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Chapter 213: Taking advantage of the popularity?

At this time, Kangchi was still inspecting a newly built power swapping station in Dongyang. The staff was conducting final debugging work on the newly installed automatic power swapping system.

"At the end of the actual test, the battery replacement time totaled 54 seconds, which met the acceptance standards."

After hearing the feedback from the staff, Kang Chi nodded with satisfaction.

Speaking of this automatic power swap system, a rather twisty thing actually happened.

When we first learned that Datang Heavy Industries planned to build large-scale power replacement stations, Weilai showed great interest and felt that they finally had like-minded comrades.

So Weilai was very proactive and contacted Datang Heavy Industries, hoping that the two parties could cooperate.

However, after several rounds of contact, Datang Heavy Industries just refused to use NIO’s power swap standards in the power swap stations to be laid.

The reason is that NIO’s battery packs do not meet Datang Heavy Industries’ standards.

For the same reason, the technology of battery swapping stations is also not up to standard.

This made Mr. Li feel disappointed and a little unhappy.

If Datang Heavy Industries does not cooperate with NIO and adopt NIO's standards, then the many power swap stations built by Datang Heavy Industries will be useless to NIO car owners and cannot improve NIO's user experience.

Moreover, if your own things are rejected by others, no one will be happy if you replace them.

This made Mr. Li deeply realize that Kangchi was clearly here to subvert the standards of the new energy industry this time!

Even if Weilai shares his philosophy, he is still not immune.

In fact, Mr. Li is somewhat naive about the battery swap mode.

From a business model perspective, battery swapping is destined to be a monopoly of only one company.

The simplest reason is that if a car's battery happens to reach the scrap standard when it is replaced,

So who should be responsible for scrapping this battery?

After they are scrapped, who will pay for new batteries?

Is it Datang Heavy Industries or NIO that is responsible?

Or other companies that join the battery swap service?

Even if all batteries are owned by Datang Heavy Industries and Datang Heavy Industries is responsible for scrapping and replacing them with new ones, new problems will still arise.

For example, some battery swap stations can give priority to old batteries to car owners to ensure that the batteries at their battery swap stations are all new. Their power reserves will be higher than others, and they can make more profits by selling electricity at off-peak hours.

Once everyone follows the trend, the result is that new batteries are all in battery swap stations and old batteries are in car owners’ cars.

Another example is that some battery swapping stations feel that it is too troublesome to scrap batteries and replace them with new ones, so they simply continue to replace them with car owners and pass the blame to other battery swapping stations, resulting in situations such as old batteries being kicked around.

This is just what Kang Chi can think of after just thinking about it, and with the dirty thoughts of those capitalists, they may be able to come up with even more bizarre 'business models'.

In short, there are too many places to argue here, and it is definitely difficult to guard against...

Originally, Kangchi wanted to buy battery swapping technology from NIO to save some time and energy.

But because the conversation between the two parties was not very pleasant, Kang Chi did not speak in the end.

And although Weilai's battery swapping technology is quite mature, it is actually far from meeting Kangchi's requirements.

First of all, NIO’s battery swap service requires car owners to turn on automatic parking so that the car can automatically and accurately move into the battery swap parking space.

In the future, Datang Heavy Industry's battery swap station will serve a wide variety of car models and car owners. It is impossible to require every car to have an automatic parking function.

Not everyone is an experienced driver, and car owners who do not have automatic parking may not be able to park the car accurately at the battery replacement position...

Secondly, NIO’s average battery replacement time is about five minutes.

Kang Chi's goal is to compress the time of this matter to less than one minute.

In this way, while improving the efficiency of users' power swapping, it can also greatly reduce the equipment and space of the power swap station and save money. Therefore, even if you buy NIO's battery swapping technology, you still need to make drastic improvements to the design.

So Kangchi finally decided to spend more time designing and manufacturing a power swap system from scratch, and then upgraded the analysis to obtain more advanced technology.

After completing the inspection of this battery swap station, Kang Chi and Chen Hai returned to the car, and then received a call from Zhang Qing.

"Mr. Kang, Tesla is holding a press conference."

"So soon? When?"

"Three days later."

"Well...we should stick to the plan, November 11nd."

"understand!"

Ever since, after Musk announced that he would hold a Tesla facelift model launch conference in three days, Datang Heavy Industries followed suit and announced that Datang Heavy Industries would hold a new car launch conference on November 11.

The time is exactly one day later than Tesla.

Because Datang Heavy Industries does not have many fans on major social platforms, this announcement did not attract much attention at first.

Until Kangchi’s own Weibo, as well as Daqin Optics, Dahan Silicon, Dahan Core, CATL, Qirui Automobile and other companies, they all forwarded Datang Heavy Industry’s announcement on major social platforms, which immediately caused a stir on the Internet. aroused heated discussions among netizens.

"Damn it, Mr. Kang really built a car?"

"When I was in Jianghu, I had long heard rumors that Qi Rui was helping Datang Heavy Industries manufacture a pure electric vehicle. I didn't expect it to be true, and it was so fast."

“First it was about replacing the power station, then it was investing in CATL to manufacture sodium batteries, and now it’s the new car launch event, it’s all connected!”

"It is indeed Master Kong's style. He does a complete show. Is this a rhythm that requires the entire industry chain to take over?"

"Where is this? The batteries are manufactured by CATL and the cars are manufactured by Qirui. They are far behind BYD."

"Upstairs, do you know what OEM means? It means that the core technology is owned by Datang Heavy Industries. Master Kong can make it himself anytime he wants, but it's just not necessary."

"Damn, I'm so excited! I wonder what surprises Mr. Kang can bring us this time."

"Holding a press conference one day later than Tesla? Why does it feel like Warwick is attacking Xiaomi? Is Mr. Kang going to target Tesla?"

"..."

Anil, the head of Tesla's Greater China region, soon learned the news from the public relations department, and immediately reported this "suspected targeting from Kangchi" to Musk.

"Aimed at us?" Musk just curled his lips lightly after hearing this, "Don't worry about them. Aren't there many people who have taken advantage of our popularity in recent years?"

"But... this Kangchi has a pretty high reputation in China, and after all, he can build EUV lithography machines. All the signs in the current Chinese market show that he has great ambitions for the electric vehicle market. They are all very big, and I think they are likely to pose a huge threat to us..."

"So?" Musk immediately asked, "Aren't we going to hold a press conference?"

"Anil, he hasn't made a move yet, why are you panicking?"

"No matter what card he holds in his hand, he has to wait until he plays it before he can consider how to deal with it."

"What's more, they are a company that has just started to get involved in the electric vehicle industry and has never sold a single vehicle. However, we are in a leading position in the global electric vehicle market. In addition, we have established a brand in the hearts of Chinese people over the years. No matter how you look at their image, they are in a passive position."

"The reason why the press conference was held one day after us was probably to find our weaknesses and then gain popularity."

Anil actually understands this truth,

But he didn't know why, but after knowing this, he always felt a little uneasy.

Maybe he did overreact?

(End of this chapter)