After the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Western world led by the United States began to sanction Russia from the fields of the Internet, science and technology, finance, and life, and the intensity of sanctions was unprecedented.
This is a wake-up call for countries. The road of "independence and autonomy" is particularly valuable. For example, energy security, food self-sufficiency, and self-control of core technologies.
The core technology is the weight of the country. Building a house on someone else's foundation, no matter how big and beautiful, may not be able to withstand the wind and rain, and may even be vulnerable.
To solve the "card neck" problem and achieve technological breakthroughs, the country needs strategy, and enterprises must also work hard.
On April 13, the 2022 Changan Automobile Global Partner Conference was held in Chongqing, focusing on the field of new energy, and released the latest research and development results and latest corporate development strategies to the outside world.
On April 13, Zhu Huarong, chairman of Changan Automobile, officially released the digital pure electric brand "Changan Deep Blue" at the conference; at the same time, it was also announced that by 2025, Changan Automobile is expected to invest more than 80 billion yuan in key areas such as new energy, intelligence, scientific and technological innovation, and digital transformation; and launched more than 30 new products, from entry-level to high-end, with full coverage of products.
Chairman Zhu Huarong is full of confidence in Changan Automobile's new energy technology, as a traditional automobile manufacturer, what kind of products Changan Automobile can bring to the market is now more expected.
Always for the sake of the user,
Numerous "hardcore" technologies are on the stage
Once, some consumers thought that electric vehicles were not suitable for use in the cold areas of the north, and now this perception has been completely subverted.
Changan Automobile plans to mass-produce a new generation of seven-in-one ultra-collector electric drive in 2022, which can not only meet the needs of front-drive, rear-drive and four-wheel drive applications, but also its biggest brightness is the world's first high-frequency pulse heating technology for electric drives, which can heat the battery at 4°C per minute in the -30°C environment, significantly improving low-temperature power and charging performance.
Electric vehicles charge slowly in winter and have a shorter cruising range? It doesn't exist anymore. What Changan Automobile wants to bring to users is "0 anxiety".
If there's one technology in an electric car that's more important than ease of use, it's safety.
Changan Automobile attaches great importance to battery safety, from the two dimensions of active and passive safety to carry out technical research, breakthrough in the "2 + 7" core technology, effectively avoid the battery package of thermal runaway, the assembly zero fire. At the same time, the new platform battery adopts 590 modules, which can cover 400-700km endurance requirements by adjusting the number of modules, and the system energy density ≥ 180wh/kg.
There's more!
"Three electric" electric drive technology, Changan Automobile has created a "seven-in-one" intelligent vehicle domain controller - Changan Smart Core SVDC, compared with the previous generation of product volume reduction of 70%, performance increase of 70%, cost reduction of 43%, adapted to all new energy models, leading OTA function can provide users with "thousands of faces, commonly used and constantly new" car experience.
In the field of plug-in hybrid, the Blue Whale iDD system independently developed by Changan has evolved to the second generation. In March this year, the first Blue Whale iDD hybrid system UNI-K iDD was listed, which is not the only number of car brands in the world that independently master the plug-in hybrid system.
It is worth mentioning that the UNI-K iDD, which weighs 2 tons, has a low fuel consumption of 5L/100km, a pure electric endurance of 130km, and a comprehensive endurance of 1100km. The fuel-saving effect is comparable to that of Toyota and Honda, leaders in the field of hybrids.
UNI-K iDD
There are not many manufacturers with their own plug-in hybrid systems, and even fewer manufacturers with their own modular architecture, but Changan Automobile has more than three architectures.
First, let's look at the MPA architecture (also known as the Ark architecture), compatible with ICE and its electrification products, is a smart architecture that integrates multiple forms, multiple energy sources, and multiple scenarios, and in a deeper nature, it is a new concept of "making better cars", which is the same as Toyota's TNGA.
The first model to be equipped with the MPA architecture, the UNI-V
Followed by the EPA architecture, which is one of the few pure electric exclusive platforms in China, the Changan Navy C385 born on the platform is not only less energy efficient than tesla model 3, 0-100km/h acceleration time is also faster than Tesla Model 3.
