How high can the red flag fly?

Turn from Dongfeng Street in Changchun to Changqing Road, pass through a factory gate decorated in red brick style with the word "Red Flag" and enter the new factory area of Hongqi. It is said that this was once the place where the first Jetta and Audi rolled off the assembly line, but after nearly two years of transformation, it has become the H factory for manufacturing high-end models of Hongqi-almost all the factories are newly built except for the Soviet-style building exterior wall in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the minds of Hongqi people, this brand-new intelligent digital factory, which has just been built, will not be able to complete the second phase transformation of the assembly workshop until June+10 this year, and it will undertake the heavy responsibility of reviving Hongqi again and manufacturing China people's own high-end brands.

In fact, the take-off speed of Hongqi is much faster than most people think, and even the capacity transformation of 654.38 million vehicles in the second phase of the new factory has not been completed, which is a bit behind the market demand.

At this year's 1 month faw hongqi brand festival, Xu Liuping, chairman and party secretary of China faw group co., ltd, gave the sales targets of 200,000 hongqi brands in 2020, 400,000 in 2022 and 600,000 in 2025. At that time, it was estimated that most people had reservations about this goal, because in 20 19, although the sales volume of Red Flag increased by 200%, it was only 654.38+10,000 vehicles, which means it will double again in 2020.

The actual situation is that in the past seven months of 2020, FAW Hongqi rose against the trend, and the cumulative sales volume in the first seven months exceeded 87,500 units, an increase of 65,438+008% year-on-year. This was achieved without the listing of new cars. Therefore, Xu Liuping should be full of confidence in the sales expectation of Hongqi this year and the subsequent Hongqi brand models. In a recent speech, he said that "the sales volume of 202 1 Hongqi brand will double on the basis of this year", and he proposed that "the sales volume target of Hongqi brand will be raised to 500,000-600,000 vehicles on the basis of the original 400,000 vehicles in 2022 and 600,000 vehicles on the basis of the original 600,000 vehicles in 2025.

In other words, even if the sales volume affected by the epidemic does not reach 200,000 this year, it will approach 400,000 in 20021year, which is equivalent to reaching it one year ahead of the earlier plan.

So, what is the driving force for doubling the sales of Hongqi brand? On the surface, the reason is the continuous sales of Red Flag HS5 and H5, and the design of Red Flag H9 just listed has brought high turnover. However, on the New Hongqi Innovation and Technology Open Day, FAW Hongqi displayed a large number of technological innovations and R&D reserves that will be put on the market, which seems to be the deep answer.

Behind NBD, the new headquarters building of FAW Group, is a new R&D center. The new technology samples displayed in the corridor between the two buildings quickly attracted visitors' attention-the new electric intelligent networking technology platform FME platform, the new intelligent electronic and electrical technology platform architecture FEEA2.0, the horizontal dual-motor hybrid system, the high-power hydrogen fuel cell engine, the ultra-high-power CA 12GV60 engine, and the upcoming Hongqi E-HS9 pure electric luxury SUV. Most importantly, FAW Group emphasizes that the technology platform and power center shown above are independent intellectual property rights, which is the heaviest asset of FAW and the task undertaken by FAW as the "eldest son of China automobile industry".

Close contact with Hongqi E-HS9, this pure electric large luxury SUV with a length of 5.2m and a wheelbase of 365,438+065,438+00 mm adopts the new FME electric intelligent networked car platform developed by FAW. All the intellectual property rights of the key core technologies of this platform are in FAW's own hands, and a series of products can be developed on this platform. This platform can be equipped with self-developed battery packs ranging from 85kWh to 120kWh, with a cruising range of 700 kilometers, while the front and rear motors are 160 kW/245 kW respectively, which is also in the forefront of the world.

At the same time, FEEA2.0, the electronic and electrical platform architecture adopted by the whole vehicle, is also owned by FAW, which can provide 100 Mbps Ethernet bus connection, and realize the information transmission of the vehicle's internal lidar controller, L3/L4 autopilot controller, new energy vehicle controller, driving mode/all-terrain control and vehicle central gateway controller, so as to realize the OTA of the whole vehicle, meet the L3 level requirements of autopilot, and can be extended to some L4 levels.

In addition, a set of transverse dual-motor hybrid power system is also concerned. From the field introduction, this system is similar to Honda's i-MMD structure. The peak power of the driving motor can reach 140kW, 280n·m, and the integrated transmission with deceleration, acceleration, differential speed and parking device is adopted. Moreover, the high-power HEV battery system can realize 50C high-rate charge and discharge, and the power density is 1.5kW/L/. There is also a set of 100kW hydrogen fuel cell engine, which is more than that of Toyota Mirai, and is basically independently developed.

