On August 15, BAIC New Energy EU5 was officially listed in the North China region. Taking this as an opportunity, BAIC New Energy comprehensively summarized the gains of the past nine years and shared the strategic thinking and planning of the company's future. Deputy Secretary of BAIC New Energy Party Committee, Lian Qingfeng, a spokesperson, said: 'EU5 has opened a new era of artificial intelligence for BAIC New Energy. It is the best summary of the new car manufacturing experience of Beiqi New Energy for 9 years. It is also a new starting point for the future journey of BAIC New Energy. The development process plays an extremely important role. '
Deputy Secretary of BAIC New Energy Party Committee, spokesperson Lian Qingfeng delivered a speech
At the press conference, Li Yixiu, deputy general manager of BAIC New Energy and general manager of marketing company, also explained the highlights of EU5 products to the guests. According to reports, EU5 is divided into two different versions of R500 and R550. The R500 has a working life of 416 kilometers. , the speed of 520 kilometers at a constant speed; R550's working condition is 460 kilometers, and the speed is 570 kilometers at a constant speed. The national unified price after EU5 subsidy is 129,900-1,600,000 yuan.
Five major projects, opening up the innovative development of 'Beiqi Road'
Looking back on the entrepreneurial journey in the past nine years, Lian Qingfeng said with emotion: 'In these years, Beiqi New Energy took electricization as a breakthrough, focused on technological innovation, continuously improved the user experience, comprehensively improved customer value, and embarked on a new energy vehicle. The 'Beiqi Road' that has grown rapidly in the enterprise. Specifically, we have implemented five major projects around technological innovation.
The first major 'engineering' is to promote the connection between technological innovation and real productivity, and to advance the technological process. On the technical level, BAIC New Energy has experienced the basic research phase of 2009-2012, the architectural phase of 2013-2015, and In the nine years, Beiqi New Energy has built a global R&D system in six countries and eight places, gathered more than 1,600 R&D personnel, mastered more than 2,000 patent technologies, and created a new forward development platform. The release of the 'Hummingbird Project' and the 'Darwin System' set off the banner for the advancement of new energy vehicles.
Beiqi New Energy's second largest 'engineering' around technological innovation is to promote technological innovation and market docking, orderly leading market demand. At the product level, based on market research, market strategy, product definition, overall consideration, Beiqi New Energy It has launched six series of more than ten products, such as EC, EV, EX, EU, EH, LITE, etc. It is the pure electric vehicle enterprise with the most complete product categories and the largest number of products. The EU5 issuance in the North China region has been running at a constant speed. Up to 570 kilometers, not only the mileage is comparable to the fuel car, but also a huge leap in quality and smart technology. High-quality products, bringing outstanding performance to BAIC New Energy, public data shows that BAIC New Energy has been in China for five consecutive years Pure electric vehicle sales champion, and won the global pure electric vehicle sales champion in 2017. From January to July 2018, BAIC New Energy continued to win the championship with 60,631 vehicles.
Promote the connection between science and technology innovation and industry, and establish a new format of cross-industry cooperation. This is the third largest 'engineering' of Beiqi New Energy around technological innovation. The first power-changing mode of BAIC New Energy in the industry has been successful in the taxi field. Promotion, after the strategic upgrade of Optimus Prime's plan, in 2018, the car-electric value separation business model was launched, opening a new era of private exchange. At the same time, the launch of the shared travel platform 'light travel' has covered 12 cities. It has 10,000 vehicles and more than 120,000 registered members.
The fourth largest 'engineering' is to promote technological innovation and mass innovation, and deep integration of entrepreneurship, bringing inexhaustible power for the development of the industry. In the past 9 years, Beiqi New Energy and Ningde era, Fueng Technology, Baidu, Bosch, Harman The close cooperation of industry chain partners and collaborative innovation have boosted a number of new energy vehicle core component suppliers with a valuation of 100 billion in Ningde era into unicorn enterprises in their respective fields. At the same time, BAIC New Energy has also introduced university research institutes. The strength of the core technology research and development capabilities. In addition, BAIC New Energy is also actively building an ecosystem, and cooperate with Magna, Conduit and other companies to achieve alliances in the fields of autonomous driving, intelligent network, big data and lightweight. Development. In 2018, BAIC New Energy led the establishment of the National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center, which attracted BYD, Geely and other leading vehicle companies, industrial chain members, university research institutes and social capital. A total of 21 units participated in the joint construction.
