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707: Chapter 707: Battle of Wits with the Scholars!

Drawing the Sword and Mounting the Horse!

707: Chapter 707: Battle of Wits with the Scholars!

Drawing the Sword and Mounting the Horse!

Perfect Experience!

Impeccable Testing!

Wu Jie’s meticulously prepared automobile technology feast had the multitude of leaders in attendance hailing it as utterly satisfying.

However, no matter how flawless, there would always be those who harbored objections.

During the technical discussion, various tricky questions and challenges were endless.

For Wu Jie, of course, it was an opportunity to directly confront and ‘clash’.

He had to not only convince them wholeheartedly but also take the chance to harvest a wave of energy points by making them begrudgingly impressed.

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“I just took a test ride and drive, and I think your company’s cars have decent craftsmanship, materials, and design features, but I’m skeptical about the battery life.

Isn’t it artificially inflated?

After all, we only had a test ride for a couple of hours, which is hardly comprehensive.”

“The test ride and drive experience is indeed brief, but if you want a complete experience, you can go to our track and drive until the battery runs out, and see how many kilometers it covers!”

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“The most important performance indicator for electric vehicles is the battery’s charging speed, capacity, and the number of charge-discharge cycles, etc.

Today’s rushed experience doesn’t show us how durable your batteries are, or how fast they can be charged.”

“The Graphene Composite Battery is designed to last for 1,500 cycles.

If charged with a 220V household AC supply, it would take four hours to charge fully, but with a charging pile, half an hour is enough!”

“But when an electric car runs out of power, the owner can simply go to a battery swap station and exchange it for a charged one; they don’t need to worry about charging times or life cycles, just like gas car owners don’t worry about running out of fuel at the gas station.”

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“Taking half an hour to fully charge, your electric car’s so-called convenience and speed simply don’t exist, do they?”

“My company’s electric cars have batteries that are considered paid consumables.

If it runs out of power, you just go to a battery swap station and exchange it.

A skilled worker can get it done within a minute—isn’t that convenient and fast?

Isn’t that similar to how a fuel car stops by a gas station?”

“Additionally, the battery swap stations have special fast-charging devices.

The batteries that are swapped out can be immediately recharged.

Together with the ones in stock, we can theoretically service an unlimited number of electric cars each day—something that gas stations can’t do, right?

Their storage tanks have their limits!”

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“What about your cost-effectiveness?

With international oil prices fluctuating, there’s a lot of room for them to drop.

How do you compare with fuel cars?”

“Oil prices going down?

What kind of international joke is that?

Fuel cars cost around seventy to eighty cents per kilometer.

I swap a battery for just a hundred, which makes the car go three to four hundred kilometers—that’s less than thirty cents per kilometer.

Who’s cheaper?”

“Moreover, if car owners don’t want to visit a battery station and want to save costs, they can just find a charging pile or an extension board and charge it themselves.

Can fuel car owners refine their own oil at home if they decide not to go to a gas station?”

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“What about the wear and tear on your batteries?

Frequent charging and discharging will cause the battery life to become shorter and the storage capacity to decrease, won’t it?”

“The battery swap stations I’ve built are not only responsible for chargeable swapping but also for inspection and recycling.

Batteries close to the end of their life are taken back by the stations, sent to the factory for scrapping or refurbishment!”

“Factories, battery exchange stations, and electric vehicles create a continuously cycling supply chain, producing, using, and recycling.

With our operational management measures, every battery used by vehicle owners is reliable and safe within its lifespan!”

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“Reliable and safe?

Isn’t that a bit of an overstatement?

Electric vehicles currently on the market often have accidents where they overheat and self-ignite or leak electrolyte after a collision.

Are you saying your batteries and electric cars are immune to these risks?”

“Electrolyte leakage after a collision…

that I cannot prevent.

If a gasoline vehicle gets hit too hard, its fuel tank and engine can leak too!

But I can assure you, even if it leaks, it’s pollution-free and not easily ignitable.”

