Reinforcement Panel: Tech Wars

Chapter 46 Brother Boatman, 200 billion!
A day later, in the Wuling mini by the river, while charging the Manta Ray submersible, Wei Jiang asked the in-vehicle terminal to call the BYD customer service center again.

After the waiting tone, the familiar female voice from yesterday was heard again.

"Hello, this is BYD"

"I'm Hongxing. I called yesterday."

Hearing what Wei Jiang said, the woman was obviously surprised.

"Ah, hello ma'am, I'm sorry I can't help you contact the president's office, is there anything else I can help you with?"

Hearing the woman's voice, Wei Jiang frowned.

"Ms. Customer Service, you shouldn't have ignored my request."

"I'm sorry, ma'am, I can't do that. Your request doesn't comply with our company's rules and regulations."

Hearing the woman's refusal, Wei Jiang sighed.

"Miss Customer Service, if I tell you that if you help me contact Mr. Wang now, you will definitely get a promotion and a raise, will you still insist?"

Wei Jiang didn't expect that he would have to tangle with a customer service staff for so long.

Wei Jiang's words made Wu Ruolin on the other side start to hesitate.

The mysterious caller named Hongxing insisted on getting in touch with the president's office, and the temptation of promotion and salary increase was still there.

Wei Jiang understood that the other party was beginning to hesitate, and continued to persuade him:

"Contact me now. You won't regret it. My patience is limited. If you lose your job because of this, I will introduce you to other large companies. Believe me, I have the ability to do it."

After a long silence, Wei Jiang finally heard the other party's reply.

"Ms. Red Star, please wait a moment. I will contact you to confirm."

Hearing that the other party finally gave in, Wei Jiang smiled.

"Ok."

The call was not hung up, and two minutes later, the woman's voice sounded again.

Unlike before, Wei Jiang was visibly excited when he heard the woman's voice.

"Hello, Ms. Hongxing. Mr. Wang agreed to talk to you. I will transfer the call to you now."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"You're welcome. It's my pleasure to help you."

Wei Jiang smiled after hearing this, which was completely different from his previous attitude.

After a few seconds of waiting for the call to end, Wei Jiang heard a man's voice.

"Hello, Ms. Red Star, I am BYD Wang the Boatman."

"Boss Wang, it's really not easy to contact you. I have to save the contact information of all you big guys in the future."

Hearing Wei Jiang's sigh, the boatman on the other end of the phone quickly replied:

"Ma'am, I'm sorry. I should have told you my contact information last time. I'll give you my private cell phone number in a moment. Please save it."

Wei Jiang felt that it was really necessary to save these people's contact information, otherwise it would be difficult to contact them if he needed anything in the future.

"Okay, Mr. Wang, I'm contacting you today because I have a business I want to discuss with you. Let me tell you in advance that it's about the transfer of battery technology."

Wei Jiang went straight to the point and didn't bother to waste time.

"Ma'am, I didn't expect you to be involved in battery technology. I was impressed by your last sharing of autonomous driving technology. I am also very interested in the battery technology you mentioned."

Unable to do battery replacement business in the auto repair shop, Wei Jiang thought carefully and decided to transfer the lithium crystal cluster reduction technology to BYD.

Of course, this time the transfer was paid.

"BYD's blade batteries are well-known in the industry, and are installed in a large number of vehicles."

"Mr. Wang, you and I both know that as power batteries age, lithium crystal clusters will form, which will seriously affect battery performance. This degradation has always been irreversible."

When Wang Chuanfu heard Wei Jiang talking about the current status of lithium battery technology, he agreed.

"Indeed, this is also the key factor restricting the public's acceptance of electric vehicles. We at BYD are making every effort to master solid-state battery technology and strive to make solid-state batteries commercially available within 10 years. By then, this problem will no longer exist."

Wei Jiang also agrees that solid-state batteries are the future of chemical battery development.

However, if Dongda electric vehicles are to go abroad in the next critical few years, liquid batteries or semi-solid batteries will still be the energy foundation that Dongda domestic car manufacturers must rely on.

"Mr. Wang, solid-state batteries are the future, I agree." "But what I want to say is, if there is a technology that can restore the storage capacity of a degraded battery pack to its factory state, what do you think the value of such technology is?"

Wei Jiang stopped talking. He believed that Wang Chuanfu, the CEO of Bluestar Electric Vehicle, the No. 1 electric car company in terms of sales, definitely knew the value of the technology he was talking about better than he did, and understood the impact of this technology on the entire industry.

"Ma'am, is this the technology you are talking to me about?"

The boatman's voice became serious at this time.

He had no idea about the identity of this mysterious red star.

Ever since the last time the other party shared their autonomous driving technology, someone in the company has used the meeting recordings to conduct a special tone analysis.

The results of the voice analysis showed that this voice belonged to a domestic female star. Someone even contacted that female star specifically, but the other party had no impression of the name Hongxing at all.

"Mr. Wang, yes, that's exactly the technology."

"This technology can restore 90% of the power battery's attenuated performance and extend the battery's service life by nearly double."

"Now I want to transfer this technology to BYD. Mr. Wang, please give me a price."

After Wei Jiang finished speaking, he leaned back in his seat and tapped his fingers lightly on the steering wheel.

"Ma'am, the technology you're talking about is indeed amazing, but BYD's technical experts have also done research in this area, and the final conclusion was that it is impossible to achieve."

"Are you sure the technology you're talking about exists?"

Wang Chuanfu is a cautious person. After hearing his reply, Wei Jiang had a better understanding of this person.

Even with his Red Star vest identity, he still couldn't gain the other party's complete trust.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Wang, I have no intention of destroying the reputation of Red Star."

"I can tell you that I have done my own testing, and the performance of your battery pack, including after the repair, meets the technical goals."

"I can accept the technology transfer first, and then BYD will pay the money after verification."

"The prerequisite is that we agree on the transaction price first."

Wei Jiang's confident words made Wang Chuanfu on the other side hesitate.

As the mysterious red star said, if this technology is indeed effective, it will greatly reduce the cost of using electric vehicles, and directly change the pricing strategy of electric vehicles.

It's not just electric cars. Before energy transformation becomes an international consensus, reducing battery costs will quickly drive the development of the power storage industry and promote the development of green energy industries such as solar and wind power.

"Ms. Red Star, out of respect for your selfless sharing of autonomous driving technology last time, I choose to believe in the technology you mentioned."

"If you are willing to transfer this technology to BYD, BYD will offer 10 billion to buy it!"

When Wei Jiang heard the price offered by Wang the Boatman, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hahaha, you are worthy of being President Wang."

"I have to admit that you are an excellent businessman."

"Although my original intention was not to make money, I am not a fool."

“Is 10 million a lot?”

Wei Jiang couldn't help laughing again when he said this.

Perhaps he felt that his offer was indeed a little low, so Wang Chuanfu immediately explained:
"Ms. Hongxing, BYD only has so much liquidity, 10 billion is already a lot"

Wei Jiang didn't intend to continue listening to the explanation of the old man Wang Chuanfu, so he interrupted him directly.

"stop!"

"200 billion, no bargaining!"

"I'm too lazy to argue with you about how BYD is taking advantage of you."

"Boss Wang, be content. This is an exclusive license."

"If I spread the word, how many people will be begging for it?"

"You don't want to see me approaching President Ning Deyu, do you?"

Wei Jiang laid his cards on the table directly. He really didn't ask for much. 200 billion yuan to buy the absolute competitive advantage in the battery industry for 10 years was a sure-win deal no matter how you looked at it.

“If you agree, please transfer the 200 billion to me in Bitcoin.”

(End of this chapter)