With the landing of the Shanghai Gigafactory, after Musk became the richest man, there was another big move, Tesla Shanghai R & D Center
As Tesla's first R&D center set up overseas and based on vehicle development, it is planned to carry out more original development work around vehicles, charging equipment and energy products, etc., and the same R&D rooms will be set up to set up 28 to truly realize Tesla's 100% Made in China, which means that I want to accept apprentices
But can you believe it?
I certainly don't believe it, because we have suffered a lot of losses in this regard in the past.
In 2000. Japan's Yamazaki Mazak Company in the form of technology transfer and Ningxia Great Wall Machinery Group joint venture, and this Japanese Yamazaki is the international machine tool manufacturer industry leader, originally wanted to use the domestic market for foreign technology to cooperate, and after the cooperation but suffered a dumb loss. Because the cooperative enterprise Ningxia Little Giant, from equipment to networked manufacturing technology, are controlled by Japanese companies, can not learn the technology at all, and more infuriating in the back, in 2005 Ningxia Little Giant performance began to rise continuously, Japanese companies directly crossed the river to demolish the bridge, proposed no longer cooperate, and did not learn the core technology of the Ningxia Group was directly out of the game, and the Little Giant also became a Japanese company in China.
Foreign companies set up R&D offices in China because they can bypass some laws and export restrictions and accelerate production in China
Previously, China's approval of pure imported drugs was much slower than that of the world. Therefore, many foreign pharmaceutical companies have set up research and development centers in China, and in 17 years, the state has kept up with the speed of international approval, and these foreign-funded pharmaceutical companies have begun to close and lay off a large number of employees, and they are abandoned when they run out, which is the true portrayal of foreign companies establishing research centers in China
As we know it, XCMG, Huawei and Gree have all faced the risk of being acquired by foreign companies, and once the acquisition is successful, it will definitely repeat the mistakes of the Little Giant of Ningxia.
For multinational companies, they are both worried about our market and want to take the technology into their own hands. Although the surface of the establishment of R & D center, but the core technology is never leaked, control means are also a variety of tricks.
Back to Tesla, his core R & D team is not in China, all the R & D forces, almost all in the United States in California. If you really want to engage in some research and development, it is speculated that it will also be some marginal projects, and the American research and development centers do not like to eat to the Chinese research and development centers.
When the false coat of foreign high-end manufacturing was ruthlessly exposed by domestic production, not only the young people at home began to support domestic production, but even many foreigners began to choose lower prices and better quality Chinese manufacturing. Take the Chaoduoduo app that attracted the attention of major venture capital giants some time ago, after the epidemic, more and more foreigners have begun to trust Chinese manufacturing.
Many foreigners entrust international students to buy less than 200 yuan of AJ, Adi and other tide brands on platforms such as Chaoduoduo, and then ship them to sell abroad at a sky-high price of 30 times, and even international shoe inspectors have sighed: From the moment the machines in the Chinese factory are opened, our advantage is only the design level.
The so-called realization of "100% Made in China", the amount of information in this is also too large.
What Tesla has done is to take the drawings given by the headquarters, find cheap suppliers in the country, and reduce the cost to achieve the minimization of manufacturing costs and the maximization of the company's interests.
History is always strikingly similar. Only by developing our own technology is the real way out, and we look forward to the country going to the forefront of the world.