Not only that, in the HIL Lab, the first team in China to carry out research on automotive electronics technology and CAN bus technology, you can experience some interesting experimental projects that other car companies can't see, such as "dielectric-free holographic projection" that can only be seen in science fiction movies. This kind of projection can not only be seen, but also operated by touch. It is said that it can be used to replace liquid crystal instruments in the future. In addition, there is the first HIL vehicle simulation test-bed in China, which uses the display screen to display and simulate various road conditions, so that sensors and vehicle-mounted systems can learn independently, saving road test time and cost.

In terms of new energy development, FAW Group Research Institute has also invested heavily, including the 1 1 test bench in the motor drive laboratory, covering inverter, motor system reliability test, large torque test and electric drive system test. , and the only hybrid power system test-bed independently developed by domestic automobile enterprises.

In another power battery laboratory, there are only six complete test systems, which can simultaneously test the performance of 12 components and simulate the environment of -40 to 85 degrees. These hardware reflect FAW's huge investment in research and development.

Of course, in terms of traditional powertrain, FAW Group's technical reserves are beyond doubt. In addition to the only domestic V 12 cylinder mass production engine mentioned above, it also includes the only domestically developed V6? 3.0L supercharged engine, the third generation 2.0TD engine, supporting 420N m vertical 7-speed wet power shift, etc. It is enough to show that FAW Group is not without core technology as mentioned above.

Another surprise is that while tackling these powertrain technologies, the difficulty lies not only in the engineering level such as design and calibration, but also in the manufacturing level. Usually, many car companies in China were unable to solve the problem of high-precision manufacturing before. For example, if the micro-links such as camshaft hole of cylinder head, finish machining of DCT gearbox housing and DCT gear matching of V 12 engine cannot be manufactured independently, then independent research and development is impossible. Behind this is the innovation and tackling key problems of a large number of manufacturing craftsmen of FAW Group-some national skill masters have devoted themselves to decades, and some young post-70s technical engineers have worked tirelessly-and made breakthroughs in these little-known professional directions, such as CNC machining, shaft gear machining, electrical testing, body welding, and special vehicle restructuring.

With the accumulation of these technologies, Hongqi brand has enough confidence to compete with BBA for the market on behalf of China independent luxury brands. On the manufacturing level where consumers' perception is more obvious, the new Hongqi H factory has also invested heavily, adding a lot of advanced equipment and digital production processes.

A very innovative example is that the new Hongqi H factory has built a highly flexible and adaptable production chain, with AGV transshipment as the core, which can grow, cut, bifurcate, graft and transplant the production chain to cope with the flexibility of product capacity, without limiting vehicle types and stopping production. In the assembly workshop, we can see that in addition to the traditional skateboard production line, the secondary interior assembly line composed of AGV transfer vehicles is also running step by step. Here, replacing the traditional skateboard with AGV can replace the static inspection line, expand the production line, greatly improve the production efficiency and greatly reduce the area of the assembly workshop. According to the production staff of Hongqi, the whole assembly line will produce three models of Hongqi H9, Hongqi HS7 and Hongqi H7 because the second phase transformation has not yet been completed. In the future, the production capacity of E-HS9 will be saturated, so it is now possible to increase the production capacity through flexible expansion.

In addition, in terms of intelligence rate, intelligent stations in the assembly workshop account for more than 80% of all stations, and only AGV transfer vehicles reach 200; In the welding workshop, the automation rate of solder joint can reach 100%, and the automation rate of gluing can reach 97%. There are 285 robots alone. More interestingly, it is easy to notice that the new red-flag car is also "unconventional" in body painting, with various eye-catching colors, thanks to the most advanced multi-color painting technology and efficient and accurate unshielded automatic spraying technology adopted by the new factory, which can provide the application of two-color and multi-color personalized painting-even any pattern that customers want can be printed on the body.

From the new Hongqi H factory to the new research institute of FAW Group, after reading FAW's investment in Hongqi, we can clearly perceive the powerful strength of the eldest son of China automobile industry in benchmarking global luxury brands-not only research and development, but also manufacturing capacity, which is the key to the comprehensive revival of Hongqi brand.

In fact, the rise of 20 19 Red Flag is probably only the first stage of its new process, and the products are still in a relatively traditional division. Starting from the red flag H9 in 2020, the market has already seen the real strength of the red flag. Presumably, with the emergence of pure electric vehicles such as Hongqi E-HS9, Hongqi will become more and more popular in 202 1.

Wen | Liu

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