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The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games have undoubtedly achieved great success, compared to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Beijing Winter Olympics are very restrained, very warm, China confidently exported its own values to the world, "Together for a Shared Future" - to understand this theme slogan, we may as well start from science and technology.
Science and technology in this Winter Olympics everywhere, the opening ceremony of the ultra-long-distance projection, naked eye 3D, AR and other hard-core technologies to interpret chinese romance, the Olympic Village robot chef let foreign friends marvel, on the field, Chinese athletes wearing a "suit" made of black technology materials have won many good results, and the transportation deeply combined with hydrogen energy is the most important scientific and technological label of this Winter Olympics.
According to the data released by the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, more than 1,000 hydrogen energy vehicles were demonstrated to run during the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, including 140 second-generation MIRAI and 107 Costa hydrogen engines (including 2 welfare vehicles), which is the first time that Toyota has put into large-scale use of FCEVs in China.
The application of electrified models makes the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games the first Olympic event to truly achieve "carbon neutrality", and also becomes an excellent window to show China's "double carbon" policy and green economy, and through this stage, Toyota's social travel vision of building "hydrogen and electricity coexistence" is also more clearly expressed.
Perfect for the Winter Olympics
The selection of hydrogen energy vehicles as service vehicles for Winter Olympics can fully demonstrate the application potential of hydrogen energy, rapidly improve hydrogen energy cognition, and benefit the promotion of industrialization. More critically, the application of hydrogen energy vehicles is a unique fit with the concept of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
First of all, the low-carbon management report of the Beijing Winter Olympics clearly put forward the principle of "plain electricity and mountain hydrogen", and promoted the use of electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in various competition areas. Secondly, the terrain of Zhangjiakou and Yanqing, as the venues of this Winter Olympic Games, has the characteristics of high mountains and slippery roads, low temperature and steep slopes, which require new energy vehicles to have ultra-long endurance and low temperature resistance, which provides an opportunity for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to play their advantages.
Among the transportation service vehicles used in the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, energy-saving and clean energy vehicles accounted for 100% of the passenger cars and 85.84% of all vehicles, the highest in the previous Winter Olympics.
During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, after experiencing severe weather such as heavy snowfall and road ice, Toyota's all-round electrified vehicles operate at a minimum temperature of -28 °C, a maximum driving altitude of 2198 m, and a maximum slope of 16 degrees. Toyota FCEV vehicles have successfully overcome the low temperature and severe cold and complex and changeable road conditions, and successfully completed the service guarantee task with excellent reliability and power performance.
From the perspective of environmental protection, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles only produce air and water during operation, and fuel cells do not have the problem of recycling, which is very environmentally friendly. It is reported that during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Toyota's FCEV models have a cumulative driving range of 397,104km and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 113,737.44kg.
Traditional and futuristic "binders"
In fact, hydrogen energy has a profound impact on the upgrading of the energy structure of Chinese society, and the application prospects of hydrogen energy in China are also very extensive. We need to recognize that hydrogen energy is not only an energy source, but also an important carrier that can connect traditional fossil energy and renewable energy to achieve a smooth transition between the two. It can be said that hydrogen energy is the "glue" of the past and the future.
According to statistics, China's hydrogen production capacity of abandoning light and curtailing electricity every year can reach 5 million tons, and the unused industrial by-product hydrogen energy is as much as 10 million tons. These hydrogen energies alone can supply 7.5 million hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars for a year, which is about 1.5 times the number of vehicles in Shanghai.
At present, the FCEV market with commercial vehicles as the core is developing and expanding at an unprecedented speed, and on March 23 this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the "Medium and Long-term Plan for the Development of the Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035)". As the first national strategy for hydrogen energy, the plan clarifies the energy attributes of hydrogen, clarifies for the first time that hydrogen energy is an important part of the future national energy system, and determines that renewable energy hydrogen production is the main development direction.
