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Toyota's former chairman, Akio Toyoda, has repeatedly bombarded electric vehicles in public. Recently, he said in an interview with the media that Japan will never lag behind in terms of technological capabilities, but foreign automakers such as Tesla and BYD have shown a stronger presence in the field of electric vehicles.
Despite this, BYD's performance in the electric vehicle market is very eye-catching. In late November this year, BYD rolled off the assembly line of its 6 million new energy vehicles at its Zhengzhou plant, and completed the rapid development of 5 million to 6 million units in just three months. At present, BYD's new energy passenger vehicles have been sold in 58 overseas countries and regions, including Germany, Japan, France, Brazil, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. According to statistics, BYD's global sales in October reached 301,800 units, surpassing Japan's third-largest car brand Nissan for the first time! At the same time, Nissan's global sales in October during the same period were only 279,100 units, an increase of only 5% year-on-year, while BYD's sales increased by 39%. And in November, the gap widened, and BYD has become the third highest-selling car brand in Asia, behind Toyota and Honda!
Akio Toyoda, who gave his views on the electrification of cars at the G7 summit in Japan, did not support the trend of full electrification and was supported by several other Japanese brands. Japanese automakers are still immersed in the world's No. 1 selling name, and are reluctant to open their eyes to the world. In the article, Professor Yoshihisa Murasawa of Japan criticized Toyota's insensitivity in the field of new energy vehicles, and ridiculed Toyota for blindly promoting its own hydrogen energy vehicles, but in 2020, Toyota and Hyundai's hydrogen energy vehicles failed to sell even 10,000 units.
Earlier, Akio Toyoda said in an interview that electric vehicles are "low-level products", not new energy, and must be resisted to the end. He believes that "pure electric vehicles are not the only way out for the automotive industry", and that as long as it can save energy and reduce emissions, hybrid vehicles should also be promoted. He argues that the bold transition to all-electric vehicles will weaken Japan's industrial base, and advocates that each country should develop practical and sustainable solutions to carbon emissions according to their national conditions. If such an aggressive policy as EVs were to be adopted, it would lead to large-scale job losses and a bad impact on Japan's exports.
The development of new energy vehicles is a global trend, and some people in the automotive industry said that Akio Toyoda tried to express his concerns and dissatisfaction with electric vehicle technology in this way, and tried to guide the public and the government to pay attention to and support traditional fuel vehicles, which is simply unrealistic and unrealistic.
——New energy vehicles have re-entered the historical stage
After the 21st century, with the progress of technology, people have made new breakthroughs in battery technology, which has promoted the development of new energy vehicles to a certain extent. Nowadays, Tesla and other new energy vehicle technologies are basically mature, and new energy passenger vehicles have also begun to enter the homes of ordinary people.
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Global sales of new energy vehicles have grown steadilyACCORDING TO EV VOLUMES STATISTICS, GLOBAL NEW ENERGY VEHICLE SALES GREW RAPIDLY BETWEEN 2014 AND 2022. In 2022, the global sales of new energy vehicles will be about 10.522 million units, an increase of 55% from 2021. Although the growth rate is down from 109% in 2021, it is still the highest growth rate in the past nine years.
-- The development trend of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
From the perspective of the development trend of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the development of foreign hybrid technology is mainly concentrated in three aspects: optimizing the hybrid technology route, including key technologies such as system configuration and electromechanical coupling, so as to improve the fuel saving rate. The lightweight design of key components is carried out, and the engine with high compression ratio and high thermal efficiency is adopted, and integrated control is carried out to achieve a more compact system structure and higher transmission efficiency. By increasing the hybridity and improving the energy management strategy, the hybrid system will increase fuel savings and pure electric driving range.
In recent years, China's plug-in hybrid vehicles have shown an upward trend in the new energy vehicle market, and their technology has made significant progress, has entered the industrialization stage, and the performance of the whole vehicle is also improving.
China's new energy vehicle production exceeded 10 million units in February 2022 and reached 20 million units 17 months later. At present, China has become the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of new energy vehicles. The new energy vehicle industry has entered a stage of high-quality development of scale and globalization.
Fu Yuwu, honorary chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China, pointed out that although the mainland's new energy vehicles have surpassed the curve and led the overall way, it still needs to adhere to innovation-driven. "That's a very heartening statement," he said. Fu Yuwu believes that disruptive cutting-edge technology is crucial for the new energy vehicle industry. Taking electrification and intelligent transformation as an example, the mainland, as the vanguard, has many technologies that no predecessor can learn from, which also requires Chinese enterprises to adhere to the original and breakthrough innovation from 0 to 1.
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