Easy car original · car god review monthly review arrived on time on the 2nd, what hot events in the automotive circle happened in February?
This month's theme is more diverse, Volkswagen actually wants to buy Huawei? Will there be more and more high-speed free? Driving an electric car does not cost money to make money? In the future, more hot spots will also be displayed in the car altar god commentary column.
First, the rapid growth of developed markets Chinese automobile overseas expansion success is frequent
In February, the Industry Information Department of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released that according to the data of the General Administration of Customs, in 2021, the top ten countries in China's vehicle export volume are Chile, Saudi Arabia, the Russian Federation, Belgium, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and the Philippines.
Compared with the previous year, bangladesh's export volume growth rate was slightly lower, and other countries showed significant growth, of which Belgium, Chile and the United Kingdom showed significant growth rates. In 2021, the above ten countries exported 1.059 million vehicles, accounting for 50.0% of the total vehicle exports.
In the middle, we can see some old faces, as well as new friends, such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia and other developed automobile markets, but more is Egypt, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Mexico and other developing automobile markets, of course, we can see that the above 10 countries have made half of the total export volume, and the other half of the sales volume in other markets, so the overall distribution is relatively scattered, and the diversification of sources is particularly important for creating the influence of Chinese cars in the world.
Of course, in addition to the overall situation, we can also see the external performance of many manufacturers in February, such as the Great Wall announced at the press conference held in Bangkok, Thailand on February 9 to accelerate the ASEAN market layout planning, and released the "4+ 4" strategic layout of the ASEAN market.
At present, great wall has opened the operation of Thailand, Brunei, Laos and Myanmar markets in the ASEAN market, and in 2022, it will officially launch the normal operation of the four markets of Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore, forming a "4+4" ASEAN market strategic layout and accelerating the implementation of Great Wall Motors' 2025 globalization strategy.
The BYD yuan PLUS, which has been listed in China, has opened pre-sale in Australia at the same time, the model name is Atto 3, it is understood that the car has received more than 15,000 orders /intentions, in addition to dolphins will also be named Atto 1.
In addition, BYD and UzAuto signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation, and the two sides will cooperate to promote new energy vehicles and promote the Uzbekistan New Energy Automobile Industry Exhibition.
Xiaopeng Automobile announced on February 11 that it will expand its European business and expand its vehicle business to two new countries in Sweden and the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2022.
On February 17, Landu Automobile announced its official entry into the European market, and in June, Lando FREE will be officially unveiled in Oslo, Norway, and the delivery of Lando FREE will be opened for Norwegian users in the fourth quarter of this year.
Lantu said that exporting to Norway is the first step to enter overseas markets. After that, Lantu will also gradually enter other European countries, and gradually enrich the product layout overseas to meet the needs of European consumers for high-quality intelligent electric travel.
In the era of electrification, we can see that the traditional automobile pattern is undergoing major changes, the rise of new brands, the old brand has no obvious advantage in electrification, and the new forces that have been tested by the market have gradually become an important role in export, and SAIC, Great Wall, BYD, etc. have jointly erected a new image of Chinese automobiles and jointly opened the door to more developed automobile markets, which is gratifying.
Second, faster, more technological, cheaper, new highway formats are coming?
The world's earliest highway has a history of more than 80 years, in comparison, the mainland expressway started late, the speed of development is quite fast, the current total mileage of the mainland expressway has ranked first in the world, the emergence of the highway does bring us many aspects of daily travel, and the current highway in the development mode to achieve a new breakthrough.
The Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway is about to open to traffic, which is defined as China's first "super high-speed" highway, starting in Zhenhai District of Ningbo City and ending in Jianggan District of Hangzhou City, with a total length of 161 kilometers, based on German highway standards, and the maximum speed limit previously announced by the official is 150km/h.
Faster is not enough, at the beginning of the construction of this highway has been given a new meaning, such as solar power generation, road surface light power generation, as a supplement to the plug-in charging pile power, to provide charging services for electric vehicles, and long-term planning is to achieve mobile wireless charging, while driving while charging, I have to say that black technology is full.
In addition to the Hangyong Expressway, on February 23, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation issued a traffic letter to Guangdong Expressway Development Co., Ltd. stipulating that the Guangzhou-Foshan Expressway will stop charging from 00:00 on March 3, retain the existing toll facilities to operate at zero rates, exempt all vehicles passing through this section of the road, and collect vehicle tolls on other sections; after stopping charging, Guangfo Expressway Co., Ltd. will continue to be responsible for the management and maintenance of the Guangzhou-Foshan Expressway, in layman's terms. Guangfo Expressway is completely free!
