Auto & Transportation

China's new energy vehicles are speeding up again. According to customs data, 340,000 new energy vehicles were exported in the first eight months of this year, up 97.4% year on year. New energy vehicles are becoming a new business card of China's intelligent manufacturing. Why can new energy vehicles become new business cards? Some experts said that China's new energy automobile manufacturing enterprises have made great efforts in intelligent digital technology to open up the whole chain of R&D, production and sales terminals. Through upstream and downstream collaboration, they have explored the transformation from traditional production oriented manufacturing to service oriented manufacturing, and created customized, personalized and customized products for users.

Evolving towards mobile intelligent space

According to customs data, in the past decade, China's new energy automobile industry has experienced a process from small to large, from weak to strong, and has become an important force leading the transformation and upgrading of the global automobile industry. Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, recently introduced at a series of news conferences themed "China's Decade" that "the cumulative sales of new energy vehicles have risen significantly from 20000 at the end of 2012 to 11.08 million at the end of May this year. Since 2015, the production and sales volume has ranked first in the world for seven consecutive years."

Xin Guobin said that the development of new energy vehicles is the only way for China to move from a big automobile country to a strong automobile country. China has deeply implemented the national strategy of new energy vehicles, strengthened top-level design and innovation drive, and the new energy vehicle industry has achieved rapid development. To promote the development of the new energy automobile industry, the state and local governments have successively introduced more than 600 support policies covering technology innovation, promotion and application, safety supervision and other aspects, established a national manufacturing innovation center for power batteries and intelligent connected vehicles, supported upstream and downstream enterprises to continuously increase R&D investment, innovate business models, and formed a strong endogenous driving force for industrial development.

Through the continuous R&D and innovation of new energy vehicle manufacturers, the majority of users feel the boundary expansion of new energy vehicles after ensuring their conventional performance, especially the cross-border integration of intelligent networking technology and new automotive electrification technology, so that new energy vehicles are not only pure vehicles, but also evolve into mobile intelligent space.

Participate in high-end market competition

China's smart electric vehicle brands are accelerating their entry into overseas high-end markets. On October 8, Weilai Automobile held a press conference in Berlin, Germany, announcing that it will provide full system services in the markets of Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, which marks the further development of Weilai's globalization strategy.

Li Bin, the founder and chairman of Weilai Automobile, said in an exclusive interview with this newspaper that the competition in the automobile industry is comprehensive competitiveness, and the intelligent electric vehicle is the intersection of "intelligent", "electric" and "automobile" industries. At present, China's manufacturing industry has world-class competitiveness in these three industries, including the advantages in supply chain and talents, which is the bottom line for Chinese auto enterprises such as Weilai to "go to sea". A year ago, Weilai began to deploy in the Norwegian market in Europe. In the first three quarters of this year, Weilai ES8 ranked first in the sales of 6-seat and 7-seat sport utility vehicles in the land area of Austria. Li Bin introduced that Weilai adheres to the globalization strategy and proposed the goal of entering the markets of 25 countries in the world by 2025. Next, Relying on technological innovation, Weilai will gradually enter more high-end markets in Europe and the United States, bringing more wisdom and new green experiences to users.

In the 5G era, the entire automobile industry is facing huge upgrading opportunities. Based on "electrification", "networking" and "intelligence" have become the key points of industry competition. Chinese automobile manufacturers are complying with this tide, constantly carrying out technological innovation, and participating in the global high-end market competition by "changing the road and running first".

Helping "China's Intelligent Manufacturing" and "Going to Sea"

Face recognition opens doors, assists driving to alleviate fatigue, and automatically warns against danger... China's automobile manufacturing enterprises continue to innovate in science and technology, integrating a new generation of information technology into the automobile industry, realizing dynamic information interaction among people, vehicles, and roads, and making driving safer, smarter, and more comfortable.

China's new energy vehicles have gained more and more recognition in the international market in recent years. Chen Shihua, deputy secretary-general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said that according to customs statistics, nearly 10 Chinese automobile enterprises have exported new energy vehicles to Europe, and Chinese electric vehicles have accounted for 10% of the total sales of European electric vehicles. According to the relevant person in charge of China Automobile Circulation Association, Chinese automobile enterprises are now mainly exporting new energy vehicles to the European market. According to customs data, 49% of China's total exports of new energy vehicles will be exported to the European market in 2021. The export situation is very encouraging.

According to customs data, many years ago, Chinese cars entered the overseas market relying on the price advantage of their own brands and gained a large market share in Latin America and Africa. How to enter the European market has been a long-term problem for Chinese new energy vehicle enterprises. Chinese new energy automobile enterprises are speeding up on the "innovation track", continuing to innovate in product performance, intelligent technology, comprehensive services and other aspects, and helping "Made in China" move towards "Made in China" and "Made in China".