Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 401 Market for Benefits

HaiLian Automobile is China's smart electric vehicle giant and also a leading company in the global new energy vehicle field. It occupies more than half of the sales share in the current new energy vehicle market. In terms of revenue, it has reached more than 80%.

Although Tesla's current sales volume is less than 100,000 vehicles, its models are mid-to-high-end models and are not cheap. Therefore, its revenue is second only to Hailan Automobile. At the same time, it has a natural advantage: it is a local American electric car company and naturally occupies the huge American automobile market.

These two companies, one is a Chinese smart electric vehicle giant, and the other is an American electric vehicle superstar.

Now that the two companies have cooperated in business, it has naturally attracted people's attention.

Traditional automobile manufacturers are particularly wary of this. They are concerned about the joint venture between Hailan Automobile and Tesla and their mutual assistance in entering the market. Ford and General Motors are particularly dissatisfied with this.

However, the reason why Musk was able to reach a cooperation plan with Xu Shenxue was naturally due to capital support... Many consortiums have actually bet the future of the automotive industry on Tesla.

In addition, when Xu Shenxue was talking with Musk, he also communicated with General Motors and Ford, and promised cooperation in the fields of power batteries and computing chips, especially the very important semi-solid-state batteries. Xu Shenxue promised that as early as the second half of 19, he would be able to supply these two companies so that they could each launch their own long-range electric vehicles.

In fact, Xu Shenxue has talked with not only these two traditional fuel vehicle companies, but also some other traditional fuel vehicle companies at home and abroad, and promised cooperation in the field of power batteries and computing chips.

The related companies under Xu Shenxue actually have close cooperation with these traditional car companies... At least for now, vehicles of various overseas car brands are still selling well in China. Although they are all through joint ventures, they are still making a lot of money.

For the sake of interests, it is not so easy for the other party to turn against you... If you dare to turn against you, Xu Shenxue will dare to do anything drastic, as if no one has any countermeasures in hand.

Besides, in the consortium circle these days, who doesn't know Xu Shenxue, a ruthless guy? On the surface, he talks about technology today and the future tomorrow, and he always mentions the future of mankind.

But that was just a disguise... Everyone in the circle knows that he has a Galaxy Security under his control. This security company had a fight with a security company under the control of an old consortium in the United States a few years ago, which caused quite a stir.

Even now, there are still various daily conflicts.

If it were any other consortium that followed Xu Shenxue’s example, they would have been blown up long ago… But Xu Shenxue was not blown up, instead he blew up many of his competitors.

Their status in the world's financial circle is well-earned and of great value...it is fundamentally different from the conventional nouveau riche, Internet tycoons and the like.

Therefore, when people deal with Xu Shenxue, they are actually more inclined to abide by the rules and avoid having a falling out if possible.

If the other party talks to him about the rules, Xu Shenxue is actually very disciplined and only limits himself to conventional business competition. Everyone compares technology, product cost-effectiveness, marketing capabilities and other conventional business means.

If the other party uses other means, Xu Shenxue can also accompany him... If you dare to ban my products from entering your market, then don't expect your products to enter the Chinese market. If you dare to use more violent means, Xu Shenxue will send armed personnel from Galaxy Security to your home to send your family to see God!

In short, no matter how the other party attacks, soft or hard, overtly or covertly, Xu Shenxue can handle it.

Xu Shenxue also did the same in the automotive industry... Now I am seriously competing with you in the market, and even opening up good things such as power batteries and computing chips to you.

Even if you want to engage in trade protection or something like that, to be honest, as long as it is within the rules, Xu Shenxue doesn't really care. But if the other party still messes around, don't blame him for being rude.

The American consortium is not stupid. After careful study, they feel that the benefits of cooperation outweigh the disadvantages... As for the fact that the domestic automobile industry in the United States will be destroyed, automobile workers will be unemployed, and Detroit will become the Rust Belt, then that has nothing to do with the consortium!
General Motors and Ford have already moved their automobile factories to Mexico, where costs are lower... The consortiums themselves even look down on these American manufacturing industries.

