Although the process of change needs to go through "pain", it reflects the enterprising mentality of BAIC.
With the arrival of the Winter Olympic torch in Beijing Shougang Park, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are getting closer and closer to us. One of the biggest features of this Winter Olympics is "green environmental protection". As the first world-class sports event after the mainland put forward the goal of "carbon peaking in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060", the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics promised to neutralize all carbon emissions, and demonstrated the mainland's determination to achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality with practical actions.
When carbon peaks and carbon neutrality become the international consensus, the new energy automobile industry will enter a period of deep cultivation and meticulous cultivation. In this field, BAIC Group will play its "host" advantage as a "forerunner". In the service guarantee of the previous "Meet in Beijing" Winter Olympics series test matches, the green advantages of BAIC Group have been fully demonstrated. As a partner of the Winter Olympic Games, BAIC Group actively responds to the concept of "Green Winter Olympics" and provides more than 500 commercial and passenger products of its brands such as Jihu Automobile, Beijing Automobile, Beijing Off-road, Foton Automobile, Beijing Benz, Beijing Hyundai, etc., most of which are zero-emission new energy vehicles.
In addition, BAIC recently completed the delivery of 330 Beijing EU7 pure electric vehicles and 212 Ouhui hydrogen fuel buses used for the service guarantee work of the Winter Olympic Games, realizing the world's first large-scale hydrogen fuel bus service sports event.
In fact, the above two types of models represent the achievements and development direction of BAIC Group's commercial and passenger products in the field of new energy. During the Shanghai Auto Show last year, BAIC Motor released a power route covering three directions of fuel, hybrid and pure electric drive, creating three major platforms of SUPER power, HEV hybrid and EV electric. Among them, the EV electric platform has been applied to Beijing-EU5, Beijing-EU7 and other models, which can guarantee the maximum torque of 800N·m and bring 1000km+ ultra-long cruising range in the future.
According to the plan, in the next three years, BAIC Motor will carry out four-wheel product upgrades through the above power route to achieve the user's all-scenario car demand, that is, the optimization, 1/4 scenario, 1/2 scenario and full-scenario products of the existing A-class sedan. At present, BAIC Motor has completed the optimization of the existing A-class sedan, and the fully upgraded BEIJING-EU5 PLUS and BEIJING-U5 PLUS have been launched and put on sale.
In addition to pure electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells are also being popularized. As a type of new energy vehicle, fuel cell vehicles are a major strategic direction for the global energy technology revolution and transformation and development. In recent years, the domestic policy on the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has continued to exert efforts and achieved certain results. Relevant data show that since 2016, the sales of fuel cell vehicles in the mainland have begun to rise gradually, and by the end of 2020, the number of fuel cell vehicles in the mainland is 7,352, and the market size is about 360 billion yuan.
In this context, the mainland issued the "New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)", which proposes to "strive to achieve commercial application of fuel cell vehicles after 15 years of continuous efforts, and the construction of hydrogen fuel supply system is steadily advancing", and the "China Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell Industry White Paper" shows that by 2035, a total of 1.3 million large-scale commercial promotions will be achieved, 1500 hydrogen refueling stations will be built, and the industry output value will reach 5 trillion yuan.
Under the favorable policy and development prospects, saicid motor, Great Wall Motor, Dongfeng Motor, BAIC Group and other large domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers have formulated different development plans for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, actively overcome technical problems, and explore feasible market-oriented paths and profit models.
Among them, Foton Motor, a subsidiary of BAIC Group, has more than 50 patents related to fuel cell vehicles, fuel cell control, fuel cell thermal management, system integration, and safety monitoring. The hydrogen fuel bus serving the Winter Olympics is equipped with a new generation of fast cold start high power density fuel cell system and a rapid heating power battery system under extremely cold conditions, which can realize the extreme cold and low temperature start of minus 30 degrees Celsius, the extreme cold and low temperature storage of minus 40 degrees Celsius and the automatic protection of shutdown.
It is reported that BAIC Group not only deeply cultivates the field of pure new energy vehicles, but also establishes and improves the green management system of the whole life cycle of products, carries out technological transformation around energy conservation and environmental protection in the manufacturing process, and creates green factories in accordance with the principles of plant intensification, harmless raw materials, clean production, waste recycling, and low-carbon energy.
With the landing of the "double carbon" policy, the low-carbon development route of the automobile industry has become the consensus of the industry. Although the process of change needs to go through "pain", it reflects the enterprising mentality of BAIC, and only by carrying out the reform to the end, not afraid of difficulties and trying to survive with change, can we truly establish the core competitiveness of the main business.