Feedback from the market and policy sides has given Toyota great confidence. As early as 1992, Toyota began research and development in the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and in 2014 launched the world's first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell model MIRAI, which has been sold more than 10,000 units in the world. At the end of 2020, Toyota launched the second generation of MIRAI, achieving a maximum cruising range of about 850km in WLTC conditions, an increase of about 30% over the previous generation.
In China, Toyota is the strength of the whole industry to jointly build the development foundation of FCEV, in 2020, Toyota and Yihuatong, FAW, GAC, Dongfeng, BAIC signed relevant cooperation to jointly establish the "United Fuel Cell System Research and Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd." to carry out local research and development and production of hydrogen fuel cells. Domestic experts generally believe that Toyota's research and development of hydrogen fuel vehicle technology has basically matured, and the main problems that limit its development at present are cost issues and infrastructure construction, but these two problems are closely related to and interact with scale. China is the world's largest hydrogen producer, and only the Chinese market has enough space to solve cost reduction and infrastructure problems.
Toyota's successful performance of all-round electrification models, especially hydrogen fuel cell models, provides a useful reference for the establishment of hydrogen refueling stations and surrounding facilities, as well as the development of hydrogen energy popularization, Toyota's next goal is to promote the subsequent reuse of FCEVs in traffic service vehicles for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, and on the basis of the 100kw commercial vehicle FC system that has been put into the market, strive to exceed 150kw in 2023, which will be smaller and safer and more durable. Lower-cost systems are brought to market.
All-round electrification technology + carbon neutrality throughout the life cycle
Hydrogen fuel cell models are only part of Toyota's all-round electrification products, over the years, Toyota adheres to a variety of technical routes in parallel, whether it is traditional internal combustion engine, hybrid, pure electricity or hydrogen power, Toyota hopes to provide consumers with a richer choice of low-carbon travel, consumers can according to different regions, different purposes, different use scenarios, free choice of travel services and products that take into account "sustainable development and practicality".
According to data disclosed by Toyota China a few days ago, as of February 2022, toyota's cumulative sales of electrified vehicles in the world exceeded 20 million units. The CO2 emission reduction effect of these 20 million electrified vehicles is about 160 million tons, which is equivalent to the carbon dioxide absorbed by the stadium (bird's nest)-sized forests in more than 20,000 countries a year; the savings in gasoline consumption are about 65 billion liters, which is about equal to Beijing's gasoline consumption in 14 years.
It is understood that toyota bZ pure electric exclusive series is about to be listed in China, which means that Toyota electrification has entered an accelerated period, Toyota's goal is that by 2025, the proportion of electrified vehicles in China will reach 50%, and in 2020, Toyota's electrified vehicles in China will account for 18%, so this is a very bold leap.
Toyota not only uses electrification technology to reduce carbon emissions at the consumer end, but to think about the energy conservation and emission reduction of the entire industrial chain from the perspective of system engineering, last year's Expo, Toyota proposed "full life cycle carbon neutrality", the so-called whole life cycle, including the production, use and recycling and disposal of vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that the carbon intensity of the automobile life cycle refers to the carbon emission per mileage including raw material production, parts production, vehicle production, use and end-of-life recycling process. For conventional fuel vehicles, carbon emissions during the use phase typically account for 80% of their total carbon emissions, while the carbon emissions of pure electric vehicles during the use phase and life cycle account for almost 50% each. Under the tide of electrification, it is foreseeable that the energy saving and emission reduction of automobiles in the process of production and end-of-life recycling is becoming more and more important.
Toyota around the vehicle life cycle to reduce emissions, can be said to hit the key, the future era of electric vehicles all over the world, the need for more like Toyota to stand in a higher dimension to practice energy conservation and emission reduction enterprises, in order to achieve "low carbon", in order to achieve the sustainable development of the whole society is more meaningful.
epilogue
In the era of global low-carbon transformation, China, which has clearly announced the carbon peak and carbon neutrality timetable, has attracted the attention of the world for its every move to reduce carbon, Toyota will closely link its own development with China's environmental protection cause, with forward-looking core technology and overall view, become one of the leaders of the vision of sustainable development society, and contribute to China's realization of carbon neutrality.
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