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Nowadays, new energy vehicles can be seen everywhere around us, and the mainland has become the largest market country, the largest producer and the largest exporter of new energy vehicles, according to the data provided by the China Association of Automobile Development, as of 2022, the mainland has become the first country in the export of new energy vehicles for 8 consecutive years.
Recently, the China Automobile Development Association announced another exciting news, that is, the mainland's automobile exports in the first quarter reached 1.07 million units, surpassing Japan for the first time and becoming the world's largest automobile export country!
Such news not only greatly excited the automotive industry, but also made countless Chinese people feel proud and proud. Who would have thought that 5 years ago, the automobile industry in our country was trampled under the feet of automobile enterprises led by German and Japanese cars. Who would have thought that in just 5 years, the mainland would overtake the automotive industry, surpassing Germany and Japan to become the country with the most exported cars in the world?
When it comes to new energy vehicles, many people's first reaction is environmental protection and saving money, but what many people don't know is that the development of new energy vehicles is the mainland's national policy, and its purpose is not only to protect the environment and save money, but also to not let the West get stuck in the neck. The blockade of the mainland by the West, led by US imperialism, is not only the technological blockade of high-end industries such as chips, but also the future is likely to impose various restrictions on the mainland on industrial raw materials such as oil.
Once the United States and the West impose an oil blockade on the mainland, then with the existing oil reserves of the mainland, there is no way to support it for a long time, when the streets are full of cars that stall because of lack of oil, many enterprises and factories can only be forced to stop production, which will have a huge impact on the lives and work of the mainland masses. Even if the mainland has signed corresponding oil supply agreements with Saudi Arabia and Russia, it is better to get rid of the shackles of oil on its own than to pin its hopes on others, and developing electricity is a good way.
And since the invention of the automobile, the mainland's automobile manufacturing industry has been trampled under the feet of German cars and Japanese cars, in the German cars represented by Mercedes-Benz and Japanese cars represented by Toyota in the mainland sales, grabbing a lot of profits, mainland domestic car brands can only produce some relatively low-end models, many domestic car brands within 200,000 prices are crazy involution, because German cars and Japanese cars in this price range feel that the profit is too low to see.
The automobile industry has always been a representative of high-end industry, and a few years ago there was a saying in the mainland that the gap between our engine industry and German cars and Japanese cars was at least 20 years old. While Germany and Japan were developing their own automobile industries, our country was experiencing war and famine, and had completely missed the time to catch up.
In fact, many people have a misunderstanding, that is, they think that we can't build the same engine as German cars and Japanese cars, because of insufficient industrial capacity, even if you get an engine, you can't imitate it, in fact, this idea is wrong.
The mainland's industrial level, especially the level of heavy industry, is not to say the first in the world today, at least it is also the top two, and the mainland also has the only whole industrial chain in the world, if you can liberalize production, it is very easy to build an identical engine based on the engines of German cars and Japanese cars.
But why don't we do it? The reason is that it cannot, because German and Japanese car companies hold a large number of patents in their hands, once our car companies use the shape or design in their patents in the production process, they will be charged high patent fees, and the worst will be directly sued by these car companies in court, as long as the loss of the lawsuit will face huge compensation.
And once you pay the patent fee, it means that your production cost is inevitably much higher, and these foreign car companies can completely crush you through price wars, so our domestic car companies have had such a hard time for so many years.
This incident also happened in the development of new energy vehicles. On the development path of new energy vehicles, the two most important tracks are lithium battery electric vehicles and hydrogen energy vehicles, and the new energy vehicles that occupy the vast majority of the new energy vehicle market in the country, including the world, are lithium battery electric vehicles.
In fact, compared with lithium battery electric vehicles, hydrogen energy vehicles have many advantages, first of all, hydrogen energy vehicles are more environmentally friendly than electric vehicles, and those who have studied junior high school know that hydrogen combined with oxygen combustion will only produce water, which does not constitute environmental pollution at all, compared to the environmental pollution generated by the electricity consumed by electric vehicles in the process of power generation, hydrogen energy vehicles are undoubtedly more environmentally friendly.
Secondly, hydrogen energy vehicles are inflated quickly, unlike electric vehicles that charge for at least 10 minutes to half an hour, and it only takes 3 minutes to charge hydrogen, which is as simple as refueling now. And most importantly, hydrogen burns more fully than gasoline, which can provide more power and longer battery life for cars.
Of course, hydrogen energy vehicles also have high transportation costs, hydrogen production consumes large amounts of energy, and explosions and other defects may occur at high temperatures, but it is also a good development direction of new energy vehicles, but why do so many new energy vehicle companies in mainland China, but none of them choose the research direction of hydrogen energy vehicles? The reason lies in Japan.
Japan began to study new energy vehicles as early as 20 years ago, but they believe that the future of new energy vehicles is in hydrogen energy vehicles, so they have mobilized the national effort to develop hydrogen energy vehicles, achieved many results in hydrogen energy vehicles, applied for a large number of patents, and these patents are tightly squeezed in hand, because they started early, car companies in other countries simply cannot catch up, Japan at that time firmly believed that it would rise again economically because of hydrogen energy vehicles.
But what Japan did not expect is that China's car companies did not fight with them in the field of hydrogen energy vehicles, but opened up another track, that is, lithium battery electric vehicles, and with the support of the state and the hard work of scientific researchers, the use of new energy vehicles in the traditional advantage of automobile production, Western countries to achieve corner overtaking.
In 2022, Japan's hydrogen energy vehicles will only sell 10,000 units, and the main location of sales is in China, that is to say, there is almost no market, representing the complete failure of Japan's new energy vehicles, and Japan, which regards the development of hydrogen energy vehicles as a national policy, will inevitably usher in another decline, and the only pillar industry automobile industry is likely to be hit hard.
Many people think that Musk's Tesla is the first brand of electric vehicles today, but what they don't know is that Tesla's batteries are completely designed and produced by mainland battery companies, and without mainland battery companies, can Tesla develop as rapidly as it is now?
With the mainland's automobile exports surpassing Japan to become the world's largest automobile exporter, the mainland's next goal is to consolidate its position, further give full play to the advantages of electric vehicles, gradually expand the market share and export strength of mainland electric vehicles, and carry out overtaking on curves to the end.
The next goal is to play the style of "infrastructure madness" and set up charging piles across the country, so that electric vehicles can not only become the best choice for short-distance transportation, but also become the first choice for high-speed and long-distance travel.