Chapter 219 Can’t sit still?
Chapter 219 Can’t sit still?
Datang Heavy Industry naturally welcomed the applications from these heavy-duty truck manufacturers.
However, due to the large number and the different schedules, Kangchi could not receive each one, so it could only let the public relations department and relevant technical engineers be responsible for the negotiation.
In fact, there was nothing much to talk about. It was nothing more than accompanying them to visit the battery swap station and battery production line, and then giving them two batteries to take back for research. Those who were interested could develop battery swap models according to this module.
When their products are made and the cars are really ready for delivery, Datang Heavy Industry will naturally send the relevant models of batteries over, and then help the car owners apply for an account on Datang Heavy Industry’s paid APP.
In addition to these heavy-duty automobile companies, battery manufacturers including Guoxuan High-tech, AVIC Lithium Battery, and EVE Energy also took action at the same time.
For them, Datang Heavy Industry is ready to formulate cooperation plans that meet the actual situation of each company according to their respective actual conditions.
However, their treatment and positioning are definitely different from those of CATL.
In order to prevent technology leaks, Kang Chi’s plan is to support CATL to become the big brother in the field of sodium battery manufacturing, and he will be responsible for coordinating the entire sodium battery manufacturing industry chain.
Because nano battery technology can actually be divided into the entire battery industry chain, there are nearly 100 links and hundreds of companies upstream and downstream,
If other battery factories and raw material manufacturers want to participate in the manufacture of sodium batteries, they can only be responsible for one or more links.
Only Datang Heavy Industry and CATL have truly mastered the full set of technologies.
Kang Chi only needs to control CATL, and the full set of technologies mastered by CATL is also divided and responsible for multiple departments.
In this way, even if there is a technology leak in a certain link, the mastermind behind the scenes cannot complete the puzzle of the entire technology.
As for the possibility of all technical links being leaked, it can be said that it is almost zero…
The difficulty and cost are too great. If this happens, what’s the point? Just surrender.
Let’s take a step back and say that if the spy war really becomes a hot war, Kangchi still has a 400Wh/kg backup. —— November 3, 9:00 p.m.
It has been exactly 24 hours since Guizhen started pre-sale.
The number of orders on the first day finally settled at 46,000! This result simply blinded everyone.
The champion of the car sales list last month was Tesla’s Model Y, which sold more than 45,000 units, 11,000 more than the second-place Sylphy.
But Guizhen’s wave only took 24 hours to exceed the entire month’s sales of Model Y last month! Moreover, it is a new car with a new energy replenishment mode. Consumers have not even seen or touched the real car, let alone test drive it.
In addition to Kang Chi’s reputation and the extremely cost-effective bare car price, this achievement is actually due to the policy promise that if you order a car in the first two months, you can return the car without reason.
This gives consumers great courage to try and make mistakes.
So on the Internet, after the Datang Heavy Industry press conference dominated the hot search list, there was another news that the sales volume on the day of Guizhen exceeded 40,000.
Seeing this number, almost all passenger car companies are jealous.
But the only ones who really took action were a few car companies such as Qi Rui that have been slow to open up the situation in the new energy field.
And new energy car companies such as BYD, Aion, Weilai, Ideal, and Xiaopeng still decided to wait and see for a while.
Among them, BYD was firmly opposed to the battery replacement model at the time, and insisted on having its own complete industrial chain and its own battery factory.
If they cooperate with Datang Heavy Industry, it means that they will make major adjustments to the group’s strategy and abandon the entire industrial chain and battery factory.
A press conference and a temporary hot sales volume alone are definitely not enough for them to make this decision. What’s more, their main focus at present is hybrid electric vehicles, and the battery cost of a car is actually not high.
Finally, if they only sell bare cars in the future and cannot make a fuss about batteries, the profit margin will also be greatly reduced…
This is also the reason why brands such as Aion, Weilai, Ideal, and Xiaopeng have chosen to wait and see.
Before returning to formal delivery and the user’s acceptance of the battery swap model is still an unknown, the urgency of the matter is actually not as great as imagined.
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Datang Heavy Industry, in the chairman’s office.
Kang Chi was listening to Zhang Qing’s work report when Zeng Yuqing of CATL suddenly called and said: ”Mr. Kang, Anil, the head of Tesla’s Dahua region, just talked to me and said he wanted to purchase our sodium batteries.”
”Oh?” Kang Chi couldn’t help but say with some surprise, “They can’t sit still so soon?”
”Well, it’s probably because the three-year order they just signed with LG makes them passive. If we agree to supply them, we can find a way to let LG down…”
”What did you say?”
”I said CATL is just a foundry now, and if you want to buy batteries, go to Datang Heavy Industry.” Zeng Yuqing said with a smile,
”He originally I was just a little hesitant, but I added that Datang Heavy Industry only sells battery replacement, and then there was no news from him. I guess their big boss still insists on the supercharging strategy and doesn’t want to switch to the battery replacement model so quickly. ”
”Well, it’s okay, don’t worry about them for now.” Kang Chi said indifferently,
”The current sodium battery production capacity is limited, which is not enough for us to use, not to mention that several big customers such as China National Heavy Duty Truck will come in a few days. Even if they think it through, they probably won’t have batteries for them in the short term.”
Zeng Yuqing was not surprised to hear that China National Heavy Duty Truck was preparing to contact Datang Heavy Industry. After all, he had been making batteries for so long, and his ability to grasp the needs and psychology of these customers was better than Kang Chi.
However, these heavy trucks are big battery demanders. They started to enter the market so quickly, which put a lot of pressure on CATL.
After promising Kang Chi that within three months, he would lead the entire lithium battery industry chain to complete the industrial transformation to sodium batteries, Zeng Yuqing hung up the phone.
Kang Chi on this side continued to discuss the problems they were facing with Zhang Qing.
Like batteries, the main problem was production capacity.
With daily sales of 46,000, it was hard to estimate the monthly sales.
Although sales will certainly drop over time, even if the monthly sales are conservatively estimated, they are definitely more than three times the sales on the first day.
With such a large order, both the body production line of Qirui Automobile and the motor production line of Datang Heavy Industry were a bit overwhelmed.
The body was okay, after all, Qirui was an old and large factory with so many production lines, and they would find ways to solve the production capacity.
But Datang Heavy Industry’s motors could not be expanded immediately.
After nearly a year of rapid development, Datang Heavy Industry’s employees were close to 30,000, and the factory buildings alone were a bit insufficient.
However, fortunately, the mountain below Kang Chi’s house had been hollowed out by the military engineering team, and now they were waiting for him to go over for acceptance.
(End of this chapter)