You can click wrong on the technology tree, but as long as you click enough, there will always be one right.

As for India, although it has a population of 1.4 billion, it does not even have a complete basic industry, let alone a manufacturing power. What's more, India is not friendly to the manufacturing industry and has set up various obstacles. Indians say more but do less.

Personality is more suitable for working as a waiter in Western countries.

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Li Weidong got the policy and established a financial company. In a few months, billions of funds flowed into the upstream industrial chain of the home appliance industry, and a large group of small and medium-sized enterprises were able to upgrade their technologies.

Home appliances are an industry with relatively mature technology. It is not difficult for upstream industries to upgrade their technology. Sometimes, just by introducing more advanced equipment, you can make better products.

However, the introduction of equipment requires funds, and small and medium-sized enterprises are the most difficult group to obtain funds.

Bank loans have never been friendly to small and medium-sized enterprises, which is the same in all countries. This is the choice of capital.

When looking for investment, the conditions offered by investors will also be relatively harsh, and there is a tendency to swallow up the company in one go. Small and medium-sized enterprises dare not seek skin from the tiger.

Nowadays, there are financial companies willing to lend money, and everyone is naturally eager to ask for it. Businesses have never been against settlement, and many small businesses will even borrow some loan sharks on the road to development. Puppy Finance is a formal company after all, although the loan

The interest rate is higher, but still much lower than loan sharking.

Several billions of funds were lent out in just a few months. Many people who didn’t know the truth thought that Li Weidong was doing charity. With such money, what investment could earn more than the interest? The risks and benefits are not worth it!

However, when Li Weidong began to use asset-backed securities as collateral to obtain loans from banks, everyone realized that it was his own sales pattern. Puppy Financial invested one billion in funds and rolled out tens of billions of loans. The interest earned

It's extremely cost-effective.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on interest, and no one realized that Li Weidong's real purpose was to control the entire upstream industry chain of the home appliance industry.

It was not until a few years later, when the United States launched a trade war and wanted to decouple its industrial chain from China, that it was discovered that the entire upstream supply chain of the home appliance industry was more or less related to Li Weidong.

At that time, a total of more than 200 billion in accounts payable and receivable were in the hands of Puppy Financial. Li Weidong established an upstream supply chain strategic alliance in one sentence, making the decoupling of the industrial chain a joke.

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In the laboratory, there is an electric car that has been completely dismantled into parts. The Tesla "T" logo is still on the hood of the car.

Li Weidong and Mr. Wang from BYD stood side by side, staring at the pile of car parts in front of them.

"The battery technology used by Tesla is not more advanced than ours, but it is much better than us in terms of software. If you give me another two years, we will definitely surpass Tesla!" Mr. Wang showed a confident expression.

"We are making progress, and Tesla is making progress too. He can't stand still and wait for us. Don't underestimate Musk. This guy's thinking is so wild that he never knows when he will come up with something for you."

A revolutionary new technology." Li Weidong reminded.

"I know, but I am still confident that we can surpass Tesla in the near future!" Mr. Wang continued: "Speaking of new technologies, as far as I know Tesla is recently developing a technology related to aluminum alloy die-casting, which should be

Something to do with body casting.”

"It is an integrated die-casting technology for the body. The body is cast in one go through a large die-casting machine. This can save hundreds of parts and eliminate the sheet metal stamping and welding processes. This can improve production efficiency and greatly

Drastically reduce costs." Li Weidong answered.

"You have more information than I do!" Mr. Wang was very interested and did not ask the source of the information in detail. After thinking for a moment, he said: "This technology sounds feasible, but there is a technical difficulty, that is, the parts are in

It is easy to deform when heat treated."

"So it is necessary to overcome the difficulty of high-strength and toughness heat-treated die-casting new materials. Once this hurdle is overcome, body integrated die-casting will be solved." Li Weidong paused and then said;

"I have already begun to make plans in this area. There have long been no technical barriers to the downstream production of integrated die-casting machines. The problem is new materials in the upstream. I have invested in several scientific research institutes, among which Shanghai Jiao Tong University has made phased progress.

results."

Mr. Wang rolled his eyes at Li Weidong, and then said with a smile: "I understand, other scientific research institutes come to you with their results to ask for funds, so you come to me and share the scientific research funds equally!"

Li Weidong nodded: "How about it, can you pay this money?"

"It will definitely happen! If we can make an integrated body, it will be a revolution for the automobile industry. I can't lag behind others." Mr. Wang paused and then said: "But since we want to make an integrated body,

If we want to achieve transformation, then we need to do a thorough one. Not only do we need to make an integrated body, but it is best to integrate the battery and the body together to make a battery-body integration!"

After hearing these words, Li Weidong's eyes flashed with surprise. Isn't what Mr. Wang said exactly the CTB technology that BYD will be doing in the future?

"As expected of the Battery Immortal, he really knows how to draw inferences from one instance. Before this one-piece die-casting technology was developed, I thought of CTB technology!" Li Weidong thought to himself.

Mr. Wang, who was on the opposite side, continued: "If I think about it carefully, this integrated body also has a big shortcoming, which may not be very friendly to consumers."

"You mean the maintenance fee is expensive?" Li Weidong said.

"You have thought of it too!" Mr. Wang nodded with deep approval, and then continued; "Although the integrated body can save parts, it will also significantly increase the cost of repairs. Originally, only parts need to be replaced, which may

If you need to replace the car body, it will eventually be passed on to consumers."

"Let the insurance company increase the premium for car damage insurance!" Li Weidong smiled and continued: "Actually, there is a solution to this. First, we can make the car stronger. Secondly, we can use technology to increase the car damage insurance premium.

Some assisted driving technologies can reduce the incidence of traffic accidents, thus reducing maintenance, which naturally reduces maintenance costs."

