Arthur Porcari
Analyst · Corporate Strategies. Please proceed with your question.
Congratulations Mr. Hu, achieving some immense milestones for Kandi’s live conference call. Of course, you've covered a few of those. But the two in particular impressed me is the strategic partnership with the State Grid, which is China's massive electric utility as you said. It's like just don't realize how big it is, 1.2 billion consumers, 90% of all the landmass in China. And number two, on the Fortune Global 500, second only to Walmart actually. But just as impressive to me as former investment banker, you attracted China's largest investment bank CICC to lead an IPO syndicate to underwrite a spin off IPO of Kandi’s wholly owned battery subsidiary that we've been talking about. To capitalize and monetize Kandi’s exceptional expertise in all the facets of EV technology, I assume this is thanks to Mr. Hu’s 30-year experiences the pioneer of inventor a quick battery exchange technology, one of the hottest sectors in China today. But a little background here, 10 years and two weeks ago, Mr. Hu may remember, I had the honor of joining at Guangdong in China at the opening of China's first quick battery exchange station, which saw Kandi selling a small two seat EV, actually powered by lead-acid battery that shows you how long ago this was which was independent of the car. NIO was not the first one to do this. The car owner would pay around $3 each time he changed the battery. More than just the coincidence at that time Tiny Kandi, who is the first to make and commercially sell EVs in China had the same State Grid as a partner in this early trial. Seemingly from the recent PR provided most all the same services in this new agreement. If I remember correctly, what attracted State Grid most of the Kandi QBX at the time was the ability to charge the batteries overnight when grid demand was at its low point, which included excess batteries in the racks which would allow State Grid to extract power from the excess batteries during times of peak use, usually midday. At that time, this was called B2G or battery to grid, most will remember at that time midday brownouts major cities globally. The Kandi trial was an early success and the China National Government later officially recognized what they called the Hangzhou Kangji for a power mode, quick battery exchange, as one of only three approved methods of charging nationwide. Yes. They specifically use Kandi’s name in the official title. With this background, I'm going to have a couple of questions. I don't know whether that was probably too much to overload Mr. Hu with, but maybe Alan could handle this. But do you want me just to go into the questions now? Or do you want to try to paraphrase what I said to Mr. Hu?