In addition to electrification, intelligence, networking, sharing and digital development paths, important technical routes in the future are lightweight and integrated.
The development of the automotive industry is ushering in a new wave of technological innovation. In recent years, under the development trend of electrification, intelligence, networking, sharing and digitalization, the technology of the automotive industry has achieved unprecedented development. Industry enterprises should face up to and grasp the strategic development opportunities brought about by this trend of technological innovation.
"In fact, in addition to the development path of electrification, intelligence, networking, sharing and digitalization, there are important technical routes in the future such as lightweighting and integration." Yang Yanding, deputy secretary of the party committee and deputy director of the technical center of Dongfeng Motor Company, said in an exclusive interview with Automotive Zongheng, "The development of lightweight technology in the future is very important. Whether it is the 'double carbon' strategy, or electrification and intelligence, as well as the future improvement of vehicle performance and safety improvement, it needs to be supported by lightweight technology. At the same time, to further strengthen the cost advantage, integration is an important development trend. Deep integration helps to reduce the energy consumption level of the whole vehicle, and improve the performance of the vehicle, so that users can get a better experience. ”
Six key words reveal the direction of technological innovation
According to the basic consensus in the industry, the technological innovation of the automotive industry needs to focus on basic components and components, basic materials, industrial basic software, basic processes and their equipment and industrial technology foundations, break through core technologies, in order to solve the problem of weak industrial foundations, and ultimately achieve technological leadership.
For the future direction of automotive technology innovation, Wu Jian, president of gauca research institute, said in an interview with Automotive Zongheng that from the product point of view, three "big" can be described:
The first is big energy. It includes electrification, hydrogen energy, hybridization, etc., as well as battery recycling, green factories and other elements, and ultimately allows energy to return to nature and form a closed-loop economic ecology.
The second is the big number. It includes big data, digitalization, etc. Now there is a hot word called "metacosm", which is actually a number. The entire social ecology has undergone great changes, and it is necessary to build a digital ecology in the future. The automotive industry will also use big numbers to build a mobility ecosystem.
The third is big machinery. The lightweighting of the platform, architecture, chassis, shape, body, etc. of the car to adapt to the future development of big energy and big digital can be reduced to the dynamic big machinery category.
In an exclusive interview, Yang Yanding used the following three keywords to summarize:
One is green. Facing the future, under the national "double carbon" grand strategy, it is necessary to focus on the layout and development of low-carbon environmental protection technologies, including pure electric, fuel cells and other technical routes. According to the "Energy-saving and New Energy Vehicle Technology Roadmap 2.0" plan, it is necessary to look at the green development of the automotive industry from a global perspective, take the product as the core, accelerate the extension to the manufacturing end and the user end, and focus on the development of new energy vehicles. Yang Yanding said: "First of all, fuel vehicles continue to reduce fuel consumption, break out of the road of low-carbon development, extend the product life cycle; electric vehicle innovation and development, the application of more new technologies to reduce electricity consumption." Secondly, promote the continuous development of the green manufacturing system, rely on the construction of smart factories, and create an energy-saving, environmentally friendly, lean and low-carbon manufacturing process. Finally, promote the development and application of green materials. It is necessary to develop new lightweight and high-strength materials, renewable materials, and promote the application of additive manufacturing and remanufacturing. ”
The second is intelligence. Intelligent car is a comprehensive system that concentrates on the use of computers, modern sensing, information fusion, communication, artificial intelligence and automatic control technologies, integrating functions such as environmental perception, planning decision-making and multi-level assisted driving, and is a typical high-tech complex. Yang Yanding said: "At present, China's intelligent networked vehicles are in the stage of collaborative intelligent transportation and automatic driving, and will be in the stage of smart travel after 2025. According to the "Intelligent Connected Vehicle Technology Roadmap 2.0", by 2025, the penetration rate of PA and CA-level intelligent connected vehicles will reach 50%, and the assembly rate of new cars at C-V2X terminals will reach 50%. He said: "Facing intelligence, Dongfeng Motor has proposed a 'science and technology transition' plan, including two major leaps in new energy and intelligent network. This is the technical development direction of Dongfeng Motor's future key layout. ”
The third is scene research. A typical feature that distinguishes smart cars from traditional cars is that they can provide users with a richer and more convenient travel experience. Yang Yanding said: "Based on the needs of user use scenarios, it is the direction of the future evolution of smart cars. At present, the industry has passed the era of forming intelligent cars through the accumulation of electronic products, and is developing in a customer-centric direction, and the focus has also expanded from the driver to the passengers of the whole vehicle, from the inside to the outside of the car, and from the car end to the cloud. ”
"Whole zero" synergy and win-win
We know that the long chain of the automotive supply chain system greatly affects the efficiency of the entire industry. Especially under the development trend of intensifying market competition, high R&D investment, the emergence of new technologies and the rapid iteration of models, in-depth cooperation between upstream and downstream has become a trend of enterprise cost reduction and efficiency increase and coordinated development, and the "whole zero" cooperation model is also developing rapidly. On the issue of how to cooperate and develop the "whole zero", Wu Jian and Yang Yanding also put forward their own suggestions.
Wu Jian believes that in the automotive industry 2.0 years, the main engine factory led, did integration, and parts companies followed, that is, what the former wanted, the latter provided. The future is to do ecology, everything is user-centric, the relationship between the main engine factory and the supplier has undergone major changes: the main engine factory integrates the functions of the supplier, and the main engine factory implements it in the ecology. In this way, the original format will be slowly impacted and changed. "Therefore, parts suppliers should quickly change their inherent way of thinking, actively participate in ecological construction, and ultimately respond quickly to user needs."
"In order to avoid China's automotive industry from repeating the mistakes of the hollowing out of supply chain technology in traditional fields, the current 'zero zero' cooperation in technological innovation and its transformation is more important." From the perspective of automakers, Yang Yanding proposed: First, in terms of strategy and strategy, put parts suppliers and supply chains in a more important position for the development of the whole vehicle to promote; secondly, for the new ecology, especially in the field of software, it is necessary to establish a new cooperation model that meets the characteristics of its industry; finally, it is possible to build a supply chain cooperation and service platform to provide one-stop services from product verification, certification and monitoring, to help parts suppliers improve synchronously, so as to achieve "whole zero" synergy and win-win, and make the market cake bigger. Promote the healthy and safe development of the industrial chain
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