"Currently, China's auto industry is undergoing an unprecedented new energy revolution, and commercial vehicles are facing multiple pressures such as environmental protection, energy and efficiency. Energy diversification and intelligence are important directions for deepening the new energy revolution for commercial vehicles."
At the 8th China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum, Liu Hanru, chief scientist of Geely Commercial Vehicle Group, pointed out the current future direction of new energy development.
It is true that in 2021, the production and sales of new energy commercial vehicles in my country will be booming, and it has entered a stage of rapid development, but the development of the market environment is also forcing the transformation and upgrading of the industry. The Organizing Committee of the 8th Electric Vehicle 100 Conference held a long-term view and held a forum on sustainable development of commercial vehicles for the first time. At this forum, energy security has become a hot topic. The development of energy diversification for commercial vehicles and the exploration of new energy routes for commercial vehicles in line with China's national conditions have become the consensus of the participating experts.
What are the preparations for the long-distance car when the new energy layout is launched?
What is the new energy route for commercial vehicles in line with China's national conditions? The oil price war in 2022 has already written the answer: the current situation of excessive dependence on oil resources needs to be changed urgently. From the perspective of energy security, commercial vehicles must be transformed into new energy sources , including but not limited to pure electricity.
How should the energy form be reformed and innovated? Geely Commercial Vehicles has made a model.
Different from other commercial vehicle companies, Geely Commercial Vehicles has established a route to develop new energy since its inception, and in 2016, it established the first domestic commercial vehicle brand focusing on new energy, Long-distance Vehicle. Since its establishment, Yuanyuan Automobile has formed a multi-energy system of urban commercial vehicles with pure electric and extended-range electric drive systems as the core, and highway commercial vehicle systems with liquid hydrogen energy methanol power and pure electric drive using battery swap technology as the core. The technical route has created various forms of new energy commercial vehicles such as pure electric, pure electric power exchange, range extension, methanol, hydrogen fuel cell, etc., and launched star products such as Yuanyuan Xingzhi, Yuanyuan Xinghan H, Yuanyuan Xingxiang V, etc. It has become the first commercial vehicle brand in the country to complete a multi-energy layout and to convert all products into new energy.
When other commercial vehicle companies are still wandering in the pure electric field, the long-range car has already blossomed in the multi-energy field, and the first shot is a king bomb, what is the long-range car?
In fact, the research and development of new energy is definitely a familiar road for the long-range car. Relying on Geely's technical heritage in the field of passenger cars, the integrated development of the passenger car and the business, the deep sharing of electronic electrification technology resources, combined with the long-range car in space optimization and lightweight. With the advantages in terms of aspects, three exclusive and scalable new energy architectures with GLA, GHA and GMA as the core have been formed, and an exclusive new energy architecture covering the whole field of commercial vehicles has been constructed, and the layout of new energy products is about to emerge.
Among them, the first pure electric light truck E200 of Yuanyuan Automobile was mass-produced and delivered in 2017, which became the starting point of the ecological layout of urban logistics. Become a leader in this field.
In addition, Geely has been cultivating methanol fuel vehicles for 17 years, and has formed more than 200 core technology patents. Yuanyuan Automobile has developed 7 methanol commercial vehicles and 4 methanol commercial vehicle engines, and has applied for 80 patents. On April 26, 2019, the world's first M100 methanol heavy-duty truck tractor officially rolled off the production line, ushering in the era of methanol heavy-duty trucks for Long-range Motors.
Today, Yuanyuan Automobile has established six complete vehicle production and manufacturing bases in Nanchong, Sichuan, Shangrao, Jiangxi, Maanshan, Anhui, Zibo, Shandong, Jinzhong, Shanxi, and Huzhou, Zhejiang, and formed a layout of "manufacturing center + business ecology" to promote new energy for local commercial vehicles. transformation, and build a green and smart transportation ecosystem.
In the age of intelligence, what wisdom has the remote car injected into?
