On April 2, BYD Toyota Electric Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "joint venture company"), a pure electric vehicle R&D company, was formally established. The shareholding ratio of the two parties to the joint venture is 50:50, with An Shanghong of Toyota as the chairman and Zhao Binggen of BYD as the general manager. The company's address is located in Pingshan District, Shenzhen.
An Shanghong said: "After the establishment of the joint venture company, engineers from Toyota and BYD, who have mastered their respective technical strengths, will learn from each other and learn from each other's strengths, thus developing pure electric vehicles with excellent performance that are deeply loved by China consumers."
It is understood that the joint venture company plans to officially open in May.
Complement each other's advantages and complete the century leap of electrification
If there were doubts about the electrification of the automobile industry in the past, such doubts were dispelled from 20 19.
20 19 is the first year of electrification of Volkswagen group, and it is also an important time node for international giants such as GM, Mercedes-Benz and BMW to accelerate the electrification layout. Major international auto shows have become exhibitions of three electric technologies.
The once-in-a-century changes in the automobile industry are accelerating. As one of the industry leaders, Toyota must accept this fact. In 20 19, Toyota announced to speed up the electrification process and advance the sales target of 5.5 million electric vehicles in 2030 to 2025.
Joint venture with BYD is an important support for Toyota to realize this grand plan.
Although Toyota has unparalleled advantages in hybrid technology, and its global sales of hybrid vehicles have exceeded 654.38+million, its weakness is very obvious in the research and development of pure electric vehicles and the accumulation of three electric technologies. Therefore, in order to realize the large-scale production and sales of electric vehicles within five years, it must find a strong technical partner.
BYD is the perfect choice. Since entering the automotive field in 2003, BYD has started the research and development of electric vehicles, and established a special research and development system and team.
As early as 2008, BYD launched the world's first dual-mode electric vehicle, F3DM, which does not rely on professional charging stations. Today, BYD has become the leading brand of electric vehicles in the world, and won the title of global sales of new energy vehicles for four consecutive years.
One is the "hybrid giant engine", a well-deserved leader in the automobile industry; One is the "battery king", the leader in the field of new energy vehicles. The "hand in hand" between Toyota and BYD will be a milestone in the history of the automobile industry for a hundred years.
From the perspective of global industrial structure, Toyota and BYD will jointly push the door of the era of electric vehicle popularization. Moreover, this "open" alliance form may attract more giants to join, which will have a far-reaching impact on accelerating the development and popularization of global electric vehicle technology.
From the perspective of China automobile industry, this kind of joint venture is different from the past "market for technology" model. BYD has attracted international giants with its own technology, thus achieving "technical equivalence" in vehicle development cooperation. This fully shows that the successful rise of electric vehicle technology represented by BYD in China has finally ushered in an era that belongs to China people.
Because of its strength, it is attractive.
In fact, Toyota is not the first international giant attracted by BYD. As early as 20 10, Daimler and BYD jointly established Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co., Ltd., each holding 50% of the shares, and launched a brand-new electric vehicle brand-Tengshi.
Daimler and Toyota, one is an automobile inventor, the other is a leader of luxury car camp, the other is a global automobile leader, and the other is a pioneer of hybrid technology. Looking around the world, BYD is probably the only car company that can attract attention and achieve "close cooperation".
Without hardcore strength, how can people remember?
Take BYD e platform as an example, it is the most advanced, mature, reliable and safest electric solution in the world. Tens of thousands of BYD engineers have integrated and innovated the latest achievements of core technologies such as battery, IGBT, motor, electronic control and electronics through more than 20 years of positive research and development, and created a number of technical benchmarks for electric vehicles.
Through the highly integrated "33 1 1 1" advantage of e-platform, the vehicle weight is reduced, the vehicle layout is optimized, the energy efficiency and reliability are improved, and the driving experience is greatly improved.
At present, BYD's best-selling EV models are all born on the E platform. Leading technological advantages have continuously helped BYD's sales of new energy vehicles continue to rise, with the cumulative sales exceeding 700,000 units. In China, one out of every six new energy vehicles is BYD.
