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Chapter 161 Lithium Metal Cathode Materials

Each battery manufacturer has obtained specific data on the effect of Kechuang biological lithium metal electrodes on lithium batteries.

The only requirement of Kechuang Bio is that the new lithium batteries must be supplied to Chinese car companies first, and foreign car companies and joint venture car companies will not be considered for supply in the first two years.

The strength of technology can have an absolute right to speak.

The battery capacity is tripled, the charging speed is doubled, and the safety is better than ordinary lithium batteries.

In the face of technological advantages, mainstream battery manufacturers can only accept the requirements of Kechuang Bio.

They don't sign, but some manufacturers sign. In the past two years, new energy has exploded, and many companies whose main business is not engaged in batteries have rushed to expand battery production capacity.

Enterprises that want to take the ride of Kechuangbiology are like crucian carp crossing the river.

In the end, under the struggle of the interests of various forces, Kechuangbio signed patent authorizations with major battery cathode material manufacturers and some battery manufacturers.

The authorization only includes the authorization of the lithium metal cathode part. The key graphene coating only sells graphene coating manufacturing equipment and will not authorize the patent.

"We have already drawn the 3D rendering of the graphene coating of Kechuangbio. The problem is how to realize industrial production. We have no idea."

"Let's not talk about industrial production, even the reproduction in the laboratory is currently impossible to achieve, at least give us half a year."

"Then we can only buy the equipment of Kechuang Biology, 20 billion for one, plus the patent licensing fee for metal lithium, the manufacturing industry is really not as good as scientific research to make money."

"Kechuangbiology has been licensing technology patents for so many years, and I haven't seen any company that can reproduce their technology and bypass their technical barriers. The protection fees that should be paid still have to be paid obediently.

Furthermore, the protection fee we paid to Kechuang Biology will eventually transmit the price increase pressure to the downstream, and the downstream will then transmit it to consumers.

Just to double the battery life, the price increase of new energy vehicles by [-] is not too much, right?
Hasn’t the price increase of lithium carbonate upstream in the past few years been passed on to consumers in the end? "

Whether the price increase of upstream raw materials can be transmitted to consumers is not so certain.

Enterprises with bargaining power can take the initiative to raise prices. Like the price increase of lithium mines before, Tesla relatively has a certain bargaining power, and he can take the lead in raising prices.

However, some domestic new energy car companies focus on cost-effectiveness. If the price is raised without authorization, the impact on sales will be relatively large.

Even Tesla's price increase was done at the moment when oil prices soared.

Because if the price of new energy vehicles rises too much, consumers will choose to buy gasoline vehicles, which are much more mature than new energy vehicles.

Therefore, the price increase of upstream raw materials mentioned here, which is transmitted to consumers, is a conclusion drawn from the perspective of the end of 2023 and looking forward.

It belongs to the process of looking for results.

"When it comes to reproducing the technology of scientifically innovative creatures, it's not that no one has succeeded. Isn't Musk's Neuralink successful?"

"Do you really believe that Neuralink's brain-computer connection technology was developed by themselves? At that time, the stone hammer was like that, and it was obvious that they got the technology prototype from Kechuang Bio.

Based on the technology of Kechuangbio, it was barely made, and the recognition accuracy rate is incomparable with the brain-computer connection of Kechuangbio.

It can only rely on the price advantage on Samsung's mid-range models. "

Kechuang Bio's brain-computer connection technology has stabilized mobile phones at the high end.

As a result, Android mobile phone brands at home and abroad, when releasing high-end models at the development conference, must deliberately indicate that the brain-computer connection technology comes from Sci-Tech Bio.

The frequency of appearance of Kechuang Bio's logo is comparable to that of Qualcomm.

After Apple and Kechuang Biology cooperated to release brain-computer connected mobile phones worldwide, the two mainstream mobile phone manufacturers in China, OV, both came to their door.

They expressed their hope to become a strategic partner of Kechuangbio, but they are just a name, and they are willing to pay hundreds of millions of name fees every year.

It would be best if they can provide some technical support, but if not, I hope they can print the logo of Kechuangbio on the back of the phone in publicity.

OV has played the marketing to the extreme, hanging the logo of Kechuang Bio on the back, which can attract many digital enthusiasts.

In the past few years, Kechuangbio's status in the domestic digital circle is comparable to that of Apple.

Just like Huawei put Leica behind the back, the publicity effect is greater than the actual effect.

For OV, anyway, it costs money to hire celebrities for marketing, and it is also marketing to seek cooperation with Kechuang Bio.

It doesn't hurt to allocate a part of marketing expenses every year in this regard.

"In fact, there have been countless papers on graphene coatings in recent years. Everyone knows that graphene will definitely have a revolutionary effect in batteries.

Including the three-dimensional structure, everyone has guessed it.

It’s just that no one has thought about how to build a three-dimensional graphene coating. If it’s just 3D modeling, it’s impossible to judge the effect of the graphene coating with this structure.

Inconclusive.

Only scientific and innovative creatures can follow this technology and show the real thing to everyone, that's how it is.

As for the graphene coating manufacturing equipment of Kechuang Bio, I guess it is some kind of higher-end 3D printing equipment, and the specific effect will not be known until it arrives.

