Page 660
Volkswagen Group headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.
At this time, the major shareholders and shareholder representatives of the Volkswagen Group are gathering in a spacious and bright conference room, sitting around an oval conference table.
The atmosphere was somewhat stagnant, like the tranquility before the storm, making people feel peaceful, but extremely depressing.
"Okay everyone, everyone is here, and you have read the information I sent you. I think you all know the theme of this meeting." Martin, the president of the Volkswagen Group, said at the top.
In the conference room, everyone turned their attention to him.
"A few months ago, all of us gathered in this conference room. At that time, we discussed with confidence whether future technologies would enter the automotive industry."
"The final conclusion is that there is a 60.00% chance that they will not enter."
"However, four days ago, the official websites of Future Technology and Ferrari posted the news that they would enter the automotive field. After yesterday's press conference, this matter has been confirmed."
"So, Future Technology, the hungry wolf from the east, has already opened its fangs and claws at us, and they are coming to share our cake."
"Everyone, if you have anything to say about this, you can speak freely. I hope everyone will express their opinions."
After finishing speaking, Martin scanned the entire meeting room, his eyes fell on the shareholders or shareholder representatives present, and he saw that half of their faces were covered with dignified expressions.
"President, I don't think this matter is as bad as imagined." A 50-year-old blue-clothed foreigner said.
"How?" Martin motioned him to continue.
9 Chapter Seventy Volkswagen Group Meeting
"First of all, I think that although there is a certain amount of confidence in future technology to enter the automotive field, their confidence has been discussed before, and it comes from Ferrari."
And this time, Ferrari also announced that it will exhibit a new car on the same day as our subsidiary Lamborghini in Geneva, Switzerland. "
"Perhaps, the Ferrari company's exhibition car this time is the beginning of Chaowei Technology's entry into the automotive field, but we all know that Chaowei Technology has made no achievements in the field of automobile heavy industry before, and they only rely on Ferrari's reserve technology."
"After the lawsuit a while ago, Ferrari's two top laboratories are firmly in our hands, so the future technology seems to be menacing this time, but it is actually just a bluff." The blue-clothed foreigner finished his speech. After the insight, he shut his mouth.
Immediately after that, someone started matching.
"That's right, the focus of future technology is on Internet-related technologies. Automobile heavy industry is not their field of expertise."
"They only have one Ferrari company under their umbrella. Besides, my people have also investigated clearly. Li Linfei himself has not made any acquisitions of any car company."
"Future Technology is now the number one company in the world. It is true that our Volkswagen Group's revenue cannot match it, but this does not necessarily mean that we should be afraid of it. At least our background is not inferior to Future Technology."
The people sitting here are all bigwigs in the automobile field, with the background of the Volkswagen Group, so it goes without saying that there are extremely many automobile factories in the world.
Last month, people within the company evaluated the assets of the entire group and concluded that the current total assets of the entire Volkswagen Group have successfully exceeded US$5000 billion.
This is a real asset, not the market value of those listed companies that will turn into bubbles once they encounter a financial crisis.
Therefore, under the protection of such a powerful tree shade, the people of the Volkswagen Group speak with a lot of confidence.
However, some people are optimistic, while others see some crisis.
"Everyone, the future technology is not a bluff. They are scourges and hungry wolves. If we are not careful, we will be submerged and torn apart like the Apple Group!"
"This matter cannot be sloppy. The potential of future technology has been recognized by the whole world after such a long time. Haven't you seen it yet?"
"It's ridiculous that you are still deceiving yourself and others at this time."
"Chaowei Technology doesn't understand heavy industry? But how did my people find out that the high-precision nine-axis linkage CNC machine tool recently obtained by the Huaxia Military was leaked from Chaowei Technology?"
"Before Future Technology released metal hydrogen, who here believed that they would produce metal hydrogen? No, but now you see, all countries in the world, including the United States, are begging others to sell 'metal' with money. hydrogen'."
"Future technology should not be underestimated. Everyone, those companies that closed down because they underestimated Chaowei Technology are our lessons learned from the past. Pay attention."
Fear and horror and a sense of crisis are contagious emotions.Under the deliberate mobilization of some people in the meeting room, the atmosphere in the whole meeting room became a bit dull again.
"Calm down, everyone, and listen to me first." Martin said.
Soon, the conference room fell silent.
"First of all, we cannot underestimate the future technology, and no one will underestimate it. After all, its rise has brought too many surprises to the world.
"My son and daughter both use their company's mobile phone. From their mouths, I learned their evaluation of this product. Do you want to know what it is?"
"President Martin, what do you mean by boasting about future technology? To uplift others' prestige and destroy our own aspirations?" Adesi, the representative of the Rurik family, said in a strange way.
Martin didn't even look at Ardesi and went on talking about himself.
"My son told me it was the most perfect phone he'd ever used, and my daughter told me that after using it, her world would be gray if she didn't have it."
"While young people may be exaggerating the truth, zooming out doesn't prevent us from understanding their love for the perfect phone."
"Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the rise of the perfect mobile phone, which suppressed Apple, the former world's largest market capitalization company, in one fell swoop."
"Apple, which has lost its mobile phone business, has seen its market value plummet, from more than US$7000 billion last year to less than US$4000 billion now."
"Over $3000 billion shrunk, and that's what happened to them."
Having said that, Martin paused, and turned his eyes to Adesi. The latter looked a little uncomfortable, so he looked away and turned his head away.
"I don't want our Volkswagen Group to step into such a footsteps in the future." At this point, Martin's words changed suddenly.
"However, the future technology is powerful, and they are number one in the world. This is undisputed, but it is their business that they are powerful. We, the Volkswagen Group, also have our pride and confidence."
"This time, Chaowei Technology and no one else in the world would have imagined that the car we launched on December 12 would be a cross-generational car with our technical reserves ten years later."
After the words fell, Martin's lips revealed a smug smile.
The Geneva auto show will not only have Lamborghini cars, but also Volkswagen's Porsche, Audi, Bugatti, and the Volkswagen brand itself will launch new models.
"This...President Martin, what do you mean?"
"This exhibition actually used all the technical reserves ten years later?"
"If that's the case, there's no suspense."
"I just want to know, what kind of car is it?" Martin pressed his hand while discussing in the conference room, and quickly fell silent.
Chapter 971 Martin's Confidence
"Everyone, this auto show will be a collision between us and future technology, so before that, I temporarily changed the new car that I was going to launch, and replaced it with a technical reserve car ten years later."
"In the future, greening, environmental protection, and energy saving will be the themes of automobiles, and Volkswagen has been doing a good job in this regard, so our cars ten years from now will definitely be better."
"For Lamborghini, the new car is a pure electric Lamborghini Afforest, which means a green and environmentally friendly Lamborghini. The power inside the car is entirely driven by electric energy."
"That is to say, the fuel consumption of Lamborghini's effort has become a thing of the past, and our electric energy device, thanks to the graphene battery of future technology, has the powerful function of driving 10 kilometers at a time. It can be filled in minutes." When Martin said this, someone interrupted him immediately.