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Chapter 693 - 693 693 Madness!

693: Chapter 693: Madness!

Go Big or Go Home!

693: Chapter 693: Madness!

Go Big or Go Home!

Not a peep until a startling roar!

Since I’ve decided to play, let’s play big.

Wu Jie pondered for a moment, then immediately snapped his fingers.

“What’s up, Jie?” Fang Qingya asked in surprise, “Did you come up with a good idea?”

Wu Jie gestured for Fang Qingya to sit down.

He casually picked up the paper and pen from the table and began to write furiously, noting down three key points.

Quick, economical, safe.

Fang Qingya’s eyebrows knitted together in confusion.

Wu Jie put down the pen and asked, “Next, stand in the car user’s shoes and answer my questions truthfully, can you do that?”

“Of course!

I learned to drive when I was eight, a veteran driver with more than ten years of experience, absolutely knowledgeable!”

Fang Qingya said, patting her chest decisively.

“Is a gasoline car more convenient and quicker than an electric car because refueling is faster?” Wu Jie asked with a smile.

“Definitely!

Even with rapid charging, electric cars can only charge to eighty percent in half an hour, and at full load can only drive a little over a hundred kilometers, while gasoline cars can fill up in three to five minutes, even if you have to queue for refueling, and they can run four to five hundred kilometers.”

Fang Qingya spoke with conviction, telling the bare truth.

Wu Jie smiled faintly and asked again:

“What if I standardized and modularized the power battery pack, built battery swapping stations on a large scale across the country, and made it so that electric cars could simply swap out a fully charged battery pack in three to five minutes, would you accept that?”

Fang Qingya was stunned.

“This…

what kind of operation is this?

If vehicles with the same load can switch to a new battery and be as convenient and fast as filling up a tank of gas, with a similar range, of course I would!”

“The difficulty with promoting electric vehicles now is because charging stations are tricky to set up.

To install a charging station in a residential area, you first need to get permission from the homeowners’ association, then have the electric power company increase capacity, and after that, construction.

It’s a lot of procedures, and very expensive.”

“If electric cars could also go to a swapping station to change their batteries when they run out of power, just like gasoline cars, that would indeed be convenient and quick, but this cost wouldn’t be cheap, right?”

Wu Jie said with a smile: “Cost is exactly the economy!

We went to refuel tonight, did you see the price?”

Fang Qingya nodded:

“I saw it, the gas is really expensive!

92 and 95 are around eight Yuan, and the price isn’t stable either.

It often drops a little only to rise a lot, who knows, it might hit ten Yuan per liter some day!”

“With many cars in the city averaging about ten liters per hundred kilometers, that’s equivalent to eight mao per kilometer, and I think the electric car’s cost must be below six mao to have an advantage!”

“To do research, I bought all the electric cars available and tested them.

New cars running air conditioning at full load have power consumption from 15 to 25 kWh per hundred kilometers.

Tesla does it best, but it’s still 15 kWh!”

“Charging according to the commercial and industrial electricity rate, the nighttime cost is five mao four per kWh and seven mao three during the day.

It seems like the per kilometer cost is just over one mao, but considering battery costs and lifespan degradation, it’s at least five mao per kilometer!”

…

Fang Qingya had really put a lot of effort into understanding electric cars.

All the data was memorized by heart, at her fingertips.

After listening to her, Wu Jie asked with a smile:

“To travel five or six hundred kilometers, a gasoline car needs a full tank of gas, costing four hundred Yuan, but if an electric car swaps a battery pack, I only charge two hundred Yuan or even less each time, what do you think?”

Fang Qingya laughed in amazement, “That’s certainly great!

It saves money for car owners, but your costs can’t be low, right?”

Wu Jie chuckled.

“You’re wrong!

I charge two hundred Yuan and provide a fully charged battery pack.

Even if I stored a hundred kWh of electricity, I would charge it at the swapping station with industrial power, which is only five mao per kWh, so the full cost is just sixty Yuan!”

“Even accounting for battery maintenance, depreciation, and the daily expenses of a swapping station, the cost is one hundred Yuan.

