The electrification process is accelerating. Can these traditional car companies stand the test?

For many car companies, 2020 is like a dividing line.

Before this, they always like to take 2020 as a key time point to test whether the flags set before have been realized, and most of these flags are related to the "new four modernizations" of automobiles, or to be exact, they are inseparable from the electrification process of automobile enterprises.

Traditional car companies have changed their thinking in an orderly way, and new car companies are sharpening their fists and overtaking in corners.

Recently, rumors about Apple building a car have been raging. According to reports, Apple's first electric car, Apple? The prototype of the car has been road tested in California, USA, and will be released in September 20021year, at least two years ahead of the previous forecast of 2023.

As one of the oligarchs in the field of science and technology, Apple has stepped onto the altar since the "Steve Jobs era", and every time a new product is released, it can always usher in an unprecedented wave of buying.

The reason why Apple can create myths, in the words of Jobs before his death, is that the difference between leaders and followers lies in innovation.

In fact, it is not surprising that Apple has extended its reach to the automotive industry. Because even if Apple doesn't make cars, our car life can't be separated from it. If any new car on the market does not have the function of Apple Carplay, it will definitely be abandoned by the times, at least by young users first, not to mention that many new cars have been equipped with smarter wireless Carplay.

Of course, building a car is not an easy task, and Tesla's myth is only once. However, when many enterprises are still talking about it, Evergrande, Baoneng and so on. They all started their own road of building cars, not to mention the process and achievements of building cars for the time being, but the state of swarming has shown that the automobile industry has entered a once-in-a-century period of great change, and the electrification process is irreversible.

Now, 2020 is coming to an end. What is the progress of the electrification process of those traditional car companies?

Volkswagen: the icing on the cake of ID. domestic

Although the public has recently fallen into a "palace fight", the electric vehicle strategy has not been affected at all. Moreover, at present, the electrification process of Volkswagen has been at the forefront of many traditional car companies.

First of all, judging from the new energy vehicles currently on sale, are there? There are Tan Yue GTE, Touareg eHybrid, golf pure electric, Wei Lan station wagon GTE and other 10 new energy vehicles, as well as a brand-new MEB pure electric platform.

Of course, the brand-new ID family car is the most eye-catching. As an important part of Volkswagen's future transformation and electrification, all members of the ID family have also appeared, including ID.3, ID.4 and more than ten models. Racing. The latest news from the ID family shows that the electrification process of the public is gradually accelerating.

General Motors: Electrification and Intelligent Multipoint Blooming

You can see farther if you have a wide field of vision. Gm obviously realized that this great change in the automobile industry involves more than electrification, so in the fields of electrification, car networking and autonomous driving, GM set off a huge revolution.

In March this year, GM released a brand-new Ultium battery and the third generation global electric vehicle platform, and will invest 20 billion US dollars in electric vehicles and self-driving cars between 2020 and 2025, and launch more than 20 new electric products within three years.

As for the China market, GM said that more than 40% of the new models to be launched in China in the next five years will be new energy vehicles, and 65,438+0,000% of these new energy vehicles will be made in China, and almost all parts will be purchased locally.

Maybe that's not enough. At the end of June, 165438+ General Motors increased its capital. In the next five years, 27 billion yuan will be invested in electric vehicles and autonomous driving, exceeding the fuel vehicle project. By the end of 2025, it will launch more than 30 pure electric vehicles around the world.

For speeding up the process of electrification and intelligence, GM can be described as drastic, and I believe that the style of multi-point flowering will certainly give birth to greater strength in the future.

Toyota: The latecomers come from behind.

Compared with German and American brands, the electrification process of Japanese brands is slightly slower, and Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, even expressed concern about accelerating the electrification process. However, under the dual pressure of energy consumption and policy, electrification has been recognized as the development direction of the future automobile industry. Therefore, this year Toyota also began to accelerate the electrification process in an all-round way.

At this year's Beijing Auto Show, Toyota launched three new energy vehicles in one breath, including C-HR? EV/ yize? E Jin Qing/Lexus UX? 300e, as well as e-Palette and the new FCEV“MIRAI? Concept "and other electrified vehicles. At the subsequent Guangzhou Auto Show, the high-performance versions of Fangrong Shuangqing E+ and Willanda also made their debut.

It is planned that by 2025, Toyota will introduce more than 65,438+00 pure electric products (including Lexus brand) to the China market, and achieve the global annual sales target of 5.5 million electric vehicles by 2025.

BMW: Accelerate the infrastructure construction of charging piles

In fact, BMW has always had a clear understanding of "reinventing itself". Whether it is Jackson Yee, the post-00 spokesperson who started the brand rejuvenation strategy, or unswervingly taking the road of electrification and digitalization, BMW has always kept a clear head and made accurate judgments.

2020 is called BMW's "New Energy Year", and BMW is at the forefront in product launch, charging network layout and digital services. At present, BMW has four pure tram models, iX, iX3, i8 and i3, and a variety of new energy vehicles, such as X 1 plug-in hybrid.

At the shareholders' meeting in May this year, Qi Puce, chairman of BMW Group, once said that BMW believes that various power drive systems will coexist for a long time in the future, so it will give its models four different drive forms: fuel, plug-in hybrid, pure electric and diesel. By 2023, BMW Group plans to expand its new energy product line to 25 models, half of which are pure electric vehicles.

By the end of this year, BMW will provide car owners with more than 270,000 charging piles, including 80,000 DC fast charging piles, and BMW's charging network will cover more than 50,000 kilometers of expressway.

Honda: the road to technology-driven electrification

Honda, the "technical house", was famous for its "sharp hybrid" energy saving and emission reduction in its early years. In the field of electrification, Honda also pays attention to technology research and development.

At this year's Beijing Auto Show, Honda launched a pure electric concept SUV? e:？ Concept, and as the world's first model debut. In addition, there is a brand-new one specially developed for China? CR-V？ Exercise? Half-breed? E+ is the first plug-in hybrid vehicle. Of course, on the core technology level of electric drive and hybrid power system, Honda brought SPORT based on i-MMD dual-motor hybrid power system. Mixed, sports? Half-breed? E+ and SPORT? EV .

In the future, by 2025, Honda will launch more than 20 electric vehicles in China. By 2030, the series of products that realize electrification will account for two-thirds of Honda's global car sales, of which electric car sales account for 65,438+05% and hybrid power accounts for 50%.

Due to the limitation of traditional car-making thinking and the long and huge system, the electrification of traditional car companies is more difficult than the new force of car-making. However, the traditional car companies headed by Volkswagen, GM and BMW let us see the super-high vision and action. I believe that when new energy vehicles occupy the highlands in the future, traditional car companies will definitely have a place.

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