Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

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Ford Motor Company, headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, is busy, with a large number of engineers being called in to conduct various tests on a biobattery.

After a series of tests were completed, in the last step of the test, the battery was violently cut and thrown into a fire to burn. The biological battery did not show any signs of spontaneous combustion, and the on-site engineers could not help but gasp.

Far away in the conference room of the headquarters building, Ford Motor Company President Mura had a serious expression on his face and paced back and forth anxiously in the conference room, waiting for the final results of the test. The conference room was already filled with a number of Ford Motor Company executives.

A moment later, Ford Motor's chief engineer McKinley hurried into the office and said excitedly, "Oh my god, President Mura, you will never believe this. This bio-battery is too perfect. It's really too perfect."

McKinley's face flushed with excitement. As a scientific researcher, the emergence of this biological battery was more attractive to him than he could imagine.

If Mura hadn't been here, he would have run back to continue testing.

In McKinley's view, the emergence of this biological battery has basically swept all other batteries into the dustbin of history.

Not only do most batteries have energy densities far inferior to those of biological batteries, but they are also very prone to thermal runaway, causing the batteries to spontaneously combust.

However, this type of biobattery can achieve perfect integration of resources, energy, safety, extreme environment, materials, transmission and systems.

"Tell me the test results."

Mura didn't want to listen to McKinley's nonsense. He just wanted the detailed data of this biological battery.

Seeing the impatience on Mura's face, McKinley restrained his smile a little, handed over a detailed test data of the biological battery, and began to introduce:

"After our tests, the energy density of this bio-battery is as high as 1200Wh/kg. According to the configuration of a conventional electric car, a full charge can meet the needs of the car to travel kilometers. At the same time, the safety is perfect. No matter whether it is a severe collision, cutting or high temperature, it will not cause the battery to spontaneously combust. This is simply a masterpiece of God."

After hearing this data, Mura, who had originally held out a glimmer of hope that this biological battery had a lot of water, began breathing heavily and his entire expression fell.

"Are you sure it's really that strong?"

Mura gritted his teeth, his voice trembling a little.

"There is absolutely no mistake. We conduct the most comprehensive tests, so there is no way there will be any mistakes."

When McKinley heard Mura questioning his expertise, he couldn't help but pat his chest with confidence.

“Is it possible to emulate success?”

Mulla asked.

"There is no hope. Many materials in this biobattery are still unclear, and there is absolutely no clue to imitate it."

McKinley shook his head repeatedly, indicating that there was nothing he could do.

When testing the bio-battery, he was unable to test the properties of some of the internal materials. It seemed that they were newly developed by the Jeko Group and had never been seen before.

Mura was not surprised, as such a thing was expected. The various products of the Jeko Group had been on the market for many years, but none of them had been imitated by anyone.

Thinking of this, Mura looked at the operations director on the other side and asked, "What is the current situation of the company's gasoline vehicles and new energy vehicles?"

The operations director quickly said, "President, we only produce gasoline cars now. The electric car production lines were all shut down two years ago."

Ford Motor Company is not without diversified development of its automotive business. They have also produced new energy vehicles.

It’s just that the United States seems to have difficulty adapting to new energy electric vehicles. Except for the leading Tesla, the electric vehicles transformed and produced by other traditional old-brand automobile companies are mostly in a loss-making state.

Take Ford for example. Its electric car business has been suffering from bottomless losses in the past, and it was defeated by China's new energy car companies. It has been selling cars at a loss but still has not received any quantitative returns.

In China, the largest market for new energy vehicles, they cannot compete with Chinese new energy vehicle companies. Their market share in the United States is limited. Taking into account the costs of R&D funds, operations, labor, etc., they lose more than $10 for every new energy vehicle they sell.

Under the drag of new energy vehicle business, the profits generated by their gasoline vehicles are difficult to make up for the huge losses brought by new energy vehicles, and they are stuck in a quagmire.

Therefore, even though Ford knew that new energy vehicles were the trend of the future, it still cut its new energy vehicle business segment and got rid of this debt-ridden burden.