Each battery swap earns a net of one hundred Yuan.

If there are one million electric cars changing batteries across the country every day, that’s a net profit of one hundred million Yuan a day!”

Fang Qingya was dumbstruck.

Set a small goal to earn a hundred million a day?

Oh my!

Wu Jie’s estimate was indeed conservative.

Currently, there are hundreds of millions of cars in the country, and if electric cars could reach 30% of the market, that would be a hundred million cars.

An average car owner drives about ten thousand kilometers a year, which means changing the battery twenty times, four thousand Yuan.

If you calculate it like that, it’s a huge market of four hundred billion Yuan with a terrifying 50% profit margin.

Doing business nowadays,

who dares guarantee a profit margin of no less than 50%?

Scary!

Too damn scary!

Building a gas station, with storage tanks, fuel dispensers, pipelines, and canopies costs less than a million.

The key is buying land, handling procedures, running approvals, acquiring oil tankers, finding channels, etc., which are also costly.

Even with connections, a gas station in a big city requires an investment of tens of millions, while in remote areas, it also costs millions.

By comparison,

the swapping stations that Wu Jie talked about?

Just find a relatively spacious area, set up a canopy, and build a charging workshop.

Then draw 380V of power supply, set up a small substation, and use the industrial electricity for charging.

Not only is the construction cost low, but the approval procedures are also simple, all settled with one to two million.

If it were a franchise model, the expansion speed could also be very fast.

Capital is greedy.

For the sake of making money, people would even speculate on crops.

Garlic viciousness and Ginger you army, aren’t these deliberately hyped up?

Moreover, in recent years, a large amount of capital has entered the rental housing market.

They crazily lease houses from owners, and after forming a monopolized resource, they forcibly raise the rent by more than 20%.

Earning hundreds to thousands more in rent for a house, those who hoarded up to hundreds of thousands of homes, make a net profit of over a hundred million every month.

However…

Compared to Wu Jie’s business of making a hundred million a day, it’s still lacking.

So if technology is mature and policy permits, it would absolutely take only three to five months to spread across the country.

Those wanting to make money would go crazy building battery swapping stations.

Just think of the frenzy of house speculation when real estate prices soared, and you’ll know how terrifying the construction of swapping stations will be in the future.

…

It’s truly spine-chilling!

Fang Qingya took a deep breath and asked:

“What about safety?

The current tank and pipeline design of fuel vehicles is really quite impressive.”

“Gasoline and diesel also contain added anti-explosion agents, effectively preventing vehicles from catching fire and exploding upon impact.”

“But electric vehicles…

There have been quite a few cases of explosions caused by battery overheating!”

Wu Jie said with a smile, “First off, battery swap stations will have uniform construction standards and a uniform safety operation process, so there’s no need to worry about safety.

You agree with that, don’t you?”

Fang Qingya nodded and said, “I agree with that.

Just like gas stations with comprehensive fire-fighting facilities and trained staff, incidents at gas stations are not very common.

I’m only concerned about the safety of electric cars!”

Wu Jie said with a smile, “Firstly, from a technical perspective, I can make the batteries resistant to overheating, cold, and impact compression.

Secondly, each battery pack has a life cycle of replacement.

Before reaching that number of cycles, I will recycle the battery packs from the swap stations and provide low-cost replacements for the old ones.”

“Lastly, in the structure of the electric car itself, we will design it to withstand impacts, vibrations, and overheating, ensuring that the battery pack has a relatively good operating environment.

Even in the event of a collision, it won’t catch fire or explode!”

Fang Qingya chuckled.

“After all that, battery swap stations seem easy to manage, and all electric cars could adhere to a standard, having a designated spot for the battery pack at either the front or the rear of the vehicle.

But the question is…

where is your battery?

There aren’t any of these amazing batteries on the market you speak of, right?

A battery that allows a fully loaded car to travel five or six hundred kilometers would surely cause a major earthquake in the global energy industry once it’s launched!”

