On January 17, FAW-Volkswagen held the 2022 annual press conference, where the heads of the three major brands of Volkswagen, Audi and Jetta reviewed the development of the past year and the outlook for 2022.
According to the data, FAW-Volkswagen's annual production of complete vehicles exceeded 1.7 million in 2021, reaching a record high with a single-day production peak of 10,777 units. At the same time, 1.858 million new cars were delivered to users throughout the year, and production and sales won the industry championship.
Pan Zhanfu, Director, Party Secretary and General Manager of FAW-Volkswagen, delivered a speech
It is worth mentioning that thanks to the new ID.CROZZ series models launched in 2021, FAW-Volkswagen's new energy market share is constantly expanding. In the future, relying on more than 30 years of manufacturing and sales experience in traditional energy vehicles, it will continue to exert efforts in the new energy vehicle market.
At the same time, due to the repeated and serious "lack of core" adverse effects of the new crown epidemic, the entire automotive industry has also encountered great difficulties and challenges in 2021. FAW-Volkswagen is also taking advantage of this window period to actively optimize internal management and practice "internal strength".
In 2021, FAW-Volkswagen launched a system-wide digital and intelligent transformation, streamlined traditional business organizations, and established a DTO digital transformation office; cooperated with Huawei and Alibaba to cultivate digital talents; took users as the center to reconstruct end-to-end business processes; and expanded OTD online customized vehicles to Volkswagen and Audi, shortening the delivery cycle by nearly 30%.
In the field of technology, it has completed and put into use a new energy center and a new technology development center with a total investment of nearly 1.2 billion yuan, which has greatly improved the development and testing capabilities of FAW-Volkswagen in terms of new energy vehicles and vehicle performance, and further consolidated the advantages of FAW-Volkswagen in the field of technological innovation in the future.
In the past year, FAW-Volkswagen has achieved a strategic dual layout of traditional vehicles and new energy vehicles, in terms of traditional models, the Volkswagen brand and Audi brand have launched high-end models such as Volkswagen Andritz and the new Audi Q5L family; in terms of new energy, the Volkswagen brand has accelerated the layout of MEB platform models, ID.4 CROZZ, ID.6 CROZZ sales have been rising since its listing; the Audi brand has brought luxury pure electric C-class SUV family Audi e-tron and Audi e-tron High-end new energy models such as Sportback.
Dr. Ande Shi, Deputy General Manager of FAW-Volkswagen First (Finance), delivered a speech
In 2022, the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Germany will usher in, and FAW-Volkswagen will also enter a new stage of enterprise development. According to the plan, FAW-Volkswagen will have 8 new cars on the market in 2022, accelerate the research and development and verification of new products and technologies, and deliver better equipment and intelligent connection functions to users. (Text/Tencent Auto Zhang Cuicui)