Changan Navy C385
The third is the CHN platform, which is the world's leading intelligent electric vehicle technology platform jointly created by Changan and Huawei and Ningde Times, and industry insiders commented that "Chinese brand leader + ICT leader + power battery brother", which can be called the "Liu Guanzhang" combination of the intelligent car era, and the fusion of different DNA will evolve a more powerful gene.
The Avita E11 is the first model of the CHN platform
In addition, Zhu Huarong revealed that Changan is building an intelligent electric super digital platform architecture SDA, and the E0 three-body "new car" project under the architecture is accelerating.
Some people may ask, Changan Automobile already has an MPA architecture, why should it specially build a pure electric platform EPA architecture and CHN platform?
A common architecture is of course best, which can save a lot of costs, but we can't ignore market factors.
Nowadays, the automobile industry has developed to a new stage, consumers are more and more demanding, and are not willing to easily make compromises, especially electric vehicle users, relative to fuel vehicles, they regard electric vehicles as a consumption upgrade, the pursuit of a better experience, not just durability.
Architecture is the core force of car manufacturing, which directly affects the performance and experience of the car, and lays the depth of car intelligence, which also determines the freedom of modeling design.
It is difficult for the oil-powered shared platform to achieve the extreme of the exclusive platform for pure electricity. Therefore, Changan actively adapts to market requirements and provides users with an EPA architecture with extreme performance and experience.
In the same way, although the CHN platform and the EPA architecture are pure electric dedicated platforms, Avita is a brand co-created by Changan and Huawei and NINGDE Times, and its biggest highlight is the fusion of different DNA, if you directly use the EPA architecture, it belongs to the "turnkey" project.
The "turnkey" thing is completely different from the three-way joint development at the beginning, the former is equivalent to grafting, after the model is done, and then the system is "grafted"; the latter is in the development stage on the whole process of participation, jointly cultivate new species, "grafting" technology is good, it is impossible to adapt in all directions. Only by developing them together can the BUG be eliminated at the genetic level and the optimal solution can be achieved.
It can be seen that these three structures are tailor-made by Changan for the consumer market, and the goal set at the beginning of development is "excellent", not "enough".
In the field of hydrogen fuel cells, which is regarded as the "ultimate environmental protection solution", Changan Automobile has also long had a layout.
Zhu Huarong revealed that changan is currently accelerating the pace of hydrogen fuel technology research and industrialization. Establish and improve the hydrogen energy R&D and manufacturing and testing system covering "parts-system-vehicle", independently master system integration and control technology, and strive to create fuel cell technology and products with "zero pollution, low hydrogen consumption, high efficiency and high safety".
In terms of intelligence, as of now, Changan Automobile has mastered more than 200 core technologies such as visual perception and multi-mode integration, of which 26 technologies such as integrated adaptive cruise (IACC), remote control parking (APA5.0), and remote intelligent parking (APA6.0) have been first launched in China.
Scientific and technological innovation is inseparable from the support of scientific research funds. Looking at Changan's financial reports in recent years, the author found that the seven-in-one super-collector electric drive, EPA architecture, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are only one of changan automobile's many scientific research achievements, and the company will invest 5% of its sales revenue in research and development every year.
Zhu Huarong said that by 2025, Changan Automobile is expected to invest more than 80 billion yuan in key areas such as new energy, intelligence, scientific and technological innovation, and digital transformation, and accelerate the construction of core capabilities in the field of transformation. By 2025, the total number of R&D personnel in Changan will be about 20,000, including more than 6,000 intelligent and software R&D personnel, more than 5,000 new energy R&D personnel, and about 1/4 of R&D personnel.
Insist on paying, there will be a return.
In February 2022, the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission announced the "2021 Evaluation Results of the National Enterprise Technology Center", and Changan Automobile ranked second in the country and first in the industry with 97.1 points!
The new cycle of new energy vehicles has begun,
Changan Automobile is multi-road at the same time
In the era of new energy, what should the cars of the future look like? Every car company is giving different answers.
Compared with individual car companies ALL IN pure electric, Changan Automobile is an internal combustion engine, pure electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, range extender and hydrogen fuel multi-channel.
