Rebirth 2008: I Can Make Money Reading

Wang Feng was very depressed, very depressed.

"One ticket every two years, as promised!"

His ninth solo album "Life Wants Nothing" was originally planned to be officially released on November 16, and the teaser time has already been set.

In this album, he injected more precipitation and perception.

But at that time, Muyang's Xinghai Group's acquisition of Hummer EV was always on the hot news, and the whole network was full of Muyang's news.

Therefore, Wang Feng decided to delay the announcement.

From November to today's December 10th, Muyang has been silent and hasn't appeared for a long time, as if he disappeared from the earth.

Wang Feng was happy, he felt stable, absolutely stable!

"yeah!"

At 8 o'clock in the morning, he announced his ninth album "Life Wants Nothing" on Weibo, which is really an album every two years.

The eighth album "Faith Floats in the Air" was released on July 31, 2009.

But at nine o'clock in the morning, Wang Feng couldn't laugh anymore.

Damn Mu Yang is on the hot news again.

His current mood is just like the lyrics in "Life Wants Nothing" "How should I exist... How many times of ecstasy but suffering..."

Yes, he felt like he didn't exist anymore.

Wang Feng really wanted to shout to netizens and fans: I am here! Check out my new song!

Depressed and depressed, Wang Feng was also curious about why Mu Yang was on the hot news this time, so he carefully read the reports about Mu Yang.

It turned out that the fact that Mu Yang smashed nearly ten million Rolls-Royce Phantoms was still spread to the outside world, and then it was publicized by media reporters and even made hot news.

Mu Yang didn't take it seriously, but the netizens started talking about it crazily. After all, this was a car that cost nearly tens of millions.

"Why smash the car? Genius Mu is crazy!"

"I heard that Mu Yang personally took the lead in smashing the car in order to make the employees no longer hesitate to study the car."

"That's really cool. I haven't smashed a car yet, and probably not many people have smashed a car, let alone nearly ten million cars."

"It is estimated that Rolls-Royce is going to cry to death, why smash our brand of cars, why not smash other brands of cars? Haha."

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Netizens ridiculed that Rolls-Royce and its boss BMW did not come out to make a statement, and they didn't take it seriously.

However, doubts about Xinghai Group's car manufacturing have been aroused again, and many industry executives are hyped to promote their companies or products.

"If you can learn how to build a car by smashing a car, so can our XX company."

"Xinghai Group has just started making cars with a high profile. It seems that there has been no new action in the past few months. Mu Yang's Weibo has not been updated for a long time. It is estimated that Mu Yang has lost confidence in making cars, and he is still researching other brands of cars. stage. This "Wolf's Ambition" is about making a person more confident. Mr. Mu Yang supports this book, and he said that since he read this book, he now has the confidence to build a car."

There are many voices of doubt, but there are also many voices of support.

However, Wang Feng also couldn't figure it out: Is there a mistake, this shit can be on the hot news!

If Mu Yang knew what Wang Feng was thinking, he would definitely reply: "It's not my fault!"

In his spare time, Mu Yang saw the questioning or support of the media or celebrities for his car building.

However, Mu Yang laughed a few times, and at the same time laughed at himself: We are outrageous in making cars, and in a few years, those new forces will make cars, which will probably make you guys laugh out loud.

Xinghai Group starts from the most basic of car manufacturing, unlike the internet building cars together, for example, Du Niang's car making in the future is outrageous.

The car designed by Du Niang actually lacks the B-pillar. Without the B-pillar, there will be less support. Even Mu Yang has no confidence to ensure that the car is rigid enough in the case of reducing the B-pillar; with fancy butterfly doors, how can the closing speed be avoided? Pedestrian collision, poor practicality.

Just messing around with things that are useless, the design is very novel, and it is weird to put it bluntly.

Design advocates innovation, but the safety performance of the car should be considered first, rather than abandoning the traditional design and making some fancy things.

Du Niang and Zheli Group jointly built cars, but there was no sign of Zheli's assistance in making cars. In the end, Zheli Group withdrew and laymen stepped in to build cars. It would indeed make a mess. This is what Mu Yang and the management emphasized to pay attention to , Laymen should not meddle in professional matters.

Mu Yang intends to remain silent until the car is successfully built, so he is too lazy to pay attention to the outside world, and his work focus has shifted from the motor to the automatic driving.

