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

"Professors and doctors, there is no way to increase the charging speed of the battery?" William asked another key question.

Faced with the Thor battery that can be fully charged in one or two minutes, if the charging speed of the Super 500 can only reach 37 to 40 minutes, it will undoubtedly lower the competitiveness of the Super 500.

"If the president needs to increase the charging speed, the only feasible method at present is to integrate small batteries." Dr. Umekawa Uchiku said his plan.

"Is it an integrated battery like Tesla's electric car?" William immediately thought of Tesla's densely packed Panasonic battery pack.

"It's the battery pack solution. This can increase the charging speed to about 10 minutes, but..." Dr. Umekawa Uchiku hesitated at the end.

"But what?" William asked, frowning.

"Doing so will increase the cost and difficulty of battery management, and may also lead to poor battery stability." Professor ErBi explained.

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

"Mr. President, actually there is no way to solve this problem." Mu Youxiaoji suddenly said.

"Oh? Mu You, what can you do?" William asked quickly.

"It's very simple. Our battery management technology is not good, but Tesla's battery management technology is. We can cooperate with Tesla." Mu Youxiaoji suggested.

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

Muyou Xiaoji said confidently: "The enemy of my enemy is a friend. We have a common enemy, don't we?"

William immediately understood that even though Tesla was now a customer of Thor Battery, the price involved was also a worry for Tesla.

If there is an opportunity to get rid of the constraints of Thor Batteries, Musk will definitely do it without hesitation, just like Tesla has never given up cooperation with Panasonic Batteries.

The threat from the Dongtang Battery Alliance is too great. If we completely rely on the other party's batteries, the consequences will be disastrous.

"I talked to Musk personally, and I believe he won't be so stupid that he can't see the situation clearly." William patted the Super 500 battery.

…

Elon Musk had just secured investors in his space exploration company when he put down a mess of financial statements and pressed his temples to relieve a headache.

Suddenly the phone rang.

He looked at the number. Huh? Doesn’t this number belong to William, the president of General Motors? Why did this guy call suddenly?

Although he was puzzled, Musk still pressed answer.

"Hey, Musk, long time no see. How are you doing?"

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

"Okay Musk, let me tell you directly! Our company's battery laboratory has successfully developed the Super 500 lithium battery. I wonder if you are interested in cooperating."

"Super 500? Do you plan to develop a battery with an energy density of 500 watt hours per kilogram?"

"That's the plan."

"Already successful? Why do you want to cooperate with me?" Musk is not a fool.

If the Super 500 is really perfect, why doesn't General Motors go it alone? Capitalists are greedy and will not easily share the cake with others.

"Okay! The Super 500's charging speed is a bit slow, about 37 to 40 minutes. We need Tesla's battery management technology." William explained frankly.

“Do you want to use Tesla’s battery management technology to increase charging speed?”

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

"Why should I cooperate with you? Give me a reason." Musk narrowed his eyes and asked.

"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 hurt him.

"What is your cost?" Musk asked a crucial question. If the cost is too high, Tesla cannot afford it.

"$170 per kilogram."

"With the addition of battery management technology, the cost may rise to US$200 per kilogram." Musk frowned and said.

"Indeed, it is unavoidable at the beginning. If mass production is carried out, the cost should be reduced to about US$150 a year later." William was also very helpless.

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

The predicament of being clamped down by Thor's batteries gave Musk trouble sleeping and eating, and he had to look at Tesla's future.

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

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

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

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

In contrast, the stock prices of domestic companies such as BYD and Ningde Battery have fallen slightly.

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

This time, the news that General Motors' Super 500 lithium battery has been successfully developed and will be put into mass production also made the Ximi media feel proud.

[Super 500 lithium battery, we regained the world’s number one position in the battery field. ]--New York Times

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

[The developer of the Super 500 lithium battery is Professor ErBi from John’s family. We missed an opportunity. ]——British Daily News

[Thor Battery’s monopoly era is about to end. ]——Mirror

[The world's science and technology center is still at Mi Li's house. ]--Global Times

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

“Well done to General Motors.” —Detroit Worker

"I hope the car companies won't lay off any more layoffs." - Homeless Man

"Kill the Thunder God Battery and let them eat the golden garbage." - Red Neck

"That's ridiculous, can this news help me pay off my loan?" - Soybean Farm

" @Soybean farm, garbage! You don't deserve to be a member of MiLi's family." - Environmental Fighter

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

Regarding the Super 500 lithium battery announced by General Motors, after reading the report, Raytheon Group President Fang Shengjie couldn't bear to attack them.

BYD and CATL were also very calm and even took advantage of the falling stock prices to repurchase a lot of shares.

They know more or less about the technical reserves of Thor Battery. After all, Thor Battery has a military version, and the universal Super 500 is just a mantis serving as a car.

Fang Shengjie decided to let GM and Tesla get carried away for a while. After they enter large-scale mass production, they will announce the Thor 4 battery with an energy density of 600 watt hours per kilogram to let them know what real power is.

At the same time, Fang Shengjie wanted to reduce the price of the previous Thor 3 batteries so that General Motors would lose all its money and turn the batteries they invested huge sums of money into into waste.