On December 15, at the body factory of Shaanxi Automobile Xi'an Commercial Vehicle Industrial Park, industrial robots were assembling the cab of X6000 heavy trucks. It is reported that in the first 11 months of this year, the sales volume of Shaanxi Automobile trucks was about 1490,000 units, up 41% y/y. Photo by reporter Yuan Jingzhi.
Shaanxi Automobile is a leading enterprise in the automobile industry chain in our province, which has a strong driving force for industrial development, and has a pivotal position in the industry because of its strong innovation ability, manufacturing strength and market development ability. Recently, the reporter of this newspaper and the reporter of Shaanxi Radio and Television Financial ** Group (Taiwan) walked into Shaanxi Automobile, and told the vivid story of the enterprise building a modern industrial system and promoting high-quality development by interviewing the specific practice of enterprises to grasp innovation, research new products, and expand the market.
Reporter Shen Qian, reporter of Shaanxi Radio and Television Financial Group (Taiwan), Jiang Yue, Luo Zhiyuan.
On November 25, Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group's (hereinafter referred to as Shaanxi Automobile) Overseas Brand (Shacman) Global Partner Conference (Middle East and Africa) was held in Dubai. Representatives of Shaanxi Automobile and enterprises in the industrial chain and customers from the Middle East and Africa gathered together to exchange and communicate on further deepening cooperation. The conference is a platform for Shaanxi Automobile and global partners to understand each other and have in-depth exchanges, and it is also an important path for Shaanxi Automobile to seek brand globalization. Shaanxi Automobile trucks are increasingly recognized by the international market, thanks to the guidance of technological innovation, adhering to the road of energy saving and high efficiency, and accelerating the transformation to "green".
According to reports, in the first 11 months of this year, Shaanxi Automobile sold about 14 trucks of various types90,000 units, up 41% y/y. The domestic market share is 164%, up 02 percentage points, continuing to maintain the third place in the country;Export of all kinds of vehicles 520,000 units, up 69% y/y.
On December 14, Shaanxi ** reporters and Shaanxi Radio and Television Rong ** Group (Taiwan) reporters jointly interviewed experts in the field of new energy vehicles in our province. Photo by Shaanxi Radio and Television Financial ** Group (Taiwan) reporter Jiang Yunlong.
Technological innovation accelerates the transition to "green".
As a leading enterprise in the new energy truck industry chain in our province, Shaanxi Automobile has actively played a leading role in recent years and continuously promoted the rapid growth of the industrial chain. In just over a decade, the clean energy trucks (including heavy trucks, medium trucks, and light trucks) developed by Shaanxi Automobile have gone through several stages such as natural gas vehicles, pure electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and have been recognized by the market.
Wang Huadong, deputy director of Shaanxi Automobile's new energy business promotion office, told reporters that in recent years, the production and sales of Shaanxi Automobile's new energy trucks have grown by leaps and bounds. In 2021, Shaanxi Automobile sold more than 200 new energy trucks, more than 2,000 in 2022, more than 4,000 in 2023, and 8,000 in 2024.
On December 13, the reporter walked into the New Energy Vehicle Research Institute of Shaanxi Automobile Engineering Research Institute. Zhou Bingbing, deputy director of the institute, told reporters that Shaanxi Automobile attaches great importance to the research and development of new energy vehicles, and began the development of pure electric trucks as early as around 2010, and set up a new energy vehicle research institute in 2015. At present, the institute has more than 70 engineers and has developed more than 50 pure electric trucks, and the pure electric trucks developed have become the main force of Shaanxi Automobile's new energy vehicles in the market.
Ma Jia is an engineer at the New Energy Vehicle Research Institute and has been working in Shaanxi Automobile for 6 years. In the past 6 years, he has grown from a recent college graduate to a new energy vehicle R&D engineer. At the beginning of September, in order to cooperate with the development of new products, he went to Handan, Tangshan and other cities in Hebei Province to investigate the market situation of pure electric heavy trucks. This has strengthened Ma Jia's confidence in developing pure electric trucks and found the market direction.
In view of the rapid development of new energy vehicle technology, Shaanxi Automobile is determined to build an innovation consortium integrating R&D innovation, technology incubation and industrial investment. In 2021, Shaanxi Automobile established Dechuang Future Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Dechuang Future), focusing on the research and development and breakthrough of new energy vehicle technology, of which hydrogen fuel cell trucks are the key research and development direction. After the establishment of Dechuang Future, it has attracted nearly 300 senior professionals to join, including 5% of doctors, 40% of masters, and more than 20% of senior engineers, and initially established an open, innovative, flexible and efficient entrepreneurial team.
Wang Dongbin, director of the Power Chassis Research Institute of Dechuang Future, introduced that hydrogen fuel cell trucks have the characteristics of clean and environmental protection, and the working principle is to convert hydrogen into electricity and generate power through hydrogen fuel cell engines. Dechuang Future has independently developed more than 60 new energy vehicle products, and has thousands of new energy vehicle orders this year, with customers in Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, Tianjin, Shanghai and other places. In the next step, Dechuang will continue to carry out scientific research and innovation, achievement transformation, technology incubation, and industrial agglomeration around the "intelligence, electrification, networking, and lightweight" of new energy vehicles in the future. It is estimated that by 2026, Dechuang will achieve an annual operating income of 5 billion yuan in the future.
Intelligent promotion of "green" manufacturing.
