Rebirth: I just wanted to study hard, but I became a scumbag

Chapter 521 Penguin follows suit

Nanshan, Penguin Group headquarters.

"Mr. Pony, there is new news about Zesheng Technology."

"They recently plan to build a car factory, and it is said that they plan to invest in the pure electric vehicle field."

"Do you think we should also find a tram factory to invest in it?"

The assistant took the business information he had just collected and made a report to Mr. Pony.

Since Penguin Taxi has been involved in a series of lawsuits, they have completely stopped their online ride-hailing business.

Penguin Group's losses from this amounted to tens of billions.

Although Penguin Group is wealthy, such huge losses still aroused strong dissatisfaction from the board of directors.

Not to mention, the previous war between WeChat and QChat has gradually come to an end.

Although qxin cannot be said to have failed miserably, it only has about 10% of the market share, which obviously does not pose much substantial threat to WeChat.

As a result, Xiao Ma always learned from the pain.

From now on, whenever Su Ze makes any move, he will have first-hand information.

After listening to the assistant's report, Mr. Xiao Ma pondered for a moment.

Because Penguin Group is currently involved in almost all Internet projects.

Car manufacturing is a real industry, which is inconsistent with Penguin’s development plan.

Forcibly entering an unfamiliar area may lead to the same old path of Penguin Taxi.

Therefore, President Xiao Ma does not plan to follow up rashly this time.

“What is the development prospect of pure electric vehicles now?”

The assistant took out the information that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Mr. Ma.

"Pure electric vehicles in various countries now belong to emerging industries, and many established car manufacturers look down their noses at such vehicles."

"After all, the technologies of oil trucks have been very mature for a long time, and electric cars have shortcomings in many aspects."

"It is estimated that the domestic market is only a few billion."

Billions sounds like a lot.

But for large manufacturers like Penguin, it is not attractive.

Because these billions cannot be eaten by one company, but must be shared with several manufacturers that produce pure electric vehicles.

Even penguins can swallow a lot of food by themselves due to their large size.

But the cost of building a car is there. The total cost of building a factory to produce cars is estimated to start at [-] billion.

Compared to the income, it's totally not worth it.

So, when looking at the data on paper.

The pure electric car business has no development prospects at all.

However, Mr. Ma doesn't think so.

"If the market is only a few billion, then why did Su Ze spend so much effort building a factory?"

The assistant scratched his head: "Does he have any inside information?"

Mr. Pony sneered: "His foundation is still shallow. Even if he can get any information, it stands to reason that we should know earlier."

"Besides, he is involved in the automotive field this time. Logically speaking, the first to know should be the major car manufacturers. It should not be him."

The assistant shrugged blankly: "Then I don't know."

"Maybe he just prefers electric cars?"

All the rich men in the world have more or less personal hobbies.

For example, some bosses like to play football, so they spend their own money to buy a team.

Some bosses like luxury jewelry, so they directly spend a lot of money to invest in the other party's brand.

Especially young rich people like Su Ze like to show their personality by spreading money.

No matter what the future development prospects of pure electric vehicles are, at least his avant-garde and trendy personal image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"If you are talking about someone else, then I believe you."

Mr. Xiao Ma waved his hand: "But this is Su Ze, he won't do such a thing."

Initially, after Dota 2 was released, the response in the game market was mediocre.

Many people felt that Su Ze had played a good hand to pieces.

But with the popularity of YY e-sports later, Dota2 events were held in full swing.

Even League of Legends had to follow suit and create a league to attract more players.

This is enough to show that when Su Ze released Dota 2, he was actually laying the foundation for the subsequent e-sports ecosystem.

It's a pity that Penguin's game department was short-sighted and didn't notice any clues.

It was only after the yy e-sports organization formed an absolute monopoly in the country that they came to their senses.

At present, a large number of Dota2 teams have been born in China.

Even many League of Legends clubs are busy working on Dota 2 projects.

The reason is very simple, dota2 and yy e-sports are integrated.

The more resources they pour into Dota 2, the more resources they will enjoy in the League of Legends field.

Xiao Ma always feels aggrieved by this, because League of Legends is obviously their company's game.

But as Su Ze monopolizes the domestic e-sports ecosystem, the major teams have to look at Su Ze's face.

President Xiao Ma has also made efforts to this end, trying to boycott the major teams under the yy e-sports project.

As a result, a large number of League of Legends teams chose to disband.

The reason is simple, only YY Esports can protect the rights and interests of their club.

Xiao Ma always boycotts YY E-Sports, but doesn't care about their life or death.

The club owner is not a fool, nor is he a big enemy.

And as the League of Legends teams were disbanded in batches, Mr. Pony was also anxious.

In the end, he was forced to join YY E-sports and become one of Su Ze's partners.

This incident itself did not cause much damage to Penguin, but it reminded Mr. Ma not to have any contempt for Su Ze.

Otherwise, the consequences are right in front of you.

"You just said you were looking for a tram company to invest in, do you have any recommendations?" Mr. Xiao Ma asked.

The assistant nodded: "Yes."

"There are currently two options. One is to cooperate with traditional car manufacturers."

"They have all been developing tram technology recently, so they have a similar start."

“But since they all started out with petrol vehicles, the investment in pure electric vehicles is not huge.”

Mr. Pony nodded, he could completely understand this situation.

After all, the domestic automobile market is so big. If there are more electric cars, there will naturally be a corresponding decrease in gas cars.

The various technologies of oil trucks have been developed with great efforts. If the oil trucks cannot be sold, these technology patents will be lost.

Therefore, the vast majority of traditional car manufacturers are still resistant to pure electric vehicles.

"There is another plan, let's talk about it." Mr. Pony urged.

The assistant took out a form with an internal letter from LeTV.

The above describes in detail the development direction of LeTV in the next few years.

On the bottom line, it clearly states that LeTV will launch a pure electric vehicle of its own brand within two years.

Thus creating their own LeTV ecosystem.

Although LeTV was still a small factory just starting out at that time, Mr. Ma was quite interested in it.

Because as far as he knew, the energy behind the head of LeTV, Boss Jia, should not be underestimated.

If he takes the lead in this car-building plan, it is naturally very secure.

"Call Boss Jia immediately and tell him that I want to invite him to tea." Mr. Xiao Ma said excitedly.