"At present, China's automotive industry is undergoing an unprecedented new energy revolution, and commercial vehicles are facing multiple pressures such as environmental protection, energy and efficiency. Energy diversification and intelligence are important directions for deepening the new energy reform of commercial vehicles. ”
At the 8th China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum, Liu Hanru, chief scientist of Geely Commercial Vehicle Group, pointed out the future direction of the current new energy development.
It is true that in 2021, the production and sales of new energy commercial vehicles in the mainland have entered a stage of rapid development, but the development of the market environment is also forcing the industry to change and upgrade. At the 8th Electric Vehicle 100 Conference, the organizing committee had a far-sighted vision and held the Commercial Vehicle Sustainability Forum for the first time. At this forum, energy security became a hot topic, commercial vehicles developed energy diversification, and exploring new energy routes for commercial vehicles in line with China's national conditions became the consensus of the experts attending the meeting.
What are the preparations for long-range vehicles in the new energy layout?
The 2022 oil price war has written the answer: the status quo of over-dependence on petroleum resources needs to be changed urgently, and from the perspective of energy security, commercial vehicles must transform into new energy, including but not limited to pure electricity.
How should the energy form be reformed and innovated? Geely Commercial Vehicles has made a model.
Unlike other commercial vehicle companies, since its inception, Geely Commercial Vehicles has established a route for the development of new energy, and in 2016, it created the first commercial vehicle brand in China focusing on new energy--- remote vehicles. Since its inception, long-distance vehicles have formed a multi-energy juxtaposition technical route with pure electricity and extended range electric drive system as the core, a multi-energy juxtaposition technical route of the highway commercial vehicle system with liquid hydrogen energy methanol power and pure electric drive using power exchange technology as the core, creating a new energy commercial vehicle in various forms such as pure electricity, pure electric power exchange, extended range, methanol, hydrogen fuel cell, etc., and launched star products such as remote Star Wisdom, Remote Star Han H, and Remote StarShare V, becoming the first in the country to complete the multi-energy layout. A commercial vehicle brand with new energy in all series of products.
When other commercial vehicle companies are still wandering in the field of pure electricity, remote cars have already blossomed in the field of multi-energy, and one shot is wang bang, what is the remote car?
In fact, the research and development of new energy, for remote cars is definitely a light car familiar road, relying on Geely's technical background in the field of passenger cars, integrated coordinated development of passengers and businesses, in-depth sharing of electronic and electrification technology resources, combined with the advantages of remote vehicles in space optimization and lightweight, the formation of GLA, GHA, GMA as the core of the three exclusive expandable new energy architecture, the construction of a new energy exclusive architecture covering the whole area of commercial vehicles, the layout of new energy products is about to come out.
Among them, the first pure electric light truck E200 of long-distance vehicles was mass-produced and delivered in 2017, becoming the starting point of urban logistics ecological layout; In November 2018, the first extender light truck of remote vehicle was mass-produced and delivered, which is also the first range-extender light truck in the industry, becoming a leader in this field.
In addition, Geely has been deeply engaged in methanol fuel vehicles for 17 years, forming more than 200 core technology patents, of which long-range vehicles have developed 7 methanol commercial vehicles and 4 methanol commercial vehicle engines, and applied for 80 patents. On April 26, 2019, the world's first M100 methanol heavy-duty truck tractor officially rolled off the production line, opening the era of methanol heavy-duty trucks for remote vehicles.
Today, long-range vehicles have set up six vehicle production and manufacturing bases in Nanchong, Sichuan, Shangrao, Anhui, Zibo, Shanxi, Jinzhong, and Huzhou, Zhejiang, and formed a layout of "manufacturing center + business ecology", promoting the transformation of new energy for local commercial vehicles and building a green and intelligent transportation ecosystem.
What wisdom has been injected into remote cars in the era of intelligence?
