Zhou Yujie smiled and shook his head and said, "I don't have this plan yet. At present, my funds are still mainly based on R&D."

For electric vehicle charging stations, Zhou Yujie used full-scale rapid layout with the intention of forming a monopoly in a short period of time, but solar power stations are another matter.

China, the United States and Western countries provided large-scale subsidies to solar power plants in the early 21st century, which promoted the rapid development of the entire industry. However, then, around 2010, the West began to reduce subsidies, and the country also reduced subsidies a few years later. This was not because the subsidies were too high, resulting in high fiscal pressure, but because the government found that when there were too many subsidies, it would have bad consequences.

Solar power generation technology appeared in the 1980s, but the power generation cost was too high at that time, and only a few fields such as satellites would use photovoltaics. In the next 20 years, various companies and R&D institutions slowly researched it, and the cost eventually dropped significantly. Although it was still more expensive than firepower, it was no longer unattainable.

Therefore, in order to cope with the climate crisis and increase the proportion of clean energy, countries began round after round of subsidies, which seriously stimulated the development of the photovoltaic industry. In those years, the photovoltaic industry was called sweeping gold on the ground with a dustpan.

However, although subsidies have driven a significant increase in the proportion of clean energy, they have caused the scientific research development of the photovoltaic industry to stagnate because enterprises can make money by subsidies. So why should they continue to spend a lot of money on research and development?

Therefore, subsidies have to be gradually reduced, forcing photovoltaic companies to find ways to improve the power generation efficiency of their products. After all, the higher the efficiency, the higher the future income.

Therefore, it is impossible to truly succeed if you expect the government to continue to subsidize. Only by slowly improving the power generation capacity of photovoltaics and when the cost is similar to the thermal power, and then cooperating with government policies such as carbon emissions, is the best time to enter the field of photovoltaic power generation.

Musk said: "Then I hope you can achieve surprising results as soon as possible. I really hope to see this day as soon as possible."

Nowadays, although the popularity of trams is not high, the trend is already very obvious. It is basically a foregone conclusion that replacing fuel vehicles in the future. Even many countries have issued laws to ban the sale of fuel vehicles in the future. Regardless of whether it can be done or not, this situation is very good.

The popularity of electric vehicles, even if the source of electricity comes from coal, can reduce carbon emissions and pollution by half. Not to mention, fuel pollution gathers in places where humans live, which is more likely to cause people to suffer from various diseases and even cancer.

However, Musk is currently powerless to do anything about the source of energy. Although he saw the benefits of solar energy ten years ago, and established Suncity Company in the United States, and launched creative ideas and corresponding technical solutions to generate electricity using roofs, these are obviously just dropping the bucket. If you want to solve this problem, you can only attract global capital to enter this industry. Tesla has driven the development of electric vehicles and introduced capital, but Suncity Company does not have this ability.

Because the problem with photovoltaics lies in the research of basic material technology, electric vehicles are just reintegrating and utilizing existing technologies. Musk is good at the latter and is powerless to do anything about the former. It is also because of limited funds, rockets and electric vehicles are all in trouble.

Zhou Yujie has enough financial resources. If his R&D can achieve rich results, it may also promote the popularization of the entire solar power generation.

Zhou Yujie nodded and said, "I also hope to see this day as soon as possible. If half of human electricity comes from solar energy, it would be perfect."

Solar energy has a fatal weakness, that is, there is energy during the day and not at night, and the energy in winter will also decrease, and it may be the same on rainy and snowy days, which will cause instability in output. The current cost of power storage technology is too high, which is also the top priority for Zhou Yujie's future research. Using simple methods such as high-pressure air energy storage is also much cheaper than batteries.

Fortunately, summer is also a high energy consumption, which is worth it.

Musk nodded and asked again: "Mr. Zhou, I'm very curious about your entrepreneurial journey. Have you ever encountered great difficulties in business development?"

Buzz buzz..." There was also a buzzing sound in the audience. Although the topic before was high-end, it was not a topic that netizens paid attention to. Now this issue involves entrepreneurship, and the traffic will obviously be higher.

You should know that today's Internet tycoons have basically encountered great difficulties in the process of starting a business. For example, Ma Huateng couldn't raise funds in the early stage and wanted to sell QQ, but he had to dress up as a man and a woman because he had no users. Ma Yun started a business three times before establishing Alibaba. He also suffered heavy losses in the Internet bubble later. There are also some similar people abroad, the most famous one is Jobs, who was driven out by the company he established.

Musk on the stage has also experienced too many hardships. In 2008, SpaceX failed its third rocket launch, and Tesla's R&D was in trouble. At that time, Musk could only support one company. In the end, Musk decided to take a bet and launch the fourth rocket, and finally succeeded. If that failure, there might be no Iron Man in Silicon Valley.

Other entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Li Yanhong may not encounter life-and-death difficulties, but there should be many small ones, and only Zhou Yujie seems to have been smooth sailing all the time.

Zhou Yujie smiled and said, "Basically, this is related to my initial positioning. For example, companies like Tengxun or Google and Facebook are traffic-based companies, and some difficulties will occur in the early stages. However, after the market is certainly stable, there will basically be no major problems. After the monopoly market, unless there is a subversive change, it is unlikely to fail.

In the early stage of Toutiao's business, there were three main businesses, namely Quxin, Appliance and Toutiao. In the environment at that time, these three business models were new and easy to succeed. Moreover, all three were traffic-based enterprises, especially Appliance and Toutiao, which also had the attribute of self-monetization.

As for Quxin, although I encountered Teng Xun's powerful sniper later, I have never had financial difficulties due to venture capital. It can be said that my entrepreneurial career is still relatively smooth."

Musk smiled and said, "This is really lucky. I am a little envious of you now."

Zhou Yujie said: "In fact, setbacks can make people progress. Maybe in the future, I will also taste seats that will encounter difficulties in the fields of electric vehicles and photovoltaics."
Chapter completed!