In addition, the only remaining battery business is the battery business. Although this business developed relatively late, its basic starting point is very high, which also allows their battery business to develop very fast.
Nowadays, almost all of the domestic large-scale battery markets such as car batteries and electric bicycle batteries are occupied by Xinhui Energy Company. This business alone is enough for them to make a lot of money.
In addition, our country is rapidly advancing energy substitution work, which complements the development of their battery business. The revenue in this area alone is as high as 1 trillion yuan.
In fact, the price of passenger car batteries and electric bicycle batteries is not high. The general price of passenger car batteries is about 5,000 yuan, while the general price of electric bicycle batteries is about 500 yuan.
The batteries used by engineering vehicles are not ordinary graphene batteries, but their micro-magnetic field batteries, which are safer and have higher energy storage. Their performance is not comparable to graphene batteries, and the price is naturally more expensive.
In fact, even so, compared with previous battery products, the price per kilowatt hour is still much cheaper, and the performance is better. It is almost the only choice in the current market.
In the field of electronic products, users can afford higher-cost batteries. In almost all high-end fields, micro-magnetic field batteries are used. Graphene batteries are mostly used in mid- to low-end products.
Take mobile phones as an example. Smartphone products priced above 1,000 yuan all use micro-magnetic field batteries. In order to make the products thinner and lighter, the batteries are almost made to have a thickness similar to that of the film.
This is something that traditional batteries cannot do anyway, and it also reduces the thickness of mid-to-high-end mobile phones above 1000 by a large margin. If you don’t worry about the feel, the thickness can be as low as 2 mm.
However, in order to maintain the feel, during actual production, the thickness is generally around 5 mm. As the space increases, more electronic components can be installed, and the more functions the mobile phone can be integrated.
However, micromagnetic field batteries are currently not exported. This is not a need for confidentiality, but to promote the development and global share of domestic mid-to-high-end products.
Smartphone products priced below 1,000 yuan basically use graphene batteries. The thickness of the product is much thicker than that of mid-to-high-end smartphones, generally more than 7 mm.
Of course, if you want to further reduce it, you can, but the amount of energy the battery can store is not high. Nowadays, mobile phones can generally be used continuously for a whole day without charging, saving users a lot of trouble.
For example, in the previous generation, smartphones could only last for about two to three hours when playing large-scale games, but now they can basically last for more than 18 hours. The gap between the two is not even a tiny bit.
Xinhui Energy does not have any restrictions on the export of graphene batteries, so their graphene batteries not only have a broad domestic market, but also have a large market abroad.
It can even be said that the emergence of graphene batteries has eliminated almost all other battery products and almost monopolized the original battery market. This is the power of graphene batteries in this era.
Xinhui Energy Company holds all the patents for graphene batteries. This business was taken from Cornerstone Materials Company. Naturally, their patents in this area were also given to Xinhui Energy Company.
Cornerstone Materials Company mainly provides graphene materials for Xinhui Energy Company, and the price is much cheaper than the market price, creating conditions for Xinhui Energy Company to improve its competitiveness.
As for the consumer electronics battery market, it has created more than 500 billion yuan in revenue for Xinhui Energy Company, almost wiping out all other battery types.
There were too many types of batteries in the previous life, such as lithium batteries, lead-acid batteries, lithium iron phosphate batteries, dry batteries, etc., but now they are basically replaced by graphene batteries.
Foreign companies were very happy when they purchased Polaris's lithium battery technology. After all, Polaris's lithium battery technology is the most advanced in the world. Naturally, they are very excited to be able to obtain this technology including patent authorization.
But they were not happy for long. Xinhui Energy's graphene batteries were launched on a large scale. The price is not higher than that of lithium batteries, but the energy storage and stability are higher than that of lithium batteries.
For Xinhui Energy Company, at the same price, the cost of graphene batteries is lower and the profit margin is higher, because there are no precious metals on graphene batteries and they use very common materials.
The most important thing for lithium batteries is lithium ore, and our country is not rich in resources in this area, let alone per capita. Basically, it needs to be imported from abroad, which led Sunflower Investment Company to invest in many such minerals before.
When our country planned to fully use graphene batteries, they also sold most of their lithium mines and also operated related stocks, allowing them to make a fortune.
Like other companies that produce graphene, they need to use graphite. Although graphite minerals are still very abundant in our country, they are subject to the ore, and the scale of use is too large, so prices will inevitably increase.
Therefore, when Zhao Yi first developed graphene, he did not consider using graphite ore to produce it. Instead, he used biotechnology to directly produce graphene using carbonaceous raw materials.
