Chapter 599: Jake Tax

Beautiful country!

Ford Motor Company, headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, is busy as a large number of engineers are called in to conduct various tests on a bio-battery.

After a series of tests were completed, in the last step of the test, the battery was cut violently and thrown into the fire to burn. There was no spontaneous combustion in the bio-battery, and the on-site engineer couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

Far away in the conference room of the headquarters building, Ford Motor Company President Mullah looked serious and paced back and forth anxiously in the conference room, waiting for the final results of the test. The place was already filled with senior executives from Ford Motor Company.

A moment later, McKinley, chief engineer of Ford Motor Company, hurried into the office and said excitedly: "Oh my God, President Mulla, you will never believe it. This bio-battery is so perfect. It's so perfect."

McKinley's face flushed with excitement. As a scientific researcher, the appearance of this kind of biological battery was more attractive to him than he imagined.

If Mulla hadn't still been here, he would have run back now to continue testing.

In McKinley's view, with the emergence of this kind of bio-battery, other batteries can basically be swept into the garbage heap of history.

Not only do most batteries have far less energy density than biological batteries, but they are also prone to thermal runaway, causing the battery to spontaneously ignite.

This kind of bio-battery can achieve a perfect integration of resources, energy, safety, extreme environment, materials, transmission, and systems.

"Tell me the test results quickly."

Mulla, however, was not in the mood to listen to McKinley's nonsense. He only wanted the detailed data of this biological battery now.

Seeing the impatience on Mulla's face, McKinley restrained his smile slightly, handed over a detailed test data about the bio-battery, and introduced:

"After our testing, the energy density of this bio-battery is as high as 1,200Wh/kg. According to the configuration of a conventional tram, when fully charged, it can meet the needs of the car for three thousand kilometers. At the same time, it has perfect safety, regardless of violent collisions or cuts. Even high temperatures cannot cause the battery to spontaneously ignite. This is simply a masterpiece of God.”

After hearing this data, Mulla, who originally had some extravagant hopes, hoping that this bio-battery would contain a lot of water, was breathing heavily, and his whole expression fell.

"Are you sure, is it really that strong?"

Maura gritted his teeth, his voice trembling.

"There is absolutely no mistake. We conduct the most comprehensive testing and there is no way there will be any mistakes."

When McKinley heard that Mulla questioned his expertise, he couldn't help but pat his chest and feel confident.

"Is it possible to imitate it successfully?"

Mulla asked.

"There is no hope. Many of the materials in this bio-battery cannot be understood, and there is no clue of any imitation."

McKinley shook his head repeatedly, indicating that there was nothing he could do.

When testing the bio-battery, he could not test out the properties of some of the internal materials. It seemed to be newly developed by Jieke Group and had never been seen before.

Mulla is not surprised. This kind of thing has been expected for a long time. Various products of Jieke Group have been around for many years, but none of them have been imitated.

Thinking of this, Mulla looked at the operations director on the other side: "What is the current situation of the company's oil trucks and new energy vehicles?"

The operations director hurriedly said: "President, now we only produce gasoline vehicles. The production lines for electric vehicles were all shut down two years ago."

It's not that Ford has diversified its automotive business. They have also produced new energy vehicles.

It’s just that the beautiful country seems to be a little acclimated to new energy electric vehicles. Except for the leading Tesla, the electric vehicles produced by other traditional and old car companies are basically at a loss.

For example, Ford suffered bottomless losses in its electric vehicle business in the past. It was overtaken by new energy vehicle companies in China, and it sold cars but still did not receive a large amount of feedback.

In Huaguo, the largest market for new energy vehicles, they cannot compete with Huaguo New Energy Vehicles, and China’s market share is limited. Counting the costs of R&D funds, operations, labor, etc., they almost lose more than 10 yuan on the sale of one new energy vehicle. million dollars.

Under the drag of the new energy vehicle business, the profits generated by their oil vehicles are unable to make up for the huge losses caused by new energy vehicles, and they are stuck in a quagmire.

Therefore, even though it knew that new energy vehicles were the general trend of the future, Ford still cut off the new energy vehicle business segment and lost this debt-ridden burden.

