Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 460 Magically modified battery

In the future, the market value of Biddy Company has already moved towards the trillion mark, and Boatman's net worth has also exceeded 100 billion.

Investing in the newly established Biddy Company can bring hundreds of billions of profits to Li Weidong.

In fact, with Li Weidong's ability to know the future, it is not a problem at all to become the world's richest man Dangdang by investing in several companies at will.

But Li Weidong prefers to engage in industry down-to-earth and become a real industrial tycoon, rather than a speculator in the financial or investment fields.

It is true that you can make a lot of money quickly by playing finance or investing, but Li Weidong believes that industry is the foundation. Without physical support, whether it is finance or investment, it is just a trick played by the left hand and the right hand.

The reason why Li Weidong invested in Bidi Company was not to make a profit. He really took a fancy to Bidi Company's battery business.

Rechargeable batteries are the future development trend of small household appliances, and Li Weidong needs a stable rechargeable battery supplier.

In addition, the storage forklifts being developed by Fukang Engineering and the micro-agricultural machinery that Fukang Agricultural Machinery will make in the future also need batteries. BYD can provide these.

Before the Asian financial crisis, the rechargeable battery industry was basically monopolized by Japanese companies.

Sanyo is the leader in the rechargeable battery industry, followed closely by Panasonic, Mitsubishi, etc. Even European and American countries purchase rechargeable batteries from Japan.

At that time, the most widely used rechargeable battery was nickel-cadmium battery.

However, the cadmium element contained in nickel-cadmium batteries is highly toxic. The recycling and processing of nickel-cadmium batteries is also a very troublesome matter, and pollution can easily occur during the recycling process.

Therefore, Japan decided to stop the production of nickel-cadmium batteries in the country, move the nickel-cadmium battery industry chain to other countries, and turn Japan to develop and produce other types of batteries.

For example, the hydrogen fuel cell that Toyota has been developing is the product of the cessation of production of nickel-cadmium batteries.

Toyota has always believed that hydrogen fuel cells are the future development trend, so it has invested heavily in hydrogen fuel cells.

Due to Toyota's leadership in hydrogen fuel cells, Toyota has monopolized most of the patents in the field of hydrogen fuel cells, which has also formed a technical barrier that prevents other companies from entering the field of hydrogen fuel cells.

Toyota's calculation is that it wants to dominate new energy vehicles by monopolizing hydrogen fuel cell technology, and even monopolize the entire field of new energy vehicles.

However, the technical barriers to hydrogen fuel cells established by Toyota have caused other battery companies to turn to developing other types of batteries, such as various types of lithium batteries.

The result was the emergence of Tesla, which changed the pattern of the automobile industry. Then companies that made new energy vehicles began to imitate Tesla, and one after another appeared.

Established European and American car companies are also not to be outdone, using their accumulated technology to launch their own new energy vehicles.

The hydrogen fuel cell that Toyota has always held has become something that no one cares about, and the various patents on hydrogen fuel cells have become just decorations.

Therefore, technological monopoly is not necessarily a good thing, especially when technical barriers are formed, it will inevitably lead new entrants to find other shortcuts, and once new shortcuts are found, they will often subvert the entire industry.

Closer to home, Japan decided to stop the production of nickel-cadmium batteries locally for environmental protection and industrial upgrading considerations. This also gave other countries opportunities.

The four Asian tiger countries in Southeast Asia have received a lot of nickel-cadmium battery production capacity from Japan.

In China, companies such as Biddy are also targeting nickel-cadmium batteries, hoping to fill the gap left by Japanese companies.

However, in terms of competition, Chinese companies were at a disadvantage at that time. After all, they were lagging behind others in technology. However, the Four Asian Tigers attracted Japanese investment and technology, most of which were set up directly by Japanese companies. Therefore, technically they were

leading.

However, the Asian financial crisis broke out, and the entire Southeast Asian economy collapsed completely. Japan's investment in nickel-cadmium battery projects in Southeast Asian countries also went cold.

Chinese companies, on the other hand, took advantage of the situation and quickly filled the gap in the market.