In recent years, the development of Shaanxi Automobile's pure electric heavy trucks and hydrogen fuel cell trucks has been at the forefront of the country, but the original production line of Shaanxi Automobile ** Plant cannot assemble new energy trucks. In order to solve this problem, Shaanxi Automobile started the construction of a new energy heavy truck base in October 2020. The first vehicle rolled off the assembly line at the plant in April 2022. Enterprises will use intelligent production to better extend the innovation chain.
The reporter saw in the workshop of the first factory of Shaanxi Automobile New Energy Heavy Truck Base that the workshop is composed of a flexible and intelligent heavy-duty A** assembly line, an air EMS automatic parts conveyor line, and an intelligent three-dimensional warehouse. The production line adopts digital production equipment such as intelligent tightening and centralized filling, with high precision and good operation flexibility. To assemble a heavy truck, it takes 6 minutes for the original production line of Shaanxi Automobile, and 4 minutes for the ** production line of Shaanxi Automobile's new energy heavy truck base8 minutes.
Shaanxi Automobile New Energy Heavy Truck Base ** Plant can produce not only traditional fuel trucks, but also pure electric trucks, natural gas trucks and hydrogen fuel cell trucks. The factory focuses on the development trend of electrification, lightweight, intelligence and sharing in the truck industry, and its production line adopts a new process mode, and the degree of automation has reached the leading level in China.
Shaanxi Fast Automobile Transmission Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Fast), as an important component supporting enterprise of Shaanxi Automobile in the province, has also rapidly advanced in intelligent production.
On September 30, 2022, the smart factory of Fast Gaozhixin Company was officially put into operation. Informatization and intelligent production methods make R&D and "intelligent manufacturing" seamlessly connected.
In the huge factory building of Fast Gaozhixin Company's smart factory, there are almost no workers in sight, and busy industrial robots and high-speed CNC machine tools have become the protagonists of the factory. The factory builds a smart factory in accordance with "transparent, green, digital, intelligent, black light, lean", breaks the traditional production and manufacturing model, and successfully applies the six core technologies of "digital twin, black light production, Internet of Everything, intelligent decision-making, green manufacturing, and data closed-loop", comprehensively creates a new intelligent manufacturing model in the field of automobile transmission, and builds an intelligent benchmark factory with high efficiency, high quality, energy saving and environmental protection, with production efficiency increased by more than 70%, energy consumption reduced by 14%, and per capita output value increased by more than 5 times. After the new plant is fully put into operation, it can achieve an annual output of 200,000 automatic transmissions, with an annual output value of more than 6 billion yuan.
Lead the overall transformation of the industrial chain.
Driven by Shaanxi Automobile, a leading vehicle enterprise, Shaanxi truck industry has formed a complete industrial chain, especially the main components such as transmissions, engines, axles, and motors, which have production enterprises in the province. As the market for new energy trucks gradually "heats up", supporting enterprises in the industrial chain have accelerated their transformation to "green".
As the largest heavy-duty transmission manufacturer in China, Fast occupies an absolute advantage in the traditional power truck transmission market. Facing the new energy era, Fast has also begun to extend the industrial chain.
For the development of the new energy truck market, the relevant person in charge of Fast said that at present, the truck industry is accelerating the transformation and upgrading to new energy and intelligence. This brings challenges and opportunities to the transmission industry. Fast will speed up structural adjustment, look for new opportunities for development, continuously accelerate the pace of digital, intelligent, international and diversified development of enterprises, promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and build itself into a leading supplier of electric drive systems for new energy trucks with international competitiveness.
According to the actual situation of the development of the new energy truck market, Fast adheres to the development route of pure electric and hybrid dual technologies, and customizes and develops a series of new energy products such as pure electric transmissions and hybrid transmissions. At present, Fast new energy products have achieved full coverage in the field of commercial vehicles such as heavy trucks, medium trucks, light trucks, buses and mining vehicles, and new energy electric drive products have been matched with domestic mainstream vehicle enterprises.
In recent years, through unremitting innovation and research and development, Xi'an Zhide automotive electronic control system in the automobile industry chain of our province has developed a pure electric truck electric drive system with independent intellectual property rights (equivalent to the engine of a diesel heavy truck). Its technical indicators are industry-leading, and its products have been equipped with high-end pure electric trucks produced by Shaanxi Automobile.
Another company in the industrial chain, Hande Axle, has also been actively committed to the research and development of new energy axles in recent years, and has developed a full range of new energy axles. Hande new energy axle adopts innovative design thinking and has the characteristics of high integration, that is, through the integrated design of "motor + drive axle", the axle becomes its own powertrain, so as to facilitate the layout of the whole vehicle. Compared with the traditional scheme of "motor + drive shaft + drive axle", the weight of the motor drive axle is reduced by more than 20%. At present, the market number of new energy axles developed by Hande Axle exceeds 10,000 units.
The advantages of the modern industrial system of new energy vehicles in our province have attracted innovative teams to start a business in Shaanxi. Xi'an Qingtaike New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on the research and development of new energy vehicle motors and electronic control products, and is a high-tech enterprise established by a team of graduates from Tsinghua University. In the past five years in Shaanxi, the company has successively cooperated with Geely, Shaanxi Automobile, Changan Automobile and other enterprises, and has completed product research and development and loading verification, and is expected to achieve mass production next year, which is expected to achieve sales of 300 million yuan.
Experts**, by 2025, China's new energy truck production will reach about 200,000 units, accounting for 20% of the annual output of trucks in the domestic market. The market potential of new energy heavy trucks is widely optimistic. With the help of the construction of the industrial chain, the drive of leading enterprises and the first to "green" transformation, our province has laid out in advance in the field of new energy trucks, and the industrial chain and innovation chain are being deeply integrated.
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