My science and technology museum - Chapter 187 The so-called cooperation

“What do you think about this matter? If you have any ideas, please tell me.”

Fuzhou City.

Ningwang New Energy Headquarters Building.

As the chairman of the board, Zeng Yansheng sat at the main seat in the conference room, looking around at the company’s core personnel on both sides of the desk, asking everyone for their opinions.

As a leader in the battery industry, Ningwang New Energy’s assets have already exceeded one trillion yuan.

It was the undisputed industry leader before.

But since the advent of Xingyuan Battery’s solid-state power batteries, their market share has been severely impacted. In addition, their reputation has been greatly reduced due to problems with sodium-ion batteries, and they are now in a very embarrassing position.

If the batteries cannot be sold, the production base will have to reduce or even stop production.

After all, all new energy vehicle brands now use solid-state power batteries. If they still use traditional lithium batteries, they simply cannot survive in the market.

This has forced their user base to change from new energy vehicle companies to electric vehicle companies.

The main Xingyuan battery production capacity is limited, and it also has to ensure the normal operation of so many charging centers. Under this situation, even many well-known new energy vehicle brands cannot get enough solid-state batteries, let alone common electric vehicles. car company.

In desperation, several well-known domestic electric vehicle companies can only continue to use traditional lithium batteries, and they have become customers of Ningwang New Energy.

But you must know that Ningwang New Energy has previously provided power batteries to many overseas car brand companies, so there is no way to satisfy this market share.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is appropriate to say that he is lingering on his last breath.

certainly.

Ningwang New Energy is also actively looking for new solutions.

In addition to wanting to enter other fields, it is also actively conducting technical research on solid-state batteries.

We strive to reduce production costs as soon as possible.

In fact, it is not that they cannot produce solid-state batteries, but their technical level is not enough, and the production cost of batteries is much higher than that of Xingyuan batteries.

This alone is doomed to be unsaleable for their batteries.

What’s more, Future Technology has made such a big move to build charging centers and battery replacement stations in major cities across the country, completely rewriting the problem of difficulty in charging new energy vehicles.

In this way, if users want to enjoy the service of replacing batteries at any time without wasting time, they can only buy cars equipped with Xinyuan solid-state power batteries.

But what Zeng Yansheng never expected was that under this situation, Xingyuan Battery suddenly invited them to discuss cooperation.

The purpose makes people think deeply.

However, the two companies had been in a state of competition before. Ningwang New Energy fell from the altar and was defeated by Xingyuan Battery.

Although in the final analysis it is due to the inadequacy of their own technology, under normal circumstances there should be no intersection between the two parties.

What’s more, it’s this kind of proactive invitation to discuss cooperation.

It is difficult not to suspect that future technology may have some special purpose.

It was precisely with this in mind that Zeng Yansheng did not respond hastily to Xingyuan Batteries, and finally convened this high-level meeting at short notice.

I hope it can open up new ideas.

Find appropriate responses.

At this time, as Zeng Yansheng’s words fell, other people in the office seemed to have opened up their chat boxes and expressed their opinions.

“Right now, Future Technology is asking us to proactively cooperate. I’m afraid the weasel has no good intentions in paying New Year greetings to the rooster. We must make corresponding preparations in advance.”

“Not necessarily.”

“I’m afraid I can’t agree with your remarks. I think Future Technology may really want to cooperate with this move.”

“What can they do with us? I think the other party is interested in our production capacity and wants to acquire our company.”

“According to the news, Future Technology has been gradually expanding into overseas markets recently. In the face of such huge demand, their supply of solid-state batteries will definitely be very insufficient, so it is normal for the idea of ​​acquiring our company to come up.”

“Beatti was also invited this time. It seems that the other party really has a big appetite.”

Zeng Yansheng listened to everyone’s words and saw that the atmosphere in the conference room gradually became depressing, and he suddenly understood that he could no longer remain silent.

So he immediately interrupted everyone’s discussion.

“okay.”

“No matter what plans we have for future technology, we must go to Binjiang City this time.”

Nowadays, Future Technology is a behemoth when looking at the world, and it is not something that Ningwang New Energy can offend.

Although Zeng Yansheng had no intention of selling the company, he still had to attend the invitation.

Otherwise, what is reasonable will become unreasonable.

really.

When Zeng Yansheng made his decision, everyone else immediately became silent.

He just showed a complicated expression, not knowing what was going on in his heart.

But just when Zeng Yansheng was about to make a final decision on the matter, he heard Zhou Jia in the crowd suddenly say: “Chairman, otherwise leave it to me to take charge this time.”

As the person in charge of the sodium-ion battery project, Zhou Jia previously had a high status in the company.

After all, traditional lithium batteries had completely lost their competitiveness compared to Xingyuan’s solid-state batteries at that time, and sodium-ion batteries, which were in the research stage, were the most promising to defeat solid-state batteries and reverse the situation.

