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According to media reports, Tesla CEO Musk revealed the news at an award ceremony for the German automobile industry in Berlin, that is, he announced that Tesla's fourth super factory in the world would be located in Germany.

As soon as the news came out, the price of Tess ushered in a rise. According to the market capitalization ranking, Tesla's market capitalization of $63 billion (about 442.4 billion yuan) once surpassed Daimler's $62.78 billion (about 440.3 billion yuan) and jumped to third place, behind Volkswagen and Toyota.

In fact, after the close, Tesla's market value fell back to 62.3 billion US dollars (about 437.4 billion yuan), and lagged behind Daimler Group's 63 billion US dollars (442.4 billion yuan). The fluctuation of the stock price is only a temporary stimulus. but we can see that Tesla, who has been established for less than 20 years, can already be compared with Daimler with a history of many years.

Musk was also praised by Volkswagen CEO Dis at the award ceremony, saying that Tesla proved the feasibility of electric vehicle roads and thanked him for promoting the development of the global electric vehicle industry. At the same time, Deiss also said that Tesla should be vigilant against Volkswagen Group. Because Volkswagen Group and a number of German car companies have already begun to launch electric vehicles, will be their strong competitors.

Germany, as a big country in the automobile industry, has many multinational car companies, and Tesla plans to set up the fourth super factory in Germany, which shows that Tesla will open fierce competition in various famous car companies. "some of the best cars in the world are made in Germany," Musk said. As we all know, Germany has outstanding advantages in the field of engineering and technology, which is part of the reason why we decided to set up an European factory in Germany. We will also set up an engineering design center in Berlin. "

Another reason, of course, is that the uncertainty of Brexit makes it riskier to open a super factory in the UK and has to change its plans to Germany. Ford has issued a statement saying that if Britain leaves the European Union without an agreement, it will cause the WTO to impose 10 per cent tariffs on imports and exports, as well as higher taxes on spare parts. The company will face losses of up to $1 billion in the UK.

Judging from the data for the first half of this year, Tesla prefers to set up his factory in the UK, because the Norwegian sales of Tesla in Europe's largest market have dropped by 50% compared with 2674 vehicles in the same period last year. Tesla's car sales in the UK have grown astonishingly, with sales of 349 vehicles in the same period last year, a growth rate of 250%.

And over the past two years, Tesla has continuously improved the network of supercharging stations in the UK, covering the entire route from the UK's South China Sea coastline to Edinburgh, Scotland, and the number of dealerships in the UK has grown considerably.

According to Tesla's third-quarter financial report, a total of 97000 new cars were delivered in the third quarter of this year, and 370000 are expected to be delivered for the whole year. In terms of delivery scale, Tesla has the same scale as BYD, Jaguar Land Rover and other car companies, reaching about 50-600000 vehicles.

The speed of successfully building a factory to putting into production in China in 10 months has given Musk more confidence, because since the United States withdrew from the Paris Agreement, the Chinese market has become the most concerned electric car market for car companies all over the world. In the first three quarters of this year, Tesla's car sales in China were $2.138 billion, up 47.96 per cent from $1.445 billion in the same period last year.

In fact, whether for the European car companies represented by Daimler, or other new energy or traditional car companies, the most frightening thing is not Tesla's lead in market capitalization, but that its encroachment on its own market is accelerating.

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