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Nanwang Electric Vehicle Co., LTD, Putian and BYD jointly built and operated minle P+R charging station, the largest fast charging station in China. John wong was taken

New energy vehicle parking space and intelligent charging socket located in liuzhou Classic times residential area. Photo by South Net media reporter Han Xiaotong

Editor's note: At present, the development of China's new energy vehicle industry can be described as in full swing. Relevant statistics show that as of June this year, the number of new-energy vehicles in China reached 3.44 million, up 72.85% year on year. The number of charging piles exceeded 1 million, up 69.3 percent year on year.

As a central enterprise in the energy industry, China Southern Power Grid Corporation has been actively engaged in the construction of charging infrastructure in the five provinces and autonomous regions of South China in recent years, continuously integrating electric vehicle charging service platform to serve the development of new energy vehicle industry. Shenzhen, the frontier city of reform and opening up, and Liuzhou, the old city of automobile industry, explore a unique mode of new energy vehicle development according to local conditions, and China Southern Power Grid Company is an important participant and promoter. Recently, all media reporters from Southnet Media visited Shenzhen and Liuzhou to explore the development of new energy vehicles.

Liuzhou model

Linkage between government and enterprise is key

Recently, the reporter walked into Liuzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the streets can be seen a small new energy vehicles, this car is smaller than other cars, affectionately called by the local people "small E", "small E" is Baojun E100, E200, produced by the local car enterprises of Liuzhou SAIC-GM-Wuling.

In the second half of 2019, new energy vehicles officially entered the "post-subsidy era". In the context of the cancellation of local subsidies and the overall withdrawal of subsidies in 2020, the low-cost advantage of new energy vehicles is no longer. The "Liuzhou mode" with government-enterprise linkage as the core, its innovative ideas, practices and valuable experience in the promotion and application of new energy vehicles can be copied, promoted and borrowed, which has reference significance for the promotion and development of new energy vehicles in the "post-subsidy era". In a short period of two years, the "Liuzhou model" has achieved remarkable results, with the market penetration rate of new energy vehicles rising from 9.7% in 2017 to 27.7%, which makes Liuzhou, as a representative city of the third and fourth tier, a city that has completed the national planning target of 20% new energy vehicles ahead of schedule.

Insight into user needs

Liuzhou is a medium-sized city, and unlike Beijing and Shanghai, the implementation of restrictions and other measures, but the number of new energy vehicles in the city has reached 48,000, what is the meaning of it? Through field investigation, the reporter found that the "Liuzhou model" was created by the product, preferential and convenient policies and the active cooperation between government and enterprises.

Dong Yang, former executive vice President of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, once summed up the successful experience of "Liuzhou Model" in an interview with the media: First, adhere to market orientation, develop models that have real market demand and can give full play to the advantages of electric power, instead of blindly increasing mileage and seeking subsidies; Second, take the user as the center, carefully investigate and study, formulate policies and measures to facilitate the promotion of electric vehicles from various aspects, and implement them effectively; Third, close cooperation between the government and enterprises.

Since 2017, Liuzhou has innovatively established a "three-level linkage working mechanism between government and enterprise" to explore a new mode of integration between promotion and application of new energy vehicles and industrial development -- "Liuzhou Mode" : the government and local auto companies work closely to develop models suitable for urban use with advantages of electric vehicles and technical expertise of enterprises; At the same time, efforts will be made from the purchase of license plates, right of road, parking convenience, charging facilities construction, electricity price concessions and other aspects to jointly plan the overall layout of the new energy industry and ecological application environment construction.

Under this train of thought, wuling launched is defined as a "family" in the second car baojun new energy vehicles "E", this kind of car body flexible, open good stop, and the cost is very low, power consumption is only 100 kilometers 10 degrees, take only about 6 cents per kilometer, which makes the family the second car, successfully entered the city residents family. "Our family has a gas car, which can meet the needs of us to drive a long distance home occasionally. After buying a small E, my husband and I can both have a car to drive to work." Liuzhou citizen Ms Wang said with a smile to the reporter, "Since the small E, because it is small and economical parking, my husband and I are scrambling to drive it."

In fact, it is not easy to explore the urban new energy ecology. In order to verify users' use scenarios of new energy vehicles, SAIC-GM-Wuling has invested nearly 7,000 new energy experience vehicles in Liuzhou since October 2016, and completed in-depth product experience for more than 29,000 people.

By allowing users to experience and feel directly, saIC-GM-Wuling takes advantage of the product's outstanding convenience advantage. By cultivating personal users' habit of using new energy vehicles, SAIC-GM-Wuling allows more families to benefit from this mode of travel, thus recognizing the "Liuzhou Mode".