Although the development of the expressway is still the same, but in the development mode is still constantly innovating, in addition to being more convenient, it will also achieve faster, more technological or even cheaper, Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway represents the new era of highways, and Guangzhou-Foshan Expressway is actually representative, can give more places of highway in operation, maintenance and management and other aspects of inspiration and thinking, the future or there will be more high-speed to take the Road of Guangzhou-Foshan, which is also what we want to see.
Third, cheap and unsafe? Micro EV reviews to procure
Mini cars, in the domestic can basically be seen as the representative of entry-level cheap cars, the minimum of 50,000 or less can often easily pick up the car, but the price is cheap, safety has become the inevitable weakness of this type of model, in the era of electrification, there are also many main cost-effective low-cost electric mini cars launched, but cheap to cheap, should the safety black hole continue?
Micro electric vehicles due to a variety of costs and other reasons, in fact, its overall safety has been repeatedly criticized, whether it is the most well-known U.S. IIHS and Europe's E-NCAP, or the various crash tests established by the NCAP system around the world, although in the gradual inclusion of electric vehicle safety evaluation, and the collision of electric vehicles and traditional fuel vehicles are different, which are mainly divided into four systems in Europe, the United States, China and Japan, but the main test vehicles are frontal collisions, side collisions and tail collisions.
There are more and more micro electric cars in the Chinese market, for how to define the safety level of these models, China Automobile Evaluation recently announced that it will set up special evaluation procedures under the framework of C-NCAP and CCRT evaluation systems, aiming to guide manufacturers to improve the safety of body structure in advance, increase the necessary safety configurations such as airbags, solve user pain points, and guide the performance of micro-electric vehicles to finally align with conventional size vehicles.
It is understood that C-NCAP mainly evaluates the protective effect of the body structure and restraint system (seat, seat belt, airbag/air curtain) for the internal driver and occupants in the process of collision. The evaluation content of this procedure mainly includes frontal collision, side collision and rear-end collision (whipping test), and active safety is selected as an audit item.
Hongguang MINIEV's continuous hot sales and its status as a big brother in the list show that the market is very hot for micro-electric vehicles, but the safety evaluation of micro-electric vehicles is relatively lacking, and the micro-car is obviously inferior in terms of collision (maintenance quality, vehicle structure, etc.), and unlike foreign countries, domestic micro-electric vehicles are basically tens of thousands of levels of entry-level cheap cars, and it is completely unrealistic to take into account design, configuration, power, endurance, and safety, and what needs to be done is to make trade-offs. In comparison, the good-looking design, rich configuration, long endurance, etc. are more eye-catching, and the energy is focused on the safety aspect that cannot be seen, for the user group that buys micro-electric vehicles, it is indeed somewhat laborious and undesirable, and even some losses.
And if the introduction of the safety evaluation system can lead to the performance of micro-electric vehicles, especially the safety performance, in the future, it is a good thing.
Fourth, electric vehicles can earn extra money by discharging?
The National Development and Reform Commission /Energy Administration issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" New Energy Storage Development Implementation Plan in February, proposing that by 2025, China's new energy storage will enter the stage of large-scale development from the initial stage of commercialization, and specific measures include improving the emergency support capability of the system, supporting the construction of distributed energy supply systems, improving the flexible adjustment ability of users, and studying and carrying out four categories of energy storage aggregation applications.
Specifically, for the majority of user groups, configure new energy storage facilities, explore the application of electric vehicles in distributed energy supply systems, promote the construction of user-side decentralized energy storage facilities such as uninterruptible power supply and charging and replacing facilities, explore and promote the application of two-way interactive intelligent charging and discharging technologies such as electric vehicles and smart power facilities, encourage the aggregation and utilization of user-side decentralized energy storage facilities such as uninterruptible power supplies, electric vehicles, and charging and replacing facilities, and create a two-way interaction mode of source and charge.
Specifically, the future energy storage facilities will be more intelligent and comprehensive, at the same time, through the rational allocation of power energy, try to balance the power use of the peak and valley, for the national level can reduce the load on the grid, to achieve high-quality allocation of resources, for the individual level, the valley of the power energy storage first, you can also sell electricity to the grid at the peak price, in addition to the lower cost of electricity, and even to achieve profitability, it is indeed a bright spot.