The autonomous driving laboratory is located in the No. 9 steel structure factory building. It also built an experimental site in an open space outside the factory building, and built many traffic sign props, such as driving areas, lane lines, traffic signs, traffic lights, vehicles, pedestrians and all obstacles. etc.

The above detections belong to the research project of environmental perception, and there are still many small projects to be studied, such as Micro Motion positioning (such as laser positioning, visual positioning, integrated navigation positioning), decision planning, intelligent control, data platform and so on.

It will be tested in the company first, and finally will be tested in actual traffic to collect more data.

Due to hardware limitations, Muyang's planning goal for autonomous driving is L2 advanced driving assistance, which will also be the assisted driving level of mainstream electric vehicles ten years later.

In the future, if the hardware chip can keep up with it, it will go to L3, step by step.

The system design of L2 is not a difficult problem for Mu Yang. He is also responsible for this project, and he has more than 20 researchers.

When Mu Yang came to the autonomous driving experiment site, the researchers breathed a sigh of relief. The boss finally came, and they solved some key problems, but some algorithm problems have been bothering them, and they still need to be solved by the chairman himself.

They have ten thousand admiration for the chairman.

There are several experimental vehicles on site, all of which are equipped with instruments, such as laser locators installed on the roof, global positioning system GPS, wheel encoders installed on the wheels, and out-of-sight cameras installed in the headlights.

Except that GPS requires a network, others do not require an external network. When a car enters a tunnel or basement without a network, it will not be unable to drive automatically.

Mu Yang named the company's automatic driving assistance "XH Autopilot", and the level is L2.

The hardware of this L2-level automatic driving system is mainly an assisted driving chip. The sensing hardware includes 4 environmental perception cameras, 2 in-vehicle cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars, 5 millimeter wave radars, 4 surround-view cameras, etc. .

The capability of the chip is represented by the chip computing power TOPS. For example, Tesla's self-developed FSD can bring 144 TOPS, and Weilai ES6 only has 5 TOPS.

Of course, domestic cars also use high-level chips. For example, Huawei’s self-developed chip used in Avita 11 has a computing power of 400 TOPS, the computing power of Ideal L9’s chip reaches 508 TOPS, and Weilai’s ES7 chip has a computing power of 1016 TOPS. It is an imported chip.

Chip computing power is a more complicated issue, as long as it is sufficient.

Autonomous driving is mainly to process a large amount of image data, and the chip used is GPU (image processing chip) instead of CPU (central processing unit).

It is increasingly difficult for processors with CPU as the core to meet the needs of processing unstructured data such as video and pictures. At the same time, processors also need to integrate multiple channels of data such as radar and video. GPU is more suitable.

Today, automotive chip hardware may not meet the requirements of Mu Yang, but Mu Yang can optimize the algorithm, simplify the logic, and reduce the requirements for the GPU.

At the same time, it is not necessary to have all assisted driving functions, and it is enough to mainly meet the commonly used assisted driving functions, such as lane keeping assist system, automatic parking assist system, brake assist system, reversing assist system and driving assist system.

Mu Yang intends to find Huawei for automotive chips. If he can't figure it out, he has to find Nvidia or Intel.

The GPU and sensing hardware in this era are not cheap, Mu Yang never thought about making money from them, as long as they can guarantee a flat cost.

This is the same as opening a supermarket. Fruits, oils and salts are very cheap, and you may even lose money, but supermarkets can make money from other sources.

Xinghai Group mainly makes money from batteries and motors.

Make money from spare parts first, and after selling the car, the company in the beautiful country will make some money.

Although the price of the car is the same, the money that ends up in your hands is different.

But it’s not arbitrarily priced. The higher the price, the higher the base, and the more tariffs to pay. Try to take a balanced value.

The taxation of the two countries is different, and Lao Cao, the glass king who invested and built a factory in the beautiful country, said bluntly: "The comprehensive tax burden of the manufacturing industry in Huaguo is 35% higher than that in the beautiful country, and the profits of factories in the beautiful country are higher than in Huaguo. "

When Mu Yang invested in the Hummer Company, he specifically analyzed this issue, which is related to how much money he can get.

There are differences between the two countries in terms of value-added tax and corporate ownership tax. What Lao Cao said is not correct.