But who would have known that just two years after they got rid of the burden of new energy vehicles, Jieke Group's bio-battery would come out.

Mulla's expression at this time was as ugly as it could be.

Everyone knows that the biggest limitation for new energy vehicles is the battery. Now that the battery limitation has been overcome by Jieke Group, new energy vehicles are about to usher in a golden age.

But unfortunately, they cut off the new energy vehicle business for two full years. You can imagine Mulla's inner depression.

"Fake, why didn't this bastard Jieco Group come up with a bio-battery at this time?"

Mulla cursed, and the company executives next to him lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.

Only McKinley, a scientific researcher, was bolder and asked: "President, aren't we going to produce new energy vehicles?"

"Nonsense, how can we not produce it? This is an innovation in the energy field. The sales of gasoline vehicles will definitely drop sharply in the future. New energy vehicles are a brand new blue ocean. If we don't make money, can we just watch our competitors, GM, Stellantis, Tesla and those bastards make money!"

Mura cursed, but he still had to make money. He said to the marketing department: "Contact the Jeko Group immediately and place an order for bio-batteries with them. This thing will definitely be very popular at that time. If you go too late, you will have to wait in line for production."

The director of the marketing department coughed dryly and said: "President, that President Su is right about us Sanctions have been announced! Bio-batteries cannot enter the United States, and if the U.S. government knew that we were cooperating with the Jeko Group, "

"Stupid, we are a multinational company. The Jeko Group only restricts imports from the United States. We don't only have factories in the United States. We also have factories in China and Southeast Asia. We purchase from the factories there. As for the United States, our company's public relations team will lobby for a solution. You go and call Jeko now and get the order as soon as possible. "

Mura said very domineeringly, their Ford Motor is not a small company.

Founded as early as 1903 in the last century, Ford Motor Company is a world-renowned automobile brand and one of the largest automobile manufacturers. Its annual revenue exceeds 200 billion US dollars, ranking 35th in the Fortune Global 500 list.

Its influence is all over the world, especially in the United States, where it has a deep network of contacts, which many newly emerging Internet upstarts cannot compare with.

This is also the confidence of Mura to say this. After all, the United States also serves capital, and no one can prevent them from making money with capital, even if the resistance comes from the U.S. government.

The director of the marketing department ran out of the meeting room in disgrace and contacted the Jeco Group. Everyone in the meeting room was waiting for him.

After a while, he came back again and told the result of the communication.

"President, the Jeco Group has agreed to provide us with bio-batteries."

As soon as the director of the marketing department said this, all the executives on the scene immediately smiled.

Mura was also smiling and said complacently: "The Jeco Group will not leave money unpaid, and we have no competitive relationship with it. On the contrary, if the Jeco Group wants to roll out bio-batteries as quickly as possible and form a market monopoly, it needs the help of traditional car companies like us. This is a win-win situation."

The emergence of bio-batteries, this trend of energy innovation is destined to be unstoppable, just like the internal combustion engine replacing the steam engine, but with the participation of traditional old-brand car companies, this process can be greatly accelerated.

Mura can even guess the ambition of the Jeco Group. As we all know, the petrodollar is one of the pillars of the hegemony of the United States, and traditional oil cars are the world's largest oil consumer market.

But what if a large number of traditional old-brand oil car companies join the new energy vehicle track and roll up new energy vehicles?

The decline in the value of oil is certain, which will deeply hit the petrodollar hegemony of the United States and greatly shake the status and strength of the United States, the blue star hegemon.

But no matter how you look at it, Mura has no intention of going against the general trend. He just wants to make money and make Ford Motor Company bigger and stronger.

As for whether his motherland will suffer losses because of this, it's a joke. They are capitalists. In Europe and the United States, capitalists who don't sell out their motherland are not qualified capitalists.

"But."

Seeing Mura's happy face, the director of the marketing department hesitated to speak.

"Why, if you have something to say, did the Jieke Group increase the price of our purchase of bio-batteries?"

Mura frowned, took a sip of coffee, and thought of the usual style of the Jieke Group in the past, this possibility is very high.