If we cooperate with Xu Shenxue, we can also enter the field of smart electric vehicles!

Anyway, the automobile market is so huge, with sales of 70 to 80 million passenger cars a year. No matter how awesome Xu Shenxue is, he can't make all the money by himself. He has to leave some for others.

For these consortiums, as long as they can make money, nothing else matters.

The world is not divided into black and white. The interests of American auto workers are not consistent with those of American capitalists. Moreover, there is competition among American capitalists. It is impossible for them to be united!

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On August 8, Ningdai Battery, which is controlled by several of its subsidiaries, officially announced through Xu Shenxue that its latest product, the ternary lithium battery with an energy density of 250 watt-hours per kilogram, has begun large-scale shipments.

At the same time, it was announced that its semi-solid-state battery super factory has started construction and is expected to supply semi-solid-state batteries to global customers in the spring of 19.

And Ningdai Battery has a lot of global customers.

Foreign automobile manufacturers that have placed pre-orders for semi-solid-state batteries include Tesla, General Motors, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot and other American and European car companies. Even South Korea's Hyundai has reached a cooperation agreement with Ningdai Battery.

Only Japanese car companies did not join in... It's not that Ningdai Battery is unwilling to sell batteries to them, but that several Japanese car companies are still relatively stubborn and have a mysterious confidence in fuel vehicles. At the same time, they believe that hydrogen energy is the future.

Even if they have invested in the electric vehicle field, they are more inclined to adopt hybrid power and other modes rather than the smart electric vehicle model dominated by Hailan Automobile.

Another key factor is that they are unwilling to outsource such important items as power batteries.

You should know that among the many costs of an electric car, the cost of the power battery is the most expensive, accounting for between 30 and 60 percent, depending on many factors such as battery life.

This ratio is much higher than the engine cost ratio in internal combustion engine vehicles.

Therefore, the power battery is the most important and costly core component in electric vehicles, and is the key among keys.

Many capable and ambitious car companies are unwilling to hand over these lifelines to others, and Japanese car companies are particularly prominent in this regard.

Other car companies, including large car companies in the United States and Europe, all adopt the model of independent research and development and cooperation with third-party power battery manufacturers, which can be regarded as a two-pronged approach.

But the Japanese don't do that, they insist on doing it themselves.

At the same time, this is also closely related to the fact that Japanese car companies are promoting hydrogen energy. They have taken the first-mover advantage in the field of hydrogen energy, have developed many easy-to-develop fields, and have applied for patents. Now they are waiting for a large group of suckers to come in and take on the tough tasks, while paying them high patent fees... Unfortunately, car companies in China, the United States, Europe, and even South Korea are not following them.

If you want to have a monopoly, you have to have this ability, otherwise you really think that the automobile industries of other countries are fools.

In order to promote smart electric vehicles, Xu Shenxue has opened up the supply of power batteries, PX chips and EYEQ chips from Ningdai Battery... Even the latest semi-solid batteries were only used by himself for two years, and then they were sold off globally after two years.

At the same time, the super-fast charging technology for power batteries, which the company has developed at great expense, is directly licensed globally for free and all companies can use it free of charge.

As for the crucial power batteries, the prices will continue to remain unchanged... In recent years, many lithium mining companies under Xu Shenxue have spared no effort in conducting large-scale lithium mining surveys and mining at home and abroad.

Ensure sufficient supply of global lithium mineral resources and keep the price at a relatively low level!
The super-large lithium mine invested by its subsidiary "Anton Mining" in Africa has begun large-scale production. The designed production capacity of this lithium mine is very large, and the annual output is expected to reach 500,000 tons.

At the same time, Anton Mining continues to explore and develop lithium resources in Africa, and the second lithium mine has entered the early investment stage.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of these lithium mining projects, Galaxy Security, owned by Xu Shenxue, has officially entered the mine to provide security services for the mine.

Many conventional companies may encounter various troubles when doing business in Africa, but such problems will not occur in companies under Xu Shenxue.

