Mixed In the United States As a Local Tyrant

  Chapter 99 Super Battery

Fortunately, Joanna found out in time, and Dandan's illness improved on the second day, and on the third day, he resumed his usual life and vitality. However, An Feng suffered a lot from Joanna, and he was also pregnant. He accepted all the blame, it was his own fault anyway, and Joanna would not curse.

Miss Fu's cursing skills are limited, An Fengbai propped his chin in boredom, and she couldn't beat her by answering a sentence in three minutes... The time soon came to the beginning of May, and Joanna became busy. May and June are the traditional graduation season up. And An Feng also received the latest news from GP: the battery has broken through!

  An Feng once asked that the word "breakthrough" should not be used before the super battery is actually manufactured. The apprentices all know the temper of the boss, so they usually use "progress" and "small success" instead. This time repeating three emails are all "Breakthrough" subject.

  An Feng did not dare to neglect, and flew to Austin on a special plane the next day.

  In the cabin, the notebook was looking up the report sent to him by the leader of the battery team, Etan Bassett. In the graphene research and development project, Song Wenrui is the team leader, but in terms of super batteries/capacitors, Etan Bassett, a Jew, is the real technical man. Song Wenrui is more specialized in the chip field.

Although Anfeng's battery/capacitor technology has the name of "graphene", it is quite different from the "graphene battery" researched on the market. Modern ones "use lithium batteries to connect the surface of graphene and the electrodes. The characteristics of rapid and massive shuttle movement". In GP's research and development concept, these are only semi-finished products, and the technology provided by Anfeng can already be called a complete product.

  So this is the reason why the team members are obsessed and unwilling to leave even if the treatment is average. Who is willing to give up the technology beyond the current concept product?

After Anfeng’s plane landed in Austin, the company’s special car picked him up and sent him to the headquarters of GP. Apart from anything else, together with CEO Benjamin Hawley, team leader Song Wenrui, Etan Bassett from the battery pack, and Tian Hao from the chipset, he was in a hurry. Walk into the changing room, put on dust-free clothes, and enter Laboratory No. 1 after inspection.

  In the spacious and white laboratory, the technicians are waiting. The experimental products are placed on the table.

There is a complete set of accurate battery capacity testers in the laboratory, which can detect data such as charging and discharging time, voltage, temperature, current, etc. Now the experimenter is connecting the super battery. At the same time, Etan Bassett introduced in English with a little accent : "Compared with lithium-ion batteries of the same volume, the super battery we developed has a power density of more than 100 times, and an energy density of more than ten times..."

   "Please be amateur." CEO Hawley said jokingly.

  Everyone laughed, and the excitement relaxed a little. Bassett listed the data as simply as possible: "By comparison, the capacity of a super battery of the same volume is more than 30 times that of an ordinary battery, and the charging time is maintained within ten seconds, while the discharging time surpasses that of a capacitor, and it only takes two seconds!"

   "What about the lifespan?" An Feng asked.

Bassett is more serious about technology bosses: "Because of the combination of three kinds of chemical engineering, the experiment speculates that after 300 charges, or after a year or more of use, the battery efficiency will still be higher than that of lithium-ion batteries on the market today. Ten times, while the maintenance cost is relatively lower."

   "Good job." An Feng praised, even a layman who doesn't know much, knows what Bassett said about the data.

  Benjamin Hawley suppressed his excitement and tried to make his tone sound calmer, but everyone still clearly felt his joy: "What's the cost?"

  It won’t work just to manufacture it, and the cost is too high to mass-produce. Regarding this, Bassett said: “The cost of this Type VI experimental product is about 1.2 million U.S. dollars.”

   The figure of 1.2 million dampened the excitement of many people, the cost is too high! If it cannot be lowered, it is basically impossible to achieve full-scale mass production of the low-end. Of course, An Feng's expression didn't change from the beginning to the end. Nonsense, when is the cost of the experimental product not high? It is to get it out first, before we can consider how to compress the material, reduce the cost, or use counterfeit components...the last one is ignored.

Bassett looked at the faces behind everyone's masks. Only the laymen's faces changed, and the experts were not surprised. He continued: "There are almost no such advanced products in the market. I think Mr. Hawley is a Great supervisor, you should know what to do."

  Hawley nodded: "Try to keep the leading cost performance, how much do you need to pay?"

Bassett said: "I haven't actually tested it, but according to Mr. An's plan, the cost can be reduced to two to three times that of conventional batteries on the market, while the capacity can be kept five to eight times, and the charging time can be maintained at three to five minutes. In this regard, high-end and low-end requirements customized by enterprises are required.”

  Naturally, high-end products are the best, fastest and most expensive, for showing off. And the low-end can come at will, anyway, it is more cost-effective than other traditional batteries. Later, they watched the on-site charge and discharge test several times, and the data was astonishing. Even before the test started, the company specially replaced a special transformer.

   After watching the third discharge process and the data recorded on the computer display screen, An Feng smiled and said, "Do you know what I thought of?"

  Everyone looked at him.

   "Railgun!" An Feng said.

  Everyone suddenly realized. Indeed, electromagnetic railguns require huge currents to pass through parallel guide rails in an instant. Traditional batteries are impossible. Capacitors are possible, but they need to form a huge and bloated matrix.

   This is the reason why the Americans have been unable to equip the army after they invented the electromagnetic gun. The technology obtained by An Feng is not only in the civil field, but also has an impact on the military: if there is a nuclear reactor for power, and super batteries are used for fast charging and fast discharging, do you think there will be problems with the railgun? But he didn't intend to show his cards so soon. Sometimes, being too eye-catching can lead to unexpected troubles.

How cunning competitors are, they all need to abide by the rules, but a national government, they may not completely care about these... An Feng is well aware of the importance of super batteries to the military, and it also means that they will bear risks before they have enough strength, so This battery will not be available for a long time.

   Even after today, it will be destroyed.

   But back to the topic, if such an advanced technology is released, someone must be able to afford it, right? Smart companies, even if they have mastered these technologies, take their time and divide them into technical levels of ten or twenty years. The behavior of revealing the hole cards all of a sudden is not done by businessmen, and making money is about steady streams.

  So no matter from the perspective of the country or business, this battery costing more than one million yuan is destined to be impossible to appear in ten years—instead, a super battery with much weaker performance than it turned out. It can be predicted that it has brought about an unprecedented revolution in the battery industry, and its monopoly momentum is invincible.

  After watching the experiment, everyone withdrew, and everyone who visited signed a thick non-disclosure agreement. Leaking secrets would lead to a lifetime of lawsuits. At the same time, Hawley did not forget to remind the company's legal department to pay attention to patent applications. This time it was for real. If possible, "how many times the technician went to the toilet on the way" should be recorded.

  The patent application is handed over to the specialized team of the major shareholders of the company to handle it. It is also a special case, and it is won in the shortest time. After changing out of the dust-proof clothes, everyone gathered together, and the excitement was still not relieved. After the secretary sent champagne and wine glasses, everyone clinked glasses and cheered each other.

From electric vehicles to batteries for any mobile device, even electric aircraft, in this environment where technology is becoming more and more developed, oil is less and less, handheld devices are more and more, and cars are more and more environmentally friendly, high-capacity, fast The fast-charging and fast-discharging batteries can easily capture the market.

The wealth is beyond doubt, and the low cost means that it has no rivals in the short term. Hundreds of billions of wealth can be easily collected, and victory will be easily captured... and the current shareholders even Thinking about how to deal with antitrust laws.

   Research and development technology An Feng thinks that no one can match, but when it comes to means, the giants are experts.

  (end of this chapter)