"Oh, Mr. Xia is also interested in this project?"

Kang Linsong used to be in charge of the Mercedes-Benz AMG high-performance department, and he has always paid attention to the AMGONE project, and Xia Yu now suddenly mentioned that this project will never be as simple as asking for a place in a car.

"That's right, I'm more interested in the power battery on the car, I think it can be stronger. ”

"Go, call Noller, Mr. Xia, let's go to the office to talk. ”

Michael Knoller is now the head of product at AMG, and Kang Linsong still attaches great importance to this, he and Xia Yu came to the office together, and Ji Yang and Maria were led to visit the Mercedes-Benz headquarters.

"Director, are you looking for me?"

Knoller asked as he knocked on the door and came in.

"This is Mr. Xia from Huaxia, he is the guest of honor of our group, and I would like to talk to you about the AMGONE project. ”

Kang Linsong introduced the two, and Xia Yu also stretched out his hand and shook him.

"HELLO, MR. NOLLER, I MET JAMES WHEN I WAS IN YINGGUO BEFORE, AND HE SHOWED ME THE AMGONE PRODUCTION LINE, YOU GUYS HAVE HAD SOME MINOR TROUBLES LATELY?"

"Yes, Mr. Xia, things are tricky, we have to delay delivery. ”

"I don't know much about the engine, but I'm very good at the battery, you use the A123 battery module this time, and the F1 uses the same brand, but don't you think the energy density of the A123 battery is a bit low?"

A123 is a magnesium lithium battery company, which eats most of the battery share after F1 enters the hybrid era, but because F1 requires high voltage, its battery capacity is generally not high.

It's hard to have the best of both worlds in the world, either a technological breakthrough or a hang-up, otherwise you can only choose one of them in terms of voltage and capacity.

Although the battery pack carried by the AMGONE this time weighs 100 kilograms, it has a capacity of only a pitiful 4.2 kWh, and after sacrificing capacity, the voltage also reaches a terrifying 800 volts, which is twice as much as a normal hybrid car.

"Yes, we can only make such sacrifices in order to drive the motor and provide more horsepower. ”

Noller was not surprised to say that they also wanted to make the battery smaller, but the technology could not keep up, and in the end they had to make this compromise.

"At 800 volts, for the same weight, I can do 10 kWh, or half the mass of the same capacity. ”

Xia Yu's fingers tapped on the table rhythmically, and he said flatly.

"What, Mr. Xia, you're not kidding!"

Noller's first reaction was not to believe it, but when he thought of Huaxia's leading edge in the battery field, he was not sure, Kang Linsong watched with interest, he was very interested in the battery in Xia Yu's mouth.

Car electrification is inevitable, BMW is moving faster than them, betting on CATL early, they are a little late, but they are also in contact with several mainstream lithium battery manufacturers in the world to find the most suitable partner for Daimler Group.

Among them, Yuhan and magnesium battery companies will have some advantages in technology, and Huaxia is larger in scale and lower in cost, and it will be a good choice, but now Xia Yu is in front of him, showing a technological breakthrough, and even crushing A123, an old battery high-tech enterprise, can he not be interested!

"I'm not kidding about this kind of thing, we just reached a cooperation agreement with DJI not long ago, because our batteries are better than the cells provided by CATL. ”

There are many subsidiaries of CATL, and Guancheng New Energy is one of them, they are OEM batteries for DJI, and Xia Yu is now going to grab this piece of fat.

"DJI, is it the unmanned enterprise in Huaxia?"

Noeller naturally didn't know about DJI, but he didn't expect Xia Yu to get an order from DJI.

"That's right, drone batteries also belong to the category of power batteries, and we have made a breakthrough in high-voltage batteries, and this technology can also be transplanted to the field of electric vehicles. ”

Cooperation with DJI is to tear a hole and gain a firm foothold in the domestic battery field, and to discuss the cooperation with Daimler Group on the AMGONE project is to follow up a large number of electric car orders, after all, AMGONE has sold more than 200 vehicles in total, making little profit.

But with the first cooperation, will there be no second time, CATL can catch a ride with BMW, why can't he cooperate with Mercedes-Benz?

"This is the information, you two can take a look. ”

Xia Yu called Feng Manxue, who was waiting outside, in, and took out two copies of the materials that had been printed a long time ago.