This means that carbon dioxide in the air can be used as the raw material for graphene. The sources of raw materials are not only very wide, but also very low-cost, which cannot be compared with conventional graphene preparation methods.
Although the price of graphene sold by Cornerstone Materials to Xinhui Energy is much lower than the market price, the profits they make themselves are also very generous. This is the industrial value brought by technology.
However, graphene batteries are not just about graphene. They also require excellent electrolyte and positive and negative electrode materials. Depending on the electrolyte and positive and negative electrode materials, the performance is very different.
Therefore, Xinhui Energy Company’s graphene batteries will also have different levels of graphene batteries based on different electrolytes and positive and negative electrode materials, but the overall performance is far better than traditional material batteries.
In the past, even graphene batteries often used lithium as the negative electrode material, which put a certain pressure on the production cost of the battery and was also subject to restrictions.
Therefore, graphene is matched with carbon composite materials developed by Cornerstone Materials Company. There is a big gap in the performance of composite materials based on different molecular structures.
However, the overall cost is generally much lower than using lithium, and the sources of raw materials are more extensive. This is why his companies are so interested in carbon-related material research.
Because carbon-containing materials can be said to be inexhaustible on the earth and will not be subject to any restrictions. The only restriction on their use is technology. As long as there is technology, everything else is not a problem.
There are various electrolytes. The most advanced graphene battery in the hands of Xinhui Energy Company is an air graphene battery, but it is also the most expensive among graphene batteries.
In fact, high-end cars use air graphene batteries, and some engineering machinery and equipment also use air graphene batteries, which are more suitable for fields that do not have high environmental requirements but have high power storage requirements.
The research and development of graphene batteries of different grades is mainly to meet the needs of different markets, and also to provide different choices for enterprises and consumers. After all, some fields do not have very high requirements for batteries.
This is also the need to further monopolize the battery market. Unless revolutionary battery technology emerges, once they monopolize the market, it will be difficult for other companies to break their monopoly.
Anyway, for Xinhui Energy Company, they want to occupy the high-end battery market as well as the low-end battery market. They try to capture the entire battery market and leave no chance for others to survive.
In addition to the civilian battery field, they also have military and special industry battery business. However, the battery types in this area are basically micro-magnetic field batteries. Although the usage is not as high as in the civilian field, the unit price is much higher.
All military equipment currently equipped in our country uses their micro-magnetic field batteries wherever batteries are needed, because micro-magnetic field batteries are physical batteries.
The stability is not comparable to chemical batteries, and the shape and size changes are not comparable to chemical batteries. In special devices, only this kind of battery can better meet the requirements.
But even if the unit price is very high, the market size is still not comparable to the civilian market. Even with the rapid development of my country's military equipment and aerospace development, the annual income brought to them is only 20 billion yuan.
There are also large-scale equipment for all-electric submarines. Otherwise, if they are used in these industries, the market size of batteries will be smaller. For their huge performance, it is better than nothing.
However, the place where micromagnetic field batteries are most used is the photovoltaic power generation and energy storage market. However, this area is basically purchased by myself and the Chinese housing company, which is an internal digestion. Not only can I not make any money, but I have invested a lot of money in it.
It was originally possible to make some money from the Chinese Housing Company, but their production capacity was not sufficient. They could not provide many products to the Chinese Housing Company, and most of them were used by themselves.
Moreover, there is still a big gap between the prices of products provided to Chinese housing companies and those outside. They are internal supplies. Otherwise, Chinese housing companies alone may contribute several trillion yuan in revenue to them.
This is calculated based on market prices. If based on internal prices, the revenue that China Housing Corporation can contribute is relatively limited, estimated to be around 500 billion yuan.
This 500 billion yuan is not an annual contribution, but a total income. Unless these batteries are scrapped, they will basically not make much money later.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that Xinhui Energy Company is unwilling to expand production on a large scale, because after the expansion, although it meets the needs of Chinese housing companies, the production capacity will be wasted afterwards.
It is better to wait until the demand for energy storage batteries drops and leave the free production capacity to Chinese housing companies. And it does not need to wait too long. Next year, we can provide micro-magnetic field battery products to Chinese housing companies on a large scale.
One of the reasons for the research on micromagnetic field batteries is internal use, so the market price and internal price are very different. The internal price is basically only about 20% of the external price, which means only one-fifth of the price.
