Recently, there has been several good news for Chinese electric vehicles in Thailand.
First, at the Bangkok International Auto Show, which ended not long ago, Chinese car companies once again slaughtered all sides, and they were on an equal footing with the Japanese car powers.
You must know that the appearance of Chinese enterprise cars in the Thai market is only two or three years (MG is a little longer, but only five or six years).
Japanese cars, on the other hand, have been deeply cultivated in Thailand for more than 40 years and firmly dominate more than 90% of the Thai auto market.
The fact that the 40-year hegemon and the rookie who have just come for a year or two are actually evenly matched is very revealing in itself.
At last month's Bangkok Motor Show, the first place in sales, although it was still Toyota (7,163 units), did not have many obvious advantages, and the position of the boss was in jeopardy.
The second and third places, in previous years, were all 10,000 years of immovable Honda Nissan, but this year they were picked off.
The runner-up throne was won by BYD, and Honda's status as the "second oldest in 10,000 years" was not guaranteed, falling to third place.
The next fourth and fifth were won by MG and Chang'an respectively. Isuzu, which specializes in large-displacement pickup trucks, is sixth, and as for Nissan, the former "three-thousand-year-old three" in the Thai market, it disappeared directly from the rankings.
As for the best-selling models, Chinese models are even more invincible.
The best-selling models are Dolphin, ATTO3, Seal, Denza D9, SEAL U - all BYD!
From the current point of view, China and Japan are inseparable in the Thai auto market.
However, Japanese automobiles are already veterans in the waning days, and Chinese car companies are vigorous athletes, and in two years, they have fast-forwarded from "worlds apart" to "inseparable", and the trend of the two sides has been very obvious.
Japanese car companies, a good day in Thailand, live one day less.
In the near future, the position of the hegemon of the Thai car market will soon be taken away by Chinese cars.
The second good news is that Chinese car companies have begun to conquer the city in Thailand's public transportation system.
In fact, as early as 2016, during the Prayut period, BYD began to produce pure electric buses in Thailand.
However, at that time, China's electric buses were only a little embellishment of Thailand's old bus system, and did not really achieve the effect of large-scale "upgrading".
In the past few years, various medium-sized electric vehicles have begun to occupy the market share of Thai taxis and buses.
After the Pheu Thai Party took control of the Bangkok city government, the mayor phased out old and polluting diesel buses and replaced them with electric buses.
Major airports and taxi companies have also begun to introduce a large number of pure electric vehicles and gradually phase out old natural gas vehicles.
Taxis and buses are actually the most suitable for buses and taxis, because of the urban bus system, the route is fixed, the mileage is limited, and the charging and supply are convenient.
Moreover, cheap and environmentally friendly.
Taxi drivers want to make money, in fact, driving an electric car is the only way out.
If the urban public transport system wants to reduce costs, spray less black smoke into the sky of Bangkok, and give Bangkok citizens the impression that "the bus has finally been renewed", Chinese electric buses with superior performance are the best choice.
Bangkok public transport, which has always been famous for its "living fossils of antique cars", still uses a large number of non-air-conditioned iron buses in the 80s of the last century, which has become the object of complaints from the Thai people.
The electric pickup trucks produced in China have directly stepped into place, crossing Thai buses from "steampunk" to "cyberpunk", and suddenly rising to the stratosphere.
BYD's electric buses, which can travel 150 kilometers on a single charge, are equipped with automatic folding disabled access, and are equipped with intelligent sensors at the doors - the painful memory of "iron door clamping" in the past is impossible to happen in the era of Chinese electric buses.
The old iron red bus does not even have air conditioning, and the refrigeration basically relies on rotating electric fans and open windows for ventilation.
And BYD's electric bus, every one - note every one - has a USB charging port for mobile phones on the seats!
What is called "cross-dimensional progress" and "cross-dimensional development", this is called.
The third piece of good news is that Chinese battery manufacturers are also coming.
Thailand's BOI (Board of Investment) announced on April 17 that under the vigorous introduction of the Thai government and the seduction of preferential measures, China's seven major battery giants, including CATL, China Innovation Airlines, Inpai Battery, EVE Lithium Energy, Guoxuan Hi-Tech, Sunwoda, and Honeycomb Energy, have expressed interest in investing in Thailand.
This year, at least two Chinese battery giants will land in Thailand, bringing in more than 30 billion baht of investment.
The entire industrial chain of Chinese electric vehicles will be more perfect.
Five days later, Chery received BOI approval to establish a large-scale production base in Thailand, becoming another Chinese new energy force to enter Thailand.
Chinese cars are really catching up with the good times.