Knoeller and Kang Linsong quickly read the information, and then looked at each other, each seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

According to the results of the experiment, Xia Yu's products can fully achieve the performance he said, which is too much beyond the products on the market.

"What about the cost? To achieve this kind of performance, the cost will be very expensive!"

Kang Linsong finally spoke, and it was almost his turn to talk to Xia Yu.

"After all, it is AMGONE, it will definitely be more expensive to achieve this kind of performance, but the cost of the weakened version is controllable, the performance is better than the world's conventional power batteries, and the price will not be much more expensive, and the process is mature and can be mass-produced. ”

In fact, the battery pack provided by the A123 is not their regular product, F1 races burn money, and the hybrid system must of course be the best.

After confirming that cost is not an obstacle, Kang Linsong and Xia Yu had an open and honest talk and proposed to cooperate by upgrading the power battery pack.

Of course, whether to upgrade or not depends on the owner of the car that orders the car, and Mercedes-Benz only provides this option.

Well, if you can afford a supercar of 2.275 million euros, will these owners hesitate?

It's impossible, if Xia Yu is the owner, he must be the first to upgrade, even if he doesn't improve the pure electric battery life, it would be good to reduce the weight by fifty kilograms!

Okay, there is a systematic relationship, Xia Yu's negotiations with Daimler Group are very pleasant, but the most important thing is that his products are good enough, which moved Kang Linsong, the new CEO.

"Thank you, Mr. Kang Linsong, you are my first foreign partner. ”

Standing up and shaking hands with Lao Kang, Xia Yu said sincerely.

He has always made money from his countrymen, and most of his investment companies speculated in U.S. stocks, which was his first international contract, which included battery pack upgrade services for 275 cars.

Less is less, but this is the basis of follow-up cooperation, do a good job to talk about something else, do not do well or take the factory out as soon as possible, do something else!

"Looking forward to your products, I may go to Huaxia after a while, I hope to have the opportunity to inspect Mr. Xia's factory. ”

Kang Linsong let go of his hand and said.

A trip to Huaxia was a pre-planned itinerary, and he was bound to visit major international dealers when he first took office, and Huaxia had become one of the most important exporters of Mercedes-Benz.

In addition, it is to inspect the power battery companies, Jierui Power is just an emergency, and he also wants to see other battery companies in Huaxia.

"Welcome to Huaxia, I will definitely entertain Mr. Kang Linsong when I arrive in the magic capital. ”

Xia Yu said enthusiastically.

In Mercedes-Benz's reputation, Jierui's international reputation is an important part of his plan, and he couldn't be happier if Kang Linsong can go to investigate.

"So that's how the business is done, Lao Xia, you're too powerful!"

On the car back, Ji Yang, who listened to the ins and outs, couldn't help but say.

That's Mercedes-Benz, although he doesn't really like Mercedes-Benz sports cars, but who in the world doesn't know Mercedes-Benz?

"Isn't it Mercedes-Benz, the market value has long been overtaken by Tesla, and it may be overtaken by NIO next year. ”

Xia Yu is very calm, he and Mercedes-Benz are just business partners, as long as they are neither humble nor arrogant.

"Yes, new energy is the general trend, and the life of traditional car companies is not easy, but you still have a vision in Lao Xia, and we can catch up with this limelight." ”

Ji Yang invested 200 million yuan in private money to Xia's Capital before, and took a ride to eat a lot of new energy-related shares.

In fact, Huasu has its own investment company, but the scale is not even one-tenth of Xia's capital, so it's just a small fight in China, and it's better to play with Xia Yu when playing international investment!

"Catching up is a matter of being able to catch up and making more and earning less, but my focus is still on my own industry, and I always stare at other people's stocks. ”

Xia Yu basically doesn't pay much attention to the stock market, and at most he mentions two sentences in the briefing every morning, mainly Gu Jia is responsible.

"I'm really convinced, I studied chemistry and batteries before the New Year, and I was able to go to Caltech to study for a PhD in chemistry. ”

During the period before the Chinese New Year, Ji Yang looked for Xia Yu, and found that this guy was hiding in the library to study chemistry books, and the materials were really full.

At that time, he only knew that Xia Yu was going to enter new energy, but he didn't expect to complete the acquisition of the company after the year, and at this time he got both an order from DJI and a contract from Mercedes-Benz.

The speed of progress is beyond his reach!

