[1.15 Lithium Express] Weibast China Jiaxing New Factory and Power Battery Center has been officially completed * Tesla's German factory has been protested over deforestation

Published: Jan 15, 2020 09:36

[Weibast China Jiaxing New Factory and Power Battery Center officially inaugurated] on January 13, 2020, Weibast, a global innovation system partner, solemnly held the inauguration ceremony of Jiaxing New Factory and New Energy Power Battery system Research and Development Center in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. Since the autumn of 2019, the new plant in Wuhan has been producing skylights, heaters and charging piles. In the new Jiaxing plant, in addition to skylight production, Weibast has also set up a new energy power battery system research and development center. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Jiaxing plant, Dr. Ingman said: "Webster has successfully entered the European market with electric vehicle solutions in 2019. Today, we are honored to be able to provide Chinese customers with a full range of products and services. Despite the huge challenges facing the Chinese market, we firmly believe that Webster has strong prospects for business growth. "

[Tesla's German factory has been protested over deforestation] according to foreign media reports, Tesla's plan to build a super factory in Germany has met with some opposition because Tesla needs to cut down a large number of trees near Berlin in order to build a factory here. Local residents protested against the company's deforestation at the construction site of Super Factory 4. Although Tesla has promised to plant three times the area of trees cut down, deforestation remains controversial because of the diversity of ecosystems. Previous reports said the forest was home to many animals, including an endangered bat, which Tesla had to move. Tesla needs to start building its factory in the coming months if it is to go into production as planned in July 2021.

On January 11, the 40MW/80MWh photovoltaic energy storage pilot project of Xinhua Shengshu Photovoltaic 180MW Photovoltaic Power Station was successfully connected to the grid. This project is one of the first batch of photovoltaic energy storage pilot projects approved by the Development and Reform Commission of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, and it is also the largest single power generation side energy storage project in Xinjiang and even the whole country. It is reported that the project is the first photovoltaic energy storage project invested by Mengshi Science and Technology in Xinjiang. In July 2019, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region Development and Reform Commission and the Xinjiang Regulatory Office of the State Energy Bureau jointly issued the list of pilot projects for the Joint Operation of Photovoltaic Energy Storage on the first Wholesale side of the Autonomous region. Among them, the Mengshi Science and Technology Hotan area 40MW/80MWh Energy Storage Project was included in the pilot project list, becoming the first batch of selected enterprises in Xinjiang Photostorage Project.

[BYD: the cost of new products may be reduced by 20%-30%] Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD, recently revealed that the "blade battery" recently developed by BYD will be mass-produced for the first time and will be used in the new BYD "Han" model. "the volume of the new battery can be increased by about 50% compared with energy density, and the cost is estimated to be reduced by 20% to 30%," BYD sources said. " As to whether the new model is in response to the price reduction of the Tesla model3, the other party said: "our products and Tesla products are positioned differently, there is differentiated competition, so the impact on us is very limited."

On January 14, at the third session of the 15th Beijing Municipal people's Congress, Zhang Qingzuo, deputy director of the standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal people's Congress, mentioned in a statement on the "regulations on the Prevention and Control of Emission pollution from Motor vehicles and non-Road Mobile Machinery in Beijing (draft)" (the "Bill") that by the end of 2019, the number of motor vehicles in Beijing had reached 6.36 million. It is the city with the highest number of motor vehicles in the country. The Bill focuses on the problem of emission pollution caused by motor vehicles, especially heavy diesel vehicles and non-road mobile machinery in Beijing, refines and supplements the control measures of pollution emissions, and implements strict measures on the behavior of excessive pollution emissions. And improve the coordinated control measures in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The "Bill" has been deliberated three times by the standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal people's Congress and is now submitted to the Beijing Municipal people's Congress for deliberation.

[it has been revealed that the whole vehicle project is currently in a state of shutdown] Beidou Xingtong has encountered a "pit" in the automotive field. In 2019, a impairment of accounts receivable is expected to be 51 million yuan, mainly from Zhongtai Motor and Bo County Automobiles, of which Zhongtai Motors is expected to lose 33 million yuan, and Boxian Motor is expected to lose 6.17 million yuan. Zhongtai Motors has been in trouble since the second half of 2019 and there have been problems in the capital chain, according to the announcement. Boxian Automobile, which is engaged in the business of new energy vehicles, is currently in a state of shutdown. Accounts receivable to the company have been overdue since July 2019.

According to the interactive platform, Hunan Yacheng, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, mainly produces lithium iron phosphate battery cathode precursors, which are mainly used in the manufacturing and processing of lithium iron phosphate cathode materials, so the company will supply battery manufacturers such as Ningde era and BYD indirectly through lithium iron phosphate cathode materials. In 2020, the company is developing a new generation of high-pressure solid ferric phosphate and low-cost ferric phosphate. The high pressure iron phosphate project developed in cooperation with Bertrand has been mass produced, and the pilot test of high pressure iron phosphate developed in cooperation with Guoxuan Hi-Tech is about to be mass produced, and the matching product with BYD blade battery is being certified.

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