After the two sat down, Zeng Yuqing's long-accumulated strong curiosity made him can't help but ask straight to the point: "Mr. Kang, what is it that makes it so mysterious?" ”

Kangchi smiled, then pulled out a cell phone-sized battery from his pocket and placed it on the coffee table.

"Guess what this is?"

Zeng Yuqing hurriedly picked it up curiously and looked at it.

"Lithium battery?"

"No, it's a sodium-ion battery."

Sodium batteries?

Zeng Yuqing couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart.

Regardless of Kangchi's real intention in taking out a sodium battery at this time, he believes that sodium batteries have never been the antidote to CATL.

At least not what he wants to build now, what he can make.

In order to call for the development of lithium iron phosphate batteries, the CEO of BYD once said such a sentence:

"We can't move from being stuck in the era of fuel vehicles to being stuck in the era of electric vehicles by cobalt and nickel."

However, the slap in the face is that the price of lithium carbonate rose directly to 600,000 tons in 22 years.

As long as it is a lithium battery, it has to be stuck in the neck of the raw material, regardless of whether it is lithium iron phosphate or ternary lithium, cobalt and nickel, or lithium carbonate.

So that year, sodium batteries were pushed back to the public, and CATL also broke through the trillion market value mark with the "sodium battery release".

However, now two years have passed, and the sodium electricity industry has still not completed the transformation from 0 to 1.

CATL's liquid sodium battery project, like solid-state lithium batteries, is still in the laboratory.

And as the price of lithium carbonate gradually returns to rationality, this spare tire seems to be gradually forgotten.

Sodium batteries seem to be more like a public opinion weapon used to threaten the price of lithium carbonate......

"If Mr. Kang wants to order sodium batteries from us, then I'm afraid you will be disappointed, we don't have the landing capacity of sodium-ion batteries for the time being."

"Isn't Mr. Zeng curious, who made this battery?"

"Oh?" Under Kang Chi's reminder, Zeng Yuqing asked with some curiosity, "Who made it?" ”

"I made it myself."

"You made it?"

Zeng Yuqing was slightly surprised, but it is not difficult to build a battery, the difficulty is how to produce it in batches and stably, and it is even more difficult to make high-performance batteries in batches.

"Yes, I built a sodium battery production line in Dongyang, which can stably produce 300Wh/kg sodium-ion batteries, and the cost is only 75% of that of lithium iron phosphate batteries, and if large-scale manufacturing is completed after the formation of the industrial chain, the cost is even expected to be reduced to 50%!"

“！！？”

Zeng Yuqing was stunned for a moment.

In fact, when he heard "300Wh/kg sodium-ion battery", his brain began to shut down, and he didn't listen to what Kangchi said later......

As the helmsman of the battery giant CATL, Zeng Yuqing's understanding and judgment of the battery industry will only be more sensitive than Kangchi.

Without Kangchi making any explanation at all, Zeng Yuqing clearly realized that

At this moment, the sodium-ion battery in his hand is like an industry nuclear bomb, pointing directly at the global lithium battery industry!

Not only their CATL era,

No battery company in the world can survive in the face of such a yield tactical nuclear bomb!

I thought that today's CATL era ushered in a fat little lamb,

Who knew that what this little lamb was carrying in his pocket turned out to be a nuclear warhead!

Thinking of this, Zeng Yuqing's hands couldn't help but tremble slightly.

He carefully lowered the battery, as if he was afraid that it would explode with a sudden bang......

Mr. Kang...... It's not a funny joke......"

"You think I'm joking, right?"

“……”

Zeng Yuqing was silent for a moment,

Although this thing completely collapsed the strength of the Ningde era, but on the bright side, Kang Chi took it to find himself first, it shouldn't be for the sake of salute first and then soldier, right?

But in any case, what Kangchi threw out this time made Zeng Yuqing and CATL fall into an unprecedented passive situation.

Compared with this sodium-ion battery, it doesn't matter what LG's lithium battery is or what Tesla is decoupled, it's just like a child's awkwardness.

"Can you tell us what you think?"

"It's very simple, you have two choices, the first is to become our foundry, I guarantee that the order volume will make you full." Kang Chi said in a calm tone, "The second is to reject us, continue to play your lithium battery technology competition game, and then all of them will be slowly eaten away by us." ”

"Mr. Zeng should actually know very well that even if the technology of lithium batteries is advanced, it has achieved 500Wh/kg or even 700Wh/kg, and the battery life has been pushed up to two or three thousand kilometers......"

"But in order to improve the battery life, make the battery pack bigger and denser, and then graft the cost onto the user, so that they need to spend more than 100,000 yuan to buy the battery pack, it is difficult to make new energy vehicles get real popularity, so the size of your cake is ......limited after all."

"Instead of staring at that little cake, it is better to follow our battery swap mode with sodium batteries, quickly strengthen and expand the market, and collapse LG, Songxia and Tesla."

"And you also know that the technology of sodium batteries and lithium batteries are the same......"

"If I use the technology to make this sodium battery to make a lithium battery, the energy density may be able to reach 600 or even 700Wh/kg, and you actually have nothing to play with."

Zeng Yuqing: "......"

He never dreamed that CATL would one day face the option of 'becoming a foundry'.

Becoming a foundry means becoming a simple product producer, and in the future, they will become an obscure screw behind Kangchi, and all the batteries they manufacture will be labeled with Kangchi.

Of course, if you think about the benefits, becoming the little brother of Kangchi and only making money from product manufacturing may be bigger than the cake they are eating now.

In any case, this is a very difficult thing for CATL to choose.

After all, not everyone is willing to stay behind the scenes and become someone else's little brother, especially as the CATL era that once stood at the top of the stage, even now it is in the limelight.

After a few minutes, Zeng Yuqing replied in a somewhat hoarse voice: "Mr. Kang allowed me to think about it for two days...... And such a major matter can only be decided after discussion by the board of directors. ”

Kangchi nodded: "Understandable. ”

"This battery ...... Can you leave it to me? ”

Kang Chi smiled: "I brought it here for you to study." ”

He is not afraid that CATL will reverse the battery technology through a finished product.

If the technology is so simple in reverse, then everyone should stop selling things, and if they sell it, they will directly sell a finished product, and the technology will be reversed, so how can they play?

Especially for batteries, which mainly rely on new materials.

Therefore, Kangchi generously left the battery in CATL, and let their researchers open up the analysis to help him prove the reliability of things.

Moreover, Kangchi also followed Zhang Qing's advice, and at the same time learned from the clumsy experience that Chief Lu said, and did not directly take out the 400Wh/kg technology, but prepared to launch the 300Wh/kg battery first, leaving a way out for himself.

Even if it is 300Wh/kg, it is actually enough to promote the battery swap mode, and once the battery swap mode is rolled out, Kangchi is equivalent to having a hen that lays golden eggs.

What really makes money is not to make batteries and sell batteries, but to sell energy.

The battery is just the carrier, and selling electricity through the battery to grab the oil market is the business that really makes money and benefits the people!

(End of chapter)