Suzhou Jinlong builds a new energy automotive industry chain

The reporter learned from Jinlong United Automotive Industry (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. that since January of next year, the company will implement two new energy automobile project constructions: First, it will cooperate with the School of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University to establish the Tsinghua-Haige New Energy Bus Institute. , professionally research and develop all kinds of new energy vehicles; secondly, cooperate with Suzhou Chuangyuan Investment and Development Group Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee to establish Haig New Energy Electric Drive Co., Ltd. as a production base, and the target will be formed in Suzhou by 2015. Annual production capacity and industrial chain of 3,000 units of new energy buses .

It is reported that currently in China, new energy vehicle power technology is divided into four categories: hybrid, pure electric, fuel cells, and hydrogen internal combustion engines. Among them, the first three categories are the fastest growing and mature, and Suzhou Golden Dragon is one of the important representatives. In June of this year, a purely electric bus and a hybrid bus developed and manufactured by its own company have passed the appraisal of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Transport and were put into trial operation in urban buses in Beijing and Kunming. The current results are good. Two other hybrid buses are also scheduled to be put into trial operation in the Suzhou Bus. Based on this, some people think that the launch of the two projects of Suzhou Jinlong marks that Suzhou will become one of the future industrial bases for new energy vehicles in China.

Insight into opportunities

At the beginning of its establishment, it aimed at the new energy bus industry

Entering Suzhou Jinlong, which is located on Suhong East Road in the Industrial Park, we saw a spacious and open factory site. Neatly parked a variety of passenger cars of different types and colors. These passenger cars have marks on them or a travel company. Or a school, etc. According to the relevant personnel of the company, these vehicles have already been “branded”, and the production tasks in the factory have been released until the end of next year.

Suzhou Jinlong is a coach manufacturing company established in 1998 by Xiamen Golden Dragon and Suzhou Chuangyuan Investment and Development Group Co., Ltd. The existing total assets of 2.5 billion yuan, 3,280 employees, with an annual output of more than 50 categories, 300 varieties, 22,000 large and medium-sized passenger cars and chassis capacity, 20 patents. Relying on modern management methods and concepts, in 2008, Suzhou Jinlong Bus sales reached 16,454 units, achieving sales of 5.16 billion yuan. Among them, 3,321 exported, involving 65 countries and regions, totaling 200 million U.S. dollars. Earlier this year, Suzhou Dragon's Haig brand was valued at 7.116 billion yuan, as assessed by the World Brand Laboratory. The research and development of new energy buses was started in the late 1990s.

In 1998, when the company was just established, Suzhou Jinlong established the development direction of occupying the high ground of the new energy bus industry. In the second year, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University established a consortium of production, research, and research to develop and manufacture pure electric buses. At the end of the year, 12 pure electric minibuses made by the company were operating on the campus of Tsinghua University. In 2002, it cooperated with Shanghai Jiaotong University and other companies in the trial production of hybrid buses. At that time, it achieved the results and won the title of high-tech products in Jiangsu Province. In 2006, we worked together with Shanghai Jiaotong University and other units to develop the first domestic hydrogen fuel cell bus and hybrid bus. In March of last year, the cooperation with Tsinghua University yielded further results, developed the second generation of hydrogen fuel cell buses, and won the CIBC New Energy Green Bus Award. In June of this year, a pure electric bus and a hybrid electric bus produced by it passed a series of performance tests at the highway auto testing ground of the Beijing Ministry of Communications. Today, it has been put into two major cities, Beijing and Kunming. City test run. Recently, two hybrid vehicles will be put into trial operation in Suzhou Bus.

The relevant person in charge of Suzhou Jinlong believes that the launch of the two new energy bus projects is to develop results, seize the commanding heights of the industry, and expand new space. It is reported that these two new projects include: recruiting R & D personnel, and invest 18 million yuan to purchase new energy buses R & D, testing, testing equipment, the establishment of Haig electric vehicle R & D team, to provide technical support for the industrialization of various new energy buses; Invested 15 million yuan to set up the “Tsinghua-Haige New Energy Bus Research Institute”. Jointly established Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Dongguan New Energy Technology to establish “Haeger New Energy Bus R&D Center” to fully master the core technologies of new energy vehicles; and Suzhou Chuangyuan Investment Co., Ltd. cooperated with the Administrative Committee of Industrial Parks to establish “Haeger New Energy Electric Drive Co., Ltd.” as a production base. By 2015, it will form an annual production capacity of 3,000 new energy buses and integrate the current industries in Suzhou. , corporate resources, to create a new energy automotive industry chain.

