Chapter 88: Entering the Realm of the Soul

The entire summit lasted for three days.

Except for the first day, where everyone was together to discuss industry cooperation standards, the remaining two days were spent by various enterprises negotiating cooperation with each other.

After all, in a situation where most car companies are facing major changes, everyone's cooperation content also needs to be re-discussed and planned.

Su Xin did not attend the following two days, instead letting Ding Kuiyong act as the representative of Tianqi Energy to negotiate specific cooperation with various enterprises.

Especially regarding supply chain cooperation, Ding Kuiyong signed over twenty letters of intent within a single day and sent each party a pre-formulated production process guide for the raw materials needed to produce Thor Battery.

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During the three days the summit lasted.

Many media outlets and content platforms followed up with reports; although such professional conferences are usually not paid attention to by ordinary people, the popularity of Thor Battery was truly too high, and video clips and news went viral on the internet, sparking enthusiastic discussion among netizens worldwide.

Except for a small number of Long Country netizens clamoring for Tianqi Energy to sell Thor Battery to foreign countries at double the price, or simply refuse foreign car companies to let Long Country car companies monopolize Solid-state Battery Technology.

More people held a praising attitude.

Especially Su Xin's statement regarding the pricing strategy made the vast majority of netizens applaud.

"Not to mention anything else, with these words from Boss Su, as soon as electric cars equipped with Thor Battery hit the market, I will definitely get one no matter what."

"As soon as he entered the automotive industry, he announced he would rectify the market and standardize the market. Boss Su is domineering!"

"Don't even mention it, it really should be rectified. Otherwise, if it's really like what Boss Su said, that those who buy first are suckers, who would still be willing to support various new products?"

"The new energy vehicle I bought two years ago only had a range of 300 kilometers, and in winter the range would be discounted to at most 150 kilometers. Even for that, it cost me 180,000 back then."

"But now? This car has been completely phased out. A new car with the same range only costs 100,000. If I were to sell it as a used car, it wouldn't even sell for 70,000. It has completely become a burden at home."

"If these are all such pitfalls, who would dare to buy new energy vehicles in the future?"

"With Thor Battery, this kind of thing shouldn't happen again. After all, the technology was unstable before, and everyone was developing at high speed, so the range was constantly improving, which is why they were phased out quickly."

"But now, just as Boss Su said, Thor Battery is a mature technology, and all data can fully meet the needs of daily life. Even if technology advances in the future, Thor Battery will not be phased out."

"Moreover, the price of Thor Battery is indeed not much more expensive than Liquid Lithium Battery. It is completely the price of mature mass production, and there won't be too much fluctuation."

"In the future, I believe the price chaos of new energy vehicles will slowly start to disappear because of Thor Battery."

On the internet.

The popularity regarding the summit continued.

After the conference, when the major car companies returned to their countries, they also began to adjust various policies intensively, successively announcing strategic cooperation with Tianqi Energy to welcome the coming era of new energy vehicles.

Tianqi Energy was also busy beyond measure.

The acquisition of more than twenty factories, the transformation of production lines, the optimization of production processes, the cultivation of the supply chain, and so on—a series of heavy and complex tasks kept Ding Kuiyong, who had many years of industry experience, so busy he almost had no time to close his eyes. In the end, he had to ask Su Xin for help and urgently poached several senior executives from other companies to assist.

The entire automotive industry presented a scene of intense activity, which actually added a little confidence to many people regarding the major car companies. The stock price decline trend of those traditional car companies, including the three major car companies of Sakura Country, also gradually stopped.

Under the policy of large price cuts and promotions, the sales volume of various models in the existing sales channels of each car company was barely maintained at an optimistic level.

Of course, at this time, the saddest and most painful place is the used car market.

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Tianqi Technology, President's Office.

Su Xin came to Liu Qingli's office on the second day of the summit to discuss the details of the company's structural adjustment together.

At one moment, Liu Qingli suddenly asked:

"Boss, the company is growing bigger and bigger, and you are establishing more and more companies. Do you think we should buy land and build a headquarters building?"

Su Xin was startled, then nodded without hesitation: "Buy, of course we must buy. However, Tianqi Energy is currently expanding on a large scale, so we probably can't spare any extra funds for the time being, right?"

Liu Qingli smiled and said: "The expansion plan for Tianqi Energy has generally been agreed upon, with an estimated total acquisition price of around 60 billion. We only need to pay 20% for the first phase, which is 12 billion."

"And our current funds, including 10 billion in bank loans, 1.1 billion in new member and renewal revenue from the past half month, plus 21.3 billion just transferred back from overseas accounts, total 32.4 billion."

"Therefore, the limit of funds we can currently use is around 20 billion, which is completely enough to buy land and prepare for the construction of the headquarters building."

"Moreover, the construction of the headquarters building takes a long time. From design to bidding to completion, it will take at least four or five years. If the boss has this idea, we must start planning as soon as possible."

Su Xin rested his chin on his hand and pondered:

"That's true, the gains from the Sakura Country stock market exceeded expectations, so the funds are indeed enough now."

"Moreover, the next project is about to start preparation, and we will have to establish a new company then."

Hearing this, Liu Qingli asked in surprise: "So fast? What industry are you going to enter this time, Boss?"

Su Xin had no intention of hiding it and smiled: "Didn't you say it before? Power batteries and intelligent driving are the energy and soul of the new energy vehicle industry, respectively."

"Now that the lifeblood of energy has been grasped, we can enter the realm of the soul next."

Liu Qingli frowned slightly and asked:

"Does the boss intend to purely make intelligent driving solutions? Or establish a car company?"

"Make solutions," Su Xin said.

Liu Qingli nodded slightly, not at all surprised.

With Tiantian Assistant and Thor Battery as precedents, she naturally knew that Su Xin's preference was to make solutions.

After thinking for a while, she said again:

"Intelligent driving is indeed one of the directions for the future, but the development of intelligent driving requires collecting a large amount of driving and traffic data. Moreover, depending on the car model and configuration, the intelligent driving program also varies."

"Therefore, intelligent driving is not a simple software program, but rather customized software that is highly associated with car companies."

"Whether it is the development process or the subsequent cooperation with major car companies, it is not as simple as the previous Tiantian Assistant and Thor Battery."

"For example, the number of radars and cameras for each car model is different, the positions are different, the wheel hub sizes are different, the turning radii are different, some are two-wheel drive, some are four-wheel drive, some are front-wheel drive, some are rear-wheel drive, etc. The differences are really too many."

"This is equivalent to some people having two eyes, some having eight eyes, some having eyes on their faces, some having eyes on the top of their heads, some having long legs, some having short legs, etc. Their ways of walking will definitely be quite different because of this."

"Some car models even have very large differences in internal structure, almost equivalent to the difference between a cat and a dog."

"Therefore, even if you successfully develop the best intelligent driving program, when cooperating with major car companies, you have to adjust and adapt it separately according to different car models, which will be quite troublesome."

"For other companies, this way of cooperation is not a big problem, but Boss..."

Liu Qingli looked at Su Xin, smiling but not smiling, and asked with a hint of teasing:

"Do you have the patience to do these trivial things?"