“As for battery overheating and self-ignition…

there are plenty of cars here for you to choose any, leave it under the sun to bake, if the temperature isn’t high enough for you, add an electric grill, or even take out the battery and throw it into a fire.

See if it explodes!”

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“You seem to have great confidence in your own batteries, but what about your electric vehicles?

Can you guarantee their safety a hundred percent?”

“This leader looks like someone who doesn’t drive often, you always have a chauffeur, don’t you?

Among all modes of transportation, cars have the highest probability of accidents because there are just so many on the road.

If you don’t hit someone, someone else might hit you!”

“Even the best safety designs and the most advanced warning technologies cannot prevent improper operation by vehicle owners or other drivers.

But our electric vehicles’ safety features are no less than those of gasoline cars, and they undergo various collision tests before they are put on the market for sale!”

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“Speaking of features, after test driving several models, I feel that the technology isn’t very advanced.

Is this to reduce costs?”

“Automatic parking, lane departure warning, 360-degree backup camera, blind spot monitoring…

these common and practical technological features are all available.

Moreover, we choose equipment from mainstream manufacturers.

What do you mean the technology isn’t advanced?”

“Some big-brand cars have these concepts of autonomous driving, but is that realistic?

Currently, the law is still unclear.

Would you dare to let the car drive itself on the road?

Who is responsible if there’s an accident?

I could give you this technological feature, but you wouldn’t dare to use it, so what’s the point?”

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“Mr.

Wu, even if your electric vehicles are safe and reliable and, when combined with battery exchange stations, are economically practical and affordable, what about the price?

What about the cost of maintenance later on?

Domestic cars can be bought for just tens of thousands of yuan these days.

Can you compete with that?”

“My company’s three electric vehicle models start at two hundred thousand yuan—the selling price is not cheap, but the subsequent operating costs are definitely very affordable because the most important power systems are simple and come with a lifetime warranty.”

“In contrast, what about gasoline vehicles?

The engine and gearbox require an oil change at least once a year or every ten to twenty thousand kilometers, right?

But my electric vehicles can achieve a running cost of only about one or two mao per kilometer.

With the high price of oil, can gasoline vehicles do that?”

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“Oil prices are indeed expensive nowadays, but who’s to say they won’t drop one day due to tax reductions or increased exports from oil-producing countries, thus making the operating costs of gasoline vehicles much lower as well?”

“I am curious, when have oil prices and housing prices ever drastically dropped?

Even if the oil price were halved, what then?

Nowadays, most gasoline vehicles are automatic, consuming about ten liters per hundred kilometers.

That’s equivalent to four or five mao per kilometer.”

“Moreover, you only consider the drop in oil prices.

Why not think about the possibility of electricity prices dropping as well?

As nuclear, wind, hydro, and solar power generation methods, all green and clean energy sources, continue to be promoted on a large scale, won’t the electricity rates be cheaper during off-peak hours at night?”

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“With such a glowing description, does that mean your batteries have no pollution at all?

Are they truly and utterly clean and green?”

“During the process of battery exchange at stations, usage by owners, and production in the factory, we neither use heavy metals and highly toxic compounds nor produce any solid or liquid waste.

Where would the pollution come from?

Even if there were any, it would be the responsibility of suppliers or coal-fired power plants.

But can you blame me?”

“What about gasoline vehicles, then?

From drilling and transportation to refining and burning, the whole process involves pollution emissions.

Every day, hundreds of millions of gasoline vehicles drive and emit exhaust, exacerbating air pollution.”

“If generation through hydropower and wind power is used, and if other parts manufacturers also adopt green manufacturing, then theoretically, my electric vehicle would be impossible to pollute at all, unless you intentionally bury the car in the ground to let it rust and pollute the environment!”

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“The advantages of electric vehicles are, in fact, clear to everyone.

And this extremely exceptional battery, did your company really develop it independently without plagiarizing foreign patents?”

“Plagiarize foreign inventions?

Leader, such an attitude that worships everything foreign is very dangerous!

Are advanced technologies inevitably foreign?

