Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 309 Self-righteous
Despite the high cost, President William was determined to put the Super 500 into production.

"Professor, doctor, there is no way to increase the charging speed of the battery?" William asked another key question.

面对可以一2分钟充满电的雷神电池，如果超级500的充电速度只能达到37～40分钟，无疑拉低了超级500的竞争力。

"If the president needs to increase the charging speed, the only feasible way at present is the integration of small batteries." Dr. Meichuan Neiku said his plan.

"Is it the integrated battery of a Tesla electric car?" William immediately thought of Tesla's densely packed Panasonic battery pack.

"It's the battery pack solution. This can increase the charging speed to about 10 minutes, but..." At the end, Dr. Meichuan Neiku hesitated.

"But what?" William asked, frowning.

"Doing so will increase the cost and difficulty of battery management, and may also lead to poor battery stability." Professor ErBi explained.

Hearing this explanation, William also felt troubled. He was weighing the pros and cons. If the accident rate of electric vehicles using the Super 500 is too high, the gains will outweigh the losses.

"Mr. President, in fact, this is not impossible to solve." Muyou Xiaoji said suddenly.

"Oh? Muyou, what can you do?" William asked quickly.

"It's very simple. Our battery management technology is not good, but Tesla's battery management technology is. We can cooperate with Tesla." Muyou Xiaoji suggested.

"Work with Tesla? Will Musk agree?" William hesitated.

Muyou Xiaoji said confidently: "An enemy of an enemy is a friend. We have common enemies, don't we?"

William immediately understood that even though Tesla is also a customer of Raytheon Battery now, the price involved is also a heart disease of Tesla.

If there is a chance to get rid of the restraint of Raytheon battery, Musk will definitely do it without hesitation, just like Tesla has never given up on its cooperation with Panasonic battery.

The threat of the Dongtang Battery Alliance is too great. If you completely rely on the other party's batteries, the consequences will be disastrous.

"I will talk to Musk personally, and I believe he will not be too stupid to see the situation clearly." William patted the Super 500 battery.

……

Elon Musk, who had just secured investors in SpaceX, put down his messy financial statements and massaged his temples for a headache.

Suddenly the phone rang.

He looked at the number, huh? Isn't this number belonged to General Motors President William? Why did this guy suddenly call?
Although puzzled, Musk still pressed the answer.

"Hi, long time no see Musk, how are you doing?"

"Is Mr. William not the president of General Motors? Do you want to work for me at Tesla?" Musk joked.

"Okay Musk, let me just say it! Our company's battery laboratory has successfully developed a super 500 lithium battery. I wonder if you are interested in cooperating."

"Super 500? That is, you plan to develop a battery with an energy density of 500 watt-hours per kilogram?"

"That's the plan."

"It has been successful? Why do you want to cooperate with me?" Musk is not a fool.

If the Super 500 is really perfect, why doesn't General Motors eat alone? The greed of capitalists will not easily share the cake with others.

"Okay! The charging speed of the Super 500 is a bit slow, about 37 to 40 minutes. We need Tesla's battery management technology." William explained openly.

"Are you trying to use Tesla's battery management technology to increase charging speed?"

"That's it, if we have Tesla's battery management technology, we can increase the charging speed to about 10 minutes."

"Why should I cooperate with you? Give me a reason." Musk squinted and asked back.

"Musk, we have a common enemy, don't you want to get rid of the Thor battery?" William said with a sneer.

"..." Musk frowned, apparently William's words hit his sore spot.

"What is your cost?" Musk asked a crucial question. If the cost is too high, Tesla can't afford it.

"$170 per kilo."

"With battery management technology, the cost may rise to 200 dollars per kilogram." Musk frowned and said.

"Indeed, it was unavoidable at the beginning. After mass production, the cost should be reduced to around US$150 after one year." William was also very helpless.

After weighing the pros and cons for a while, Musk still made up his mind to cooperate with GM. Even if GM’s battery is used as a backup, Tesla must support it.

The dilemma of being clamped by Thor's battery made Musk sleepless and had to watch for Tesla's future.

The two sides hit it off and decided that General Motors would provide Super 500 batteries, while Tesla would use battery management technology.

In order to boost morale (increase the stock price), General Motors and Tesla quickly announced the success of the Super 500 battery and the strategic cooperation between the two parties.

Sure enough, their thoughts were not in vain, and the stock prices of Tesla and General Motors immediately soared.

On the same day, Tesla’s stock price rose 14%, while General Motors soared 26%.

In contrast, the stock prices of domestic Biyadi and Ningde batteries have fallen slightly.

As for Raytheon Battery, since it is not a listed company, it will not be affected for the time being.

This time, the news that GM's Super 500 lithium battery has been successfully developed and is about to be put into mass production also made the Simi media proud.

［Super 500 Li-ion battery, we are ranked first in the world in the field of batteries. ]--New York Times

[Investors remain optimistic about the future of GM and Tesla. ] - Wall Street Journal
[The developer of the Super 500 lithium battery is Professor ErBi from John's family. We missed an opportunity. ] - Daily Britannica
[The monopoly era of Raytheon batteries is about to end. ] - Mirror

[The World Science and Technology Center is still at Mi Li's home. ]--Global Times

On Facebook and Twitter, those crooked nuts also commented excitedly.

"Good job at General Motors." - Detroit Worker
"Hope the car companies don't lay off workers." - The Homeless
"Dry Thor's batteries and let them eat gold." - Redneck
"Ridiculous, will this news help me pay off my loan?" - Soybean Farm

"@豆豆农场, rubbish! You don't deserve to be a family member of rice grains." -Environmental protection fighter

"Our victory, the number one in the world is still ours." - Light of Heaven

Regarding the Super 500 lithium battery announced by General Motors, Fang Shengjie, the president of Raytheon Group, read the report and couldn't bear to attack them.

Biyadi and Ningde were also very calm, and even took advantage of the stock price drop to buy back a lot of shares.

They more or less know that the technical reserves of Raytheon batteries, after all, Raytheon batteries have a military version, and the general-purpose Super 500 is just a mantis arm.

Fang Shengjie decided to let GM and Tesla get carried away for a while, and after they put into mass production, they will announce the Raytheon 600 battery with an energy density of 4 watt-hours per kilogram to let them know what real power is.

At the same time, for the price reduction of the previous Raytheon 3 batteries, Fang Shengjie wanted to make General Motors lose everything and make the batteries they invested a huge amount of money into waste.

(End of this chapter)