Technology overlord starts with new energy vehicles

Inside the luxuriously decorated small conference room.

Amidst the whispered discussions among the surrounding people, the blond foreigner Kunlan Silva who was in charge of making the call took a deep breath and asked the person on the phone.

"This shouldn't be the answer that Kyushu Motors, which is constantly expanding and expanding for the sake of development, should give. It's definitely because you didn't explain the situation clearly!"

"Is your president here?! I want to talk to him personally!"

If he didn't communicate with the president of the other party in person, he really wasn't willing to end it like this!

The little secretary turned her head and looked at the senior executives of Kyushu Automobile beside her: "President, the other party wants to talk to you in person!"

"He doesn't seem to want to believe what he said to me!"

Just when Feng Hao was about to refuse, Xu Yifan behind the desk said, "Call me, I'll see what the other party wants to do!"

In fact, whether the call is answered or not does not have much impact, but it is not bad to have a little refreshment occasionally in a peaceful life.

Moreover, this phone call may have a good chance to come and go without indecent assault!

Taking the iPhone4 from Miss Secretary's hand, Xu Yifan put it to his ear, and said into it: "Hi, hello, I'm Xu Yifan from Kyushu Motors, what can I do?"

Kyushu Motor Xu Yifan, if the name is among the people who don't know much about cars, it may be difficult to attract everyone's attention.

But those who know Kyushu Automobile and the rapid development of Huaxia Automobile in the past two years will naturally understand the gold content of this name.

This is the person who led the bankrupt automobile factory all the way, and developed Kyushu Automobile to the current level in just a few years!

The blond foreigner on the other end of the phone, as a senior executive of Ford, naturally knew who this person named Xu Yifan was.

This is the target they most want to find, the owner of the Kyushu Automobile Factory!

The executives of these hundred-year-old car companies have to pay attention to the young people who have grown that bankrupt and closed car company step by step in just a few years!

With a smile on his face, the blond and blue-eyed middle-aged man said, "Hello, Mr. Xu Yifan, I am Quinlan Silva from Ford, and I am talking to you this time to discuss the price of international lithium resources. "

Xu Yifan asked suspiciously: "It seems that we have nothing to discuss, right? Does Ford have lithium resources?"

The middle-aged man on the phone, Kunlan Silva answered definitely: "As a century-old international car company, there must be some mineral resources!"

"Are you really not concerned about the rise in the price of international lithium mines? According to our estimates, with this wave of rising prices, the cost of battery packs produced by Kyushu Automobile Factory Hengxin Battery Factory will be much higher than before!"

"Even according to the current selling price of Jiuzhou Automobile Hengxin Battery Factory, even the cost of materials is not enough!"

Xu Yifan sighed helplessly: "This is indeed a problem, the cost of materials has risen, which will be very troublesome for Kyushu Motors today.

Kunlan Silva's voice revealed a burst of happiness: "Yes, we also know that Hengxin battery is the foundation of everything in Jiuzhou Automobile, and it is also the foundation of the development of new energy electric vehicles. The market price of batteries in the past two years The continuous rise is due to the purchase of too many raw materials for Kyushu-class cars!"

"What can we do? If this continues, our Jiuzhou Automobile Factory will be very difficult!" Xu Yifan had a smile on his face, but the words in his mouth seemed to be very anxious.

Kunlan Silva said again: "Mr. Xu Yifan, don't worry, we are here this time to seek cooperation. To tell you the truth, in terms of lithium resources, our company controls several important minerals internationally. Now there is also abundant production, if you are willing to cooperate with us, it is not impossible to sell you some cheap lithium resources!"

"You can even lower the price of lithium mines slightly. Of course, selling your lithium mines at a low price is not free. According to your old saying, there is no such thing as a free lunch!"

"What do you want?" Xu Yifan asked curiously.

Kunlan Silva: "The shares of Kyushu Automobile Factory, battery technology, motor technology, and electronic control technology. Of course, we also know that compared with Kyushu Automobile, these cheaper lithium resources cannot be exchanged, so we still have A certain amount of money can be invested.”

Kunlan Silva: "The details in this regard, if you want, we can sit down and discuss in detail!"

Xu Yifan rebuffed straight away: "No, no, this is the foundation on which our Kyushu Automobile relies for its development, whether it is batteries or motor technology, and Kyushu Automobile has never considered the issue of going public, let alone selling the company's shares. !"

Then he said: "This is definitely not possible!"

Without waiting for the other party to speak, he sighed again and said, "Why don't you ask for some other conditions?"

At first he resolutely rejected the other party's request, but later, Xu Yifan's words softened a little, creating a feeling of hope for the other party.

When fishing, you have to be patient and make the bait look more real!

Well, at the same time, in this process, Xu Yifan himself has to play the role of the prey, and a little struggle can make the other party more excited! But who is the hunter and who is the prey!

During the phone call, the voice of the other party came quickly: "Mr. Xu Yifan, you have to know what the current international price of lithium mines is like, and it may continue to rise. I think the importance of lithium mines to Kyushu Automobile I don't need to stress too much."