After all, Galaxy Security is not just for show... In recent years, Galaxy Security has developed very rapidly. In addition to daily fights with security companies under the control of the American consortium, it is also continuing to consolidate its own base. The number of armed employees has exceeded 5,000, and there are also a lot of good equipment. And using drones for combat is their forte!
However, Galaxy Security does not accept external employment and only provides security services for the overseas departments of Xu Shenxue's companies... If someone local wants to take action against Xu Shenxue's company.

The Galactic Security will let them know what the real rules of this world are... For the Galactic Security, it is not difficult to eradicate a warlord on the African continent, or to put it more simply, to replace a warlord leader for a warlord gang.

Therefore, the companies under Xu Shenxue, especially Anton Mining, which has been deeply involved in developing local resources, have been doing business smoothly in Africa, and few local warlords have made things difficult for them!
Therefore, people at Anton Mining are very satisfied with the investment environment in Africa. The CEO of Anton Mining often says: African people are warm and hospitable, and good at singing and dancing!
What nonsense! Galaxy Security's armed helicopters and professionally modified X14 low-altitude drones are right above our heads...how can they not be enthusiastic!

Of course, among these Africans, ordinary people may be stupid, but the management is generally not stupid. Many of them often have experience studying abroad and have seen the world, so many of them have relatively clear cognition.

People from Anton Mining came here to develop mineral resources. Although only a small portion of the profits were distributed to the local people, it was still something. For many poor places in Africa, this was considered very good. At least the way they were treated was better than that of European and American companies.

Of course, there are also some who are really stupid, or even more greedy... there are all kinds of people, but these people don’t even need to be dealt with by Galactic Security, the local partners will take action to suppress them first.

These local partners have gained a lot of benefits from cooperating with Anton Mining.

If they also become greedy, Galaxy Security will naturally take action and then find another partner.

There isn’t much else in Africa, but there are a lot of people who want to be warlords!
In addition to Anton Mining, Xu Shenxue also owns a larger Chenglin Mining, which controls a large number of lithium mines in Australia and South America and has long occupied more than 60% of the world's lithium mine production capacity.

The mining companies under Xu Shenxue monopolize the mining, supply, and pricing of 90% of the world's lithium resources, and their production capacity continues to increase significantly every year.

This is the only way to stabilize the price of power batteries and prevent them from fluctuating drastically as electric vehicles continue to explode and demand for lithium mineral resources increases.

If the price of lithium ore goes up, the cost of power batteries will also go up, and then the price of electric cars will also go up!

Therefore, in order to promote the entire electric vehicle market and control the cost of electric vehicles, a very important key point is to control the price stability of lithium mineral resources.

This should be achieved at least until the lithium ore recycling industry is perfected and the internal circulation of lithium ore is formed.

Xu Shenxue has spent a lot of effort to promote smart electric vehicles, and is willing to give up some profits to make the cake bigger... Even if it is the computing chips and lithium mineral resources needed by competitors, Xu Shenxue will not hold them back.

But the Japanese don’t play it that way; they want to take control of everything and play with it themselves.

This is the reason why the Japanese automotive industry is bound to fail in hydrogen-powered vehicles... In addition to the fact that the technology is indeed difficult, it also has a lot to do with the fact that no one is willing to play with them.

Everyone is not stupid!
Of course, Japanese companies have also made some follow-up efforts in the field of power batteries. As large companies, they will more or less try one or two new technology routes, but it is not easy to develop them. Especially semi-solid batteries, which are not easy to develop now. Only God knows when they can be developed.

At the same time, other large automobile companies and professional power battery manufacturers have also begun to develop their own power batteries.

In addition to the latest semi-solid-state batteries, some people are also developing ternary lithium batteries, lithium iron phosphate batteries, and some are directly developing solid-state batteries.

There are people who do all kinds of things.

But to be honest, this is not easy... Making batteries is easy, but it is actually very difficult to achieve high energy density while ensuring the safety of power batteries.

