He Xiaopeng 12 began to build cars.
Continued: He Xiaopeng's desire to build a car in Ali was denied, and He Xiaopeng did not want to miss this opportunity. So he decided to build new energy vehicles and find a new life goal and a new pursuit. This goal is big enough, tossed enough to attract him, and when he gets home, he is excited to tell his wife about it. As soon as he said that his wife immediately objected: He Xiaopeng said: This is my last time to start a business, you support me, I am now living every day without a goal, and I am almost depressed.
His wife said that car building is a high-investment industry, how much do you plan to invest? He Xiaopeng said at least $300 million. That wife disagreed even more, the 2.1 billion yuan family instantly dug a hole, selling UC He Xiaopeng may get 18 billion. If you don't toss and hand over the money to the fund company to manage, plus you are still working in Ali and executives, the annual salary is also millions to tens of millions, and it is more than enough to maintain a rich life with a salary. Even if the money from the sale of UC is deposited in the bank to eat interest, the money has a steady stream of income, and the money is really endless. It simply doesn't take an entire lifetime.
So it's understandable that his wife is opposed to him building a car, why spend such a large amount of money to toss himself, isn't this clearly spending money to find guilt? Like Liang Jie sold UC and took a huge amount of money to retire to enjoy life, as if he was in seclusion, his footprints could not be found on the Internet. He Xiaopeng went to his eldest brother Lei Jun for support, probably more to seek moral support, after all, now he He Xiaopeng is not bad at money.
Lei Jun reminded him: Xiaopeng, the automotive industry is a much more complex industry than the Internet industry, there is no difficulty in doing Internet products, the cost is not high is a kind of mental work, resources are your brain, flexible brain can make good products. Even if you don't do well at the beginning, you can quickly update iterative optimization at any time. Achieve the most satisfactory effect of users.
But building a car is completely different. The migration is all over the place, and the change of one part in the automotive field means that it is likely to take months to change the entire production line. Even for a year, at the same time the cost increases several times. The difficulty of building a car is at least 100 times that of Internet products. But He Xiaopeng still insists on building a car, because he needs to find greater success, stimulate his dopamine, and gain a new sense of accomplishment.
It can be said that He Xiaopeng is an unsatisfied person, a risk-averse personality, and it is impossible to enjoy as much as his poetry. He Xiaopeng's wife also deeply knows the stubbornness in He Xiaopeng's bones, and it is difficult for you to convince you of what he thinks, and finally He Xiaopeng's persistence persuaded his wife to support him in building a car. After getting his wife, He Xiaopeng resigned as president of Ali and turned around and walked into the new energy track. But he is not alone, he pulled the crooked founder Li Xueling, former Tencent executives, Wu Xiaoguang and other Internet bigwigs to find a man named Xia Heng. Why did he look for Xia Heng? This Xia Heng is also a famous teacher, he graduated from Tsinghua University with a major in automotive engineering, which is said to be the Huangpu Military Academy in the field of automatic driving in China.
As early as 1978, Tsinghua University began research on autonomous driving, which was initiated by the Department of Computer Science and only involved in three graduate students. Then in 1978, Tsinghua University established the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, which is the cradle of China's autonomous driving technology, and has been rated as an A-level laboratory in the evaluation of the State Key Laboratory for three consecutive times. Subsequently, the laboratory set up a research project for self-driving cars and developed prototypes for multiple generations of autonomous driving.
It wasn't until '80 that Tsinghua University's Department of Automotive Engineering was officially established and officially listed autonomous driving as one of their research projects. In this process, a large number of high-end talents have been sent to China's automobile industry. It can be said that the Department of Automotive Engineering of Tsinghua University is the cradle of talents in China's high-end automotive industry.
According to relevant data, from 2010 to 20020, Tsinghua University ranked second in the world in the field of artificial intelligence, second only to Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Therefore, no matter from any point of view, Tsinghua University has a long history in the field of autonomous driving talents and technology, and is worthy of the title of China's first university.
Xia Heng, who majored in automotive engineering at Tsinghua, was one of the people who knew the most about new energy vehicles in the Chinese automotive industry at that time. At that time, he was the section chief of the control department of GAC New Energy Center. Before Musk opened up patents, new energy vehicles were a niche track in China. After Tesla opened the patent, it suddenly became popular, and the crowd was noisy, and the voices were loud, very lively.
At this time, Xia Heng, as the head of the control section of GAC New Energy Center, began to become particularly busy. Every day, I have to meet some Internet bigwigs, and people from Internet manufacturers continue to come to the door and say that they want to build cars together. People from Internet giants continue to come to the door and say that they want to build cars together.
