(Economic Observation) Chinese-made cars accelerate "Europe", new energy becomes a breakthrough overseas

　　China News Service, Shanghai, November 4 (Zhou Zhuoao) With the epidemic under control, the auto industry has resumed work and production, and China's auto manufacturing industry has also accelerated the pace of "going out".

　　Approximately 7,000 Tesla vehicles produced by the Chinese factory will depart from Shanghai in late October, and will arrive at the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium in a month and will be sold to Germany, France, Italy and other countries.

At this time, it was just 10 months before the delivery of the first batch of Model 3 made in China, and less than 2 years before the start of the Tesla Super Factory in Shanghai.

　　Song Gang, the manufacturing director of Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory, said, “After the Shanghai factory has ramped up its production capacity, we can meet the needs of Chinese consumers while also being able to bring our high-quality products to European customers. This is our first export to Europe. A test of the water also laid a very solid foundation for our future export."

　　Zhang Xiang, an automotive industry analyst, told reporters that Tesla currently has two vehicle super factories, located in the Fremont super factory in San Francisco and the Shanghai super factory in China. Benefiting from good epidemic control, the production capacity of the Chinese factory has recovered quickly, and Because of the use of the Chinese supply chain, quality can be guaranteed while reducing manufacturing costs.

　　For Tesla, manufacturing in China is a supplement to the production capacity of American factories, while for Chinese new energy vehicle companies, the European market is a whole new world.

　　According to statistics from the Passenger Federation, China's new energy passenger vehicle sales in the first half of 2020 were 313,000, a year-on-year decrease of 44.0%, while the European new energy vehicle sales increased by 52% year-on-year to 403,000.

Europe may surpass China to become the world's largest market for new energy vehicles.

　　Zhao Aimin, deputy general manager of SAIC International, said that there is a passenger car market of approximately 17 million vehicles in Europe and the market is huge. The European market will be the strategic focus of SAIC in the future.

It is understood that it was also October that SAIC Group announced the launch of its own routes in Europe. SAIC's largest ro-ro car, the Anji Phoenix, carried nearly 1,800 MG new energy vehicles to Europe.

　　"This route not only serves the SAIC Group, but also serves the "Going Global" of independent brands." Zhao Aimin said.

　　Yang Junling, general manager of the overseas business department of SAIC Maxus Sales Company, pointed out that in the field of fuel vehicles, Chinese car brands are a certain distance from traditional European brands. However, with the entry point of the new energy vehicle market, SAIC has adopted product differences, channel differences, and business differences. , Pricing differences and other models are well based on the European market.

　　Since the resumption of work and production this year, AIWAYS, which has exported 700 new energy vehicles to the EU, is currently the largest Chinese new car company exporting smart electric vehicles to the EU.

Fu Qiang, co-founder and chairman of AIWAYS, said frankly that the European new energy vehicle market is a blue ocean. "It was originally envisaged to account for more than 40% of the overseas market. It may be more ideal now, and the European market provides us with profitable space It's bigger than the domestic one."

　　Fu Qiang said that participating in international competition is the general trend of China's new energy automobile companies in the future.

　　In fact, a strong supply chain has also allowed more and more overseas companies to use China as an export hub for electric vehicles.

Many automobile manufacturers such as BMW, Renault and Daimler have moved their new energy vehicle production plants to China.

　　When interpreting the "New Energy Automobile Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)" issued recently, Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that new energy vehicles are the main direction for the transformation and upgrading and green development of the global automobile industry, and also the Chinese automobile industry. Strategic choice for high-quality development.

　　Xin Guobin pointed out that after years of development, China's industrial technology level has been significantly improved, the industrial ecosystem has been gradually established, and the supporting environment has been continuously improved.

The new energy automobile industry has become one of the new drivers of China's economic and social development.

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