At the same time, in the capital market, the market value of listed companies will skyrocket as long as they are exposed to new energy. For example, the new domestic car-making forces, Weilai, Tucki and Ideality, which were founded less than 10 years ago, all have a market value of more than $30 billion in the United States. Tesla, the overlord of new energy vehicles, now has a market value of more than 1 trillion dollars, which is more than the sum of the market values of the top 10 car companies in the world, which also forces established car companies such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and Toyota to adjust their strategies and enter the new energy automobile industry.
However, not all new energy sources can be well replaced. For example, in the field of high-end power drive, diesel engines are still the first choice. /kloc-More than 0/00 years ago, Europe took the lead in completing the industrial revolution, and the European powers represented by Germany monopolized the core technology of diesel engines. Subsequently, Japan gradually broke the technical blockade and joined the monopoly group. Diesel engines produced in Germany and Japan not only have sufficient power, high energy efficiency and good quality, but also control the industrial lifeline of most countries. For a long time, Germany Voith, Siemens, Japan Hitachi and other giants have occupied more than 90% of the global diesel engine market. But now, the "super diesel engine" made in China comes out, breaking the Japanese and German monopoly for 50 years.
For a long time, due to the weak foundation of China's automobile industry and poor ability to treat diesel engine exhaust, diesel engine exhaust will emit a lot of black smoke during combustion, which is not conducive to environmental protection. The noise generated during high-load operation has always made people reject diesel engines. In addition, because the common family cars are either gasoline vehicles or new energy vehicles, diesel vehicles are rarely seen, which also leads many Chinese people to ignore the importance of diesel engines. Diesel vehicles have two main advantages:
1, diesel vehicles have more power;
Heavy trucks, pickup trucks, tractors, etc. all need diesel engines. Only diesel engines can provide enough energy for industrial behemoths such as ships, cranes, forklifts, coal trucks and excavators.
2. The operating cost of diesel vehicles is low:
From the economic point of view, diesel engine has low fuel consumption, diesel price is much lower than other fuels, and its battery life is long, which can meet the needs of long-term operation of large machinery and vehicles.
In fact, at present, diesel vehicles are the main power vehicles in the world. In Europe, 40% of the total car sales are diesel vehicles, and the United States and China also occupy a considerable proportion. But in the production of diesel engines, China has been monopolized by foreign companies for nearly 50 years.
In 1950s, under the leadership of Li Gang, then chairman of China Automobile Industry Group Corporation, China imported an American V8 diesel engine and sent five technical teams to copy the first V8 engine in China in 1 year. However, due to the lack of talents, technology and experience, the research and development of diesel engines quickly stagnated. After 1970s, China liberalized the import of engines, and a large number of foreign companies entered the China market. At that time, Mitsubishi was the most fierce company, once occupying 90% of the automobile engine market in China. At this time, the trend of thought of "making is better than buying" is becoming more and more popular, and China's engine manufacturers have almost no strength to compete with foreign enterprises.
However, one company, although losing money for years and even on the verge of bankruptcy, insisted on investing in research and development. Now, the successful research and development of "super diesel engine" makes Japanese and German enterprises even more daunting. This company is Weichai Power under Shandong Heavy Industry.
It has been more than 100 years since the world's first diesel engine was born, and the most advanced diesel engine abroad can only achieve a thermal efficiency conversion ratio of more than 40%. So there is a saying in the industry: Who can achieve the thermal efficiency of diesel engine above 50% is as difficult as sending a man to the moon, and now Wei Chai has done it. Compared with the traditional diesel engine products, the efficiency of the super diesel engine developed by Wei Chai in Shandong Province has increased by 300%, which also indicates that this field "blocked by Japanese and German enterprises" has been ranked first in the world by China.
Shandong Weichai Power was established in 1946. At first, it earned the difference by importing engines from China, with an annual income of tens of millions of dollars. However, due to the entry of foreign companies, Wei Chai was forced to close several production lines, with debts as high as 300 million yuan. After several layoffs and cuts in departments, Weichai Power slowly recovered. Wei Chai spends a lot of money on R&D every year. In the first three quarters of 2002/kloc-0, the investment in scientific research was 5.038 billion yuan, accounting for nearly 50% of the net profit. In the past four years, Wei Chai has invested 20 billion yuan in research and development. In 2020, Wei Chai's engine sales will reach 6.5438+0 million units/year, making it the first engine production and sales enterprise in the world. What really makes Wei Chai famous is its self-developed "super diesel engine".
In September, 2020, Wei Chai successfully developed the domestic super diesel engine WP4.6N, with the highest power of 162KW, the maximum horsepower of 220 horsepower and the displacement of 4.58L, and also obtained the national six emission standard certification. Not only the power is strong, but also the emission pollution is small, so many long-distance truck drivers will take the diesel engine produced in Wei Chai as the first choice for truck modification. In the words of experts in the industry, this diesel engine in Wei Chai is like the first time that humans ran 100 meters 10 second.
In 20021China machinery industry ranking, Shandong Wei Chai ranked first. At present, Wei Chai has completed the delivery of 400,000 national six engines, which also means that domestic engines are gradually replacing the market position of foreign engines.
What is the practical significance of the breakthrough of domestic "super diesel engine"?
1, saving energy consumption and ensuring energy security.
It may be difficult for many people to intuitively feel the significance of the "super diesel engine" 10 percentage point increase. Take 2020 as an example, the oil consumption in China is 500 million tons, and 10% is 50 million tons.
At present, China's dependence on foreign oil reaches 70.8%, of which the consumption of diesel engines and gasoline engines accounts for 60% of China's total oil consumption. Wei Chai's engines can improve the utilization rate of petroleum fuel, which will greatly save the energy consumption of the whole society and ensure energy security.
2. Prevent being "stuck in the neck" by foreign companies;
Diesel engines have been widely used in mining, shipbuilding, road construction and other fields. As a big industrial country, China is bound to import from Japan, Germany and other countries to meet the needs of economic development. On the one hand, it needs a lot of money and waiting time, on the other hand, it faces possible technical blockade and arbitrary charges at any time. Wei Chai's breakthrough in "super diesel engine" makes domestic manufacturing industry compete with foreign companies with open arms.
3. Promote industrial upgrading in diesel engine related fields;
From the use scenario, the breakthrough of "super diesel engine" can not only drive the automobile industry to transform into higher-end giant heavy trucks and mining trucks, but also drive the transformation and upgrading of upstream and downstream industries of diesel engines.
Once upon a time, in many fields of industrial science and technology, foreign enterprises made big money in China market through technology monopoly. But with the wisdom of China people, these fields have been broken one by one. For example, China Railway Heavy Industry's breakthrough shield machine, BYD's breakthrough automobile chip, Huawei's breakthrough mobile phone and computer operating system, and Shandong Weichai Power's breakthrough super diesel engine.
When more high-end industrial products are replaced by domestic products, China will also move from an "industrial power" to an "industrial power".