Zhuzhou new energy automobile industry cluster is star-studded and ready to embrace the big era

On the production line, a white new energy light truck is gradually taking shape... On February 16, Hunan Zhidian Intelligent New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Hunan Zhidian) was busy. Since February 8, the company has resumed work and production, and continues the business trend of "many orders and busy production" last year.

Start the year and start with power. In the new round of industrial competition, Zhuzhou's new energy automobile industry is running wildly on the road of "no one has me, people have me, and people are excellent and I am special".

The power of the faucet drive

"The automobile industry is an important part of Zhuzhou's modern industrial system and an important support for building an important national advanced manufacturing highland." In the macro review of the development of Zhuzhou's industry, Cao Huiquan, secretary of the municipal party committee, said so.

In recent years, Zhuzhou automobile industry has developed steadily, and the cluster has been highlighted, gathering a number of outstanding vehicle manufacturing enterprises.

As a new energy commercial vehicle enterprise integrating R&D, manufacturing and sales, Hunan Zhidian has successfully developed new energy light trucks, medium-sized pickup trucks, special vehicle models and other products, with a planned standard production capacity of 50,000 units, and is currently accelerating the construction of stamping, welding, painting and other workshops.

In addition to this "rookie", Zhuzhou's "old" new energy vehicle host enterprises also have a lot to see.

In January this year, CRRC Times Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CRRC Electric) delivered the first batch of 50 pure electric bus C11s tailored for South Korea.

As a first-class subsidiary of CRRC, CRRC Electric is the first high-tech enterprise in China to be approved to engage in the research and development and manufacture of new energy vehicles, powertrain assemblies and key components, and currently has the core technical capabilities of the leading industry such as three electric vehicles (electric drive, electronic control, battery PACK), three wisdoms (intelligent driving, intelligent network connection, smart cockpit), three modernizations (standardization, modularization, platformization), etc., forming basic components - core components - system integration - vehicle research and development and manufacturing - The whole industry chain of new energy commercial vehicles for travel services. By the end of 2021, the company has put into a total of 55,000 vehicles and 170,000 sets of electric drive systems, ranking among the top three in the country in the new energy bus industry.

In February, the trial production of new models of Beiqi Zhuzhou Branch was "re-accelerated", and mass production models such as Beijing U5 PLUS and EU5 PLUS were also organized in an orderly manner.

Since last year, the company has broken through the "lack of core" dilemma, overcome the adverse effects of the epidemic, and successfully completed the production task of 16,000 taxis in Beijing. Today, in the digital factory that has become a model for smart factories in the province, the company is also accelerating the transformation of production lines to prepare for the introduction of new high-intelligence products.

Ability to achieve closed-loop

In Zhuzhou, behind the powerful new energy vehicle host enterprises, there is also a strong supporting capacity.

The electric drive system, one of the "three electric" systems of new energy vehicles, is the power source of new energy vehicles and an indispensable core component, which can be called the "core" of the car.

At the end of last year, Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Times Electric) officially released the first high-power electric drive C-Power 220s based on independent silicon carbide, with an efficiency of up to 94% of the electric drive system.

The design scheme based on silicon carbide is the key technology to solve a series of industry problems such as 800V high-voltage fast charging of new energy vehicles. At present, Times Electric has formed a key industrial chain capacity to meet the upstream and downstream key industrial chain capabilities of the development of electric drive products, built two production and research and development bases in Zhuzhou and Wuxi, has a research and development test platform covering "components - components - systems" products, has a manufacturing capacity of 200,000 sets of annual production capacity, and the market share of electric drive products ranks among the top ten in China.

This is the hard power of Zhuzhou's new energy vehicle products.

In February, the National New Energy Vehicle Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Hunan) project undertaken by Hunan Motor Vehicle Testing Technology Co., Ltd. successfully passed the CNAS laboratory accreditation and national CMA qualification assessment and review, and obtained the accreditation certificate and qualification certificate. This also means that Zhuzhou has filled the gap of the national new energy vehicle third-party inspection and testing agency in Hunan Province, and has the basic conditions for independently carrying out road motor vehicle product announcements, vehicle CCC certification, road transport vehicle standards and other testing.

This is the improvement of Zhuzhou's new energy automobile industry service capabilities.

