"Soldiers, tricksters also". Ancient marching operations have always paid attention to "soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass first", so that they can stand in an invincible position. In fact, whether it is war or operation, we must make meticulous preparations, and we must not fight unprepared battles and do not fight uncertain wars.
Looking back at 2020, when the joint venture peer-to-peer ratio between Volkswagen and Jiangqi Group was broken, the industry was concerned. As everyone knows, the adjustment of the joint venture share ratio will enable Volkswagen to accelerate, increase resource investment, accelerate the landing of projects, and also enable Jiangqi Group to initially build a new development pattern of independent, cooperative and joint venture development, which is also conducive to the development of Anhui automobile industry.
On December 8 of the same year, Volkswagen (Anhui) Co., Ltd. was officially inaugurated in Hefei, and the Volkswagen Anhui R&D Center was officially completed, along with the Hefei manufacturing base. After the 2021 mobs, on March 9, Volkswagen Anhui Comprehensive Experimental Center R&D test site broke ground in Hefei, and is expected to be fully completed in mid-2023.
Because the car needs to be used in different road, geographical and climatic conditions, its performance, efficiency, reliability and durability cannot rely solely on calculations, but must be confirmed by a large number of tests. This is a key factor in the development cycle of automobiles, and it is also an even more important part of the era of electrification and digitalization.
Different from other test sites, the R&D test field of Volkswagen Anhui Comprehensive Experimental Center is the first professional test field of Volkswagen Group in China to focus on the function and performance testing of new energy vehicles in the R&D stage, adjacent to the first phase of the Volkswagen Anhui R&D Center, and with the traditional joint venture project to introduce global models, focusing on local production and sales, the difference is that from the construction of the test site, comprehensively build a localization R & D system, Volkswagen Anhui is still the first.
The length of the development cycle of new energy vehicles is an important factor affecting their market competitiveness. By building a new R&D testing ground, Volkswagen Anhui will integrate R&D, warranty, prototype manufacturing and comprehensive testing, and integrate the core functions in the process of product development, update and improvement, which can accelerate the research and development of local solutions in China, shorten the vehicle development cycle, and quickly and high-quality deliver excellent new energy vehicles to Chinese and global consumers.
Specifically, Volkswagen Anhui R&D test field covers a total area of nearly 200,000 square meters, the total length of the test road is 10 kilometers, composed of internal test roads and external high-speed loops, which can carry out more than 28 road tests of new energy vehicles and systems.
It is reported that the internal test road of the R&D test site will be completed in September this year, including a dynamic square for advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) testing, as well as multiple roads and facilities for noise, vibration and vehicle acoustic testing.
This means that Volkswagen Anhui can strictly test the acoustics, driving comfort, vehicle battery system safety and vehicle durability of the R&D models at the R&D test site in 2022, and the tests of parking assistance, predictive adaptive cruise control, full-journey driving assistance system, lane keeping function and sign and obstacle recognition can also be completed, thereby accelerating the development cycle of software and hardware of new models and ensuring the technological maturity of the car before it is put into production.
Looking at the external high-speed loop of the R&D test site, its length is about 1.6 kilometers, and the leading construction technology is used to create a curved road surface at a 40 ° angle, so that the test vehicle can achieve an adaptive cruising speed of 120 km / h and a maximum speed of 180 km / h to test the high-speed performance, power economy, noise evaluation, etc. of the vehicle, and then optimize the models under study in real time to meet the growing demand of consumers for new energy vehicles.
Production has not moved, research and development first. The groundbreaking of the R&D test field of Volkswagen Anhui Comprehensive Experimental Center marks the acceleration of Volkswagen Anhui. The electrification and digital development of the automotive industry is the trend of the times, and China is at the forefront of the global new energy vehicle innovation field. In China, for China, from China to the world. Volkswagen Anhui focuses on the research and development and production of new energy vehicles, and will fully sound the clarion call and become a new banner for the new energy automobile industry.
At present, Volkswagen's Anhui MEB plant has completed more than 70% of the construction and is expected to be completed in mid-2022. By the second half of 2023, the plant's first model will be officially put into production. By 2026, Volkswagen Anhui will launch pure electric vehicles based on pure electric, fully interconnected SSP scalable system platform.
Write at the end:
In recent years, volkswagen group in China has pressed the acceleration button of transformation and development. The localization of the whole system is undoubtedly particularly important for Hefei, the "capital of new energy vehicles", to build a new energy vehicle innovation center. The groundbreaking of the R&D test site of the Comprehensive Experimental Center is another milestone event in the development history of Volkswagen Anhui, which will significantly improve the research and development speed, R&D ability and vehicle quality of new products. Looking forward to the early mass production of Volkswagen Anhui!