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Chapter 230 Rubik's Cube Flying Vehicle!
No wonder Chang Yuhao's voice sounds a bit tearful.

The performance parameters of this graphene lithium battery are really terrifying!

Not only is the battery capacity three times higher than the solid-state battery values ​​published on the market, but even key features such as charging and discharging speed, output power, stability, and safety are enough to beat the Kunpeng battery released by Chery.

The worst thing is that this thing is obviously not an immature and defective experimental product in the laboratory, but a mature commercial product.

If we build an insulating layer and a metal protective shell on the outside, and equip it with a BMS battery management system and put it directly on the market, it will be enough to sweep all the existing power batteries such as ternary lithium, lithium iron phosphate, etc. into the trash can.

Because the current automobile market is too inward-looking.

Once we have a good product, we will never go back to the way it was before. It is estimated that we will use low-end batteries to offer low-end prices.

Just like the 18650 lithium battery model advocated by the Japanese Sony Corporation in the past.

The Japanese entered the lithium battery field 30 years earlier than major domestic battery manufacturers, and were once almost the dominant player in the consumer battery field.

However, the main research and development direction of the Japanese battery manufacturers is lithium cobalt oxide, not the current ternary lithium and lithium iron phosphate.

With its excellent battery capacity and service life, lithium cobalt oxide, as the first generation of lithium batteries, became the mainstream product at the time after replacing the "nickel-metal hydride batteries" and "lead-acid batteries" that dominated the market earlier, and its market share once reached over 95%.

Even Tesla Motors adopted parallel 18650 lithium cobalt oxide batteries as an integration solution for power packs in its early stages.

But there will always be a moment when the king is pulled down from the altar.

With the emergence of ternary lithium, the lithium battery field that was once firmly occupied by the Japanese was completely torn open.

Lithium cobalt oxide batteries have been swept into the dustbin of history, and with the collapse of the reputation of the Japanese manufacturing industry, they have gradually been eliminated from the market.

Even Tesla, a brand that admires Japanese manufacturing, has turned to BYD and CATL when choosing power batteries.

This shows how powerful the emergence of new technologies is in reshuffling the industry.

Today, the entire automotive market is betting on solid-state batteries.

Now a mysterious battery has emerged with performance parameters that are the best in the entire industry. Even if the price is very high, people will try it out and buy it.

If you can’t use it on low-end electric cars, then you can buy high-end luxury models, or even supercars.

Rich people don’t care about budget when buying a car. They only buy the most expensive and best ones without asking about cost-effectiveness.

This is also why Chang Yuhao was so panicked.

As the saying goes, a rabbit dies and a fox grieves when something harms its own kind.

As a practitioner of power batteries, Chang Yuhao was also afraid that the large-scale mass production of Chen Jue's graphene lithium battery would completely put his domestic counterparts out of business.

That’s employment for more than 300 million people!

However, this conservative thinking, which can be described as a saintly way of thinking, did not affect the boss Chen Jue.

Chen Jue smiled slightly and said, "The emergence of new technologies is bound to face growing pains, just like the current competition between new energy vehicles and pure fuel vehicles. It is destined to be the survival of the fittest, and it will eventually be a fight to the death."

After saying this, Chen Jue patted Chang Yuhao, who was in mixed mood, and asked him to keep the parameters and performance of this graphene lithium battery to himself for the time being.

By the way, considering that this middle-aged man was very responsible, he was temporarily promoted from technical director to factory manager.

After learning that he had been promoted without any reason, Chang Yuhao got rid of his previous worries and began to feel excited.

He thought to himself, "It's better for me to die than for my friend to die! The solid-state battery with incredible parameters is produced by the parent company anyway, so why should I be afraid that as the battery factory director and technical supervisor, I will have no food to eat in the future?"

Of course, before leaving, Chen Jue also told the other party to remain dedicated and humble after changing his position.

After the group completes the personnel adjustment, it needs to put this graphene lithium battery into mass production. The Magic Cube Group will send special personnel to upgrade and transform the old production line left by "NIO Power Battery".
Upon hearing this good news, Chang Yuhao patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Director Chen, I promise to cooperate with the group to complete the work tasks you have assigned!"

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After testing the performance parameters of the graphene lithium battery in hand, Chen Jue flew back to Vancouver overnight.

After witnessing the research and development capabilities of Lao Cai, the "Redstone Technology Expert", Chen Jue was completely relieved about the newly acquired power battery factory.

