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Chapter 230: The Cube Aircraft!

It's no wonder Chang Yuhao's voice carried a hint of crying.

The performance parameters of this graphene lithium battery are simply terrifying!

Not only is the battery capacity three times higher than the solid-state batteries announced on the market, but also key features such as charging and discharging speed, output power, stability, and safety are enough to beat the Kunpeng battery released by Chery.

Most importantly, this thing doesn't look like those immature, flawed experimental products from the lab, but rather a mature, commercialized product.

If you put an insulating layer and a metal protective shell on the outside, and add a BMS battery management system, you can directly put it into the market and sweep all existing power batteries such as ternary lithium and lithium iron phosphate into the trash can.

Because the current car market is too competitive.

Once there is a good product, it will definitely not go backwards like before, such as using low-configuration batteries to fight for low-end prices.

It's like the 18650 lithium battery model advocated by the Japanese company Sony in the past.

The Japanese had been laying out in the field of lithium batteries for 30 years earlier than major domestic battery manufacturers, and were once the dominant king in the field of consumer-grade batteries.

However, the main research and development direction of Japanese battery manufacturers is lithium cobalt oxide, not the current ternary lithium and lithium iron phosphate.

With its excellent battery capacity and service life, lithium cobalt oxide, as the first generation of lithium batteries, became the mainstream product after eliminating the 'nickel-hydrogen battery' and 'lead-acid battery' that dominated the market earlier, with a market share of over 95% at one point.

Even Tesla Motors adopted a parallel 18650 lithium cobalt oxide battery as an integrated solution for the power pack in the initial stage.

But the king will always be pulled down from the altar.

With the emergence of ternary lithium, the lithium battery field, which was once firmly occupied by the Japanese, was completely torn open.

Lithium cobalt oxide batteries were swept into the garbage heap of history, and gradually eliminated from the market as the reputation of Japanese manufacturing collapsed.

Even Tesla, a brand that admires Japanese manufacturing, has turned to BYD and CATL in the choice of power batteries.

This shows how terrifying the power of new technologies is for industry reshuffling.

Now the entire car market is betting on solid-state batteries.

At this time, a mysterious battery with the best performance parameters in the entire industry emerges, and even if the price is more expensive, people will try it out and buy it.

Low-end electric cars can't use it, then use high-end luxury models, or even install it on supercars.

Rich people don't care about the budget when buying a car, they only buy the most expensive and the best, and don't ask for cost performance.

This is why Chang Yuhao is so panicked.

As the saying goes, the rabbit dies and the fox grieves for its kind.

As a practitioner in the power battery industry, Chang Yuhao is also afraid that Chen Jue's large-scale production of this graphene lithium battery will completely eliminate the domestic counterparts.

That's more than 3 million jobs!

However, this conservative thinking, which can be called saintly, did not affect Chen Jue, the boss.

Chen Jue smiled slightly: "The emergence of new technologies will definitely face growing pains, just like the current competition between new energy vehicles and pure fuel vehicles, which is destined to be survival of the fittest, and ultimately a battle to the death."

After speaking, Chen Jue patted Chang Yuhao, who was in a complicated mood, and told him to temporarily keep the performance parameters of this graphene lithium battery to himself.

By the way, seeing that this middle-aged brother is very responsible, he temporarily promoted him from technical director to factory director.

After learning that he had been promoted to a higher position in a daze, Chang Yuhao also swept away his previous worries and began to feel excited.

He thought to himself: "Anyway, it's better for a dead friend than a poor Taoist! This solid-state battery with heaven-defying parameters is produced by the parent company anyway, so why worry that I, the battery factory director and technical director, will have no food to eat in the future?"

Of course, before leaving, Chen Jue also told the other party to maintain a dedicated and humble attitude after changing positions.

When the group completes the personnel adjustment and needs to put this graphene lithium battery into mass production, the Cube Group will send someone to upgrade and transform the old production line left by 'Weilai Power Battery'.

Upon hearing this good news, Chang Yuhao patted his chest and said: "Chairman Chen, don't worry, I will guarantee to cooperate with the group to complete the work tasks you have assigned!"

… …

After testing the performance parameters of this graphene lithium battery at hand, Chen Jue flew back to Wenshi overnight.

After seeing the research and development capabilities of Lao Cai, the [Redstone Technology Expert], Chen Jue was completely relieved about the newly acquired power battery factory.