Winning magic

11 00 technical personnel + core technology

The data shows that at present, with the growing shortage of oil resources, new energy vehicles are hot spots in various countries. China started its development in 2001. Through the 863 project, it invested capital and manpower in researching and developing new energy vehicle technologies, and organized automobile groups such as FAW, Dongfeng, Chang'an and Chery, as well as major universities and colleges to set up technical topics related to new energy vehicles to tackle scientific research problems. After this type of car is expensive, such as electric vehicles more than 2 million yuan each, and there are still some problems in the motor, battery and other technologies, has not been promoted. In January of this year, the State proposed a subsidy fund for financial arrangements in the “Regulations for the Promotion and Adjustment of the Automobile Industry” to support the demonstration and promotion of energy-saving and new energy vehicles. For example, the maximum per-subsidy for hybrid buses is RMB 420,000, the subsidies for pure electric vehicles and fuel-cell buses are up to RMB 500,000 and RMB 600,000, respectively. In the same month, “The launch of the pilot work on demonstration and promotion of energy-saving and new energy vehicles was released. The "News" selected 13 pilot cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Changchun as pilot sites. After the "Ten Cities One Thousand Vehicles" program, new energy buses became the hottest darling in the industry overnight.

Today, almost all passenger car companies and their local governments are “quickly starting” and come up with their own new energy bus program. For example, in Beijing in March this year, Beiqi Foton as a base established the New Energy Automobile Industry Alliance; Hefei built the Hefei New Energy Vehicle Base with Jianghuai Group as the leader. Nantong and Changzhou, which are located in the periphery of Suzhou, also introduced relevant promotion policies. "Live in" this competition, can Suzhou Golden Dragon get a share of it? "Can, and the obvious advantages!" Said Chen Lijian, director of Suzhou Golden Dragon Technology Center.

The first is technical strength. At present, the development of domestic new energy vehicle technology is more mature is the pure electric, hybrid, fuel cell three categories, and these three types of Suzhou Golden Dragon involved in the past research and development, not only have experience, but also have a certain strength. "At that time, because only knowing that developing new energy vehicles was the direction and did not know which one was the most appropriate, it was involved in the development of new energy vehicles in various fields. Today, this experience has laid two foundations for us: First, to cultivate A team of talents, the company currently has more than 1,100 related technical personnel, has various types of scientific research talents from technology to industrialization; Second, it has established a number of long-term cooperation, high-efficiency colleges and research institutes, providing for future development. Technical support.” At the same time, the fastest growing and most popular promotion is the hybrid electric vehicle. The power system of this car consists of three parts: motor, battery, and vehicle controller. Among them, the vehicle controller is the core, it is like the brain of the vehicle. It is responsible for the battery, the working state of the motor during the running of the vehicle, energy recovery during braking and coasting, fault diagnosis and alarm functions. Having mastered the vehicle controller, you can independently select the battery and the motor to achieve the best match of functions. The one owned by Suzhou Golden Dragon is this one.

Followed by the policy space. This year, the country has successively introduced a number of preferential policies for the development of new energy vehicles. In particular, on December 9th, the "Ten Thousand Cities" plan was extended from the original 13 cities to 20 cities. In the new round of development in Suzhou, energy saving and emission reduction and vigorously cultivating new industries are key. Under this background, Suzhou Jinlong’s superiority and strength in this industry not only has strong support, but also coincides with the direction of regional economic development, which is conducive to driving the integration of related resources of batteries and motors around Suzhou to form a new energy automobile industrial chain. ,cut costs.

At present, Suzhou Jinlong is currently undertaking six new energy bus R&D projects:

- Collaborating with Tsinghua University and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore to develop a 12-meter hydrogen fuel cell bus. The company plans to launch 20 demonstration lines of TRANSIT bus company in Singapore in April next year.

——Cooperate with Shanghai Ruihua Group to develop a 12-meter tourist bus as a prototype for Shanghai World Expo.

——30 cars of 8m pure electric buses will be produced as vehicles for the Macau Tour Demonstration Line.

——Cooperate with Beijing Institute of Technology and Beijing Daba Company to develop and produce 12m pure electric low-floor urban buses as prototypes for Beijing, Shenzhen, and Nanchang.

——Cooperate with Guangxi Yuchai to develop and produce a new 12m hybrid city bus and plan to put it into Hangzhou city.

——Cooperate with Tsinghua University to produce a 7-meter tourist bus as a prototype of the Dongguan City Government.