For example, the Xinghai Group has been exempted from corporate income tax for three years, and in the future it will levy half of the corporate income tax. How much is the corporate income tax in the beautiful country?

American companies bear one of the highest federal corporate income tax rates in the world, as high as 35%.

As for Huaguo, the highest corporate income tax is 25%!

Of course, the value-added tax levied by our country is generated during the production process of the enterprise. Even if the enterprise does not carry out production, it has already started to pay the tax when it buys raw materials.

However, there is no value-added tax in the beautiful country. The corporate income tax is high, but it is levied after the company makes a profit. If the company does not make money, it does not need to pay.

The tax rates of the two countries are not only that simple, it is more complicated to say, and the situation of different industries and different enterprises may be different.

Some companies have heavy taxes in China, but they may be very low in beautiful countries; or vice versa.

The national conditions are different, and it is impossible to simply say which is good and which is bad. It depends on the situation and nature of the enterprise. There is no absolute good or bad.

But in the case of Xinghai Group, if the company's profits are high, the tax in the beautiful country will be heavier.

Three years of tax exemption + three and a half years of tax, even if half of the tax is paid, the corporate income tax rate for high-tech enterprises is only 15%!

Compared with the 35% of the beautiful country, it is 20% less.

Therefore, what Lao Cao said was aimed at his company, which was a bit against his will.

But for companies with low profit margins, Lao Cao's words are also correct.

However, there is still a problem, personal income tax.

Needless to say, the personal income tax in the beautiful country is much higher, and there are also consumption taxes, such as the annual property tax and property tax on cars, and so on.

Not to mention super-first-tier cities, maybe the price of houses abroad is low, but the property tax is not low. The situation is different in each state, and the value of the house is also different, from 0.5% to 3%, and the median is about 1.5%.

Taking NY as an example, in 2010, the average property value was 283,000 US dollars, and the median annual property tax to be paid was 4,500 US dollars.

To put it bluntly, this is equivalent to spending money to buy a house, and then need to pay the rent every year. The Chinese people are definitely not happy.

But in general, the farmers in the beautiful country are very miserable, and they have to pay property taxes for their houses.

The citizens of the first-tier cities in Huaguo are also suffering because the housing prices are too outrageous.

There is also the inheritance tax, which is unacceptable to Chinese people.

No matter what, Mu Yang didn't think too much about it. Making money in China and paying taxes is a matter of course.

He will not move the company out because of low taxation in other countries, that is impossible.

Immersed in scientific research, time flies by.

There are still two days until New Year's Day, and 2011 is about to pass.

On December 30th, Mu Yang reported the progress of the next April 8th plan.

[Require myself to upgrade the system to level 7 on January 1, 2014, current progress: 29.5%]

[When upgrading to level 7 system, save enough 1,000 achievement points, current progress: 39.65%]

[Personal assets exceeded 100 billion yuan, current progress: about 54%]

[1] Hummer electric vehicles will be mass-produced within one and a half years, and the annual sales plan is no less than 50,000; current progress: 15%

2) Within two years, Mirai 01 and Mirai 02 will be produced in small batches, and mass production will be completed within three years. Current progress: 11%]

[New energy battery project, current progress: 50%]

【Motor project, current progress: 51%】

[Autopilot system, reaching LV2, current progress: 71.2%]

[Battery charging project, current progress: 22%]

[Bulletproof glass project, current progress: 25%]

【Xinghai Building is put into use, current progress: 65%】

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For the 48th plan, one has been completed, that is, the operating income of 25 billion this year.

2012 is coming, and Mu Yang has roughly set a new business income target: 60 billion yuan!

At nine o'clock the next morning, Mu Yang received two pieces of good news from the car project team.

The ternary lithium battery and motor samples are made!

Hearing these two pieces of news, Mu Yang was overjoyed.

After the samples are made, several samples can be sent to Hummer to assemble the Hummer EV prototype.

Mu Yang suppressed his excitement, first came to the battery project team, saw Sun Wen, the leader of the battery project team, and asked directly: "Dr. Sun, how is the test data?"

