On the one hand, hydrogen is used as the power source to achieve zero emissions, and the entire automotive industry can even be redefined. However, commercial GM fuel cell vehicles, "Hydrodynamic No. 3" and "Hy-Wire," have not yet been implemented; About 20% of fuel can be saved, and the Toyota Prius, a Toyota hybrid car that has sold more than 180,000 units since it was put on the market in 1998, has been established. On September 14th and 15th, General Motors and Toyota, the world leader in the field of automotive new energy, expressed to Chinese consumers in two different ways their interpretation of the future direction of China's new automotive energy development. The automotive energy revolution is gradually approaching "At present, China's per capita GDP is about 1,000 US dollars, and the number of cars per 1,000 people is about 20, while the per capita GDP of South Korea is about 10,000 US dollars, and the number of cars per 1,000 people is about 300. According to this relationship curve between car ownership and GDP per capita, the growth prospects of the Chinese car market in the future are very optimistic, and the pressure on energy brought about by this can be imagined. It is necessary to plan ahead for research on new car energy sources." At the General Motors 2004 high-tech media seminar on energy and power held on the 14th of this month, Wang Ziyan, manager of the science and technology department of General Motors (China) Investment Co., Ltd., made such an opening. After detailedly introducing GM’s latest progress in the field of fuel cells and the recent, medium, and long-term solutions to improve fuel economy, General Motors China Vice President Chen Shi said that if an automobile company has not paid attention to fuel cell technology yet, It may be 10 to 20 years later that it is not qualified to manufacture a car. GM hopes to become the world's first car manufacturer to produce 1 million fuel cell vehicles and achieve profitability by 2010. I do not know if it is not a coincidence, the next day, September 15, FAW and Toyota held a signing ceremony for a hybrid vehicle cooperation project in Beijing, announced that the two sides will jointly begin production of Toyota Prius hybrid car in 2005. In addition, the FAW-branded vehicles will be equipped with Toyota's hybrid technology system. On the same day, FAW announced that it had succeeded in the development of the hybrid "Red Flag" sedan under the national "863" project and reached the technical level of Toyota's hybrid car in 2003. This is the latest achievement that FAW has developed independently for nearly 4 years. Just a week ago, the FAW-Volkswagen Jetta SDI diesel sedan created a record of 1900 kilometers of 55 litres of oil on the Taklamakan Desert Highway, realizing a dream of a box of oil crossing a thousand miles away. New types of diesel engines, hybrids, fuel cells... A series of new world-class automotive energy solutions designed to improve fuel economy came before the Chinese people. Hybrid and fuel cells are the winners Since last year, electric vehicles that have been widely favored by global auto companies have been abandoned by major auto companies due to reasons such as short driving time, long charging time, difficult recycling of used batteries, and slow commercialization. Fuel cells have become the new ultimate solution. However, as a new type of vehicle energy, fuel cell vehicles also face severe commercial challenges. According to Wang Ziyan, the challenge mainly comes from the following aspects. The first is the durability of the system. Although the test of driving the universal “Hydrodynamic No. 3†across the European continent has created a record of 10,000 kilometers of fuel cell vehicles that have been fault-free, it is fuel-efficient compared to the service life of hundreds of thousands of kilometers of conventional internal combustion engines. Battery technology also needs more actual operation to test. Followed by infrastructure and network support. At present, in developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan, although the experimental operation of fuel cell vehicles has been carried out, the matching of network resources such as hydrogen refueling stations has not yet begun. The third is the cost, because the proton exchange membrane of the core component of the fuel cell requires the use of precious metal platinum, and the use of manual assembly, so the cost is much higher than traditional cars. It is reported that the Beijing Municipal Government has purchased 3 Mercedes-Benz fuel cell buses and the unit price is as high as 1.8 million U.S. dollars. The fourth is to bring great challenges to the traditional auto parts system. Due to the fact that no key components such as traditional engines and transmissions are required, the realization of industrialization requires the transformation of parts and components companies. The fifth is the short driving range. At present, the 700-bar liquid hydrogen storage device can only travel 260 kilometers. In view of this, while tracking the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles, multinational