As the richest person on this planet at present, the label on Musk can be said to be untied.
Successful entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Iron Man, these familiar identities we will not talk about.
Just shouting single Dogecoin this year, suddenly reading Chinese poems on Twitter, and letting netizens vote on whether to sell stocks are enough to make people exclaim: Musk, the richest man, spends a little more than one job, man, and sure enough.
The 50-year-old boy, who has been making a lot of noise this year, has also appeared on the cover of the recent "Time" and was named this year's Person of the Year.
Recently, musk, who can't stay idle, has come out again to make harsh remarks, pointing the finger directly at the automotive industry, he said:
We Tesla have always felt that all subsidies should be cancelled, whether it is new energy, or burning gas and burning oil.
Seeing this bad reviewer, I just wanted to say "good guy", I got enough subsidies, and I was ready to cross the river and tear down the bridge?
You know, Tesla is the title of the king of subsidies in the electric vehicle circle.
After all, it is more cattle than a female lecturer who is proficient in human nature, and uses three sentences to make men spend 180,000 yuan for her, Musk used the three words "Tesla" to take about 20 billion yuan in subsidies in the hands of governments.
And Tesla's way of taking subsidies is not the same, even at the expense of using "PUA" means.
Of the 20 billion in government subsidies, the largest is in Nevada.
They used about 8.9 billion yuan in subsidies to win Tesla's heart.
Among them, in order to get more, Musk can be said to have turned over the "thirty-six plans" and used various means to play with the local governments of the United States.
Put it this way, in 2013, Tesla's revenue was actually only about $2 billion, but Musk proposed a very risky plan, that is, to build his own battery factory.
And Musk also said that they will invest $5 billion in this plant, which will be the world's largest battery factory and can provide tens of thousands of jobs.
It should be known that under normal circumstances, such large factories and large investments can not only solve some employment problems, but also bring huge taxes in the future, but also drive the local economy.
So as soon as the news came out, several states in the United States at that time were boiling, and they all threw a wink at Musk, saying that their state was the best choice for Tesla's factory.
They also said that as long as you build the factory in our state, it is easy to talk about preferential subsidies and anything.
It can be said that in order to attract Tesla to build a factory, the merchants in various states sent to Musk's doorstep to sing "The Only".
Seeing tesla so popular, Musk is also like a "scumbag", ambiguous with various intentional states.
They said something about California:
"California sister you are a good person, Tesla's assembly plant is in California, the battery factory is also built here can indeed save a lot of costs, but your family's environmental laws are too strict, Washington state sister does not have these restrictions, and they also give very low electricity prices." 」 Needless to say, I'm afraid my Sister Washington State has misunderstood. ”
Roughly speaking of Washington State:
"Although you gave me a very low electricity price, but the Texas schoolgirl gave me a partial reduction in property taxes for about 30 years, sorry, I found that I still love Texas more. ”
In this way, Tesla Company used a similar way to fight back and forth with seven intentional states, showing mercy everywhere, but did not explain whether it was the only one on the other side. The states are also fighting each other, just to compete for favors in front of Musk.
In the middle, Musk has also changed his mind many times, sitting on the ground, and the bad reviewer only talks about some fragments, and the whole process of factory concubine selection can be far more wonderful and complicated than the above.
Fortune magazine once wrote a 10,000-word article to expose the inside story of Musk's factory tender.
Musk's methods can be summed up in six words: showing off, seducing, squeezing, intimidating, manipulating, and provoking.
In the end, Nevada, which offers 20 years of sales tax relief and 10 years of property tax reduction, and about 1.2 billion yuan of transferable tax relief that can directly sell money for cash, has won the favor of Tesla Gigafactory with about $1.4 billion (about 8.9 billion yuan) of hemorrhage.
That year, Tesla was not profitable, with a net loss of about $300 million a year.
In addition, of the 20 billion government subsidies tesla received, 540 million came from Shanghai.
