Chapter 652: The Era of Lithium Batteries
There is no doubt that the commercial application of lithium batteries is also a milestone in the development of the battery industry in the past century. After all, many people have fantasies about the battery, and even in science fiction and movies, there is no shortage of futuristic battery technology, what controllable nuclear fusion is realized, miniaturized to the size of a battery, and it is not leaked, providing decades of endurance that does not need to be charged.
and all kinds of metals, all of which have been fantasized about and made into batteries.
But in reality, as the most basic material, the breakthrough in the battery industry is not like the semiconductor industry, after the advent of integrated circuits decades ago, the process has developed rapidly. On the contrary, the rate of progress in battery technology is even slower than that of the power generation industry.
Even for a long time, there is little progress to be seen.
Lithium batteries are not the only battery research direction, in fact, there are many metals that are studied as battery materials. For example, theoretically, if magnesium metal is made into a battery, after safety and commercial production can be realized, its physical characteristics determine that it is more awesome than lithium batteries, and the power can almost be doubled. But...... In fact, the battery industry has spent tens of billions of dollars and invested for decades, and it may not be able to hear a sound. Theoretically, it should be a material that can be made into a rechargeable battery, but in fact, how to achieve it requires tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions or even infinite experiments. Many experiments can only produce a series of failed data, and do not see the opportunity for success.
In many cases, the successful breakthrough is often due to some accident and the key thing is found.
For example, the research of lithium batteries is the same as hundreds of teams around the world, and a lot of money has been spent for decades. But eventually, it wasn't commercialized until the 90s, and a lot of the teams just didn't have luck.
Lin Qi's cheating lies in directly taking out the successful lithium battery plan in later generations. Based on the results, the process is reversed, and then the trial production begins. In the next few decades, the mature solutions of the battery industry can be directly used, which makes Aika New Energy Company equivalent to hanging!
Even so, even if the battery process level is achieved decades later, it cannot be said to be 100% complete.
For the research on the safety of lithium batteries, battery manufacturers at home and abroad have never stopped. Although the explosion probability of lithium batteries is very low, once it explodes, it becomes big news.
For example, Tesla's cars have battery problems from time to time, resulting in combustion or other failures. Tesla's battery supplier is also the world's mainstream battery manufacturer, and it cannot guarantee absolute completeness.
In the case of mobile phone companies like Samsung and Apple, the lithium batteries used later also exploded. In particular, Samsung's mobile phone explosion was treated differently by Chinese and foreign consumers, resulting in the explosion incident, Samsung's mobile phone market share from one-third of the Chinese market share to less than 1% market share.
Rather than saying that Samsung's quality problems have led to the siege of consumers and the media, it is better to say that after the incident, the public relations attitude is very problematic, too arrogant and shirking responsibility, resulting in the collapse of the brand image.
You think, even if you have an Apple and a Samsung in front of you, the price is almost the same. Consumers, won't they vote for apples with their feet?
The people present basically came prepared, and Lin Qi said this to reassure everyone.
"Product quality determines whether an enterprise can go longer, we are not only the first to launch lithium batteries, and, in the future, I will definitely say that we strictly control the quality, so that the lithium battery of Aika New Energy Company is the safest lithium battery in the world. ”
There was a round of applause below.
After the launch of lithium batteries, the supply chain of many products of the new entrepreneurial department has changed. For example, mini four-wheel drive toys have already begun, experimenting with more expensive and at the same time, more abundant lithium batteries.
Other handhelds, laptops and other products have naturally been upgraded accordingly. Not only the new handheld computers and laptops, but also the production line has changed the factory battery to a lithium battery.
At the same time, for older models, battery upgrade options are also available. The original lithium battery, each laptop battery, needs to pay a price of $50, you can replace the old nickel battery with the new lithium battery.
The cost of lithium batteries is naturally not so high, and the production cost is only $10 at most, so the advent of lithium batteries is still to make money with their skills.
It is precisely for this reason that Aika New Energy Company will make an announcement in advance that the performance will increase greatly after the new battery products are launched.
In fact, the market reaction is the same, all over the world, there are many customers at the door of Pangu computer dealers, queuing up to buy the newly listed lithium batteries.
Because, only one battery needs to be replaced, and the battery life of different models of Pangu laptops that can last for 4~8 hours can be improved immediately. According to the current evaluation of some users, the Pangu 3rd generation laptop, in energy-saving mode, uses the original nickel battery to last up to 8.6 hours.
The current data of lithium batteries is that the maximum battery life can reach 11.6 hours. In addition to the energy saving of hardware and systems, the more important thing is that the progress of battery technology brings visible battery life.
For some users who go out to work and don't have time to charge often, this kind of long battery life is almost the most important experience for them.
Therefore, these users who have high requirements for battery life have begun to replace their old batteries when they find that they only need to replace the battery to increase the battery life.
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"Mr. Lin, this is the latest news of Xinfei Electronics, affected by the continuous decline of the Japanese stock market, Xinfei also fell very badly. Even, the stock price is lower than last year's anti-monopoly investigation, and the performance is very stable, but the market continues to sell. ”
According to the data, due to the downturn in the Japanese stock market, the market value of more than 100 foreign companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has shrunk.
Among them, the market value of Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., which was originally a leading stock of listed multinational companies introduced by Japan, fell by half from $60 billion to $30 billion, shrinking by half.
"Philips has been reducing its stake in Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., cashing out up to $10 billion. Data up to the 15th of this month shows that Philips' stake in Xinfei Electronic Technology has been reduced to less than 5%. At the same time, the company's president, Mr. Kotzleigh, sold off his $1 billion stock holdings and now serves as the company's CEO, almost non-existent. Ke Cilei had been boastful before, and seemed to be very optimistic about the company's prospects, but he didn't expect to start taking the lead in selling the company's shares by himself. "The Tokyo Stock Exchange is a letter asking whether the operation of Xinfei Electronic Technology Company is normal and whether there is any unreleased negative news. ”