Easy Car Original · Car God Review Monthly Review Arrived on Time on the 2nd, what are the hot events in the automotive circle in March 2022?
This month's theme is more diverse, while oil prices are rising, new energy vehicle companies have also announced price increases, car owners can not afford to hurt? Hydrogen energy successfully normalized or ushered in the spring? Flying cars will be officially launched, the scene of empty cars and flying cars in science fiction blockbusters may appear, and more hot spots will also be displayed in the car god commentary column in the future.
Up, up, up! Many car companies have opened a new energy vehicle price increase model
If you say that March is more popular, it is that many car companies have formed a group price increase, of course, such a price increase is more reflected in the new energy vehicles, in the oil price to hit a high level, many users will set their sights on new energy vehicles, the price increase of car companies can be described as a solid pour of cold water.
Xiaopeng Automobile announced the new price of its three car series on sale, P7, P5 and G3i, compared with the previous price according to the different models and models, the price increase after subsidies ranged from 1.01 to 32,600, of which the price increase of P7 was 1.01-3.26 million, the price increase of P5 was 1.32-15,600, and the price increase of G3i was 1.07-1.43 million, and the price adjustment took effect from 00:00 on March 21.
On March 23, Ideal officially announced that due to the continuous sharp rise in upstream raw materials, from April 1, 2022, Ideal Auto will adjust the selling price of Ideal ONE, and the national unified retail price will be raised from the current 338,000 yuan to 349,800 yuan.
Due to the continuous sharp rise in raw material prices and the tight supply of suppliers, WM's price will be raised by 0.7-26,000 after subsidies for its models on sale, of which E.5 will be raised by 0.7-10,000, W6 by 20,000, EX5-Z by 14,000-26,000, and the price adjustment will take effect from 00:00 on March 28.
BYD officials have learned that affected by the continuous rise in raw material prices, BYD Automobile will adjust the official guidance price of new energy models related to Dynasty Network and Ocean Network, ranging from 3000-6000 yuan, specifically the DM-i model rose by 3000 yuan, and the pure electric vehicle model rose by 6000 yuan. Price adjustments take effect from 00:00 on March 16.
Wuling and Baojun of SAIC-GM-Wuling adjusted the official guidance price of their new energy models, and after the price adjustment of Hongguang MINIEV, the guidance price was 32,800-49,800 yuan. After the nanoevue price adjustment, the guidance price is 56,800-66,800 yuan. After the KiWi EV price adjustment, the guidance price is 77,800-86,800 yuan, which will be implemented from 00:00 on March 24.
Great Wall Euler made price adjustments for the 2022 Euler Good Cat and Good Cat GT, and the comprehensive guidance price after subsidies rose by 6,000-7,000 yuan. According to the official explanation, the reason for the price adjustment is mainly because the price of raw materials continues to rise sharply. , effective at 00:00 on March 23.
Since March 1, in addition to the above brands, SAIC Roewe, GAC Eian, Chery New Energy, Nezha, Lantu and many other car companies have announced price increases for their new energy vehicles.
From the current point of view, new energy vehicle companies have announced price increases in addition to the shortage of chips and other reasons, the most important reason is the rise in raw materials, in the supply side due to resource shortages The overall operating rate of the industry is still less than 50%, while the domestic salt lake due to weather constraints, less output increase, tight supply. In addition, the demand for high nickel is expected to grow month on month, the procurement demand is not reduced, the gap between supply and demand has been enlarged, whether it is lithium or nickel prices will remain high or even continue to rise, of course, do not rule out the situation of hoarding and price gouging.
In addition, at present, power battery companies are in a strong position, and the purchase contract signed with car companies has changed from 1 year 1 sign to 1 quarter 1 sign, so the price increase of power batteries affected by the price increase of raw materials will also be very obvious, bringing very great pressure to car companies, and can only go to the consumer end to reduce this pressure.
Successfully turned positive Hydrogen energy entered the national energy system
On March 23, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the "Medium and Long-term Plan for the Development of Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035)", which clarifies the energy attributes of hydrogen and is an integral part of the future national energy system, making it clear that hydrogen energy is the key direction of strategic emerging industries, is to build a green and low-carbon industrial system, and create a new growth point for industrial transformation and upgrading, in addition, the medium- and long-term planning also puts forward the goals of each stage of the development of the hydrogen energy industry and important measures to promote development.
Of course, before the successful normalization of the hydrogen energy industry, the field has shown a rapid development trend, many car companies and even suppliers have been involved in the hydrogen energy industry, in addition to the Toyota Mirai, Hyundai Nexo, which we are already familiar with, hydrogen energy models have become the official vehicles of Beijing ice and snow events, Hyundai showed the new hydrogen fuel cell vehicle Vision FK, the third generation of hydrogen fuel cell systems and hydrogen energy vision on hydrogen day last year.
On November 8 last year, SAIC-GM-Wuling unveiled a new hydrogen fuel electric prototype with a maximum power of 140kW and a maximum speed of 165km/h.
Haima Automobile has completed the construction of the integrated experimental device project of water hydrogen production and high-pressure hydrogenation, marking that it has the ability to prepare high-purity hydrogen for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and 70MPa high-pressure hydrogen filling.
Local governments have long come to the forefront, Beijing issued the "Beijing Hydrogen Energy Industry Development Implementation Plan (2021-2025)" notice, according to the plan Beijing will comprehensively promote the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hydrogen energy vehicle demonstration city cluster, covering the Winter Olympics passenger transport services, port operations, bulk material transportation and other 10 major application scenario systems.