Of course, at the same time as the energy revolution, new energy commercial vehicles are also undergoing networked, intelligent and coordinated development. In the future, new energy commercial vehicles will transform from simple production tools to intelligent mobile transport capacity, zero-carbon logistics carrier, and digital living space. In order to continue to lead the "zero-carbon land transportation", the long-distance car continues to move towards the comprehensive service of smart green transportation technology.
In 2021, Yuanyuan Automobile launched a highly scalable new energy light truck exclusive smart architecture - Yunjie, which has become a new starting point for the change of the underlying logic of new energy commercial vehicles; It has set a new height for the commercial vehicle industry from "hardware-defined vehicles" to "software-defined vehicles", leading new energy commercial vehicles into the era of architectural vehicles.
Facing the main line logistics, Yuanyuan Automobile released the new energy intelligent luxury heavy truck Yuanxinghan H, which brought together three core highlights of home design layout, high-end intelligent driving and future smart cockpit, and creatively introduced a predictive energy management system, integrating smart cockpit, Intelligent driving, pure electric power exchange, extended-range power exchange, methanol P2 hybrid and other new energy power modes lead the logistics industry to develop intelligently and efficiently.
At the same time, with the technical accumulation of Geely Holding Group in the fields of low-orbit satellites, chips, algorithm advantages, etc., the long-distance car will have the ability to continuously evolve and upgrade the OTA, link the research and development of Yigatong and Volvo autonomous driving, and lay out the field of autonomous driving. In 2026, L3 highway autonomous driving and L4 limited-scenario autonomous driving will be realized; L4 trunk logistics autonomous driving will be realized in 2026; and the real industrialization of L5 autonomous driving combined with smart cockpit will be realized in 2030.
In addition, in the field of efficient logistics and transportation, Yuanyuan Automobile has also launched Yuanyuan Fengrui F3E and Yuanyuan Xingxiang V, which provide green and efficient transportation tools for different transportation scenarios.
Draw an ecological circle How big is the circle of friends of the remote car?
The core of commercial vehicles is to provide green and efficient transportation capacity, build a more complete transportation capacity service platform, and realize lower-cost operation through more intelligent dispatching. It is also an important layout of long-distance vehicles. To this end, with the brand vision of "creating intelligent interconnection and leading green commercial use", Yuanyuan Automobile has successively built three transportation capacity service platforms: Green Wisdom, Friendship of All Things and Sunshine Mingdao.
On the one hand, Yuanyuan Auto focuses on a green capacity sharing platform for urban logistics scenarios. With exclusive customized vehicles as the core, it provides three major product services: Huilian Car Rental, Huilian Vehicle Services, and Huilian Intelligent Control, focusing on the full life cycle of new energy logistics vehicles Operations management.
On the other hand, Yuanyuan Automobile, together with All-Friendly, has built a green and intelligent power exchange capacity service platform based on the power exchange heavy-duty truck; cooperated with Sunshine Mingdao to build a digital energy storage bank and super power exchange station to realize "smart power exchange + clean energy supply" Network + full-scene customized service + intelligent operation platform” customized full-life cycle comprehensive service.
Relying on the three platforms of Green Wisdom Alliance, Friendship of All Things, and Sunshine Mingdao, Yuanyuan Auto has gradually perfected the three-element synergy between vehicles and goods, vehicles and energy, and vehicles and the environment.
At the same time, in order to realize the comprehensive connection of people, vehicles, goods and stations, Yuanyuan Auto has launched a super APP with functions covering the whole life cycle of "selection, purchase, use, management, repair, and replacement" to meet the needs of users in all business scenarios.
The forward-looking layout and intelligent interconnection have also made the long-distance car harvest fruit. In 2021, the long-range car will achieve a year-on-year increase of 288% in overall sales, and achieve the first place in many segments. From January to February 2022, the overall sales volume of long-range new energy commercial vehicles ranked first in the industry, and both new energy light trucks and heavy trucks achieved rapid growth, and the monthly sales in February ranked first in the industry.
A hard work and a harvest. When many companies are looking for new energy to overtake at corners, Yuanyuan Auto has obviously taken the lead, and has become the industry leader with a multi-energy layout and a development model of smart interconnection.
The future of the new energy field has come, will the future of long-distance vehicles be far behind?
