Chapter 74: A Press Conference That Changes the World!

Inside Tianqi Technology Company.

After Su Xin finished holding the press conference, he returned here and immediately summoned Liu Qingli and Liu Xuewei to the conference room, and requested that Luan Weiliang participate in the meeting via video call.

"Qingli, you contact Ding Kuiyong in a moment and have him return to the country immediately. We will start contacting major battery manufacturers to discuss acquisitions starting tomorrow. Tell him that if he cannot return to the country in time, we will have to hire someone else as the president of Tianqi Energy."

"Understood."

"However, even if he rushes back in time, it will take at least several days for him to become familiar with the company's situation. At that time, you will still lead the acquisition matters first; he will only be responsible for providing some professional advice. As for the matters here at Tianqi Technology, since it has already entered a stable period, you can put them aside for now. Before Ding Kuiyong is familiar with the business, I can only trouble you."

"This is what I should do."

Liu Qingli nodded earnestly.

Su Xin looked at Liu Xuewei again: "Although the acquisition of battery factories will not be completed that quickly, once the funds from the Sakura Country stock market return, the acquisition process will inevitably accelerate. By then, the company will expand significantly and the number of employees will increase greatly. You need to formulate employee incentive plans and a unified salary and benefits system in advance to avoid chaos when the time comes."

Liu Xuewei also nodded: "No problem!"

Finally, Su Xin looked at Luan Weiliang on the video screen and said sternly:

"You cannot be careless on your end either. Although the release of the Solid-state Battery can hit the stock prices of major car companies, the three major car companies will not obediently accept their fate. They will certainly use various means to suppress the decline in stock prices, such as using public opinion to mislead people into thinking that the Solid-state Battery Technology is imperfect or has various shortcomings."

"This kind of rhetoric cannot fool everyone, but it can always deceive quite a few laymen."

"And what we need now is efficiency. We must drive down the stock prices of the three major car companies at the fastest speed and transfer the earned money back to the country as soon as possible. I am still waiting for this money to use for expansion."

"Therefore, I will hire people to guide public opinion on the internet in Sakura Country, and what you need to do is to make the stockholders realize through operations in the stock market that the stock prices of the three major car companies will inevitably collapse!"

"I understand!"

Luan Weiliang nodded with a solemn expression.

Previously, he had no knowledge of the news about the Solid-state Battery Technology, so he had always held an opposing attitude toward Su Xin's act of going to Sakura Country to short the three major car companies, and he did not have much confidence in his heart.

Until today.

Su Xin asked him to pay attention to the press conference, and only then did he, like other netizens, learn that Su Xin had already developed the full set of Solid-state Battery Technology.

While shocked, he also finally understood why Su Xin was so certain that the stock prices of the three major car companies would fall.

After all, the three major car companies of Sakura Country had been the world's top car companies for the past several decades; whether in terms of volume, scale, or technical accumulation, they were at the world's top level.

Although they had actively embraced the trend after the rise of the new energy craze in the last decade, their R&D, production, channels, supply chains, and all other aspects were, after all, based on traditional fuel vehicles.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a large ship to turn around.

The more a company is like the three major traditional car companies of Sakura Country that are top-tier globally, the less easy it is for them to completely change direction.

Therefore, the three major car companies could at most allocate a portion of funds and manpower to independently research and operate new energy vehicle projects; in the research and promotion of new energy, they were not even as good as some new forces among car companies in Long Country.

Under such circumstances, the main strength of the three major car companies was still concentrated on traditional fuel vehicles, and the impression they gave was also that of fuel vehicle companies.

Once the Solid-state Battery Technology matured, the trend of traditional fuel vehicles would be no more, and it might even be considered by many to be about to exit the historical stage; then, the three major car companies of Sakura Country would inevitably face a catastrophic disaster.

Even a greater disaster than other car companies.

After all.

If they were those small car companies, with small volume, they might barely have time to transform before the storm arrived.

Or if they were already new energy vehicle manufacturers themselves, they only needed to find a way to snatch orders from Tianqi Energy to continue to survive, and they could survive very well.

But what about the three major car companies?

Their main force was in fuel vehicles; once this part was eliminated, the entire company could collapse.

Luan Weiliang was not a person in the automotive industry, but he could see this point very clearly.

"Since we are waiting for funds here to acquire factories and expand, the stock market side can wait at most another month. By then, no matter how much the stock prices of the three major car companies have dropped, we must start buying back shares to repay."

Su Xin continued to instruct: "Of course, if their stock prices drop by more than half within this month, you must notify me immediately."

In terms of the market value of the three major car companies of Sakura Country, if the stock price fell by half within a month, it would be a devastating blow.

It would also cause numerous companies upstream and downstream of the entire automotive industry chain to face a life-and-death crisis.

For Sakura Country, which took the automotive industry as its largest pillar industry, such a blow could not be considered small.

It might even possibly cause stock market turmoil, make many stockholders go bankrupt, and even further cause domestic unrest; it was not impossible.

……

After the Tianqi Technology press conference ended.

Many media outlets both at home and abroad published heavy-hitting news at the first opportunity, introducing the various powerful parameters of the Thor Battery with great fanfare.

Especially the domestic media.

Whether it was television news, online media, or some big influencers in the technology or automotive industries, they all published explanations about the Solid-state Battery on various platforms, as well as praise for the Thor Battery.

There was no help for it; the value and significance of the Solid-state Battery Technology were too significant. Anyone who knew a little bit about the industry wanted to ride the wave of the Solid-state Battery's popularity.

Plus, this technology was independently developed by our own people, and it was developed by our people first at a time when various countries were scrambling to spend huge costs on scientific research competitions, which gave many people the feeling that—

The people of Long Country had defeated all opponents!

This caused a powerful sense of national pride to rise in the hearts of many!

Under such various kinds of publicity and praise, the Thor Battery became popular throughout Long Country overnight, and also became popular at home and abroad.

A terrifying storm swept crazily through the automotive industry of Long Country, and under the scrambling reports of the media, it spread rapidly to foreign countries.

In this era where communication is extremely developed, the spread of news is truly shockingly fast, especially for such high-tech technology with far-reaching influence, which was immediately noticed by major media and enterprises.

Some media even called the Thor Battery press conference a press conference that would change the world.

You must know that before this, only two major products had won such praise—

The computer operating system of the Soft Company.

And the first generation of Fruit mobile phones.

The development over these years had indeed verified those initial praises; these two major products changed the computer industry and the mobile phone industry respectively, and their influence remains unrivaled to this day.

And now.

In the eyes of many, the Thor Battery was also a great product that was about to change the world!