Chapter 218: Make Full Use of (Ch 824569080)

Lao Liu drove the bus all the way to the urban area and picked up eight more people along the way.
At this time, only two of the twenty seats were left in the car. There were originally twenty-three seats, but due to the renovation and the installation of a vending machine, three seats were occupied.
However, compared to usual, Lao Liu drove much slower this time, mainly because the bus company planned to cancel the previous time planning and adopt a more reasonable travel time.
The purpose of this change.
On the one hand, it is to reduce the occurrence of accidents.
On the other hand, it is to make the bus more stable so that passengers can feel less bumpy.
The last one is of course for vending machine services. By reducing the bumpy feeling and the special location design, passengers can buy things from vending machines at fixed locations.
Currently, the preliminary prototype of this design is installed on this bus. As long as passengers want to buy it, they must walk into the limiter to fix the passengers in a certain space to avoid sudden bumps that may cause passengers to fall.
There is only one limiter, and there is also only one corresponding vending machine.
Lei Bo sat along the way and found that two people bought drinks one after another.
Along the way, Lao Liu drove very smoothly, without any sudden braking or acceleration, whether stopping or starting. Although it took nearly one-third more time, the riding experience was still good.
In fact, bus drivers are all experienced drivers. If they are not in a hurry, they can drive the bus steadily.
The previous management model of bus companies had problems. They tried hard to compress travel time and had very strict arrival times. If the bus failed to arrive on time, the driver would be punished.
In order to deal with the situation, the driver can only speed up as much as possible, which leads to a decline in the passenger experience.
There is no problem with late warnings or penalties, but the problem is that the set travel time cannot be too tight, and the driver must be left with relatively ample travel time.
In terms of timeliness, buses will never be able to compare with taxis, private cars, or even electric scooters.
In this case, it would be better to slow down the buses and improve the passengers’ experience. After all, it won’t be a big deal if they are a little slower by a dozen minutes.
In addition, Liu Deming, who is in charge of the bus company, has commissioned the network business department to develop a big data analysis system specifically for analyzing the passenger flow at each bus booth and bus stop. The ultimate goal is to maximize the use of resources.
Of course, slowing down and steadying the buses has the added benefit of extending their range.
The smoother your driving, the less battery power is consumed.
The current battery capacity on the test vehicle is 225 kWh when charged and 193.5∽211.5 kWh when discharged, which is about 200 kWh.
Sponge batteries have a characteristic, that is, their energy storage nanostructures either fail or are fully effective. Generally, during the first 500 cycles, the power will not drop significantly. During the 500-620 cycles, as the service life of the nanostructure approaches, some relatively unstable nanostructures will begin to collapse, resulting in a decrease in energy storage capacity.
But this collapse progress is not static.
There will be obvious differences due to the size of the charging and discharging power.
If the charging and discharging power is less than 30 kilowatts, the full life is about 900 cycles; if the power is 30∽60 kilowatts, the full life is 700∽850 cycles; if the power is 60∽80 kilowatts, the full life is 600∽700 cycles; if the power is 80∽96 kilowatts, the full life is only 500∽600 cycles.
If it is a fixed battery, combined with battery pack regulation, the battery can basically run at a power of 0∽60 kilowatts for a long time, thereby extending its service life.
However, when used as a power source for vehicles, frequent power changes are commonplace, so it can only be considered the minimum number of cycles.
Before you know it.
The bus has already gone around the city.
Arrived opposite Kuishan Park in the city.
This is the bus company’s battery swap station.
However, there were not many staff members in the battery exchange area at this time, and many people were on holiday.
Lao Liu glanced at the car’s display screen and found that there was still a lot of power left. He had driven about 80 kilometers on this trip and consumed about 48 degrees of electricity, including the electricity used by the vending machine. At this time, there was still about 152 degrees of electricity left.
Everyone got off the bus and took a rest.
In the rest area, Lei Bo bought a bottle of mineral water from the vending machine and observed the bus hub while drinking the water.
