Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 460

Chapter 460 Magic Change Battery

The market value of the future bidi company has already reached the trillion mark, and the boatman’s net worth has exceeded 100 billion.

Investing in the just-established Bidi company can bring hundreds of billions of profits to Li Weidong.

In fact, with Li Weidong’s ability to know the future, he can invest in a few companies at will. It is not a problem to become the world’s richest man Dangdang.

But Li Weidong prefers to be a real industrial tycoon rather than a speculator in the financial or investment fields.

Playing in finance or investing can indeed make a lot of money quickly, but Li Weidong believes that industry is fundamental. If there is no physical support, whether it is finance or investment, it is just a trick of left-handedness and right-handedness.

The reason why Li Weidong invested in Bidi was not for profit, he really took a fancy to Bidi’s battery business.

Rechargeable batteries are the future development trend of small home appliances. Li Weidong needs a stable supplier of rechargeable batteries.

In addition, the warehouse forklift that Fukang Engineering is developing, and the micro-agricultural machinery that Fukang Agricultural Machinery will build in the future, also require batteries. These BYD can provide.

Before the Asian financial crisis, the rechargeable battery industry was basically monopolized by Japanese companies.

Sanyo is the leader in the rechargeable battery industry, followed by Panasonic and Mitsubishi. Even European and American countries have to buy rechargeable batteries from Japan.

At that time, the most widely used rechargeable battery was the nickel-cadmium battery.

However, nickel-cadmium batteries contain cadmium which is highly toxic. The recycling and disposal of nickel-cadmium batteries is also a very troublesome thing, and it is easy to produce pollution during the recycling process.

Therefore, Japan decided to stop the production of nickel-cadmium batteries in the country and move the nickel-cadmium battery industry chain to other countries, while Japan has switched to R&D and production of other types of batteries.

For example, the hydrogen fuel cell that Toyota has been developing is the product after the production of nickel-cadmium batteries ceased.

Toyota has always believed that hydrogen fuel cells are the future development trend, so it has put a heavy investment on hydrogen fuel cells.

Because of Toyota’s leadership in hydrogen fuel cells, Toyota has monopolized most of the patents in the field of hydrogen fuel cells. This has also formed a technical barrier that prevents other companies from entering the field of hydrogen fuel cells.

Toyota’s good calculation is to monopolize the technology of hydrogen fuel cells to occupy the dominance of new energy vehicles and even monopolize the entire field of new energy vehicles.

However, the technical barriers built by Toyota for hydrogen fuel cells have caused other battery companies to turn to research and development of other types of batteries, such as various types of lithium batteries.

As a result, Tesla was born, changing the pattern of the auto industry, and then companies doing new energy vehicles began to imitate Tesla, one after another.

Veteran car companies in Europe and the United States are also unwilling to show weakness, using their own accumulated technology to launch their own new energy vehicles.

The hydrogen fuel cell that Toyota has always held in its hand has become something no one cares about, and the various patents of hydrogen fuel cell have become a display.

So technology monopoly is not necessarily a good thing, especially when technical barriers are formed, it will inevitably lead new entrants to find other shortcuts, and once a new shortcut is found, it will often subvert the entire industry.

To return to the subject, Japan has decided to stop the production of nickel-cadmium batteries in the country. There are environmental considerations and industrial upgrading considerations. This also gives other countries opportunities.

The four Asian tiger countries in Southeast Asia have received a lot of nickel-cadmium battery production capacity from Japan.

In China, companies such as Bidi have also targeted nickel-cadmium batteries, hoping to fill the gap left by Japanese companies.

However, at the level of competition, Chinese companies were at a disadvantage at the time. After all, the technology lags behind others. The four Asian tigers attracted Japanese investment and technology. Most of them were factories directly set up by Japanese companies. leading.

However, the Asian financial crisis broke out, and the economy of Southeast Asia completely collapsed, and the nickel-cadmium battery projects that Japan invested in Southeast Asian countries were also cold.

While Chinese companies have taken advantage of the trend to rise, and quickly made up for the vacancy in the market.

So for Bidi, the Asian financial crisis in 1997 was a watershed.

