China's lithium battery industry is already number one in the world!

So I hope that through the development of solid-state batteries, our country can go from following, running side by side to leading. We can always maintain the first place in the world market share. To maintain this first place, I think we can not relax in the current work of lithium-ion batteries, that is, there are many innovative work and innovative achievements that we need to move towards industrialization.

I admire Kanno, a Japanese, very much. He has always insisted on solid electrolytes. I think we should learn from Japan. Our solid-state battery research has basically been abandoned since the beginning of lithium-ion batteries, but now, we are going back to do it again. I think it is not too late to do it again. We can still catch up. From the current trend, we still have an advantage. Therefore, there should be a lot of work to encourage innovation in lithium battery work, whether it is lithium battery, solid-state battery, or liquid electrolyte battery.

In addition to this, other batteries must be developed, such as sodium-ion batteries. Although everyone is confident in making lithium-ion batteries now, if all cars in the world use lithium-ion batteries, there is actually not enough lithium. Yesterday, Michel Armand also gave a data, that is, if 10% of electric cars in the world use batteries, how many batteries will it need? More than 6 billion tons or something, which is a huge amount. In this case, we must develop batteries such as sodium-ion batteries, which are relatively abundant in resources. In addition, aluminum-ion batteries, magnesium-ion batteries or zinc-ion batteries should actually be developed, especially in some work where we have advantages and we are ahead.

We have an advantage in sodium-ion batteries. We demonstrated the first low-speed electric car and the first 100-kilowatt power station. We also recognized the patent for zinc-ion batteries as the first in China. We are now working on lithium or magnesium solid-state batteries. I think everyone is starting from scratch with these things. I think as long as we seize the opportunity and don't give up, we have the opportunity to be at the forefront of the world.

Hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells are not batteries. They are actually power generation devices. That is to say, if you have hydrogen, I can generate electricity by adding oxygen to it. It is a power generation device, not a battery. But we must study hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells. Hydrogen does not have a mine, unlike lithium, which has lithium mines. Although China's lithium resources are not as much as South America, we are still a country with relatively rich lithium resources, but hydrogen does not exist. Where will hydrogen come from in the future? Some people say that you can electrolyze water to produce hydrogen? Of course, you can electrolyze water to produce hydrogen. Everyone can electrolyze water to produce hydrogen, but what does electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen require? Electricity. You have electricity, and you can electrolyze water to produce hydrogen. Then you can bottle the hydrogen or liquefy it. Finally, you can use hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells to generate electricity. That is to say, it starts with electricity and ends with electricity. You use this electricity to drive.

If we can solve the problem of producing hydrogen from water by solar photolysis, then our hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells will have great prospects in the future. We need to study hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells, but they need to be developed in a big way, that is, they need to replace lithium-ion batteries, which is not a near-term thing.

We should now consider how to turn the dream of "Electric China" into reality, which is an urgent need of the country. These highly innovative research, whether you are innovative or original, should enable China's lithium batteries to go from following to running side by side, and finally to leading, laying the foundation for realizing the dream of "Electric China".