Chapter 73: The Despair of the Hengde Era!

At this moment, Ceng Daqun added another sentence:

"By the way, Tianqi Energy has another advantage: its only shareholder is Tianqi Technology, and the only shareholder of Tianqi Technology is Su Xin himself."

"In other words, Su Xin holds 100% of the shares of Tianqi Energy. There are no other shareholders, so he can increase capital whenever he wants without considering anyone else's opinion. Therefore, as long as he is willing, he can completely use low prices to seize the market and continuously invest funds to expand rapidly."

For other listed companies, if they want to significantly increase capital and shares, they must dilute the shares of other shareholders or have every major shareholder increase their capital. This requires negotiation by the board of directors and is not a decision that any one person can make.

But with Tianqi Energy's share structure, as long as Su Xin is willing, he can continue to invest money to expand at any time. As long as there is enough capital, the company's scale can expand however he wants.

This kind of efficiency is something other companies cannot compare to at all.

Upon hearing this, the several executives became even more desperate.

Technology and cost are the most core competitive factors in the new energy battery industry, yet they do not have an advantage in either.

Even if their current market share is the highest in the world and their company scale is far larger than Tianqi Energy's, without core advantages, these are nothing but castles in the air.

Plus.

With Tianqi Technology, a powerful cash cow, behind it to continuously provide blood to help it expand, Tianqi Energy's production capacity will surely rise rapidly, which will leave them without even a chance to breathe.

Once Tianqi Technology's press conference ends, Hengde Era's stock price will surely plummet.

Whether it is capital or retail investors, they will surely abandon Hengde Era at the first opportunity.

In fact, even the few executives themselves, if not for the restrictions of their contracts, would be thinking about rushing to sell off the Hengde Era stocks in their hands right now to minimize their losses, let alone those outsiders.

The sudden emergence of the Thor Battery has the greatest impact on other power battery manufacturers and major traditional car companies that are its competitors.

Because apart from the Thor Battery, all other power batteries will have no competitiveness, and traditional fuel vehicles are also destined to be eliminated.

Therefore.

Besides CATL, others falling into despair include all power battery manufacturers, including Gotion High-Tech, Sunwoda, Farasis Energy, and so on.

As well as many domestic car companies.

Especially those joint-venture traditional car companies.

As for other new energy vehicle manufacturers, or the new energy departments of those joint-venture car companies.

Because they do not produce power batteries themselves or follow the new energy vehicle route, they are actually pleasantly surprised rather than shocked by the release of the Thor Battery.

Because, with the release of the Thor Battery, new energy vehicles will surely become popular in the future; this is the best time for them to seize the market!

Of course.

The premise is to grab an order for the Thor Battery.

Thus, before the press conference had even ended, many car companies tried to contact Tianqi Energy, wanting to place orders at the first opportunity.

After all, everyone can see that Tianqi Energy's initial production volume is definitely not high. Whoever can seize an order from Tianqi Energy first might be able to gain the upper hand in the upcoming new energy vehicle market and become an overnight success.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Some company executives even imagined that if they could wrap up all of Tianqi Energy's limited production capacity, it would mean that in the short term, they would be the only ones on the market equipped with the Solid-state Battery.

At that time, they would be the focus of countless people, and both capital and customers would flock to them.

Perhaps they could use this opportunity to rise rapidly, raise funds to expand, seize the market, and turn things around in one fell swoop to become one of the top car companies domestically or even internationally.

Executives from new energy vehicle companies like Future Automobile, Dream Automobile, Dapeng Automobile, and Lingpao Automobile even personally called to try to contact Su Xin.

It is just a pity that they could not get in touch at all.

On the other side, inside the Apocalypse Energy Factory.

Su Xin's press conference had not yet ended, and the phones in the business department were being blown up by major car companies; even the factory manager, Li Yongxian, received many calls from car companies.

"I'm sorry, President Wang, our production capacity is limited right now, and the orders are already full. If you want to place an order, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until a few months from now."

"I'm not sure exactly how many months, but at the latest six months. This is stipulated by the boss. According to current production capacity, we can accept at most six months of orders. If subsequent production capacity increases, we should be able to finish production early, and only then can we accept new orders."

"Paying more won't work either. The boss specifically instructed that without his permission, the price of the Thor Battery is not allowed to have any changes."

"Queue up? I'm sorry, the boss only allows us to accept orders when we have excess capacity. Queuing up is useless; if you come late next time, there still won't be any."

"Once production capacity increases, we will announce it publicly. President Wang, please remember to pay attention then."

"That's all for now. I have things to be busy with. President Wang, let's talk next time."

After answering more than a dozen calls in a row, Li Yongxian's mouth was almost dry. Taking advantage of the short gap after hanging up the phone, he hurriedly set his phone to whitelist mode, and only then did he let out a sigh of relief.

"Phew, these people are truly crazy!"

"However, this is no wonder; after all, that is the most advanced and unique all-solid-state battery in the world right now."

Li Yongxian grinned.

He thought back to a week ago, when the first production line was finished being retrofitted and the initial trial production of the Solid-state Battery was successful; his own performance was even more excited than those car companies.

Before this, he had never imagined that one day he would be able to become the factory manager of the first factory in the world to produce the Solid-state Battery.

Although this technology was not developed by him and the factory did not belong to him, he still felt immense honor.

"It's just a pity that right now only one production line can barely produce the Solid-state Battery, and the yield rate is not high, so the production capacity is really too low."

"The retrofit of the second production line will take at least another week to complete, and plus debugging and preparation, it will take at least ten days to officially go into production."

At this moment, the phone rang again.

Li Yongxian picked up the phone and looked, and seeing the word "Boss" in the remarks, he hurriedly answered it.

"Boss!"

"How are the orders?" Su Xin asked.

"According to the boss's requirements, we only accepted a total of 3GWh of orders, which is equivalent to the current six months of production capacity, and every company's order is limited to within 1GWh, so no single company has monopolized the capacity."

"Good. The retrofit of the second production line must be hurried. Also, didn't I have you recruit some engineers before? Train them quickly. The factory is about to expand, and these engineers will be of great use. Don't delay the big things."

"Okay, Boss."

After the call was hung up, Li Yongxian gathered the factory's management and senior engineers to hold an emergency meeting to pass down Su Xin's requirements.

Before Su Xin's press conference was held, due to trial production, it was impossible to keep the Solid-state Battery Technology completely confidential.

Therefore, several members of the factory management, including Li Yongxian, had actually known the secrets of the Solid-state Battery for a long time, but they had simply not publicized it at Su Xin's request.

Of course.

Given their status as minor characters, even if they had publicized it or taken the initiative to expose it to the media, no one would have believed them; therefore, without the drive of profit, they naturally obeyed Su Xin's order to keep it strictly confidential.

But precisely because of the issue of confidentiality, after the factory recruited dozens of engineers, it did not immediately conduct training related to the Solid-state Battery production process, but had been waiting for the right moment.

Until today, the moment had finally arrived!