Chapter 37: Shut Out
Xinghai’s press conference came to a perfect close.
Of course, if you don’t count the incident during the break when General Manager Ma suddenly fainted from high blood pressure and was rushed to the hospital.
The final pricing of the battery is 1000 yuan per kilowatt-hour.
Due to production capacity reasons, the current price is actually relatively high.
Taking a 100 kWh car battery as an example, the price would need to be 100000 yuan.
But nowadays, batteries of the same level, because the industry is highly developed, have had their cost reduced to around 30,000-40,000.
But just as Fan Ren said, under the same volume, the solid-state battery capacity is 2.5 times higher.
Still taking a car as an example, a 100 kWh battery pack of liquid lithium battery size, if switched to solid-state battery, the capacity can reach a terrifying 250 kWh.
This will bring huge changes to the current new energy vehicle market, and the range of pure electric new energy vehicles will therefore break through 2000 kilometers.
And because the charging and discharging speed has improved by 30%, combined with wireless charging technology, it can fully charge the entire battery in 30 minutes, and reach 80% charge in just 10 minutes.
Truly achieving the mode where people don’t need to get out of the car, and complete a 1500 km range charge in 10 minutes.
Therefore, as the press conference ended, Xinghai Technology, this obscure little company, suddenly topped the hot search headlines of all media.
And under Liu Jun’s leadership, the Marketing Department was suddenly inundated with phone calls, all from various car enterprises seeking cooperation.
That night after the press conference, in the special care ward of Linhai City Center Hospital.
“Dad, you’re awake?”
When Ma Gaosheng slowly woke up, he saw his son looking at him with a worried expression.
He wasn’t in the mood to speak and gave a barely perceptible nod.
Ma Wei had learned about the Xinghai press conference matter, and at this moment, exchanging a glance with his father, he was also speechless for a long time.
“Dad, don’t overthink it. The doctor instructed that you can’t get angry now, otherwise…”
“I know. You go out, let me be quiet for a while.”
Even without getting angry, Ma Gaosheng’s mood was visibly irritable. Ma Wei nodded, sighed, and got up to walk outside.
“Uncle Ye!”
The figure appearing at the door made Ma Wei exclaim in surprise. He hadn’t heard that this headquarters vice president was coming to Linhai. How did he suddenly appear here?
Ye Hongzhi had a stern expression, walked around Ma Wei at the door and looked inside, then proceeded to Ma Gaosheng’s bedside.
“I’ll chat with your father for a while. Close the door.”
“Uncle Ye, the doctor instructed me that my dad needs to stay emotionally stable now.”
“Get out!”
Ma Gaosheng’s eyes suddenly opened wide, and he growled lowly toward the door in a hoarse voice.
‘Bang’, the ward door was closed heavily by Ma Wei.
In the ward, Ye Hongzhi’s face showed no sympathy whatsoever for Ma Gaosheng’s current condition.
“I came to Linhai urgently to ask you one thing. Before this, did you have absolutely no awareness of Xinghai’s solid-state battery research progress?”
A bitter smile appeared on Ma Gaosheng’s lips. What meaning was there in saying these things now? If he had known that Xinghai could make a breakthrough in the battery domain, he wouldn’t have dared to offend them even if given ten times the courage.
Seeing this, Ye Hongzhi standing beside stopped pressing and thought for a moment before saying seriously: “Don’t say I disregard our years of relationship. I’ll give you three days. Can you reach some level of reconciliation with Xinghai?”
There was no hiding the threatening intent in his words.
Both were old foxes, so Ma Gaosheng wasn’t surprised by this. Ever since he reached into the legal department, he had foreseen this scene.
Ye Hongzhi didn’t continue pressing; he was waiting for Ma Gaosheng’s answer.
As soon as the press conference ended, Deli Electric Power sent people to Xinghai Technology to try to discuss cooperation, but without exception, they were all turned away.
Countless calls he made in his capacity as vice president were simply not answered.
In contrast, Sea Cow, San Xin, and the domestic battery domain leader De Ya Group had all urgently sent people to contact Xinghai.
This time was different from the previous high-voltage wireless charging technology; the global battery domain market had currently reached a scale of nearly a trillion.
