"I don't know much about business matters, but if you need help, just tell me as much as possible. I have a meeting to hold in the afternoon, so I won't disturb your discussion." Sun Liancheng said with a smile.

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After Sun Liancheng finished speaking, he picked up the tea cup and drank it in one gulp, then stood up and put his shoulder bag on his back.

"It's almost twelve o'clock, why don't you have a meal first and then go back?" Cao Mang quickly stood up and asked.

"I'll drive back from your place in about an hour and a half. I'll have this meal another day." Sun Liancheng said.

"Okay, then I won't send it to you." Cao Mang said.

"No need to send it off." Sun Liancheng said and turned to leave.

Lu Guanghua watched Sun Liancheng enter the elevator and asked: "Boss, how should we deal with it next?"

"If the lithium mines in the library are distributed to foundries, how long can they last?" Cao Mang asked. Ming

In order to cope with emergencies, the mines purchased by Kirin Battery have reserved certain raw material reserves.

Originally, when Lu Guanghua took over these mines, he planned to use as much as he could produce.

After all, the mineral source is your own, and it will be different when you use it.

However, Cao Mang did not agree.

Cao Mang asked him to reserve more than half a year's supply before starting to use it.

These reserves are reserved for emergencies.

"If we allocate all our reserves, plus the production capacity of other domestic manufacturers, we can probably support it for about a month." Lu Guanghua replied.

"What is the international lithium ore price today?" Cao Mang asked.

"Today's price has reached 9,600 US dollars," Lu Guanghua replied.

"You can think of a way to operate it here and raise the price of lithium ore to 30,000 US dollars, and keep this price for three months. Remember, I am just asking you to speculate, not to really go out and eat it. Even if you lose a little money, you will be fine."

It doesn’t matter." Cao Mang said.

"Okay." Lu Guanghua nodded.

Although he didn't know what Cao Mang was going to do, there must be a reason why Cao Mang asked him to do it.

"After the lithium ore futures price stabilized for three months, we sent a survey team to Lijiagou, Jinchuan County, Sichuan Province to survey, and leaked the news intentionally or unintentionally, saying that there were a large number of open-pit lithium mines there," Cao Mang said.

Lu Guanghua's eyes lit up after hearing Cao Mang's words.

It turned out that my boss was planning to carry out an empty city plan?

First, force the three companies to buy a lot of goods, and then release false news. The price of lithium ore will definitely plummet by then, and the three companies will lose money on their goods during this period.

"Boss, what if they also send someone to investigate?" Lu Guanghua asked.

"Don't you know how to transport some raw ore and bury it?" Cao Mang said.

"Boss, you can't bring down the price just by relying on such a mine source," Lu Guanghua said hesitantly.

Even for large-scale open-pit mines, mass production will take three to four months at the earliest, and the goods on hand at Kirin simply cannot last that long.

"Don't worry, I will let you know when the time comes. Kirin has successfully developed a sodium-ion battery. This battery will be on the market soon. The laboratory is already researching nano-batteries, but it won't be on the market until the end of next year at the earliest.

"Cao Mang said. Ming

This time is based on the worst-case scenario. If Wei Zhaosheng is lucky, it might be available in the middle of next year. The sodium battery information was written by Cao Mang, so he can estimate the specific time.

Since the laboratory moved back to Qilin, the affairs of the R&D department are no longer under Lu Guanghua's control. He has no idea what the R&D department does.

After hearing Cao Mang say that the laboratory will launch sodium batteries next year.

Lu Guanghua looked very surprised.

Although Lu Guanghua is not a technical person, he has been in the battery industry for so long that he still has a certain understanding of batteries.

In fact, research on sodium-ion batteries first began around the 1980s. The early designed and developed electrode materials such as MoS2, TiS2 and NaxMO2 had unsatisfactory electrochemical properties and developed very slowly.

Later, because SONY made a breakthrough in lithium batteries, and the performance of sodium batteries was not as good as lithium batteries, manufacturers gave up research on sodium-ion batteries. Ming

The biggest problem in sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries is the electrode material.

The electrodes used in lithium-ion batteries are made of lithium ore.

The electrode materials used in sodium-ion batteries are mainly sodium salts.

Compared with lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries have the following advantages: abundant reserves of sodium salt raw materials and low prices. Compared with ternary cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, the cost of raw materials is reduced by half when using iron-manganese-nickel-based cathode materials.

Once the sodium-ion battery comes out.

Lithium batteries will likely be completely replaced by sodium ions.

Of course, these are all conjectures made by scientists based on known circumstances.

Is that actually the case?

In fact, only graphene sodium-lithium hybrid batteries are the way to go. (This is just the author's conjecture, but sodium-lithium hybrid batteries are already being studied.)

It is impossible for a single material to be absolutely perfect.

This is also the reason why Cao Mang did not directly make sodium batteries, but first made lithium batteries.

"I know boss, I will definitely arrange this matter." Lu Guanghua said.

Lu Guanghua left in a hurry after receiving Cao Mang's arrangements.

In fact, there was one thing that Cao Mang did not tell Lu Guanghua and Ming during the conversation between the two.

That is, there really is a lithium mine in Lijiagou, Jinchuan County, Sichuan Province, and the scale of this lithium mine is very large, and this lithium mine has long been surveyed by the Bureau of Mines.

During the general search for Lijiagou spodumene mine from 2001 to 2005, the geochemical exploration team lacked effective and appropriate exploration technology and only submitted 15,800 tons of Li2O resource reserves. The prospecting was in a dilemma.

It was not until the technological breakthrough in 2008 that the number of tens of thousands of tons of Lijiagou spodumene ore in Jinchuan County was confirmed.

In fact, the Lijiagou spodumene mine in Jinchuan County contains 38.812 million tons.

...

Lu Guanghua left not long ago.

The elevator bell rang again. Ming

Cao Mang turned around and looked at Yuna Sakurai and Swifty.

"Brother-in-law, I brought your little lover here, are you happy?" Sakurai Yuna jumped up to Cao Mang and said.

Swift blushed when she heard Yuna Sakurai's words.

Cao Mang ignored the little witch Sakurai Yuna, looked at Swift and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"Not yet." Swift shook her head and replied.

Last night, she was trained by Sakurai Yuna to sleep until after twelve o'clock. She was so tired that she didn't get up until ten thirty this morning.

After getting up, Sakurai Yuna took her over to the Kirin Group.

"Then let's have lunch here." Cao Mang said.

Sakurai Yuna glanced at Swift and then said in Cao Mang's ear: "Brother-in-law, I have helped you train your little lover, how about we eat your little lover first and then eat."

"Don't make trouble, Taylor is still young." Cao Mang rolled his eyes and said.
Chapter completed!