After all, in Chen Jue's view, with the old research team of more than a dozen people left by Weilai Battery, no matter how much money is invested, it will not produce anything too advanced.

Therefore, Chen Jue promoted Chang Yuhao, a conservative technical director, to serve as the factory director, specializing in subsequent production.

In addition, what made Chen Jue most excited was.

During the previous test site, he and Lao Cai kept communicating and learned that this [Graphene Lithium Battery] still has great optimization potential.

The first point is to carry out higher-precision deep processing of [lithium ingots] or [lithium blocks].

Re-thin the original mobile phone-thickness lithium slices, process them to a thickness of about 1 mm, and then cover them with a graphene powder coating.

This process technology is called 'lamination' in the manufacturing field, and is commonly used in the processing of paper, fabrics, glass cloth, special fibers, rubber, and plastics.

After such a superposition operation, the battery capacity of the [Graphene Lithium Battery], which already had explosive performance parameters, was increased by about 80% again.

Due to the increased proportion of graphene materials, the charging and discharging speed has been increased by more than 3 times compared to before.

The instantaneous discharge reached a terrifying 1500 amps!

This discharge power is comparable to the transmission power of the 1100KV high-voltage power lines seen in daily life.

Of course, during the optimization and improvement process, in addition to naming this solid-state battery [Cube Battery (Tier 3)].

Chen Jue also asked Lao Cai to make a castrated and weakened version of the [Cube Battery (Tier 1)] with only one-third of the performance of the first generation by thickening the lithium slices and reducing the number of graphene film layers according to the material performance.

When Chen Jue first used the puzzle toy 'Cube' as the company's LOGO, he considered that the shape of the cube perfectly matched the blocks in MC.

Unexpectedly, the positioning of its battery products also followed the creative idea of increasing difficulty from Cube Tier 1 to Tier 33.

"I'm really a clever ghost!" Chen Jue sighed in his heart at his previous forward-thinking, and also developed a great interest in the application of this new solid-state battery, [Cube Battery].

Because this thing is full of black technology from top to bottom.

Its use is not as simple as being put into the electric vehicle field!

… …

After completing the optimization and castration design of the [Cube Battery], the MC [Redstone] energy problem that had been plaguing Chen Jue was completely solved.

So this kid couldn't wait to run to the second-floor workshop of the Cube factory, and asked a few iron fools to cooperate with Lao Cai to use CNC machine tools to laminate and compound two materials, MC [aluminum block] and [iron block] cut thin sheets.

The composite 'aluminum-iron' plate has the dual properties of high strength and lightweight, making it very suitable for making cutting-edge heavy industrial products.

Chen Jue thought for a while and took out a long-cherished appearance structure diagram of the Nantianmen Baidi aerospace fighter from a well-known B station military fan forum in his mobile phone.

The Baidi aerospace fighter has been publicly announcing its concept design since 2022, and three years have passed since then.

Various AI structure diagrams and concept diagrams related to 'Baidi' on the Internet have long been played out by military fans and aviation fans.

Even if you search on Taobao, you can find similar authorized model aircraft.

It's just that the model aircraft, or rather electric aircraft, that Chen Jue wants to make this time is a bit different.

After all, small-scale troubles are not his personality!

"Wouldn't it be too explosive to restore Baidi 1:1?"

"It seems that there is also the possibility of infringing on other people's appearance design…" Chen Jue touched his chin and pondered for a moment.

In the end, he still resisted the urge to replicate the Baidi aerospace fighter.

Because his current purpose is mainly to test the actual application scenarios of this [Cube Battery (Tier 3)] version.

So after thinking about it, he simply followed his simple design concept for Cube cars, and made an oversized aircraft shell in the shape of a cube with a side length of 20 meters according to the appearance of the MC cube.

"A cube-shaped UFO? It looks so TM exciting!"

Chen Jue looked at the shape of the aircraft that was being pieced together little by little in the dock workshop, and the eyes of the whole person began to shine.

No way!

It's too TM sci-fi!

The silver-gray shell and the extremely smooth cube surface.

Just like the water droplets in "Three-Body", you can't completely imagine how shocking this thing is just by imagining it.

Of course, it's not enough to just have a cool shell.

In terms of model power selection, Chen Jue did not directly copy his two modified V2500 turbofan engines from the A320, but copied a design drawing of an all-electric jet engine with the model 'Pioneer' from the foreign network.

