On March 12th, coinciding with the good day of sowing hope and growing all things - Arbor Day, a new force in China's new energy commercial vehicle manufacturing, Xiang Rongqingneng Automobile officially settled in Tsinghua Tongfang Science and Technology Plaza.
The guests unveiled the ceremony for Xiang Rong Qingneng Automobile
Li Jianqiu, Dean of School of Vehicles and Vehicles of Tsinghua University, Yan Xianwen, Vice President of Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd., Mei Xiaopeng, Assistant Secretary General of Tsinghua Alumni Association, Yi Peng, Founder and Chairman of Pangu Think Tank, The Representative of Xiangrong Qingneng Automobile's Core Strategic Partners, and Li Hongqi, Vice President of Jingjin Electric Technology Co., Ltd., attended the ceremony with more than 40 guests and media representatives from the fields of automotive, finance and energy, and participated in the unveiling as representatives.
Group photo of guests attending the unveiling ceremony
Xiang Rong Qingneng Automobile, registered on August 27, 2021, unveiled on December 31, 2021, has been established in two months, has formed a mature and perfect team. At present, in addition to the promoter Mei Xiangrong and co-founder Mao Hai, there are already 7 vice presidents with rich experience in their respective fields, in charge of technology, investment and financing, marketing, branding, operations, finance, etc. Among them, Chief Technology Officer Liang Chen, an expert of the national science and technology expert database, led by him, the national key research and development plan extended fuel cell car development project and BAIC, GAC, Changan and Tsinghua, Tongji and other 23 units jointly built 3 fuel cell passenger cars have obtained product announcements and demonstrated operation in Guangzhou, Chongqing and other places.
Group photo with the core team of Rong Qingneng Automobile
At the meeting, Liang Chen introduced the product planning of Xiangrong Qingneng Automobile, saying that Xiangrong Qingneng Automobile will carry out industrialization and industrialization research and development around the application of hydrogen fuel cells, intelligent networking, low wind resistance lightweight body, skateboard wire control chassis and other technologies in the whole vehicle, and plans to launch a "new skateboard chassis hydrogen intelligent commercial vehicle" at the end of this year. The car focuses on the world's leading commercial vehicle technology, using efficient and compact distributed drive, with the universal wire control skateboard chassis technology with L3 level intelligent control mode, which can take into account a variety of energy modes such as gas hydrogen, liquid hydrogen and pure electricity.
Liang Chen, chief technology officer of Rongqingneng Automobile, introduced the skateboard chassis hydrogen energy intelligent commercial vehicle
"The whole vehicle is based on hydrogen as the main power source, which is compatible with pure electric quick change mode, and the skateboard chassis adopts the modular design concept of partitioning, which greatly ensures the freight space and the flexibility of use." In terms of driving experience, the cab adopts a new intelligent cockpit system, which realizes high-precision L3-level automatic driving through the cooperation of camera and radar while ensuring driver comfort and safety, which can realize road transportation needs such as precise parking, loading and unloading, and high-speed formation. Liang Chen said.
Li Jianqiu, Dean of the School of Vehicle and Vehicle Transportation of Tsinghua University, made an academic report
In the academic report session after the unveiling ceremony, Li Jianqiu, dean of the School of Vehicles and Transportation of Tsinghua University, exchanged views with guests and scholars and experts attending the event on long-distance intelligent commercial heavy trucks, hydrogen fuel cells, and intelligent networking. He said that in the third energy revolution of zero-carbon technology, more low-carbon fuels and zero-carbon fuels will be used, such as natural gas, electricity and hydrogen, and only this renewable and continuous green energy source can support the energy needs of the billion-level population on the mainland and the sustainable development of global manufacturing. Per capita energy consumption is increasing, but per capita carbon dioxide emissions are decreasing, which is our future development direction. We expect that around 2025, our hydrogen fuel cells will have a watershed in the field of commercial vehicles, and there will be an explosive growth.
The 1200 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that support the operation of the Winter Olympics are running well, adapting to the wet temperature and high cold, the mileage has not decreased, while maintaining a relatively comfortable driving environment, which verifies the characteristics of different market distribution areas for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and pure electric vehicles in the future. In the northeast of the continent, north China and the vast northwest region, the area of minus 20 degrees or so, we believe that hydrogen fuel cells will become the mainstream trend in the future.
