No one knows the importance of batteries better than Cao Yang.

Although the real arrival of electrification will have to wait for more than a decade to come.

However, the accumulation of some technologies cannot wait for the arrival of electrification.

Otherwise, it will definitely be in a hurry and unable to keep up with the pace of development of the times.

Today, even if Dai Hanbiao doesn't mention the development of batteries, he is ready to talk about it.

Chips and batteries, put in 2006, are not a very urgent matter.

But it is definitely the core part related to how far Nanshan Group can go in the future.

"Regarding the development of batteries, it is indeed very necessary."

"It is necessary not only to develop the FHEV batteries used in the Stars-3, but also to review the development of batteries for both BEV and PHEV models."

"And not only to consider the development of ternary lithium batteries, but also to develop lithium iron phosphate batteries."

"Of course, the development of batteries involves various projects such as cells, modules, and BMS, which require a lot of resources."

"According to the current experimental equipment and personnel of Nanshan auto parts, it will definitely not meet the requirements."

"So I plan to spin off the battery business separately and set up Nanshan Battery to be responsible for all businesses related to the battery business."

Cao Yang's statement surprised the high-level people present and took it for granted.

Up to now, only the two major parts of Nanshan engine and Nanshan gearbox have been specially spun off from Nanshan auto parts.

There is also half of the chip-related semiconductor division, which can be regarded as being spun off.

The battery is no less important for electric vehicles than the engine.

Although it is not yet known when the company will launch electric vehicles, it seems that the battery business will be spun off separately is also in the past.

"Mr. Cao, if Nanshan Battery can be set up to research and produce new batteries, it will naturally be the best."

"However, now there are a variety of battery technologies involved in various companies, and we have simply collected and sorted them out before."

"Take the relatively mature FHEV battery technology as an example, Toyota uses nickel-metal hydride batteries, and Honda uses ternary lithium batteries."

"Theoretically speaking, ternary lithium batteries are definitely more advanced than nickel-metal hydride batteries."

"But the technology of nickel-metal hydride batteries is more mature, and the cost is theoretically lower."

"Do we also have to consider the FHEV battery and follow Toyota's footsteps?"

Although the battery business is about to be spun off from Nanshan Auto Parts, Dai Hanbiao still explained the previous investigation very responsibly.

In this era, there are still many questions about the development direction of automotive battery technology.

Although many car companies have actually been researching and even launched electric vehicles, there is actually no score in everyone's minds.

In 1832, Scottish scientist Robert Anderson invented the first prototype of an electric car.

In 1859, French scientist Gaston Planta invented the first electric car.

In 1891, American inventor William Morris invented the first commercial electric car.

In 1900, the market share of electric vehicles in the United States reached 38%, but with the development of internal combustion engines, the market share of electric vehicles gradually declined.

It can be said that electric cars are not a new thing, and they were even popular for a time.

And in recent decades, electric cars have not been without movement at all.

Nissan's 1947 Tama battery electric car was equipped with a replaceable lead-acid battery with a top speed of 35.2 kilometers per hour and a range of 96.3 kilometers, mainly for taxi companies.

In 1996, Nissan developed the world's first lithium-ion battery-powered Prairie Joy.

Also in 1996, General Motors introduced the first modern electric car, the EV1.

Various other car companies have also launched or are working on some electric vehicles.

No one has any doubts about the fact that electric vehicles represent the future.

It's just that no one knows whether this future will come in 10 years, 20 years, or 30 years.

No, no one knows except Cao Yang.

So for Dai Hanbiao's explanation, Cao Yang was not surprised at all.

Following the pace of the successful and following the research to launch better products is more in line with the laws of business development.

However, this approach is definitely unnecessary for Cao Yang.

There are shortcuts to take, so why take a detour?

Although nickel-metal hydride batteries are FHEV batteries, even in 2023, Toyota has not completely abandoned them.

But that doesn't mean it's a good choice.

For pure electric vehicles, there are only two mainstream routes in the future.

Ternary lithium battery and lithium iron phosphate battery.

The other technical routes are all soy sauce.

Therefore, if Nanshan Battery wants to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to engage in battery research, it must focus on the batteries with these two chemical compositions.

"Now the batteries used in all walks of life have begun to develop in the direction of lithium batteries."

"With the expansion of industrialization, some problems encountered in the production and use of lithium batteries will definitely be solved slowly."

"If we want Nanshan Battery to keep up with the pace of battery research, we must study the most advanced and promising technology in the industry."

"Of course, I also know that there are not many people in the company who understand battery development, and we need to recruit a group from outside."

"However, compared with other auto parts, in the field of batteries, some universities in our country have still made some achievements."

"We can directly invite teachers from some universities to join our company, or engage in cooperative research and development with some professors."

"At the same time, you can also dig up some lithium battery talents at home and abroad."

"As far as I know, most of the lithium batteries of Nokia and Motorola are purchased from BYD and ATL in Guancheng."

"BYD now has a cooperative relationship, which is not suitable for large-scale poaching."

"But with ATL, you can still work hard."

"In addition, some companies in Dongying have also done research on lithium batteries relatively early."

"There must be a lot of Chinese people engaged in related research, and we can find a way to dig them up."

Nanshan Group's salary has been rising, especially for core talents, in fact, it is no worse than abroad.

So now at this time, if he goes abroad to poach people, Cao Yang's confidence must be much deeper.

In later generations, there were so many battery companies in Huaxia, which fully demonstrated that the cultivation of battery-related talents is not as difficult as everyone imagined.

"Compared with the recruitment of chip talents, the recruitment of lithium battery talents should be much easier."

Liu Youmei also stood up in time to express her position.

When she was in Warwick before, she happened to be in contact with talents in this area.

