"Ten years ago, major foreign automobile companies entered the Chinese market one after another. Do you know how they entered the Chinese market?" Boss Jia asked with a smile.

"Joint venture?" Diet Zetsche replied. Diet Zetsche was very familiar with entering the Chinese market, because in 2000, Mercedes-Benz was already planning to enter the Chinese market.

If everything is normal, this year, Mercedes-Benz will reach a cooperation with the China Imperial Capital Jeep Company, establish a joint venture, and then start the life of the Imperial Capital Mercedes-Benz in China.

However, because of the electric vehicle movement in China, Chinese auto companies are no longer interested in joint ventures with foreign auto companies. After all, no matter how powerful foreign auto companies are, their technology is fuel vehicle technology, which is not in line with the current domestic market demand. There is no benefit to joint ventures, so they naturally lose interest in joint ventures.

As a result, Mercedes-Benz could not find any partner in China. It had originally formulated a joint venture plan and completely failed, so Mercedes-Benz completely gave up entering the Chinese market.

In fact, Mercedes-Benz is pretty good, because it has never entered and has not gained the benefits of the Chinese market. Mercedes-Benz can be free to switch and relax.

On the contrary, companies like Volkswagen and Audi are very uncomfortable. They have entered the Chinese market more than ten years ago and enjoyed profits for several years.

For example, the profits in the Chinese market are now the second largest source of market profits for Volkswagen Group.

As a result, all the fuel vehicles in China are now unable to be sold. Audi and Volkswagen's annual reports are bleak, and the stock prices have also plummeted, which is simply terrible!

Diet Zetsche watched a joke for a while, but he didn't understand what Boss Jia said it meant!

"Ten years ago, you relied on joint ventures to enter the Chinese market and taught us Chinese artificial cars!" Boss Jia smiled slightly. "Now, we are entering the European market and establishing a joint venture with you. Our technology and production are ours. Is this considered that we Chinese have begun to teach you European artificial cars?"

"Of course I'm very happy to promote this collaboration!"

"..." Diet Zetsche opened his mouth. He knew that what Boss Jia said was the truth because he could feel the strong sense of family and country in Boss Jia's heart. He believed this answer.

As for Diet Zetsche himself, at this time he thought that Europe had reached the era of using Chinese technology and products to build cars?

This made Diet Zetsche feel a little dazed and even a little shameful.

"Forget it, it has nothing to do with me. I just need to let Mercedes-Benz get the best benefits!" Diet Zetsche quickly broke free from that bad mood. For people like him, home, country, etc., they are actually just some bad moods, and they are not important.

As long as it is profitable, this is OK!

This is the perfect petty bourgeoisie, one exquisite egoist.

"Thank you for your sincere answer. This negotiation is also the most peculiar experience in my life. I hope we have the next opportunity to cooperate!" Diet Zetsche said with a smile.

"Of course!" Boss Jia smiled. "In fact, we don't have to wait for the next time, we can start a new negotiation work soon!"

"Ah... um?" Diet Zetsche was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Boss Jia meant.

"Mr. Zetsche, have you never considered the issue of battery swap station?" Boss Jia asked with a smile.

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The next day, Diet Zetsche continued to appear at the negotiating table helplessly. Almost all the members of the negotiations sat in their original position with helpless expressions.

There was almost no change in personnel between the two sides, and they directly started negotiations according to the old rules.

There are two problems with this negotiation, one is the battery issue, and the other is the battery swap station issue.

To be honest, Boss Jia himself was also very surprised by this second negotiation, because he thought these two issues would be completed in the first negotiation, but Mercedes-Benz did not talk to him about these two issues throughout the whole process and decided to sign the contract directly.

Boss Jia didn't even point it out, and pretended to be confused and signed the contract.

As a result, that night, Boss Jia threw this question to everyone present.

Then the Mercedes-Benz was also confused. What, the parts of the contract signed before did not include batteries from beginning to end?

Also, what is a battery swap station? Isn’t it all done by charging?

From this we can see that Mercedes-Benz looked down on China's electric vehicle industry from beginning to end, but now there is a sudden electric vehicle boom in Europe. Mercedes-Benz just wants to take advantage of the popularity, but it did not conduct a detailed investigation of China's electric vehicle industry at all, so it directly started negotiations with Daqian.

Of course, another reason is that Daqian came too quickly. Mercedes-Benz originally thought that the entire negotiation would be delayed by about a month, and they had enough time to investigate the situation while discussing, but it turned out to be embarrassing.

Let’s talk about the battery issue first. Mercedes-Benz takes it for granted that the car contains batteries, especially in the list given by Chinese people, which clearly contains the word battery, so they think it is a battery.

But in fact, this is the sub-battery of an electric vehicle, which is specially used to power the vehicle's electronic control system. This battery cannot be disassembled and can be powered and charged on weekdays, so the sub-battery is included in the list, but the main battery does not.

Mercedes-Benz didn't notice this problem, and it turned out to be confused.

So when Daqian told them after signing the contract that Daqian's electric car did not include batteries, Mercedes-Benz was stunned, and then hurriedly began the second negotiation that Boss Jia predicted.

"What kind of battery is too expensive, almost equivalent to the price of a whole vehicle, how could it be so expensive! You obviously want to cheat us!" The person who saw the battery quotation, immediately questioned.

Mercedes-Benz even suspected that this was a trap that Daqian had arranged in advance, trying to make back all the profits he had lost from the battery.

"Our price is already the best, because if Zhou Wen wants to achieve a range of at least 400 kilometers, he needs a large number of main battery packs to be responsible for power supply."
Chapter completed!