You must know that the development of China's auto industry, in addition to the continuous efforts of independent car companies, is also inseparable from the help of joint venture car companies.
In the early years, China did not have a mature parts system at all, and there was no perfect standard, the establishment of these systems and standards is inseparable from the help of joint venture car companies, and even many technical talents in the automotive industry are also born from joint venture car companies.
In other words, without the help of the joint venture car companies, there would be no such huge Chinese auto industry as it is today.
For the joint venture car companies, in the accumulation of several years, they have also established their own technology research and development center, and have made huge capital investment and established a perfect talent training mechanism to achieve the guarantee of automotive technology.
For example, Guangqi Honda has established Guangqi Honda Automobile Research and Development Company, Toyota has established Toyota Intelligent Electric Vehicle R&D Center (China)**FAW-Volkswagen has established FAW-Volkswagen New Technology Development Center, SAIC Volkswagen has established SAIC Volkswagen R&D Center, Dongfeng Nissan has established Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center, ......
The above technology centers have given birth to the technical essence of each joint venture car company, which can be said to be the "hole card" of the joint venture car companies to capture the market.
The Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center is the leader among many joint venture car enterprise technology centers. So this article takes Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center as an example to see how strong the technical reserves of joint venture car companies are?
The three "magic weapons" cast Dongfeng Nissan's technical shield
If the author has the deepest impression of Dongfeng Nissan, it must be the word "technology".
Technology Nissan, People, Cars, Life" is the brand slogan of Nissan brand for many years, and after the establishment of Dongfeng Nissan, it has always implemented this slogan, taking "technology" as the brand background color of Dongfeng Nissan.
As early as 2006, Dongfeng Nissan established the Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center, which is not only one of Nissan's four major R&D centers in the world.
1. It is one of the largest passenger car R&D centers in China.
Subsequently, Dongfeng Nissan has entered a period of rapid development, creating a record of the fastest production and sales of 3 million joint venture car companies, and now Dongfeng Nissan has nearly 16 million user bases, and has formed the industry's well-known "Dongfeng Nissan speed".
And all of this is inseparable from the empowerment of Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center. So what is the strength of Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center?
The author summarizes it as three treasures, namely the R&D scale, R&D investment, and technical talent reserve of Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center. It is these three treasures that have created the technical shield of Dongfeng Nissan and established a very high brand moat.
In terms of R&D scale, Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center is the fourth Nissan Motor Company in the world with the same R&D platform, and has applied for 1,402 patents and 710 inventions since its establishment. In terms of models, Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center has completed the development of more than 50 new models, covering fuel vehicles, pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, etc.
In terms of talent pool, Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center has a technical team of nearly 2,000 people, and as of December 2022, it has completed a total of 441 advanced technology development projects. In terms of R&D investment, the cumulative R&D investment of Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center has exceeded 10 billion yuan.
It can be seen that Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center has strong technology research and development capabilities, model design capabilities, and has the ability to feed Nissan to the world. For example, its self-developed intelligent connected DA large-screen navigation system and reversing radar system have been exported to foreign markets such as Brazil and Mexico, and have been adopted by Nissan's major factories around the world.
Nowadays, the automotive industry is in the midst of a century of great changes, and the market products are switching from fuel vehicles to new energy vehicles.
In the new energy era
Dongfeng Nissan will carry out the technology to the end
In the era of fuel vehicles, Dongfeng Nissan has created a leading industry, not only has nearly 16 million user bases, but also launched a family car sales of more than 5 million units of the Sylphy, a sales of more than 1.9 million luxury mid-class car benchmark Ethereal Altima, but also launched a cumulative sales of more than 3 million SUV family ......
In the new energy era, Dongfeng Nissan has not stopped moving, but still set a grand goal to explore new opportunities in the fiercely competitive market.
It is understood that by 2026, Dongfeng Nissan will launch 4 brand new energy models, and the first model will come out in the second half of 2024. In addition, starting in 2025, Dongfeng Co., Ltd. will start its export business and sell four Nissan brand new energy models overseas.
