In recent years, the development of new energy vehicle in my country has been advancing rapidly. Now the competition for new energy has also reached the "second half" and has entered a new stage of marketization. The competition logic and pattern have undergone tremendous changes. Tesla and Wei Xiaoli and other new car-making forces once led the way. Now, mainstream car companies represented by joint venture have shown strong competitive strength through transformation in terms of technology, products, systems, etc., and are standing in the C position of the new energy track.
Once upon a time, the Chinese automobile industry started the climax of the development of fuel vehicles by the joint venture model. Entering the era of electrification and intelligence, the arrival of the "new joint venture era" may further accelerate the industry reshuffle. Compared with new forces, joint ventures represented by SAIC-GM have been steady and have a long-term user base and a deeply rooted brand image. They started from the "three electrics" to polish product quality and performance, carefully laid out direct sales and energy replenishment systems, providing different transformation paths and samples.
——The content comes from Xinhua Finance’s “Joint Ventures and Large Entry Strongly Entering the Market, SAIC-GM is “Full Power””
On the road to the development of new energy vehicles, “battery safety” has always been the central issue. The successive "out of control" and "spontaneous combustion" incidents have made consumers doubt the safety of electric vehicles, and also made consumers focus on the “user experience” and “Internet thinking” promoted by new car-making forces to return to the most basic demand point of safety.
Relying on the global advantageous resources of the two parent companies, General Motors and SAIC Group , SAIC has long been able to see the pain points of consumer demand, and is very "really" in the core technologies of the "three electrics" of batteries, electric drives and electronic control systems of new energy vehicles, and is committed to embarking on a real and safe path for new energy vehicles.
At present, the batteries of new energy vehicles are still in the "non-standard" stage. In other words, each car company has its own ideas and methods for developing battery technology. When we enter SAIC-GM's Pan-Asian Automobile Technology Center, we can feel SAIC-GM's care and professionalism in the "three-electric" system.
In the new energy laboratory of SAIC General Motors Pan Asia Automobile Technology Center, it is equipped with several sets of benches and a variety of supporting test systems, which can provide various new energy vehicle with different sizes, different capacity, and different environments. Light hybrid, strong hybrid, plug-in hybrid and pure electric models can perform performance and durability tests of battery cells, modules and whole package levels here. Each test is carried out at extremely high standards. Taking the battery system as an example, it will undergo "trial tests" such as high temperature, high humidity, strong vibration, etc., among which the electronic control system must undergo 600 tests, and the battery pack must undergo dangerous tests such as fire, high and low temperature, puncture, and extrusion.
As Li Bo, chief engineer of the Pan Asia electric vehicle project, said: "The main cause of all kinds of accidents in electric vehicles is the battery. Moreover, once an electric vehicle ignites and catches fire, the escape time left for the personnel in the car is much less than that of the fuel car - the fire time of the fuel car is mostly 5 minutes, and the tram only has 20 seconds." Therefore, SAIC and GM have set up a main test and verification project covering the core three-electric components of new energy vehicles, in order to effectively ensure the safety of electric vehicles and lay a solid foundation for building high-quality electric vehicles. Only by introducing the "three-electric" technology of new energy vehicles can we find a real and safe road for electric vehicles and move forward steadily on the road of new energy.
General Manager Wang Yongqing of SAIC General Motors also said: "We must actively embrace the wave of intelligent networking and electrification, but automobile manufacturing is not a 'short running', but a 'long-distance running'. Automobile manufacturing should be advanced, and more importantly, 'reliable advanced'."
In fact, car manufacturing requires not only the hard technology of its own, but also the "circle of friends" of car-sharing companies.Looking at the new energy vehicle market, we can find that after several years of financing, design, capacity construction, mass production delivery and other tests, some have already failed, while others have fallen into a vicious cycle of "the more you sell, the more you lose" and "not economical in scale". In the final analysis, it is because "the whole vehicle is king" is also an inevitable trend in the development of new energy vehicles, and the competitiveness of mainstream car companies in the entire industrial chain of and the supply chain is difficult to match with new car manufacturers. Taking the above-mentioned Automobile General Motors as an example, it has a complete new energy full-link system and has an advantage in cost control, supply and mass production.
Timeline Back in 2020, General Motors launched the new generation of smart pure electric AUTEN platform. This platform has become the cornerstone of General Motors' comprehensive electrification and laid the foundation for SAIC-GM to seize the new energy track. Immediately in 2021, Shanghai Aoteng Super Factory was officially put into production, and the Aoteng factory in Wuhan will also be put into production at the end of this year, which will further increase production capacity. In September this year, Cadillac LYRIQ Ruige, built on the Auteng platform, began to be delivered. In 2023, 4 domestic Auteng platform models will be launched. In the next five years, more than 10 domestic pure electric products will be launched in SAIC-GM's three major brands, covering more than 10 domestic pure electric products, covering multiple brands and market segments.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of SAIC-GM's plan, SAIC-GM also used "superpower". On the GM Technology Outlook Day not long ago, SAIC-GM announced that by 2025, SAIC-GM will invest a total of 70 billion yuan in new technologies such as electrification and intelligent networking, and make every effort to accelerate its electrification transformation process.
From launching the Aoteng platform, to putting production in factories, and then to diversified product routes, it reflects SAIC-GM's competitiveness in the entire industrial chain.
For example, the UltraNet platform is not only the culmination of technology and equipment, but also the crystallization of wisdom from multiple parties. Taking the battery of this system as an example, General Motors, SAIC General Motors, Pan Asia Automobile Technology Center and suppliers have all participated in its design and development. The advantage is that it can not only achieve a better matching between the battery and the entire vehicle, but also better control costs.
In terms of product placement and mass production, SAIC-GM has established a supply chain system with the highest degree of vertical integration of in the industry, ensuring the stability of raw material supply, thus providing guarantees for large-scale mass production of products. At present, more than 95% of the parts of the Auteng platform have achieved localized procurement, and SAIC-GM's advantages in cost control, supply and mass production have been further strengthened.
As new energy vehicles enter a new stage of marketization, consumers will pay more attention to product quality and service experience, and various car companies have also entered the stage of competing for comprehensive strength. SAIC-GM has the ability to complete the entire new energy chain from R&D, design, engineering, manufacturing to supply chain, and will empower enterprises to transform with new technologies, new products, new systems, new experiences, etc. to seize the high ground for the development of new energy vehicles.