At the beginning, everyone's power battery technology was not very good, but later Tesla and Hailan Automobile came from behind and successfully improved the energy density and safety of power batteries through excellent battery pack design and battery management technology capabilities.

BYD followed closely and developed a mature and usable power battery pack.

The battery packs of the above three companies are not sold to the public.

Then Xu Shenxue invested in Ningdai Battery, which specializes in the third-party market, so there is one more power battery manufacturer in the market that directly provides finished battery packs and competes with power battery manufacturers in South Korea and Japan.

Subsequently, other manufacturers also developed usable power battery packs, but their energy density and safety were not good enough, and they were far behind in technology.

However, they did not give up and continued to research and develop.

Some other automobile manufacturers purchase finished battery packs from Japan, South Korea or Ningbo, or they develop their own.

However, this situation changed after the mass production and large-scale application of semi-solid-state batteries... Hailan Automobile has set off a wave of long-range pure electric vehicles with its semi-solid-state batteries, directly increasing the pure electric range of pure electric models to more than 650 kilometers.

This is very embarrassing for a large number of pure electric vehicles whose range is still only two or three hundred kilometers.

This is also the reason why so many domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers have found Ningdai Battery and want to pre-order semi-solid-state batteries. The performance gap is too large.

As for all customers around the world, Xu Shenxue welcomes all of them... He is not afraid that you will use my batteries and then increase my competitiveness, thereby increasing the threat to Hailan Automobile.

Xu Shenxue was afraid that you would not use my battery, so he insisted on developing a semi-solid battery on his own, and then he actually developed it!
Sell ​​smart electric vehicles with one hand, and power batteries with the other hand, without delaying either!
What's more, Xu Shenxue is actually willing to see the development of the entire electric vehicle industry...It would be best if other overseas automobile companies could also transform into electric vehicles and be successful.

Because in the field of electric vehicles, China's overall layout is very in-depth, with a layout in almost the entire industrial chain, and it also controls extremely important upstream raw materials, that is, the supply of battery raw materials and even pricing rights.

As long as everyone uses electric cars, China's electric car industry chain won't even have to sell cars itself and can make money without doing anything.

Xu Shenxue has also been involved in many fields, but Xu Shenxue himself is not simply doing it for money. It is more to lead others to do it and build up the entire industrial chain... This involves the issue of social responsibility and personal sense of accomplishment.

It is not as satisfying to simply make money as to lead the Chinese automobile industry to rise and sweep the world... This is what a real man does.

Of course, the main reason is that he, Xu Shenxue, is not short of money.

Xu Shenxue expressed his willingness to carry out extensive cooperation in the field of electric vehicles through supply chain manufacturers such as Chenglin Mining, Anton Mining, Ningdai Battery, and Zhiyun Semiconductor.

This also made many people feel relieved. Many people were really worried that Xu Shenxue wanted to eat alone... It would be unacceptable to let him eat alone.

Under such circumstances, the negotiations between Europe and Hailan Automobile were restarted, and this time the negotiations went more smoothly.

The European consortium accepted the reality and said it would accept a full investment from Hailan Auto to build an assembly plant in Spain. It also did not require the establishment of power battery factories, motor factories, sensing equipment (lidar, etc.) and other core parts factories locally.

Hailan Automobile needs to promise to purchase 30% of the spare parts in its European factories from the EU... This share of spare parts procurement is actually given to local consortiums, which is considered as part of the benefits given up... In addition, there are also profits from the automobile sales system.

In such a large automobile industry, there are a lot of profits to be divided among the upper and lower levels. In the end, Hailan Automobile takes most of the profits, and the remaining half is left for local consortiums to share.

This can also be considered a way to exchange market for profit!
After the European factory affairs of Hailan Automobile were finalized, Xu Shenxue temporarily put aside the affairs of Hailan Automobile and shifted his attention to the mobile phone business.

Because a week later, in mid-August, Zhiyun Group will release the new generation of S17 series mobile phones.

Many people are very concerned about this!
(End of this chapter)