"Yes, but it's not necessary, there are some things that can't be learned in school, and some projects can be studied outside the school. ”

Xia Yu replied seriously.

Caltech should be the first in all magnesium chemistry majors, but he doesn't rely on a diploma to find a job, and second, he has nothing to learn, and it's a waste of time to go, and it's enough to get a bachelor's degree.

Maria couldn't interject the whole time, so far she only knew that Xia Yu and Mercedes-Benz had negotiated a cooperation, and it seemed that it was very professional.

Genius is like this, he has an unparalleled talent in music, a fruitful business achievement, and more importantly, he is generous, and the food is so delicious.

That's perfect, isn't it?

It's perfect, but it's a pity that this is just the appearance, and the bad is in Xia Yu's bones.

"Maria, send you back to Italy, and we will have to go home. ”

"What, so soon, you go back this time, and I don't know how long it will take to meet again. ”

Maria said with some reluctance, she still has a lot of things to talk about with Xia Yu in music, and she will be separated in a blink of an eye.

"Don't worry, you can come to Huaxia to see me then, and we can perform on stage together at that time." ”

Xia Yu is definitely going to hold a solo concert, and if the music industry is not famous enough, then use his fame in business to hold a personal music billionaire, which sounds like a gimmick.

"Well, I'll go to Huaxia, and I'm looking forward to the day when I'll be on the same stage with you. ”

Maria said with confidence, she had confidence in herself, and she had more confidence in Xia Yu.

The Sherlock took off again, and soon landed in a daze, watching his bosom friend get off the plane, he beckoned from the porthole, and the plane slid down the runway again.

Anyway, Maria is his musical bosom friend, so does he have to find a scientific bosom friend?

This is a bit difficult, God is fair, it is difficult to give you a smart head if you are given a beautiful face, except for an exception like Xiao Jiang, it is difficult for Xia Yu to see a beautiful woman who studies well.

If you want to talk about milk tea eyebrows, people are dancing aerobics into Qingbei, the key is not too beautiful, anyway, it is not Xia Yu's favorite model.

Forget it, it's a pity in life to have no bosom friends, and too many bosom friends are also a trouble, one or two are enough.

After dinner on the plane, Ji Yang went back to his second bedroom to sleep, while Xia Yu took a shower and got into the bed to read.

Now the books in the book corner and the bedside are all related to scientific research, and there are very few people to pass the time, and this Feng Manxue doesn't know too much, but she just thinks that their boss is getting more and more unfathomable.

Above the clouds, Xia Yu, who was tired of reading a book, slept for more than four hours, and regained his spirit again, without looking at GPS, he took out his mobile phone and signed in directly, and when he heard that the voice of the account was RMB, he knew that he had arrived in China.

Get up and wash up, change into clean clothes, Xia Yu came to the living room outside for breakfast, Ji Yang in the second bedroom was still asleep, but it didn't matter, anyway, he was wearing a seat belt and could sleep until he landed.

After Xia Yu finished breakfast, the magic capital finally appeared outside the porthole.

Slow down and land, and when his feet are on the ground, he feels like he is home.

There were still two cars, Xia Yu took Zeppelin and left first, and Ji Yang, who was stunned, got into the Maybach and continued to sleep.

"Mr. Xia, welcome home×8!"

There were eight people left behind in the family, and all of them came out to greet Xia Yu at this moment.

It felt good, and waved Feng Manxue upstairs to put his luggage, and he went into the library.

Compared to the main house, Xia Yu still prefers the library, this is his small base in the magic capital, several trees in the garden are about a hundred years old, and in the future, pick a big one to build a wooden house for his son, and the city management should not come to catch the illegal construction!

Leisure is leisure, work is work, and as soon as Xia Yu came back, he threw himself into intense and busy work.

Jierui has many generals and lacks scientific research strength, although it has been recruiting, but only he, the boss, was on top in the early stage.

Hurry up, Xia Yu designed the structure of the battery pack according to the standard given by Mercedes-Benz, the original A123 battery pack scheme, added a set of water cooling system to the entire battery module, and this is not in the umbrella battery pack, they used other solutions to solve the problem of heating.

With a complete advanced solution to learn from, Xia Yu can find a new way to create a new industry standard, and maybe promote the development of F1 in the hybrid system, after all, they have used this set before.

On March 17th, the first sample was successfully made in the laboratory of Jierui Power.