It's just that unlike Musk's concubines in various States in the United States, the story of Shanghai and Tesla is much flatter.
We gave about RMB 320 million in cash subsidies, as well as GOVERNMENT-funded assets and services worth RMB 270 million.
In addition, we also gave Tesla nearly tens of billions of yuan of factory construction loans, but this part of Tesla is to repay the interest normally, so it cannot be counted as a subsidy.
In This year's Tesla second-quarter earnings report, the loan seems to have been paid off.
Musk also made a cameo appearance under the corresponding news as a wave of small devils, replying: Tesla has debts to pay.
Of course, these subsidies and concessions are not given to Tesla for free, because the Shanghai government and Tesla have also signed a VAM agreement.
The content probably requires Tesla to be nationally produced, and at least 14 billion yuan to invest in the factory, and from 2023 onwards, at least 2.23 billion yuan will be paid in taxes every year.
In general, Tesla can get productivity from China, and we are currently the world's largest consumer market for cars, and building a factory directly here can save a wave of tariffs.
We can also rely on Tesla, a catfish, to make the domestic electric vehicle market active and drive a wave of development of the entire supply chain.
From these two perspectives alone, this wave is a win-win situation.
In addition, Tesla's recent large subsidy has also triggered a hot discussion on the whole network. The subsidy, which comes from Germany, is worth 1.14 billion euros, or about 8.2 billion yuan.
What provoked everyone to discuss was not that Musk had PUA or signed another bet, but that the richest man voluntarily gave up this subsidy worth 8.2 billion yuan, and said that we can pay for the construction of factories in Germany.
Among them, the statement that "all subsidies should be abolished" comes from this matter.
It can only be said that this wave really let him install it.
However, a little check of the information will find that Tesla's withdrawal of subsidies actually has other reasons.
Because Tesla's new factory in Germany is used to produce the newly launched 4680 battery, the single energy density of this battery is 5 times higher than that of the previous generation battery.
The EU proposed the IPCEI "Important Plan for Common Interests in Europe", which was launched to subsidize similar new technologies and new products.
But to get the subsidy of this plan, it must be "the first industrial deployment" in Germany, because Tesla has previously decided to mass-produce 4680 batteries in Texas, so... In fact, Tesla is not giving up subsidies, but it is likely that it will not pass the audit...
In addition, the approval time of this subsidy is undecided, and the plan of the German factory is to start work immediately, and in order to hurry, it has to give up the subsidy.
In addition to the several large subsidies introduced above, in fact, Tesla has also taken hundreds of millions of factory construction subsidies from California, Texas and other places, and all kinds of factory construction subsidies alone have taken more than 20 billion yuan from various countries.
If you also count the new energy subsidies for car purchases, the number is even greater, anyway, last year, Tesla got 2.1 billion subsidies in China, and the second PLACE BYD dominated the top two of the list.
All in all, it is not an exaggeration to call Tesla the king of subsidies in the tram industry.
Relying on subsidies from various countries, Tesla has gradually grown bigger and begun to make a profit. Net profit in the third quarter of this year reached $1.6 billion, a four-fold increase from last year.
At the same time, most electric vehicle companies such as Weilai, Xiaopeng and Ideal are still suffering losses of hundreds of millions of yuan.
Looking back at Musk's words: We Tesla have always felt that all subsidies should be canceled...
There is a feeling that those with vested interests want to cross the river and tear down the bridge.
But it cannot be denied that it is certainly unrealistic for all electric vehicle brands to take tens of billions of subsidies like Tesla.
Tesla, which only hopes to absorb subsidies from various countries around the world, can add another force to driving the new energy vehicle industry and driving the new energy trend, instead of taking out tens of billions of subsidies, but it will break the way of the latecomers.
After all, if the future new energy car circle is still only Tesla, then it is somewhat boring and lacks vitality.
Author: Jiang Jiang Editor: Surface cover: XuanXuan
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