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At the beginning of 2021, with the company's good development momentum and the hot orders of model Y in China, the market value of Tesla successfully exceeded US$800 billion, surpassing Facebook in one fell swoop, becoming the fifth largest listed company in the United States.
Standing at the tide of the century of new energy, Musk is a pioneer, a changer and a leader. These characters are far more shining than the title of the richest man in the world.
As early as 1989, when Musk turned 18, Ye Wengui, a farmer entrepreneur from Wenzhou, China, had developed an electric car that was charged for eight hours and traveled 200 kilometers, and on a chilly spring night, he drove it to the highest mountain in Wenzhou .
If the times give him a chance, this "No. 1 capable man in Wenzhou" is likely to be as dazzling as Musk.
Ye Wengui showed a very strong hands-on ability when he was young, and he could assemble a recorder by himself at a young age. After going to school, he was obsessed with learning physics knowledge and had excellent grades. These all laid the foundation for him to be keen on invention and creation in the future.
As an adult, he served as an intellectual youth to support Heilongjiang Qitaihe .
There, he found that the Qitaihedi Mining Bureau needed a large number of shovels, so he developed and manufactured a machine for processing shovel handles by himself, and jointly set up a shovel handle factory in the local area.
Through the development and growth of the shovel factory, Ye Wengui earned his first pot of gold in his life. In 1980, when supplies were still relatively scarce, Ye Wengui owned more than 80,000 yuan.
By 1988, Ye Wengui's cash held reached an exaggerated amount of more than 15 million yuan.
Ye Wengui's early entrepreneurial experience is full of the intelligence and hard work of Wenzhou people.
At that time, there was a shortage of independent car brands in China, and it was precisely because of this that Ye Wengui decided to build his own car.
In the 1980s, Chinese cars were heavily reliant on imports, and most of the ones running on the road were imported or joint venture cars. According to Ding Wengui, "At that time, there were ten car factories in Taiwan and six in mainland China, and none of the 16 factories were Chinese brands. It was so pitiful"!
This simple mentality of serving the country in industry has made Ye Wengui invest all his resources in car manufacturing without conducting any analysis and research on the market and not sufficiently considering the difficulty of R&D and capital investment.
In 1988, Ye Wengui spent six months to create the "Ye Fenghao" with an eight-hour charging time and a range of 200 kilometers.
"Yefenghao" is 20 years earlier than Tesla .
In April 1990, Ye Wengui spent a huge amount of money and hired professional talents from Tsinghua and Peking University to build the hybrid vehicle "Yefeng No. 2".
The car won the title of national new product in 1990 in the same year, 7 years earlier than the recognized world's first hybrid car, Toyota Prius.
From a technical perspective, Ye Wengui's start is a fantasy. He reached the world-class level when he built a car for the first time, and his influence expanded overseas, attracting reports from German, American and other media.
But the faster the expansion, the more crises. What shattered Ye Wengui's dream of building a car was two consecutive failures to attract investment.
For the first time, a Shenzhen company planned to invest tens of millions of dollars to Ye Wengui, but due to some interference factors, no cooperation was reached in the end.
The second time, an American electric vehicle expert came to negotiate, wanting to cooperate with Ye Wengui to produce this kind of car in the United States, but due to the brand naming issue, the negotiation was not made in the end.
In 1995, Ye Wengui's dream of building a car finally ended in disarray due to a broken capital chain after investing more than 40 million yuan. From then on, he himself also closed his door to thank the guests and became low-key. Later, a car company invited him out, but he also refused.
At 5 a.m. on March 13, 2017, Ye Wengui passed away due to illness at the age of 68.
For him, Yang Yiqing, a professor at Zhejiang University of Technology and Business, who proposed the concept of "Zhejiang Business", believes:
"He is very representative in two aspects. One is that he dares to take risks and costs first. The other is that he has a very outstanding entrepreneurial spirit of taking risks and no matter how much it is."
"Now we are particularly calling for Ye Wengui's entrepreneurial spirit. How to continue to maintain this spirit while improving our innovation ability is a greater challenge for Zhejiang businessmen."
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