Therefore, for Biddy, the Asian financial crisis in 1997 was a watershed.

Before 1997, Bidi relied on OEM services for some second-tier Asian mobile phone brands.

After the Asian financial crisis broke out, Motorola, Kyocera, Techtronics, and even Panasonic, which can make its own batteries, all became Biddy's customers.

In just five years, Biddy achieved 80% of Sanyo's battery production capacity and became the world's second largest rechargeable battery supplier.

It seems that the rise of Biddy is also related to Japan's abolition of martial arts.

If Japan had continued to produce nickel-cadmium batteries locally, or the Asian financial crisis had not broken out, there would have been no vacancy in the nickel-cadmium battery market, and Biddy would not have been able to rise rapidly.

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When facing investors, you always have to introduce the advantages of your business, draw a big pie, and brag about the potential of your business, so that the investor’s father will be willing to invest money.

Of course the boatman understood this, so he took Li Weidong to the laboratory of Biddy Company, which was the only place where Biddy Company could make a difference.

In the laboratory, Brother Boatman showed Li Weidong his product, Big Brother's rechargeable battery.

Early mobile phones did not have a separate charging port. If you wanted to charge, you needed to remove the battery and put it on a special charger.

"Chairman Li, since this is a battery produced by us, its performance is definitely no worse than the original battery." Brother Boatman said with a proud face.

"Is this battery made of imported materials or domestic materials?" Li Weidong asked.

"We have mastered the electrolyte solution technology, but the nickel and cadmium for the positive and negative electrodes still have to be imported. But now with your capital injection, I believe that we will have a technological breakthrough this year or so." Brother Boatman said.

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Li Weidong thought for a while and asked, "What is the capacity of this battery you made?"

"This is 700 mAh, which is the same standard as the original battery." Brother Boatman replied.

Li Weidong shook his head: "700 mA is not enough. I think it must at least be doubled to 1,400 mA."

"1400 mAh? Is the battery too big?" Boatman said subconsciously.

Li Weidong reminded: "You can make the battery thicker!"

"In that case, the battery must be bigger and thicker than the big brother, right?" Brother Boatman said.

"It doesn't matter if it's thicker, just carry it." Li Weidong continued; "You don't have your own brand, and you use imported raw materials, so the cost advantage is not big. If your battery is exactly the same as the original battery, consumption

Why should I buy your battery?

If you want consumers to buy your battery, you must show the difference from the original manufacturer. Making the battery capacity larger is a kind of difference.

The original battery can last for one hour, and your battery can last for two hours. Consumers who have higher requirements for call time will naturally choose your battery."

"That makes sense, why didn't I think of that!" The boatman nodded in realization, with an expression of admiration on his face.

"No wonder this Li Weidong is younger than me, but he can do such a big business. It seems that he is indeed very business-savvy! If you encounter business problems in the future, you may be able to ask him for advice." Brother Boatman thought to himself.

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After all, Brother Boatman is a scientific researcher and is great at technology, but after all, he has just started business and his experience is far less than that of Li Weidong. So Li Weidong's casual words or two will be enough to benefit Brother Boatman for a long time.

In fact, Li Weidong's proposal to thicken the battery was also a trend in the development of mobile phone batteries at that time.

In the past, mobile phone batteries were integrated with the back cover of the mobile phone. The battery was equivalent to the back cover of the mobile phone. Unlike today's mobile phones, the back cover is the back cover and the battery is the battery.

Therefore, making the battery thicker is equivalent to making the mobile phone thicker, and has no impact on the use of the mobile phone.

However, as mobile phone batteries become thicker, their size and weight will increase.

With the technology at the time, a 700 mAh battery weighed much more than a current mobile phone.

When the mobile phone battery is increased to 1400 mAh, the weight is really like holding a brick in your hand. If you hold it up to a person's head, it will definitely open the door.

In the 1990s, mobile phone manufacturers were mainly from European and American countries. Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson were the three giants in the 1990s, and Siemens was considered half a giant.

With the thinking of European and American companies, of course they will not make the battery as heavy as a brick in order to obtain a larger battery capacity.