In terms of electrification, the efficiency of electric bridges can be increased by about 10% compared with traditional bridges. For example, long-distance heavy trucks run about 800 to 1,000 kilometers a day, and the fuel money saved by running for one year can save the cost of electric bridges. In the design of low wind resistance, and then the combination of the wind resistance coefficient of high-speed rail with heavy trucks, the reduction in energy consumption of the whole vehicle is very significant. For example, long-distance logistics vehicles are basically driven on the highway, which is easy to achieve automatic driving. If two cars are strung together like high-speed rail, the average energy consumption is 27% lower than that of a single car, and then the intelligent network technology, through 5G communication technology, allows the distance delay between the car and the car to be shortened to 10 milliseconds later, the automatic safety distance will be shortened, and its energy saving can be more than 40%; if it is three vehicles connected together, the fuel saving is 38%, the energy saving is more than 50%, and compared with the traditional diesel car, carbon dioxide emissions can also be reduced by 50%, which is also very important for the achievement of the mainland's dual-carbon target. Although intelligence will increase the cost, the installation of sensors, radar, etc. will make the car a little more expensive, but the fuel saving, Tsinghua University research results show that the cost of intelligent increase, running for a year can be made up by saving fuel money, he believes that in the whole vehicle, intelligent technology, is the future of heavy vehicles standard, electrified wind resistance and lightweight body technology will be applied.
For when to achieve large-scale production and application, President Li Jianqiu also gave his views in the report. He mentioned that after a preliminary analysis of the life cycle of the diesel engine of pure electric, fuel cell, hydrogen internal combustion engine, and ammonia internal combustion engine, he saw that in the whole life cycle of 1 million kilometers, the fuel cell can slowly be leveled with pure electric, and can also compete with traditional diesel engines, and this time node is almost around 2025. If you add other costs of the whole life cycle, including fuel costs, driver costs, and the cost of crossing bridge fees, it becomes that one person drives two cars, and its full life cycle cost is 1 million yuan lower than that of traditional cars. Intelligent, unmanned, low-carbon commercial vehicles, energy-saving effect is very obvious, he encouraged To Rongqing energy automobile to take this as the goal, the future to the market of the car, to have future attributes, in this direction, strive to move forward, and strive to achieve industrialization.
Yi Peng, founder and chairman of Pangu Think Tank, spoke as a guest representative
At the meeting, as the core partner of Xiangrong Qingneng Automobile, Yi Peng, founder and chairman of Pangu Think Tank, said that one of the most important starting points for the new round of national expansion of investment is the construction of new energy infrastructure, which is also one of the important contents of new infrastructure, new energy represents a new industrial direction; starting from the overall pattern of world energy, combining the lives of ordinary people with national strategies, there will be major opportunities in the change, and it is willing to let more people share the dividends of the new energy industry. I also wish Xiangrong Qingneng Automobile a prosperous future.
Xiang Rongqingneng Automobile's entry into Tsinghua Tongfang Science and Technology Plaza is also to closely embrace the talents and scientific research advantages of Tsinghua University, and provide strong technical support for the subsequent development of Rongqingneng Automobile. At present, the two sides are actively preparing to prepare for the joint research center of Xiangrong Qingneng Automobile of tsinghua university's vehicle school, and plan to officially sign a contract on the occasion of the 111th anniversary of Tsinghua University. The director of the joint research center will be served by President Li Jianqiu, the domestic hydrogen fuel cell field experts, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Ouyang Minggao, experts in the field of intelligent networking, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Li Keqiang will serve as a member of the management committee, with the efforts of both sides, Xiangrong Qingneng Automobile will rely on the Tsinghua University School of Vehicles and Transportation in hydrogen fuel cells, intelligent networking, low wind resistance lightweight body, skateboard wire control chassis and other commercial vehicles in the whole industry chain of scientific research and industrial advantages, the launch of a new generation of hydrogen electric intelligent connected commercial vehicles, will be more electrified, Intelligent energy-saving, environmentally friendly, comfortable and cost-effective products are introduced to the market, and strive to become the leading enterprise in the hydrogen electric intelligent commercial vehicle industry under the background of national "double carbon", and make their own contributions to the mainland's "low-carbon transportation, intelligent transportation, and scientific and technological transportation".
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