Xiaomi in the front, Huawei in the back? Did you know that Huawei cars are coming?
On December 23, at Huawei's winter flagship new product launch, equipped with The Hongmeng system, the AITO Q&I M5 jointly created by Huawei and Xilix was officially released, and Yu Chengdong, managing director of Huawei, said that AITO cars are even comparable to Millions Luxury cars.
Yu Chengdong said that the M5 was designed with the help of Huawei's consumer business industrial design team and software design team, hoping to help solve the pain points of fuel vehicles and electric vehicles. Yu Chengdong said that AITO M5 adopts an all-aluminum alloy chassis, equipped with front double wishbones and rear multi-link independent suspension, reducing body weight while taking into account sports performance and comfort, and AITO Wonder M5 is equipped with 66W wired fast charging and 40W wireless fast charging, which can meet the needs of consumers.
Just a few days ago, Li Bin, the chairman of Weilai Automobile, also said in an interview, "He can't understand why there are still people buying fuel vehicles now?" What can you do but smell a little gasoline? ”
As soon as such controversial remarks came out, they immediately aroused the attention of public opinion. So gasoline cars and electric vehicles, which is better or worse?
First of all, is the electric car a new invention that only exists at the moment? No, more than a hundred years ago, in 1912, there were far more electric cars running on the streets of New York, London, and Paris than fuel vehicles. Why? Because the invention time of lead-acid batteries is more than twenty years earlier than the internal combustion engine, with lead-acid batteries and another engine, it is actually the car driven by today's golf course, and adding a body on it is a large car, so electric vehicles are not new technologies.
The core of so many years of research and development lies in the battery and electronic control system, but the whole world still chose fuel vehicles in the first hundred years, and there are three fundamental reasons.
First, the energy density of lead-acid batteries invented more than 100 years ago is 90 kWh / cubic meter, and human beings have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and more than 100 years of exploration, and the battery energy density is now Tesla's battery and BYD's blade battery, which is 260 kWh / cubic meter. The energy density of gasoline is 8600 kWh/m3 and diesel is 9600 kWh/m3. Even methanol liquids are 4300 kWh/m3, which is much larger than batteries. Therefore, the problem of battery life has always been the core problem of electric vehicles.
The second reason is that liquid is the carrier of the best energy storage, the transportation of liquid energy is actually very convenient, the road can be pipeline transportation, the sea can be transported across the sea, and there is no need for labor, it can be stored for a long time at room temperature and pressure, for example, those villages and towns close to the Arctic and plateaus, there is no grid natural gas network, but as long as there is a gas station, a tank of gasoline, diesel, etc. pulled over can meet a month or two of daily life, but the electricity and natural gas pipeline network is really not so easy to lay to these places, This is the advantage of liquid energy.
The third reason is the cost, the internal combustion engine of the fuel vehicle is very expensive for you to build, but when the design is finalized on an assembly line, the cost is low when 100,000 units are built every year. For example, in 1913 Ford's assembly line, as soon as it went to mass production, the American car fell from $4700 to $380, in that era, but whenever you are an American blue-collar worker can afford to buy a car, electric vehicles are different, every battery needs a variety of metals, nickel-cobalt, lithium copper, etc., after the expansion of production capacity, each cost will fall, but the decline is not much, unlike mechanical stainless steel to produce how much, electric vehicles account for the majority of material costs, Therefore, the use of pipelines can be reduced but there can be no fundamental changes.
Since new energy vehicles have these shortcomings, why does the state still vigorously advocate the development of new energy vehicles? New energy vehicle-related stock prices have also risen frequently?
First of all, we have always had a problem that is obvious, as you know, China is too dependent on overseas oil. As China's economy continues to develop, factories are starting and people are driving, and a lot of fuel is needed. And as China's car ownership breaks through the world's first - yes, you read it right, China's car ownership has indeed broken through the world's first, and its dependence on oil has rushed to more than 70% of the red line.
If China electrified its cars completely, it could drastically reduce its dependence on oil, which can only be shipped to China from a few countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia. There are many sources of electricity, such as photovoltaics, hydropower, wind power and nuclear power, and China's huge western hinterland has a place to play.
In the context of rising annual global automobile production, especially with the proposal of China's environmental protection strategy and the global "carbon neutrality" goal, new energy vehicles show explosive growth, and the future development of new energy vehicles will be oriented to multi-functional, integrated and intelligent to ensure the safety of automobile driving.
Hanwei Technology already has hydrogen-related sensor products and has been applied in new energy vehicles. At present, gas sensors, including hydrogen sensors, have been maturely applied in the field of battery safety detection. The newly released MEMS structure semiconductor hydrogen sensor and MEMS structure catalytic combustion hydrogen sensor, these two products are low range and high range, respectively, can be combined with the detection of hydrogen trace leakage or the detection of explosion-proof requirements.
The two products are based on the company's many years of metal oxide material technology and catalytic combustion technology, through the MEMS platform for small volume process optimization, mainly for the application of the whole industry chain of hydrogen energy. The market potential of hydrogen energy applications in the future is huge, the market prospect of hydrogen-related sensors is also very broad, and Hanwei's professional background also provides an important guarantee for the company's competitiveness in hydrogen energy vehicles and hydrogen energy industry chain.
Whether it is industry or technology, it is accumulated to a certain extent that a huge change will occur, and new energy vehicles are actually the same, after a long accumulation in previous years, the qualitative change period will soon come, and the outbreak of market and technology is in front of us. Whoever can master the core technology and standards will be able to grasp the way people travel in the future and become the rule-maker.