The fifth major project is to promote the deep integration of technological innovation and institutional mechanism innovation, and form a long-term guarantee. In the past 9 years, BAIC New Energy has attached great importance to party building work, and has adhered to party leadership and strengthened party building as the 'root' of enterprises. At the same time, we will further promote the pilot reform of state-owned enterprises and build a modern enterprise system. BAIC New Energy is the first new energy automobile company in China to complete the shareholding system transformation. It is the first to initiate and deepen the reform of mixed ownership, actively pilot employee stocks, and promote corporate restructuring. Listing, and is expected to become the first share of China's new energy vehicles.
Six upgrades, from 'have no' to 'good'
In the face of the uncertain future of the post-subsidy era, Lian Qingfeng said: 'After nine years of hard work, Beiqi New Energy has completed a transition from scratch. Today, Beiqi New Energy gradually shifts from solving 'have no' Pay attention to 'good', through technology upgrades, product upgrades, quality upgrades, service upgrades, brand upgrades and ecological upgrades, and strive to build a world-class new energy vehicle technology innovation center and build a world-class new energy vehicle company.
In terms of technology upgrade, BAIC New Energy will take the opportunity of the construction of the National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center to seize the commanding heights of global new energy vehicle technology innovation, and build the new energy science and technology innovation center into the technological innovation source of the world's new energy vehicles. Land, open and integrated demonstration of innovation, and the gathering of high-end talent.
In terms of product upgrades, in the second half of this year, BAIC New Energy will launch the pure electric SUV with the vehicle artificial intelligence EX5. In addition, BAIC New Energy will also launch the A0-class pure electric crossover model EX3, and the latest upgraded version of the EC series. EC3, for the majority of consumers to bring more rich and diverse green wisdom to travel new options.
In terms of quality upgrade, Daimler has become one of the shareholders of BAIC New Energy. In the future, the two sides will play their respective advantages in new energy vehicle technology and market operation to achieve win-win cooperation. At the same time, BAIC Group has cooperated with McGonagall. Natal officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. In the future, the two parties will jointly work on the development of a new generation of intelligent pure electric vehicles, and jointly promote the development of new energy automobile industry in China and the world.
In terms of service upgrade, BAIC New Energy has successfully launched the business model of separation of vehicle power value and is the first to promote its operation in Beijing. The launch of the separation model of vehicle power value marks the entry of BAIC New Energy Optimus Prime into the 2.0 stage. In the stage, BAIC New Energy will radiate from Beijing, Xiamen and other cities as the center, set up a public travel operation platform, a cascade of energy storage and operation platform and regional energy Internet.
In terms of brand upgrade, in addition to continuing to cultivate the increasingly mature BJEV brand, BAIC New Energy will also improve the brand structure, gather the high-end resources of BAIC Group and the society, and strive to cultivate the high-end brand – ARCFOX, to lead the new energy vehicle brand in China. Break through.
In terms of ecological upgrading, BAIC New Energy will cooperate with Ningde era, Singularity, Brilliance and other strategic partners to promote deep cooperation in the vertical direction of the industry chain, while also actively exploring Internet companies such as Keda Xunfei, Baidu, Xiaomi, etc. Chain cross-border fusion.
From Beiqi New Energy's thinking and layout of the future, it is not difficult to find that the EU5, which opens a new era of vehicle artificial intelligence for enterprises, represents its comprehensive improvement in design, technology, quality and experience. Starting from EU5, BAIC New Energy will be the majority. Consumers offer pure electric vehicles with more affordable prices, higher technology content and more modern aesthetics. The future of Beiqi New Energy will also accelerate the electrification, intelligence, networking, and sharing of the 'four modernizations'. Convergence, occupying the product design, technology, quality and experience commanding heights. Through 9 years of solid accumulation, Beiqi New Energy, standing at a new starting point, will have sufficient strength to continue to lead the Chinese pure electric vehicle industry in the future. Innovative breakthroughs, contributing to the realization of the Chinese dream of new energy vehicles.