The director of the marketing department nodded first, then shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "President, the Jieke Group proposed that we can purchase their bio-batteries. In addition to the normal purchase expenses, for each new energy vehicle equipped with their bio-batteries, we need to pay them an 8% battery tax based on the whole vehicle price."

Poof!

Mura spit out a mouthful of coffee, which splashed all over the face of the director of the marketing department. He widened his eyes in shock: "Fuck, what bullshit are you talking about? They dare to use Qualcomm's trick to collect 8% battery tax from us?"

The scene was also full of indignation, and everyone couldn't help cursing after hearing the words.

"Jeko Group is so poor that they dare to collect such taxes."

"Shit, Jeko Group is clearly blackmailing us, and it's blatant."

"Do they really think that we are easy to bully? Only a ghost would agree to such a request. They just want us to work for them for nothing."

These executives are of course angry. Qualcomm in the mobile phone industry collects taxes on mobile phones. Jeko Group wants to do the same for cars.

But who are they? They are Ford Motor Company!

Ford Motor, the oldest and most famous brand, has never suffered such humiliation and been blackmailed like this.

The director of the marketing department did not bother to wipe the water stains off his face, and smiled bitterly: "That's what Jeko Group said. They also collect taxes from other companies. European and American car companies collect the highest taxes on whole vehicle batteries. From the tone of their phone calls, they are very fearless and there is no room for bargaining."

After being furious, Mura calmed down at this time. Facing the indignation of countless executives, he said bitterly: "This greedy vampire will be killed by his own appetite sooner or later. You go and reply to the Jieke Group now. We agree to his request and let him arrange the production of bio-batteries as soon as possible. We want to get this kind of battery as soon as possible and get the first dividend of the golden age of new energy vehicles."

Ah!

The executives present were a little confused. They thought that Mura would sternly reject the extortion of the Jieke Group, but the speed of Mura's surrender was beyond imagination.

"What? Jieke Group collects our battery tax, so we increase the price to sell the car. Anyway, this price is paid by consumers. With the powerful performance of bio-batteries, there is no worry that consumers will not pay."

Mura said confidently, waving his hand and said: "Go down now and restart the new energy vehicle production line that was closed in the past. I don't care what method you use, design a new new energy vehicle for me immediately. In the future, the company's business focus will shift to new energy vehicles. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

A neat response sounded at the scene.

The same scene is happening in major automobile companies around the world, including the battery-related mobile phone and other electronic product industries. They are all adjusting their business for the emergence of bio-batteries, developing new products adapted to bio-batteries, and preparing to take the first bite of the delicious cake of energy innovation.

As more and more bio-battery test data are released from major technology laboratories and technology giants around the world, it proves that the bio-battery of the Jeco Group is real and effective.

In the outside world, in addition to the overwhelming news, the stock market of the United States suddenly collapsed.

The stock prices of major oil companies, automobile companies, and mobile phone companies plummeted, dragging down other sectors. The stock market was circuit-breaker three times in a day, and the market was in mourning.

Crude oil-related futures were even more unlucky, and they plunged directly from a three-thousand-foot drop, and the mother of the collapse could not recognize it.

It is good that the stock prices of major oil companies have been cut in half. After the bio-battery was confirmed, many small and medium-sized oil companies have declared bankruptcy, because the current drop in the price of crude oil is higher than the cost of their extraction.

In the Middle East, major oil countries held an emergency joint meeting to discuss the emergence of bio-batteries.

In the European Union, major automobile companies, including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and other established automobile companies, have also begun to announce that they will readjust their product planning and market strategies, enter the new energy vehicle market in a big way, and produce new energy vehicles equipped with bio-batteries.

The whole world is in a state of turmoil and chaos because of the emergence of bio-batteries. The United States has held three consecutive congresses within a week, targeting bio-batteries and the Jeco Group that produces bio-batteries.

No one knows better than the United States how heavy a blow bio-batteries have dealt to their petrodollar hegemony. The punch from the Jeco Group has made the United States feel miserable. (End of this chapter)