Currently, the bus company has a total of 17 bus hubs in the city, and several of them cover an area of ​​dozens of acres. Obviously, in order to park the 1,295 buses and ensure their operation, charging, and battery replacement, the bus company has acquired a lot of land.
Although these lands are special-purpose lands and their use cannot be changed at will, it does not mean that they have no utilization value.
For example, in this hub station.
More than 50 bus charging stations.
Next, the bus company will completely replace the sponge batteries and adopt the battery replacement model, and will no longer use the whole vehicle charging model.
This means that the 50 bus charging spaces at this hub have become simple parking spaces.
However, parking here is the same as parking at Tengfei Road Hub Station. Parking at Tengfei Road Hub Station means that the parking space here can be freed up.
50 bus parking spaces can be converted into 100∽110 car parking spaces. Combined with the existing 10 car parking spaces, it can be converted into about 120 car parking spaces.
These parking spaces are definitely not ordinary parking spaces. Instead, they will provide charging services to surrounding users, and two automatic car wash rooms will also be built.
After all, this hub station is right in the city and has a very good location.
Lei Bo had just sat down for a while when he saw Liu Deming coming here with a few people.
“Secretary Liu, are you here on business?”
“Manager Lei? Why are you here?”
“I’m going to Gongping Town to inspect the biofuel base and I’m going to take a look at the bus company’s test vehicle. What are you doing?”
Liu Deming smiled and explained: “I’ll bring people from the photovoltaic panel company to take a look.”
“So that’s it.” Lei Bo guessed what Liu Deming was thinking.
Since sponge batteries are so cheap and easy to use, they will naturally be used as storage batteries for photovoltaic panels.
The Xinlou Village hub station covers an area of ​​about 6.8 acres. The roof and the space above the parking lot can be fully utilized. About 6 acres of photovoltaic panels can be installed, generating about 7,000 to 8,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity every day.
Of course, 7,000 to 8,000 kWh of electricity per day is not enough. After all, each battery replacement for each bus is equivalent to using 225 kWh of electricity, which is only enough for 31 to 35 buses to replace the battery once.
What’s more, this hub station also needs to provide charging services, car washing services, maintenance services, etc., which also requires a lot of electricity.
Therefore, the capacity of the battery room must be increased to utilize the low-peak electricity price during the early morning hours of 0 to 8 a.m. for charging. The off-peak electricity price in Shanmei is about 0.35 yuan per kilowatt-hour.
The charging service charges about 1 to 1.5 yuan per kilowatt-hour. Even if there are losses during the charging and discharging process, the profit margin is still considerable.
Using a high-power charging station, it can be fully charged in half an hour, and up to 40∽100 vehicles can be charged a day.
Therefore, a suitable storage room must be built.
Only through a multi-pronged approach can the bus company turn losses into profits.
And that’s not enough. Hailufeng Company will definitely cooperate with Future Automobile to achieve the standardization of batteries and battery replacement.
At that time, these bus hubs can be used as battery swap stations.
Referring to the future car battery replacement charging standards, it is usually a 10 yuan service fee, plus 0.5 yuan per kilowatt-hour. The cost of using industrial valley electricity is about 0.22 to 0.26 yuan per kilowatt-hour.
But there is another issue that needs to be considered here, which is that many batteries on the market currently have false capacity labels and are not actually charged that much, so there is something fishy going on.
If we go by the actual standard, the charging price of a sponge battery using commercial off-peak electricity is 0.35 yuan per kilowatt-hour. After adding the loss, the cost of discharging one kilowatt-hour is around 0.37∽0.4 yuan.
Add in the 10 yuan service fee, and there isn’t much profit margin.
Even if the cost of large-scale industrial electricity is used, the gross profit per kilowatt-hour is only about 0.2 yuan, which is obviously a tightrope walk.
Calculated in this way, the gross profit of each battery replacement for one cubic meter of sponge battery is 40 to 80 yuan. The battery can be replaced about 600 times in its entire life, and the total gross profit is 24,000 to 48,000 yuan.
