The 2021 Guangzhou Auto Show signals the future

In the context of the global auto industry being affected by the epidemic, chip shortage and rising raw material prices, the opening of the 2021 Guangzhou Auto Show as scheduled releases a more positive signal for the global auto industry.

Big brand new products gathering

According to the organizing committee, 2021 Guangzhou Auto Show, passenger car brands will be full brand, high specification exhibition, as well as a concentrated appearance of new car brands. According to statistics, the 2021 Guangzhou Auto Show has a total of 54 global debut cars, 28 concept cars, a total of 241 new energy vehicles on display, a total of 1020 cars on display.

Not only saic, GAC, FAW, Dongfeng, Changan, Great Wall, JAC, Chery and other Chinese top car companies gathered at the 2021 Guangzhou Auto Show, but also Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, Nissan, Honda and other international giants showed up, and NIO and other new car manufacturing forces are showcasing their skills. These auto companies have come up with their own heavy new products, such as baiC with the jihu Automobile, Beijing Auto, Beijing Cross-Country three independent passenger car brands and Beijing Benz, Beijing Hyundai two major joint venture brand a total of 18 models of the group lineup appeared. The "home" advantage of GAC with its gaC Trumpchi, GAC Aeon, GAC Honda, GAC Toyota, GAC Fick, GAC Mitsubishi and other six vehicle brands to jointly create the "GAC Hall", and will release two new concept cars.

The "new four Modernizations" play the leading role

As the development direction of the automobile industry, electric, intelligent, network, sharing and other "new four" is still the leading role of the 2021 Guangzhou Auto Show, and further in technology research and development and product promotion.

As high-end new energy brand, Beijing auto group is extremely fox car version with the participation of alpha S huawei HI HongMeng OS intelligent ADS cockpit and huawei high order automatic driving system, has entered the stage of city more generalization test, and from urban areas to expand across the city, this represents a very fox of cars with huawei cooperation development way to travel is about to become a reality in the future.

Not only have independent brand enterprises accelerated the development of new energy vehicles, many international brands have also vigorously promoted the research and development and application of new energy vehicle products in recent years, and a number of new energy vehicle products are entering the market one after another. At this year's Guangzhou Auto Show, BMW brought a new new energy flagship SUV model iX. Compared with BMW's current i3, iX3 and other new energy products, iX has a new overall design and greatly improved intelligent configuration.

"New Technology, New Life" is the theme of the Guangzhou Auto Show. There are a lot of products with a strong intelligent gene in the blockbuster models of this guangzhou Auto Show. Not only finished vehicles, but also future automotive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and 5G, were showcased at the exhibition. Automobile companies have also begun to transform from vehicle manufacturers to intelligent transportation service providers.

New energy station inflection point

According to the latest data from The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in October this year were 397,000 and 383,000 respectively, up 1.3 times year on year and continuing to set a new monthly record. In October, the market penetration rate of new energy vehicles continued to maintain a historical high of 16.4%, and the market penetration rate of new energy passenger vehicles reached 18.2%. In terms of vehicle segmentation, the production and sales of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles also set a new record. In the first 10 months, the production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 2.566 million and 2.542 million respectively, with a year-on-year growth of 1.8 times.

In the context of the continuous decline of the automobile market, the growth of new energy vehicles has become one of the bright spots, and has increasingly become the main driving force to promote the development of the automobile market.

Recently, Guangzhou issued a policy to increase the incremental index of energy-saving cars to 80,000, shenzhen proposed to further relax the new energy car index application conditions, cancel the restriction conditions. Fujian, Jilin and other places have also released new policies to support new energy vehicles.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently said that it will play the role of energy saving and new energy vehicles interministerial joint conference mechanism, coordinated research to support the accelerated development of new energy vehicles series of policy measures, research to enhance the safety and technical standards of new energy vehicles, accelerate the construction of charging infrastructure, improve the convenience of the use of new energy vehicles.

Policy support has brought good news for new energy vehicles. At the same time, the continuous improvement of personal consumption demand for new energy vehicles has also become the main reason for the sustained and substantial growth of new energy vehicle sales.

Data showed that in 2020, the number of private new energy vehicles increased by 321,000, while in the first seven months of 2021, 631,000 private new energy vehicles and 159,000 public new energy vehicles were added. In terms of proportion, the increase of private new energy vehicles accounted for 54.3% of the total increase of new energy vehicles in 2019, which increased to 71.5% in 2020, and further increased to 77% in the first seven months of 2021. Private car purchase has become the main body of new energy vehicle consumption in China.

Chen Shihua, deputy secretary general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said that continuous improvement in product power and cost performance, as well as deepening recognition in the consumer market, are crucial reasons for the growth of new energy vehicles. Now, not only do users in big cities buy new energy vehicles, but small and medium-sized cities and even rural areas have an increasingly high recognition of new energy vehicles, and consumer groups are getting younger and more and more receptive to new things.

Experts say that with technological progress and product iteration and upgrading, new energy vehicles will be more and more able to meet consumer demand, is experiencing a historical inflection point from policy-driven to market-driven, new energy vehicles will usher in a new growth climax.