Before 1997, Bidi survived by doing OEM for some second-tier Asian mobile phone brands.

After the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, Motorola, Kyocera, Innovation and Technology, and even Panasonic, which can make batteries on its own, became Bidi’s customers.

Bidi only took five years to achieve 80% of the production capacity of Sanyo batteries, becoming the world’s second largest supplier of rechargeable batteries.

The rise of Bidi is also related to Japan’s self-abolition of martial arts.

If Japan continues to produce nickel-cadmium batteries locally, or the Asian financial crisis does not break out, there will be no vacancies in the nickel-cadmium battery market, and bidi will not be able to rise quickly.

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In the face of investors, I always have to introduce the advantages of my own business, and draw a big pie by the way, blowing out how potential my own business is, so that the father of the funder will willingly invest money.

Boatman understands this of course, so he took Li Weidong to the laboratory of Bidi Company, which is the only place that Bidi Company can handle.

In the laboratory, the boatman showed his product, the eldest brother’s rechargeable battery, to Li Weidong.

Early mobile phones did not have a separate charging port. If you want to charge, you need to remove the battery and place it on a dedicated charger for charging.

“Chairman Li, this is the battery we produce, and its performance is definitely not worse than the original battery.” The boatman said proudly.

“Is this battery made of imported materials or domestic materials?” Li Weidong asked.

“We have mastered the electrolyte solution technology. The nickel and cadmium for the positive and negative electrodes still have to be imported. But now with your capital injection, I believe this year and the like, we will have made a technological breakthrough.” Boatman said. .

Li Weidong thought for a while, and asked, “What is the capacity of the battery you made?”

“This is 700 mAh, which is the same as the original battery standard.” The boatman replied.

Li Weidong shook his head: “700 mA is not enough, I think it must be doubled at least to 1,400 mA.”

“1400 mAh? The battery is too big, right?” Brother Boatman said subconsciously.

Li Weidong reminded: “You can make the battery thicker!”

“In that case, the battery is thicker than the older brother, right?” Brother Boatman said.

“What does it matter if it is thicker, just use it.” Li Weidong continued; “You don’t have your own brand, and you use imported raw materials. The cost advantage is not great. If your battery is exactly the same as the original battery, the consumption Why should you buy your battery?

If you want consumers to buy your battery, you must reflect the difference from the original factory. To make the battery capacity larger is a kind of difference.

Original battery can be used for one hour, and your battery can be used for two hours. Consumers who have high requirements for call duration will naturally choose your battery. ”

“It makes sense, why didn’t I expect it!” The boatman nodded suddenly, with an expression of admiration on his face.

“No wonder this Li Weidong is younger than me, but he can do such a big business. It seems that he is really very business-minded! If you encounter business problems in the future, maybe you can ask him for advice.” The boatman secretly said in his heart. .

After all, the boatman came from a scientific research background. It’s great to engage in technology, but after all, he has just started to do business and his experience is far inferior to that of Li Weidong. So Li Weidong just mentioned a few words, which will be enough for Brother Boatman to use for a long time.

In fact, the thickening of batteries proposed by Li Weidong was also a trend in the development of mobile phone batteries at that time.

In the past, mobile phone batteries were also integrated with the back cover of the mobile phone. The battery is equivalent to the back cover of the mobile phone. Unlike current mobile phones, the back cover is the back cover and the battery is the battery.

So making the battery thicker is equivalent to making the phone thicker, and it has no effect on the use of the phone.

It’s just that after the mobile phone battery becomes thicker, the volume and weight will increase.

With the technology at the time, a 700 mAh battery is much heavier than a mobile phone today.

Instead of increasing the battery of the mobile phone to 1,400 mAh, the weight is really like holding a brick in your hand, and touching it up against a person’s head, it will definitely be able to open the scoop.

In the 1990s, mobile phone manufacturers were dominated by European and American countries. Motorola, Nokia, and Ericsson were the Big Three in the 1990s, and Siemens was half a giant.

With the thinking of European and American companies, of course, in order to obtain a larger battery capacity, the battery will not be made as heavy as a brick.

The mobile phones of the Big Three are getting smaller and smarter.