Although the cost of battery investment can be recovered, and even the various costs of the battery swap station can be recovered, the premise for achieving such benefits is to sacrifice the interests of Hailufeng Company and supply sponge batteries to future cars at a low price.
Obviously Jiang Miao would not let Future Cars get away with it this cheaply.
Hailufeng Company will certainly force future cars to actually mark the capacity of sponge batteries, and at the same time increase the charging standards for sponge battery replacement.
Otherwise, Hailufeng Company would have to falsely label the capacity like other battery companies, and fraud is obviously not Jiang Miao’s style.
The battery cost issue is definitely the fatal weakness of future cars. Battery swap stations and batteries require costs, and the battery swap charges are very low. Most of the batteries currently used by their company are lithium iron phosphate batteries, which generally cost more than ten times that of sponge batteries.
Coupled with the cost of investment in battery swap stations and daily management and maintenance, cars can only be barely maintained in the future. However, the capacity of lithium iron phosphate batteries will decline, and the more time passes, the more troubles there will be.
In fact, even if Jiang Miao has never met the management of Future Auto, he can guess what the management of Future Auto is thinking, which is one word: bet!
What to bet on?
The bet is that batteries will become cheaper in the future, so they can gain a certain profit margin when updating their inventory of batteries.
If it weren’t for Hailufeng’s sponge battery technology, the future of automobiles would be really unpredictable.
After all, in recent years, battery prices have not dropped significantly because the prices of battery raw materials are still high.
Lithium iron phosphate and ternary lithium require raw materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. The prices of these elements have actually risen by 10-20% in recent years.
As for semi-solid and solid-state batteries, the cost is even more touching.
With the current production costs, future cars will not even dare to touch these semi-solid-state batteries and solid-state batteries. This is not only because the battery technology is immature, but also because their cost reaches hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands per ton.
Even the batteries that were invested in early on are getting closer and closer to the limit of their service life, and future cars will face pressure to update their battery inventory.
Although purchasing in large quantities can lower the purchase price to a certain extent, the major battery manufacturers are obviously not vegetarians and will certainly not sacrifice themselves for others.
Therefore, at this stage, only Hailufeng Company can save Future Automobile.
After all, compared with other batteries, sponge batteries have huge advantages in recycling and reuse. Their battery waste liquid is soybean oil and some common trace elements, which can be directly used to refine biodiesel; the sponge structure and potassium chloride deposited in it can be used to make organic fertilizer.
The liner and other accessories can be refurbished and reused more than dozens of times.
Essentially, the investment in the liner and other accessories is a one-time investment that can be reused dozens of times.
After waste soybean oil is refined into biodiesel, about 50% of the battery cost can be recovered, and the sponge structure and potassium chloride sediment can be used as organic fertilizer to recover about 10% of the cost.
The production cost of sponge batteries will become lower and lower. Except for the relatively high cost of the initial investment, the cost will continue to decrease after the inner tank and accessories are reused.
In this case, both lithium iron phosphate and ternary lithium will be doomed.
As for the semi-solid-state batteries that have already entered preliminary trial use, and the all-solid-state batteries that are in the experimental stage, although their theoretical energy density is higher than that of sponge batteries, their production costs are too high.
It is true that many chemical batteries and solid-state batteries require various rare elements, which fundamentally increases the cost. Even if the technology is more advanced, there is no way to reduce the cost too much.
Take lithium iron phosphate for example. Unless elements such as lithium and cobalt are completely eliminated, the production cost cannot be lower than 30,000 yuan per ton.
Most of the solid-state batteries that are hyped today also use rare elements.
Moreover, no matter how the production model of the traditional battery industry is improved, it cannot beat sponge batteries.
The core component of the sponge battery, the storage sponge, is synthesized through biological self-generation, and it also releases electrical energy during the synthesis process.
It is almost like producing and generating electricity at the same time.
