The idea of ​​rice being used to make cars is quite funny; it's been circulating on social media that rice is going to be used to make cars.

Then the head of the rice's public relations department came out and said something to the effect that rice would never manufacture cars.

Anyway, that's a pretty absolute statement.

Later, Lei Jun personally came out and said that he was going to build cars, and he publicized that this was likely the last entrepreneurial venture of his life.

Dami Auto was subsequently established in Yanjing with a registered capital of 10 billion yuan.

Zheng thought for a moment: "Dami Auto shouldn't rush to choose a battery supplier. I've recently made some progress in solving the lithium dendrite problem, and maybe we'll solve it by then."

Lithium dendrites are dendritic metallic lithium formed during the reduction of lithium ions in a lithium battery during charging.

This issue is one of the fundamental problems affecting the safety and stability of lithium batteries.

The formation of lithium dendrites can cause internal short circuits in lithium batteries, leading to explosions, and will inevitably cause the battery capacity to gradually decrease.

It is the presence of lithium dendrites that causes your phone's battery to decrease the more you use it.

Because Lei Jun was starting a business in new energy vehicles, he had a general understanding of lithium dendrites and knew that solving this technology would greatly improve lithium batteries.

“Junior brother, if you encounter any problems in your research and development, come to me anytime. If you are short of people, Da Mi also has a research and development center in Singapore, and you can transfer some people there at any time.”

"I'm waiting to send you money! The patent licensing for the brain-computer interface chip is expected to contribute 400 million yuan in revenue to you this year."

"Once you resolve the lithium dendrite issue, I might give you even more money."

Zheng Li smiled and said, "Senior brother, I also need your help with something."

"If the lithium dendrite problem is successfully solved, I will need you to help me contact major domestic car manufacturers, and I will license the patent to them."

"I want to find some core technological advantages for domestic car manufacturers."

Zheng Li's words sounded very dignified for the time being, but Lei Jun knew who he was and didn't stand on ceremony with him.

"Tell me, what are you planning this time? If you really cared about national enterprises, you wouldn't have licensed the brain-computer interface patent to companies like Samsung and Apple."

Although Xiaomi's brain-computer interface phone, the Mix 4, sold very well, it was soon followed by competitors, with OV's new brain-computer interface phone being released.

Samsung's concept video for a foldable screen phone with brain-computer interface has also been released, and Apple's fall launch event is just around the corner.

Lei Jun's happiness didn't last long; he was soon overwhelmed with pressure.

Zheng Li didn't hide it from the other party, because he originally intended to release the evidence publicly and subject Musk to public condemnation in the media:

“I filmed someone stealing research data at my R&D center in Singapore, including copying all the data in the database.”

“I strongly suspect that it’s related to Musk. His Neurallink, a brain-computer interface company, obtained our technical data.”

"Otherwise, their research and development progress wouldn't be so fast."

Lei Jun suddenly realized: "The video Musk posted on Twitter that the media has been publicizing recently was actually obtained from your technical data."

"So you want to use the advantages of lithium batteries to target Tesla?"

The CIA was very cautious when they infiltrated the Singapore R&D center. A hacker team outside the building had already broken into the R&D center's surveillance network and replaced the footage captured by the surveillance cameras with static images.

However, Zheng Li had another monitoring system, and the technological gap made it impossible for the CIA to target it.

Zheng Li: "That's right. As for whether Neurallink's technology was obtained from us, I'm just speculating at the moment."

"But once proven, I will definitely devote all my efforts to researching the lithium dendrite problem, so that domestic new energy manufacturers can have an absolute advantage over Tesla's battery technology."

In the early stages of electric vehicles, major car manufacturers used large batteries connected in parallel. Tesla was the first to use Panasonic batteries.

The battery designation is as follows: 18 indicates a diameter of 18mm, 65 indicates a length of 65mm, and 0 indicates a cylindrical shape.

Tesla integrates a large number of Panasonic batteries and uses a battery management system to give it better range than other electric vehicles.

If someone else had said this, Lei Jun would definitely have been skeptical, but Zheng Li's words convinced Lei Jun that he had the ability: "I believe in you, but if you want to defeat Tesla in the Chinese market, batteries alone are far from enough."

Just like how Huawei phones have better battery life than Apple phones, but Huawei still can't beat Apple in the high-end phone market.

The same applies to mobile phones, and even more so to electric vehicles. When purchasing such products, users consider far more than just battery life.

Even battery life isn't a major consideration.

Lei Jun continued, "Over the years, Tesla's image has been closely linked to Musk. In some ways, Tesla is following the same path as Apple."

"They operate on the principle of entrepreneurs endorsing their company's products, so that users can associate the product image with the company's founder when they see it. What kind of public image does Musk have?"

"Tech fanatics, real-life Iron Man, when users buy Tesla, they associate it with a sense of technology and cutting-edge technology."

Even if Tesla isn't actually that great.

Lei Jun has a deep understanding of product image building.

Lei Jun also wanted to take the path of highly linking products and corporate image, but the "are you ok" slogan and the low-end positioning of rice back then were too out of the ordinary.

This has led to a situation where the problem is difficult to reverse, and the positioning of rice has been fixed on its cost-effectiveness.

Zheng Li said, "This time, we may be able to break Musk's image, thereby breaking Tesla's image in the minds of Chinese users."

"Senior brother, wait for my news."

As the Mage Alliance has abundant resources, everyone can obtain basic living security without working, so most of its members are lawful neutral.

Even if you are chaotic and evil, the Mage Alliance will periodically inject you with "tranquilizers" to put you into sage mode.

Zheng Lineng was able to become a magic god in this system. Apart from interacting with people when he was in the academy, he mostly worked alone afterward, and when he did communicate with others, he would directly exchange opinions through the magic brain.

Therefore, he was completely lawful and neutral, and originally he had no obvious bias towards these countries on Earth.

However, America's actions were excessive; after stealing the patent, they went so far as to claim that it was their own invention.

Just like Zheng Li, who uses the endorphin production process researched by other monks, he never publicizes it extensively, nor does he use other people's discoveries to claim awards.

In 2020, Hong Kong offered the Future Science Prize to Zheng Li, but he declined without hesitation.

He plans to pay the relevant patent royalties if he returns to the Mage Alliance in the future.

America's questionable actions prompted Zheng Li to decide to impose a minor punishment.