Wang Feng was very depressed, very depressed.

"One ticket every two years, as promised!"

His ninth personal album "Nothing for Life" was originally planned to be officially released on November 16, but the preview time has been set.

In this album, he has injected more precipitation and insights.

But at that time, Mu Yang's Xinghai Group's acquisition of Hummer EV was always in the hot news, and Mu Yang's news was all over the Internet.

Therefore, Wang Feng planned to delay the announcement.

From November to today, December 10th, Muyang fell silent and did not appear for a long time, as if he had disappeared from the earth.

Wang Feng was very happy, he felt that he was stable, absolutely stable!

"yeah!"

At eight o'clock in the morning, he announced his ninth album "Nothing for Life" on Weibo, which is really released every two years.

The eighth album "Faith is Flying in the Air" was announced on July 31, 2009.

But by nine o'clock in the morning, Wang Feng couldn't laugh anymore.

Damn Mu Yang, he’s on the hot news again.

His current mood is just like the lyrics in "Nothing for Life": "How should I exist...how many times have I been ecstatic but suffered from pain..."

Yes, he felt like he had no sense of existence.

Wang Feng really wants to shout to netizens and fans: I am here! Check out my new song!

Depressed as hell, Wang Feng was also curious as to why Mu Yang was in the hot news this time, and carefully read the reports about Mu Yang.

It turns out that Mu Yang's incident of smashing a Rolls-Royce Phantom worth nearly ten million yuan was spread to the outside world, and then it was publicized by media reporters and became a hot news item.

Mu Yang didn't take it seriously, but netizens started talking crazily. After all, this cost nearly tens of millions of cars.

"Why are you smashing the car? Genius Mu is crazy!"

"I heard that it was Mu Yang who took the lead in smashing the car himself in order to stop his employees from being timid about studying the car."

"That's really cool. I haven't smashed a car before, and I guess not many people have smashed a car, let alone a car worth nearly ten million."

"Rolls-Royce is probably going to cry to death. Why smash our brand's cars? Isn't it okay to smash other brands' cars? Haha."

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Rolls-Royce and its boss BMW did not make a statement and did not take the ridicule from netizens seriously.

However, doubts about Xinghai Group's car manufacturing have been raised again, and many industry executives are using the hot topic to promote their companies or products.

"If you can learn to build a car by smashing it, then our XX company can do it too."

"Xinghai Group started building cars with a bit of a high profile. It seems that there has been no new action in the past few months. Muyang's Weibo has not been updated for a long time. It is estimated that Muyang has lost confidence in building cars. He is still studying other brands of cars.

stage. This book "Wolf's Ambition" is about making a person more confident. Mr. Mu Yang supports this book. He said that since reading this book, he now has the confidence to build a car."

There are many voices of doubt, but there are also many voices of support.

However, Wang Feng also couldn’t understand: Is there any mistake? Such nonsense can become hot news!

If Mu Yang knew what Wang Feng was thinking, he would definitely reply to him: "You really don't blame me!"

In his spare time, Mu Yang saw doubts or support from the media or celebrities about his car building.

However, Mu Yang laughed a few times and laughed at himself: We are ridiculous in building cars. In a few years, those new forces building cars will probably make you guys laugh out loud.

Xinghai Group still starts from the most basic level when building cars, unlike the Internet which makes cars from scratch. For example, it would be outrageous for Du Niang to build cars in the future.

The car designed by Du Niang actually lacks B-pillars. Without B-pillars, there is less support. Even Muyang is not confident in ensuring that the car is rigid enough while reducing B-pillars; with fancy butterfly-wing doors, how can the closing speed be avoided?

In case of pedestrian collision, the practicality is very poor.

Just make those things that are not practical. The design is very novel, which is weird to say the least.

Design advocates innovation, but cars must first consider safety performance, rather than abandoning traditional design and making something fancy.

Du Niang and Zheli Group jointly built cars, but Zheli Group could not be seen assisting in building cars. In the end, Zheli Group withdrew and outsiders stepped in to build cars, which would indeed create a mess. This is what Muyang emphasized to the management to pay attention to.

, laymen should not interfere in professional matters.

Mu Yang planned to continue to be quiet until he succeeded in building a car, so he was too lazy to pay attention to external affairs. His focus shifted from electric motors to autonomous driving.

The autonomous driving laboratory has set up an experimental site in the No. 9 steel structure factory building and an open space outside the factory building. It has set up many traffic sign props, such as driving areas, lane lines, traffic signs, traffic lights, vehicles, pedestrians and all obstacles.

etc.

The above detections belong to environmental perception research projects, and there are many small projects that need to be studied, such as high-precision positioning (such as laser positioning, visual positioning, integrated navigation positioning), decision-making planning, intelligent control, data platform, etc.

It will be tested in the company first, and finally it will be tested in actual traffic to collect more data.