Thinking about it this way, science and technology innovation is really awesome, they can handle things that everyone can't handle. "

"Isn't this nonsense? Endorphins and brain-computer connections are handled by others? After all, Zheng Li is a top student who published nature in his freshman year.

It has to be said that the research and development capabilities are too strong. "

"I'm just waiting to play this year's Brain-Computer Linked VR of Kechuangbio. I've seen their actual demonstration effect and I'm already very anxious."

"Hahaha me too, I'm waiting for Kechuang Bio to make my money. The only thing I'm upset about is that the partner is Goose Factory. It would be great if Kechuang could operate on its own."

"Science-creation biology is not a panacea, after all, it involves VR system, and science-creation biology may not be good at it.

After all, Goose Factory has enough influence. If it weren’t for Goose Factory, would EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Nintendo and other major manufacturers cooperate to make their most famous works VR? "

After Kechuang Bio's lithium battery patent was authorized, these patented battery manufacturers also signed cooperation agreements with new energy vehicle companies.

The production capacity of the previous two years is directly locked, and other car companies cannot buy it if they want to.

Domestic new energy car companies, after receiving samples and test data, are gearing up one after another, and they are bound to seize the two-year strategic period.

For example, BYD has the biggest advantage. It itself is the top two battery manufacturers in the domestic market, and it also has its own electric vehicles.

The proportion of BYD's trams in China is not small.

And their price positioning has been stuck in the range of 20 to 30, and there is no way for high-end models to break through.

High-end models are not high-end as you say, and they need to be recognized by consumers.

Even though Gaohe is much more expensive than BBA's low-end models, Huaguo people will not think Gaohe is a high-end car brand.

There are even fewer who are willing to pay for Gaohe.

The only high-end new energy brands recognized by consumers that can really be sold in China are Ideal and NIO.

BYD sells too many low-end models, and when he wanted to raise the price, the previous low-end models caused him a huge shackle.

Just like Toyota wants to make a sub-brand Lexus to enter the high-end market.

It is the same logic as the mobile phone brand. Rice launched Redmi, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, and then Rice mainly focuses on the mid-to-high-end market, while the mix series focuses on the high-end market.

This is an idea. Whether it can be successful or not depends on product strength and consumer recognition.

BYD intends to combine the positive electrode technology provided by Kechuang Bio to build its own high-end brand through super batteries.

The high-end brand is not called BYD, but starts from scratch to create a sub-brand focused on high-end.

Battery life is their main trump card.

The only worry for BYD is that their high-end brand has a battery life of 3000 kilometers and a price of around 40.

As a result, the rice car has the same battery life of 3000 kilometers, and the price is only 15 yuan. Then, it will be compared with friends and merchants in the press conference and after-the-fact publicity.

“同样是3000公里的续航，友商的官方售价在39万8千8百元，而我们的大米汽车售价仅需14万9千9百9十8元，今天下单的还领2000元优惠券，即领即享！”

The person in charge of BYD's new energy vehicle line got dizzy when he thought of Lei Jun's possible scene at the press conference.

The first high-end model was touched by rice, and after various comparisons, the price became brighter. No one has played the car conference like a mobile phone conference.

Not only BYD is afraid of this situation, but other car companies are also afraid, so that other car companies try their best to find out how much Lei Jun's rice car is priced.

After Kechuang Biology signed the technology authorization agreement for lithium battery cathode materials, Zheng Li also had something to ask Lei Jun:
"Brother, when will the first model of your rice car go on sale? I'm looking forward to it."

For Zheng Li's call, Lei Jun was a little surprised: "Junior brother, we are just waiting for your super lithium battery technology, now everything is ready and we only owe Dongfeng.

I think it is absolutely correct to choose Rice Automobile for my last venture.

It just so happens that Kechuangbio's super lithium battery technology plugs in the wings for us to take off.

Originally, I may not be so confident, but since I got the sample of the super lithium battery, I am very confident now.

I asked Ningde Times, they said that they recently signed a patent authorization, your graphene equipment is estimated to be delivered in March next year, and rice cars should be officially launched in the middle of next year. "

"It would be best if we can catch up with the super lithium battery technology. If not, we will release the regular version of the rice car first, and then we will release the pro version after the super lithium battery is delivered."

Zheng Li smiled and said: "At that time, I will definitely order one for each of our senior executives of Kechuang Biology, and you must give me a discount."

Lei Jun: "No problem, you don't need to order, I will give you a few directly, it's a trivial matter."

Zheng Li didn't have too many pleasantries, and said directly: "Another thing, brother, do you remember why I told you why I developed lithium battery technology?"

Lei Jun said directly: "Because of Musk?"

Zheng Li: "That's right, so I hope you can compete directly with Musk, and compare Tesla with Tesla at the press conference."

Lei Jun smiled and said: "Don't worry, Tesla is the leader of new energy car companies in the market. Our goal is to be the leader. We will definitely compare with Tesla."

In the past, rice mobile phones used Apple as a benchmark, but later they followed Huawei.Rice Auto will naturally not let Tesla go.

Although Tesla's sales in China dropped sharply after the Lion City R&D center was hacked, more than a year later, American's media public relations capabilities are too strong.

Consumers basically forgot about that, and Tesla's sales were back to their peak.

(End of this chapter)