In the era of fuel vehicles, China's auto industry is actually very aggrieved, "market for technology" for 20 years, has never been able to raise a decent local brand.
China's own brand fuel vehicles have long been regarded as a joke in the international community.
In the era of electric vehicles, the existing pattern collapsed, just as the emergence of muskets subverted the European knight class, and the emergence of steam engines replaced horse-drawn carriages, giving China the opportunity to overtake in corners.
Today, China produces more electric vehicles than all other countries combined, and has obvious technical and cost advantages that no other country has in the world except Tesla.
In Thailand, 80% of the EV market share is owned by Chinese companies, and the overall market share of Chinese cars is also rising as the penetration rate of EVs (the proportion of EVs in all new vehicles) rises.
Although Japanese cars still have an advantage in total volume, their market share has dropped from 90% to 80%, and all the lost market share has been taken away by the Chinese.
And this trend is irreversible.
Within a few years, the penetration rate of electric vehicles in Thailand will reach 30%, and in more than ten years, electric vehicles will basically replace fuel vehicles and become the mainstream of automobile growth.
Now, Chinese car companies are already "equal" with the Japanese.
At that time, what will Japanese companies do to fight with China's new forces?
The United States and Europe, now facing China's new energy vehicles, are basically in a state of lying flat.
Except for Tesla, the rest of the old car companies have successively abandoned electric vehicles - because the cost is not comparable to Chinese cars, so they cannot be sold.
Originally, the United Kingdom and the European Union decided to completely ban the production of fuel vehicles in 2035, giving themselves a forced upgrade.
As a result, Europeans painfully found that this forced installation is too big, and they simply cannot produce competitive electric vehicles, and if they really implement full electrification in 2035, it will be equivalent to making a wedding dress for Chinese car companies.
So, I don't want to pretend, I don't care about environmental protection, and I don't mention "How dare you", let's continue to drive a noble old oil truck in Europe......
As for the United States, it is even more completely unscrupulous.
What free trade, fair competition, market principles, invisible hands, green energy to save the earth - all don't want to, directly use trade barriers to keep Chinese electric vehicles out of the US market, and even Mexico is not allowed to undertake the landing of Chinese car companies.
Obviously, China's new energy has advantages, and the United States cannot compete, so it will be suppressed for no reason, and create the anti-sky grand theory that "China's overcapacity harms the US economy" - it is better not to have technological progress, not clean energy, than to let the Chinese make money.
"China's green energy is too strong and threatens the global supply chain"?
Such a ridiculous thing can be said, Grandma Yellen.
Saying "competition is not enough, and the country is closed" is so fresh and refined, the faces of Americans are really thicker than Trump's walls.
However, does it work?
The future is unstoppable, and those who reject the future will only be eliminated by the future.
We Chinese understand this too well.
In fact, the suppression of the formal European and American markets has forced Chinese electric vehicles to occupy the whole world.
The more the United States and Europe suppress trade with China, the more backward they will become. If you don't let Chinese cars and Chinese panels be sold, you can build them yourself?
Even if the price of China's electric vehicles doubles, you Europe and the United States will be able to save themselves?
Dream that without external competition, the local industry will only get worse and worse, this is an unbreakable truth.
The longer the United States and Europe are closed, the greater the technological gap with China - unless you have the ability to stick to the end, and the land of the Angsa people has insisted on fuel vehicles for 100 years, then you are powerful.
What about 100 years from now? Open the door and look outside, China's electric vehicles are estimated to have been flying in the sky.
There are still many challenges in the future of China's new energy vehicles, and success cannot be smooth sailing. In the future, once Japanese and Korean automakers fully switch to electric vehicles, there will definitely be competitive pressure on Chinese cars.
However, one step ahead, step by step, China's electric vehicles have been several positions ahead, and when others have not woken up, they have begun to involute fiercely and raise their own Gu.
As a result of the overseas scuffle between Chinese companies, a more powerful monster will inevitably be born, and when the Japanese cars finally start to walk on this track belatedly, I really doubt that they will face something that they will be able to defeat.
I wish Chinese car companies to be unswerving, make persistent efforts, grasp the current good situation, and open the gap in one go.
In our lifetime, we will see the day when Chinese cars dominate the streets and alleys of Thailand.
In fact, it has already begun, and the most beautiful cars on the streets of Thailand are all Chinese.
We have stood on the ankles of the future, witnessing the magnificent changes of history,
Witnessing the efforts of the Chinese with their own blue wisps of the road, like mammals knocking out reptiles, sending the former king to the grave,
For the arrival of a new era, the entire podium was secured in advance.
CY丨EDITOR
Edited by KS丨
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