If that’s the case, then why haven’t they hurriedly manufactured and promoted it to make a fortune?”

“And we are not less intelligent than foreigners, right?

Would you dare to say our ancestors’ four great inventions were plagiarized from abroad?

Would you dare to claim that, facing strict embargoes, our ‘Two Bombs and One Satellite’ could have been plagiarized?”

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“But such an advanced battery has not been successfully developed by numerous enterprises and scientific research institutions both domestically and abroad, yet your startup has suddenly succeeded.

Isn’t that too bizarre?”

“Bizarre?

Scientific research is actually quite similar to buying lottery tickets.

Can you say that if you buy one, you will win, or that buying more guarantees a win?

To succeed in scientific research, you not only need persistent large-scale investments but also luck!”

“Why can’t those traditional large institutions manage it?

There are other factors involved.

They talk about national sentiments when it comes to salaries, national rejuvenation in terms of treatment, and arduous struggle when it comes to requirements.

Yet, a meal in private for the leaders is equivalent to a researcher’s monthly salary!”

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“So, was the Graphene Composite Battery a serendipitous invention?

A matter of luck?”

“How many experiments did Edison conduct, how many materials did he use up, before inventing the light bulb?

Developing a high-performance battery requires an even greater number of material compositions.

Even if the principles are the same, variations in proportions, differences in structural processes can all lead to different outcomes!”

“Some scientific institutions might have tried countless times without success, but I was lucky.

I didn’t need many attempts to achieve success.

This kind of luck, winning a huge lottery prize with just a few tickets, you can’t deny it, can you?”

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“If your battery and electric car are so perfect, then why aren’t you rushing to promote and sell them?”

“Your question is somewhat naive.

Any car model has to undergo various technical inspections in accordance with laws and regulations, and only after passing those can it be marketed and sold, right?

As a law-abiding entrepreneur, would I operate illegally?”

“But rest assured, in the near future, you will see various electric vehicles racing on the streets, while your company’s gasoline and diesel can continue to be sold at high prices!”

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Questions!

All sorts of probing questions!

Many of the questions were not just tricky and challenging but felt mocking and ridiculing.

This made Tan, sitting next to Wu Jie, very serious with not a smile in sight.

But he could understand why.

Once electric vehicles were to replace fuel cars on a large scale, enterprises dealing in oil would be severely impacted.

A daily net profit of two to three hundred million yuan, who would willingly give up their profits?

Therefore, their leaders obviously wouldn’t show a good face to Wu Jie.

And Wu Jie, who dared to flatly contradict even the Star Federation envoy, proved to be extremely formidable!

In ancient times, there was Zhuge Liang, who faced objections from Eastern Wu strategists alone and debated with them.

Today there was Wu Jie, standing alone against the intense questioning of many powerful leaders, fighting like a warrior.

Not only did he argue with sound logic, but he also made sharp counterattacks.

When faced with sarcasm, he could retort just as firmly.

Seeing some leaders’ faces turn the color of liver, Tan couldn’t help but find it amusing internally.

As for Fang Qingya, Huo Bin, and others, they were already stunned on the sidelines.

Facing numerous authorities and experts, Wu Jie remained neither humble nor arrogant, countering them head-on.

If it were them, they would have been too intimidated to utter a word by now.

Even just watching from the side made them nervous and apprehensive, worried that Wu Jie might stumble upon a question and face an embarrassing silence.

However…

Wu Jie stood alone, wielding his arguments like a weapon, energized throughout, and totally unstoppable!

No matter the question, he could always respond eloquently and with biting irony.

Fang Qingya and the others could only watch in admiration.

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Finally!

The technical discussion that lasted a full two hours had come to an end.

Wu Jie, who hadn’t slept for three days and nights, still appeared calm and energized.

In contrast, the ‘attacking’ leaders and experts all looked flushed and exhausted, with no arguments left to make.

At the moment of departure,

Tan couldn’t help but give Wu Jie a thumbs up.

“To borrow a common saying, you’re indeed talented!”

“Go for it!

Even if you break the sky, I’ll back you up!”

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