This metal box and the cylindrical thing on it are the first generation of steam smoke that Hong Tao spent 2,000 yuan on manual labor to get from a metal processing factory in the suburbs of Beijing. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info don't be too expensive, people still look at the face of friends to take time to do, ordinary people come and people don't make this mess with you.

According to Hong Tao's requirements, the steam smoke is not small, but the processing accuracy is quite high, dozens of large and small parts are special-shaped, and you have to go to CNC machine tools, there are many processes, and the trouble is dead.

In particular, the production of atomizers is more troublesome, and it must be tightly fitted and screwed together to the extent that there is no leakage.

In fact, Hong Tao has simplified a lot in the design, and the various hollow effects on it are not wanted, and the oil storage tank is also directly made of stainless steel. If this is coupled with a tempered glass oil storage tank, the processing cost will have to be doubled.

Isn't the cost of 2,000 yuan too expensive? Not expensive, Hong Tao feels that you get what you pay for. The director of this processing plant is serious about whether it is for the sake of his friend's face or for the sake of money.

There is nothing wrong with the battery box and atomizer, the material is 304 medical-grade stainless steel, the processing accuracy is enough, and the assembly between the parts is relatively smooth, neither too loose nor too tight. There is a slight oil leak at the bottom of the oil storage tank, but it doesn't matter, you can add a fine rubber ring here to seal it, and nothing will leak.

And 2,000 yuan is not the cost of production, if it is produced in large quantities, the price will fall down. The director of the processing plant is also a master who likes fishing, and Hong Tao specially invited him to a meal, and the conversation was very good.

He also has a solid understanding with Hong Tao, the main orders of their factory are from the medical mouth, specializing in the pressure reducing valve of medical oxygen cylinders, so there will be CNC machine tools with good processing accuracy and various sizes of medical 304 stainless steel materials, Hong Tao These parts are made of scraps.

If it is really ordered in large quantities, the lowest price he can give will cost more than 400 for a set of labor and materials. Don't think that people can afford this kind of work, even if the factory director is not very happy to do it.

Because Hong Tao is a person, and the number of orders cannot be guaranteed, people are still willing to support large factories, even if the profit is less, but the water is long-term, and it is practical.

Hong Tao did not invite this meal in vain, the factory director pointed him a clear way, if you want to ensure accuracy and low price, you will go to Shenzhen to find a way. There are many small factories over there with equipment that is not inferior, even better than large factories, and the workers' skills are no problem, and they are all doing foreign trade orders.

The most important thing is that their business strategy is flexible, and they will set the price according to your processing quantity, as long as you have enough money, you will not be too small to order. And they do everything, to put it mildly, if the country turns a blind eye and you carry a missile over, they can also process it for you as it is, and the price is only about half of this side.

In the end, the factory director also gave Hong Tao a few business cards, all of which were colleagues in Shenzhen, and Hong Tao had to discuss the specific details with the other party in person.

Hong Tao didn't make any of these calls, because it is not yet the time to put into production, it is useless to have smoking utensils, you can't always smoke salad oil without cigarette oil, and you can't only have one flavor of e-liquid, so you have to make ten kinds of eight kinds to talk about the problem of mass production.

In addition, this product cannot be put into production in China first, just like the factory director said, there is basically no protection of domestic intellectual property rights, as long as their own steam smoke has a market and a good profit, it will have to be imitated after a few days.

Then there is the endless price war, when to hit the lowest profits of each company, everyone does not have enough money to invest in follow-up research and development, and this industry will either be carried forward by foreigners in the future or directly yellow.

According to Hong Tao's plan, when his kind of steam smoke first appeared in front of the world, he had to put on a veil of justice, and listed in developed countries in Europe and the United States in a high-profile manner under the banner of tobacco substitution, earning euros first and then dollars, and a year or two later landing in Japan on a small scale to earn yen. After going through such a circle, it will take a few years to stabilize the main foreign markets and create a lot of trade and legal barriers, and then talk about the domestic market.

At that time, even if someone in China imitates their own products, they will have the capital to fight a price war with them. Whoever dares to rise will be destroyed, if you dare to sell for one dollar, I will dare to sell for five cents, and if I am in a hurry, I will buy one and get one free. Anyway, I have the support of the European and American markets, and I can live without making money in China. It is to let the domestic large-scale counterfeiting manufacturers lose their pants to see who dares to get involved.

We don't care about small-scale counterfeiting, as long as it doesn't affect the development of my brand in China. Don't mention the question of what domestic products, when the time comes, we will also export to domestic sales, get a joint venture brand, while holding an orthodox brand, while waving the banner of domestic products, who is afraid of whom.

But whether it is developing abroad or domestically dominating, the production base must be placed in China, which must be learned from old European and American capitalists such as Apple, Dell, Nike, and Adi.

Many of the world's famous brand products are produced in China and Southeast Asian countries, but a large part of them are not sold in China at all, and they have to go to the main markets in Europe and the United States to earn enough fat first, and then sell them back to China.

At that time, there will be more people who are sought after in China, and those capitalists can be regarded as having thoroughly studied human nature and the consumption habits of the Chinese, so Hong Tao does not plan to find another way and learn from it.

Now, in addition to continuing to develop e-liquid varieties, she and Jiang Zhuyi have really reached a consensus that she will be fully responsible for the preparation of steam smoke overseas during the years when Jiang Zhuyi has not gone abroad. This time she went out at the behest of Hong Tao, and asked her to go to Japan to inspect the suppliers of power batteries.

