Despite the high cost, President William was determined to put the Super 500 into production.

"Professor, doctor, there's no way to increase the battery charging speed?" William asked another crucial question.

In the face of the Thor battery, which can be fully charged in one or two minutes, if the charging speed of the Super 500 can only reach 37~40 minutes, it will undoubtedly reduce the competitiveness of the Super 500.

"If the president needs to increase the charging speed, the only feasible way at the moment is to integrate small batteries." Dr. Umegawa Neku spoke out his plan.

"Is it the integrated battery of Tesla's electric car?" William immediately thought of Tesla's dense Panasonic battery pack.

"It's a battery pack solution, and this can increase the charging speed to about 10 minutes, but ......" Dr. Umegawa Ushiku said at the end, and he was a little slurthered.

"But what?" William asked, frowning.

"Doing so increases costs and battery management, and can lead to poor battery stability." Professor Er. Bi explained.

Hearing this explanation, William also felt troubled, he was weighing the pros and cons, if the accident rate of electric vehicles with the Super 500 was too high, it would be more than worth the loss.

"Mr. President, it's true that this is not impossible to solve." Mu Youxiao Ji suddenly spoke.

"Oh? What can you do about it?" William hurriedly asked.

"It's very simple, our battery management technology can't work, but Tesla's battery management technology can, we can work with Tesla." Mu Youxiaoji suggested.

"Working with Tesla? Will Musk agree?" William hesitated.

Mu Youxiaoji said confidently: "The enemy of the enemy is a friend, we have a common enemy, don't we?" ”

William immediately understood that Tesla is now also a customer of Thor Battery, but the price of this is also a heart disease of Tesla.

If there is a chance to get rid of the clamp of Raytheon's battery, Musk will definitely do it without hesitation, just like Tesla has not given up the cooperation with Panasonic battery.

The threat of the Dongtang Battery Alliance is too great, and if it completely relies on the other party's batteries, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"I'll talk to Musk personally, and I'm sure he won't be stupid enough to see the situation clearly." William patted the Super 500 battery.

……

Elon Musk had just stabilized SpaceX's investors when he put down the mess of financial statements and pressed his temples to relieve his headache.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

He looked at the number, huh? Isn't this number the name of William, the president of General Motors? Why did this guy call all of a sudden?

Despite his confusion, Musk answered the answer.

"Hey, Musk hasn't seen you for a long time, how are you doing?"

"Is Mr. William no longer the president of General Motors? Do you want to work at my Tesla?" Musk quipped.

"Okay Musk, I'll just say it! Our company's battery laboratory has successfully developed the Super 500 lithium battery, I don't know if you are interested in cooperating. ”

"Super 500? is your plan to develop a battery with an energy density of 500 watt-hours per kilogram?"

"That's the plan."

"Already successful? Why are you looking for me to cooperate?" Musk is not a fool again.

If the Super 500 really works flawlessly, why doesn't GM eat it alone? The greed of capitalists will not easily share the cake with others.

"Alright! The charging speed of the Super 500 is a bit slow, about 37~40 minutes, and we need Tesla's battery management technology. William explained openly.

"Are you trying to use Tesla's battery management technology to speed up charging?"

"That's it, if we have Tesla's battery management technology, we can increase the charging speed to about 10 minutes."

"Why should I work with you? Give me a reason. Musk asked rhetorically with a squint.

"Musk, we have a common enemy, don't you want to get rid of the Thor battery?" William said with a sneer.

"......" Musk frowned, obviously William's words pierced him in the sore spot.

"How much does it cost you?" Musk asked a crucial question, if the cost is too high, Tesla can't afford to play.

"$170 per kilogram."

"With the addition of battery management technology, the cost may rise to $200 a kilogram." Musk said with a frown.

"It's true, it's inevitable at first, and if it is mass-produced, after a year, it should be possible to reduce the cost to about $150." William was also very helpless.

After weighing the pros and cons for a while, Musk still made up his mind to cooperate with General Motors, even if General Motors' batteries are used as backups, Tesla must support them.

The dilemma of being clamped by Raytheon's battery made it difficult for Musk to sleep and had to look at it for the sake of Tesla's future.

The two sides hit it off and decided that General Motors would provide the Super 500 battery, while Tesla would pass the battery management technology.

In order to boost morale (and boost the stock price), General Motors and Tesla hurriedly announced the success of the Super 500 battery and the strategic cooperation between the two parties.

Sure enough, their thoughts were not in vain, and the stock prices of Tesla and General Motors suddenly rose sharply.

On the day, Tesla's stock price rose 14%, while General Motors soared 26%.

In contrast, the stock prices of domestic Biyadi and Ningde batteries fell slightly.

As for Raytheon battery, since it is not a listed company, it will not be affected for the time being.

This time, the news that GM's Super 500 lithium battery was successfully developed and will soon be put into mass production also made Simi media angry.

[Super 500 lithium battery, we regained the world's first place in the battery field.] —The New York Times

[Investors remain optimistic about the future of General Motors and Tesla.] —The Wall Street Journal

[The developer of the Super 500 lithium battery is Professor Er. Bi of the Johns' family, and we missed an opportunity. —The British Daily

[The monopoly era of Raytheon batteries is coming to an end.] —The Mirror

[The world's science and technology center is still in Mi Lijia.] —Global Times

On Facebook and Twitter, those crooked nuts also commented excitedly.

"GM is good." — Detroit worker

"I hope the car companies don't lay off employees." - The Tramp

"Kill the Thor battery and let them eat the gold." - Red Neck

"Ridiculous, can this news help me repay my loan?" - Soybean farm

"@大豆农场, garbage! You don't deserve to be a rice family. - Environmental Champion

"Our victory, the world number one is still ours." - The Light of Heaven

For the super 500 lithium battery announced by General Motors, Fang Shengjie, president of Raytheon Group, couldn't bear to hit them after reading the report.

Biyadi and Ningde are also very calm, and even took advantage of the decline in stock prices to buy back a lot of shares.

They more or less know that the technical reserves of Raytheon batteries, after all, Raytheon batteries have a military version, and GM's Super 500 is just a mantis arm as a car.

Fang Shengjie decided to let GM and Tesla get carried away for a while, and after they were put into mass production, he would announce the Thor 4 battery with an energy density of 600 watt-hours per kilogram, so that they could know what real power is.

At the same time, for the previous Thor 3 battery price reduction, Fang Shengjie wants to make General Motors lose all their money and let them invest a huge amount of money in the research and development of the battery into waste.