Zeng Yansheng naturally attached great importance to him.

However, the gap between reality and ideals is too big. There were problems in the first cooperation between sodium-ion batteries and Pingguo, which directly ruined the value of this product.

For this reason, they also fought a long lawsuit against Pingguo, causing serious losses to themselves.

Under normal circumstances, Zhou Jia would not be allowed to stay in the company if there were such big problems with the batteries he was researching.

However, in view of the situation of Ningwang New Energy and the need for Zhou Jia to continue to overcome the battery problem, this allowed him to maintain his original position.

But the right to speak has declined a lot.

Perhaps because he wanted to be taken seriously by the company again, Zhou Jia has been looking for opportunities to express himself.

This time the company was suddenly invited to cooperate with Future Technology. He always felt that there might be a turning point, so he took the initiative to say this.

I hope to serve as the company’s representative to Binjiang City this time.

However, he was eventually rejected.

“Although we are in a competitive relationship with Xingyuan Battery, the due respect still needs to be in place. This time I can only go there in person.”

When Zeng Yansheng heard Zhou Jia’s suggestion, he shook his head and refused without any hesitation.

He has received the latest news. From BYAT’s side, who was invited along with Ningwang New Energy, the chairman personally went to Binjiang City to accept the invitation.

If they only send representatives, there will inevitably be a feeling that they do not take future technology into consideration.

If the future technology side is unhappy, maybe the other party will seriously consider it even if they have no idea of ​​acquiring Ningwang New Energy.

But just when Zhou Jia felt disappointed, a familiar voice sounded in his ears again.

“The details of this cooperation are unknown, otherwise you can come with me.”

Perhaps considering that bringing a professional technician with him would be useful in certain situations, Zeng Yansheng added this.

But no matter what Zeng Yansheng thought, Zhou Jia was undoubtedly very excited after hearing the news.

He quickly and categorically assured: “Don’t worry, Chairman, I will be ready.”

Everyone else in the conference room saw a slight change in their expressions when they saw this scene, but in the end they remained silent and did not raise any objections.

that’s all.

After the meeting is over.

Zeng Yansheng made preparations actively and was invited to Binjiang City the next day with Zhou Jiahe and his secretary assistant.

Zeng Yansheng was originally full of doubts about this so-called cooperation, especially after arriving in Binjiang City, he felt that something was not right.

Because in his opinion, since the person who proposed the cooperation was Jia Zhongjie, who was in charge of the Xingyuan battery business, the meeting place should be at the Xingyuan battery production base in Binjiang City.

In fact, they were taken to the Longhu High-tech Park of future technology.

…

“Chairman Wang.”

“You have always cooperated with Xingyuan Battery. I wonder why Vice President Jia invited us here this time?”

Longhu High-tech Park.

In the reception room of the Battleship Building, Zeng Yansheng immediately took the initiative to communicate with Wang Fu, Chairman of BYAT, when he saw him here.

I hope I can get more information so that I won’t be too passive later.

It’s a pity that Wang Fu doesn’t have much more information than him.

“I’m also quite surprised about this matter. I’m afraid I won’t know until Vice President Jia comes over.”

Although BYD also has a battery production base, after all, the car brand is the big one, and thanks to its cooperation with Xingyuan Batteries, it has not been greatly affected.

And they have been using Xingyuan solid-state power batteries for a long time, and everything went very smoothly in the middle. Now that they were suddenly called over by Xingyuan Battery, he also had a question mark in his mind.

So after briefly responding to Zeng Yansheng, he sat there and waited patiently.

Not long after.

Just as the door of the reception room was opened from the outside, under the gaze of the two of them, they saw two figures stepping in.

But it was not Jia Zhongjie who was leading the way, but Xu Lei, the president of Future Technology.

“Mr. Xu!”

Seeing such a scene, Wang Fu and Zeng Yansheng stood up almost at the same time, their words full of surprise and surprise.

I really didn’t expect that it was Xu Lei who proposed this cooperation.

Xu Lei saw the performance of the two people and immediately greeted him enthusiastically: “Please sit down quickly. It is indeed my intention to invite you two here this time, but I still hope that you can consider this cooperation carefully. “

When things got to this point, Zeng Yansheng couldn’t bear it any longer. He started asking almost as soon as he sat down again.

“Mr. Xu.”

“I don’t know what kind of cooperation you are talking about?”

Seeing that Zeng Yansheng was so interested, Xu Lei did not continue to beat around the bush and made his purpose clear.

“it’s actually really easy.”

“We hope you can OEM solid-state power batteries for Xingyuan Battery.”

“I think you all know the next layout of future technology. The market demand for solid-state power batteries will be a huge number.”

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