corporations have also carried out their own research to improve the fuel economy of automobiles. Volkswagen’s focus is on new diesel technology and has been successfully commercialized in Europe. Toyota has also successfully commercialized hybrid vehicles while it is launching fuel cell vehicles. Currently, Prius, a hybrid vehicle, has been sold globally. More than 180,000 vehicles. “After more than a year, we have jointly conducted a comprehensive road test for Prius in five domestic cities in cooperation with the Tianjin Motor Vehicle Testing Center,†said Dong Chunbo, deputy general manager of FAW. The results showed that under the urban conditions, the Prius saved 44.4% of fuel compared to an equivalent displacement Corolla car, 29.7% fuel economy in the suburbs, and 40.5% comprehensive fuel economy. FAW's choice of hybrid power also has an important reason. After nearly 4 years of independent development, FAW's hybrid red flag sedan with independent intellectual property rights has been successfully developed. The cooperation with Toyota will further promote the promotion of hybrid vehicles in China. Commercialization requires government support. Whether it is a high-price fuel cell vehicle or a hybrid vehicle that has successfully achieved initial commercialization, the price is higher than that of a conventional car. Although technological improvements have made new energy vehicles very similar to traditional cars in terms of acceleration performance, maximum speed, and driving pleasure, it is impossible to persuade consumers to purchase without government subsidies and related supporting incentives. In addition, the high cost of new technology development and related supporting infrastructure construction also require government funding. It is reported that GM’s fuel cell project has received a total of US$90 million in U.S. Department of Energy’s five-year comprehensive project funding, of which 50% will be borne by the government. The U.S. government, the U.S. Post Office, and Shell also jointly become partners in the GM fuel cell demonstration project. In Washington, DC, the U.S. Postal Service uses GM's fuel cell vehicles for mail delivery every week. The Japanese government has invested in support of the Tokyo hydrogen and fuel cell demonstration projects, and GM, Toyota, Honda, Dai-Ke, Nissan and other auto companies have provided relevant vehicles to participate in demonstration operations. As for the successful commercialization of Toyota's fuel cell vehicle Prius, it is also inseparable from the use of government subsidies and tax deductions. Whether new energy vehicles can go further in China also requires the support of the government. For example, speed up the formulation of relevant technical standards, introduce taxation and exemption and subsidies for energy-saving and environmentally friendly vehicles, provide facilities for infrastructure construction, and support the introduction of commercialized new energy vehicles. The launch of FAW Toyota's hybrid car project gave us a good picture. However, Volkswagen has used mature diesel technology in China for five years. However, today, energy-saving and environmentally friendly diesel cars cannot enter major cities such as Beijing. Hopefully, this outcome will not be repeated in hybrid cars. Links: The five major schools of new energy for automotive use new energy technologies can be roughly divided into five schools, one is electric vehicles, with rechargeable batteries as energy storage, the motor as a source of power; the second is hybrid power, with gasoline as the main driving force, Assist with the motor and a series of energy recovery and storage equipment to collect the energy wasted in the process of vehicle braking and convert it into electric energy to drive the vehicle to achieve the effect of energy saving and emission reduction. The third is the fuel cell, also known as the hydrogen-powered vehicle. The driving principle is to use hydrogen as the "fuel", and through simple physical and chemical reactions with oxygen in the air to form water and generate electrical energy, thereby achieving "zero emissions"; Fourth, other alternative energy sources such as compressed natural gas, Ethanol flexible fuels, etc.; Fifth, the use of new technologies to improve the fuel economy of traditional internal combustion engines, such as direct injection turbocharged diesel engine (Volkswagen TDI), stratified direct injection gasoline engine (mass FSI), variable valve timing Technology (such as Toyota's VVTI, Honda's i-VTEC), variable displacement technology, and continuously variable transmission (CVT). If divided by time segments, the five schools generally represent the solutions for the immediate, medium, and long-term future of automotive power propulsion systems. Among them, electric vehicles and fuel cells can be understood as the ultimate solution; hybrid power is a medium-term plan; and traditional internal combustion engine new technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are actual near-term solutions.
