
Musk is very confident of his electric car, when I relayed BYD president Wang Chuanfu's dictum, "household consumption once started, BYD minutes to create Tesla, Musker performance is the appearance of a pair of doubt," he said every minute he can create Tesla? Well, I don't think BYD is our competitor."
He is the founder of PayPal, President of the pure electric car maker Tesla, the world's first successful launch of private owners, his vacuum tube car hyperloop plan let the world crazy, he in 10 years struggling on the verge of bankruptcy manufacturing edge the a good car, complete the peer behind. He is perhaps a change the world -- (Elon Musk) Elon Musk. This print exclusive interview with the Silicon Valley's most ambitious entrepreneurs, revealing how he movers and shakers, to subvert the old ones, and the unexpected Chinese rival contest.
Fremont, California, USA (Fremont), a small town located in the edge of Silicon Valley, Motors Tesla factory stands in an open area. Through the long production line, at the end of a piece of office area.
The door opened, a group of people filed out from a small conference room, the back is a burly man. He walked right in front of me, stretched out his right hand:
"Hello, I'm elon."
Elon Musk (Elon Musk), Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, founder of Tesla electric car company. Listed as the United States for more than half a century since the first automobile company, Tesla this year and achieved a great success, after the first quarter profit for the first time, stock prices Biao, the current market value of close to $150 billion.
Musk wearing a printed logo Tesla fleece sweaters, pants and a pair of jeans and leather sandals, like an ordinary blue collar workers. He has a more familiar nickname, iron man.
Musk is a string of dazzling entrepreneurial experience: PayPal (the world's largest electronic payment platform), SpaceX (private Rocket Company), Tesla (high-end pure electric car company), SolarCity (solar power company), each venture is to subvert the traditional.
Tesla's most landmark moment in the past ten years, is the first quarter of this year to achieve profitability." Mask told "Chinese entrepreneurs", if you can not make money, you are not a real company, just an imaginary company.
Tesla rushed out of the tight encirclement, more and more enterprises of electric vehicles has collapsed, "in the past had a lot of venture car company, but survived really very rare." He said.
Musk to run a "fictitious company", but to redefine the automotive gasoline engine, will be completely buried. Last year, the launch of the Tesla Model s, no matter appearance design, performance and traditional car compared favorably, which revolutionized the people's cognition of pure electric vehicles, in the fields of science and technology will be more regarded as an extraordinary and unprecedented company Tesla, if it requires a coordinate system that apple.
Of course, it's just the side of the coin. In fact, although Tesla in the global upsets fast, but still the foundation did not stable, under the famous. It is easy to become targets.
Outside the Silicon Valley, Tesla encountered heavy resistance. Due to the special direct threats to the traditional dealer franchise systems, Tesla was including Massachusetts, Texas Automobile Dealers Association boycott, even the court. And North Carolina has introduced measures to prohibit the sale and rental of cars in any way to the area, including sending mail".
Another head in the United States, Wall Street has also begun to challenge tesla. July 16th, Goldman Sachs analyst Bo (Archambault Patrick) throws a report, pointed out that the reasonable range of Tesla stocks only 58-113 U.S. dollars, resulting in the day of Tesla shares plunged 14%.
In the world's largest auto market - China, Tesla suffered a similar trouble with the Apple Corp. "Tesla's trademark has been registered by others, and we're trying to make up for it." Musk is cautious and unfair to say, the other big opening, "extortion" Tesla a large sum of money.
This is a staggering amount of "entrance fee" - $30 million. To know that in the first quarter to rely on the sale of carbon emissions, Tesla was barely able to get $15 million in earnings, that is, in accordance with this offer, Mask needs to be profitable in order to solve the problem of six months.
Of course, Mask. At the end of last year, only to rent out the Beijing CBD most prosperous lot of a property, built a 800 square meters of the world's largest direct Tesla exhibition hall, but the delay can not be opened.
Compromise is not musk style, he has always been wild and intractable. "I wanted to use a reasonable price for the trademark, but unfortunately that man is not honest." Mask said that the Chinese market potential is as big as the United States, he will not stop, his plan is to officially enter China by the end of this year.
This is not the only challenge he faces in Silicon Valley, he is still ready to many innovative ideas into reality one by one.
August 12, musk will announce his super loop (hyperloop) program, "you know that California is building a new high-speed railway, but it's silly, because it is slower than China's high-speed rail, the train is slow and old, that's ridiculous." Mask said that California should build high - tech means of transport, in theory, it can exceed the speed of sound, even more than 3 times faster than the speed of sound, and more than the union aircraft