Great Power Technology.

Chapter 244 Preemptive Release of Lithium-Sulphur Battery
Ye Zhou's idea of ​​building a mechanical exoskeleton was quickly passed on to the Chief Technical Office by Chen Hao, and then, through the Chief Technical Office, this appeal was passed on to Huaxia Weapons Group. The other party's reply was simple:
At present, the design of mechanical exoskeletons in China has matured. As long as the energy problem is solved, breakthroughs can be made.

Therefore, based on this condition, the General Technical Office organized a kick-off meeting on the mechanical exoskeleton project and determined the basic goals.

In a relatively short period of time, a mechanical exoskeleton device that meets the standards of use and can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers has been manufactured. At the same time, in the future, it will begin to explore fully wrapped individual combat mechs.

From Ye Zhou's point of view, the latter goal is unreliable for the time being. The current era is an era in which offense far outweighs defense. No matter how thick armor you design, a large-caliber anti-equipment can automatically wear it through. up.

However, this is still a useful attempt. If there are breakthroughs in the field of materials science in the future, this thing can still play a certain role.

As for how to do it, that's not what Ye Zhou needs to take care of.

Huaxia Arms Group will take full responsibility for this project, and they will start to adapt the battery as soon as they get it.

"The application range of your battery is much wider than I expected... Now I'm starting to worry about the production capacity."

Chen Hao hung up the conference call and turned to Ye Zhou.

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:
"It is a good thing to have a wide range of applications. If there is no place for application, then why do we build it? In addition, there is no need to worry about production capacity."

"Accredited by the General Technical Office, commercial operation is carried out according to the patent model. Believe me, these domestic manufacturers are faster than anyone else when it comes to making money."

"Understood, then follow this plan first."

While talking, Chen Hao stood up and made a gesture of invitation to Ye Zhou, indicating that it was time for him to get off work.

It was six o'clock in the afternoon. Ye Zhou glanced at his watch and followed Chen Hao out of the door.

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At the same time that Huaxia completed the trial production of the first batch of batteries, the batteries of the island country have also come off the production line, all tests have been completed, and the data has been presented to the leadership's desk.

"The energy density is 460WH/KG, which is very good, you guys are doing very well!"

"If this data is real, it means that the performance of our battery has doubled compared to the current battery on the market."

"That's enough for us to swallow the entire market!"

"Watanabe, is your release plan ready? We need to spread the news immediately to seize the market initiative!"

The man standing aside hastily bowed slightly, and answered:

"Mr. Shiraishi, everything is ready and we can release it at any time."

"Okay! Then now! Don't wait! Our customers are big companies in the professional field. They don't need any fancy promotional plans. Just tell them this information. Go, Watanabe, and win for us. This city!"

"Yes!"

Watanabe responded loudly, and then exited the office.

Half an hour later, all major downstream manufacturers in the world received the news of Panasonic's new battery release. These manufacturers responded to ask for technical details. After learning the number "460", some small manufacturers even issued POs directly.

This is a revolutionary breakthrough. The energy density of 460 means that if the existing battery layout is followed, the mileage of a tram can directly exceed 1000 kilometers.

No one wants to miss this opportunity to embrace the future.

In the afternoon of that day, the news about Panasonic's 46-X battery model began to ferment, and quickly spread to other fields in other industries.

In the stock market, the stock prices of new energy vehicle companies and raw material lithium companies soared; in the futures market, the prices of related raw materials also strengthened, and the price of raw material lithium once broke through the highest point of the year.

The international crude oil price fell deeply. On the day before the news was finally confirmed, the international oil price had already dropped by 12%.

This series of impacts caused panic among international energy giants. They issued statements one after another, pointing out that the use of crude oil is not only civil fuel, but also includes many other chemical applications. A new energy battery will not have a fundamental impact on the international crude oil supply and demand relationship. sexual influence.

But no one listened to their explanations, because everyone could see how weak their explanations were.

Crude oil prices continued to fall, and at the critical point when it was about to fall below 20%, a piece of news from Aozhou ended the downward trend.

Greenbushese announced that from now on, due to the increase in raw material mining and refining costs, the ex-factory price of raw material lithium will increase by 300% on the original basis.

A full 4 times.

The most important raw material for lithium-sulfur batteries is lithium. If the price increases by four times, it means that the cost of a single battery will increase by more than three times.

Such a cost increase almost completely devoured the bonus brought by the improvement of battery performance, and Panasonic was in a mess for a while.

Sitting in the large meeting room, Baishi frowned.

He has already called Aozhou through his contacts, wanting to ask them about their intention to raise the price without warning, but their answer is extremely perfunctory, at best, what they have said in the public statement Say it again with your mouth.

"Mr. Evans, I understand your company's business strategy, but at the same time, I also hope that your company can give us a reasonable explanation based on our good cooperation foundation and profound friendship."

"We have always been a high-quality customer of your company, and purchase a large amount of raw materials from your company every year --- most of the cash we spend on raw materials flows to your company."

"This time our new battery is released, and the technology in it requires a large amount of raw material lithium. In the foreseeable future, our cooperation will continue to deepen, so, with all due respect, I want to ask you for an answer on behalf of our entire company. "

Hearing Shiraishi's words, the person on the other end of the phone sighed helplessly, and then replied:

"Mr. Shiraishi, I know you are very dissatisfied with this price increase, but, as we said, this is a decision that has to be made due to the reality of cost increases."

"Of course we hope to continue to cooperate with you, and we also hope that we can stand together and work together to achieve greater commercial results, but all of this must be based on respect for each other's strategies."

"In addition, here I would like to give you a piece of advice: don't take our strategy as malicious, we are not targeting you."

Baishi listened silently, and finally spoke after a long time:

"alright, I got it."

After all, he said goodbye politely, and then hung up the phone.

He had already understood what the other party meant.

If it's not for your own side, it's for Huaxia.

That's right, just like our own side, Huaxia's companies are also conducting research on sulfur-lithium batteries, and their success is almost inevitable. The only thing behind is time.

Once they also come up with a new type of battery, the impact on this market will be extremely terrifying.

Because, in their place, every piece of blue sea will turn into a red sea in a very short period of time.

And if they still hit the energy market with cheap high-density batteries, it is definitely not only the peer companies that will suffer losses, but the entire energy industry chain --- the energy industry chain with oil as the core.

Ugly country officials will not allow such a thing to happen, which is the root cause of Greenbushese's price increase.

They're just trying to keep oil prices down.

Thinking of this, Shiraishi sighed deeply.

He originally thought that this technological breakthrough would bring his company an unparalleled advantage, and even obtain a certain degree of monopoly position, on an equal footing with those real giants in the world, but now it seems that this is not the case at all.

The power to formulate the rules of the game is still firmly in the hands of the opponent. If he wants you to play, he will let you play. If he does not want you to play, he will just stuff a bunch of bad cards into your hand.

And you can't resist, you can only continue to play with this bad hand.

Can you beat the bad cards?
Shiraishi shook his head secretly.

Maybe, but that's too hard.

At the moment when he dismissed the meeting in frustration, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind:

Ugly country's real opponent is Huaxia, so, in this case, what will Huaxia people do?
(End of this chapter)