On March 22, GAC Group announced the establishment of GAC Energy Ecological Technology Co., Ltd. (tentative name) to build a charging and swapping energy supply ecology and battery recycling ecology, build a smart and efficient energy cloud platform, and promote the research of energy storage system technology, "vehicle-station-network" collaborative interaction of smart charging and swapping service technology and product development and application.
It is understood that the total investment of the project is 4.96 billion yuan, and the registered capital of the company is 1 billion yuan, of which GAC Group and its subsidiary GAC Aian New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. invest 550 million yuan and 450 million yuan respectively according to the shareholding ratio.
In fact, in recent years, the private market for new energy vehicles has grown rapidly, and the pain points affecting the endurance and safety of new energy vehicle purchases have been basically solved, but the problems of inconvenient power replenishment, high price, and low residual value have gradually emerged, and have become the key factors affecting sales today.
For example, at present, new energy vehicles use household electricity charging, and the electricity fee for 100 kilometers is about 7 yuan, but once the public charging station is used, the electricity bill will increase by at least several times. This also means that if the service cost of charging stations rises further in the future, the use cost of using new energy vehicles and fuel-saving hybrid vehicles, and even small fuel vehicles such as Honda Fit with low fuel consumption, is basically not much different.
In order to solve the above problems, during the Guangzhou Auto Show last year, GAC Group officially released 2 energy actions to promote batteries that can be bought and rented, rechargeable and exchangeable, slow charged and fast charged, large or small capacity, long or short mileage, purchasable electricity, sold electricity, recyclable and cascade utilization.
In this way, GAC Group will fully integrate resources on the basis of the existing energy ecological chain and adopt the strategy of "overall planning and step-by-step implementation" to achieve scale and industrialization. In the view of GAC Group, this investment in the establishment of an energy ecological company is not only to promote the steady landing of GAC Group 2 energy actions, but also a necessary measure for GAC Group to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality in the whole life cycle of its products.