"In terms of technology or shares, we will give you a very satisfactory price. What do you think of 100 billion yuan?"

"This is a huge sum of money, enough for you to live as a rich man for the rest of your life!"

Xu Yifan refused hesitantly: "This, no, I'll think about it again!"

Quinlan Silva: "Think carefully and contact us at any time!"

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yifan handed the phone back to the secretary.

He said to the CEOs who listened to Xu Yifan's conversation and had strange expressions on their faces.

"I didn't want to talk to them at first, but since the other party jumped out on their own initiative, I will hang them for the next time!"

"Don't agree to the conditions proposed by the other party, and don't refuse them. You must give them hope, but because of a small problem, there is no way to achieve the goal all at once."

"Also, in terms of sodium-ion battery technology, the confidentiality level is temporarily raised. I will go back to the laboratory and talk to our R\u0026D personnel later!"

They are all old fritters in the mall, Xu Yifan, after learning about the current research and development progress of the sodium-ion battery of the Kyushu Automobile Factory, everyone will understand after a little thought.

But in the mouth, I still have to compliment it.

"I understand, it will definitely make them want to stop!"

"Xu Dong, you are really amazing!"

"I admire you!"

"It turns out that it's so tall, it's really tall! As expected of Mr. Xu!"

"Now I believe those behind-the-scenes masterminds will lose a lot of money!"

"Put in a show, let the price of lithium resources continue to rise, um, whoever wants to buy will buy, anyway, we don't buy it!"

If you want to maintain the high price of lithium ore resources, it is impossible not to pay any price. Even this price is difficult for a single car company. There must be a small group of joint venture car companies behind it. , jointly raise the price of lithium ore resources.

Although lithium ore is a relatively scarce resource, it is not as scarce as those particularly rare metals. There are a lot of lithium ore materials on the market.

If you want to keep a resource at a high price for a long time, you need to keep raising the price and buy the low-priced resources circulating in the market.

If this commodity maintains an abnormally high price for one more day, it will pay more money to continuously inhale lithium ore resources, causing a shortage of lithium ore on the market!

At the beginning, the purchase price may not be too outrageous, but the higher the intermediate price, the higher the purchase price of lithium mines that are continuously mined, and more funds are needed to maintain the high price of the item.

Now it is two to three times the previous price, whether it will reach another peak in a month, there may be a lot of room for manipulation.

One month later, Kyushu Automobile announced that the nano-ion battery has been successfully developed and put into use. I believe that the faces of these behind-the-scenes black hands will be very exciting.

At the same time, the price of lithium ore resources will drop like a cliff, and may even be cheaper than before when these car companies did not intervene!

There is no need for car companies to maintain a high level, so they will naturally sell the lithium resources they bought at a high price, but at that time it is not the price they bought.

And the longer it lasts, the more lithium resources they will take over at a high position, and the harder the fall will be!

Of course, it is also possible that these car companies, colluding with large mining companies with global lithium resources, will raise prices together.

But this is difficult to achieve. Mining companies also want to make money. Now that the price is so high, if they hoard it and don’t sell it, it’s not crazy to sell it after the price drops. The money they earn is their own money!

Without huge benefits, it is impossible for mining companies to help others influence the market price of their products for no reason. Isn't that digging their own grave?

With the capabilities of those car companies, unless they collude together and contact the state support behind them, it is possible to influence these international mining companies. This requires a huge amount of manpower and material resources. A single car company, or a small number of car companies It's hard to do.

So the bigger possibility behind it is that some large international car companies have united and established a short-term alliance to deal with Kyushu Automobile, jointly invest, and jointly absorb international lithium mines. The short-term increase is crucial to Kyushu Automobile. Important Lithium Ore Prices!

Since the other party wants to blackmail Jiuzhou Automobile Factory, then don't blame Xu Yifan for acting in such a play!

Courtesy is reciprocal, come and not reciprocate!

Here, the high-level executives of Kyushu Motors understood, and continued to discuss the next coping strategy in Xu Yifan's office.

"Then wait for a day or two before contacting the other party and asking for a negotiation on what the other party wants."

"Then in the next commercial negotiations, we will have"

"It feels difficult. The people who will come will definitely be some old foxes. It will be very difficult to deceive them, but this is the only way to challenge!"

"It's true, it's true, it's false, it's true, will the empty city plan, maybe we can get some fake news, such as superconducting materials, lithium-air batteries, etc., so that they think we are pretending to be particularly confident!"

"How can it appear that Kyushu Automobile is forced to negotiate to obtain lithium resources, but insists on making an outrageous request that the other party cannot meet? Let's look back at the actor's self-cultivation!"

"Hunters and foxes, it's a pity that we have guns in our hands. We are already invincible and we are destined not to lose. If we knew it, we would have signed up for an actor training class. It must be fun to fight these old foxes!"

"It's going to be a little exciting. Hehehe, I hope to be able to trick these companies, Ford, I don't know which companies will be behind it, but anyway, their faces must be very exciting in the end!"

"In the process of communication between the two parties, there is always a little bit of a gap to reach a cooperation, and time is wasted!"

