Chapter 216 True Industrial Miracle (Three-in-One)
Chapter 216 True Industrial Miracle (Three-in-One)
Kang Chi continued to press the button, and the screen switched to a picture of a battery pack and a caption:
[Sodium-ion battery]
”Yes, in fact, I believe everyone has guessed through the cooperation news we and CATL announced earlier that our Return to the Reality will be equipped with sodium-ion batteries.”
”Some people must be curious, why sodium-ion batteries, isn’t the performance of sodium-ion batteries worse than lithium-ion batteries? Is this another step backward in technology?”
”For this issue, I personally think it needs to be viewed from a dialectical perspective.”
”Whether a technology is high-tech or low-tech cannot be determined by its performance alone, but also by weighing multiple factors. Especially for civilian products, cost performance is a very important metric.”
”I think that under the premise of meeting the needs, the technology that can reduce the consumption threshold of users as much as possible and allow more people to enjoy it is high-tech!”
”And sodium-ion batteries have such a cost advantage, not to mention that in addition to the cost, its performance is not bad at all!”
[Energy density: 300Wh/kg]
Looking at the data published on the screen, everyone was stunned!
”300Wh/kg!?”
”Fuck, 300Wh/kg sodium-ion battery?”
”Higher energy density than LG and Songxia’s lithium-ion batteries?”
”Master Kong is so awesome this time!”
”Awesome, my President Kang never lies! This is the real high-tech!”
”Haha, I said, how can the technology that can make CATL bow down to you with just a shake of the tiger’s body be a compromise to make up for the lack of technology through a business model!”
”Musk: President Kang, ah, please slap me lightly, ah, ah~”
”President Kang: Okay, I’m laying my cards on the table, eh? Why is the card table gone!”
”…”
After a short stagnation, netizens immediately began to send various barrages to express their ecstasy about the emergence of this sodium battery technology.
The atmosphere in the live broadcast room suddenly became cheerful and lively like the New Year.
The number of people watching the live broadcast was 30 million at first, but later it dropped to 5 million because of the “ordinary” Guizhen. However, after the release of this sodium battery, it surged to 40 million again!
However, in stark contrast to the excited netizens, all the new energy vehicle and battery manufacturers who followed the live broadcast were immediately shocked after seeing the battery data.
As industry insiders, they know better than any audience that the emergence of this technology will completely overturn the current pattern of new energy vehicle and battery manufacturing.
New energy vehicles will definitely enter a new era because of the emergence of this technology.
And in the tide of the new era, some people will definitely be swallowed by the tide, and some people will ride the wind and waves and write brilliant works!
”300Wh/kg…”
Anil, who had just released Guizhen for Datang Heavy Industry and was relieved that he had no competitive relationship with them, immediately realized the seriousness of the problem after seeing this number.
In the face of this technology, Tesla and LG, who had just signed a three-year order, immediately became the biggest joke and burden! However, energy density is only one of the most important indicators of batteries. If safety and other aspects are not guaranteed, it is useless to make the energy density as high as possible.
And if this battery is really fine, then they may have to consider how to terminate the contract just signed with LG at the lowest cost and continue to purchase sodium batteries from CATL…
However, this is actually just Anil’s wishful thinking.
Sometimes you want to buy something, but they may not sell it to you…
“…The main reason why this sodium battery can achieve 300Wh/kg is that it is actually a fully solid-state battery!”
After giving the audience a short time to digest the content, Kang Chi continued to explain, “I believe everyone knows that compared with traditional liquid batteries, fully solid-state batteries not only have higher energy density, but also have far superior safety, cold and heat resistance, and longer service life than liquid batteries.”
Next, Kang Chi showed everyone through a video how this sodium-ion battery can withstand puncture, extrusion, fire, and other safety tests.The test video is naturally impeccable.
”In terms of cold and heat resistance, thanks to the addition of specially developed pentamethylacetamide materials to the polymer electrolyte of our battery, the ion transmission efficiency of sodium ions at low temperatures has been greatly improved.”
”In laboratory tests, the sodium ion migration number of the polymer electrolyte at 30 degrees is as high as 0.85!”
”Stronger cold and heat resistance will greatly alleviate the situation where electric vehicles have a broken battery life in severe winter environments.”
”This is the actual test data of our engineers who went to the Greater Khingan Range five days ago. You can see that the battery attenuation of this battery is only 7% at minus 15 degrees, and the battery attenuation is almost zero at zero degrees.”
”Therefore, pure electric vehicles will no longer be exclusive to the south in the future. In the cold north, it also has its place!”
After listening to Kang Chi’s analysis, the northern friends in the live broadcast room immediately had a cerebral orgasm!