"Assisted driving and software are Tesla's strengths!" Mr. Wang sighed.

Li Weidong nodded with deep approval: "The sense of technology is Tesla's strongest point, but the sense of luxury is what Tesla lacks. Ordinary consumers spend so much money to buy cars, and they always want a little luxury.

Sensational.

There must be some leather interiors. It would be terrible if you only see a bunch of plastic! We can work hard in this area. As long as the sense of technology can be similar to that of Tesla and the sense of luxury is better,

Don’t worry if you can’t kill Tesla!”

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The production of automobiles has roughly gone through five stages. The first stage was before 1913, a manual workshop-style production model, where workers could knock out a car with a sledgehammer and wrench.

It was not until 1913 that Ford invented assembly line production, which greatly improved the production efficiency of automobiles, and automobile production also entered its second stage.

However, with the improvement of people's living standards, there is also a demand for quality cars. American rough assembly line production can no longer meet market demand. At this time, Japan's lean management model began to emerge.

Japanese companies, led by Toyota, adopt a "multi-variety, small-batch" production model, improve quality and reduce costs through management, and quickly seize the market. This is the third stage of automobile production.

After entering the 1980s, Volkswagen in Germany began to promote modularization and platformization. The so-called modularization means that parts are common. For example, many parts of Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche can be common, which reduces production costs.

The so-called platformization is to use the same platform to produce different styles of cars. For example, the Audi Q 5 production platform is used by Volkswagen to produce the Touareg, and for Porsche, the MA is produced. Such a platform can produce multiple models.

automobiles, thus reducing R&D costs.

Volkswagen's move has brought the evolution of automobile production to the fourth stage. In order to reflect the advantages of modularization and platformization, automobile companies have developed towards multi-brand development. Most of the mergers and reorganizations of some big brands occurred at this stage.

After entering the 21st century, Tesla entered the automobile industry. Although Tesla is an energy vehicle, it still cannot escape from the traditional automobile production process, which is the four major links of stamping, welding, painting and final assembly.

.

When it comes to traditional production processes, Tesla is far inferior to traditional car companies. Traditional car companies have been making cars for decades, and the accumulated production and management experience cannot be learned in a short time.

Therefore, in the early days of Tesla, it was always suffering from insufficient production capacity. At that time, many people said that Tesla was starving for marketing, but in fact, it really could not produce that many cars.

Fortunately, Musk has an unconstrained mind. He has developed an integrated die-casting technology, which has brought revolutionary changes to automobile production. This technology has greatly improved the efficiency of automobile production. It takes Volkswagen to produce a car.

, Tesla can produce three cars, and car production has entered the fifth stage.

New technology has greatly reduced Tesla's production costs. At that time, wealthy people spent more than 800,000 yuan to buy a Tesla with a battery life of 300. Looking at the same model now selling for more than 200,000 yuan, I have a profound understanding of what "

The feeling of being wronged.

But don’t feel like you’re making a profit if you buy a car worth over 200,000 yuan. With Tesla’s production costs, there is still room for substantial price reductions in the future. There’s no chance for a big bastard, but a small bastard is inevitable.

Tesla's early integrated die-casting only integrated dozens of parts of the car body together. This was considered version 1.0 of integrated die-casting technology.

The CTP technology developed on this basis is now the mainstream of new energy vehicle production and can be regarded as the integrated die-casting version 2.0.

The full name of CTP technology is Cell To Pack, which means that the battery module is reduced or removed, and the battery cells and battery shells are directly integrated and hung into the body chassis, which is commonly known as the "battery sandwich" in the media. In this way, a car can save 300

to 500 parts.

BYD has taken a step further in CTP technology and developed CTB technology, which is the concept of "battery body integration", which can be regarded as the 3.0 version of integrated die-casting technology.

This achieves high torsional stiffness of the motor and also allows part of the body to participate in force transmission and energy absorption. Overall, it makes the car more powerful and safer.

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Mr. Wang took Li Weidong to another laboratory.

"This is the hydrogen energy battery we developed!" Mr. Wang paused and then said, "The research and development is easier than we thought. From a technical perspective, mass production should not be a problem."

"What about patent restrictions? Japan almost has a patent monopoly in this area. If mass production is carried out, I am afraid that Japan's patents will not be bypassed." Li Weidong asked.

"Patents are not a problem. Japanese companies have already sent us invitations to cooperate. They are willing to share their patents in hydrogen energy," Mr. Wang said.

"Are the Japanese's conditions harsh?" Li Weidong asked immediately.

"With the number of patents held by Japan, if they are really willing to open to us, then their requirements are still within the acceptable range." Mr. Wang replied.

"The patented technology that the Japanese are willing to provide should not include the production, transportation and storage of hydrogen, right?" Li Weidong asked again.

"Japan does not hold many patents on hydrogen production. As for transportation and storage, it does have some. However, in our early contacts, the other party was unwilling to disclose too much. However, in terms of hydrogen energy battery applications, Japan is more

Are you willing to share your technology?" Mr. Wang said.

Li Weidong thought for a moment and asked; "In other words, in terms of hydrogen energy application, Japan's technology is relatively mature and willing to share it. But in terms of hydrogen transportation and storage, Japan has most likely mastered the core technology, but it still

I want to be able to eat alone. As for the technology of hydrogen production, the Japanese are only half-matched and not much ahead."

"Our strategy department also conducts this kind of research and judgment." Mr. Wang nodded.

"Haha, it seems that we still need to click on the right technology tree!" Li Weidong smiled and sighed.

"Technology tree?" Mr. Wang hesitated for a moment, and then said, "This is what the game says! Do you mean that the Japanese took the wrong path?"
To be continued...