Chapter 905: The Skyrocketing Price of Lithium Batteries

Chen Changliu had a good year this year. It can be said that he had taken care of family, friendship and love. Chen Changliu, Du Zhiqiu, Ke Meng and others had a pleasant year in Guangnan.

But people like the Godfather and the three members of the Chen family could only spend it in frustration.

Chen Changliu's grandmother should be the happiest person. She no longer asked who Chen Changliu's future wife was.

But she asked Du Zhiqiu and Ke Meng privately several times when they planned to have children, which made the two of them blush.

Du Zhiqiu and Chen Changliu are basically the same age, that is, 23 years old, but Ke Meng is already 26 years old. Sometimes when she is alone, she really thinks about it.

Zhao Yanan is also the same age as Ke Meng. When she listened to it, she was also touched by her.

However, the two thought that now is the stage of rapid development of their careers, and they don’t have time to think so much now. At least they have to think about it when they are almost 30.

On February 12, Chen Changliu and his party went directly to Jingjiang. Chen Changliu wanted to go to the Jingjiang factory to see the pure electric taxis and the pure electric buses and pure electric coaches that were ready to be shipped to Europe for the auto show.

Du Zhiqiu and Ke Meng went to Jingjiang for tourism, which was the last leisure attraction of the New Year holiday.

The expansion project of the Jingjiang factory can be completed in the middle of the year, but it will not affect the original production.

At the test track, Chen Changliu drove the pure electric taxi himself for a while. He was satisfied with this pure electric taxi. The riding experience was much better than that of a fuel car.

Chen Changliu got out of the car, and Chen Yanfeng and Pei Haidong immediately greeted him.

"Mr. Chen, what else do you think needs to be improved?"

Chen Changliu shook his head and said:

"The performance and driving experience are both OK, but the production and assembly process must be strictly in accordance with my requirements.

For example, are there any lower standards in the rigidity of the ABC columns of the car body, and the front and rear bumpers?

You must know that a car is a means of transportation. No matter how good its driving experience is, or whether the car itself is rich in functionality, it must be based on safety.

Even if the driving experience is good and the functions are rich, but the car is like a paper paste, and a bicycle can knock your front into it, then such a car is not a car for me, it is a coffin.

You must remember that safety is the most important function of a car, and we must be responsible for the safety of consumers.

I hope that after our car is put on the market, road tanks, road small steel cannons, etc. will be its best praise!"

Hearing Chen Changliu's words, Chen Yanfeng and Pei Haidong kept nodding. They didn't know how many times they had heard these words, and every time the boss came over, he would definitely emphasize them once.

"Also, the development progress of automatic braking and automatic avoidance functions must continue to accelerate. When the plug-in hybrid car comes out in the second half of the year, it must be equipped with this function..."

Chen Changliu spoke in detail and seemed very long-winded, but no one was impatient.

"Mr. Chen, how much should we set the price of this car?

Due to the subprime mortgage crisis, the price of lithium phosphate has skyrocketed recently, from 300,000 yuan per meter to 600,000 yuan per meter.

If calculated according to the market price, the cost of each kWh of lithium iron phosphate battery we produce is almost 2,200 yuan.

And our taxi needs 76 kWh of electricity for a range of 400 kilometers, so the battery cost alone is about 170,000 yuan.

If you add other factors, the cost price of the whole vehicle's factory parts is about 230,000 yuan.

This is because Mr. Liu Yang's power lithium battery department has a breakthrough in the energy density technology of lithium iron phosphate batteries, and the range of 400 kilometers has been reduced from about 85 kWh to 76 kWh, otherwise our current battery cost would be 200,000 yuan.

And I estimate that the price of lithium phosphate will continue to rise, so our current pricing is a bit embarrassing!"

Hearing Chen Yanfeng's words, Chen Changliu was also a little sighing.

Why does Zeng Qiang spend most of his time in Africa now? It is because the current lithium price has skyrocketed. The mining company they founded is now making huge profits.

Although it will be much cheaper to provide to the flower growers, it is impossible to give it at the cost price. It can only be said that it is much lower than the market price. After all, it is a company behavior.

He knows that the current price has not yet reached the peak, and the price in the next two years will not be lower. According to his vague memory, the peak period of the price of lithium batteries for new energy vehicles is in recent years, and the highest cost price of one kilowatt-hour can reach more than 3,000 yuan.

This price is completely different from the cost price before he was reborn, which dropped from more than 1,000 yuan per kilowatt-hour to 500 or 600 yuan per kilowatt-hour.

Now the cost price of the whole vehicle has reached about 230,000 yuan, which is still a bit difficult for the popularization of pure electric taxis.

Although from the perspective of the entire taxi operation cycle, even if it is 300,000 yuan per electric taxi, it will eventually be more cost-effective than a fuel taxi that costs less than 100,000 yuan.

But the account is not calculated that way. To replace 100 taxis, one side pays 10 million and the other side pays 30 million. The taxi company will get more if it chooses 10 million.

No wonder when the original time and space just launched a pure electric taxi of more than 300,000, Di would rather recruit a group of taxi drivers and give them the cars for free. He just wanted to let these cars run on the road.

"I'm thinking about it. I'll go to Beijing in a few days to see when the country's policy on new energy vehicles will be released and whether there are any subsidies.

Only with subsidies will it be easier for us to roll out our pure electric taxis. We can't just focus on the cities that we cooperate with. "

Chen Yanfeng and Pei Haidong both nodded, full of expectations, because last month there was news that the country would give policy preferences in the fields of new energy vehicles, and it was said that there would be subsidies.

If this is true, it will be a huge boost for the automobile industry subsidiary of the Flower Planting Family.

Chen Changliu was not talking nonsense. Although the subsidy policy would not be introduced until 2009 in the original time and space, now because of the emergence of the Flower Planting Family, the timeline of many things has changed.

In particular, he accurately predicted that this was a financial crisis, and reminded the leaders of the relevant departments of several major families in advance, and also jokingly mentioned some solutions.

Although many people were skeptical at the beginning and did not take action, when the signs appeared, Chen Changliu's words had The role, especially the boss mentioned it several times, the meaning is even more different.

This topic passed quickly. After several people visited the assembly workshop, Chen Changliu went directly to the electric buses and electric coaches that would be shipped to Europe for the auto show.

There is nothing much to say. This is the old business of Jingjiang Factory. After all, it was once the best-selling luxury bus manufacturer in China. Although it declined later, it was only because the management could not keep up with the times and was content with pleasure.

Now with the financial and human support of Zhonghuajia, various R&D projects have made rapid progress in the past two years.

"Old Chen, I won't go to Europe. You are fully responsible there, but remember, we are Zhonghuajia Technology Co., Ltd., no worse than anyone else. If you encounter those unreasonable and arrogant Europeans, don't pay attention to them.

We are going to sell products, not to whisper. Just use our product strength to speak, this is the most powerful counterattack."

PS: The typo will be corrected first and then corrected.