Clone Octopus

Chapter 73 Big Business

As soon as the matter in Dubai was over, Shen Rui and the others split into two groups. Ye Wuhen returned to Bohai Sea by plane. Yan Feng and his team had already arrived, and Ye Wuhen was going to receive these important scientists.

As for Shen Rui and Lao Pan, they went straight to Port Moresby, the capital of Papua, and met with Mr. Ling Jiawei, the financial director, to acquire the exclusive exploration rights and exclusive mining rights of this graphite X mineral.

Now that the division of labor in the international business community is clear, the best way to do large-scale acquisitions is to hire a professional team. **, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank, these financial giants all have specialized asset acquisition and restructuring departments, specializing in Assist business partners in negotiations.

Before Mr. Ling Jiawei joined Shen Rui's company, he was the head of the Finance Department of Goldman Sachs Asia. Under his leadership, he hired Chen Zicheng's team, the chief negotiator of Goldman Sachs Asia.

Now that the international commodity market is in a downturn, energy, minerals, and food have all fallen into a mess. A poor and backward small country like Papua will be very happy if it can sell its own mining rights, so winning the mining rights is not a big deal. difficult things.

After several rounds of arduous negotiations, Octopus Group finally won the exclusive exploration and mining rights to Manus Island and nearby waters at a price of US$2000 million per year, with a contract period of 99 years.

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The Bohai Sea is a good natural harbor with countless large and small docks. About [-] kilometers away from Nancheng, there is a place called Guanhai Port. The dock is connected to a large industrial park, which was built by the local government at a huge expense.

The largest enterprise in the park in terms of scale and area is a lithium battery factory called Anbang Lithium Battery, which has closed down due to insolvency.

Ye Wuhen and Shen Rui chose this company as the acquisition target. Anbang Lithium Battery has the most advanced 18650-type battery production line in the world, and it is close to the wharf. In addition, the township industrial park where it is located has a lot of free land, which is convenient The factory expands.

Following Ye Wuhen and Shen Rui are two German experts, twins, Bates brothers.

In Germany, Bates Materials Laboratory is quite famous. Bath Chemical, Siemens, Bosch, these old world-class enterprises are all partners of Bates Laboratory for many years.

Ye Wuhen went to Germany mysteriously to find the Bates brothers to identify graphite X, a new material, and now they have come to Bohai again, preparing to further participate in the new energy project of the Octopus Group.

After seeing the factory, dock, and industrial park, Shen Rui invited the two elderly people to the wine table to listen to their opinions.

The Bates brothers are now in their [-]s, knowing that their life expectancy is short, and they are very excited about being able to participate in new energy projects that will transform the world. According to the two of them, they have been engaged in material science research for a lifetime, and this time is the closest they have come to changing the world. One chance for the world, they want to put their name on this promising project no matter what.

Now that the Bates brothers are very enthusiastic about the new energy project of the Octopus Group, the cooperation has become much smoother. The two of them will fully accept the technical work of the battery factory and issue a military order. A new type of lithium battery.

The production process is as follows. The largest berth No. [-] on the wharf is dedicated to the Octopus Group. After the ore arrives at the port, it is immediately sent to the storage warehouse through the conveyor belt. The warehouse is connected to the material workshop, where the ore is screened, separated, and then assembled in the production line. , to manufacture finished batteries.

After all these were settled, the Bates brothers exchanged glances, and the elder brother Tiger Bates took out a finished 18650 battery without outer packaging and handed it to Shen Rui and Ye Wuhen.

"This is the 18650 battery sample we made in the laboratory using the piece of graphite "

12V, 50 Ah! ?
Shen Rui opened his mouth wide in surprise. Currently, the world's most advanced 18650 battery is made by RB Panasonic, with a voltage of 3.7 volts and a capacity of 4.1 Ah. The performance of the 18650 battery that Octopus Group is going to manufacture is fully better than that of the world's most advanced battery. The advanced Panasonic has improved nearly forty times!
18650 is currently the most common battery model. It is a cylinder with a diameter of 18 mm and a length of 65 mm. When a Tesla electric car is disassembled, it is actually an 18650 battery. When a laptop is disassembled, it is still an 18650 battery.

The new 18650 battery using Graphite X only needs one to drive an electric bicycle for forty or fifty kilometers. You know, this battery only weighs 25 grams!Compared with the heavy lead battery used in electric bicycles now, it is many times more advanced!
Tesla electric vehicles use 18650 3.7 batteries, with a voltage of 3.1 volts and a capacity of 140 amp hours. If it is replaced with the Graphite X model, as many as [-] batteries are used, and [-] batteries are enough.

If the number of [-] batteries remains unchanged and all are replaced with new models from the Octopus Group, the fastest electric car in the world can have a range of [-] kilometers!

Can you run [-] kilometers on a single charge?What an astonishing number! ?

The Bates brothers continued: "In addition, according to our research, the charging speed of batteries using new materials will also be greatly improved. As long as the power supply is stable enough and the power is large enough, a set of batteries can be fully charged within 1 minute. "

Bass~
Shen Rui almost jumped out of his chair, a car that can run 1 kilometers in one minute of charging?This is just like a sci-fi movie. In comparison, those super sports cars are simply weak!

Ye Wuhen was not as surprised as Shen Rui, perhaps he had already encountered the huge potential of Shi Mo X.

Once this new type of battery is put into production, not to mention automobiles and electric vehicles, I am afraid that even airplanes and ships will switch to electricity in the future. The situation of pollution caused by petrochemical products in the whole world will be greatly changed.

Ye Wuhen was exchanging some technical things with the Bates brothers. Shen Rui didn't bother to listen to those obscure technical terms and data. He took out his mobile phone and calculated the benefits that the battery factory would bring to him.

Using graphite X to make a new type of battery, the upgrade is only the material, and the cost of the battery will not increase much. The cost of each battery is about one dollar.

According to the current market conditions, the wholesale price of even the second-tier products produced by Samsung is US$[-]. As for the top-level models produced by Panasonic, the wholesale price exceeds US$[-].

The performance of Graphite X battery is nearly [-] times that of Panasonic's top model. Considering the battery penetration rate, it is cheap to sell [-] dollars a battery. Reached a staggering nineteen dollars.

Based on the global annual sales of 500 million cars, the average car needs to consume 250 batteries. In other words, in the automotive industry alone, the total annual demand is [-] billion batteries. Gross profit nineteen dollars...

Gross profit of 840 billion US dollars!
Shen Rui couldn't believe the number on the calculator, 800 billion US dollars!This is just a project of the automobile industry. The world sells more than 20 billion mobile phones, [-] million computers of various types, motorcycles, electric bicycles, cameras, video cameras, solar and wind power storage systems, ships, airplanes...
Shen Rui couldn't calculate it in detail, because the number was too big.

No wonder Ye Wuhen kept saying that the battery industry is a super business worth two trillion dollars a year, and now it seems absolutely true.

Shen Rui was a little excited, and couldn't help touching the messenger bag on his chest, which was where Chasing Moon Wall was.

For a moment, his fingers felt something strange.

Huh?
(End of this chapter)