Seeing the faint smile on the chairman's face, Sun Wen showed the data sheet in his hand to the chairman, and said at the same time: "Three samples have been tested, and the average energy density is 251Wh/kg, which is still far from the target value. 160 degrees The battery pack weighed more than 700 kg, and the acupuncture test, extrusion test, drop test, airgel heat insulation effect test, battery pack vibration and other tests were carried out. The more difficult acupuncture test was fine, but the drop test did not meet the requirements. , the electrolyte leaked when the drop height exceeded 2.2 meters, but fortunately there was no fire.”

When Sun Wen reported, he was also observing the chairman's expression. I was really afraid that he would be unhappy, so he was cautious when reporting.

After listening to the team leader's report and reading the data, Mu Yang gave a high evaluation: "If the mass production can reach this data, it is already possible.

But the experimental sample can do this procedure, which is also very good, better than I expected. Let me first look at the samples you have tested. "

Mu Yang has high expectations for Sun Wen, who has a Ph.D. from MIT for three years and is an expert in batteries.

The month before last, Mu Yang had a phone interview in person and asked him a lot of professional questions. The more he asked, the more difficult he was, and he was finally invited to be the leader of the battery project team, with a technical level of P9 researcher.

Before Mu Yang finished talking about the P9 salary with Sun Wen, Sun Wen had already decided to return to China and report to Xinghai Group as soon as possible.

"Okay, if it weren't for you, the chairman, to guide us, we wouldn't be able to solve the key issues." Sun Wen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the chairman say so.

Top talents are arrogant, but in front of Mu Yang, Sun Wen was already convinced by Mu Yang in the phone interview.

During the phone interview, the difficulty of the questions that Mu Yang asked in the second half of the interview was a research problem that he had been troubled with.

At that time, Sun Wen also asked: "Can Xinghai Group solve these technical problems?"

"There is no problem that Xinghai Group can't solve. The problem you mentioned is not a problem for me. I need someone to help me realize NCM S1.0. I am too busy to experience it myself. As long as this NCM S1.0 can be realized , Xinghai Group's ternary lithium battery technology has reached the world's first level."

Sun Wen still remembered that the tone of the chairman's words was very confident. He didn't believe it, and then asked the chairman three questions that he couldn't solve. As a result, Mu Yang quickly answered, and there were many solutions, but he only answered two questions. A question, saying that Xinghai Group has applied for a patent, if you want to know more, then come to Xinghai Group.

A door of cutting-edge technology opened to him, and Sun Wen stepped in without hesitation and agreed to join Xinghai Group.

As for the remuneration package, he is also very satisfied.

Now, Mu Yang patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't flatter me, you are very good, we are a team."

After finishing speaking, Mu Yang came to the battery pack that had finished the experiment, carefully observed the damaged battery pack, and then observed the picture taken by the high-speed camera, and played it in slow motion to see where it was damaged first.

"Chairman, we have pasted stress gauges on the battery pack and recorded data." Sun Wen reminded.

Stress gauges can be detected as long as there is a slight change in the position where they are pasted.

Mu Yang nodded and continued to observe and analyze.

ten minutes later,

Mu Yang reminded: "Dr. Sun, I haven't found out what's wrong so far. You can only troubleshoot one by one. Let's see how the assembly strength of a single battery is."

"Okay, Chairman, do you have any orders?"

"You are testing at normal temperature. You can try testing in low temperature environment and high temperature environment. Make a few more samples and try to send out the samples before the Chinese New Year. The Hummer company needs battery samples to be installed." Mu Yang ordered,

"But the completion of the sample does not mean that the work is finished, nor does it mean that the battery pack is okay. You still need to test in harsh environments such as low temperature and high temperature, and strive to complete small batch production before May 1st, but you can't be hasty for the progress. Close the project.

The motor project team also has a prototype, I'll go and have a look. "

After Mu Yang finished speaking, he went to the motor project to see the situation.

The project team produced ten motor prototypes. When Mu Yang entered the laboratory, three prototypes were running at high speed.

Half an hour later, Mu Yang finished his observation, but there were still many problems with the prototype, for example, the noise was relatively loud during high-speed operation, which could not meet his requirements.

But in general, it can be shipped to Hummer to assemble the prototype.

Slowly optimize in the later stage, it is impossible to become fat with one bite.

It is also impossible to wait for the motor to be optimized before delivery, which will delay the progress of Hummer.

Of course, if the problem is not completely solved, the Hummer EV cannot be mass-produced.