After all, whether it is a base station or some other products, batteries are needed.

Even if you don't produce batteries yourself, you need some talents who understand battery design.

"The industrialization of lithium batteries originated in Dongying, specifically from the production of 18650 cylindrical batteries by Sony in 1991."

"In the early stage of industrial development, the lithium battery market was almost controlled by a few Dongying companies such as Panasonic, Sanyo Electric, and Toshiba."

"These companies have established deep barriers in materials and battery processes, and work closely with upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and their production has been highly automated."

"Before 2000, Dongying's lithium battery companies accounted for more than 95% of the global market share."

"The start of the domestic lithium battery industry began with BYD, in 1998 BYD entered the mobile phone lithium battery market, with the cost advantage of low labor and technical transformation in China, BYD's battery price can be 40% lower than the average of Dongying Sanyo."

"As a result, BYD's production capacity and market share have expanded rapidly, and it has successively supplied mainstream mobile phone manufacturers such as Motorola and Nokia."

"Last year, Toshiba couldn't resist the price war of Huaxia lithium battery companies and directly announced its withdrawal from the lithium battery market."

"When we go to Dongying to dig people at this time, the difficulty is definitely the lowest."

"Whether it is Toshiba's lithium battery researchers, or Sony, Panasonic and Sanyo Electric's talents, there are opportunities to serve us."

As soon as Liu Youmei said this, Cao Yang couldn't help but nodded.

Now is indeed a good time to enter the lithium battery industry.

Although it seems to be a trough period for the development of international lithium batteries, the more trough it is, the better it is to poach people.

"When we poach people, we must not only poach people who study battery technology, but also people who study battery equipment."

"I hope that in the future, Nanshan equipment can achieve 100% localization of battery equipment."

Cao Yang knows the importance of equipment better than anyone else.

BYD's lithium battery, the degree of automation is not very high now.

For products used in consumer electronics, the impact is not great.

But when you put it in a car, it's definitely not enough.

With so many batteries used in an electric vehicle, if the performance of each battery is inconsistent, the impact on the entire battery pack is huge.

It can even be said deadly.

In order to maintain the consistency of battery performance, in addition to R&D, it is also very important to automate the production process.

"Mr. Cao, in order to cooperate with the development of Nanshan battery, Nanshan Equipment will set up a research team for battery production and production."

"In the future, there will definitely be more and more domestic enterprises engaged in battery production, and when the time comes, we can not only provide equipment for our own battery factory, but also consider selling it to the outside world."

Pan Jinxing also stood up in time to express his position.

"At this stage, the domestic lithium battery production model is mainly a combination of low-cost manpower and automation equipment, lithium battery manufacturers usually only use a single automation equipment in a few precision processes, and other links with low precision requirements and intermediate material transportation are manual operations."

"Compared with Dongying's fully automated production line, this kind of manpower-based production line has a low investment cost and strong flexible production capacity."

"The success of this production model lies in the fact that the price of labor in China is very low, and the average salary level of employees in China's manufacturing industry is only about 1/22 of that of Dongying."

"Even our current small battery production line for button batteries belongs to such a production line."

Nanshan Auto Parts does not have any experience in battery production.

In the past, we cooperated with BYD to correspond to the button batteries used in the car's smart key, and there is a small production line.

However, this production line is obviously not compatible with advanced technology and the like.

So when it comes to battery equipment, Dai Hanbiao also stood up to supplement the situation.

"This labor-intensive development mode cannot be sustained forever, I heard that Sanyo Electric is preparing to build new production bases in the imperial capital and Jincheng, and Panasonic and Sony are also preparing to invest in building factories in China in order to weaken the cost advantage of domestic manufacturers."

"Besides, the high-performance lithium batteries that need to be used in electric vehicles in the future will definitely not work if they are not fully automatic."

"Not to mention that the battery production equipment that Dongying and Gaoli have waited for is very expensive, just from the perspective of restricting the development of competitors, the equipment they sell to domestic manufacturers will definitely not be the most advanced, but the backward equipment to be eliminated."

"Therefore, it is inevitable that China will research relevant equipment by itself."

"Of course, we don't have 100% of all the equipment to be produced in-house, some of the equipment with relatively low technical content and can be bought casually in China can be purchased directly from outside."

"There are also some more professional, and there are similar manufacturers in China, and they can also cooperate with each other to develop."

"As long as the equipment of our production line can be purchased in China, it will be enough."

"We mainly go to research some core equipment ourselves."

Cao Yang didn't put so much pressure on Nanshan equipment.

The battery production line is very long, starting from the very beginning of the mixing and mixing, the whole production line involves all aspects of equipment.

Nanshan equipment needs to be done by itself, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and there is no need for this.

"Mr. Cao, we will do a good internal investigation to see which equipment we study by ourselves and which equipment is purchased from outside."

Pan Jinxing listened to Cao Yang's words, and he also stood up in a timely manner.

Today's Nanshan equipment, the strength in all aspects has been extraordinary.

He wasn't particularly worried about falling off the chain.

"R&D related to battery equipment and semiconductors is an area with great potential for the future."

"Although the accumulation of this area is relatively small for our company, we still have time."

"In the early stage, we can complete the R&D and production of some equipment step by step, and fully catch up with the international advanced level in the next five years, which is basically enough."

"Of course, if the progress can be improved, it will be great."

Cao Yang didn't put too much pressure on everyone.

Although he can also take it upon himself to speed up the progress.

In fact, he's sure to give it a push.

But there is certainly no need to participate in the research and development of all the equipment itself, and there is no time.

Next, Cao Yang put forward some requirements for some other key parts and branches, and the business of each section of Nanshan Group immediately began to work towards the goal of 2006.

(End of chapter)