Micromagnetic field batteries appear to be very high-end to the outside world, but with the technology, the cost is not higher than that of chemical batteries, and the technology is provided by Zhao Yi. It only requires a small patent fee, and the technology cost is very low.
Judging from these businesses, Xinhui Energy's total revenue has also exceeded 2 trillion yuan. The main source of revenue is not their traditional power generation business, but their new battery business.
However, in their reports, foreign companies began to inquire about their graphene car batteries and were interested in making large-scale purchases, which was unprecedented before.
The reason why I mention this is not because of the size of the order, but because it indicates that foreign companies are also developing electric vehicles, which is a warning to Shenlong Automobile Company.
Previously, in order to maintain the stability of foreign markets, Shenlong Automobile Company also established a complete electric vehicle industry abroad, which was much more difficult than at home.
With such a thankless effort, they might as well only launch electric vehicle products domestically. Anyway, they mainly focus on the mid-to-high end in the foreign automobile market and expand their market share infinitely, which will only lead to resistance from various countries.
In foreign markets, their income is not low and they avoid unnecessary troubles. Naturally, they have no motivation to change the energy structure of foreign cars.
If foreign automobile companies spontaneously begin to develop in the direction of electric vehicles, then Shenlong Motors' overseas markets will have to change accordingly, at least to provide electric versions of its automobile products.
Seeing this change, Zhao Yi is actually happy to see it happen, because if these foreign manufacturers want to develop electric vehicles, they need to purchase car batteries from Xinhui Energy Company. Although other batteries can be used, the grade will be lower.
Moreover, they also need to obtain some basic patents for electric vehicles from Shenlong Automobile Company. If they want to circumvent it, it is not that easy. Even if they can circumvent it, it will require greater research and development costs, which is not worth the gain.
In terms of electric vehicle technology, Shenlong Motors not only focuses on technology patents that it can use, but also does not let them go, and has built patent barriers for itself.
Moreover, if these foreign car companies really intend to promote electric vehicles, they must promote their electric vehicle infrastructure, such as charging piles. Otherwise, there will be no suitable place to charge electric vehicles when purchasing them, which will raise the threshold for consumers.
The current most advanced charging technology is in the hands of Huaxia International Petrochemical Company. They have to purchase equipment from this company, which can also bring a lot of income to Huaxia International Petrochemical Company.
The most important thing is that they have improved these infrastructures and made it convenient for Shenlong Automobile Company, so that their electric vehicles can finally be sold abroad and enjoy the benefits of the infrastructure services provided by these foreign car companies.
Nowadays, the voice of green environmental protection is getting louder and louder internationally. Among the charity funds invested by his companies, there are funds related to environmental protection issues, and his international actions are not small at all.
However, environmental protection is indeed a very important issue. He does not want to see economic development. However, the earth is facing more and more frequent extreme weather, and the earth is becoming increasingly uninhabitable.
This is one of the reasons why he pays so much attention to environmental protection and has taken a series of measures to this end. The development within our country is still quite good, but the situation abroad is not optimistic.
Originally, when the economies of these developed countries were very good, they might still pay attention to issues related to environmental protection. However, although their economic development has not stagnated, it is still unsatisfactory, and naturally they do not pay enough attention to environmental issues.
We all live on the same earth. We here cannot do our best to protect the environment and hope to reach the level of carbon neutrality in a short time. However, foreign countries just ignore it. So if we make such a big effort, we will reap the benefits. The effect is not very big.
Therefore, the environmental protection fund under their company has not only funded many environmental protection projects internationally, but has also actively called on countries around the world to pay attention to environmental protection, and has also invested in many issues related to the global environment.
If you want to get countries around the world to pay attention to environmental protection, you naturally need to produce convincing data. No one will care if you just say nothing, so supporting relevant scientific research and investigation work is essential.
In addition, our country's efforts and contributions in the field of environmental protection also need to be actively publicized to let the world see what a responsible big country should look like.
Western countries have always regarded themselves as managers of the world order, leaders of global science and technology, and leaders of global development. If they do not set an example in this regard, these self-proclaimed titles will be somewhat eclipsed.
Therefore, publicizing our country's environmental protection achievements will not only help our country gain more favor in the world, but also allow our country's rapid economic development to be globally recognized, and will not be considered to be the result of environmental damage.
At the same time, it can also encourage, or even force, Western countries to pay more attention to the field of environmental protection. After all, we are all on the same earth. If we ignore environmental protection, it will be irresponsible.
In the past, issues in the field of climate and environmental protection began to receive strong attention in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Kyoto Agreement was signed in 1997, and the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2016.