But who could have known that just two years after they got rid of the burden of new energy vehicles, the JEC Group's bio-battery would emerge.

Mura's expression at this moment was as ugly as it could be.

Everyone knows that the biggest limitation of new energy vehicles is batteries. Now that the limitation of batteries has been overcome by the JEC Group, new energy vehicles are about to usher in a golden age.

But unfortunately, they cut off the new energy vehicle business for two whole years. One can imagine how depressed Mura was.

"Fuck, why didn't the bastard JECO Group come up with a bio-battery earlier at this time?"

Mura cursed, and the company executives next to him lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.

Only McKinley, a researcher, was a little bolder and asked, "President, are we not going to produce new energy vehicles?"

"Nonsense, how can we not produce it? This is an innovation in the energy field. The sales of gasoline vehicles will definitely drop sharply in the future. New energy vehicles are a brand new blue ocean. If we don't make money, are we going to watch our competitors, GM, Stellantis, Tesla and those bastards make money?"

Mura cursed but he still had to make money. He then instructed the marketing department, "Contact the Jeko Group immediately and place an order for bio-batteries with them. This thing will surely be very popular. If you go too late, you will have to wait in line for production."

The head of the marketing department coughed dryly and said, "President, President Su has announced sanctions against us! Bio-batteries cannot be imported into the United States, and if the U.S. government knew that we were cooperating with the Jeko Group..."

"Idiot, we are a multinational company. The JEC Group only restricts imports from the United States. We don't only have factories in the United States. We also have factories in China and Southeast Asia. We purchase from the factories there. As for the United States, our company's public relations team will lobby for a solution. Call JEC now and get the order as soon as possible."

Mura said very arrogantly that Ford Motor was not a small company. Ford Motor Company, founded in 1903, is a world-renowned automobile brand and one of the largest automobile manufacturers. Its annual revenue exceeds 500 billion US dollars and it ranks 35th in the Fortune Global list.

Its influence spreads across the world, especially in its home base, the United States, where its network of contacts is so deep that many newly emerging Internet upstarts cannot match it.

This is also the reason why Mura dared to say this. After all, the United States also serves capital, and no one can prevent them from making money, even if the resistance comes from the United States government.

The director of marketing ran out of the meeting room in dejection and went to contact the JEC Group. Everyone in the meeting room was waiting for him.

After a while, he came back again and told the result of the communication.

"President, the Jieke Group has agreed to provide us with bio-batteries."

As soon as the marketing director said this, all the executives present immediately smiled.

Mura was also smiling and said complacently: "Jeco Group will not leave the money unmade, and we have no competitive relationship with them. On the contrary, if Jeco Group wants to roll out bio-batteries as quickly as possible and form a market monopoly, it needs the help of traditional car companies like us. This is a win-win situation for both sides."

The emergence of biobatteries is destined to make this trend of energy innovation unstoppable, just like the internal combustion engine replacing the steam engine. However, with the participation of traditional old-brand automobile companies, this process can be greatly accelerated.

Mura could even guess the ambition of the Jeko Group. As we all know, the petrodollar is one of the pillars of the United States' hegemony, and traditional oil vehicles are the world's largest consumer market for oil.

But what if a large number of traditional old-brand oil car companies join the new energy vehicle race and compete in the new energy vehicle market?
The decline in the value of oil is certain, which will deal a severe blow to the United States' petrodollar hegemony and greatly shake the status and strength of the United States as the overlord of the blue planet.

But no matter how you look at it, Mura has no intention of going against the trend. He just wants to make money and make Ford Motor Company bigger and stronger.

As for whether their own country’s interests will be harmed because of this, it’s a joke. They are capitalists. In Europe and the United States, capitalists who do not sell out their own country are not worthy of being called qualified capitalists.

"but."

Seeing Mura smiling happily, the marketing director hesitated to speak.

"Why? If you have something to say, just say it. Did the Jieke Group raise the price for our purchase of bio-batteries?"

Mura frowned, picked up the coffee and took a sip. Thinking of the past practices of the Jeko Group, this possibility was very high.