In addition, the future of intelligent two-way interactive charging and discharging is also mentioned in the middle, through observation, we found that the key words are intelligent and two-way, vehicles can also assume the role of energy storage equipment, charging can also play a role in charging other vehicles through discharge, in addition, the vehicle's electrical energy can also play a role in powering other facilities such as houses, whether for individuals, or for society, the role of new energy vehicles will be more prominent.
Before proposing the "14th Five-Year Plan" New Energy Storage Development Implementation Plan, the two departments also issued the "Opinions on Improving the Institutional Mechanism and Policy Measures for The Green and Low-Carbon Transformation of Energy", of course, this is more focused on the macro level, proposing to promote the low-carbon transformation of transportation, low-carbon transportation facilities and equipment.
Specifically, we will accelerate the replacement of traditional energy in the field of transportation with electric, hydrogen, advanced bio-liquid fuel, natural gas and other clean energy, promote electrified public transportation and electric, improve the layout of charging and replacing, hydrogenation and refueling stations, reduce the cost of clean energy in the transportation field, and improve the mechanism to enhance the response of various charging providers, operators and service providers, and promote the market-oriented construction of power demand response.
It can be seen that in order to complete the national level for energy conservation and emission reduction and low-carbon environmental protection demand, to create a sustainable development society, to promote the development of new energy vehicles has become an important part of the span, and how to let consumers accept new energy vehicles, in addition to the improvement of product strength, the use experience is also an important part, behind the growth of new energy vehicles, there have been some potential problems, of which the more prominent is the lack of charging infrastructure and the imbalance of resources, and two-way charging (including vehicle-to-pile, car-to-car) Wait, although it is not the latest black technology, with the spring breeze of the policy, two-way charging or will usher in the spring of rapid development, the future charging or will be as convenient as refueling, when the new energy vehicle will be better accepted by the market.
V. The cooperation between Volkswagen and Huawei has turned into an acquisition?
Volkswagen and Huawei, as the world's leaders in their respective fields, after Huawei entered the automotive field, the cooperation between the two sides has become more and more close, but with the advancement of time, the relationship between the two sides is undergoing subtle changes, following the exposure of the joint venture news last year, just a few months, the joint venture has become an acquisition? What are the considerations in between?
Volkswagen and Huawei began to cooperate as early as 7 years ago, and in 2015 CES Volkswagen and Huawei jointly announced cooperation in the field of vehicle networking, and the two sides demonstrated the MirarrorLink-based car application, covering a number of in-vehicle services.
In July 2018, Audi and Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation to jointly develop intelligent and connected vehicles including autonomous driving, and in October the two sides demonstrated the Audi Q7 Huawei MDC prototype for the operation of urban autonomous driving environments.
In July last year, Huawei and Volkswagen suppliers reached a patent licensing agreement covering Volkswagen equipped with wireless connectivity functions, and in October, it was announced that the two sides planned to set up a joint venture for autonomous driving research and development, with Huawei providing software and chips and other related technologies to provide solutions for Volkswagen.
In February this year, it was revealed that Volkswagen wants to buy Huawei's autonomous driving division, and the purchase price may reach billions of euros. This involves some technical systems that the Volkswagen Group does not have a strong advantage in.
As we have seen, the changes of electrification and intelligence to the automotive industry are intensifying, and this change can even subvert the traditional form of automobile development for more than a hundred years, who can walk in these fields and have enough voice in the future development.
We all know that Volkswagen has completely determined the strategic direction of turning toward electrification, and the current direction and achievements in intelligence are still not clear, and the connection between electrification and intelligence is very close, if you favor one over the other, there may be an imbalance, so it is unfavorable.
In terms of intelligence, although the car companies have a lot of cooperation in group heating, but after all, they are still competitors with each other, and Huawei, as a company with strong technology in the field of intelligence including automatic driving, has repeatedly made it clear that it does not build cars, so there is no direct competitive relationship between the two sides, and the same giant without direct competition has established in-depth cooperation, and even completed the rapid leap of technology accumulation through rapid acquisition, which is definitely a very favorable thing for the public.
Moreover, Volkswagen is only the acquisition of Huawei's automatic driving department, not all, so it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, whether Huawei agrees at present there is no clear news, if it is true that Lang has a concubine intention, it is indeed a good thing, of course, all the development will give the answer with time.