“The northerners who bought electric cars last year said they were in tears. The range was 400 kilometers, but in winter they couldn’t even drive 160 kilometers. They were so cold that they couldn’t bear to turn on the air conditioner. The key is that no one would believe it if they told their families…”
”Good guy, I just came to join in the fun, but I didn’t expect to fall into the fish pond dug by Master Kang!”
”Mr. Kang, stop talking, and quickly announce the price and link it. We can’t afford the lithography machine and the camera, but we northerners are all experienced drivers, so driving a car is not easy?”
”…”
In addition to higher cold and heat resistance, this solid-state sodium-ion battery has a theoretical cycle life of 5,000 times because the production of nanodendrites is limited by solid electrolytes, which is more than twice the cycle life of liquid lithium iron phosphate!
Seeing this, almost all lithium battery manufacturers fell into despair.
China’s lithium battery companies are fine. After all, there is the example of CATL landing ahead of schedule. With Kang Chi’s previous style, he should not mind taking them along.
But lithium battery manufacturers from Japan and South Korea, such as LG and Songxia, only felt what it means to be completely desperate at this time.
Because Datang Heavy Industry is on the selection list!
Without the consent of their biological father, even if Kang Chi licenses the technology to them, they dare not use it.
Moreover, judging from Kang Chi’s previous actions against Soni, Shin-Etsu Chemical, Samsung and other companies, he is full of hostility towards companies in Japan and South Korea.
Therefore, it is equally difficult to obtain technology licenses from him…
This, is probably the feeling of being strangled? The employees of Datang Heavy Industry at the live broadcast site, looking at Kang Chi who was broadcasting live, couldn’t help but clench their fists excitedly at this moment.
When Datang Heavy Industry officially opened, Kang Chi threatened at the conference that he would take them to strangle others.
I didn’t expect that this day would come true so soon! ”In fact, with this sodium battery, we can easily increase the range to 1,000 or even 2,000 kilometers.”
Kang Chi in front of the camera continued,
”But we don’t plan to do that.”
”Although improving the range can indeed alleviate the range anxiety problem to a great extent, everyone needs to pay a higher cost for buying a larger battery pack.”
”And the problems of waiting in line for charging, excessive charging speed damaging the battery, and timing the low electricity price will still be a problem for everyone using electric vehicles.”
”In order to solve this problem and minimize the waste of our country’s electricity resources , to achieve the goal of shifting peaks and filling valleys, green and low-carbon, our Datang Heavy Industry plans to invest at least 600 billion to fully promote the construction of battery swap stations across the country. These battery swap stations can not only replace batteries for our electric vehicles, but also serve as energy storage stations. ”
”By the end of next month, the 30,000 battery swap stations we initially planned will all be opened one after another, and next year, we will continue to invest in the construction of 50,000 battery swap stations, which can basically achieve the density of outlets, the same as the current gas stations!”
Although most people have actually heard that Datang Heavy Industry is laying battery swap stations before, they are still a little shocked when they really hear it from Kang Chi.
Especially the specific number of battery swap stations and investment scale he announced.
”Fuck, at least 600 billion investment scale? !”
”Master Kong’s hand is so scary!”
”Ah, I really want to know how much Master Kong is worth now? Can anyone analyze it?”
“Mr. Kang’s company is not listed, so it is impossible to analyze it. However, with a lot of assets, he must have a lot of debts. I guess he doesn’t even know how much his real net worth is… funny face.jpg”
“Haha, anyway, I know that Dahan Silicon Industry still has at least tens of billions of loans to pay off.”
“Ah, if I can’t feel the happiness of a billionaire, let me feel the happiness of a billionaire.”
“Boss Xu has already told us with practical actions that billionaires are actually happier.”
“If the density of battery swap stations can really be the same as that of gas stations, then the range anxiety will indeed be gone, but I’m afraid that I will suffer from Mr. Kang’s bankruptcy anxiety. What should I do?”
“Then it depends on whether everyone is willing to be cut by Mr. Kang.”
“Mr. Kang’s bankruptcy anxiety? Haha, I’m laughing to death. You are definitely a true fan, buddy. ”
“…”
The topic was quickly brought to the most sensitive issue of price.
On the one hand, everyone was afraid of being ripped off.
But on the other hand, they were afraid that Mr. Kang would be too kind to everyone and eventually lead to bankruptcy… It was very contradictory.
However, in fact, all of Kang Chi’s projects so far are actually making money, but the speed of making money cannot keep up with the speed of investment…
He enjoys the benefits of ultra-low R&D costs, and this benefit is also distributed to all consumers. As for whether this would hit other companies and institutions because of the slight “dumping” attribute, Kang Chi had actually thought about it before. First of all, most of the cakes he had grabbed before were from foreign capital. Although there were people in China who were developing silicon wafers and lithography machines, they were basically supported by subsidies. After Kang Chi got it done, it actually saved money for the country. Moreover, after the EUV lithography machine was done, the country could also invest its energy and funds in more advanced and cutting-edge research fields such as quantum chips. As for Nanobattery.
