Changing electricity has become the most fragrant heavy truck of "Internet celebrities"?

Published: Sep 3, 2020 08:26

SMM News: changing electricity has suddenly become an "Internet celebrity". Since the beginning of this year, many bosses, including Xin Guobin, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Zeng Yuqun, chairman of Ningde Times, and Liu Hanru, chairman of Valin Star Horse, have worked together to support the power change mode in the public arena.

Moreover, the state gives the green light to the change of electricity in the financial subsidy policy, "real money and silver" to support the development of new business models such as "separation of cars and electricity". For a while, the exchange of electricity has become more and more popular, the industry exclaimed, "the next tuyere is coming"! So all kinds of people are rubbing their hands one after another, ready to do a great job.

Among the many application markets of power exchange, heavy truck is considered by many people in the industry as the "most suitable" field of power exchange mode.

Ningde times made frequent moves.

The "Big Brother" Ningde era has made a lot of moves recently. Recently, the first batch of Hualing Xingma electric heavy trucks equipped with Ningde era battery system in Shanghai were delivered to Lingang Metro. The electric replacement vehicles unveiled this time include tractors, dump trucks, biased terminal cars and other integrated recharging models. In terms of operational efficiency, changing the power station can complete a power change in three or five minutes, which is comparable to the service experience of refueling.

It is understood that due to the standardized design of the battery pack, this batch of rechargeable vehicles can flexibly configure electricity according to working conditions, greatly improving the use efficiency, and the safety of the centrally managed rechargeable battery is more controllable, which can prolong the service life of the battery by more than 20%, and expand the life cycle of the battery.

In the next five years, 2000-5000 new heavy trucks and electric construction machinery will be put into operation in the port area, and special power exchange facilities for no less than 30 heavy trucks will be built, with a total investment expected to exceed 2 billion yuan. the realization of self-driving based on the coordination of 5G vehicles and roads in some areas is expected to reduce carbon emissions by 108000 tons in the port area.

In fact, as the practitioner and explorer of the separation mode of automobile and electricity, Ningde era has been actively promoting the construction of the service system of new energy vehicle power exchange products, and continues to accelerate the arrival of the electrification era. At the end of July this year, the power exchange heavy truck created by Ningde Times and Fukuda Zhilan New Energy was delivered in Beijing. Ningde Times said that the "transit iron" formed by heavy trucks and railways is becoming a key link in urban transportation.

Is it really so fragrant to change electricity on a heavy card?

It is understood that at present, there are more than 300 million cars in China, and although there are only more than 23 million heavy trucks, accounting for less than 1/10, the pollution of heavy trucks is relatively high, and fuel consumption accounts for more than 50 percent, which has become the key target of the state to control pollution and reduce haze. In a sense, if the fuel heavy truck is treated well, it can achieve twice the result with half the effort in terms of environmental protection.

However, although the pure electric heavy truck market has a lot of room for development, there are still many problems to be solved. In the traditional charging mode, the pure electric heavy card has a large amount of electricity, so it takes about an hour to charge even if the double-gun fast charging mode is used. The load of pure electric heavy truck is heavy, the power consumption is relatively high, and it is charged many times a day, which greatly reduces the operation efficiency of pure electric heavy truck. In addition, the high purchase cost and the decline of battery performance are also concerns for users.

The replacement heavy card is based on solving the pain points of users, which can really achieve zero emission in the process of vehicle operation, and help customers solve a series of core pain points, such as difficult charging, slow charging and mileage anxiety.

"the whole power-changing process of Valin Xingma heavy truck is about 4-6 minutes, and the slow charging of the battery not only makes it safer, but also can delay the battery life, but also uses Ningde-era batteries with excellent quality, high performance-to-price ratio, and after-sales service is guaranteed, eliminating the concerns of market users in many aspects." Liu Hanru, chairman of Valin Star Horse, said.

The economic advantage of changing electricity is very obvious. Due to the large carrying capacity, there is a wide gap between the price of pure electric heavy trucks and fuel vehicles, and the pressure of market competition is huge. "the consideration of huge cost makes it difficult for users to decide whether to buy pure electric heavy trucks. Using the power exchange mode of pure electric heavy truck, customers do not need heavy assets to hold batteries, the above problems can be easily solved. " Industry insiders said that the power exchange mode means that cars and electricity are separated, and users only need to pay or rent a car body without batteries at one time, using power exchange as a cost similar to refueling, thus greatly reducing the initial investment and hitting the pain point of the high price of electric heavy trucks.

In addition, power exchange can also adjust the peak-valley difference of the power grid, reduce the impact on the power grid and realize energy interconnection. For the same number of cars, the charging power of the switching mode is greatly reduced compared with the charging mode, which can reduce the load on the power grid, and the switching mode can use the valley power of the power station to charge the power battery to avoid the peak period of power use. rational layout of charging time, save energy resources, reduce charging costs, reduce the impact on the power grid, easy to integrate with the power grid.

According to reports, in the second half of this year, Valin Xingma is expected to have about 3000 pure electric heavy truck orders. "after all, in some scenarios, pure electric heavy trucks have more advantages than fuel vehicles, so the growing trend of the pure electric heavy truck market will not change." The person in charge of Valin Star Horse said.

It is worth noting that heavy truck power exchange not only has many advantages at the operational level, but also has many benefits for battery manufacturers.

"changing electricity should be good for battery factories. If all the power changes are done, which is conducive to the standardization and standardization of the battery, the battery factory will serve as an entrance and the mainframe factory will be reduced to making a car body. At present, there is no separation of car and electricity, and battery manufacturers can only be attached to the mainframe factory. Power exchange is also beneficial to the echelon utilization and recycling and disassembly of the battery. For the power exchange mode, the ratio of car electricity is about 1.38, and battery manufacturers can have 38% more battery business. " Some industry insiders said.

In fact, in addition to the very positive Ningde era, there are still many domestic battery manufacturers in the active layout of power change. Among the 333 batches and 334 batches of applications announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology this year, Zhengli New Energy, Azura Energy Storage, Tianjin New Energy, Zhongra, Guoxuan Hi-Tech, Jiangsu Times and so on have begun to provide batteries for power exchange models.

Hasn't Xin Guobin, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, already stated his position? In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with relevant departments, will continue to vigorously promote the construction of rechargeable infrastructure. Power replacement will become a new consumption hot spot in the next planning period.

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