In the booming electric vehicle market, what kind of effect will it have to add hydrogen energy vehicles to help run? Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission website announced the "Medium and Long-term Plan for the Development of Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning"), which proposes to continuously improve the scale of the hydrogen energy application market in the transportation field and create a "1 +N" policy system for the development of the hydrogen energy industry.
The "Planning" has undoubtedly played an important role in promoting the development of domestic hydrogen energy vehicles, from a small point of view, for car companies that are entering hydrogen energy vehicles or intend to enter the hydrogen energy vehicle industry, they have given a reassurance pill, which is bound to trigger the popularity of the hydrogen energy vehicle market. From a large perspective, it is to set standards and goals for the development of China's future hydrogen energy industry. It marks that hydrogen energy vehicle products have been put on the important agenda, indicating that the era of hydrogen energy vehicles in China is about to arrive in an all-round way.
The short-term target is 50,000 vehicles
It is not difficult to find that for the development of domestic hydrogen energy vehicles, the state adopts a step-by-step strategy, starting from a solid foundation at the beginning, not blind and adventurous. Therefore, in the "Planning" clearly defined the development of the hydrogen energy industry at all stages of the target, by 2025 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will have about 50,000 vehicles.
In addition to the goal of ownership, the "Planning" has corresponding goals for all aspects of hydrogen energy vehicles and each time stage. For example, by 2025, we will basically master the core technology and manufacturing process, deploy and build a number of hydrogen refueling stations, produce hydrogen from renewable energy to reach 100,000-200,000 tons/year, and achieve carbon dioxide emission reduction of 1-2 million tons/year.
By 2030, a relatively complete hydrogen energy industry technology innovation system, clean energy hydrogen production and supply system will be formed, which will strongly support the realization of carbon peaking goals; by 2035, a diversified application ecology of hydrogen energy will be formed, and the proportion of renewable energy hydrogen production in terminal energy consumption will be significantly improved。
Orderly promote the construction of hydrogen energy
On the same day, the National Development and Reform Commission held a special press conference on this issue. Wang Xiang, deputy director of the High Technology Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that all regions should reasonably grasp the progress of industrial development, and it is strictly forbidden to blindly follow the trend and rush forward regardless of local realities. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden to "race the land" in the name of building hydrogen energy projects.
In this regard, Wang Xiang said that the "Plan" put forward four key tasks, including: building a hydrogen energy industry innovation system; promoting the construction of hydrogen energy infrastructure; steadily promoting the demonstration and application of hydrogen energy; and improving the policy and institutional guarantee system.
In terms of the diversified application of hydrogen energy, Liu Yafang, deputy director of the Department of Science and Technology of the National Energy Administration, said that the "Planning" deploys four key demonstration tasks: one is to promote the demonstration application in the field of transportation in an orderly manner, the second is to actively carry out the demonstration application in the field of energy storage, the third is to rationally lay out diversified applications in the field of power generation, and the fourth is to gradually explore alternative applications in the industrial field.
For the four key demonstration tasks, Liu Yafang said that the focus will be on promoting the application of medium and heavy vehicles in hydrogen fuel cells, and orderly expand the market application space of new energy passenger and cargo vehicles such as hydrogen fuel cell buses/trucks.
In addition, according to local conditions, the distributed cogeneration facilities of hydrogen fuel cells will be laid out, and the demonstration of hydrogen-electric fusion microgrid will be carried out. Encourage the demonstration application of hydrogen fuel cell communication base stations/backup power sources, and gradually introduce hydrogen fuel cell applications in finance, hospitals, schools, industrial and mining enterprises and other fields.
Accelerate the rise of the era of hydrogen energy vehicles
In recent years, with the boom of the domestic new energy vehicle market, global car companies have collectively transformed into new energy vehicles and have taken China as an important sales market. However, affected by technology, cost and industrial development bottlenecks, the current new energy products are mainly dominated by electric vehicles, while hydrogen energy vehicles with more environmentally friendly emissions are still in their infancy and have not formed a market influence.
Nowadays, with the in-depth development of the new energy automobile industry, the spring of hydrogen energy vehicles as an important product supplement has finally arrived. Mature market environment, mature hydrogen energy technology, coupled with the country's tilt towards the hydrogen energy industry, is bound to further accelerate the hydrogen energy vehicle from small test knife to full force, so as to enter the ordinary people's family like ordinary fuel vehicles.
In fact, affected by the good news of the "Planning"), today's hydrogen energy concept plate has set off a rising tide. As a vehicle manufacturer, among the few passenger car brands with hydrogen fuel cell models, we can see saic motor chase, SAIC Roewe, GAC, FAW Hongqi, Dongfeng Fengshen, Changan Automobile and other brands.
It has to be said that the first-line car companies represented by Chinese brands not only have strong technical strength, but also take the lead in laying out the hydrogen energy vehicle industry with a forward-looking strategic vision, and their investment and adherence in the field of hydrogen energy vehicles in the past few years will eventually be rewarded. In the next three to five years, in the increasingly mature new energy vehicle market, these Chinese brands will also become the main contributors to the sales of hydrogen energy vehicles, injecting a strong impetus into the upgrading of China's new energy vehicle industry again.