Don't underestimate GAC Aian. This car company not only has a strong sales volume, but also has strong core technologies in places you can see and strong core technologies in places you can't see.
It has been investigated by an organization that the market of pure electric passenger cars in China is basically firmly grasped by less than five car companies. The data in recent years is that the largest proportion of pure electric passenger cars is no longer the past BAIC, but GAC Aian. Pure electric operating vehicles are all kinds of pure electric taxis and network cars that everyone is familiar with.
In fact, GAC Aian has been a pure electric vehicle for a long time. Maybe what you see now is that AION S, AION V and other cars are running, but as early as 20 17, Guangzhou Automobile Aian, which was also known as Guangzhou New Energy (GNE) at that time, had put a car named GE3 into the pure electric vehicle market in Guangdong (especially Guangzhou). In fact, it was also at that time that the technical accumulation of the three major power systems of Ai 'an began.
Why do you want to emphasize GE3 and Guangdong to operate the auto market? Because for pure electric vehicles at that time, it was a matter of courage to launch them on a large scale in Guangdong, especially in Guangzhou. Guangzhou is a typical subtropical maritime climate zone, which has long been controlled by ocean monsoon and warm and humid airflow. This means that the climate in this place is sometimes quite extreme and unpredictable. People living in Guangzhou or nearby cities know that March-April is a typical high humidity season every year, so that there is a saying of "returning to the south sky" in the local area. On the wall and car body, almost all places that can come into contact with air are covered with water droplets.
In May, the weather will change into "high temperature exposure" mode in just one or two weeks, lasting for half a year. From June to August, there will be sudden typhoons and heavy rains from time to time, and there will be a large area of water on the road. This is normal. At a certain point in11-65438+February, it will suddenly change from summer to winter overnight, and it will drop to 3-4 degrees in the next week or two.
In the three-electric system of electric vehicle, the motor and electronic control are very afraid of high and humid environment, the battery is very afraid of high and low temperature, and even more afraid of sudden high and low temperature changes. The whole three-electric system is very afraid of water. If it's just a private car, we can still choose not to drive in these frequent extreme weather, but it's different to operate a car. Whether it's 10 gale outside, the road is flooded or going back to the south for several months, or the temperature is 40 degrees, the car must run outside. Moreover, operating cars are different from private cars, and people keep driving. From about 5 a.m. when they left the car to 2 a.m., this
It is precisely because of these areas and the experience of operating cars that Ai 'an has accumulated a large number of parameters about the most basic electrical stability of the three power systems. The accumulated experience of these massive parameters will be applied in every vehicle model update and even in different production batches of the same vehicle.
For example, around 20 19, we attended a battery technical communication meeting about Aion S in Ai 'an, and I found a detail at the scene: there is no visible exposed wiring harness of high-voltage system on the chassis of Aion S, all high-voltage wiring harnesses are wrapped in chassis components, even the exposed low-voltage wiring harnesses and corresponding connectors, Aion S are wrapped by rubber heat-shrinkable tubes and snakeskin heat-shrinkable nets, and all exposed electrical connectors on the chassis are sealed by hot melt. At that time, apart from Tesla's Model S, no car company could make such fine works in these places.
At that time, I specifically asked the relevant technicians why they did this, and the answer was that this was their long-term experience in putting combat vehicles in coastal areas. In another coincidence in 2020, I saw a GE3 that just started the production line and was about to be delivered to a taxi company in Guangzhou, and found that the battery pack of this car had a built-in cooling fan. Obviously, this is specially designed for operating cars.
Therefore, whether it is the thoughtfulness of the chassis electrical components or the structure, material selection and design of the parts of the whole three-power system itself, GAC Ai 'an's car is very practical.
The most basic things are done, and the reputation of natural users will not be bad. Therefore, in just a few years, the sales volume of GAC Aenean has climbed to the present, second only to BYD in China and second only to BYD and Tesla in the world. However, generally speaking, after car companies earn money from their existing models, there are generally two ways to go: one is to stand still and rely on those "cash cows" for a long time, and some domestic car companies have already done so.
However, GAC Aian chose to invest the money it earned in research and development. In recent years, GAC Aian has actually done several things that most people don't know. First of all, they greatly expanded the number of researchers in the new energy vehicle project of Guangzhou Automobile Research Institute. Secondly, Ai 'an signed school-enterprise cooperation agreements with many universities in Guangdong to directly "guarantee" the employment of outstanding graduates. This is something that ordinary car companies will do.
Guangzhou Automobile Ai 'an even made the school-enterprise cooperation to the extreme, and they also carried out very deep school-enterprise cooperation with some secondary vocational colleges and technical schools. There happen to be several well-known secondary vocational and technical colleges in Guangzhou. Guangzhou Automobile Aian cooperates with these colleges and directly works on the details such as curriculum design, and the trained talents are directly transported to enterprises. Even, they have engaged in cross-industry cooperation and established talent transfer modes in chemical engineering, chemistry and materials with some universities and related institutions.
This way is obviously different from other car companies engaged in technology, just digging the way of the industry. Through this multi-level talent cooperation from secondary vocational colleges to colleges and then to colleges, GAC Aian has achieved a series of technical explosions in the field of pure electric vehicles since 2020.
Among them, the battery technology of 600 kW fast charging (6C) is realized by improving the battery cathode material, and then the battery technology of 800-900 kW fast charging is realized by changing the battery cathode structure, and the 800 kW fast charging pile is realized with the help of new material technology. Later, in 2022, GAC AEON even began to make a breakthrough in the vehicle electronic architecture, made a distributed computing mental architecture, and applied the partition computing system to its own Hyper car series. The outbreak of all these technologies actually comes from their emphasis on talents. More importantly, the layout of the whole talent system began as early as 10 years ago.
So maybe you will think that everything released by Ai 'an at every technical conference looks too "sci-fi", and you will worry whether this car company is exaggerating or "flying satellites", but it is not. Ann is really that strong now.
In fact, to put it bluntly, from the early technology accumulation of Ai 'an, to the talent training plan that started 10 years ago, and now the technology explosion, we can see the unique and steady style of this car company in Guangdong in a few words. They can achieve the second position of new energy vehicles in China today, not by loud voice or exaggerated propaganda, but by solid technical research, which is a typical style of China industrial enterprises. As long as the road does not deviate, it is inevitable that such enterprises will embark on a higher development track.
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