Shoulder the heavy responsibility of new energy transformation？ Beiqi Foton and the three parties jointly set up Calvin Automobile, laying out hydrogen energy and pure electric tracks.
Commercial vehicle market welcomes new players.
A few days ago, Kavan Automobile, a brand of new energy commercial vehicles, was officially released. The brand was jointly established by Foton Motor, Yihuatong, Bosch Venture Capital under Bosch and Boyuan Capital. According to Qin Zhidong, general manager of Calvin Automobile, Calvin Automobile will lay out technical routes such as pure electric and hydrogen fuel cells, which will be launched in domestic and overseas markets in the next three years.VAN(van), light truck, heavy truck and other series models.
Although it is presented in a brand-new image, Calvin Automobile is actually a holding subsidiary of Foton Motor. Enterprise survey data shows that the registered capital of Beijing Kawen New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. isfiveOne hundred million yuan, of which Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd. holds it.65%Shares of Bosch Venture Capital, Boyuan Capital and Yihuatong respectively hold the company.10%Shares in. In addition, the legal person of Beijing Kawen New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. is Chang Rui, Party Secretary and Chairman of Foton Motor.
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“Fukuda owns1200A number of new energy-related patents, the industry’s top commercial vehicle design, manufacturing and production capabilities, and20Years of experience in research and development of new energy products and industrial operation will empower Calvin Automobile in different ways. Qin Zhidong said.
In fact, new energy commercial vehicles are the key layout areas of Foton Motor in recent years. Last year, Foton Motor released a new energy strategy.2.0, establish Futian new energy30·50Business strategy, namely2030The annual proportion of new energy vehicles exceeds50%,2050Realize carbon neutrality in the whole value chain in. At Foton Motor2024At the global partner conference, Chang Rui said,2024In, Foton Motor will focus on.VANAnd micro-cards, actively develop the new energy market and increase the total sales.70The target of 10,000 vehicles launched an impact.
Or it is based on the overall strategic layout of Foton Motor that Calvin Motor came into being, and from the perspective of shareholder composition, hydrogen fuel cell models will become its main direction in the future. On the one hand, Foton Motor has mastered the technology of hydrogen energy commercial vehicles and has240kWFuel cell heavy truck,forty-nineTons of liquid hydrogen heavy trucks, long-distance trunk logistics transportation hydrogen energy heavy trucks, and4.5Tons of hydrogen fuel light truck, Ou ManESTHydrogen fuel heavy truck,18Tons of hydrogen energy washing and sweeping cars and hydrogen fuel intercity buses and other products, covering passenger cars, logistics, cold chain, sanitation, dump trucks, traction and other series of vehicles. At the same time, Yihuatong is a domestic head fuel cell system manufacturer, which2023The annual installed capacity is about158995.6kW, the market share is about23%.
On the other hand, under the background of the overall recovery of domestic commercial vehicle market, the characteristics of new energy are remarkable. According to the data of China Automobile Association,2023In, domestic commercial vehicle production and sales were completed respectively.403.7Ten thousand vehicles and403.110,000 vehicles, up respectively from the same period of last year.26.8%and22.1%. Among them, the proportion of new energy commercial vehicle production and sales in the overall production and sales of commercial vehicles is respectively11.5%and11.1%. China electric vehicle committee of 100 predicted that,2024Sales of new energy commercial vehicles will break through in.60Ten thousand vehicles, the penetration rate of.15%, to achieve a double increase in volume rate.
However, it should be noted that it was released by many commercial vehicle companies.2024In the strategic plan of 2008, new energy and globalization are the main points of strength, which means that Calvin Automobile will face greater competitive challenges. According to the incomplete statistics of national business daily, up to now, many commercial vehicle companies such as Dongfeng Company, China Heavy Duty Truck and faw liberation have mentioned that,2024New energy transformation will be accelerated in 2008.
In addition, the reporter also learned from many insiders that there are still difficulties in the large-scale popularization and application of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. From the perspective of commercialization of the hydrogen fuel cell industry chain, a larger-scale transportation application is needed in the future, and the cost of hydrogen fuel cells can be further reduced.
For example, a related person from Yihuatong said in an interview that the large-scale application of hydrogen fuel cells is still facing the problems of economy and convenience. Among them, the convenience is similar to that of pure electric auto start, and the number and layout of hydrogen refueling stations, that is, the convenience of energy replenishment, will affect consumers’ enthusiasm for using fuel cell vehicles. However, in contrast, the fuel cell recharge time is shorter, and the construction of subsequent hydrogen refueling stations keeps up, which is easy to break through.
"In the future, the application prospects of hydrogen fuel cells in commercial vehicles such as heavy trucks and buses are good, and it will take time to popularize them in other fields." Zhongguancun hydrogen energy industry alliance said.
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