Chapter 202: The former top brother
Chapter 202: The former top brother
In the next month, Kang Chi started to work hard in the company again.
However, for convenience, he asked Zhang Qing to set up a living room behind his office. This working mode was almost inconvenient for him.
He really regarded the company as his own home…
In the process of developing sodium batteries, Kang Chi did not make samples in the laboratory first like traditional battery development, which was a bit redundant for him.
He directly chose to build a production line blueprint.
He started with mass production experiments. He was probably the only one in the world who dared to do this…
But this was his own company, and he was burning his own money. Even if the people below had opinions, they could only keep them in their hearts and obey, otherwise they would be kicked out by Kang Chi’s words.
It was so cool to have the final say.
Thanks to the efficiency of the plotter, Kang Chi was very active in the process of rubbing the production line this time. Basically, he was in charge of the final assembly of all the production line equipment.
After the final assembly, he didn’t care whether it worked or not, and directly threw it to Yan Hui for testing. The results of each test also met the technical requirements proposed by Kang Chi in the project planning without surprise.
This made Yan Hui deeply feel what a monster is again!
Others may not be able to make something in the laboratory, but this guy can directly make it in batches for you by making production equipment.
Just ask if you are convinced?
However, a battery production line has to go through more than 20 processes, plus the upstream raw material production equipment, and the types of equipment needed are as many as hundreds.
Kang Chi naturally cannot make each one by himself. Most of the equipment is actually purchased, and then improved and debugged to make it meet the standards for producing sodium batteries.
Even if they have to make it themselves, most of the parts are still outsourced if possible, and made by themselves if not, giving full play to the advantages of China’s huge and complete industrial system.
Although the entire R&D department has not produced even a semi-finished battery in the past month, but with the gradual improvement of the production line, just like repairing a water pipe, everyone can vaguely feel that the time for them to build the entire water pipe and turn on the faucet to release water is getting closer and closer.
I just don’t know if the water quality is good enough…
In addition to the R&D department’s intensive recommendation of the sodium battery project, Zhang Qing’s battery swap station project, after obtaining a loan of 300 billion yuan, also ran at full speed, quickly recruited troops, and began to deploy nationwide.
In order to cooperate with their battery swap strategy, the Energy Bureau was also unambiguous.
First, the power grid company signed a 30-year energy storage agreement with Datang Heavy Industry, promising to give Datang Heavy Industry’s off-peak electricity price for its power swap station project at a 30% discount on the normal electricity price in various places, with an average of only 0.16 yuan per kilowatt-hour during off-peak hours.
In addition, off-peak hours include 11:00-14:00 at noon, in addition to 22:30 to 8:00 the next day, and a full 12.5 hours are considered off-peak hours.
As for the three oil companies, they directly transferred nearly 5,000 gas stations with high vacancy rates due to the over-dense outlets to Datang Heavy Industry.
Although no written documents were issued, judging from the abnormal attitudes of the three oil companies and the power grid company, even fools can feel the strangeness of this matter. Therefore, when Datang Heavy Industry negotiated with local departments about the site of the battery swap station, they were basically quite cooperative. In just one month, Datang Heavy Industry signed the initial planned 30,000 battery swap station outlets with the assistance of the three oil companies.
Four thousand of them are high-speed service area outlets. Basically, a battery swap station is set up every other service area, and the distance between two battery swap stations is no more than 100 kilometers.
As for the technical standards and design plans of battery swap stations and batteries, Kang Chi mainly handed them over to Yan Hui’s team. He was originally engaged in precision equipment, and it was not difficult to get started with this kind of work involving precise docking and battery swapping.
After an in-depth investigation and analysis of Weilai’s battery swap station, Yan Hui first formulated a set of battery standards, and then asked Zhang Qing to take this standard and Kang Chi’s requirements to Jianghu City, Jiangbei Province, and found Qirui Automobile.
Because of the cooperation with SAIC, Qirui once had aEveryone knows the joke of waiting in line for car repairs, but with their strong will and the improvement of product quality, they not only survived the most difficult start-up period, but also became the leader of domestic cars.
But since 2012, Qi Rui has been on a downward trend, gradually pulling away from the first-tier independent brands such as Changan, Great Wall, BYD, and its domestic market share is getting smaller and smaller. In the monthly vehicle sales list, their best-selling model Tiggo 8 often can’t even squeeze into the top 30.
Qi Rui is old.
This oldness is reflected in many places.
It is said that Qi Rui is like a science and engineering man in the independent brands, who only knows how to figure out technology. This concept makes them unable to keep up with the marketing methods of the times.
Even if the product strength is actually very good, the means of market promotion are always one step behind, and they often make jokes and destroy their image.
With conservative concepts, poor marketing, and old-fashioned designs, how can you beat them? If they can’t play, they have no money, and if they have no money, they can’t develop new technologies, which makes them worse than fuel vehicles in the development of new energy.
However, fortunately, in recent years, through the export strategy, several of their main fuel vehicles have achieved very impressive results in the overseas market, and they are not doing too badly.
But after all, they were once the kings. As long as there is a chance, who doesn’t want to come back as a king? When Qi Rui Chairman Xie Jingsen received the strategic cooperation invitation from Datang Heavy Industry and learned that Datang Heavy Industry’s initial investment scale was a huge amount of 300 billion, he was shocked.
At the same time, he immediately realized that this might be their opportunity to return to subversion in the domestic market! The only pity is that their role this time is OEM design and manufacturing.
Zhang Qing saw the anxiety in Xie Jingsen’s eyes, so she immediately added:
”If you think our plan is feasible and you are optimistic about our model, you can also choose to launch Qi Rui’s own electric vehicle separation car according to our battery standards and enjoy our battery replacement service.”
After hearing this, Xie Jingsen hesitated.
After all, no one knows whether this plan will work. In the early stage, being an OEM factory honestly and using other people’s money to test the water is the lowest risk.
If the effect is good, it is not too late for them to join the game themselves.
”I will seriously consider it, but in the early stage, maybe helping you OEM is indeed a good choice.”
Zhang Qing nodded, but did not force it.
Next, she conveyed the design requirements proposed by Kang Chi, and then began to discuss the design fee, OEM fee, drafting a cooperation contract and other trivial matters…
(End of this chapter)