Can new energy vehicles go further?
On the one hand, hydrogen is used as the power source to achieve zero emissions, and the entire automotive industry can even be redefined. However, commercial GM fuel cell vehicles, "Hydrodynamic No. 3" and "Hy-Wire," have not yet been implemented; About 20% of fuel can be saved, and the Toyota Prius, a Toyota hybrid car that has sold more than 180,000 units since it was put on the market in 1998, has been established. On September 14th and 15th, General Motors and Toyota, the world leader in the field of automotive new energy, expressed to Chinese consumers in two different ways their interpretation of the future direction of China's new automotive energy development. The automotive energy revolution is gradually approaching "At present, China's per capita GDP is about 1,000 US dollars, and the number of cars per 1,000 people is about 20, while the per capita GDP of South Korea is about 10,000 US dollars, and the number of cars per 1,000 people is about 300. According to this relationship curve between car ownership and GDP per capita, the growth prospects of the Chinese car market in the future are very optimistic, and the pressure on energy brought about by this can be imagined. It is necessary to plan ahead for research on new car energy sources." At the General Motors 2004 high-tech media seminar on energy and power held on the 14th of this month, Wang Ziyan, manager of the science and technology department of General Motors (China) Investment Co., Ltd., made such an opening. After detailedly introducing GM’s latest progress in the field of fuel cells and the recent, medium, and long-term solutions to improve fuel economy, General Motors China Vice President Chen Shi said that if an automobile company has not paid attention to fuel cell technology yet, It may be 10 to 20 years later that it is not qualified to manufacture a car. GM hopes to become the world's first car manufacturer to produce 1 million fuel cell vehicles and achieve profitability by 2010. I do not know if it is not a coincidence, the next day, September 15, FAW and Toyota held a signing ceremony for a hybrid vehicle cooperation project in Beijing, announced that the two sides will jointly begin production of Toyota Prius hybrid car in 2005. In addition, the FAW-branded vehicles will be equipped with Toyota's hybrid technology system. On the same day, FAW announced that it had succeeded in the development of the hybrid "Red Flag" sedan under the national "863" project and reached the technical level of Toyota's hybrid car in 2003. This is the latest achievement that FAW has developed independently for nearly 4 years. Just a week ago, the FAW-Volkswagen Jetta SDI diesel sedan created a record of 1900 kilometers of 55 litres of oil on the Taklamakan Desert Highway, realizing a dream of a box of oil crossing a thousand miles away. New types of diesel engines, hybrids, fuel cells... A series of new world-class automotive energy solutions designed to improve fuel economy came before the Chinese people. Hybrid and fuel cells are the winners Since last year, electric vehicles that have been widely favored by global auto companies have been abandoned by major auto companies due to reasons such as short driving time, long charging time, difficult recycling of used batteries, and slow commercialization. Fuel cells have become the new ultimate solution. However, as a new type of vehicle energy, fuel cell vehicles also face severe commercial challenges. According to Wang Ziyan, the challenge mainly comes from the following aspects. The first is the durability of the system. Although the test of driving the universal “Hydrodynamic No. 3†across the European continent has created a record of 10,000 kilometers of fuel cell vehicles that have been fault-free, it is fuel-efficient compared to the service life of hundreds of thousands of kilometers of conventional internal combustion engines. Battery technology also needs more actual operation to test. Followed by infrastructure and network support. At present, in developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan, although the experimental operation of fuel cell vehicles has been carried out, the matching of network resources such as hydrogen refueling stations has not yet begun. The third is the cost, because the proton exchange membrane of the core component of the fuel cell requires the use of precious metal platinum, and the use of manual assembly, so the cost is much higher than traditional cars. It is reported that the Beijing Municipal Government has purchased 3 Mercedes-Benz fuel cell buses and the unit price is as high as 1.8 million U.S. dollars. The fourth is to bring great challenges to the traditional auto parts system. Due to the fact that no key components such as traditional engines and transmissions are required, the realization of industrialization requires the transformation of parts and components companies. The fifth is the short driving range. At present, the 700-bar liquid hydrogen storage device can only travel 260 kilometers. In view of this, while tracking