GAC New Energy Gu Huinan: Achieve annual sales of 200,000 in 2020

It is a blessing to make new energy vehicles in China because the market capacity is huge; but it is also very hard to make new energy vehicles in China because the competition is fierce.

In the past year, 777,000 electric vehicles were sold in the Chinese market, and this year is expected to break the 1 million mark, firmly ranking first in the world. Although the US electric vehicle market grew by 440% last year, its total sales were only 263,000 vehicles.

Faced with such a huge market, almost all car manufacturers have begun to roll up their sleeves and work hard, launching 11 new models by the end of March this year alone.

It is gratifying that among these 11 new cars, 9 are from domestic brands. After continuously expanding its territory in the traditional fuel vehicle market, China has also started the "China speed" in the new energy vehicle industry. It is foreseeable that in the future, domestic brands will occupy the absolute dominant position in the entire Chinese new energy market.

The Chinese market has a huge capacity, but the competition is also fierce. Among the many new models, which one can stand out? The Trumpchi GE3 pure electric SUV has given the answer with its continuous sales champion.

From consecutive sales champions to annual sales of 200,000

It was the sales champion in January and February, and its sales in March increased by 60% month-on-month, making it the sales champion of pure electric SUVs of the same level in the first quarter of the country.

It is hard to imagine that in a market like China with so many strong competitors, Trumpchi actually won head-on with its sales volume.

In the view of Gu Huinan, managing director of GAC New Energy Co., Ltd., this is just a natural thing, because the brand, technology and power of GE3 are among the best in the same class.

Saying goodbye to yesterday's glory is just to open up tomorrow's brightness. Gu Huinan is a Chinese expert in fuel engines, but now he has plunged into the field of new energy vehicles.

At yesterday's media meeting, Gu Huinan spoke quickly and bluntly, saying that today's sales champion is just the starting point for GAC New Energy. With the completion of the GAC Intelligent Connected New Energy Industrial Park with an investment of 45 billion yuan, the goal of annual production and sales of 200,000 new energy vehicles will be achieved.

Behind the sales champion is GAC New Energy’s early layout

Gu Huinan also revealed that GAC New Energy’s own battery factory is also under construction and will be put into commercial operation within three years.

At present, the batteries of GAC New Energy Vehicles are sourced from CATL, a world-leading Chinese battery company. This shows that GAC New Energy has already started early layout in the battery part of the three core components of new energy vehicles. Moreover, according to 91che (x91play), the battery factory laid out by GAC New Energy is very likely to be the most advanced new ternary lithium battery.

According to Gu Huinan, the Trumpchi GE3 new energy vehicle uses the most advanced ternary lithium battery currently available, and it only takes 30 minutes to fully charge to 80% using a 120kw fast charging station.

After 2020, the new ternary lithium battery will be able to shorten this time further. Using a 240kw charging station, the entire vehicle battery can be fully charged to 80% in just 20 minutes.

Gu Huinan also said that in the second half of this year, GAC New Energy's electric vehicles will be able to achieve a range of 300km, and a range of 500km will become a reality in the next one or two years.

If batteries are the primary factor affecting new energy vehicles, then charging piles are the secondary factor.

According to official statistics, at the end of 2017, the total number of charging facilities in my country was 446,000, but the number of new energy vehicles reached 1.729 million. The 4:1 ratio between cars and charging piles has formed a major contradiction in the industry. What is more noteworthy is that among the less than 500,000 charging piles, there are a large number of slow charging piles, faulty piles, and zombie piles that are idle due to different standards.

In this regard, Gu Huinan said that the infrastructure construction of charging piles has a huge impact on the development of the entire industry. It is very important to accelerate the national coordinated planning and construction of charging infrastructure, which requires coordination and unification at the national level.

In fact, Gu Huinan's insight into the industry coincides with the coordination direction of relevant national departments. Recently, the National Energy Administration issued the "Guiding Opinions on Energy Work in 2018". The opinions show that in 2018, my country plans to build 600,000 charging piles, including 100,000 public charging piles and 500,000 private charging piles. It is planned that by 2020, more than 12,000 new centralized charging and swapping stations and more than 4.8 million decentralized charging piles will be added to meet the charging needs of 5 million electric vehicles nationwide.

When the problems of batteries and charging piles are solved, China's new energy vehicle industry represented by GAC New Energy will surely take an important step and move to a new level.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.