "How does Mr. Kruger evaluate BYD's pure electric technology?"

"To be honest, BYD's pure electric development speed has exceeded our imagination in the past few years. In my impression, BYD has become the absolute leader of pure electric buses in the world in only five or six years.

Not long ago, we really did a special study, only to know that BYD had insisted on investing in pure electric research and development so early on, and if there is no problem with our understanding, it was Mr. Meng who insisted on pure electric research and development at that time, right? "

Meng Qian nodded confidently. In another time and space, BYD's advantage in pure electric is not strong enough. It is because of too much research and development pressure in the early stage that it switched to research and development of hybrid electric. In this life, Meng Qian used money to support BYD's pure electric research and development. After so long, rich and talented, naturally cultivated BYD's current technical advantages in the pure electric field.

And now it is Tesla that can compete with BYD in pure electric technology.

"Does Mr. Kruger know that I am a shareholder of Tesla?"

"certainly."

"But does Mr. Kruger know about my agreement with Tesla?"

The agreement Meng Qian mentioned was naturally the agreement signed with Meng Qian when Tesla had to take back the shares of Space Exploration Technology from Meng Qian in order to survive.

The whole world knows that Dafeng Group is a shareholder of Tesla, but they all think it is a profitable shareholder. After all, simply checking the equity will find that Dafeng Group has no control over Tesla.

In fact, there is still this agreement between Dafeng Group and Tesla, which was laid out by Meng Qian early in the morning.

And both parties defaulted not to announce this matter, so when Meng Qian told Kruger now, Kruger had already understood something.

Dafeng Group is the major shareholder of BYD on the one hand, and has a lifetime authorization agreement with Tesla on the other. The world's two largest pure electric car companies cannot get around Dafeng Group, so the real electric car giant in the world today

When Kruger looked at Meng Qian again, his eyes had changed.

Meng Qian continued to go deeper, "Mr. Kruger, everyone knows that no matter whether the processing technology of car batteries can be developed in time, many countries will go down the road of pure electric vehicles, especially big countries. After all, it is not a simple matter. Environmental issues, as well as energy war issues."

Meng Qian finally extended the topic at the dinner table, and Gluck nodded for Meng Qian to continue.

"Especially now that BYD and Tesla have brought gradually mature technologies to this market, I believe that companies like BMW, although they still have some uncertain observations about the future of pure electric vehicles, it is impossible to see BYD does nothing with the development of Tesla.

Not long ago, I went to check the latest information of German car companies. I saw that you are laying off employees. It should be to save costs and do something, right?

And taking a step back, China and the United States are your two most important markets. China will not hesitate any longer. In the United States, Tesla has been making money because of the carbon emission policy. You have been making money because of the carbon emission policy. They have been fined money, and this entry and exit is not only a matter of income, but also a matter of the attitude of the United States.

The world's two major auto markets have actually made their positions clear, haven't they? "

Kruger nodded first to express his approval of Meng Qian, and decided to express his position sincerely, "Yes, we are indeed gradually increasing the research and development of pure electric vehicles."

Kruger didn't go on, wanting Meng Qian to say more, but Meng Qian directly threw a question back, "Then can I ask curiously, why doesn't BMW cooperate with Tesla?"

It’s not good for Kruger to say more, “Tesla is a leader in pure electric vehicles and a leader in Internet-based car manufacturing. It sounds very powerful, but in fact, from the perspective of the car itself. In other words, Tesla's advantage is very narrow.

During this period of time, Tesla has frequently exposed problems in workmanship. Seat indentations, loose seat belts, uneven gaps between body panels, sagging sun visors, and damage to the trunk lid have all become standard features on Tesla. up.

This is the core problem of Tesla, it built a beautiful house, but the foundation was not laid. "

When Kruger said this, he subconsciously looked at Zhang Shuxin. It was obvious that Hiway also had problems with its workmanship.

"So Tesla won't cooperate with you." Meng Qian said clearly, "You have a solid foundation, and Tesla has excellent designers and architects, but if you cooperate, the designers and architects will quickly cooperate with you." Could make a nice house for you guys, but laying the foundations would take too long."

"Mr. Meng is right." Everyone was so straightforward anyway, so there was no need to hide it.

"But as a traditional car company, there is another problem, that is, it is too old.

For example, when there is a problem in the detection, your process should first thoroughly investigate where the problem occurred, and then hold a meeting to discuss the solution and punishment measures. In the end, a solution may be found, but the test deadline has passed up.

Right? "

"This is standard procedure," Kruger responded.

At this time, the car had already driven outside the Haiwei factory, "Yes, this is a standard process, but is there room for change in the standard process?

Mr. Kruger, let's go visit Mr. Zhang's factory together. "