Heilongjiang's "Heilongjiang New Energy Automobile Industry Development Plan (2022-2025)" proposes to carry out research on safety technologies such as hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, hydrogen transportation, and hydrogenation, promote the construction of hydrogen fuel cell supply system, promote multi-source complementarity such as industrial by-product hydrogen, solid oxide hydrogen production and electrolysis water hydrogen production, and coordinate the layout and construction of hydrogen refueling stations in Heilongjiang Province, and allow cities to give priority to public transportation, industrial parks and other scenarios to carry out hydrogen energy utilization demonstration operations.
Of course, for now, the development of hydrogen energy is still a long way, there is a good plan, but the problems and technical bottlenecks in the development are still many, at present, the biggest obstacle to the development of hydrogen energy, that is, its definition of the positioning of dangerous goods attributes will be gradually eliminated, but in the production of hydrogen, hydrogen storage and refueling safety and cost issues need to be considered, the current situation of unbalanced distribution of hydrogen energy should also be solved, the technical level of hydrogen fuel cell engines, membrane electrodes, proton exchange membranes, catalysts, hydrogen circulation pumps, air compressors Solid oxide fuel cells and other aspects still need to solve some problems, starting from the future in line with large-scale production, cost reduction and many other aspects, but for the prospects for the development of hydrogen energy, there is no doubt more optimistic.
The development of flying cars is written into the planning outline
In the "Outline of the Medium- and Long-term Development Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation (2021-2035)" issued by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Science and Technology, it is clear that the flying car will be written into the planning outline, and the research and development of the flying car will be deployed, breaking through the integration of aircraft and automobiles, and the free switching between flight and ground driving, which also means that the flying car has obtained legal status in China and will be officially launched in the near future.
The "Outline" proposes to speed up the upgrading of carrier equipment technology, strengthen the research and development of automobiles, civil aircraft, ships and other equipment power transmission systems, and break through the key technologies of high-efficiency, high-thrust/high-power engines, and in the research and development of new carrier vehicles, in addition to the research and development of ultra-high-speed commercial aircraft and ultra-high-speed trains, the research and development of flying vehicles, breakthroughs in the integration of aircraft and automobiles, and the free switching of flight and ground driving are also clearly listed in the outline.
In fact, flying cars can not simply be equated with "flying + car", with the continuous integration of science and technology, flying cars want to meet the popularity in the future, from a fundamental point of view, need to meet 3 points, safety, low price, low noise.
In terms of safety, single-rotor helicopters are difficult to meet, if the rotor damage results will be unimaginable, it is not only unsafe and noisy, very affecting its application landing and commercial development, while the high cost of technology has also been transformed into expensive product prices, which is a huge burden for individual consumers and even sky-high prices.
The quality of pilots will be more important in the field of flying cars in the future, and when entering the era of automatic driving, intelligent technologies including artificial intelligence and automatic driving (assistance) will become more and more prominent.
Compared with ordinary cars and aircraft, flying cars are more dependent on roads and related infrastructure, and the existing infrastructure construction can not meet the rapid growth of demand, and only more construction of dedicated airports, general airports, and some energy replenishment and emergency maintenance sites can support the application of flying cars to a certain extent.
In addition to the flying car itself, the air order, traffic regulations, industrial support, business models, driver thresholds, safety issues, policy formulation, etc. are all big problems, for now, flying cars want to popularize is still a long-term and distant, heavy and long-term process.
According to the prediction of well-known institutions, in 2030, the flying car industry will have a market size of 300 billion US dollars, and by 2040, the market size of autonomous vehicles, air taxis or personal air vehicles may be close to 1.5 trillion US dollars, which is a very attractive cake, and there are well-known car companies to lay out, and the future direction and development prospects of this market are also our focus.
For the future market of flying car products, there is a very wide range of development space in the current national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation planning, which will play an important role in new consumption, new scenes, new formats, and guarantee and enhance public services, in addition to the daily travel of high-end and business groups, there are also needs in weddings, cultural tourism, special scenes, etc., further derived to popular three-dimensional travel, from this point of view, its launch will become more urgent.
Compared with the land form, flight still has many advantages, such as faster speed, aircraft is currently the fastest civilian means of transportation, its speed and convenience we have experienced, in addition to its ability to avoid the impact of terrain factors to the greatest extent, do not have to cross the mountains, cross the river, can take the relatively closest distance between the two, whether it is private travel or commercial transportation, will greatly improve efficiency, and efficiency in the current information age will become more and more important, Of course, this will inevitably bring extremely stringent requirements to air management, and the requirements for safety, intelligence, and climatic conditions will also be higher.
milestone! Zhou Guanyu won the first point of Chinese drivers F1
As one of the world's three major sporting events, Formula 1 (Formula One World Championship) has a very high status in the sports world, and the two major events alongside it are absolutely thunderous, namely the World Cup and the Olympic Games.
Among the three top events, the Olympic Games and the World Cup have China's figure, but in the history of F1 before 71 years (the first 1950), it has been difficult to get involved in Chinese, although Ma Qinghua participated in the F1 practice tournament for the first time in 2012 and decided to represent HRT in the 2013 season, but the plan could not catch up with the changes, HRT withdrew in 2013, so it was not until 2021 that Alfa Romeo officially signed Zhou Guanyu, F1 really appeared in the sense of the eight classics Chinese figure.
But for F1, Zhou Guanyu is just a newcomer, from participating in the race to get points to stand on the podium, it seems to take a long time to take a step forward, but the fact is not so, Zhou Guanyu took the 10th place in the first race he participated in, and won the first point, which is also the first point of the Chinese in F1, which has a milestone significance, and in the second stop, Saudi Arabia, due to the team's mistakes, its ranking 11th, and the points were lost, Perhaps in the future, Zhou Guanyu's normalization of harvesting points or even standing on the podium is not a luxury.