"Charging pile?" Wang Chuan raised his eyebrows. Since BYD has been developing electric vehicles, it will naturally involve charging piles, whether it is low voltage or high voltage. However, they are all used as supporting facilities for the main business, and there is no idea of ​​OEM for others.

However, Deputy Wang Chuan did not directly refuse and asked: "BYD has OEM in many fields, but has never tried charging piles. Mr. Zhou, how big will your new business be?"

The scale is too small, so BYD may not be able to watch it. After all, new business needs to start from scratch, and it is not cost-effective to mobilize resources and build factories.

Zhou Yujie smiled indifferently and said, "There is no decision yet, but the preliminary budget is to conservatively invest 10 billion yuan in the next five years. This is still my budget. In fact, I will definitely borrow more money from the bank. The specific one depends on the development of the electric vehicle market in the future. If it develops better, the investment will be greater."

"Mr. Zhou is really a big deal. Since Mr. Zhou dares to play so big, I am happy to accompany him. However, I can invest in my technology and manpower, but in terms of funds, Mr. Zhou also needs to bear some of it." Deputy Wang Chuan nodded and said.

If you invest 2 billion yuan per year, plus bank leverage, this investment will definitely be the first in China. Although a lot of funds will be used for land and other infrastructure investment, the procurement scale of charging piles will not be small, and so much money is enough to make him excited.

You should know that last year, the entire BYD Group's turnover was only 100 billion yuan. This is the combined figure of all industries such as automobiles, electronics, and batteries. The charging pile field with an annual output of billions was indeed very touched by him.

Anyway, if you don’t do it yourself, others will do it. After all, Zhou Yujie’s value is definitely not a problem in fund collection. For the manufacturing industry, the profit can be low or even none, but the speed of collection is the most important, the faster the better.

As for Zhou Yujie's investment, it was also to stabilize the order and return part of the profit to Zhou Yujie. Otherwise, one day Zhou Yujie suddenly changed his house and the factory built by BYD would have to lose money.

Zhou Yujie looked at Wang Chuan, who was smiling and said, "Okay, then I hope our cooperation will be pleasant. After all the details of the subsequent cooperation will be confirmed, we will sign a cooperation agreement."

"Okay." Wang Chuanshou nodded and said.

This cooperation is beneficial to both parties. Zhou Yujie needs a mature automobile factory to assist. At the same time, his charging station planning also requires stable and mature technology suppliers. BYD's side can obtain a new automobile battery customer and OEM customer. The two parties can invest in each other and increase the basis for mutual cooperation. The electric vehicle market is very large and they don't care about having a small competitor. After all, whether it is BYD or the beam, the biggest enemy is naturally Tesla and all other traditional automobile giants who are preparing to enter the electric vehicle market.

The next day, under the leadership of Vice Wang Chuan, Zhou Yujie and others visited BYD's latest super hybrid electric vehicle DM series, and the production line was BYD's most luxurious SUV Tang series.

"Mr. Wang, BYD's track this time is really a good bet. The future of this super hybrid technology is no less than that of pure electric. Unless the battery technology is broken through and cheap cars with a range of 1,000 kilometers can appear, otherwise, the market in this area will be very large." Zhou Yujie said with emotion.

BYD's super hybrid technology is similar in principle to Honda's hybrid, and is an extended-range hybrid. This technology has appeared as early as 100 years ago and has competed for the market with fuel vehicles. However, the battery at that time was only lead-acid batteries, with large volume and weight and low energy density, so it was unable to popularize it, and it eventually lost to ordinary fuel vehicles.

After the 1980s, battery technology has made rapid progress. The emergence of nickel-cadmium batteries and nickel-hydrogen batteries has allowed Toyota and Honda to create two different modes of hybrid technologies based on this. Toyota is a planetary gear, while Honda is an extended-range hybrid.

The so-called extended-range hybrid means that the motor drives the wheels, the motor is driven by the battery, and the battery's power comes from an independent engine without a gearbox. Those who drive the car know that the fuel consumption is not high at high speed, while the low speed is the opposite. This is because the combustion efficiency is highest when the engine speed is high. The extended-range hybrid can keep the engine rotating at high speed, so it is very fuel-efficient. Because of the electric drive, the driving experience is also very good. Honda's hybrid also allows the engine to directly intervene at high speed to provide kinetic energy.

BYD's hybrid principle is similar, but one thing is that it uses batteries with a larger energy density, so that a battery alone can drive the car to travel 50-100 kilometers, which allows people to freely choose the kinetic energy mode. Pure electricity is enough when going to work and buying vegetables or traveling nearby. When traveling far away, you can use oil to generate electricity, without any "battery worries" of pure electric cars.

Honda's, however, has a very small battery. It has set a full-process fuel burning mode at the beginning of the design. BYD's hybrid is mainly pure electric. Many car owners buy BYD's hybrid, and it may be enough to add oil twice a year.

Judging from the data from later generations, the DM-i series launched by BYD 20 years later, selling very popular, with tens of thousands of vehicles a month. In terms of sales, it is second to Wuling (a hot-selling model priced at 30,000 to 40,000 yuan) and Tesla. The better part of BYD is that it is no matter how popular it is, it has no goods and no price increase, unlike Toyota...

Deputy Wang Chuan asked: "Mr. Zhou is also optimistic about the hybrid mode?"

Zhou Yujie nodded and said, "Yes, it's a pity that I've entered this track too late and I won't consider it in the past few years."

Although everyone understands the principle, it is another matter to build and do it well. Fuel vehicle engines are essentially burning gasoline, but China has spent decades not catching up with Western countries. If it weren't for the rise of electric vehicles, the domestic automobile manufacturing industry would probably have been under the bottom.

BYD is the top-notch in the battery field. In addition, it has been studying hybrid vehicles for more than ten years. Its technology and foundation are much stronger than traditional car companies. New forces are actually made of money by making cars. If you want to have a little technical foundation, you have to wait at least ten years later.

Deputy Wang Chuan said: "In fact, this may be eliminated at any time. Although it can solve the battery life problem, the government's attitude is difficult to say. If the subsidies and purchase tax exemptions are cancelled, and if the country comes forward to vigorously promote charging piles, everything will be difficult to say."
Chapter completed!