Due to hardware limitations, Muyang's planning goal for autonomous driving is L2 advanced driving assistance, which will also be the driving assistance level for mainstream electric models in ten years.

When the hardware chip can keep up in the future, we will move to L3, step by step.

The system design of L2 is not a problem for Mu Yang. He is also fully responsible for this project, and he has more than 20 researchers.

When Mu Yang arrived at the autonomous driving experiment site, these researchers breathed a sigh of relief. The boss was finally here. They had solved some key problems, but some algorithm problems had been bothering them and they still needed to be solved by the chairman himself.

They have great admiration for the chairman.

There are several experimental vehicles on site, all equipped with instruments, such as laser locators installed on the roof, global positioning system GPS, wheel encoders installed on the wheels, external cameras installed in the headlights, etc.

Except for GPS, which has network requirements, everything else does not require an external network. If the car drives into a tunnel or basement without a network, it will not be unable to drive autonomously.

Muyang named the company’s autonomous driving assistance “XH Autopilot” and the level is L2.

The hardware of this L2 level autonomous driving system is mainly an auxiliary driving chip. The sensing hardware includes 4 environment awareness cameras, 2 in-car cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars, 5 millimeter wave radars, 4 surround-view cameras, etc.

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The capability of the chip is expressed by the chip computing power TOPS. For example, Tesla's self-developed FSD can bring 144TOPS, while the Weilai ES6 only has 5TOPS.

Of course, domestically produced cars also use high-level chips. For example, the self-developed chip used by Huawei on the Avita 11 has a computing power of 400TOPS, the ideal L9 chip has a computing power of 508TOPS, and the Wei Lai ES7 chip has a computing power of 1016TOPS. The latter two

It is an imported chip.

Chip computing power is a relatively complex issue, as long as it is sufficient.

Autonomous driving mainly needs to process a large amount of image data, and the chip used is a GPU (image processing chip) rather than a CPU (central processing unit).

It is increasingly difficult for processors with CPU as the core to meet the needs of processing unstructured data such as videos and pictures. At the same time, the processor also needs to integrate multi-channel data such as radar and video, so GPU is more suitable.

Today, automotive chip hardware may not meet Muyang's requirements, but Muyang can optimize algorithms, simplify logic, and reduce GPU requirements.

At the same time, it does not require all auxiliary driving functions. It only needs to meet the commonly used auxiliary driving functions, such as lane keeping assist system, automatic parking assist system, brake assist system, reversing assist system and driving assist system.

Mu Yang plans to find Warwick Enterprises to get automotive chips. If he can't get it, he will have to find Nvidia or Intel.

GPUs and sensor hardware in this era are not cheap. Mu Yang has never thought about making money from them, as long as he can make a profit.

This is the same as opening a supermarket. Fruits, oils and salt are very cheap, and you may even lose money, but the supermarket can make money from other places.

Xinghai Group mainly makes money from batteries and motors.

Make money from spare parts first, and after selling the cars, the beautiful company will make some of the money.

Although the price of the car is the same, the money you end up with is different.

But it is not arbitrary. The higher the price and the higher the base, the more tariffs you have to pay. Just try to find a balanced value.

The two countries have different taxes, and Lao Cao, the glass magnate who invested and built a factory in the beautiful country, said bluntly: "The comprehensive tax burden of China's manufacturing industry is 35% higher than that of the beautiful country, and the profits of factories in the beautiful country are higher than those of China."

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When Mu Yang invested in Hummer, he specifically analyzed this issue, which was related to how much money he could get.

There are differences in value-added tax and corporate ownership tax between the two countries. What Lao Cao said is not correct either.

For example, Xinghai Group has been exempted from corporate income tax for three years, and will be levied half of corporate income tax in the future. What is the corporate income tax in Beautiful Country?

American companies bear one of the highest federal corporate income tax rates in the world, as high as 35%.

As for China, the highest corporate income tax is 25%!

Of course, the value-added tax levied in our country is generated during the production process of the enterprise. Even if the enterprise does not produce, it has already started paying taxes when it purchases raw materials.

There is no such thing as value-added tax in the beautiful country. The corporate income tax is high, but it is levied only after the company makes a profit. If the company does not make money, it does not need to pay.

The tax rates in the two countries are not just that simple. They are more complex. Different industries and different companies may have different situations.

Some companies have high national taxes in China, but they may be very low in beautiful countries; it may also be the other way around.

National conditions are different, so we cannot simply say which one is good or which one is bad. It depends on the situation and nature of the enterprise. There is no absolute good or bad situation.

But in the case of Xinghai Group, if the company's profits are high, the tax in the beautiful country will be heavier.

Three years of tax exemption + three years of half tax. Even if half of the tax is paid, the corporate income tax rate for high-tech enterprises is only 15%!

This is 20% less than the 35% in beautiful countries.

Therefore, what Lao Cao said was aimed at his company, which was a bit against his will.

But if it is for companies with low profit margins, Lao Cao’s words are also correct.
To be continued...