As soon as the matter in Dubai was over, Shen Rui and the others split into two routes, Ye Wuxian returned to Bohai by plane, Yan Feng and his team had arrived, and Ye Wuxian was going to rush to receive this group of important scientists.

As for Shen Rui and Lao Pan, the two of them went straight to Port Moresby, the capital of Papua, to meet with the old man Ling Jiawei, the financial director, and prepared to acquire the exclusive exploration rights and exclusive mining rights of this graphite X mineral.

In today's international business community, the best way to make large-scale acquisitions is to hire a team of professionals, such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank, all of which have dedicated asset acquisition and restructuring departments to assist business partners in negotiations.

Before Mr. Ling Jiawei arrived at Shen Rui's company, he was the top position of the finance department of Goldman Sachs Group in Asia, and under his leadership, the team of Chen Zicheng, the chief negotiator of Goldman Sachs Asia, was hired.

Nowadays, the international commodity market is sluggish, energy, minerals, and food are all in shambles, and a poor and backward small country like Papua can burn high incense if it can sell its mining rights, so it is not a difficult thing to win mining rights.

After several rounds of arduous negotiations, the Octopus Group finally won the exclusive exploration and mining rights to Manus Island and the surrounding waters for a period of 99 years at a price of US$20 million per year.

…….

The Bohai Sea is a natural harbor, there are countless large and small wharves, about 40 kilometers away from the south of the city, there is a place called Guanhai Port, the wharf is connected to a huge industrial park, which is established by the local government at a huge cost.

The largest company in the park is a lithium battery factory called Anbang Lithium Battery, which has now collapsed due to insolvency.

Ye Wuxian and Shen Rui chose to acquire this company, Anbang Lithium has the world's most advanced 18650 battery production line, and is close to the wharf, plus it is located in the township industrial park has a large amount of vacant land, which is convenient for the factory to expand.

Following Ye Wuxian and Shen Rui were two German experts, twins, the Bates brothers.

In Germany, Bates Materials Laboratory is quite famous, Bath Chemical, Siemens, Bosch, these old world-class enterprises are all partners of Bates Laboratories for many years.

Ye Wuxian mysteriously went to Germany to find the Bates brothers to identify the new material graphite X, and now they have come to Bohai to further participate in the new energy project of the Octopus Group.

After seeing the factory, wharf, and industrial park, Shen Rui invited the two old men to the wine table and listened to their opinions.

The Bates brothers, now in their sixties and knowing that their life is short, are quite excited to be part of a new energy project that will transform the world, according to the two of them, after a lifetime of materials research, this is the closest they can get to changing the world, and they want to leave their name on this promising project anyway.

Since the Bates brothers are extremely enthusiastic about the new energy project of the Octopus Group, the cooperation has become much smoother, and the two of them will fully accept the technical work of the battery factory, and make a military order that as soon as the ore arrives in Hong Kong, a new lithium battery will be made within three months.

The production process is as follows: the largest berth on the terminal is dedicated to the Octopus Group, and the ore is immediately sent to the storage warehouse via a conveyor belt when it arrives at the port, and the warehouse is connected to the material workshop, where the ore is screened, separated, and then put into the production line to assemble and manufacture the finished battery.

After all these were negotiated, the Bates brothers looked at each other, and the elder brother Tiger Bates took out a finished 18650 battery without outer packaging and handed it to Shen Rui and Ye Wuxian.

"This is a sample of the 18650 battery that we made in the lab with the graphite X you brought, it weighs 25 grams, according to the requirements of no trace, with a built-in logic circuit, a voltage of 12V, and a capacity of 50 ampere."

12V, 50 Ang!?

Shen Rui opened his mouth in surprise, the most advanced 18650 battery in the world is made by Panasonic in Japan, with a voltage of 3.7 volts and a capacity of 4.1 ampere, and the 18650 battery prepared by the Octopus Group has improved its performance by nearly forty times compared with the most advanced Panasonic in the world!

18650 is currently the most common battery model, a cylinder with a diameter of 18 mm and a length of 65 mm, Tesla electric car is disassembled, inside is actually 18650 battery, laptop disassembled, inside is still 18650.

The new 18650 battery using graphite X only needs one to drive an electric bicycle to run forty or fifty kilometers, you know, this battery weighs only twenty-five grams! Compared with the current electric bicycle, the heavy lead battery is many times more advanced!

Tesla electric cars use 7,000 18650 batteries, with a voltage of 3.7 volts and a capacity of 3.1 ampere.

If the number of 7,000 batteries remains the same and all are replaced with new models from the Octopus Group, the world's fastest electric car can reach a range of 20,000 kilometers!

Can you run 20,000 kilometers on a single charge? What a staggering number!?

Bates continued: "In addition, according to our research, the charging speed of batteries with new materials will also be greatly improved, as long as the power supply is stable enough and the power is large enough, a set of batteries can be fully charged in less than a minute. ”

Scold~

Shen Rui almost jumped up from his chair, a car that can run 20,000 kilometers in one minute of charging? This is almost the same as a science fiction movie, in comparison, those supercars, are simply weak!

Ye Wuxian was not as surprised as Shen Rui, perhaps he had already met the huge potential that Graphite X possessed.

Once this new type of battery is put into production, not to mention automobiles, electric vehicles, and even airplanes and ships will have to switch to electricity in the future, and the whole world will be polluted by petrochemicals, which will greatly change.

Ye Wuxian was exchanging some technical things with the Bates brothers, and Shen Rui didn't have the heart to listen to those obscure professional terms and data, he took out his mobile phone and calculated the benefits that the battery factory would bring to him.

To make a new type of battery with graphite X, only the material is upgraded, and the cost of the battery will not increase much, about one dollar per battery.

According to the current market situation, even if the second-level products produced by Samsung are sold at a wholesale price of $1.2, and as for the top-of-the-line models produced by Panasonic, the wholesale price is more than $6.

The performance of the graphite X battery is nearly 40 times that of Panasonic's top model, and considering the battery penetration rate, selling it for 20 dollars is simply cheap, and the whole world will come to grab it, and the gross profit of a single battery in the factory will reach an astonishing 19 dollars.

According to the calculation of 85 million cars sold in the world every year, the average car needs to consume 300 batteries, that is to say, in the automobile industry alone, the total annual demand is 25.5 billion batteries, and the gross profit of each battery is 19 US dollars...

$484.5 billion in gross profit!

Shen Rui couldn't believe the numbers on the calculator, 480 billion US dollars! And that's just one project for the automotive industry, with more than 2 billion mobile phones, 700 million computers of all models, motorcycles, electric bicycles, cameras, video cameras, solar and wind power storage systems, ships, airplanes, etc.

Shen Rui couldn't calculate it in detail, because the numbers were too big and too big.

No wonder Ye Wuxian kept saying that the battery industry is a super business with a dollar of two trillion dollars a year, and now it seems to be absolutely true.

Shen Rui was a little excited, and couldn't help but touch the crossbody bag on his chest, which was where the moon chasing wall was located.

For a moment, his fingers felt something strange.

Hey?