The priority of "Liuzhou Model" also lies in government support. The establishment of special parking Spaces for electric vehicles, new energy subsidies and so on are behind the government's shadow. In order to promote electric vehicles, the Liuzhou municipal government specially established the Liuzhou New energy vehicle promotion and application and infrastructure construction leading group to rapidly promote the formulation and implementation of new energy vehicle promotion policies. According to a staff member of liuzhou Industry and Information Bureau, more than 20 civil servants were transferred from the government to work with enterprise personnel and experts in the early days of policy formulation.

And application as a new energy vehicles liuzhou liuzhou power supply bureau and infrastructure construction leading group members, has been deeply involved in city new energy development, strengthen the planning and cohesion, overall planning, focus on new energy vehicles upstream and downstream enterprises service, intensify the charging infrastructure investment construction, pave the way for development of new energy industry. In 2019, Liuzhou Power Supply Bureau has completed and put into operation 6 substations of 110kV and above, such as Guantang, Shuangren and Nanzhai, forming a double ring network, three power supply and one standby medium voltage backbone network with high reliability. Meanwhile, aiming at the development of the new District, liuzhou Power Supply Bureau has put forward a forward-looking power grid plan that 16 substations will be put into operation in liudong New District in 2050.

Power Board helps crack 'range anxiety'

Citizens open new energy vehicles on the road, many people are particularly afraid of new energy vehicles open to run out of electricity. How to beat "range anxiety"? Liuzhou Power Supply Bureau as early as liuzhou new energy vehicles officially sold 7 years ago, to liuzhou citizens to eat a "reassuring".

In August 2010, liuzhou tanzhong ELECTRIC vehicle charging station, the first electric vehicle charging station in Liuzhou, was constructed and officially put into operation on November 22 of the same year. The charging station is equipped with four chargers and two charging piles, which can charge eight electric cars at the same time. It only takes half an hour to choose quick charging.

"At that time, Liuzhou had not even produced the first electric car, and the pioneering charging station only aroused the curiosity of some citizens and not many people actually used it. But thanks to the existence of this charging station, citizens felt safe and bold to use new energy vehicles in the future." Liuzhou Power Supply Bureau power supply service center, responsible for electricity saving management introduced ding Huixian. Under her guidance, the reporter opened the "South Grid Bagui Charge", a public charging service and supervision platform contracted by Guangxi Power Grid. On the "South Grid Bagui Charge", it can be seen that the map of Liuzhou is densely packed with charging stations and piles, which is obviously more dense than other cities.

Aiming at protecting the "ecological energy circle" of Liuzhou automobile City, Liuzhou Power Supply Bureau vigorously strengthens the power grid guarantee capacity, speeds up the construction of charging facilities, creates a "ten-minute charging circle", and fully supports the development of liuzhou new energy automobile industry.

At present, there are 14 enterprises constructing and operating various charging facilities in Liuzhou city, including 235 charging stations and 1,841 charging piles. Liuzhou Power Supply Bureau invested and built 774 charging piles, accounting for 42.04% of the city's total, and is still the "leader" of charging facilities construction enterprises in Liuzhou.

The charging stations invested by Liuzhou Power Supply Bureau are not only in quantity but also in quality. Hexi and Liubei integrated energy service stations were put into trial operation on July 18 and 21 respectively. It is the first comprehensive energy service station in Guangxi with the most advanced charging function, the most charging parking Spaces and the most complete service functions. Hexi Comprehensive energy service station alone can charge new energy vehicles 200 times a day, relieving the "range anxiety" of new energy owners to a certain extent. In addition, the south grid electric vehicle company will also start construction of dongfeng Liuqi Liudong base, the east side of the Baisha Bridge, Bailian Airport, Yihe Tiancheng, the west side of the Guangya Bridge, lotus passenger station and other six rapid charging stations, is expected to be completed and put into operation before September 30. These measures have strongly supported the development of liuzhou new energy vehicle industry.

South net media all media reporter Han Xiaotong correspondent Zou Zhenyuan

Shenzhen model

Policy support + market drive

At 4 PM on August 9, the lianhuashan charging station in Shenzhen was full of cars, with all 50 charging piles charging electric vehicles. Outside the station there is a long queue of vehicles, only waiting for the station as soon as there is a vehicle out of the drive.

Such busy scenes are the norm. By the end of 2018, the number of new energy vehicles in Shenzhen had reached nearly 220,000, ranking first in China. The city's buses and taxis have been fully electrized, and the comprehensive electrization of logistics, sanitation and muck vehicles is gradually advancing. Clean and environmentally friendly new energy vehicles not only improve shenzhen's air quality and create a suitable living environment, but also promote the coordinated development of the industrial chain. The "Shenzhen model" of the development of the new energy vehicle industry has gone to the whole country.