“By that time, many regions like Zhongzhou Continent, Yezhou Continent, and others might increase oil production and lower taxes, dropping the price of oil to four or five yuan a liter, eroding your cost advantage!”

“Of course, in the long run, they won’t be able to hold out, because oil is a non-renewable resource that runs out once it’s gone, whereas electricity is different.

Hydropower, wind power, solar energy—there are various methods of power generation that are virtually inexhaustible!”

…

Wu Jie simply smiled without saying a word.

With the system at hand, why worry about a lack of cutting-edge technology?

As for the impact…

Wu Jie had certainly thought about it.

Firstly, the battery industry.

Launching his graphene composite batteries would impact more than just cars.

Airplanes, cell phones, tablets, laptops…

even submarines—batteries were used in too many places.

The entire industry would undergo a technological reshuffling.

Manufacturers producing high energy consumption, high pollution, and low-performance batteries would definitely fall by the wayside in large numbers.

…

Then comes the automotive industry.

Nowadays, there are many domestic car brands, with new energy vehicles emerging endlessly.

In traditional automotive strongholds, the automotive industry is a pillar of the economy.

It absorbs a large number of workers and generates substantial socio-economic benefits.

Cars equipped with graphene composite batteries would outperform fuel vehicles.

For traditional major car manufacturers, this would be a fatal blow.

They would either follow the trend and introduce Wu Jie’s graphene composite batteries to produce electric vehicles,

or they would stick to their old ways, watching their market share shrink until they went bankrupt and closed down.

…

Last but not least, the energy industry.

Since mankind learned to refine oil, this industrial gold has made countless people and nations rich.

When people think of Zhongzhou, they instantly think of ‘nouveau riche.’

Dazzling opulence and luxurious extravagance!

Using gold as decorations, luxury cars for hotel pick-ups, even the police cars patrolling the streets are supercars…

Most of the world’s oil produced each year is refined into fuel for use by cars, airplanes, and ships.

The appearance of high-performance graphene composite batteries would at least reduce the use of fuel by cars.

With over a billion cars in the world, if half of them became electric vehicles, they would stand to earn much less from fuel.

By that time, nations and businesses that had prospered from oil, as well as many oil industry workers, would inevitably see a sharp decline in income.

…

In any case.

Wu Jie used three million energy points to exchange for the technology of graphene composite batteries.

By leveraging this, he would shake up the three major global industries, affecting the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.

Envious?

Jealous?

Hateful?

When the time came, why would Jie worry about not earning enough energy points?

Not to mention completing the system task of earning one billion energy points, he could even aim for ten billion!

After all, those Zhongzhou oil tycoons on the Super Cruise Ship Brune would dare to bet billions of Gold Coins on a soccer match.

They’re not just rich, they are extraordinarily wealthy, filling Jie with perpetual envy—how many energy points could that earn him?

Having decided to go big, it was essential to ‘strike swiftly.’

Wu Jie immediately discussed plans with Fang Qingya.

Time slowly passed.

Before they knew it, it was morning.

The desk was piled with thick stacks of draft papers.

Wu Jie understood technology, Fang Qingya understood cars.

Their combined thoughts and ideas generated many plans.

At eight in the morning.

More employees started arriving at Tianyuan Green Energy Auto for work.

Fang Qingya immediately took Wu Jie to hold a staff meeting.

The entire company was hers, and of course, no one opposed what she said.

Three car models were redesigned and manufactured according to Wu Jie’s requirements…

The battery research institute immediately stopped imitating (copying), and Wu Jie personally led the team to tackle new battery types and their manufacturing processes…

Huo Bin was in charge of reducing vehicle weight, improving impact resistance, and complied with Wu Jie’s requirements to initiate the design and construction research for battery swap stations…

Wu Jie became the company’s new technical director as if he was a godsent hero.

And without spending a dime, he owned 49% of the company’s shares, which was quite puzzling.

New officers always fire up upon arrival!

Before Wu Jie even started making moves, the chairman of the Northern Fox Organization, Lepuron, arrived.

He spent a million to book a restaurant, closed it to the public temporarily, and invited Wu Jie for afternoon tea…