Chapter 257: Embarking on a Hybrid Car
In response to Jin Xiaoqiang's concept of developing hybrid electric vehicles and new energy vehicles, after this meeting, Zeng Jianxin began to sweep people all over the world again.
Now the name of Huayang Power, in the country and even the world, can be said to be leveraged, and the treatment of Huayang Power is also well-known in the industry.
Today's Huayang Power is no longer the kind of seven or eight guns of more than a dozen people when it was first founded, so when the recruitment advertisement of Huayang Power came out, it immediately attracted the attention of relevant talents from all over the country.
This time, Huayang Power recruits not only simple automobile manufacturing students, but also electronic system engineers and engineers in R&D batteries.
Jin Xiaoqiang is well aware of the current backward situation of our Celestial Empire in terms of new energy vehicles, and the rapid development of the Celestial Empire's automobile industry in the past two years is indeed not wrong.
However, with the increase in the number of private cars, the gasoline and diesel resources have also begun to be strained, coupled with the fact that two barrels of oil will give you a stuck neck from time to time.
And with the increase in the number of private cars, the air pollution level over the cities of the Celestial Empire has become more and more serious in recent years.
At present, these aspects have aroused the ideas of relevant departments and relevant leaders.
Jin Xiaoqiang remembers that if it is correct, that is, in the last year or two, the country began to shout the slogan of the new energy strategy.
Then, just a few years later, in the northeastern provinces, the state and private individuals began to invest in large-scale ethanol refineries, starting to use corn to refine ethanol, and then to make ethanol gasoline.
But this situation, after two years, we will reap the consequences, it is precisely because of the two years that a large area of corn was taken away by chemical plants, which also led to many feed factories can not receive raw materials, pig feed began to rise in price on a large scale, followed by the 07 years of pork prices.
After that, the CPI of the Celestial Empire can be said to be a new high, although the figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics are stable and declining, but Jin Xiaoqiang, who has been a small people, has personally experienced the pain of soaring prices because of the shortage of gasoline, or price increases.
It was after that year that some leaders of the country began to really attach importance to the development of new energy, and in those years the state introduced a lot of policies to subsidize enterprises that vigorously develop new energy vehicles.
But if we start from that time, we will be much behind others, you must know that the technology of our Celestial Empire, compared with the United States, Japan and other countries, is not ahead, so we must start researching as soon as possible.
You must know that the first generation of the Japanese Prius was developed in 1997, and now it is the second generation.
Moreover, compared with the artificial diesel new energy concept of European car dealers and the concept of hydrogen fuel cell new energy in the United States, it is still more reliable for the Japanese hybrid electric vehicles.
Jin Xiaoqiang remembers very well that shortly before his rebirth, the Japanese Prius announced the third-generation hybrid car, which just went on sale in the United States, and detonated the entire American market, with the lowest price of more than $20,000, and even a direct increase of $4,000 by dealers, but the demand in the US market is still in short supply.
In Japan, models such as hybrid vehicles accounted for more than 14% of the total car sales in Japan that year, which is enough to prove the trend of new energy vehicles in the future.
Not long ago, Australia has just invested in a solar cell research institute and acquired a large lithium mining company, which are all prepared for the future of hybrid electric vehicles.
So at this time, it can be said that it is the right time to start this project, in terms of solar energy, it has been handed over to those scientists in Australia to start, but in the lithium battery area, Jin Xiaoqiang does not want to entrust others to help.
At present, there is still a lot of debate on new energy power vehicles on the market, and many automobile manufacturers are wondering what kind of new energy is the way to meet the future development trend.
The Japanese are already ahead of the curve in this regard, and their Prius, subsidized by the Japanese government, has begun to enter the market in large quantities.
If you put it in ten years, when you mention new energy vehicles, the first thing that comes to mind is the gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, which is also the effect that the Japanese are now willing to create at a loss. …,
The Prius produced now, because the battery technology is not up to par, in fact, the cost and price are very high, but the Japanese government would rather subsidize Toyota, but also let this kind of car be sold on the market, in order to occupy the commanding heights of the industry, and finally become a leader who can formulate the rules of the entire industry.
If they take the lead in getting the Prius accepted by the people, then they can apply some of their standards to other follow-up car companies, so that those follow-up companies will have to pay a terrible price.
This is also the main reason why Jin Xiaoqiang began to study hybrid vehicles now, when the fuel panic in the Celestial Empire has just begun to emerge and oil prices have just begun to rise.
The Japanese can subsidize Toyota and make hybrid cars a new energy concept car that is accepted by people, but if you want to make rules in the future, it depends on whether we Huayang Power is willing or not.
After all, your Prius technology is not particularly mature now, and if you use electric mode, you can't travel a long distance, and you are still using nickel-metal hydride batteries.
It's still okay to sell such a car in Japan and the United States, but if you get it to the Celestial Empire, it will definitely not sell at all, just like the three generations of Prius in later generations.
Don't say much for other reasons, just from the fact that we don't have a car charging station at all, your car can't be sold in the Celestial Empire.
So if Jin Xiaoqiang wants to make a hybrid car now, then he will definitely have to make a hybrid car that is even more awesome than the Prius.
This is going to start with the lithium battery, as we all know, now the Prius uses nickel-metal hydride batteries, and later the first BYD of the Celestial Empire to make an electric car uses the so-called iron battery.
These two kinds of batteries are incomparable with the lithium batteries that became popular in a large area in later generations.
In fact, in 1992, Japan's Sony had already developed lithium batteries, but lithium batteries were not very stable at that time.
Anyone who is engaged in scientific research knows that lithium is a very active metal element, and if this metal element comes into direct contact with oxygen, it will explode.
