On April 13, 2022, the 2022 Changan Automobile Global Partner Conference was held in Chongqing, when Changan Automobile celebrated its 160th anniversary, at this conference, Changan Automobile released the latest corporate development strategy, as well as business operations, focusing on the field of new energy, officially releasing the digital pure electric brand "Changan Deep Blue", practicing the determination and commitment to transform into an intelligent low-carbon travel technology company.
Under the national strategic traction of double carbon strategy, scientific and technological innovation, green development and other national strategies, the transformation of the automobile industry has entered the fast lane, and intelligent new energy vehicles have begun to truly enter a new stage of market-oriented development, but the more violent revolutionary wave of the automobile industry has just begun, and the automotive products and attributes will be redefined.
Due to the breakthrough application of "technology groups" such as the Internet, communications, AI, and chips, automotive products are accelerating to the new four directions of "intelligence, electrification, networking, and health", software-defined cars have begun to become a reality, and future cars will truly become "new cars" for large-scale mobile intelligent and computing terminals, multi-functional mobile spaces, data collection carriers, and new energy storage units. It is foreseeable that automotive products are transforming into "smart platform products", which can also be called "automotive robots".
In this regard, Changan Automobile actively innovated. As early as 2001, Changan Automobile took the lead in entering the field of new energy, and was one of the earliest enterprises in China to enter the field of new energy vehicles, successively experiencing three stages of technology research, industrialization promotion and market-oriented operation, and completed the forward development process from prototype vehicles to products. It has won more than 20 provincial and ministerial awards, mastered more than 400 key technologies, and applied for more than 800 core patents.
Today, Changan Automobile has a complete forward development capability of new energy "Dasan electric power", and is building a third-generation power system with excellent performance, excellent quality and lean cost. The new platform battery adopts 590 large modules, which can cover the endurance requirements of 400-700km by adjusting the number of modules, the system energy density ≥ 180wh/kg, the assembly has zero fire; the deeply integrated seven-in-one electric drive system (motor + reducer + motor controller + DC converter + charger + DC / AC converter + high voltage distribution box) can meet the needs of front-drive, rear-drive, four-wheel drive applications, and the deep-sea level mute effect (1 meter sound pressure level NVH≤78dB), and it is planned to achieve mass production in 2022 Based on the domain control architecture, the seven-in-one SVDC "Changan Smart Core" has improved performance by 70% and is suitable for all new energy models.
Changan Automobile has launched new energy models such as CS55 E-Rock, Ben Ben E-Star, Ben E-Star National Edition, CS15 E-Pro, Yidong EV460, New Ben Ben EV360, Yi Dong ET, CS75 PHEV and so on. In March this year, the first Blue Whale iDD hybrid system UNI-K iDD was listed, which is a new step for Changan Automobile to face the new energy market, and also indicates that the UNI sequence has officially opened the prelude to entering the new energy market.
It is worth noting that Changan Automobile's new digital pure electric brand, Changan Deep Blue, was officially released at this conference. Changan Deep Blue brand will let users feel the convenience and beauty brought by digital technology, and open a "deep blue" light to the future for strategic transformation! More content is waiting to be seen!
In addition, the high-end intelligent electric vehicle brand - Avita also officially met with you, which is a global brand that aggregates the advantages of Changan Automobile, Huawei and Ningde in the era and is committed to building a high-end SEV field. At present, in the high-end intelligent electric vehicle market, Avita has 4 vehicle products in the early planning, covering the main market segments of the middle and high-end. On April 7, Avita 011, a joint limited edition emotional intelligence electric coupe, in collaboration with Matthew M. Williams, creative director of French luxury brand Givenchy, was just released. The first model based on the CHN platform, Avita 11, is about to achieve mass production, the three strategic partners play their respective strengths, Changan makes the quality more secure, Huawei will make the whole vehicle more intelligent, ningde makes the power more unlimited, and jointly creates an emotional intelligent electric vehicle that meets the user's travel experience.
In addition to the high-end product field, in the mainstream passenger car market, Changan Automobile will launch 21 new products in the future, including 5 Changan deep blue brand models, and in 2022, it will launch C385EV, C673EV, UNI-KPHEV, UNI-V PHEV, Auchan Z6-PHEV A total of 5 new products, 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.
The small car market will launch four new products, and IN 2022, LUMIN will be launched to meet the needs of the national boutique transportation. In the commercial vehicle market, 6 new products will be launched in the future, and the mainstream bus market will be fully covered by 2025, and 2 new platform pickup truck products will be launched. In 2022, the first community grid transport vehicle will be launched to meet the needs of express quality transportation.
Whether it is in the electrification and intelligent transformation, or in the exploration of emerging business models, Chinese car brands are no longer bystanders or simple followers, but have become runners and even leaders.