Of course, at the same time of energy reform, new energy commercial vehicles are also undergoing networking, intelligence and mutual integration and coordinated development. In the future, new energy commercial vehicles will shift from simple production tools to intelligent mobile transportation capacity, zero-carbon logistics carriers, and digital living spaces. In order to continue to lead the "zero carbon land transport", remote vehicles continue to move towards the integrated service of smart green transportation technology.
In 2021, long-range vehicles launched a highly scalable exclusive intelligent architecture for new energy light trucks - cloud world, which has become a new starting point for the underlying logic of new energy commercial vehicles; It also launched the first cloud-based product remote Xingzhi, which sets a new height from "hardware-defined car" to "software-defined car" for the commercial vehicle industry, leading new energy commercial vehicles into the era of architecture car manufacturing.
Facing trunk logistics, Remote Auto released a new energy intelligent luxury heavy truck remote Xinghan H, bringing together the three core highlights of home design layout, high-end intelligent driving, and future smart cockpit, and creatively introducing a predictive energy management system, integrating smart cockpit, intelligent driving, pure electric power exchange, extended range power exchange, methanol P2 hybrid and other new energy power modes, leading the logistics industry to intelligent and efficient development.
At the same time, in cooperation with Geely Holding Group's technology accumulation in the fields of low-orbit satellites, chips, algorithm advantages, etc., remote cars will have the ability to continuously evolve and upgrade OTAs, link up with Yijiatong, Volvo autonomous driving research and development, layout the field of automatic driving, and strive to achieve L3 highway automatic driving and L4 limited scene automatic driving in 2023; Realize autonomous driving of L4 trunk logistics in 2026; In 2030, the automatic driving of L5 combined with smart cockpits will be truly industrialized.
In addition, in the field of efficient logistics and transportation, remote cars have also launched remote F3E and remote StarShare V, providing green and efficient transportation tools for different transportation scenarios.
Draw an ecosystem How big is the circle of friends for remote cars?
The core of commercial vehicles is to provide green and efficient transportation capacity, create a more perfect capacity service platform, and achieve lower-cost operation through more intelligent scheduling, which is also an important layout of remote cars. To this end, with the brand vision of "creating intelligent interconnection and leading green commercialization", remote automobile has successively built three major capacity service platforms of green Huilian, All Things Friendly and Sunshine Mingdao.
On the one hand, remote cars focus on the green capacity sharing platform of urban logistics scenarios, with exclusive customized vehicles as the core, providing huilian car rental, huilian car service, huilian intelligent control three major product services, focusing on the whole life cycle operation and management of new energy logistics vehicles.
On the other hand, remote cars and all-things friendly have created a green intelligent power exchange capacity service platform based on the heavy truck for power exchange; Cooperate with Sunshine Mingdao to build a digital energy storage bank and super substation, and realize the customized full-life cycle comprehensive service of "intelligent power exchange + clean energy supply network + full-scenario customized service + intelligent operation platform".
Relying on the three major platforms of Green Huilian, All Things Friendly and Sunshine Mingdao, remote vehicles have gradually improved the synergy of three elements: vehicles and goods, vehicles and energy, and vehicles and the environment.
At the same time, in order to achieve the comprehensive opening of people, vehicles, goods and stations, remote cars have launched a super APP, which covers the whole life cycle of "selection, purchase, use, management, repair and replacement" to meet the needs of users in all business scenarios.
Forward-looking layout, intelligent interconnection, but also let the remote car harvest fruitful. In 2021, the overall sales volume of remote vehicles for the whole year increased by 288% year-on-year, and achieved the first place in many segments. From January to February 2022, the overall sales volume of long-range new energy commercial vehicles ranked first in the industry, and new energy light trucks and heavy trucks achieved rapid growth, and the single-month sales volume in February ranked first in the industry.
A harvest of hard work. When many companies seek to overtake in new energy curves, long-range vehicles have obviously taken the lead, and have become the industry leader with multi-energy layout and intelligent interconnection development model.
The future of the new energy field has come, will the future of long-range vehicles be far away?