Easy car original · car altar god review monthly review arrived on time on the 2nd, what hot events in the automotive circle in April 2022?
This month's theme is more diverse, Shanghai Changchun and other "epidemics" have a huge impact on the automotive industry, the German troika will meet in two days to exhibit the latest achievements in electrification, the construction of hydrogen energy in China is accelerating, automobile safety is more important, and more hot spots in the future will also be displayed in the automotive god commentary column.
First, awaken in the pain of the automotive industry in many places to resume work in an orderly manner
Recently, many places have been invaded by the virus, in addition to the daily life of the people, all walks of life have suffered a huge impact, of which the automobile industry has also been greatly affected, and with Changchun, Shanghai, the two major Chinese automobile towns have pressed the pause button, the impact on the automotive industry is self-evident.
In mid-March, FAW Group's five major vehicle factories in Changchun all stopped production, affected by Hongqi, Besturn, Jiefang and other independent brands, as well as Volkswagen, Audi, Toyota and other joint venture brands, and after an interval of January, on April 17, Changchun City said that FAW Group's factories in Changchun have achieved full resumption of work, the cumulative number of people returning to work has exceeded 7,000, and many parts suppliers have also returned to work.
Changchun, as an automobile city, has gradually recovered, while another major automobile town, Shanghai, is still in dire straits.
Shanghai not only has traditional car companies such as SAIC Motor and its subsidiaries, but also a number of new forces, including Tesla and WM, as well as a large number of parts suppliers such as Bosch and ZF. Shanghai "suspension", seriously affected the flow of vehicles and parts, to know that for the automobile such industrial products, the lack of a parts will make the production of the whole vehicle hindered, the situation in Shanghai involved a whole body, previously there have been Xiaopeng Automobile He Xiaopeng, Huawei Yu Chengdong and other industry insiders said that if the supply chain can not resume work and production, the automotive industry or will face a comprehensive shutdown crisis.
Under such a situation, how to resume production and work in an orderly manner has become the top priority, and the relevant state departments have sent a Working Group to Shanghai to promote the stable production and resumption of work and production of key industrial enterprises.
Shanghai has also issued the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of the Epidemic in Shanghai Industrial Enterprises Resuming Work and Production (First Edition)", according to the white list of resumption of work and production, there are 249 automobile-related enterprises, and the list of vehicle manufacturers includes Shanghai Volkswagen, SAIC-GM, Tesla and so on.
Up to now, Shanghai car companies have successively opened a wave of resumption of work, including SAIC Passenger Cars, SAIC-GM, SAIC Volkswagen and Tesla, as well as related industrial chain enterprises have begun to promote the resumption of work and production, for the automotive industry, a comprehensive shutdown will no longer exist, for the industry is exciting, great benefit.
2. 400 million vehicles! Motor vehicle ownership unlocks new milestones
In April, the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security announced that as of the end of March, the number of motor vehicles in the country reached 402 million, exceeding 400 million for the first time, reaching a new milestone, of which 307 million were cars and 487 million were motor vehicle drivers.
In the first quarter of this year, 9.34 million newly registered motor vehicles were registered, of which 6.57 million were newly registered, and the number of new energy vehicles reached 8.915 million, of which 7.245 million were pure electric vehicles and 1.11 million were newly registered in the first quarter, an increase of 644,000 units compared with the same period last year, an increase of 138.20%, showing a high-speed growth trend.
The number of motor vehicle drivers reached 487 million, and 7.758 million newly licensed drivers in the first quarter, of which the number of car drivers was 450 million, accounting for 92.33% of the total number of drivers.
From "one poor and two white", to the milestone of motor vehicle ownership exceeding 400 million vehicles, just a few decades, China's economic miracle in the automotive industry is vividly reflected, everyone buys a car is not a dream, and now China has become a veritable country on the wheel, but this is far from the ceiling of development, the new four modernization of the car will integrate more attributes, in the intelligent, networked and low-carbon and even zero-carbon travel concept, the future car will play a more important role.