The price of raw materials is also very cheap, and the country can be completely self-sufficient in raw materials.
Faced with this situation, even if other battery companies immediately come up with solid-state batteries, they will not be able to outperform sponge batteries.
At least those photovoltaic and wind power companies will not use solid-state batteries, but will buy sponge batteries.
Photovoltaic and wind power companies will use sponge batteries on a large scale, which is another handle for Jiang Miao to control future automobile companies such as battery-swap vehicles.
The reason why the power grid now implements off-peak electricity prices is that there are uncontrollable factors in power generation and various fluctuations in electricity consumption, which leads to off-peak electricity prices.
Once the major photovoltaic and wind power companies have completed the layout of their power storage systems, the power grid will definitely cancel off-peak electricity prices and adopt a unified market price.
By then, it will become an unknown whether battery swap companies can get valley electricity prices for large industrial electricity use. Although large electricity users will definitely receive discounts, it will definitely not be as cheap as it is now.
Whether a business model can develop.
There are many factors to consider.
The emergence of sponge batteries will change the entire landscape of the new energy industry and the charging model of the power grid. This is a huge variable.
As one of the source companies and operators, Hailufeng Company is naturally in a safe position, but other companies will have to rely on luck, determination and strategy.
If you take a wrong step, you may end up in an irretrievable situation.
During the Chinese New Year, Jiang Miao was also thinking about the business model of sponge batteries.
If it is the traditional battery sales model, it is obviously not in line with Jiang Miao’s idea, because sponge batteries must maintain a relatively high recycling rate in order to effectively reduce production costs.
Therefore, these factors must be taken into consideration when formulating a business model.
The business model he envisioned was leasing, which is renting batteries to other companies that need them, and having Hailufeng Company recycle and reuse them when they expire.
Since it is a leasing model, the battery rental price must not be too high.
Jiang Miao has ordered the pricing office of the market research department to study how to set the rent.
The current rental price is 10,000 yuan per cubic meter of inner liner, plus a deposit of 10,000 yuan. When the lease expires, Hailufeng Company will return the 10,000 yuan deposit.
After deducting costs and adding recycled equipment, waste soybean oil, waste sponge structures, etc., the profit is about 13,000 yuan per cubic meter.
This model is suitable for photovoltaic and wind power companies, which have high usage frequencies and the power of a single battery can be limited to less than 60 kilowatts, thereby increasing its cycle times. The total discharge over its life cycle can reach 300,000 kWh, and the average rental cost per kWh is 0.033 yuan.
This cost is definitely profitable for photovoltaic and wind power.
However, businesses such as electric vehicles and electric boats are not suitable for the leasing model and can only adopt the purchasing model.
The reason why it is not suitable is that sponge batteries are suitable for battery replacement. If the battery replacement model is to be promoted, all automobile companies will use sponge batteries. When the batteries are recycled, who should the money be returned to? This will definitely cause conflicts among various companies.
Therefore, sponge batteries used in vehicles can only be sold directly to enterprises, and then the Hailufeng Company will recycle the batteries.
From the third day to the eighth day of the New Year.
Within five days.
The bus company has completed battery replacement for 86 K7 buses, and the vending machines and limiters on these buses have been adjusted and modified to make them safer and more convenient.
Lei Bo did not stay in Gongping Town, but was preparing to build a real battery factory.
After all, the small workshop at the Gongping Town base only produces 50 cubic meters of battery core materials every day, and this output is not enough even for Hailufeng Company itself.
Moreover, as a new product, various patents need to be applied for and various procedures need to be completed.
If it is just for personal use, there is no need to go through too much trouble. However, if it is to be put on the market for sale, these preliminary preparations must be in place. Lei Bo and others are very busy.
Since sponge batteries have not yet been officially sold, major battery companies have not yet noticed the coming crisis.
On the other hand, with the arrival of the first trading day after the Spring Festival, the Hong Kong financial market finally started moving.

Người mua: TheAn, 23/01/2025 12:35