So this kind of battery, at that time was also quite dangerous battery, and later the Japanese used a lot of methods, and finally miniaturized this kind of battery, which can be used in mobile phones and computers, but now the lithium battery is still not very stable, and the current lithium battery production cost is too high, so there is no large-scale promotion.
This method of reducing costs, that is, it has only matured in the last one or two years, and since 07, it has been widely promoted on the battery of mobile phones.
However, it is only a small lithium battery, and there has not been much breakthrough in large-scale lithium batteries, especially the large-scale lithium batteries used in hybrid vehicles.
Later, BYD once developed a hybrid car, and the concept of this car at that time was that the car could travel 50 kilometers in the case of pure electric vehicles, which is quite a remarkable figure.
However, the consumers of the Celestial Empire still do not buy it, you must know that fifty kilometers, for many people, such a distance is not enough to go around the city!
So the key to making a good hybrid car that can be accepted by the general public, Jin Xiaoqiang knows very well, that is, you have to have a very powerful battery.
At present, the research and development of lithium batteries in China has not been long in the beginning, and there are several national laboratories to do research in this area, but they have not been able to make a breakthrough.
And this time, Huayang Power's large-scale recruitment of troops soon came to many researchers who used to work in national research institutes, and one of them called Bin Xinwei attracted Jin Xiaoqiang's special attention.
The reason why he noticed this person at the beginning was because this person's surname was indeed quite weird, and there were indeed fewer people with the surname Bin.
And what can attract Jin Xiaoqiang's attention after that is this person's resume.
Graduated from MIT in the United States with a master's degree, and even worked in the national laboratory in the United States, Oak Ridge Laboratory for two years, and then returned to China, he has been working in the Power Research Institute in Tianjin, and has been working in Tianjin for three years now.
became interested in this person, and Jin Xiaoqiang personally participated in this person's interview. …,
"Mr. Bin, you are an expert in batteries, and I see that your resume is very clear, you have worked in Oak Ridge in the United States, as well as in the power supply institute in Tianjin for a while, I want to hear your views on lithium batteries."
During the interview, Jin Xiaoqiang simply asked this bin letter very bluntly, whether there was any expectation, it depends on how he answers.
Bin Xinwei is actually not very old, that is, he is in his thirties, he saw Jin Xiaoqiang sitting in front, he couldn't help laughing, Jin Xiaoqiang he saw on TV, the CEOs of other companies came to participate in the interview in person, what does this mean, it shows that people value themselves, thinking of this, Bin Xinwei couldn't help but cheer up and began to talk eloquently.
"Well, as I wrote on my resume, I have been engaged in research on new energy batteries, especially lithium batteries, for more than five years. At present, the development status of lithium batteries is still in the final stage of public relations. lithium
The working principle of the battery is actually to use a compound containing lithium as the positive electrode of the battery, and then find a suitable substance to act as the negative electrode of the battery, and then use the principle of lithium ion chemical characteristics to make lithium
Ions in the electrolyte, from the positive electrode to the negative electrode, and then from the negative electrode to the positive electrode, it is this process that completes a process of charging and discharging. At present, the research direction of the mainstream lithium battery in the world is like this, and the lithium battery is in the lithium battery
In terms of anode, we mainly use carbon-based materials, but the energy storage of these materials is relatively low, and the cost of manufacturing will be relatively high, which is why until now, lithium batteries are still delayed
The main reason for the large-scale promotion. ”
Binxinwei really has a material, and in just a few words, he made the past and present life of lithium batteries clear.
"Well, well! Mr. Bin, what I still want to ask is, what research results have you made since you have been engaged in lithium battery research for such a long time, or what stage of your lithium battery research has been carried out so far. ”
Jin Xiaoqiang continued to ask.
"Well...... Mr. Jin, in fact, I just said that the current research of the entire scientific community on lithium batteries is actually looking for a very suitable substance to be used as the anode material of lithium batteries, and then lithium batteries can be made
Maximize the efficiency of the use of the pool. At present, the mainstream material of lithium battery anode used in the world is natural graphite, or artificial graphite, etc., we all know that the structure of these graphites is that there are many micropores
The lithium ions that reach the negative electrode are embedded in these micropores, and the more lithium ions are embedded, the higher the charging capacity. However, this graphite material has a certain lifespan, and the lithium battery that is often said on the market is used
This kind of graphite negative electrode, but the life of this graphite is generally used 500 to 600 times before it is over, so now lithium batteries have not been popularized in a large area. And my main research work in the past few years is:
We have been looking for a material that can replace graphite and is more suitable for the anode of lithium batteries. ”
Bin Xinwei replied.
"Oh? Did you find it? ”
"Well, I can only say that I already have some ideas at present, but this substance needs to be further experimented!"
Bin Xinwei replied very confidently.
"Can you tell us about a suitable replacement you've found?"
Jin Xiaoqiang's question was a little aggressive, after all, there were too many liars these years, and Bin Xinwei's face was a little embarrassed, but he still said it through the last gritted teeth.
"It is a nano silicon oxide material, compared with the graphite material mainly used at present, the micropores of silicon oxide are arranged more regularly, and the manufacturing cost is not high
Reuse, this solves the problem that the working life of the graphite anode is only five or six hundred times, and if the molecular structure of this material is adjusted well, then the capacitance of this lithium battery will be larger than before
Increase, at least can also be increased to the current lithium battery level more than ten times. ”
Bin Xinwei's eloquent talk finally moved Jin Xiaoqiang.
"Alright! Mr. Bin, I will now officially inform you that you have been hired, when can you come to work? ”。 )