However, Chinese companies have always liked to make magical changes based on actual conditions. So when Chinese companies started to produce mobile phone batteries, brick-thick batteries that could open their heads were born.

For example, the famous Motorola 8900, the thickness of the whole machine is only 26 mm, and the original battery is only 78 mm thick.

The large-capacity battery modified by the Chinese enterprise is more than 20 mm thick. At the same time, the phone conversation time can reach more than four hours.

Of course, the performance of nickel-cadmium batteries is far worse than that of later lithium batteries.

is also 1400 mAh. The big brother with nickel-cadmium battery can only talk for two or three hours, while the smart phone with lithium battery has more than two or three hours of video watching.

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After leaving the Bidi company, Li Weidong took a plane to the Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute in Shanghai and found Tang Hao.

“Tang Gong, help me make something.” Li Weidong said as he took out the razor, pointed at the blade, and said, “This is the blade, I want to make a floating one.”

“Floating? What do you mean?” Tang Hao asked puzzled.

“It’s like putting a washbasin on the water. I want to press it in that direction. As soon as I let go of it, it will change back to the original state.” Li Weidong roughly explained.

Tang Hao frowned and thought for a while, and then said; “Li Dong, this request of yours is not easy to achieve.”

“Don’t worry, I already have ideas about the design of the floating cutter head.” Li Weidong continued: “We can make a buckle in the cutter head holder so that the cutter head can move from side to side.”

“After that, how do you make the knife head return to its original position? Add a small spring?” Tang Hao asked.

“You don’t need a spring, but use a metal sheet. The metal itself is elastic. When a metal sheet is supported inside, when the blade is not stressed, the tension of the metal sheet will bounce the blade back to its original position.” Li Weidong explained. .

Tang Hao thought for a few seconds: “This design of yours is feasible. It can indeed make the cutter head achieve the floating effect you said. But once the cutter head starts to float, what should you do with the roller that drives the head to rotate? The shaft is fixed.”

“So I need to let the roller float with the cutter head.” Li Weidong said.

Tang Hao frowned again and began to think about how to meet Li Weidong’s requirements.

Li Weidong said, “Tang Gong, I don’t know much about this design, but I can provide you with an idea. Do you know about boring tools?”

Tang Hao nodded. As a high-achieving student in physics, he has also spent many years in the factory. He also has some understanding of machine tools. Of course he knows the most basic machine tool equipment such as boring cutters.

“There is something called a floating boring tool. I don’t know the specific structure, but I know there should be a spring inside. When the roller rotates, the spring also rotates.” Li Weidong explained.

“That is the elastic joint structure. I don’t know whether it is a direct fixed connection or an indirect fixed connection.” Tang Hao continued; “I will buy a floating boring tool and take a look at it.”

“Professional things, I don’t understand. But if you can get this floating cutter head out, I will reward you with a house, and you can pick any house in Shanghai.” Li Weidong said with a smile.

“No problem, just for you, I have to get this floating knife head out too!” Tang Hao said cheerfully.

For later generations, the floating head is the most basic equipment of the razor.

However, in 1995, this technology has not yet appeared on the market. Even the most technologically advanced Philips, it was only in the HQ8 series that the floating head technology was adopted.

The domestic companies basically only mastered this technology around 2010.

Of course, due to patent restrictions, there is still a slight difference between the floating cutter head technology of domestic companies and Philips’ floating cutter head technology. For example, adding a metal leaf spring, such as changing the kit combination.

In order to compete with Philips, Li Weidong decided to launch the floating cutter head technology into the market in advance.

Once the puppy shaver has a rechargeable battery and a floating head, it will truly have the capital to compete with Philips.

At that time, the puppy razor does not need to rely on price wars to win, but can defeat Philips with its solid quality.

It’s just that Li Weidong has only a general understanding of the technology of floating cutter heads.

When cleaning the razor usually, the head will be disassembled and the structure inside can be seen. But as for the design of the rollers, Li Weidong knew nothing about it.

He can only provide Tang Hao with a research and development idea, and the rest will have to be solved by Tang Hao, a high-achieving student of applied physics.

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