Effective policies to activate the development engine of new energy vehicles

Similar to the development process of many emerging industries, the early development of new energy vehicles in China also needs strong policy support.

In 2009, thousands of energy-saving and new energy vehicles demonstration and application project was launched in ten cities of China. By providing financial subsidies, it is planned to develop 10 cities every year in about three years, and launch 1,000 new energy vehicles in each city for demonstration operation.

Shenzhen became one of the first 13 cities to participate in the project. Shenzhen's 12th Five-Year Plan clearly focuses on the development of new energy automobile industry and lists it as an important part of shenzhen's strategic emerging industry. In the government's plan, the electrification of public transport has become a priority area. Byd, which started out as a battery company, started making electric cars and quickly became an industry leader. A group of enterprises such as Putian, Aotexun and China Southern Power Grid began to enter the field of charging piles. Whether it is building cars or piles, the government can offer firms hefty subsidies. Byd, for example, received a total of 6.968 billion yuan in government subsidies from 2011 to 2018, the Beijing News reported.

In addition to funds, Shenzhen has established a high-level temporary agency to coordinate the jurisdiction, relevant departments and relevant enterprises to solve the problems encountered in the promotion process. In particular, it has taken inclined support measures in coordinating the construction of supporting charging stations, including land support and station construction coordination. In the construction of charging stations, Shenzhen Transport Commission and China Southern Power Grid Corporation have studied and explored new models. The model of "substation + charging station" was initiated in China, that is, the substation land space was deeply explored to build charging stations, and the problems of pile construction and charging in metropolises with increasingly limited land resources were solved. The "parking lot + charging" model will be promoted, and charging stations will be built on existing large parking lots to improve the utilization efficiency of public resources.

Shenzhen government to promote new energy vehicles can be described as "start from me". Wang Rong, former secretary of shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, took BYD electric car to and from work every day when he was in charge of Shenzhen, and required official cars to take the lead in using new energy vehicles, which would not affect official business and pollute the environment less, but also contribute to promoting the development of new energy vehicle enterprises, which can be described as the beauty of all three.

By 2018, Shenzhen will be the first city in the world to fully electrify buses and taxis. Now, fuel taxis are almost invisible in Shenzhen. "The electric car is also comfortable to drive, with fast acceleration from the start and an overall experience as good as or better than a petrol car." Shenzhen West Lake taxi company driver Ma Chaoqun said.

Form market industry chain to resist pressure together

Last year, China's auto production and sales declined for the first time year-on-year, but the production and sales of new energy vehicles increased 59.9% and 61.7% respectively in the same period. The industry has been cultivated, the big hand of policy control to slowly tighten. In June this year, the new subsidy policy came into effect. Overall, vehicles are subsidized to retrograde and switch to charging facilities.

Many insiders remain optimistic about the development prospects of the new energy vehicle industry. Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD, believes that "the growth rate of new energy vehicles will slow down a little this year, but the annual growth rate of 40% will still be there, and BYD's growth rate will reach 70%-80%". In the long run, under the guidance and support of national strategy, the high-speed growth of China's auto market will not slow down.

In fact, when the subsidy policy was released in March, major new energy vehicle companies, including GAC, BYD and NIO, said they would not raise prices after the subsidy was withdrawn. The resulting vehicle cost pressure, by vehicle, battery, materials and other whole industry chain to jointly reduce costs and increase efficiency to deal with.

In particular, as the core components of new energy vehicles, the power battery, the pressure to reduce costs highlights. The decline in battery profits has become an inevitable trend. But even so, living without subsidies and improving their profitability is an irreversible market law. Battery giant Ningde Times chairman Zeng Yuqun said, although the subsidy will have a certain impact, but the follow-up double integral policy, coupled with the development of power battery technology, is promoting the electric vehicle as a market commodity gradually mature, there are some twists and turns in the middle process is inevitable.

And for pile enterprises, subsidies to this tilt is a good opportunity to speed up development. Founded in March, The Shenzhen-based Company continues to plow deep into the market. Zou Dazhong, chairman of the company, believes that in the overall situation of "more cars and less piles", the layout and construction of charging piles still have no small market demand. In addition, Shenzhen has unparalleled advantages in the whole industry chain of new energy vehicles. "Shenzhen is one of the best cities in the world in the research and development of car and pile core technology."

In general, shenzhen's new energy vehicle development model of "policy + market" has been formed and is in the forefront of the country. From the current situation, the market of new energy vehicles is still vast, and other cities across the country more or less adopt this model to cultivate and guide market development and resident consumption. New energy vehicles have undoubtedly made an effort to create a green and low-carbon environment for the city, and every resident is a participant and a beneficiary.