Time Cafe.

Song Weiyang called Li Sufu, who actually flew directly to Shenghai, and asked when they met: "Are you really going to make electric cars?"

"Yes," Song Weiyang introduced the two to each other, "This is Wang Chuanfu, the boss of BYD Battery, Mr. Wang, and this is Li Sufu, the boss of Geely Automobile." ”

"Hello Boss Wang!"

"Hello Boss Li!"

After shaking hands and greeting each other, Li Sufu asked directly: "Do you have electric vehicle technology?"

Wang Chuanfu said: "Boss Song gave me an idea, I think you can try it." ”

"That's great!" Li Sufu slapped his thigh with excitement.

Song Weiyang smiled: "Your reaction is too exaggerated, isn't it?"

Li Sufu said: "You don't make cars, of course you don't know what the situation is, and now the whole industry has spread it." The central government is discussing the new energy vehicle plan, and it has been discussed for almost a year, and it is likely that new energy vehicles will be included in the 863 project next year!"

"Is there such a thing?" said Song Weiyang, who really didn't know much about the automotive industry.

Wang Chuanfu asked, "Is the news accurate?"

Li Sufu said: "Eight or nine is not far from ten." Even if the new energy vehicle plan is not passed next year, it will be passed the year after tomorrow, and the central leadership will directly grasp it.

Song Weiyang asked: "Now there are few foreign countries that make electric vehicles, why does the central government suddenly pay attention to this piece?"

Li Sufu said: "Because there is an Audi engineer who wrote a letter to the central leadership. He bitterly denounced the shortcomings of China's auto manufacturing industry, saying that China's auto industry can no longer follow the old path. Introduction, backwardness, re-introduction, and backwardness, this is a dead end, and it will never come out, and China should have its own core technology. Otherwise, once the market is formed, China's automobiles will be eliminated, and the national industry will be gone! If China's automobile industry wants to develop by leaps and bounds, it must find an entry point, and this entry point is new energy vehicles. ”

Wang Chuanfu said in a daze: "How can an engineer from Audi write such a letter?"

Li Sufu explained: "Because this Audi engineer is Chinese, he only went abroad in the 80s, and now he seems to be the technical manager of Audi's master planning department. ”

"It's kind of interesting. Song Weiyang said with a smile.

This Audi engineer is called Wan Gang, who will resign from his annual salary of one million dollars next year and return to China, serve as the leader of the overall team of the 863 electric vehicle major project, and was hired by Tongji University to establish a new energy vehicle engineering center, and later became the president of Tongji, the minister of science and technology, and the chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology.

Wan Gang's R&D direction of new energy vehicles is completely different from Tesla's "battery pack" thinking, and is directly aimed at the ultimate form - hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. This is also the main research direction of developed countries, China built the first car in 2003, beat GM, Ford, Nissan in Paris in 2006, China's hydrogen fuel cell vehicle total performance and Mercedes-Benz new energy vehicles on the same level.

Perhaps by 2030, we will be able to see a commercial version of China's hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Li Sufu said excitedly: "Now everyone knows that the country will attach importance to new energy vehicles, but no one knows how to get started." Once new energy vehicles are included in the 863 plan, not to mention policy support, you can also apply for project funds, and the automobile production license can be obtained in minutes. ”

"Then do it, make up your mind to do it well!" Wang Chuanfu was stimulated by this news.

Song Weiyang poured cold water and said: "Don't be too excited, although the state supports it, but now the technology is not good, I estimate that there will not be much development in ten years." You can do it, you can't invest too much money, and don't get your hopes up. Moreover, we don't have to think about the state's project funds, this kind of large-scale project must be a government + state-owned enterprise + university model, and private enterprises cannot be involved. ”

"That's right," Li Sufu suddenly became discouraged, "My car hasn't gotten a license plate yet, and it's been illegally produced, so I'm really thinking a little too much." ”

Wang Chuanfu was surprised: "Geely car has no production qualification?"

"Nope. Li Sufu said.

"Then you still dare to produce cars?" Wang Chuanfu was incredulous.

Li Sufu said: "Get on the bus first and then make up the ticket, I've been looking for a chance to make up the ticket." ”

Wang Chuanfu was speechless for an instant, and looked at Li Sufu with admiration, making him feel that this old man's courage was too fat.

Wang Chuanfu thought for a while and said: "Electric vehicles and traditional cars, I'm afraid the structure is very different, where should we start?"

Li Sufu said: "This is simple. GM launched an electric car, and we bought it, dismantled it, researched it, figured out how it worked, and then replaced it with the battery we developed. In fact, building a car is very simple, just dismantle a few more cars, and I used to dismantle more than a dozen cars to practice. Now the question is the battery, is BYD's battery enough?"

"This needs to be done with R&D. Wang Chuanfu said.

Although Song Weiyang doesn't know much about the automotive industry, he knows how Tesla stands out. The founder of Tesla bought a GM electric car, threw away the original battery, and used thousands of laptop batteries to make a battery pack and stuff it in, and the battery life was more than three times that of GM's battery!

Song Weiyang said: "I still have the same idea, connecting thousands of batteries together, the efficiency must be better than a single battery." ”

Wang Chuanfu said: "You can try." ”

"What needs to be paid attention to is the market problem," Song said, "and I am afraid it will take a long time for electric vehicles to be directly distributed to the masses." We can't take the quantitative route, but take the high-end route, and just make electric sports cars. ”

Li Sufu said: "You're kidding. There is so much technology involved in sports cars that I can't do it anyway, at least not for ten years. ”

"Take your time," Song Weiyang said, "first buy the GM electric vehicle, dismantle it to familiarize ourselves with the relevant technology, and then concentrate on developing our battery." When all of this is done, let's solve the sports car problem. Don't make it too big yet, invest a few million yuan, and then invest more when you have results. ”

"I think it's still necessary to go the mass route. Wang Chuanfu said.

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "Then you buy a car factory by yourself and play slowly with the battery yourself." ”

Wang Chuanfu said: "It's okay, the three of us will invest first and take the sports car route that Boss Song said." One day, I have enough funds to buy a car factory and make a civilian version of an electric car. ”

Historically, BYD really didn't think about building a car, and Wang Chuanfu wanted to make batteries wholeheartedly.

At that time, the competition in the battery industry was becoming more and more fierce, and it happened that the state was supporting new energy vehicles, so Wang Chuanfu seemed to lead the battery business to the automotive industry. But he took a look, hey, the country is full of joint venture cars, Geely has just obtained a production license, and there is no car company to buy his battery at all.

In desperation, Wang Chuanfu, who wanted to sell car batteries, could only build the car himself. He first acquired Jeep's mold factory, and then acquired Qinchuan Automobile Company, and finally spent two or three years to make the BYD F3 come out.

After the BYD F3 was launched, Wang Chuanfu immediately made the car electric, and a year later the BYD F3e (electric) was launched.

An entrepreneur who only wants to sell car batteries is forced to become the owner of a car company by China's bad car industry.

After the coffee was drunk, the cooperation was agreed.

Song Weiyang, Wang Chuanfu and Li Sufu each invested 5 million yuan to form a "Tesla New Energy Technology R&D Company", each accounting for one-third of the shares. The company's address is located in the Geely Automobile Factory, and Geely and BYD sent technicians to buy a GM electric car to jointly research electric vehicle technology.