Chapter 2103 Grab the Future of BP

"Life in America ()"

The British ZF is almost depressed and autistic. Even if they were killed, the Kuwait Investment Bureau turned a blind eye to their words. It's been a long time since a group of slaves dared to ignore the words of their masters? Are you courting death?

However, without waiting for the British government to respond, BP quickly told the British government that the Kuwait National Investment Authority has been able to control BP, and will send staff to join the board of directors, taking away BP's valuable business experience and affecting BP's strategy.

At the same time, Kuwait also announced that it will soon dominate the production of North Sea oil fields, and will also require BP to invest heavily in the establishment of a desulfurization plant to facilitate the processing of Kuwaiti crude oil with a high sulfur content.

The British government found that there was nothing to do in the field of diplomacy, and it could not rely on military power to solve the problem like it did in the past, so it turned to the law.

The issue of Kuwait's excessive shareholding in BP was submitted to the Monopoly and Mergers Committee for a ruling. The result of the ruling was that Kuwait must reduce its holdings to less than 10%.

ZF did not make any effort, but BP couldn't find a suitable buyer who could spend more than 2 billion pounds to buy the 790 million BP shares that Kuwait was ruled to be unowned in the sluggish stock market.

In desperation, BP sold all of its mining operations in Australia, raised 2.4 billion pounds, and bought back most of the shares in Kuwait.

The Kuwait holding incident was resolved. Although BP was reluctant to give up the mining industry, since then, BP, which has focused on the oil and gas fields, has made greater achievements.

In the short period of more than 100 years in the history of the oil industry, due to the scarcity of resources and the global transnational layout of resources and sales, international ZZ games and business competition have always been closely related.

From the point of view of oil-consuming countries, on the one hand, the country uses diplomatic means and even military means to protect the interests of its oil companies; The right to speak.

In this area, purely liberal market ideas and free international trade ideas are not suitable.

Leaders of oil companies need to have the abilities of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and diplomats, such as Cadman, who fought wits between BP and King Pahlavi, and cleverly introduced Greenway, which is supported by the government.

From this point of view, Bernard Rooney, who is known as the main candidate for the next BP CEO, does not seem to be an excellent helm.

Conrad even said bluntly, "If Bernard Rooney doesn't adjust his thinking in time, BP's century-old reputation may be destroyed in one day."

This prediction is very serious, especially for a giant like BP.

Abu was even more gloomy, and he said in a deep voice, "I heard that BP is going to deploy electric vehicles recently. At present, they don't have many targets to choose from. Should we start early?"

Yang Cheng's eyes lit up, "You mean EV?"

EV is the largest electric vehicle charging company in the UK. After European oil giants such as Total have successively deployed in the new energy field, BP must also keep up, but there are really not many targets they can choose. Leading the pack, EV is definitely their priority for acquisition.

If Yang Cheng and the others take action and pick off this ripe watermelon in advance, not only will they complete their revenge, but it will also slow them down in the layout of the new field. This move is quite poisonous.

What's more, after the North Sea oil field is exploited, will their tripartite cooperation be disintegrated?

From Yang Cheng's point of view, this is a signing. What can they do with the strength of the three of them? Parting is the worst option.

That being the case, it is killing two birds with one stone to lay out the new energy field in advance and at the same time complete the revenge on BP.

Moreover, compared to the development of pure electric vehicles, layout charging seems to be more direct and effective. With the promotion of electric vehicles, how to choose battery charging methods and establish related charging facilities,

It is a topic that almost all cities need to face together.

So, should you choose to charge or replace the battery? It is equivalent to choosing between Apple and Warwick.

Battery replacement is often hyped as a "silver bullet" to solve the challenges related to charging electric vehicles. The core of electric vehicles is the battery. The common way to charge the battery is to directly connect the car to the charging interface. Like this, the battery remains inside the electric vehicle to charge. Meaning the car needs to be there throughout the charging phase. Charging for a long time is a trouble for car owners who are used to refueling quickly with an oil gun.

Most of the time, the time lost in charging will also lead to the loss of income for electric vehicle users.

An interconnected, and possibly the biggest, issue facing electric vehicle charging is the need for parking space for charging.

Land is now very expensive around the world, and the need for parking space has a huge impact on the viability of any EV charging business.