He has tested the limits of this thing. If others still study it, it will be a waste of time and energy. It is better to drive them to other research fields.
For example, the research team of CATL is now conducting mass production experiments on high-end solid-state lithium batteries.
In the future, they can also study lithium-sulfur batteries, even nuclear batteries, etc.
There are too many technology trees that need to be touched. It is impossible for Kang Chi to light up all the technology trees by himself.
There are always places that he cannot take care of and need people to study.
So from a macro perspective, there is actually no problem of snatching the jobs of researchers.
Even researchers and companies are the objects of Kang Chi’s dividends.
Because they are also ordinary consumers, if they buy a car in the future, or even take a bus, take an online car-hailing service, etc., they can also enjoy the dividends brought by sodium batteries.
”In order to cooperate with the battery replacement model, our Datang Heavy Industry has finally developed five specifications of battery packs and universal interface types after joint research and discussion with the research and development team of CATL. ”
[80KWh, 120KWh, 200KWh, 400KWh, 800KWh]
Kang Chi pointed to the battery pack picture on the screen and continued to explain: “Our battery swap station will support the above five battery packs in the future. Among them, the battery packs of 200KWh and above will mainly serve medium and large electric passenger and freight vehicles.”
“Later, we will update the specific battery pack parameters and interface data to the official website of Datang Heavy Industry so that major domestic car companies can download and view them. We also welcome major car companies to cooperate with Datang Heavy Industry to launch more and richer sodium battery swap models to the market. ”
After hearing this, everyone finally realized it.
It turns out that in the battery link, Kangchi not only released it to ordinary consumers, but also other car companies!
Even,
Even the medium and large electric passenger and freight vehicles that may appear in the future are taken into consideration.
However, through the scale of investment in battery swap stations, we can know how ambitious Kangchi is. It is a bit unreasonable to build so many battery swap stations without catching all types of cars.
From the proactive disclosure of battery pack parameters and interface data, it can be seen that Kangchi is completely open-door, warmly welcoming everyone to work together to create a new era of electric vehicles, and has no intention of using the advantages of battery swap stations and sodium batteries to kill other car companies.
It is quite pleasing.
Except for a few car companies like BYD that have their own battery factories, most other new energy car companies that need to purchase battery packs areAt this moment, they breathed a sigh of relief.
What they fear most is that Kang Chi will turn this sodium battery into its own exclusive secret recipe, so that they will have no chance to play in the future…
However, whether to join the battery swap camp actually depends on the degree of consumer acceptance of this model and the specific cooperation method with Datang Heavy Industry.
They are ready to wait and see for a while.
Just when the major car companies were thinking about it, Kang Chi continued to explain to everyone:
”What I want to focus on here is the 80KWh battery pack that will be installed on Guizhen in the future. According to Guizhen’s power consumption of 12Kwh per 100 kilometers in the CLTC test, it can bring Guizhen a range of 666KM.”
”But in fact, everyone knows that the CLTC test is under relatively ideal conditions. In normal driving, due to seasonal changes, driving habits and other reasons, the actual range of traditional liquid lithium batteries is usually 50%-70% off the basis of CLTC, especially in extremely low temperatures, and may even be less than half.”
“Solid-state sodium-ion batteries will also be affected in this regard, but the impact is much smaller. According to our normal driving test, its actual range is between 530-640, of which 530 is the actual test data of running on the mountain road of Daxing’anling at minus 15 degrees.”
“I believe that through such a detailed explanation, everyone has a clear understanding of the cars and battery products we released this time. What I want to talk about next is the price issue that everyone is most concerned about.”
[80KWh battery pack, 400 yuan/month]
Looking at the text on the screen, netizens immediately started a new round of heated discussions.
Everyone’s first reaction is that spending 400 yuan a month to rent a battery can fill more than a tank of gas! However, those who have bought or learned about electric cars must know that this price is absolutely a great deal for pure electric cars.
“For your information, with the current level of lithium battery technology, the service life of electric vehicles is actually only 3-5 years. When the battery capacity drops to 80%, the mileage will drop significantly. When it drops to 70%, it is basically scrapped. The cost of replacing the battery accounts for at least 40% of the total cost of the vehicle, which is basically equivalent to buying half a car.”
”Fuck, does that mean that for a 200,000 pure electric car, 80,000 is for the battery? If the car and the battery are separated, the body is actually only worth 120,000?”
”Well, buddy, you don’t think 120,000 is cheap, do you?”
”Electric vehicles don’t have engines and gearboxes. If there is no battery, the motor and chassis are worth some money. If you don’t install a color TV and a sofa in the car, the car company will be embarrassed to sell you 120,000…”
”Fuck, no wonder.”