Previously, BYD has announced that it will open its e-platform to the world, which is also Toyota's favorite place. Although this "automobile giant" has surpassed all its peers in the field of fuel vehicles and hybrid technology, there is no mature and stable electrification technology platform that can be directly put into use, and BYD has filled this shortcoming.
BYD recently introduced another hard-core technology crystallization-blade battery, which also brought great shock to the industry.
As a new generation of lithium iron phosphate battery, blade battery has the characteristics of high safety and long service life. Compared with the traditional iron battery, the volume specific energy density is increased by 50%, and the vehicle life can reach more than one million kilometers.
Acupuncture test is recognized as the most difficult test in the battery industry. In the acupuncture test of three kinds of power batteries, the ternary lithium battery exploded at the moment when it was punctured, and the temperature exceeded 500 degrees Celsius, which is also an important reason for the continuous spontaneous combustion of electric vehicles in recent years. The traditional lithium iron phosphate battery is safer and will not burn when punctured, but the surface temperature of the battery is as high as 200-400 degrees Celsius, which is very easy to ignite nearby combustibles. Only the blade battery does not even smoke, and even the surface temperature is lower than the ground temperature in summer of beijing.
In the words of Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD, the blade battery "redefined the industry safety standard", and completely erased the word spontaneous combustion from the dictionary of new energy vehicles, which is of milestone significance to the safe development of the power battery industry.
What is important is that the blade battery is not only safe, but also greatly improves the volume utilization rate through structural innovation, and more batteries can be installed in the limited interior space, thus being comparable to ternary lithium batteries in cruising range.
For example, BYD Han EV, which will be launched in June this year, is equipped with a blade battery. Its cruising range is 605 kilometers under comprehensive working conditions, and the acceleration of 100 kilometers is only 3 seconds 9, which is comparable to Tesla's model. s .
Due to the outstanding performance of blade battery, He Long, vice president of BYD and chairman of Foday Battery, revealed that all automobile brands we can think of are discussing cooperation schemes based on blade battery technology with BYD.
Adhere to the opening-up strategy and make every effort to promote industry changes.
Only with outstanding strength can we achieve industry benchmarks and face industry changes with a more open and confident attitude.
Wang Chuanfu once said: "The fall of Nokia is not a quality problem, nor a management problem, but its collapse."
On October 20 17, 1 1 year 10, BYD formally put forward the open strategy to realize the transformation of enterprises from independent innovation to open innovation.
2065438+July 2008, BYD started the development cooperation and external supply of power batteries, and established a power battery joint venture company with Changan Automobile. The developed battery can not only be mounted on Changan system models, but also be sold to third parties.
2065438+In June 2009, Toyota announced that BYD had become its power battery supplier. In July, it was announced that the two sides would carry out technical cooperation to jointly develop pure electric vehicles and power batteries and sell them under the Toyota brand, thus opening the prelude to this "marriage of the century".
As an advocate of the automotive electrification revolution, BYD, which has the core technological advantages, is obviously more confident and open in mind, and it is increasingly becoming its responsibility to promote the comprehensive electrification of automobiles.
On March 13 this year, BYD officially announced the establishment of five Foday companies-Foday Technology Co., Ltd., Foday Power Co., Ltd., Foday Mould Co., Ltd., Foday Vision Co., Ltd. and Foday Battery Co., Ltd., with the aim of accelerating the opening of electric vehicle technology, enjoying the' e-platform' technology, promoting the export of core components of electric vehicles such as batteries, IGBT, motors and electronics, and accelerating electric vehicles and fuel.
BYD said that the establishment of five Foday companies marked the official advancement of BYD's opening strategy from 1.0 to 2.0. It is reported that BYD has also established an international cooperation division to better integrate the company's high-quality resources and carry out innovative cooperation with major strategic partners.
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Just as Ford launched the T-car platform that promoted the popularity of fuel vehicles, BYD e platform, as the world's first open pure electric vehicle platform, will greatly promote the popularity of electric vehicles. Especially when Toyota, an automobile giant with a sales volume of10 million, also threw an olive branch, the joint efforts of the two giants will make the realization of this goal more clearly visible.
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