At the past Guangzhou Auto Show, Dongfeng Nissan said that it would adhere to the parallel three power paths of fuel, pure electric and gasoline-electric hybrid, comprehensively accelerate the transformation of new energy, and continue to enrich the full product series covering different price points and levels. The foundation for achieving all grand goals is inseparable from the word "technology".
In fact, in the field of new energy vehicles, Dongfeng Nissan still has accumulated strong automotive technology, from the vehicle platform to the vehicle system, to the battery safety, Dongfeng Nissan is using actions to implement the "technology Nissan" to the end.
In terms of pure electric platform, the vita native pure electric platform launched by Dongfeng Nissan has an ultra-efficient electric drive, with an efficiency of over 91%, which not only has surging power, but also has a super energy-saving effect, so that the vehicle's power consumption per 100 kilometers can reach 10kWh, and it can achieve 000 acceleration in 3 seconds.
In terms of vehicle machine system, Dongfeng Nissan has launched a new generation of vehicle machine system - Lighthouse OS, such as Venucia VX6 is equipped with this system, which not only supports full-scene voice dialogue, but also enables independent learning of the car machine system, making people-car communication more intelligent. The lighthouse OS system and the V-JOY intelligent space based on the SOA architecture and the first control brain CCM cooperate with each other, which can link the in-car hardware such as air conditioning, atmosphere lights, seats, etc., and support a variety of functions such as navigation and remote control of the car by mobile phone APP, so as to truly achieve an exclusive intelligent space of free relaxation and tacit interaction.
In terms of battery, Dongfeng Nissan has launched the "Luban Battery", which jointly ensures the safety of vehicle electricity through the "three-terminal" integration of battery cells, BMS, battery packs, vehicles, and cloud five-dimensional protection mode.
For example, the XYZ acupuncture test that exceeds the national standard, the extrusion test that exceeds the national standard is twice the national standard, the fire test, the 48-hour seawater immersion test, and the impact test that exceeds the national standard by 4 times ......Luban batteries can easily cope with it, escorting the whole process of consumer travel safety.
This is because the Luban battery uses an aluminum alloy aviation-grade keel cabin, a double-layer armor at the bottom, and leaves 360% of the collapse space, which can fully resist the deformation caused by the side collision, and the NTP-whole package non-thermal propagation technology can also maximize the comfort of the battery's high and low temperature work, and can detect the safety status of the battery 24 hours a day, so that customers can travel without worry.
In terms of hybrid technology, Dongfeng Nissan also launched the DD-i super hybrid technology. You must know that between fuel vehicles and pure electric vehicles, there are still many users who choose plug-in hybrid models because of different travel scenarios, and the DD-i super hybrid technology carried by the Venucia series can always be cost-effective, and its industry-first low-temperature energy migration control technology can also solve the problem of limited engine power and limited power caused by the limited battery recharge capacity of plug-in hybrid models in low-temperature environments, so as to save power only fuel.
In terms of hydrogen energy, Dongfeng Nissan also has a layout, and its research and development of hydrogen-electric hybrid intelligent control system can make each kilogram of hydrogen can run 120km, which makes us look forward to the future of hydrogen energy vehicles.
In other words, the technology center is the support of its independent research and development capabilities, and it is also the confidence to achieve its grand goal of new energy.
Conclusion
Since its establishment in 2003, Dongfeng Nissan has had nearly 16 million user bases, covering a number of power tracks such as fuel, pure electric, oil-electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen energy, and has released many models that are well received by the market. And all this is inseparable from the R&D strength of Dongfeng Nissan Technology Center.
However, the author believes that the above is only the beginning of "technology Nissan" in the new energy era, with the increase of R&D investment and the passage of time, Dongfeng Nissan, which will implement the technology to the end, will surely bring us more leading new energy black technology and more trustworthy models.