My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!-Chapter 1052 - 622: Nice Name

Industrial land priced at only one-tenth of the market value.

Over 10 billion RMB, long-term low-interest loan limits with annual rates as low as 3.9%...

The favorable conditions granted to the Shanghai Super Factory, which make domestic peers envious, do not come without a cost.

In addition to the condition of localizing components, Tesla also needs to continue investing 14 billion RMB in the Super Factory over the next five years.

And starting from 2023, pay taxes to Shanghai at least 2.23 billion RMB annually...

Originally, this was a win-win agreement.

Tesla drove the local employment rate and high-end new energy vehicle industry chain in Shanghai.

At the same time, it also introduced a super catalyst to stimulate the technological advancement of domestic new energy companies.

For Tesla, they could use Shanghai as a window to access the vast consumer market of Country Hua.

And leverage Country Hua's strong industrial prowess to rapidly increase production capacity, quickly capturing global market share...

However, even Shanghai did not expect that, just after signing this agreement, a new energy giant would rise so close to them, just one city away in Su City!

Tesla thought behind the opened window was an endless sea of users and a blue ocean.

But they did not expect that just as they poked their head out, a competitor, identical to themselves, also appeared, staring greedily at the world outside the window...

Musk couldn't help but pick up the freshly generated "daily sales report" again.

Looking at the declining blue bars on the statistical report, he felt his brow twitching uncontrollably.

The production capacity zones of both sides were almost adjacent, and Idol's "Bado Series" and Tesla's "Mao Dou Series" were both high-level autonomous driving electric vehicles.

From the beginning, there was a natural competitive relationship between the products of both sides, meeting head-on!

As Idol New Energy's autonomous driving technology continued to prove itself among user groups, the reputation of the "Bado Series" exploded, and production and sales volumes surged at an astonishing speed.

The first to bear the brunt was Tesla's Mao Dou Series.

Not only did new orders plummet, but even customers who had previously ordered and were waiting to pick up their cars were now desperately canceling orders.

The market was clearly voting with its feet, with L4 up against L3.5 autonomous driving...

To make matters worse, their Shanghai Super Factory was only half completed.

Yet this competitor had already taken a step ahead, using a more flexible modular design with a distributed supply chain and assembly lines, blooming in multiple locations, rapidly increasing production...

Though both sides almost started the projects simultaneously back then, now they only needed to modify the existing old production line to produce tens of thousands of new model vehicles per month...

Thinking of this, Musk couldn't help but stand up and say.

"Continue, I want the competitive impact analysis report for Ark One before the end of the day!"

Leaving the team to continue discussions, he drove to a vacant factory building within the factory area.

Here, the place was already piled with hundreds of various large and small auto parts, neatly categorized and tagged.

On-site were a dozen staff who looked like engineers, busy taking photos and recording notes.

Not far away, several cars had been completely dismantled, leaving only half their skeletons, and there was even a car with a smashed front...

Yes, without exception, these were all the first batch of "Bado Series" models just introduced in America.

As the saying goes, know oneself and know the enemy; they were secretly disassembling and analyzing the competitor's automotive products...

"How is the progress?" Musk walked toward a chubby middle-aged engineer.

"Oh! Of course, boss, it's going smoothly. These things are even easier to take apart than we thought, and the overall analysis and dismantling progress is close to 80%; we should have a complete analysis report by tomorrow."

The middle-aged engineer, seeing the visitor, pointed at the piles of parts in front of him.

"I've been in this business half my life, and I've never seen car design like this before; it's like they've taken cars and made them into building blocks. Some parts even use the classic mortise-and-tenon structures from ancient Country Hua.

The dismantling process is like playing with their Lu Ban Lock.

If it weren't for their open-source automotive design drawings on the official website, we'd have been at a loss for where to start initially.

Absurdly, the opponent's structure and rigidity haven't suffered at all, performing equally well in frontal crash tests compared to our Mao Dou Series."

Musk furrowed his brow.

When it comes to the modular design of the Bado Series and their integration-focused casting design, you could say they each have their pros and cons.

Their integrated casting design greatly speeds up overall production efficiency by minimizing the number of components.

It also significantly enhances the vehicle body's structural integrity and overall rigidity.

The drawback is that the concentrated production process leads to high subsequent repair costs, while the expensive casting molds limit model diversity.

So far, the Mao Dou Series only has the "Mao Dou S," "Mao Dou 3," and "Mao Dou X" available.

Meanwhile, the Bado Series' modular design is much more flexible and adaptable.

Not only does it allow production lines to be distributed, but each factory area or supplier is responsible for a module, with final assembly akin to stacking bricks. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

It's like breaking an entire automotive production line into multiple independent sub-lines.

And each sub-line can still adopt integrated casting technology to save cost and time.

Even the models can be assembled and changed at will, with many modules being interchangeable across different models.