Following hand-holding"King Ning"After that, Changan Automobile made another heavy bet in the field of power batteries.
Recently, Changan Automobile issued an announcement announcing the signing of a "Memorandum of Cooperation" with Ganfeng Lithium, which will be in accordance with"Equal shareholdings and efficient operation"Accelerate the promotion of (semi-)solid-state battery R&D joint venture projects and manufacturing industrialization projects.
Obviously, when the market involution accelerates, major car companies have tacitly launched a technology competition for self-developed power batteries. Among them, NIO's 100kWh semi-solid-state battery has been installedAfter GAC Group invested 10 billion yuan to carry out battery self-development, solid-state batteries also have a clear mass production scheduleRecently, ZEEKR Automobile officially announced the world's first mass-produced 800V lithium iron phosphate ultra-fast charging battery.
The car does not use the battery first"The R&D and manufacturing of power batteries has become a must"Real gold**"The core area of heavy asset investment has also become an unavoidable digital and intelligent transformation of Chang'an"Arms race"。
Empower in-depth self-development.
In the era of electrification, it is very important for the chain to be stable and safe, and the core components to be independent and controllable.
Looking at several bigwig-level car companies in China, all of them have the strength of self-developed batteries, such as BYD's Fodi battery and Great Wall Motor's honeycomb energy.
Changan is a rising star in the self-developed battery team of Chinese car companies. In 2022, Shenlan Automobile will start independent research and development of battery cellsOn November 2, 2023, Deep Blue's first self-developed 4C fast charging core Pre-A prototype rolled off the production line.
In June 2023, Changan Automobile and CATL jointly established the abbreviation of Changan Power Battery in Yibin, Sichuan"Times Chang'an"On November 24, the first 87ah standard battery cell built by Times Changan officially rolled off the assembly line.
At the 2023 Guangzhou International Auto Show, Changan Automobile officially released its self-developed battery brand Changan"Golden bell jar", directly into the power battery industry. By 2030, it is planned to launch 8 self-developed battery cells such as liquid, semi-solid, and solid-state, forming a battery production capacity of 50-80GWh.
At present, Changan Automobile Power Battery Research Institute has more than 1,200 battery R&D personnel, including 125 senior experts and top academic talents.
So with such a wide layout of Changan Automobile, will there be fights between the interiors?
In fact, Times Changan is mainly positioned in the manufacture of liquid battery cells. The joint venture project with Ganfeng Lithium will be mainly positioned in the technology research and development of (semi-)solid-state batteries, and the two sides are complementary to each other.
At the signing site, there were many executives of Ganfeng Lithium, and there were mainly two people from Changan Automobile, one was Zhu Huarong, chairman of Changan Automobile, and the other was Deng Chenghao, CEO of Deep Blue Automobile.
Rationally inferred, the next-generation power battery technology mentioned in the memorandum of cooperation may be the first to be installed in Deep Blue Automobile.
After all, in the R&D system of Changan Group, the department related to battery R&D was Changan New Energy at the earliest, and this department happened to be the predecessor of Deep Blue Automobile.
While adhering to the self-research of core technologies, Changan Automobile actively lays out the power battery field in the field of power batteries through joint ventures, shareholdings, joint construction, etc., which is of great benefit to the empowerment of in-depth self-development.
Strengthen barriers to competition.
Changan Automobile has joined hands with Ganfeng Lithium, and the combination of car companies and battery companies has been common in recent years.
Depth of both sides"Binding"For battery companies, cooperation with car companies can not only bind orders, but also have the capital investment and drive of car companies, and the risk can be greatly reducedFor car companies, joint ventures with upstream chains can protect their own new energy vehicle batteries, and can further reduce costs and increase efficiency.
However, Changan Automobile's high degree of openness and cooperation in the upstream and downstream fields of new energy vehicles is not limited to this.
On November 21, Changan Automobile and NIO reached a cooperation agreement on battery swap business, including promoting the establishment of battery swap standards, the construction and sharing of battery swap networks, the research and development of battery swap models, and the establishment of an efficient battery asset management mechanism. It is reported that the first to eat crabs was still a dark blue car.
On November 25, Huawei and Changan Automobile signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Shenzhen, establishing a new company to focus on the R&D, production, sales, and service of intelligent driving systems and incremental components for intelligent and connected vehicles.
In the signing ** announced by Huawei, in addition to Tan Benhong, CEO of AVATR Technology, Deng Chenghao, CEO of Deep Blue Automobile, is also among them.
Changan Automobile's cooperation has always been targeted, investing heavily in the battery field and in-depth self-research to ensure the safety of the first chainIn the field of intelligent driving, learning from each other's strengths, improving the user experience, and empowering the transformation of new energy, it is in these bits and pieces that Changan Automobile will continue to strengthen its competitiveness in the electrification and intelligent transformation and build a moat for global competition.
The sea is inclusive, there is tolerance, Changan Automobile is galloping on the digital intelligence track.