Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1349: Chapter 645: Code Is the Most Valuable Asset_2

Zhao Yi listened patiently and nodded, Musk was telling the truth, but this alone could not convince him to collaborate.

Musk, realizing that these points alone were not enough to sway Zhao Yi, simply stated directly, "If we collaborate, we can jointly manufacture a car that needs just a continuous power supply of 10 kilowatts to run for over six hours."

"If it’s used intermittently, I believe the daily driving time wouldn’t be less than 10 hours."

The significance of this number couldn’t be clearer. freewēbnoveℓ.com

While Unlimited Power Automobiles can operate continuously, they require a power supply of 10 to 30 kilowatts, and at full power, even more than 40 kilowatts, with high power indicating high energy consumption.

If a car that only needed a continuous power supply of 10 kilowatts could be manufactured, not only would the functional time of the vehicle be extended, but energy loss could be greatly reduced, meaning more cars could be produced.

For instance, instead of manufacturing ten thousand units, now fifteen thousand could be made.

This technology may sound simple, but in reality, the solution is incredibly complex, necessitating a comprehensive electronic detection system and advanced battery charging and discharging technologies.

Yixing Company has been conducting research and development in this direction, which could solve some problems, but doing research and development on their own, even with a hard effort for one or two years, would hardly result in a perfect system, and the system might still have various issues.

This wasn’t something Zhao Yi could solve by himself.

The electronic system, control system, coupled with the detection system, the onboard software is extraordinarily complex, akin to a computer’s operating system. Achieving a perfect operating system requires line after line of code, a process that takes far too long.

Zhao Yi’s abilities were limited, and he couldn’t possibly write millions, tens of millions, or even billions of lines of code.

That level of coding required a large team to complete.

Nonetheless, Zhao Yi still shook his head, saying, "Mr. Musk, I admit you are correct, and the technology you possess is what we need. If we collaborate to manufacture cars, we could create very perfect Unlimited Power Automobiles."

Musk listened and nodded without any change in his expression.

Zhao Yi then abruptly shifted his tone, "But why do we need to manufacture perfect cars? In the field of solar energy remote output technology, we don’t have any competitors."

"Currently, at our company, the number of cars we manufacture is limited, and we sell every one we make."

"Although being able to produce more cars with the same power supply is certainly appealing, we could also utilize the high profits and high returns to launch more Energy-Gathering Satellites, which would provide more energy."

"To us, solar energy is like the water in the ocean, inexhaustible. When every drop can generate profit, all we need to do is keep expanding the channels, bringing in more seawater, which is simple and efficient."

"On the contrary, to increase the profits from every drop of water by adding a partner, or even introducing a competitor, seems like a foolish move to me."

After hearing this, Musk took a deep breath, clearly understanding Zhao Yi’s implication. His words were quite explicit.

Yixing Unlimited Power Company didn’t really need to improve technology or manufacture ’more perfect automobiles,’ because even if they were not perfect, their cars were in demand. What they needed to do was simply to launch more satellites and produce more cars.

In terms of improving vehicle performance and reducing energy consumption, they could take their time, accumulate slowly, without the need to find a partner for this.

The negotiations thus reached a stalemate at this point.

Zhao Yi indicated there was no need for collaboration, no need to improve technology—the first part was sincere, but the latter might not have been.

Musk understood this as well.

Moreover, he knew that Tesla was the passive party, that as Yixing Unlimited Power gradually expanded, they would eventually erode Tesla’s market share. Internationally, more people would opt for Unlimited Power Automobiles instead of just Tesla’s electric cars.

Tesla’s advantage lay in its international cutting-edge, comprehensive electric car technology.

Unlimited Power Automobiles could certainly wrest market share from Tesla, but how long would that take? Perhaps ten years, twenty years, or even longer.

Given the manufacturing speed of Unlimited Power Automobiles, covering the market would take a long time.

Musk fell silent for a short while, consulted with others, and then continued, "Perhaps we could consider a different type of collaboration."

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When Musk lowered his stance, the negotiation was firmly under Yixing’s control.

The two parties went through several rounds of negotiations and eventually came to an agreement on certain issues. For instance, collaboration was possible, but it was a red line for Yixing not to provide relevant technologies nor co-develop car products with Tesla.

Tesla, for example, needed to provide some software technology.

One of Tesla’s needs was for Yixing to sell a batch of solar energy conversion receivers.

Yixing also took the negotiations with Tesla very seriously, and after four consecutive days of talks, the two companies finally agreed on a method of collaboration.

The first aspect was the software.

Tesla provided a portion of the basic electronic control and detection domain code.

The discussions on software requirements took the longest because the content related to software functions was very complex, each aspect had to be negotiated, and Tesla would surely want to provide as little core code as possible.