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After the two of them sat down, Zeng Yuqing's strong curiosity that he had accumulated for a long time made him couldn't help but ask straight to the point: "Mr. Kang, what is it that makes it so mysterious?"

Kang Chi smiled, then took out a mobile phone-sized battery from his pocket and placed it on the coffee table.

"Mr. Zeng, guess what this is?"

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

"lithium battery?"

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

Sodium battery?

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

Regardless of Kang Chi's true intention of taking out a sodium battery at this time, he believes that sodium batteries have never been the antidote to the Ningde era.

At least not what he wants to create now, or what he can create.

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

“We cannot change from being choked by oil in the era of fuel vehicles to being choked by metals like cobalt and nickel in the era of electric vehicles.”

However, what was a slap in the face was that the price of lithium carbonate skyrocketed to 600,000 per ton in 22 years.

As long as you are making lithium batteries, you have to be stuck with raw materials, no matter whether it is lithium iron phosphate or ternary lithium, no matter whether it is cobalt and nickel, or lithium carbonate.

So that year, sodium batteries were pushed to the public again, and CATL also relied on the "sodium battery launch" to break through the trillion-dollar market value.

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

CATL’s liquid sodium battery project, like its solid-state lithium battery, 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 more like a public opinion weapon used to threaten the price of lithium carbonate...

"If Mr. Kang wants to order sodium batteries from us, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. We currently do not have the capacity to produce sodium-ion batteries."

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

"Oh?" After Kang Chi's reminder, Zeng Yuqing asked curiously, "Who made it?"

"I made it myself."

"Did you make it?"

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

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

"!!?"

Zeng Yuqing was stunned immediately.

In fact, when he heard "300Wh/kg sodium-ion battery", his mind started to shut down. He didn't even listen to what Kang Chi said next...

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

Without any explanation from Kang Chi, Zeng Yuqing clearly realized that

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

Not only during their Ningde era,

No battery company in the world can survive a tactical nuclear bomb of this magnitude!

I originally thought that today’s Ningde Era would usher in a fat little lamb.

Who knew that what this little lamb was carrying in his pocket was actually a nuclear warhead!

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

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

"Mr. Kang...this joke is not very funny..."

"Do you think I'm joking?"

"..."

Zeng Yuqing was silent for another moment,

Although this thing has completely destroyed the strength of the Ningde era, but on the bright side, Kang Chi took it to find him first, shouldn't it be for the sake of courtesy first and then fighting, right?

But no matter what, what Kang Chi threw out this time put Zeng Yuqing and Ningde Times into an unprecedented passive situation.

Compared with this sodium-ion battery, LG's lithium battery, and Tesla's decoupling, they are as irrelevant as a child's quarrel.

"Can you tell me what you think?"

"It's very simple. You have two choices. The first is to become our OEM. I guarantee that the order volume will satisfy you." Kang Chi said calmly, "The second is to reject us. , continue to play your lithium battery technology competition game, and then they will all be slowly cannibalized by us."

"Mr. Zeng should actually be very clear that no matter how advanced the lithium battery technology is, reaching 500Wh/kg or even 700Wh/kg, the battery life will be extended to two or three thousand kilometers..."

“But in order to improve the battery life, the battery pack is made larger and denser, and then the cost is transferred to the user, so that they need to spend hundreds of thousands to buy the battery pack. It is difficult to make new energy vehicles truly popular, so you After all, the size of the cake is limited..."

"Instead of staring at that small cake, it is better to follow our battery replacement model with sodium batteries, quickly make the market stronger and bigger, and collapse LG, Songxia and Tesla."

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

"If I use the technology used to make this sodium battery to make a lithium battery, the energy density may directly reach 600 or even 700Wh/kg. In fact, you will 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 mere product producer. In the future, they will become an unknown screw behind Kangchi, and all the batteries they manufacture will be labeled as Kangchi.

Of course, if you think about it on the bright side, becoming Kangchi's younger brother and just making money from product manufacturing may be bigger than the cake they eat now.

No matter what, this is a very difficult decision for CATL.

After all, not everyone is willing to stay behind the scenes and become someone else's little brother, especially in the Ningde era, which once stood at the top of the stage and is still in the spotlight now.

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

Kang Chi nodded: "Understandable."

"This battery... can you leave it to me?"

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

He is not afraid at all that CATL will reverse engineer battery technology through a finished product.

If technology reversal is so simple, then everyone should stop selling things and just sell the finished product directly, thus reversing the technology. Then how can we do it?

Especially products like batteries, which mainly rely on new materials.

Therefore, Kangchi generously left the battery at CATL and asked their researchers to conduct analysis and help him prove the reliability of the matter.

Moreover, Kang Chi also followed Zhang Qing’s advice and learned from Chief Lu’s hidden experience. He did not directly introduce the 400Wh/kg technology, but prepared to launch a 300Wh/kg battery first, leaving himself some retreat. .

Even if it is 300Wh/kg, it is actually enough to promote the power swap mode. Once the power swap mode is rolled out, Kangchi will have a hen that lays golden eggs.

What really makes money is not making and selling batteries, but selling energy.

Batteries are just carriers. Selling electricity through batteries to seize the oil market is a truly profitable and people-friendly business!