Car lithium-ion battery is the core component of pure electric vehicles, Chinese manufacturers have been the leader in this field.Chinese government vigorously support the electric car industry, driven by huge domestic demand, Chinese enterprises have mastered the global market share of more than 60%, overwhelming Sexual advantages: Large Chinese companies are still preparing for huge investments, while Japanese companies have led the way in lithium-ion batteries, but Matsushita is still alone at the moment, while others are increasingly weak.
China's large-scale car lithium-ion battery business Ningde era of new energy technology shocks the mid-term concept put forward by the company, with 50GWh capacity by 2020, this figure is nearly 2 times the global demand.First, with Shanghai Automotive in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province Joint investment of 10 billion yuan to build an annual output of 10GWh factory.
According to a survey conducted by Yano Research Institute of Japan, Chinese manufacturers accounted for the largest share of the global automotive lithium-ion battery market with a market share of over 60% by 2016. Ranked No. 2 in Japan with a market share of over 20% and Korean companies with no To 10% .Japan Fujita Mitsui, a Japanese research firm, said: 'From the battery capacity shipped in 2016, Chinese manufacturers monopolized the top 5'.
China's national strategy of revitalizing electric vehicles poses a supportive policy for the expansion of enterprises, with China proposing to popularize 5 million new-energy vehicles such as pure electric vehicles by 2020. Following the talks with Britain and France, they started to discuss the future ban of gasoline vehicles. Survey shows that China accounted for 51% of the global sales of electric passenger cars.Most of these vehicles are considered equipped with a domestic battery, strong domestic demand for battery manufacturers constitute a support.
Targeted at China's demand, South Korea's LG Chem and Samsung SDI opened new plants in China in 2015. However, the Chinese government excluded them from subsidies and the new factory orders did not increase.
Prototypes of lithium-ion batteries were created by the Japanese, and Sony took the lead in global commercialization in 1991. Japanese companies have a large number of patents on materials and manufacturing processes that are superior through cutting-edge technologies that increase both energy density and safety.
Japan and the United States and Europe is facing the market for cutting-edge battery technology competition in passenger cars, Japan and South Korea enterprises basically monopolized the market.One of the Japanese companies, Panasonic also maintained a certain strength.Matsubishi cooperation with the United States Tesla in the United States to spend $ 5 billion to build a huge factory.Matsubishi invested heavily in the field of battery equipment investment in 2017 will also start a new factory in Dalian.
The Chinese government is also trying to break the Japan-South Korea advantage in this regard.
In order to improve the technological level of its domestic battery manufacturers, China announced its policy of providing subsidies for R & D of high-performance batteries in March. It hopes to cultivate domestic battery companies so that their products can be selected by Japan, the United States and the EU auto companies to overcome China's battery companies' Dominate the shortcomings of the German BMW recently decided to use the battery of the Ningde era, which may become a breakthrough into the traditional Japanese and Korean business sites.
Batteries determine the era of automotive competitiveness is approaching, related industries are also growing.If both in terms of scale and technology lag behind in China, Japanese companies will lose competitiveness, but to popularize electric vehicles, can not be separated is considered as the next generation The key elements of the all-solid-state battery, etc. The outcome of the competition is not over yet.