Chapter 135 Space Project Cooperation
"Husband, do we buy Tesla?"
"Of course I buy NIO."
"But isn't NIO domestically produced?"
"But NIO has a Lightning Generation, which is the latest high-tech electronic flow battery, which will replace the existence of lithium batteries. Tesla, BYD, Xiaopeng, Ideal, Lynk & Co are still using lithium batteries, and only NIO adopts Lightning Generation."
"But my sisters all say that Lightning Generation is not good. They say that Huawei used Lightning Generation, and the battery is unstable. Many people have changed it, so there is no need for Huawei."
The young man among the couple smiled: "How many of your sisters use Huawei? How could you know that Lightning Generation is not good? My buddy's Huawei P80pro plays King of Glory 12 hours a day, and I haven't seen any problems with the battery. What you heard about is the slander of the Internet. The chief scientist of Lightning at the University of Science and Technology is Du Ke. He wants to win the Nobel Prize. The electronic flow battery is not awesome. Can he win the Nobel Prize?"
"Then do we buy NIO?"
"Well... let's take a look first, and we will buy it after other people's evaluations are released. There is no rush to buy it." Although he is a fan of Du Ke, the young man is not impulsive. A NIO car costs hundreds of thousands. For a young man like him, he has to spend several years of savings and must be treated with caution.
But some people are calm and some are impulsive.
Since the new series was launched after the Lantern Festival of NIO, the main model ES12 has been sold, and the sales of the super sports car EP11 have also begun to rise steadily. Another EVE that focuses on driverless driving has also sold a lot. Unmanned driving technology has developed very rapidly in China, mainly relying on the construction of 5G fast tracks, but for now, people still don’t believe in driverless driving very much.
Then.
Some car owners showed off their car's cruising range. 1200km is the starting point, and 1400km is the standard, instantly killing the best 800km electric car on the market. And a Northeastern car owner even posted the terrifying data of his car ES12, because the Northeast is still cold and the weather is cold outside, and his ES12 is outside at minus 20 degrees Celsius for one night.
The next day, it was still able to start, and the battery was not out of power at all. The owner also showed off his range and could last 1100km in severe cold weather after full power.
You should know that ordinary batteries are affected by temperature. Not to mention the difficulty in starting up in severe cold weather, it is difficult to run half of the normal range.
This car owner is a Douyin expert. After a fast-forward test drive video, it quickly became popular and became a hot search video. Watching the video in the video, NIO ES12 is strolling on Heilongjiang, it is impossible to get rid of it. After all, most electric cars dare not drive out in this kind of weather.
For a moment.
The combination of NIO and Lightning Generation has exploded on the entire network.
Of course, there are also many smearing content, such as video editing, data fraud, and official buying traffic, which is extremely noisy. However, as more and more car owners show off, and although there are smearing comments on the Internet, there are no examples of battery problems. This makes the increasingly eye-catching audiences and naturally know who to believe. NIO's sales in February won the first place in the electric SUV rankings.
Not only is it the number one electric SUV sales in China in February, but it almost beat Tesla in North America and won the number one electric SUV sales. As for Europe, it has not yet started selling, but many European netizens are already screaming to buy NIO.
Just when the article was just over in February, it was chilly in March.
Two blockbuster bombs landed, and University of Science and Technology Lightning joined hands with BYD and Tesla to announce a strategic partnership to provide BYD and Tesla with Lightning-Generation batteries.
Tesla announced this as two major electric vehicle giants. After all, they are assembly factories and batteries have always been purchased from outside.
But BYD started out with batteries and actually abandoned its lithium phosphate battery and turned to electronic flow batteries, which was shocking. This also made people who were dissatisfied with the Lightning Generation begin to believe that electronic flow batteries are really powerful.
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"I am disappointed with Musk's decision. He is not a patriot, but a capitalist in the kitsch Chinese market. I call on everyone to boycott Tesla and make Miligan great again!" The commander of Miligan immediately tweeted.
Of course, Musk would not care about the accusations of the commander. Miligan is the capitalist Miligan after all.
What no one knows is that just like Mr. Wang from BYD came to the door, Musk also came to China at this moment and met with Du Ke, director of the Electronic Flow Laboratory.
"Du, you are a great scientist, and I have wanted to meet you for a long time." Musk was very enthusiastic and held Du Ke's hand hard. "Let me introduce you to you. This is Professor Thomas from Bell Labs. He is an expert in the field of lithium batteries and highly respects your electronic flow theory. I think you should have a common language."
"Hello Professor Thomas, I remember to email you."
"Yes, I have asked you many questions in the email, but you responded seriously before, and then you should be your assistant replying, and you are always not on the point." Professor Thomas shrugged.
Du Ke smiled politely. There were too many domestic and foreign scholars who wanted to communicate with him every day. How could he reply one by one? He had already left it to his assistant to reply.
After greetings and making concessions.
Musk explained his purpose: "This time I came to visit, I hope to cooperate with Du Ke to develop an electronic flow battery that can be used on the Falcon Rocket. We have many places to use batteries on the Mars rover, Starlink satellite, and rocket launcher. But there is no battery at present, which is satisfying us until the birth of the Lightning Generation."
Professor Thomas rushed to say: "If I hadn't bought a NIO myself, I would have no way to believe that the size of the Lightning Generation was only that small. The Lightning Generation on Huawei's mobile phones had already amazing... Du, to be honest, I can't believe that this is true, but it is true in front of me. Our Bell Labs studied the Lightning Generation and had seen that exquisite and beautiful structure."
"Well, University of Science and Technology Lightning owns all patents for these structures."
"Haha, of course we won't infringe on patents. Professor Thomas told this structure that can store electricity perfectly. If it is further optimized, it may further compress the volume of the battery. I want to know, Du, you are an expert, can you tell me that it can?"
"I really appreciate the career you have done, especially SpaceX's space exploration program. Human beings should not focus on the competition for earth resources. The stars and seas are our future." Du Ke really admires Musk, or all pioneers of exploring space, and he admires it. "I can tell you clearly that the improved space of electronic flow batteries is very broad and can be fully qualified for space projects."
Draw a big pie.
Du Ke immediately said: "But the patent is in the hands of the University of Science and Technology Lightning. You need to seek cooperation with the University of Science and Technology Lightning in the name of SpaceX. I can guarantee that as long as the cooperation is reached, I am willing to invest more energy and contribute to the space industry."
It is not an exaggeration to say that the barrier structure of the electronic flow battery is a strategic weapon. Therefore, Du Ke must guarantee national interests.
Europe and the United States, especially Miligan, frequently use technological blockades to sanction China, but China lacks countermeasures. Now the barrier structure is countermeasures. He hopes that the country will participate in this cooperation. If it can exchange the barrier structure that is destined to be copied and exchange it for SpaceX's rocket technology, it will definitely be very cost-effective - of course, he will ignore the specific negotiations and let the country worry about it.
Musk has been working with China for a long time, so he met Du Ke and received better battery recognition, and he began negotiations with University of Science and Technology Lightning.
The country naturally participates in the process.
Chapter completed!