The steam smoke looks quite simple, but it's actually quite troublesome. Due to its high power, it cannot be driven by ordinary batteries, and power batteries must be used, which is what we often call 18650 batteries.

This battery is a lithium-ion battery, which was developed by Sony in the nineties of the twentieth century. Compared with ordinary batteries, its discharge voltage and current are much higher. The power banks, laptops, flashlights, electric bicycles, electric vehicles, etc. that we usually use are powered by this kind of battery.

At present, there is no manufacturer that can produce 18650 batteries in China, and there will be in a few years, but the performance is lower, and the price is more expensive than foreign products. Because many of the materials we use have to be imported, we have to pay patent fees, and the yield rate is not as high as that of others, so the cost has not been able to be suppressed.

But don't be upset, in the power battery industry, not only China is backward, most countries in the world are backward, only five companies can mass-scale manufacturing high-performance 18650 battery cells, they are Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo, Samsung, LG.

This situation has continued to this day, and Tesla's electric cars are awesome, right? The battery cells are all made from Japan. The world's power battery standards are set by these five companies, and the patents are all in their hands.

Sony CT4 and CT5 batteries, which are very famous in the field of power batteries, are the standard configuration of many model aircraft enthusiasts, and they can be vented from a full current of 30A to the lowest power. This technical indicator alone is proud of the world, and no one can do it better than Sony.

In recent years, some factories in China can also produce 18650 batteries, Lishen, Yangtze River, BAK, and Zhuo Neng, all of which are regular battery factories in China. However, their goods are rare in the market, because the production is too small, and the domestic electric bicycle market is in full swing, far from meeting the market demand.

More domestic manufacturers are playing karate, buying battery cells in batches from Japan and South Korea, and putting on their own insulating sleeves after shipping them back, turning them into domestic brands.

There are probably a few more well-known OEM manufacturers, AWT, EFAN, basen, bootes, hmeng, which are very common brands on Taobao.

It doesn't matter if it's just OEM, after all, the battery cell is still a good cell, and it won't delay things when used. But these manufacturers are not happy, because if they sell like this, they will not only lose profit but also lose money.

What can I do? It's easy to do, but it's fake. Obviously the output current is 3A, stunned is the nominal 10A; Obviously the capacity is only 2000mah, directly doubled to write 4000mah; the most grandson is that the output current is exaggerated, and the false standard capacity, this kind of battery is not only useless to buy back, but also damage the electrical appliances.

But after all, there are still a few Chinese consumers who can understand the battery, and the government departments turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it.

But in this way, the price of batteries has gone up, and these copycat batteries are more expensive than the high-end brands of the five major battery factories, just like the faces of the world's major manufacturers. In fact, the registered capital of these factories in Shenzhen is only hundreds of thousands, and they can't even afford to build a battery cell warehouse.

Take the very popular AWT brand on Taobao as an example, the full name of the company registered in Shenzhen is Shenzhen Yavit Technology Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of only 100,000 yuan.

But when it comes to the Internet, its battery technology has gone against the sky, with a capacity of more than 4000mah and a discharge current of more than 40A. If this kind of battery technology existed on Earth, civil aircraft would be able to run on batteries.

The larger the capacity, the greater the internal resistance, and the smaller the discharge current. The world's top lithium-ion batteries generally have a stable output current of about 35A, but the capacity can only be maintained at around 2000mAh.

Fish and bear's paws can't have both in the battery field at present, it's not a matter of whether you want to think about it, but you can't really make it. We go to the market to buy power batteries, as long as the capacity exceeds 2500mah and the output current is still above 30A, don't buy it, it's 100% fake.

Here to teach you two simple skills to distinguish the true and false power battery, not to mention that I irrigate, this is a little common sense closely related to life, learn more and learn no loss. If the government doesn't help us people, we will have to learn more and watch more, otherwise we will wait to be the culprit.

The first way is to have no cost, which is to see who the merchant is selling to. If the batteries sold by this merchant are only for e-cigarette users, 90% are fake. Because e-cigarette users generally don't know much about batteries, it is easier to deceive.

If the merchant still has strong light torches and model aircraft customers, then there is a great possibility of genuine products. The crowd of people who play strong light flashlights and model airplanes have a very thorough study of batteries, and they are clearer than the merchants, and they can't be blinded.

The second method is to spend 200 yuan to buy an internal resistance meter, and then check the approximate data of the battery on the Internet. As long as the internal resistance of the battery is measured, it is clear whether it is Li Ghost or Li Kui at a glance, and the merchant said that he had to admit it if he broke the sky. If you take this thing to a physical store to buy a power battery, the merchant will probably have to blast you out, which is not to smash people's business.

Diane went to Japan to do this job, and she had to choose one or two battery cell factories as future power battery suppliers. In 03 years, domestic power batteries are still relatively expensive, often more than 100 yuan a piece. If there is a fixed supplier, the purchase price can be reduced by more than half, which shows how much moisture there is.

Moreover, the power battery used in e-cigarettes does not need to have a high output voltage, 10A to 20A can be, and choosing a power battery with a relatively large capacity is the key.

In fact, Hong Tao himself can build a small factory in Shenzhen, import battery cells from Japan or South Korea and then assemble the OEM, which can not only supply his own steam smoke for use, but also make a fortune by selling batteries.

But this idea just turned around in Hong Tao's head and gave up, for only one reason, his target market is Europe and the United States. It's safer to do things in accordance with people's rules on other people's turf, don't play any tricks, in case you are banned from selling because of the problem of power batteries, this will not outweigh the losses, and you can't affect the overall layout for a little profit.