Chapter 1446 (1/2)
Li Mu suddenly said ”you are a fool” and called Elon Musk a fool.
He didn't expect that Li Mu would make such a fierce response and attack on himself. Every word in Li Mu's mouth is like a shell bombarding his self-confidence. He thought his self-confidence was strong enough, but he didn't realize how vulnerable his self-confidence was until Li Mu's shell exploded.
Li Mu didn't immediately explain to Elon Musk why he scolded him, but fell into deep thought.
Through Elon Musk's overall plan for building cars, Li Mu understood that the more aggressive people are in some fields, the more likely they are to make extremely stupid mistakes in some fields.
Ford knew 100 years ago that automobile manufacturing should form a general-purpose assembly line. The assembly line is not the key. The real focus is the general-purpose, but Elon Musk did not know.
Take Zippo for example. If Zippo builds a production line for every fire engine, it is also a production line operation. But is this advanced?
Due to the poor universality of this assembly line, as long as a certain product can not be sold in the market, the production line supporting it will be scrapped. If Zippo adopts this assembly line operation, it will go bankrupt soon.
The reason is that product replacement is very fast, but technology replacement is slow!
There are so many styles of Zippo lighter, some of which can't be sold after half a year's popularity. However, the design structure, manufacturing process and technology of Zippo Lighter will not change significantly for decades, and will only develop slowly and steadily, so in this case, the production line with strong versatility becomes the key.
For the same production line, if this style is popular in the market, it is the key to develop the product. If another style is popular in the market, it is the key to develop the product.
However, Elon Musk can think of building new energy vehicles, but can't think of developing a universal production platform for his new energy vehicle plan.
What's more, Elon Musk didn't even consider the importance of product iterations. There was only one model in each stage? This idea is too simple in the field of automobile manufacturing, which is not in line with the basic logic of modern industry.
Li Mu recalled carefully that Tesla had only one roadster in four years from 2008 to 2012;
there was only one model-s in three years from 2012 to 2015;
two models in seven years were really funny. Elon Musk should have realized his simplicity at that time, so he slightly accelerated the launch of new models and pushed them for 15 years Model-x was launched in 2016, and Tesla has built these four models in more than ten years.
And the most embarrassing thing is that although the model-3 has got a huge order, it is too late to improve the delivery speed because of the serious shortage of production capacity. At that time, Tesla began to strive to improve production capacity and realize platform, which is too late.
It seems that Elon Musk's biggest problem is not that he didn't build his own car manufacturing foundation at the beginning, but that he didn't sort out his thinking mode at all.
Half a day later, Li Mu picked up his Zippo, lit a cigarette and smoked a few cigarettes. While playing with Zippo in his hand, he said to Elon Musk, ”Elon, your biggest problem is that you are too confident to be stupid.”
After that, Li Mu said: ”no businessman can beat the invincible hand in the world with a product, and God can't do it. Otherwise, the Bible should be written by everyone in the world.”
Elon Musk wants to explain for himself, he said: ”Mr. Li, I don't think we can start with such a big vision. We didn't create Tesla to let everyone in the world buy a Tesla, and we can't do it. So I think we should build an electric sports car with excellent performance, so that the world can realize the infinite potential of electric cars Li, it's very certain to do it. After all, the team we bought has used batteries and electric motors to make a car speed up 0-60 miles in four seconds. ”