Growth-type Super Rich

"Battery development?"

Gu Bai became somewhat interested.

"That's right, I believe Chairman Gu must have heard of graphene battery."

Upon hearing the words "graphene battery," Gu Bai's eyes gleamed with brilliance. In the booming era of future new energy vehicles, the concept of graphene battery is frequently mentioned. Although Gu Bai is not entirely clear about its functions, he is well aware of its value. It's no exaggeration to say that once graphene batteries are widely utilized, it would be an immensely vast market beyond estimation.

"Tell me about it."

Following Gu Bai's instruction, Gu Wen immediately responded.

"Graphene battery is actually not a real battery, but a new material supercapacitor. It leverages the characteristic of lithium ions rapidly shuttling between the surface of graphene and electrodes to develop a new energy battery."

"Stop, stop, stop, I don't want to learn too much; just tell me the key points directly."

Gu Wen was just giving a brief introduction when Gu Bai interrupted. He didn't want to hear the scientific explanation; he only wanted to know how much value it could bring him.

"Graphene battery has three times the energy storage capacity of the best product available in the market. Currently, the most advanced lithium battery on the market has a specific energy value of 180wh/kg, whereas a graphene battery's specific energy exceeds 600wh/kg, and its lifespan is longer, four times that of traditional hydrogenized batteries and twice that of lithium batteries.

Currently, graphene batteries have already been developed but are far from reaching the practical stage. However, the three of us have mastered the complete skills for mass production of graphene batteries. As long as there is sufficient financial support, we can build a complete production line for graphene and graphene batteries in a short period!"

After listening to him, Gu Bai did not speak but directly opened the computer to search the battery market.

In 2017, the global lithium-ion battery market was valued at approximately 40.5 billion US Dollars and is still rapidly growing. If new graphene batteries can be mass-produced, they would completely have the ability to replace the traditional lithium battery industry, which means such a vast trillion-dollar market over the next 20 years could potentially be dominated by himself!

As for monopolization offenses?

To hell with monopolization offenses; even giant chip companies like Qualcomm have been fined for monopolization for so many years, and they still firmly suppress Hua Country's mobile phone industry for so many years, remaining global high-tech giants.

If really possessing such monopolizing technology, let them fine, fine as they please.

As long as the core technology is in my hands, everyone has to grudgingly accept the losses.

Thinking of this, Gu Bai could no longer restrain himself and immediately said: "How should this project be launched? Give me an accurate number!"

Standing before Gu Bai, Gu Wen responded.

"Because the mass production technology involves many facilities that surpass current technological levels, even though the three of us possess the necessary knowledge, establishing entirely new infrastructure in a market void will cost significantly more.

Therefore, I estimate that if we truly want to build a graphene production line and a graphene battery production line, a minimum of 60 billion US Dollars is required as startup capital. However, once the infrastructure and production line are completed, everything will become simpler; we can ensure the production cost is below that of lithium batteries."

Upon hearing Gu Wen's reply, Gu Bai furrowed his brow.

60 billion, he would need to complete all tasks of the Level 2 System to earn such a large amount of money. Indeed, before obtaining great benefits, immense effort is required.

However, Gu Bai does not plan on taking out loans or anything of the sort. Firstly, the loan amount is too large, even if placing all assets of the Black Swan Group as collateral, it might still be unattainable.

Secondly, due to risk concerns, although Gu Wen and the other two are surely reliable regarding graphene battery production issues, sometimes merely producing is not enough to guarantee sales—especially with high-tech products like graphene batteries, which are highly technically demanding.

If obstructed, the loans alone could crush the current Black Swan Group.

At that time, he would still need to carefully discuss with Elder Xun and Elder Tu.

"I will first establish a research institute for you guys. You can optimize the project according to your capabilities, striving as much as possible to ensure that the moment funds are in place, we can assemble instantly. Additionally, one of you can set up a training institution. I estimated operating a graphene battery production line won't be too simple; we can train a batch of technical workers proficient in theoretical knowledge, making the most of the current vacuum period to prepare all preliminary work."

"Understood."

All three simultaneously responded to Gu Bai.