Xinhua News Agency, Hefei, November 22. Title: How can new energy vehicles accelerate under the "dual carbon" goal?
Xinhua News Agency reporters Faye Wong and Wu Huijun
Today, new energy vehicles have flown into the homes of ordinary people.
What changes is China's new energy automobile industry going through?
How can new energy vehicles accelerate under the "dual carbon" goal?
Come and listen to what the industry insiders say at the 2021 World Manufacturing Conference.
Green leads from "policy-driven" to "market-driven"
Under the "dual carbon" goal, green leadership has become a new beacon for the new energy automobile industry.
In September 2021, China's new energy vehicle market penetration rate was 17.3%, entering a stage of rapid market development with diversified users as the main body, and user demand has become the main driving force for market development.
"It is environmentally friendly and energy-saving, and it saves a lot of money every month without refueling." Zhang Xiao, a Shanghai citizen who has just bought a new energy vehicle, said that driving a new energy vehicle is also to achieve the goal of "dual carbon". Power.
"The new energy automobile industry is accelerating the transition from'policy-driven' to'market-driven', and the industrial development is gradually achieving marketization." Weilai Automobile CEO Li Bin said that as of October this year, Weilai has delivered a total of 145,703 new vehicles.
The cumulative delivery volume from January to October this year increased by 122.9% year-on-year.
According to the "High-quality Development Report of China's New Energy Automobile Industry 2021" issued by the China Automobile Manufacturers Association and others, entering 2021, despite the impact of global chip supply and other factors, my country's new energy vehicle production and sales are still setting new historical records, from 1 to 10 Cumulative production and sales for the month increased by approximately 1.8 times year-on-year.
Up to now, the proportion of new energy vehicles in vehicle sales has reached 11%.
"Emission reduction and carbon reduction will bring new variables to the auto industry, and provide important opportunities for auto companies to reshape their competitive advantages." said Xiang Xingchu, chairman of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co., Ltd., under the "dual carbon" goal, China New Energy The opportunities and challenges faced by auto companies coexist.
Li Yizhong, President of the China Federation of Industrial Economics, said that from the perspective of carbon footprint, it is not only necessary to reduce carbon emissions in the use of automobiles, but also to take into account energy production, automobile manufacturing, and scrap recycling to promote the entire life cycle of the automobile industry. Carbon emissions.
Innovation driven from "acceleration" to "high quality"
New energy vehicles flew into the homes of ordinary people, and the convenience and inconvenience of charging, the amount of cruising range, and the safety and unsafe driving of new energy vehicles have become the focus of attention of car owners.
"Battery cost reduction and performance improvement are the key to promoting the development of electric vehicles." Li Zhen, chairman of Guoxuan High-Tech Co., Ltd., said that battery materials science has progressed very rapidly. Among the company's more than 2,000 R&D personnel, nearly 1,000 are engaged in materials Scientific research.
In terms of cruising range, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that the average cruising range of pure electric passenger vehicles has increased from 253 kilometers in 2016 to 378 kilometers in 2020.
At present, many vehicles have reached more than 500 kilometers, and the cruising range has been greatly improved on the original basis.
Driven by innovation, it has become the core support for the high-quality development of China's new energy vehicles.
Li Bin said: "We have set up design and R&D centers in Shanghai, Hefei, Munich, Oxford and other places, dedicated to independent research and development of core technologies."
"China's car-electric separation model is speeding up innovation and development, and the charging network is speeding up. A number of car companies such as Weilai, Weimar, Geely, BAIC, Changan and SAIC are actively deploying power exchange models." Deputy Secretary-General of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers Shi Jianhua said, "New energy vehicles must continue to develop in the long-term. Safer products, more reliable quality, smarter operation, cheaper electricity, and more convenient charging are a manifestation of the bright future of new energy vehicles."
Relying on the "Internet +" smart energy, China is accelerating the improvement of the level of intelligence, actively promoting the smart and orderly slow charging as the main charging service model in residential areas, supplemented by the emergency fast charging, and accelerating the formation of a moderately advanced, fast charging and slow charging service mode. Supplementary highways and urban and rural public charging networks.
According to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, as of October 2021, the cumulative number of charging infrastructure in the country was 2.253 million units, an increase of 50.4% year-on-year, and 1,086 power stations were replaced.
The huge market potential and vigorous innovation ecology have also made China a hot spot for investment in the global new energy automobile industry.
"Anhui's continuously expanding automotive industry value chain provides us with a good opportunity to build a solid manufacturing base. We have certified more than 1,000 suppliers, of which 20 key suppliers serving new energy vehicles are located in Hefei." Ge Wandi, CEO of Volkswagen (Anhui) Co., Ltd., said, “Volkswagen Anhui is not only a production base of pure electric vehicles, but also the main force of Volkswagen Group's research and development.”
"The Chinese automobile market has experienced a period of rapid development for more than 10 years. The '14th Five-Year Plan' is a critical period for the realization of industrial transformation and upgrading, and will enter a new stage of high-quality development in an all-round way." Shi Jianhua said.
Wisdom to enjoy the future competition "horsepower" to compete for "computing power"
Can you imagine such a picture?
Your car will not only judge your fatigue index, sense your mood, recognize distractions and dangerous actions during driving, but also caringly park automatically... With the speed of the smart car era, this kind of scene is far away from us. Life is not far away.
"Intelligence is a new driving force to promote car carbon reduction and emission reduction." Li Yizhong said that car intelligent network connection organically integrates cars, roads, and people, and will realize safe, efficient, energy-saving, and emission-reduction unmanned intelligent driving.
In 2020, the market penetration rate of my country's L2 intelligent networked passenger vehicles has reached 15%, and the L3 autonomous driving models have also been tested and verified.
In Ge Wandi's view, with the advancement of technology, the automotive ecosystem is ushering in disruptive changes.
The new era of personal mobility will create more social benefits and open up broader development space for future industrial development.
Software-defined, data-driven, and ubiquitous connections drive the "seven-two changes" of smart electric vehicles, subverting people's traditional perception of cars, and the competition in the automotive market has shifted from competing for "horsepower" to competing for "computing power."
Cross-border collaboration has become the development trend of the new energy automobile industry. "Car-energy integration", "car-road coordination", and "car-network interconnection" will converge to empower smart cities and make people's lives better.
"Cars will be transformed from mobile tools to smart terminals, with higher levels of autonomous driving and more ways of human-computer interaction to meet people's individual needs." Xiang Xingchu said, based on 5G network-related technologies and automotive wireless communication technologies , It will be able to realize the interaction between cars and cars, the interaction between cars and urban infrastructure, the interaction between cars and the cloud, and then promote the construction of smart cities.