The mobile phones of the three giants are getting smaller and smarter.

However, Chinese companies have always liked to make magical modifications based on actual conditions, so when Chinese companies began to produce mobile phone batteries, brick-thick batteries that could open the brain were born.

For example, the famous Motorola 8900 is only 26 mm thick, and the original battery is only seven or eight mm thick.

The large-capacity battery modified by a Chinese company is more than 20 mm thick. At the same time, the talk time of the mobile phone can also reach more than four hours.

Of course, the performance of nickel-cadmium batteries is far worse than that of later lithium batteries.

With the same power of 1400 mAh, a mobile phone using a nickel-cadmium battery can only talk for two or three hours, while a smartphone using a lithium battery can watch videos for two to three hours.

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After leaving Bidi Company, Li Weidong took a plane to the Home Appliances Research Institute in Shanghai and found Tang Hao.

"Tang Gong, help me make something." Li Weidong said, took out the razor, pointed at the blade and continued: "This is the blade, I want to make a floating one."

"Floating type? What do you mean?" Tang Hao asked puzzledly.

"It's like putting a washbasin on the water. I want to press it in that direction, and if I let go, it will return to its original shape." Li Weidong explained roughly.

Tang Hao frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Director Li, your request is not easy to fulfill."

"Don't worry, I already have an idea about the design of the floating cutter head." Li Weidong continued: "We can make a buckle in the cutter head holder so that the cutter head can swing left and right."

"After shaking, how do you make the blade return to its original position? Do you want to add a small spring?" Tang Hao asked.

"No springs are used, metal sheets are used. The metal itself is elastic. A metal sheet is supported inside. When the cutter head is not stressed, the tension of the metal sheet will bounce the cutter head back to its original position." Li Weidong explained.

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Tang Hao thought for a few seconds: "Your design is feasible. It can indeed make the cutter head achieve the floating effect you mentioned. But once the cutter head starts to float, what should we do with the roller that drives the head to rotate? Roll

The shaft is fixed."

"So I need to make the roller float together with the cutter head." Li Weidong said.

Tang Hao frowned again and began to think about how to meet Li Weidong's request.

Li Weidong said, "Tang Gong, I don't know much about this aspect of design, but I can give you an idea. Do you know boring tools?"

Tang Hao nodded. As a top student in physics, he had been in the factory for many years and had some knowledge of machine tools. Of course he knew the most basic machine tool equipment, such as boring tools.

"There is something called a floating boring tool. I can't explain the specific structure, but I know there should be a spring inside. When the roller rotates, the spring also rotates together." Li Weidong explained.

"That is the elastic joint structure. I don't know whether it is a direct fixed connection or an indirect fixed connection." Tang Hao continued; "I will buy a floating boring tool later and I will know after taking it apart."

"I don't understand professional things. But if you can make this floating knife head, I will reward you with a house. You can choose any house in Shanghai." Li Weidong said with a smile.

"No problem, just to tell you this, I have to get this floating blade out!" Tang Hao said enthusiastically.

In later generations, the floating head is the most basic equipment of a shaver.

However, in 1995, this technology had not yet appeared on the market. Even Philips, the most technologically advanced company, only adopted floating cutter head technology in the HQ8 series.

Domestic companies basically only mastered this technology around 2010.

Of course, due to patent restrictions, the floating cutter head technology of domestic companies is still slightly different from Philips' floating cutter head technology. For example, adding a hardware leaf spring, or changing the kit combination.

In order to compete with Philips, Li Weidong decided to launch the floating cutter head technology on the market in advance.

Once the puppy shaver has a rechargeable battery and a floating head, it will truly have the capital to compete with Philips.

At that time, puppy shavers no longer need to rely on price competition to win, but can rely on solid quality to defeat Philips.

It's just that Li Weidong actually only has a rough understanding of the technology of floating cutter heads.

When cleaning a shaver, he would take apart the blade and see the structure inside. But Li Weidong only knew a little about the design of the roller.

He could only provide Tang Hao with a research and development idea, and Tang Hao, a top student in applied physics, had to solve the rest.

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