the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles, multinational corporations have also carried out their own research to improve the fuel economy of automobiles. Volkswagen’s focus is on new diesel technology and has been successfully commercialized in Europe. Toyota has also successfully commercialized hybrid vehicles while it is launching fuel cell vehicles. Currently, Prius, a hybrid vehicle, has been sold globally. More than 180,000 vehicles. “After more than a year, we have jointly conducted a comprehensive road test for Prius in five domestic cities in cooperation with the Tianjin Motor Vehicle Testing Center,†said Dong Chunbo, deputy general manager of FAW. The results showed that under the urban conditions, the Prius saved 44.4% of fuel compared to an equivalent displacement Corolla car, 29.7% fuel economy in the suburbs, and 40.5% comprehensive fuel economy. FAW's choice of hybrid power also has an important reason. After nearly 4 years of independent development, FAW's hybrid red flag sedan with independent intellectual property rights has been successfully developed. The cooperation with Toyota will further promote the promotion of hybrid vehicles in China. Commercialization requires government support. Whether it is a high-price fuel cell vehicle or a hybrid vehicle that has successfully achieved initial commercialization, the price is higher than that of a conventional car. Although technological improvements have made new energy vehicles very similar to traditional cars in terms of acceleration performance, maximum speed, and driving pleasure, it is impossible to persuade consumers to purchase without government subsidies and related supporting incentives. In addition, the high cost of new technology development and related supporting infrastructure construction also require government funding. It is reported that GM’s fuel cell project has received a total of US$90 million in U.S. Department of Energy’s five-year comprehensive project funding, of which 50% will be borne by the government. The U.S. government, the U.S. Post Office, and Shell also jointly become partners in the GM fuel cell demonstration project. In Washington, DC, the U.S. Postal Service uses GM's fuel cell vehicles for mail delivery every week. The Japanese government has invested in support of the Tokyo hydrogen and fuel cell demonstration projects, and GM, Toyota, Honda, Dai-Ke, Nissan and other auto companies have provided relevant vehicles to participate in demonstration operations. As for the successful commercialization of Toyota's fuel cell vehicle Prius, it is also inseparable from the use of government subsidies and tax deductions. Whether new energy vehicles can go further in China also requires the support of the government. For example, speed up the formulation of relevant technical standards, introduce taxation and exemption and subsidies for energy-saving and environmentally friendly vehicles, provide facilities for infrastructure construction, and support the introduction of commercialized new energy vehicles. The launch of FAW Toyota's hybrid car project gave us a good picture. However, Volkswagen has used mature diesel technology in China for five years. However, today, energy-saving and environmentally friendly diesel cars cannot enter major cities such as Beijing. Hopefully, this outcome will not be repeated in hybrid cars. Links: The five major schools of new energy for automotive use new energy technologies can be roughly divided into five schools, one is electric vehicles, with rechargeable batteries as energy storage, the motor as a source of power; the second is hybrid power, with gasoline as the main driving force, Assist with the motor and a series of energy recovery and storage equipment to collect the energy wasted in the process of vehicle braking and convert it into electric energy to drive the vehicle to achieve the effect of energy saving and emission reduction. The third is the fuel cell, also known as the hydrogen-powered vehicle. The driving principle is to use hydrogen as the "fuel", and through simple physical and chemical reactions with oxygen in the air to form water and generate electrical energy, thereby achieving "zero emissions"; Fourth, other alternative energy sources such as compressed natural gas, Ethanol flexible fuels, etc.; Fifth, the use of new technologies to improve the fuel economy of traditional internal combustion engines, such as direct injection turbocharged diesel engine (Volkswagen TDI), stratified direct injection gasoline engine (mass FSI), variable valve timing Technology (such as Toyota's VVTI, Honda's i-VTEC), variable displacement technology, and continuously variable transmission (CVT). If divided by time segments, the five schools generally represent the solutions for the immediate, medium, and long-term future of automotive power propulsion systems. Among them, electric vehicles and fuel cells can be understood as the ultimate solution; hybrid power is a medium-term plan; and traditional internal combustion engine new technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are actual near-term solutions.