"Let's get stronger, hey, the stock market and futures market can also play together, let's raise the lithium mine with them first, and then we will go short after the release of the sodium-ion battery, hehehe!"

"It's best, let the other party see hope again and again during the process, so that they can increase their investment in increasing lithium resources after they go back, so that the price of lithium resources in the world will be higher, and strive to break through ten times or eight times!"

"The information is poor. The other party must not have thought that we have a way to get close. We can directly abandon lithium resources. Perhaps no other company in the world except us would have thought that we would have sodium-ion battery technology.

Whether you do mental arithmetic or not, even if Zhuge came over, it would be hard for you not to know the truth without knowing all the information! "

Here, all the high-level executives of Kyushu Auto are discussing excitedly.

On the other hand, Ford executives hung up the phone.

The blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigner smiled at the people around him and said, "It's going well, we just need to wait patiently!"

"There will definitely be a place to bargain in the future, and it is not convenient to communicate on the phone. We will meet for specific negotiations at that time."

"If possible, I hope to increase the price of lithium ore resources and put some pressure on Kyushu Automobile!"

Everyone heard the content of the conversation, and the result was actually within everyone's expectations.

The lithium iron phosphate battery of Kyushu Automobile is the weakness of that company!

The executives of Nissan had a look of excitement on their faces: "I suggest that each company should make an additional investment. How about a billion dollars? Before the negotiation is over, it is best that Kyushu Automobile cannot afford a sum of lithium resources."

Honda executives: "As long as the technology of Kyushu Motors can be obtained, this plan will be very cost-effective, I agree!"

Toyota's senior talent: "Relatively mature new energy trams, and that kind of battery technology, we have to admit that our hydrogen energy may not be as good as the new energy trams developed by China today, and the battery replacement technology can also balance peak and valley electricity. .”

Senior executives of General Motors Group: "I agree, it should be a tug-of-war for some time in the future, and the price of lithium resources cannot be lowered. The higher the better, the better."

Hyundai Motor Group: "Lithium battery technology, the more cars sold, the greater the demand for lithium mines, Hyundai agrees with this proposal."

Daimler Group executives: "In the past two years, just the large-scale purchase of Kyushu Automobile has caused the price of this mineral resource to rise a lot. Now we all need it!"

BMW executives: "I still feel that the investment is too little, maybe we can reserve some more funds,"

While these people were joking, they continued to invest more money!

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While talking and laughing, these people all showed relaxed smiles on their faces.

Sometimes a good product does not mean success. As an internationally renowned car company, they can put a small Kyushu car under the Five Fingers Mountain with just a little effort!

"A car company with such a short board like Kyushu Motors used to just look down on the vehicles it produced."

"Now if you want to clean up this company, you can do it easily!"

"So what if the technology is good, if you don't have raw materials, it depends on what you use to build a car!"

"Wait for two days, let our company's best negotiator come over and get all the valuable technology from that company!"

They are all old fritters in the mall, and everyone has a clear understanding of the effect of grasping the lifeline of Kyushu Automobile.

How does a Kyushu Automobile arm wrestle with the power of so many automobile groups present.

Faced with such an abnormal price increase, even that Kyushu Automobile has nothing to do!

Such a thing once happened in another world, which caused a rising Chinese mobile phone brand to fall into the embarrassing situation of not using 5G chips, and the mobile phone business also plummeted in a short period of time.

Even today's Kyushu Automobile is more dependent on lithium ore resources than that mobile phone company is on certain items!

Without lithium ore resources, even today's high-performance batteries cannot be manufactured. Instead of the lithium iron phosphate lithium battery of Kyushu Automobile, is it possible to use lead-acid batteries? !

Don't be kidding, for lead-acid batteries, without the high-voltage charging and discharging, all the current products of Kyushu Automobile and Huaxia Automobile have become old-fashioned music!

In addition to the lithium iron phosphate battery of Kyushu Automobile, the world's high-performance batteries, ternary lithium batteries, etc., are all produced based on lithium ore resources.

Well, China does have some lithium ore resources in China. If the official of that country does not follow the price of lithium ore resources in the international futures market, it can barely maintain the operation of Kyushu Motors for a period of time.

It’s okay in the short term, but it’s impossible in the long term. It’s impossible for those mining companies to supply Kyushu Automobile with lithium ore resources in vain, without selling to a buyer with a higher price to make money!

Even if all the lithium resources in China are supplied to Kyushu Automobile, it is impossible to satisfy the rapid development of Kyushu Automobile in a short period of time, and it will inevitably cause a huge impact.

From the beginning to the end, they never considered the emergence of a new technology, abandoning lithium ore resources, and using more abundant sodium resources!

Sodium-ion batteries are beyond their cognition. Even if Kyushu Auto's response is slightly different, no matter how carefully they think about it, they can't think of Kyushu Automobile having a big killer like sodium-ion batteries.

Poor information is Kyushu Automobile's magic weapon for victory. Even if the other party does not understand, it is difficult to make a correct response even if it is an old fritter in the mall!