"The lithium battery of an electric vehicle is equivalent to the engine of a fuel vehicle, and the cathode material determines the main performance of the lithium battery. On the 10th, in the Nantong Development Zone Ruixiang New Materials Factory, General Manager Zhang Xinlong took stock of the recent electric vehicle market to reporters, and he introduced that the lithium batteries used in a number of top-selling models are using the company's cathode materials.
Ruixiang New Materials is a national high-tech enterprise engaged in the research and development, production and sales of lithium-ion battery cathode materials. The company's products mainly include lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese oxide (ternary material), lithium manganese oxide, lithium iron phosphate (manganese), sodium electric materials, etc., and the products are mainly used in three major fields: power batteries, energy storage batteries, and consumer batteries. It has technical advantages in the field of high-power, single-crystal high-voltage ternary cathode materials and has a leading market share.
"The development of cathode materials with longer cruising range, cheaper and safer is the eternal theme of enterprise development. Zhang Xinlong introduced that lithium batteries account for about 40% of the cost of electric vehicles (economic vehicles of about 200,000 yuan), and cathode materials account for 40% of the cost of lithium batteries. "To develop new quality productivity, technological breakthroughs are the only way. ”
As the first cathode material supplier in China to achieve large-scale production of medium nickel high voltage, the R&D team of Ruixiang New Materials has been grinding a sword for ten years, and after hundreds of tests, it has broken through the problem of single crystallization of medium nickel materials, and developed products with both low cost and high energy density, the material cost is reduced by 15% compared with before, and it is safer, and the market share of the product continues to rise, and it has now become the mainstream ternary cathode material and the benchmark product of the industry.
According to reports, the company applies for nearly 20 patents every year, and the cumulative number of patents exceeds 200. R&D investment is about 5% of annual sales. "The main body of innovation is in the enterprise, and if you don't advance, you will retreat, and we must accelerate research and development to maintain competitive advantage, solve the pain points and difficulties of customers, and solve the pain points and difficulties of the industry. Zhang Xinlong said that Ruixiang New Materials has about 300 R&D personnel, and has established industry-university-research relations with well-known universities such as Central South University and Zhejiang University.
Walking into the production workshop, the working environment is bright and clean. The production engineer told reporters that the workshop has a high degree of automation and digitalization, and the AGV, MES, EAM, EMS, and EHM systems have been put into use, and the carbon reduction technology transformation and carbon footprint verification have been ...... Adapt to the trend of green transformation.
"New quality productivity is green productivity. Ruixiang New Materials will promote the green drive to the same height as the innovation drive, actively respond to the national "double carbon strategy", through investment in the construction of photovoltaic power generation projects, build a cloud platform for energy intelligent management, promote waste heat and pressure technology, and introduce green clean energy, in March this year, it obtained the "zero carbon factory" certification issued by TUV Rheinland, an international independent third-party testing, inspection and certification agency.
"At present, lithium batteries, solar cells, electric manned vehicles 'new three' products foreign trade performance is outstanding, these three are closely related to the company's fist products. Zhang Xinlong said that the company will take advantage of the momentum, based on the Nantong Development Zone, take root in the ternary cathode material industry, continue to promote the deep integration of new energy technology and modern technology, new materials and advanced manufacturing technology, build industry-leading product solutions, and move towards the vision of "world-class new energy material manufacturing enterprise".