This was a market that had been fully developed, and Deli Electric Power had no choice but to devote twelve points of effort to face it.
The reality was that solid-state batteries completely dominated lithium batteries in all comparison conditions.
Therefore, it was foreseeable that once production capacity met market demand, traditional liquid batteries would be thoroughly swept into the trash heap.
This was also why he took a plane that very day to come urgently to Xinghai.
“Ye Zong, I want to ask you a question.”
Ma Gaosheng spoke to break the silence, and Ye Hongzhi nodded without refusing.
“If you were in my position, for an enterprise like Xinghai with no background, what would you do?”
He wanted to know if all his troubles were wrong.
Hearing this, Ye Hongzhi couldn’t help but sneer, shaking his head: “This is why no matter how well you perform, I can only keep you at the Linhai Branch.”
He sighed, pulled over a chair beside him and sat down, continuing: “Old Ma, the era has changed. Not to mention far away, look at Sea Cow, whose market value is comparable to Deli. How do they treat Xinghai? Then look at San Xin Group; they are multinational giant enterprises with huge market share in various domains. How do they treat Xinghai?
Of course, it’s too late to say these now. But for the sake of our many years of relationship, just say it.
Old Ma, you have to know that for an enterprise, money is just a simple string of numbers, right?
Ma Gaosheng’s expression changed slightly, and hearing this, he couldn’t help but nod.
Seeing that Ma Gaosheng still hadn’t grasped his meaning, Ye Hongzhi thought and could only use crude words: “How can there be eternal vigilance against thieves? Even if you crush Xinghai today, can you guarantee no other new technology enterprises will appear tomorrow?”
“The era has changed. Remember, a market can never be monopolized by a single enterprise. If it is, it’s not far from death. For enterprises at our level, the fundamental purpose of developing the company is actually how to keep the company alive.
Of course, on that basis, making the company live more comfortably is even better.
Why do we few companies all default to letting Xinghai have the market on this side of Linhai, with everyone not interfering?
In the end, does any company lack this bit of Linhai market? What everyone values is that Xinghai’s patents won’t have issues when the next renewal expires; that’s the key point.
A few billion is nothing; which company can’t come up with that?
Ye Hongzhi’s tone carried some anger, with a look of disappointment in someone’s lack of progress.
After a long time, Ma Gaosheng digested these words and said miserably: “Then why…”
“Why not stop you? That’s because if there was no solid-state battery matter, the company could at worst remove you from your position and use your downfall to apologize to Xinghai to calm things down!”
Ye Hongzhi didn’t say the latter words, but Ma Gaosheng knew that if he alone could force Xinghai to sell the patents, that would of course be even better.
Thinking of these at this moment, Ye Hongzhi couldn’t help but sigh repeatedly.
In terms of contacting Xinghai currently, he was the one with the highest identity among the several companies.
But even so, he was directly turned away by Xinghai, not given any chance of contact at all.
“Say it, don’t waste my time. Three days! Can you ease the relationship with Xinghai within three days? Tell me now what help you need; the company has prepared 10 billion for public relations, available anytime.”
Ma Gaosheng didn’t continue dwelling on his doubts; he knew this old superior very well and knew that if this matter wasn’t handled, it would absolutely not be as simple as just removing him.
Without further words, he nodded: “I’ll try my best. Help me call Ma Wei in; this matter still has to fall on him.”
Ye Hongzhi stood up, nodded, and turned to walk out the door.
“Ma Wei, Old Ma is calling you. Remember, if you accomplish what I’m assigning you, Uncle Ye will personally give you a 5 million cash reward!”
Patting Ma Wei’s shoulder, Ye Hongzhi gave some promise.
Hearing this, Ma Wei, who had been waiting anxiously outside, nodded hurriedly and entered the ward.
“Dad, you called me?”
Ma Gaosheng gestured with his eyes for him to close the door behind, then beckoned his son to the bedside.
His gaze fell on Ma Wei, and Ma Gaosheng was lost in thought for a long time.
“Dad?”
“Every word I say next, burn it into your brain, and absolutely don’t show any surprise!”
Ma Gaosheng’s eyes suddenly became clear, while Ma Wei’s expression in the ward gradually turned from curiosity to shock.
