Jiwei Network News (Text/Chen Wei) On May 9, Great Wall Motor released the April 2022 production and sales express report, showing that it sold 53,777 new cars in April, down 41.41% year-on-year. According to the disclosure, overseas sales in April were 7,733 units, and from January to April, the cumulative sales volume was 37,055 units. In April, 3,870 new energy vehicles were sold, and 39,273 units were sold from January to April.
Great Wall Motor said that the development of new energy technology and products is one of the company's important strategies, the company adheres to the three major technical routes of hybrid, pure electricity and hydrogen energy, continues to deepen the road of electrification development, and moves towards the goal of carbon neutrality. In the field of hybridization, hybrid products will quickly replace existing fuel products and realize the switching of power modes; in the field of pure electricity, it is the main channel for the development of passenger cars in the future, and the company will continue to invest to ensure that it is leading in the field of intelligent electric vehicles; in the field of hydrogen energy, the company will follow the national policy, strengthen technical reserves, and contribute to the transformation and upgrading of the energy structure.
It is worth mentioning that Great Wall Motors has been in the hydrogen energy industry for a long time. At present, the Great Wall has realized the core technology layout of the all-hydrogen energy industry chain, and has united high-quality partner enterprises in the industry to empower upstream and downstream, jointly create commercial scene applications, and build an integrated industrial chain ecology of "production-storage-transportation-plus-application". Upstream hydrogen production, a new generation of perovskite solar photovoltaic technology, to achieve 20.01% photoelectric conversion efficiency; midstream hydrogen storage, hydrogen + electric energy storage system, large-scale renewable energy storage solutions; downstream core products, the Great Wall's hydrogen core power system components, can supply bus / bus + heavy truck / logistics + passenger car three major application platforms.
In addition, the 70MPa IV type bottle, 70MPa high-pressure bottle valve, and high-performance membrane electrode independently developed by Great Wall Motor are the core technologies of the card neck that the domestic hydrogen energy industry needs to break through. In the field of vehicle-grade hydrogen power system, the company has laid out technologies and products such as hydrogen fuel cell engines for commercial vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell engines for passenger cars, and high-power fuel cell stacks. The company has a hydrogen energy technology center with nearly 20,000 square meters of laboratory, with more than 240 sets of high-end equipment, providing 181 analysis and testing services: with 70MPa hydrogen cycle and safety test system, IV type hydrogen cylinder trial production line, automated stack and membrane electrode production line, high-power power system and vehicle testing capabilities.
Great Wall Motor stressed that it expects that by 2045, the company will fully achieve carbon neutrality. In the face of the new responsibilities and requirements entrusted by the development of the times and the change of energy structure, the company laid out in advance, responded comprehensively, continued to deepen the development of automobile electrification, continuously invested in the three major fields of hybrid, pure electricity and hydrogen energy, and successively launched various strategies and advanced technologies to ensure the rapid landing of many mature products, providing a strong thrust for the realization of the company's 2025 strategic goals.
(Proofreading/Andy)