The director of the marketing department nodded first, then shook his head and said with a wry smile: "President, Jieke Group has proposed that we can purchase their bio-batteries. In addition to the normal purchase expenses, for each new energy vehicle equipped with their bio-batteries sold, we need to pay them an 8% battery tax based on the vehicle price."

puff!
Mura spit out a mouthful of coffee, which splashed all over the face of the marketing director. He widened his eyes in shock and said, "Fuck, what bullshit are you talking about? They charge us 8% battery tax, and the JEC Group dares to play the same game as Qualcomm?"

There was a great deal of outrage at the scene, and everyone couldn't help but curse when they heard the words.

"Jeko Group is so poor that they dare to collect such taxes."

"Shit, the Jake Group is clearly blackmailing us, and it's blatant."

"Do you really think that we at Ford Motor Company are easy to bully? No one would agree to such a request. Chunchun wants us to work for him for free."

These executives are of course angry. In the mobile phone industry, Qualcomm collects taxes on mobile phones, and the JEC Group wants to do the same with cars.
But who are they? They are Ford Motor Company!
Ford, the oldest and most prestigious car manufacturer, has never suffered such humiliation and blackmail.

The director of the marketing department did not bother to wipe the water stains off his face. He smiled bitterly and said, "That's what the Jieke Group said. They charge other companies as well. European and American car companies charge the highest tax on whole vehicle batteries. From the tone they sounded on the phone, they were very confident and there was no room for bargaining."

After his rage, Mura calmed down. Facing the indignation of numerous executives, he said bitterly, "This greedy vampire will be killed by his own appetite sooner or later. Go and reply to the Jieke Group now. We agree to his request and ask him to arrange the production of bio-batteries as soon as possible. We want to get this kind of battery as soon as possible and reap the first dividends of the golden age of new energy vehicles."

Ah!
The executives present were a little confused. They thought Mura would sternly reject the blackmail of the Jeko Group, but Mura surrendered faster than they had imagined.

"What?! Jieke Group charges us battery tax, so we just increase the price of the car. Anyway, consumers will pay for it. With the powerful performance of bio-batteries, there is no need to worry about consumers not paying for it."

Mura said confidently, waving his hand and saying, "Go down now and restart the new energy vehicle production line that was closed in the past. I don't care what method you use, just design a new new energy vehicle for me immediately. In the future, the company's business focus will shift to new energy vehicles. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

There was a uniform response from the audience.

The same scene is happening in major automobile companies around the world. In addition, battery-related industries such as mobile phones and other electronic products are beginning to adjust their business operations in response to the emergence of biobatteries, developing new products that are compatible with biobatteries, and preparing to take the first bite of the delicious cake of energy innovation.

As more and more biobattery test data are released from major technology laboratories and technology giants around the world, it is proven that the biobattery of the Jeko Group is real and effective.

What was reflected to the outside world, in addition to the overwhelming news, was the sudden collapse of the U.S. stock market.

The share prices of major oil companies, automobile companies, and mobile phone companies plummeted, dragging down other sectors. The stock market circuit breakers occurred three times in one day, and the market was in mourning.

Crude oil-related futures were even worse off, with a huge plunge that was so severe that even its mother could not recognize it.

It is considered good that the stock prices of major oil companies have been cut in half. After the biobattery was confirmed, many small and medium-sized oil companies have declared bankruptcy because the current price drop of crude oil is higher than their production cost.

In the Middle East, major oil-producing countries held an emergency joint meeting to discuss the emergence of biobatteries.

In the European Union, major automobile companies, including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and other old-brand automobile companies, have also begun to announce that they will readjust their product planning and market strategies, enter the new energy vehicle market in a big way, and produce new energy vehicles equipped with bio-batteries.

The whole world is in turmoil and chaos because of the emergence of bio-batteries. The United States has held three consecutive congressional meetings within a week, targeting bio-batteries and the Jeko Group that produces bio-batteries.

No one knows better than the United States how heavy a blow bio-batteries have dealt to their petrodollar hegemony. The punch in the heart from the Jeko Group has left the United States in agony. (End of this chapter)