By 2025, Changan Automobile will launch more than 30 new products, from entry to high-end, with full coverage of products.
In terms of products, Changan high-end brand Avita currently plans to have 4 vehicle products, and its first intelligent electric SUV E11 will be officially unveiled this year.
In the mainstream passenger car market, Changan Automobile will launch 21 new products in the future, including 5 of changan deep blue brand. 2022 is a big year for the release of Changan Automobile's product strength, and will launch a total of 5 new products, C385EV, C673EV, UNI-KPHEV, UNI-V PHEV, Auchan Z6-PHEV, and the first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell car in China will also be unveiled to meet the quality green travel needs of mainstream people.
In the electric small car market, Changan also has a layout, planning a total of 4 new products, and will launch LUMIN this year to meet the needs of national boutique transportation.
As for the commercial vehicle market, Changan said that it will launch 6 new products in the future, achieve full coverage of the mainstream bus market by 2025, and launch 2 new platform pickup products. This year, the first community grid transport vehicle will be launched to meet the needs of express delivery quality transportation.
Some people say that the current new energy market is already a red ocean, but in my opinion, it is actually a blue ocean, because there are not many truly excellent new energy sources.
The new energy market also needs star models such as CS75PLUS and Yidong in the field of fuel vehicles to be truly activated.
Changan Automobile is steady and steady, thick and thin, and now, it has begun to exert full force.
China's manufacturing industry needs more Changan Automobile
As soon as the content of the 2022 Changan Automobile Global Partner Conference was announced, the industry was in an uproar, and Changan Automobile, which called, took a big step.
In fact, whether the technology is really good, for enterprises, the most intuitive reflection is still in sales.
Two days ago, the China Automobile Association released the latest automobile production and sales data, from January to March 2022, car sales of 6.509 million units, an increase of only 0.2% year-on-year. In the january-March ranking of Chinese brand passenger car sales, Changan Automobile ranked second with 375,000 units, of which new energy vehicle sales were 15,233 units, an increase of 3.4% year-on-year.
What is even more valuable is that while maintaining high sales, Changan Automobile's product structure is also constantly optimized, accounting for 70% of products above 100,000 yuan, constantly breaking the "ceiling" of 150,000 yuan.
"Volume and price rise" is very rare, for Changan Automobile, this is the real brand upward. The rise of Chinese brands is changing the pattern of the car market.
A series of facts show that Changan Automobile's technical strength has been elevated to a new height.
This is also understandable why Zhu Huarong announced at the Global Partners Conference that Changan Automobile will enter the "fast lane" of global development.
"By 2025, 2-3 overseas manufacturing bases will be built to complete the production capacity layout of the first phase of the global automotive market." At the same time, when the international business environment improves, it will establish European headquarters and North American headquarters in the European and North American markets in due course, and fully enter the European and North American automotive markets. ”
It was also the most exciting passage I had ever heard in the whole of the conference.
A country to become really strong, must be built on a strong real economy on the basis of the manufacturing industry is the fundamental, the automobile industry because of the large scale of the industry, related industries, high technical threshold, known as the crown of modern manufacturing, since the birth of the automobile, the automobile power must be an economic power, but also must be a manufacturing power.
Although China was already the world's largest automobile producer and sales country as early as 2009, it is regrettable that we are not yet an automobile power, because we do not yet have our own strong car brand. The premise of becoming a strong car brand is internationalization.
The internationalization of automotive products is by no means enough to be good and cheap, the key is to have the technical strength to surpass competitors, otherwise overseas consumers will not buy it.
However, after watching the Changan Automobile Global Partner Conference, I have a very strong experience, Changan is no longer just a follower in the field of automotive technology research and development, in the most core and cutting-edge areas of this industry, Changan has not only achieved the domestic leading, and even has also ranked among the world's advanced ranks.
The transformation from "technology catch-up" to "technology leadership" also means that Changan has the confidence and self-confidence to "break the wrist" with foreign brands, base itself on the domestic market, accelerate overseas expansion, and accelerate towards world-class car companies.
Text | Li Jianbo
(This article is the author's personal opinion only and does not represent the position of DearAuto.) )
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