From the perspective of electric vehicle charging companies, the smallest space requirement is the best situation. Of course, this can solve the land problem by providing charging equipment in existing parking lots.

At that time, if the charging time can be reduced, then the same size of space can serve more electric vehicles.

But on the other hand, since charging is a chemical reaction that generates a lot of heat, thermal management is very important during the charging process.

In fact, your charging speed basically depends on the thermal management of the battery and the battery chemistry itself. It is worth noting that every time you charge an electric car, you must turn on the air conditioning system. Regions are especially important, such as Ah San's poor place.

In India, the proportion of motor vehicles dominated by two- and three-wheelers further complicates thermal management issues, as they do not have cooling systems installed themselves.

It just so happens that electric two- and three-wheelers are being heavily promoted these days as they are the more environmentally friendly and economical option, but charging those batteries is a different story.

One way to effectively address long-term charging, thermal energy management, and parking space requirements is to separate the battery charging process from the vehicle energy replenishment process.

All you need to do at the charging station is to replace the dead battery with a charged one, and you can charge the battery at the charging station or elsewhere.

As long as the battery is fully charged, it can be swapped with a depleted battery.

The space required for the construction of battery replacement facilities is obviously much smaller than that of charging facilities. Since battery replacement and charging are two different activities, two sets of business plans are required: how to charge the battery and how to perform battery replacement.

In theory, it seems to be very simple to replace the battery, but it is actually not easy to operate in practice.

When it comes to battery swap, it is impossible not to mention that the battery swap in the electric vehicle ecosystem that people know now was pioneered by Shai Agassi in Israel.

The company aims to make the world a "better place" by offering affordable electric vehicles by 2020.

The way to achieve this is to transform traditional cars into electric cars. Because batteries are very expensive, in order to reduce the cost of electric cars, the batteries should be as small as possible.

But the paradox is that the battery life of an electric vehicle is directly proportional to the battery capacity, and a smaller battery capacity means that the battery life of an electric vehicle is shorter. The final consequence of this approach is that they can only propose another solution for electric vehicles that support shorter battery life, and the cost of the battery replacement plan they originally proposed is high. In the end, due to a variety of reasons, the company finally went bankrupt, and the battery exchange also gained a notoriety.

However, the advantages of battery replacement are very obvious, providing comfortable and convenient charging and taking up less real estate space.

It's a convenient solution for both the user and the service provider, and it also allows for better control over battery charging, which is expensive after all.

This also makes it easy to monitor the health of the battery, since charging can eventually become expensive if the battery degrades.

When electrifying non-air-conditioned vehicles such as two-wheelers and three-wheelers in tropical climates, battery swapping is more reasonable.

But another problem is that the battery replacement operation involves taking out and replacing the battery. A 1kWh lithium battery weighs at least 10kg, which is a weight that can be easily lifted by one person alone.

1kWh is usually the common capacity of a two-wheeler battery. It can be done by one person. You only need to lift the battery in the car, take it out and put it on the charging base, and then replace it with a charged battery. So easy, mom Don't worry about changing the battery either.

However, as the weight of the battery increases, changing the battery becomes more challenging, however, it is still possible to achieve a certain weight with the assistance of another person.

If their batteries are heavier, some swapping service providers opt for assisted swapping facilities, which have assistants to help EV users lift the batteries, and two people can easily handle e-trike battery removal and replacement the process of.

But what about a four-wheeled car? What about SUVs? Like the pure electric bus in country Z?

Anyway, one person can't change it.

Battery swapping systems for electric buses and electric cars are more complex and expensive, relying on complex hydraulic lifting systems that can be fully or semi-automated as batteries get heavier.

In Country Z, electric vehicle batteries at the power station are lifted by a human-assisted hydraulic lifting system. The design of fully automated battery swap facilities shown by Tesla is impressive, although they are expensive, so for now, the advantages of battery swap Obviously, but there are still problems that need to be solved urgently.

In fact, the advantages and disadvantages of charging and battery replacement are the same. Charging can be realized anywhere, because electricity is almost everywhere, but it is impossible to avoid the limitation of charging time caused by thermal energy management and battery chemistry in this way;

On the other hand, battery replacement solves the problems related to charging time, land occupation, and thermal energy management, and there is no good solution to the problems in the operational process.

Of course, just for now, Yang Cheng personally prefers to charge.