It is already too late to pay attention to the issue of climate change at such a late stage, because after the agreement is signed, it will take some time to implement it, and some countries have repeated it, making the situation even more complicated.
Therefore, the sooner the world pays attention to the threat posed by climate change to human survival, the better. It is not just these environmental protection funds that are taking action. Even ATV has made a lot of efforts and publicity in this regard.
In addition to reporting on our country's efforts and achievements in environmental protection, especially our country's efforts in carbon emissions, after all, climate change is mainly caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, which leads to an increase in global temperatures.
In fact, our country's efforts are not limited to this aspect. Compared with the impact on climate, the impact of greenhouse gas emissions is the largest and the most difficult problem, and of course it needs to be solved first.
Moreover, they have also produced a large number of documentaries on climate change, and specially dispatched experts, scholars and photography teams to the Arctic and Antarctic to investigate the melting of ice in these places.
At the same time, we also pay special attention to the living conditions of organisms in these places. When these places that usually do not receive much attention, through their documentary lenses, they are truly conveyed to the eyes of the global public.
When people discovered that the world was quietly changing due to climate change, and many creatures had become extinct or were gradually becoming extinct, it aroused global public attention to atmospheric changes.
Because in the final analysis, we humans are also one of the many creatures on the earth. Although we rely on knowledge to survive better, after other creatures gradually disappear, it may still be our turn in the end.
In addition to these promotions, Lime Entertainment has also produced science fiction films related to changes in the earth's environment. For example, a science fiction film similar to the previous "The Day After Tomorrow" has attracted the attention of global audiences.
Because what they filmed is even better than "The Day After Tomorrow". They not only performed special effects for small scenes and plots, but also performed special effects for large-scale global disasters. What they did is not comparable to "The Day After Tomorrow".
Coupled with 3D projection, it shows global movie audiences an immersive scene of the end of the world, and also allows global audiences to intuitively feel the disasters that climate change may bring.
Although the film's technique is a bit exaggerated, it has also succeeded in making ordinary people around the world have a more intuitive understanding of the disasters caused by climate change and pay more attention to environmental protection topics.
In the future, Lime Entertainment will release an earth disaster science fiction film every one or two years. In addition to making money, the purpose is to further awaken the global public's attention to environmental issues.
Therefore, he was not particularly surprised to see foreign companies starting to study electric vehicles. In addition to environmental protection issues gradually attracting the attention of the global public, they also did not want to lag too far behind DPCA in this regard.
Now Shenlong Motors is definitely a global automobile giant and a benchmark for the research and development of other automobile companies around the world. Although they do not think they can defeat Shenlong Motors in the short term, at least they cannot lag too far behind.
So his view on this is that as long as Shenlong Motors does not take the initiative to promote electric vehicles abroad, the possibility of large-scale promotion is not high, unless the environmental issues in this area have reached the point of disgusting consumers.
Business operations are mainly based on profit, and they will not launch products that are completely different from their previous development paths for no reason, which will bring them additional costs.
As long as Shenlong Automobile Company does not use electric vehicles to force them, they will not have much motivation to promote electric vehicles. They do not think that they can overthrow Shenlong Automobile Company with electric cars. Instead, they will be more restricted.
Therefore, the reminder from Xinhui Energy Company does not have much significance. Otherwise, Shenlong Automobile Company would have been prepared to deal with it long ago, because they may have received the news earlier than Xinhui Energy Company.
However, he remembered another environmentally friendly car technology, that is, hydrogen fuel cell technology. Japan had a very deep layout in this area in the previous life, but their market was too small, and others simply did not follow their methods.
If they feel that they cannot defeat Shenlong Motors in the field of electric vehicles and will instead be subject to many restrictions, they may change in this direction. If they unite, they still have great hope of success.
At that time, they will bypass the layout of Shenlong Automobile Company and meet the environmental protection needs of global users. The benefits to them will be far higher than the development direction of electric vehicles.
In fact, Shenlong Automobile Company also has research and development of hydrogen fuel cells, but it is not their main focus, and the energy invested is still very limited. Although there are many results, there is still a big gap compared with the establishment of patent barriers.
So after reading the business report of Xinhui Energy Company, he sent an email directly to Shenlong Automobile Company, asking it to speed up the research and development of hydrogen fuel vehicles, master a large number of patented technologies, and establish technical barriers.
He just wants to block the roads of other automobile companies. No matter how they jump, they can't escape his Wuzhishan. Although it is impossible to eliminate them, they can continue to suck blood from them. (End of chapter)