”Then if it is 5 Calculated in years, it is equivalent to Mr. Kang’s 80-degree battery pack only selling for 24,000 yuan? ”
”If it is a traditional lithium battery, it can indeed be calculated this way, but didn’t you hear Mr. Kang just say that the theoretical cycle life of this sodium battery is as high as 5,000 times? If it really has this life, it will be no problem to use it for ten years, and the manufacturing cost of sodium batteries is cheaper than lithium batteries. I guess this is why Mr. Kang dares to set the price so low…”
”I am a NIO battery replacement owner. In fact, the battery replacement model is very good. I never have to worry about the problem of battery scrapping. It’s just that NIO’s battery pack is a bit expensive, costing 880 yuan per month.”
”Why don’t you hurry up @Mr. Li and replace the battery pack of Datang Heavy Industry!”
”…”
While netizens were discussing, Kang Chi also completed the explanation of the battery pack leasing plan.
He first promised that the health of the battery used by each customer is above 90%, and those below 90% will only be used for energy storage.
As for the battery replacement fee, it is calculated based on the actual amount of electricity replaced.
For example, if there is 30 kWh of electricity in the car of the battery swap user, and the health of the replaced battery is only 95%, and 76 kWh of electricity is charged, it will be calculated according to the actual 46 kWh.
As for the electricity price, it is uniformly calculated at twice the local average electricity price, which is about 1.2 yuan/kWh.
At the same time, a service fee of 10 yuan will be charged for each battery swap.
Equivalent to a price of 10-106 yuan for each battery swap. Unless the user frequently swaps the battery when the battery is high, under normal circumstances, the cost of use per kilometer will not exceed 0.2 yuan, which is definitely much cheaper than a fuel car.
After all, changing the battery once is equivalent to refueling once, and where can you refuel with a maximum of no more than 106 yuan?
However, in the future, whenever you use Datang Heavy Industry battery packThe battery-swap cars will no longer support users to charge by themselves. Therefore, for new energy car owners who have the conditions to install charging piles at home and charge every time during off-peak hours, the cost of use may be a little higher.
In general, in terms of comprehensive use cost, even if the battery rental is added, according to the average monthly driving of 1,000 kilometers for Chinese cars and the average 0.5 yuan per kilometer for gasoline cars, the solution given by Kangchi has basically achieved the same price for gasoline and electricity.
And on the basis of 1,000 kilometers per month, the more you drive, the more cost-effective it is.
In fact, when Kangchi formulated the rental policy, to a large extent, it was not because of the fear that users would drive too much and frequently swap batteries, but because they were afraid that zombie cars would occupy the toilet without shitting, wasting battery resources, so they set a minimum monthly use cost of 400.
In terms of price, in addition to the use cost achieving the same price for gasoline and electricity, after removing 40% of the battery cost of electric vehicles, the bare car price of electric vehicles can also be cheaper than the same level of fuel vehicles! It was not until after the release of the battery and battery swap mode that Kangchi finally announced the price of Guizhen: [The national unified price of Guizhen bare car: 59999]! ”Fuck!”
”The bare car is less than 60,000?!”
”I feel that Guizhen is more like the electric version of Arrizo 8. Remove the engine and gearbox and replace it with an electric motor. It should be sold for at least 70,000 or 80,000, right?”
”The key is that its future use cost is still very low!”
”A true industrial miracle!”
”Mr. Kang: Let everyone see what it means to make a real friend!”
”666!”
”At this price, even the Hongguang MINI, which is less than 30,000 yuan and has a real range of only 100 kilometers, is called an expert!”
”I think the biggest problem of new energy vehicles is actually the value retention rate. Who can bear to lose half of the car after driving it for two years? But with the price of Guizhen + the battery swap mode, I don’t worry about the value retention rate at all!”
”emm~ In fact, the low-end fuel versions of Sylphy, Lavida, and Corolla are only a little over 70,000 or 80,000 yuan. The Guizhen does not come with a battery, and you have to spend hundreds of yuan every month to rent a battery. It doesn’t feel much cheaper. ”
”If you like R-series cars, why do you watch Mr. Kang’s live broadcast! ? ”
”Hehe, although the configuration of the Guizhen is low, it has basically everything it should have. It is recommended to go and see how much the low-end Sylphy has been reduced. Fabric seats, no central control screen, halogen lights… Especially the body materials of the iron car are not at the same level as the Guizhen. ”
”…”
I don’t know if someone deliberately leads the rhythm, or really thinks that domestic cars should be sold at a bargain price. When most netizens think that this price is already the conscience of heaven and earth, there are still people who stand up to question that this price is not cheap.
However, among tens of millions of real viewers, it is hard to lead the trend with only a tiny number of water army. Such a small number of voices were soon drowned in the dense tide of bullet comments, without even a wave.
(End of this chapter)