Third, under the new situation, automobile safety is more important
As we all know, the current development of automobiles has entered a new era of electrification, intelligence, networking, and sharing, and the new four modernizations of the mainland' new energy automobile industry has developed rapidly, injecting new momentum into the economy while also deriving new types of security issues such as software security, network security, and industrial supply chain security, which has brought new risks and quality uncertainties, and brought great challenges to automobile safety supervision.
In order to solve this problem, in early April, the State Administration of Market Regulation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Emergency Response and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued the Notice on the Trial Implementation of the Automotive Safety Sandbox Supervision System to jointly launch the pilot work of automotive safety sandbox supervision.
What is sandbox supervision, can be popularly understood as prevention before it happens, it will provide enterprises with a test platform and test cycle, encourage enterprises to carry out in-depth safety testing of cutting-edge technologies that have been applied, to a certain extent, fill the regulatory gap caused by lagging standards, and help regulatory authorities to incorporate the quality and safety issues caused by cutting-edge technologies into the scope of supervision earlier, better protect the bottom line of product safety, and prevent product application risks to the greatest extent.
At the same time, Shahe supervision will also have better real-time and flexibility to deal with risks, prevent the inhibition of scientific and technological innovation by too strict supervision, better balance technological innovation and safety risks, and provide new regulatory ideas for promoting the prosperity, health, safe and orderly development of the mainland automobile industry.
In addition, a number of ministries and commissions of the state jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of the Safety System of New Energy Vehicle Enterprises" in April, proposing to strengthen data security protection. Enterprises should earnestly fulfill their data security protection obligations, establish and improve the whole process of data security management system, and take corresponding technical measures and other necessary measures to ensure data security. Enterprises shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of laws and administrative regulations, carry out data collection, storage, use, processing, transmission, provision, disclosure and other processing activities, as well as the security management of data export.
Before there was a "Didi data security gate", Tesla statement will be built in the domestic data center to achieve storage localization, but also let us more understand the importance of data security, and the future with the gradual advancement of intelligence, networking, intelligent cars will evolve into large-scale data storage and application carriers, in the smart city and automatic driving to play a greater role, then how to ensure the information security of vehicles, to complete the small to user privacy, large to the national security level of the guarantee, the establishment of data security system is essential.
Fourth, hydrogen energy into the fast lane China's hydrogen refueling station construction is the world's first
According to relevant news, the mainland has made a new breakthrough in hydrogen refueling, has built more than 250 hydrogen refueling stations, accounting for about 40% of the global number, the number of hydrogen refueling stations ranks first in the world, in the field of transportation, the mainland is currently dominated by buses and heavy trucks, and the number of vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells is operating more than 6,000, accounting for about 12% of the total global operation.
In order to cope with climate change, the mainland attaches great importance to the diversification of clean energy, of which hydrogen energy technology is gradually put on the agenda, at present, more than 20 provinces across the country have issued a number of hydrogen energy planning and guidance, such as the 14th Five-Year Plan proposed by Beijing proposed that by the end of last year, Beijing has built 10 hydrogen refueling stations, and by 2025 this number will be increased to 74.
At that time, only a blind hydrogen refueling station is not enough, we should see the mutual relationship between hydrogen energy vehicles and hydrogen refueling stations, if the sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are not optimistic, then the hydrogen refueling stations are in vain, even if the technology is mature, related companies are not willing to lay too much hydrogenation equipment, if the hydrogen refueling station can not be popularized, it will affect the large-scale promotion of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the stakes are self-evident.
At present, with the encouragement of the national and local governments, the status of hydrogen energy "dangerous chemicals" has changed, positioning as an important part of the country's future energy system, in this situation, all parties have shown great enthusiasm for the development of hydrogen energy industry, regionally, the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Bohai Rim three major regions of the hydrogen energy industry showed a cluster development trend.
From the aspect of hydrogen production, electrolysis of water to hydrogen is unrealistic, in the near and medium term to industrial by-product hydrogen, coal to hydrogen to support the development of fuel cell vehicles, the future will be renewable energy hydrogen production as an important development direction; the transportation process is whether through gas hydrogen trailers, liquid hydrogen tankers, or solid hydrogen storage, pipeline transportation, etc., one is not yet mature, the cost of hydrogen storage will remain high; and at the refueling level, the rapid completion of hydrogen refueling also puts forward higher requirements for its safety.
