Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 593 Battery Production Capacity

Saab, which went bankrupt and was acquired, did not have much say in Qianxiang Shao. At least there was no crooked nut at the Xingsha headquarters of Qianxi Motors.Qu Li has always been a "self-centered" person, and Jumei Glory's acquisitions over the years have been to allow others to adapt to their corporate culture, not the other way around.

So last year, Saab's remaining factory equipment, all that could not be used for electric vehicles, was shipped to China, where it established an electric vehicle production line with a production capacity of more than [-] units, which can be expanded to [-] units in the future.

Factories and production equipment are not the problem, the key is the battery. Honeycomb Energy’s square ternary lithium power battery is much stronger than Tesla’s 18650. It has attracted the attention of many car companies, but it cannot even meet the needs of Qiancheng Geometry, let alone provided to the outside world.

At this time, in addition to the 18650 batteries cooperated by Tesla and Panasonic, international power battery companies also include LG's soft pack batteries, Samsung SDI's prismatic batteries (it does not seem to be ternary lithium batteries at this time), and BYD's lithium iron phosphate , the American A123 battery company seems to be going bankrupt due to product defects.

Now there is the addition of Honeycomb Energy, which has a promising future, and it has also invested in CATL, which is a ternary lithium-based square battery, but Honeycomb Energy has an additional 21700 cylindrical battery.I won’t go into details on how to solve the battery patent issue. Anyway, with Honor’s financial capabilities, Honeycomb Energy can take over whether it’s litigation or patent licensing.

Now, with the help of Qu Li, Ningde Times has come up with power batteries that meet Qiancheng's geometric standards in advance. However, everyone is still exploring the status quo, and the actual production capacity is not high.

Why is it so difficult to increase power battery production capacity?In the manufacturing industry, there is a very mature quality management method called "6sigma". Its goal is to allow 100-1 defective products among 3 million products produced.One part per million seems very strict, but it fails in the power battery industry.

There are hundreds of batteries in the future. Tesla now has more than 7000 18650 batteries, and later more than 4000 21700 batteries. A one-in-a-million failure rate means oops!At most, every 22 electric vehicles will have serious quality problems, such as spontaneous combustion.By the way, according to this logic, the quality control of cars produced by Di in 23/[-] should not meet this standard, especially cars with extremely high cost performance.

Initially, Honeycomb Energy could not even meet the one-millionth standard of Six Sigma, so it had to sacrifice time and efficiency to ensure quality. The same was true for CATL.

Therefore, if Qu Li wants to acquire Motorola's factory in Tianjing, he must promote the smart manufacturing strategy and even achieve "extreme manufacturing" in the future to reduce the failure rate of lithium battery cells from one part per million to one billion. one part.

These things cannot be done in a hurry. The scale of the pure electric vehicle market is limited. If we forcefully promote "extreme manufacturing", it will inevitably be a loss-making business. So now it is enough to achieve one millionth or one ten millionth. We will first cultivate it in the Tianjing factory. Manufacturing management talents realize "intelligent manufacturing". Only through the practice of large-scale manufacturing can talents be cultivated.

So from this perspective, Moudi has an OEM business and has rich manufacturing management experience, but the quality control of automobiles has not been done well for a long time. It can only be said that their thinking has not changed. They have always considered "cost" and prioritized cost-effectiveness. There are almost the same number of mobile phones as coarse grains. They sell a lot of mobile phones and cars. They have cultivated an industrial chain but they are not making money.

Low profits and no profit means that the company has poor risk resistance and low continuous combat capabilities. Therefore, no matter whether it is glory or a bright future, it is impossible to follow the route of small profits but quick turnover in the short term. It must have enough profits. Only by making money can it survive.

Qu Li learned about the situation after the adjustment at Honeycomb Energy. People who were accustomed to the retirement life of foreign-funded enterprises either resigned or were reassigned. The entire company entered a 996 rhythm, including the person in charge named Zhao Mingjie, who has strong execution ability and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Kuang, who was excluded before, is now promoted by Qu Li.

"I heard that he slept at the Hive Energy factory after taking office."

"Is this useful?" Qu Li knew that batteries are different from cars, with various material ratios and complex processes. Can a pure production manager do it well?

"What you want now is production capacity, not an increase in battery energy density." Zhao Mingjie

"One is short-term interests and the other is long-term interests. How do you balance them?"

"The improvement of production capacity is in line with the long-term interests of Honeycomb Energy." Zhao Mingjie said firmly

When Qu Li heard this, he felt that the problem was not big. Regardless of whether it is ternary lithium or lithium iron phosphate, the improvement in chemical properties in the next few years does not seem to be much. Changing the production process and improving production capacity may not be a direction. The key is that he still has This choice in the Ningde era is something we can afford to lose.

Choose to believe in Zhao Mingjie and let him perform.

“What is the production capacity this year?”

"3GW."

Qu Li was surprised again. Last year, the production capacity was less than 1GW. How could it double this year?

"Then I will plan electric vehicle production capacity according to this capacity."

"No problem at all!" Zhao Mingjie

In this case, Qu Li no longer hesitates and speeds up the construction of Saab's Swedish factory. If it were in China, this factory might be ready by now and can start production. Unfortunately, in Europe, the workers are all uncles and the efficiency is too low. .

Geometry's Beijin factory was rented before and its production capacity was limited. Now their own factory has not been built because they are not in a hurry. It can only be said that the management team of Quli and Chengdu Geometry is very immature.In other words, Qu Li often does not work at the company headquarters, which affects normal work efficiency.

At the shareholders' meeting held in advance by Future Geometry, someone questioned this: "Why do you always have production capacity problems? Why didn't you plan in advance?"

Qu Li must quibble, um, explain: "The development of fuel vehicles has exceeded my expectations, and the development of pure electric vehicles is far more difficult than imagined. We are not building an excellent automotive product, we are trying to subvert the entire automotive industry, are you sure? Can anyone avoid making mistakes? Production capacity issues may be the least important compared to product quality and safety."

"What are the specific plans for the future of Geometry, for example, are there any requirements for annual sales volume?"

"I hope that in the next five years, the sales of fuel vehicles will exceed 5 million, and the sales of new energy vehicles, including plug-in hybrid vehicles, will exceed 100." This is the first time Qu Li has given a specific sales target in public, which is of great significance.

"He never set goals for himself even in Glory before, but now..." After the shareholders' meeting, Qu Li's boastful words of selling millions every year were not ridiculed, as if this was a normal thing, but many people The meaning behind the discussion.

Qu Li didn't even understand this situation: "Why do netizens have greater confidence than myself?"

"Maybe our friends are more confident than we are!" Xia Mingfei gave his guess. Although Qiancheng Geometry has not launched patriotic marketing, Honor and Qiancheng Geometry are integrated and have brand bonuses. Assume that 100 Honor fans buy one. A car with great potential can sell more than 100 million units.

Domestic car companies with annual sales of more than 100 million are basically joint venture brands. The independent brand Changan is very eye-catching. However, their popular CS series was registered by Qiancheng Motors. Is it too embarrassed to sell the CS75?

"If we shout the slogan of millions of sales, it should make all evils retreat, right?"

"Maybe there will be more intense sniping."

No company's brand upgrade will be smooth sailing, just like Xidi later...