In order to achieve local supporting facilities and improve the response speed of the industrial market, in recent years, Zhuzhou has attracted a large number of projects such as Hainachuan Auto Parts Park, Fiss Motor Drive Motor and Powertrain to settle down; Magmite Zhuzhou Base, Xingtianhong Automobile Secondary Parts Supporting Industrial Park, Yihua Rail Transit and New Energy Automobile Industrial Park and a number of projects have been completed and put into operation; Zhuya 250,000 units of light commercial vehicle transmission and pure electric power system assembly industrialization and a number of projects have been completed and put into operation.

In order to achieve industrial closed-loop and enhance the service capacity of the whole chain of the industry, Zhuzhou has built a number of national and provincial innovation service platforms such as the State Key Laboratory of New Power Semiconductor Devices, the Innovation Center of Hunan Provincial Power Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry, the Engineering Technology Research Center of Electric Drive System of Passenger Vehicles in Hunan Province, the National Sub-Center for Product Quality Supervision and Testing of New Energy Vehicles, and the first new energy vehicle motor research center in the province.

More than 300 core components, parts, inspection and testing and other upstream and downstream supporting enterprises, covering the new energy passenger cars, commercial vehicles, special vehicles three categories of product capabilities, so that Zhuzhou new energy automobile industry cluster star-studded.

Lay out the strength of the future

Only by stepping on the trend and laying out the future industry can we have the real power of a war.

On February 14, CRRC Shangchai permanent magnet power manufacturing plant project officially started. The project has a total investment of 500 million yuan, divided into three phases, plans to build a permanent magnet power R & D center, permanent magnet power joint plant, insulated plant, logistics plant and 6 with the world's advanced level of high-efficiency energy-saving electric drive system production line, is expected to achieve an annual output of 9,000 sets of electric drive system, the annual output value of 2 billion yuan.

Permanent magnet power is an emerging and future industry with key layout in Zhuzhou's "3+3+2" modern industrial system.

Liu Youmei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that permanent magnet power technology is a bright pearl in the field of low-carbon environmental protection technology, compared with asynchronous motors, permanent magnet motors can reduce per capita energy consumption of 100 kilometers by 12%, and the urban subway using permanent magnet traction technology can achieve an energy saving rate of about 35%.

To develop the permanent magnet power industry, Zhuzhou has technology and foundation, and is grasping the layout.

With the application and development of new energy, 5G, and AI, the trend of vehicle electrification, networking and intelligence is also unstoppable.

As a key backbone enterprise in China's gear industry, Zhuzhou Gear Co., Ltd. has quietly achieved technological leadership and cutting-edge product reserves in the field of new energy vehicle transmissions, with high-end products such as transmissions, transferrs, planetary reducers, new energy vehicle transmissions and powertrains as its core business, with a domestic market share of more than 25%.

Nowadays, the company is also continuing to deepen the construction of informatization, automation, strengthen intelligent manufacturing capabilities, its research and development of "high-performance transmission product traceability industrial App", can solve the auto parts and other production links, late difficult to trace the source of industry pain points, can be widely used in automobile manufacturing, food safety, pharmaceutical production and other fields.

At the end of last year, CRRC Electric's "Urban Intelligent Logistics Platform" was launched for trial operation. The platform integrates and connects the industrial chain links such as "people, vehicles, goods, warehouses, and roads", and strives to achieve innovative evolution from "dispersion" to "concentration" and from "disorderly idleness" to "reasonable scheduling" in the field of urban logistics and distribution.

This is just one part of the layout of CRRC's electric intelligent transportation integrated service plan. Based on the construction ideas of "product +" and "system +", the company is building an integrated platform in the three major fields of smart public transportation, smart sanitation and smart logistics through product + platform + operation + capital, and opening up a new industrial blue ocean with new big data analysis capabilities.

Looking at the industry from a broad perspective, Zhuzhou enterprises are also coordinating the realization of the plate capacity of enterprises in the general trend of the integration of Changzhutan and other cities in the province. In Changde, CRRC Electric is striving to build the most advanced high-end intelligent manufacturing highland of 10,000-unit buses and the world benchmark factory of new energy buses. In Changsha, CRRC Electric plans to build a smart transportation innovation highland and build an intelligent driving science and technology incubation center.

"Zhuzhou, in the future, will be the core traction center of the company's 100-billion-level new energy commercial vehicle industry chain, as well as a 10,000-unit new energy truck intelligent manufacturing highland and a future urban road science and technology innovation demonstration base." The relevant person in charge of CRRC Electric said.