After all, in the eyes of the boss Chen Jue, no matter how much money is invested, the R&D team of more than a dozen people left by NIO Battery will not be able to produce anything very advanced.

So Chen Jue promoted Chang Yuhao, a conservative technical supervisor, to serve as factory director, who would be responsible for subsequent production.

In addition, what made Chen Jue most excited was.

At the previous test site, he and Lao Cai communicated constantly and learned that this [graphene lithium battery] still has great potential for optimization.

The first point is to carry out deep processing of [lithium ingots] or [lithium blocks] with higher precision.

The lithium slices, which were originally the thickness of a mobile phone, are thinned again to a thickness of about 1 mm, and then covered with a graphene powder coating.

This process technology is called 'laminate lamination' in the manufacturing industry and is commonly used in the processing of paper, fabrics, glass cloth, specialty fibers, rubber and plastics.

After this superposition operation, the battery capacity of the graphene lithium battery, which already had extremely high performance parameters, was further increased by about 80%.

Due to the increased proportion of graphene materials, the charging and discharging speed has been increased by 3 times compared with before.

The instantaneous discharge reached a terrifying 1500 amperes!

This discharge power is comparable to the transmission power of 1100KV high-voltage power lines seen in daily life.

Of course, during the optimization and improvement process, in addition to naming this solid-state battery [Magic Cube Battery (3rd Stage)].

Chen Jue also asked Lao Cai to make a castrated and weakened version of the [Magic Cube Battery (Level 3)] with only one-third of the performance of the first generation by thickening the lithium slices and reducing the number of graphene film layers based on the material properties.

When Chen Jue first adopted the educational toy "Magic Cube" as the company's logo, he considered that the appearance of the Rubik's Cube would perfectly match the blocks in MC.

Unexpectedly, the company also adopted the idea of ​​increasing difficulty of the Rubik's Cube from level 1 to level 33 in the positioning of its battery products.

"I'm such a clever kid!" Chen Jue was impressed by his advanced thinking and developed a great interest in the application of the new solid-state battery, the Magic Cube Battery.

Because this thing is full of black technology.

Its use is not as simple as investing in the field of electric vehicles!
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After completing the optimization and castration design of the [Magic Cube Battery], the MC [Redstone] energy problem that had been bothering Chen Jue was completely solved.

So the boy could not wait to run to the second-floor workshop of the Rubik's Cube Factory and asked a few idiots to cooperate with the old materials to use the CNC machine tools to laminate and compound the two materials of MC [aluminum block] and [iron block] cutting slices.

The composite 'aluminum-iron' plate has the dual properties of high strength and light weight, which is very suitable for making cutting-edge heavy industrial products. Chen Jue thought about it and took out a long-treasured copy of the Nantianmen Baidi aerospace fighter from a well-known military fan forum in the B station area.

The concept design of the Baidi aerospace fighter was announced to the public in 2022, and it has been three years since then.

The various AI structure diagrams and concept diagrams of "Baidi" related to the Internet have long been played with by military and aviation fans.

Even if you search on Taobao, you can find similar licensed aircraft models.

It’s just that the model airplane, or electric aircraft, that Chen Jue wanted to make this time was a little different.

After all, petty violence is not his style!
"Wouldn't a 1:1 restoration of the White Emperor be a bit too explosive?"

"It seems that there is a possibility of infringing on other people's appearance design..." Chen Jue touched his chin and thought for a moment.

In the end, I resisted the urge to replicate the Baidi aerospace fighter.

Because his current purpose is mainly to test the actual application scenarios of this [Magic Cube Battery (Level 3)] version.

So after thinking about it, he decided to use his simple design concept for the Rubik's Cube Car and, based on the appearance of the MC cube, made a super-large aircraft shell in the shape of a cube with a side length of 20 meters.

"A cube-shaped UFO? It's so exciting just looking at it!"

Chen Jue looked at the shape of the aircraft that was being pieced together bit by bit in the shipyard workshop, and his eyes began to shine.

no way!
It’s so fucking sci-fi!
The silver-gray shell and the extremely smooth cubic surface.

Just like the water droplets in "The Three-Body Problem", you can't imagine how shocking this thing is just by using your imagination.

Of course, having a cool shell alone is not enough.

In terms of the power selection for the model aircraft, Chen Jue did not copy the V320 turbofan engines on his two modified versions of the A2500, but copied a design drawing of an all-electric jet engine with the model "Pioneer" from the Internet.

