New energy vehicles begin to tackle charging piles

In recent days, the charging pile plate has been highly sought after in the capital market. The good news behind it comes from a public bidding announcement issued by the State Grid on the first batch of electric vehicle charging and exchanging equipment in 2014. It is reported that this year, the State Grid will hold five such procurement tenders, while the same level of tenders last year did not. At the same time, car companies have also begun to move frequently in other sectors of the new energy industry chain, including battery and vehicle model development.

Early dawn, the development of new energy vehicles stood before dawn. The development of new energy vehicles that have been quiet for a long time has finally come to an end. Local governments, the State Grid Corporation of China, and major car makers have recently accelerated the deployment of new energy sources. It is no longer necessary to avoid charging piles to support such hard bones. At the same time, another top-tier city, Hangzhou, has joined the ranks of purchase restrictions.

No longer hesitate to change attitude

In an analysis report officially released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at the end of last year, it was mentioned in 2014 that “the new energy automobile industry is expected to accelerate its development under the influence of the implementation of the new energy automobile industry development plan and the continuous improvement of related public auxiliary facilities”. This is a strong signal that the government has sent out this year to speed up public facilities.

In the past few years, the construction of charging stations and charging piles has obviously fallen behind and dragged on the development of new energy vehicles. According to the original plan, from 2011 to 2015, the scale of electric vehicle charging stations of the State Grid will reach 4,000; from 2016 to 2020, the national grid construction target of charging stations will be 10,000, and a complete electric vehicle charging network will be built. However, as of the end of 2013, the number of charging and switching stations already built by the State Grid was 400, and only 10% of the target was completed in 2015.

At the beginning of the new year, the State Grid has also changed its normal attitude and actively invested in the construction of charging equipment. The State Grid issued a message during the two sessions of the country saying that it allows social capital to compete with the State Grid and jointly invest in the construction of a charging and replacing facility. Recently, the public bidding for the first batch of electric vehicle charging and replacement equipment of the State Grid in 2014 was hung on the Internet, making private capital cheers for it.

The first-tier cities also quantified the goals. In the first half of the year, Beijing plans to complete the construction of 100 fast-charging outlets. By the end of the year, it will complete the construction of 1,000 utility charging piles. It has also established a green channel in particular, shortening the processing time for telegraphy, inspection, and transmission from 12 working days to 7 jobs. day. Subsequently, Tianjin and Shanghai have also issued plans for the construction of electric vehicle charging networks. It is planned to build 6,700 and more than 6,000 charging piles by 2015.

Do not play virtual, real gold and silver to the top
The development of a new round of new energy vehicles has begun to shift from a stage where the thunder and rain are small to the investment of real money and silver. FAW and SAIC have signed a joint statement with German Volkswagen recently to jointly launch new energy models in the Chinese market. Volkswagen Group plans to launch more than 15 new models of electric vehicles by 2018, and will start producing many of them in 2016. The signing of the project is part of the plan of Volkswagen Group and joint ventures to invest 18.2 billion euros in China in 2014-2018. The scale of investment in the Chinese auto industry is unprecedented.

Similarly in Germany, Brilliance and BMW also signed a large list of €1.8 billion. The cooperation projects include investment in new technologies, new products and expansion of joint ventures in the new decade, and will also focus on Carry out comprehensive cooperation in new energy vehicles and other fields. In the “Global Strategic Alliance Cooperation Agreement” signed by Dongfeng and PSA, it also explicitly mentions strengthening cooperation in the core areas of new energy globally, including research and development of new energy vehicles and development of new energy vehicles.

In addition, Wanxiang Group also invested US$18 million in the Fisker US plant last month, officially entering the new energy vehicle industry. Nanjing Jinlong Bus is also in full swing to promote the investment of 2 billion yuan in the new energy vehicle project in Wuhan.

Compared with the development of new energy vehicles in the previous round, the investment boom this time was even greater, and more emphasis was placed on international cooperation. The “difficult” charging pile problem also clarified the construction schedule. It is reported that the amount of investment in the construction of charging piles nationwide will exceed 60 billion yuan this year and next.