This 'Pioneer' aeroengine was designed by a graduate of the University of Strathclyde in the UK, and was first announced as a prototype at the Scottish Airshow in 2022.

The British guy also published relevant papers on various large-scale domestic and foreign journals, detailing the parameters and structure diagrams of this electric injection engine.

However, limited by the energy density of mainstream batteries, this 'Pioneer' engine has always been in a ground test state when displayed to the public, unable to actually take to the skies.

Because to officially start the 'Pioneer' jet engine, a power supply capable of stably outputting 1000 amps is required.

Traditional power batteries, through the series connection of multiple battery packs and the intervention of the BMS system, can theoretically achieve a 1000 amp output.

However, the capacity of lithium batteries is limited. Even if the entire aircraft is built, more than 70% of its weight would be dedicated to the battery module's load.

Moreover, the endurance would not exceed 10 minutes, forcing it to land shortly after takeoff.

This has led to the 'Pioneer' electric jet engine becoming a pure white elephant in the commercial aerospace and aviation markets.

On Bilibili, some skilled model aircraft enthusiasts have referenced the design ideas of the 'Pioneer' to create some miniature electric jet engines, posting them to gain likes and popularity.

Chen Jue also followed the ideas of those Bilibili enthusiasts and made a similar replica.

However, his resources placed him among the wealthiest of the model aircraft enthusiasts, allowing him to take things further and make secondary improvements on the original 'Pioneer' engine.

Using CNC machine tools and MC materials, he created three 'Cube Pioneer' electric jet engines of different sizes, with diameters ranging from 3 meters to 50 centimeters.

He then embedded 4 large 'Cube Pioneer' engines into the bottom of the cubic aircraft, with the other 8 sides equipped with varying numbers of medium and small Cube Pioneers for directional adjustments.

As a cubic structure without wings and free from the flight posture of traditional multi-rotor aircraft,

the 9 faces all utilized hydraulically closed jet nozzle designs, which wasn't unreasonable.

As for the internal cockpit design, it was even simpler!

Chen Jue directly copied the three-axis mechanical structure of a camera gimbal stabilizer, placing a smaller cube-shaped cockpit inside the aircraft.

This way, no matter how the aircraft flies in the air or in what posture, it can maintain the horizontal stability of the cockpit, ensuring the comfort of passengers and the pilot.

Including the pressurization, air conditioning, and oxygen supply systems found on airplanes, as well as the capture of external optical images within the closed cabin, Chen Jue overcame these challenges one by one using commercially available civilian equipment such as high-definition monitoring probes.

It took him a full 7 days to DIY the entire aircraft and debug all the systems before they were finished.

This was almost the same amount of time he spent modifying two Airbus A320s before.

However, before this cubic aircraft could take off, there were still several major technical problems to be solved.

First, Chen Jue couldn't find a matching mature flight control system for the aircraft on the internet or in the market.

After all, the concept of his 'Cube Aircraft' was too advanced.

Second, because this thing was too large and its functions were too heaven-defying, it could no longer be classified as a 'drone'.

To conduct a test flight, it was necessary to report to the air traffic control department.

Therefore, after completing the manufacture of the aircraft, Chen Jue flipped through his address book and called Jun Yao's young master, who was on vacation in his hometown of Wen City: "Brother Han, are you free? I need your help... Forget it, it's hard to explain over the phone. Come to my factory, I'll show you something good!"

Wang Han on the other end of the phone was also stunned: "Chen Jue is asking me for help? This kid has become so successful lately, what does he need my help for?"

Skeptical after hanging up the phone, Wang Han opened a short video sent by Chen Jue on WeChat.

In the video, a square, oversized aircraft was undergoing a test flight in a spacious workshop.

The strong airflow ejected from the base of the aircraft lifted the entire aircraft upwards at a crooked angle for dozens of meters.

Just as the bizarre aircraft was about to hit the ceiling of the workshop.

Several extended cube arms extending from the workshop's gantry crane steadily clamped it, and finally, in Wang Han's shocked gaze, lowered it to the ground.

This scene in the short video almost made Wang Han's brain boil!

"WTF???"

"What the hell is this!"

"UFO? Alien drone? Or..." Wang Han was just about to click on the video to take another look at the uniquely shaped aircraft when Chen Jue revoked the video.

Annoyed, Wang Han sent several exclamation marks + flowery language emojis and called his driver to head straight to Ruixian.

This chapter is a two-in-one.