This 'pioneer' aircraft engine was designed by a graduate of the University of Strathclyde in the UK and was first unveiled as a prototype at the Scottish Air Show in 2022.

The British guy also published relevant papers in various major domestic and foreign journals, detailing the parameters and structure of this electronic fuel injection engine.

However, due to the limitation of the energy density of mainstream batteries, this "pioneer" engine has been in the ground test stage when it was displayed to the public, and it has not been able to be put into the actual aircraft.

In order to officially start the Pioneer jet engine, a power supply with a stable output power of 1000 amperes is required.

Traditional power batteries can achieve a theoretical output of 1000 amperes through the connection of multiple battery packs in series and the intervention of BMS system management.

However, the capacity of lithium batteries is limited. Even if the entire aircraft is built, more than 70% of its weight will be used to carry the battery module.

Moreover, the flight time cannot exceed 10 minutes, and it will be forced to land just after taking off.

As a result, this "Pioneer" electronic fuel injection engine has become a pure waste in the commercial aerospace and aviation markets.

There are some masters and experts in the aircraft model area on Bilibili who made some miniature electric-driven jet engines based on the design ideas of the "Pioneer" and posted them to attract likes and become popular.

Chen Jue also followed the ideas of the big names on Bilibili and made the same replica.

It's just that his conditions are that of the richest among the rich in the model aircraft area, so he played it more thoroughly and made secondary improvements on the original basis of the "Pioneer" engine.

Using CNC machine tools and MC materials, we have produced three sizes of 'Magic Cube Pioneer' electric-driven jet engines with diameters ranging from 3 meters to 50 centimeters: large, medium and small.

Then four large-sized "Rubik's Cube Pioneers" were embedded in the bottom of the cube aircraft, and the other eight sides were equipped with varying numbers of medium and small-sized Rubik's Cube Pioneers for direction adjustment.

As a cubic structure without wings, it breaks away from the flying posture of traditional multi-rotor aircraft.

All nine sides are designed with closed jet ports using hydraulic machinery, which is not unreasonable.

As for the interior cockpit design, it is even simpler!

Chen Jue directly followed the three-axis mechanical structure of the camera gimbal stabilizer and installed a smaller cubic cockpit inside the aircraft.

In this way, no matter how and in what attitude the aircraft flies in the air in the future, the cockpit can remain horizontal and stable, ensuring the comfort of passengers and pilots.

Including the pressurization, air conditioning, and oxygen supply systems on the aircraft, as well as the optical image capture of the outside world in the closed cabin, Chen Jue conquered them one by one using civilian equipment such as high-definition surveillance probes available on the market.

It took him a full seven days to complete the DIY of the entire aircraft and debug all the systems.

The time taken is almost the same as that of the two previously modified Airbus A320s.

However, before this cube-shaped aircraft can take off, there are still several major technical problems to be solved.

The first is the flight control system of the aircraft. Chen Jue has not found a matching mature flight control on the Internet or on the market.

After all, the concept of this "Magic Cube Flying Vehicle" that I made is too advanced.

Secondly, this thing can no longer be classified as a "drone" because of its large size and its incredible functions.

If you want to conduct a test flight, you must report to the air traffic control department.

So, after completing the manufacture of the aircraft, Chen Jue flipped through his address book and called Jun Yao's son who was on vacation in his hometown of Vancouver: "Brother Han, are you free? I need your help... Forget it, it's hard to explain over the phone, come to my factory and I'll show you something good!"

Wang Han on the other end of the phone was also stunned: "Chen Jue wants my help? This kid has become very rich recently, what else does he need my help for?"

After hanging up the phone, Wang Han, who was a little suspicious, clicked on a short video sent by Chen Jue on WeChat.

In the video, a large square aircraft is being tested in an empty workshop.

The strong airflow ejected from the base of the aircraft lifted the entire aircraft and climbed up several dozen meters in a crooked manner.

Just as the top of this extremely strange aircraft was about to hit the ceiling of the workshop.

Several extended Rubik's Cube arms stretched out from the gantry of the workshop, lifted it up and clamped it firmly, and finally laid it flat on the ground as Wang Han looked on in shock.

This scene in the short video almost made Wang Han’s brain boil!
"What the hell???"

"What the hell is this!"

"UFO? An alien drone? Or..." Wang Han was just about to click on the video to take another look at the peculiarly shaped aircraft, but Chen Jue had already withdrawn the video.

Wang Han was so angry that he sent several exclamation marks and foul-mouthed emojis, called the driver and headed straight for Rui County.

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