At present, renewable energy hydrogen production projects are actively promoted in North China and Northwest China, and the cost of electrolysis of water to hydrogen production is stable and decreasing; in terms of hydrogen energy storage and transportation, 20 megapascal gaseous high-pressure hydrogen storage and high-pressure pipe bundle trailer transportation are the mainstays, and actively expand liquid hydrogen transmission and natural gas pipeline network hydrogen-mixed transportation.
Although the current cost of all aspects of the hydrogen energy field is still high, but all directions have begun to make breakthroughs, the future fuel cell cost will be lower and lower, looking at the future, the "zero carbon" travel day or will be closer and closer.
Fifth, show the latest achievements in electrification BBA meets
Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi three major brands seem to have agreed to the same, in April 19, 20 have released their latest electrification products, Audi's latest concept, Mercedes-Benz BMW's pure electric flagship, all represent their firm determination to transform new energy.
On April 19, the Audi urbansphere concept car debuted in the world, as the third model of the Audi sphere series concept car, based on the PPE platform, using 800 volt charging technology, the battery can be charged from 5% to 80% in 25 minutes, the WTLP mileage is expected to reach 750 kilometers, and with L4 level automatic driving function, Chinese elements account for a certain proportion.
The interior combines space, structure and digital technology. The line design accentuates the horizontal proportions of the interior, and the open and spacious interior layout gives a unique sense of space. During autonomous driving, the steering wheel, pedals and conventional instrument panels can be hidden, greatly enhancing the sense of space and freedom in the interior space.
On the same day, the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV was launched worldwide, as the flagship SUV of the Mercedes-Benz EQ family, the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV adopted a closed design similar to the EQS Dark Star Array grille in terms of styling, the sharply shaped headlight group was integrated with the front grille, and did not provide a two-color coating, and the tail adopted a penetrating taillight, and the design was simple.
The interior draws on the latest design concept of EQ models, adopts the OLED seamless curved screen of the MBUX Hyperscreen system, and the three touch screens completely replace the physical button function, plus the selection of materials and colors, the texture and technical attributes are significantly improved.
In terms of power, it offers two models, EQS 450+ and EQS 580 4MATIC, with a WLTP standard cruising range of 660 km.
On April 20, the new BMW 7 Series and pure electric model i7 debuted in the world, the exterior and interior are built with BMW's latest concept, which to a certain extent represents BMW's future design direction, and as a flagship sedan, the body size is fully longer than the current model, and will also show many scientific and technological elements.
In terms of appearance, the new i7 is the same as the 7 series, using BMW's latest design language, the larger size of the double kidney grille is used on the new 7 series of BMW flagship cars, which is more clear about its status as the future BMW family design, and the new grille is equipped with the classic straight waterfall design of the interior and the modification of the outer chrome trim, reflecting the avant-garde and futuristic sense of the car.
The pure electric i7 front and rear logos are decorated with the classic blue elements of the i brand, and the blue elements are selected on the lower side of the air intake, the side skirt and the roof diversion horizontally to reflect the identity of the new energy model.
In terms of interior, the new i7 series is based on the principle of "Shy Tech" invisible technology, the physical buttons of the whole car are greatly reduced, the 12.3-inch dashboard and the 14.9-inch central control screen are synthesized into an integrated suspended curved screen, the through-line interactive light strip sets the ambient light, and the rear row is equipped with a 31-inch suspended giant screen, which brings certain future attributes while enhancing the sense of science and technology.
The BMW i7 is equipped with the fifth-generation eDrive electric drive system, with a maximum power of 544 horsepower and a WLTP range of 625 kilometers.
One of the prerequisites for success lies in having a strong belief and the determination to give everything for it. Although the German troika is not the fastest in the transformation, it has also experienced the pain of elephant turning, but for the century-old giants, with the strong funds, technology accumulation and self-confidence accumulated in the fuel era, the future will also bring more products, and the new energy market will eventually be welcomed by us.