The electric vehicle is in touch and the driving power is the key to winning.

[Electric Vehicles Are Coming Out of the Shell, Power Driving Endurance Becomes the Key to Success] Switzerland, which has not held any international auto race since 1954, has become the best show field for electric vehicle manufacturers to show their future technology.

The First Financial reporter saw the scene of the Formula E Championship (hereinafter referred to as “Formula E”) sponsored by the industrial giant ABB. On the day of the competition, more than 100,000 spectators were attracted to enjoy the event on Lake Zurich. Not only Zurich, but also the previous races in Hong Kong, New York and other sub-stations have also attracted a lot of attention.

According to Ulrich Spiesshofer, ABB's global CEO, this is good news for the future development of the entire industry. “No matter which team wins the championship, it is in fact the best way to publicize the electric vehicle industry. ."

Car boss "grab the track"

In the pure electric civilian vehicle market, many car companies battled hard, so FormulaE was considered by the industry as the best publicity platform. This led Audi, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, and upstart car manufacturers from China to join Formula E.

Big brothers dominate the field of traditional fuel vehicles, which makes them want to lead in the first echelon at the beginning of the electric era.

Porsche said: "To enter this event and succeed in this event is the inevitable result of our development of Mission E." This model is Porsche's first released pure-electric sports car and is considered as a product against Tesla.

Alejandro Agag, Founder and CEO of FormulaE, told reporters from First Financial and other media that “This electric racing car represents the future development of the racing championship. The original intention of the E-Formula Championship was to break the stereotypes, challenge the status quo, and bring the automotive industry to the forefront. Come to a change."

According to Agag's introduction, the Formula E organizing committee will provide chassis and batteries for each team, but the rest of the car will require the team to develop their own. The remainder includes motors, inverters, brake systems, gearboxes, drive shafts, bodywork, cooling systems, electronic control units, and more. "These track technologies can eventually feed back into civilian vehicle technology and increase their own product strength," Agag added.

Whether it is Mercedes-Benz, Audi, etc., or ABB, the power supply system manufacturer, will regard electric vehicles as an inevitable trend in the future.

However, it should be pointed out that the state of the car is ideal in all aspects of the race track, but once it is switched to an ordinary home electric car, the latter's conditions cannot reach the “best ideal state” of the former, and it is not practically possible. Less problem.

In other words, the emergence of new energy vehicles has triggered a major change in the traditional automobile manufacturing industry. Smart driving is redefining the way to travel in the future. How to solve the problem of the power source of new energy vehicles will trigger an energy revolution.

Charge problem still needs to be broken

As we all know, the biggest problem facing the pure electric vehicle industry is that the infrastructure is still unable to meet the charging needs of the vast majority of vehicle owners, and the high-power charging network looks promising to provide users with charging experiences similar to traditional gas stations. This move was also seen as an important step for the adoption of pure electric vehicles.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA), which also hosts the Formula 1 (F1), is confident that the power system may be upgraded. Agag told the presence of the First Financial and other media: “The new electric racing car has doubled the energy capacity and cruising mileage. This car also improved the battery performance and adopted new motor technology. The future, the above The technology will eventually be used in conventional electric cars."

However, applying the latest technology to conventional electric vehicles still has some way to go.

Weilai team director Paul Fickers told the First Financial reporter that the current power solutions can still meet the needs of the competition, but there is still a long way to go in public life. For example, the change of Formula E in the game is a helpless choice, apparently life is still the most important issue restricting new energy vehicles.

The first financial reporter noted that the industry is studying various solutions to these problems, of which fast charging technology is an option. The reporter learned from an interview with ABB that the latest model of high-power charger TerraHighPower, produced by ABB, has a power of up to 350 kilowatts. In just 8 minutes, the battery life of the electric vehicle can reach 200 kilometers. The charger is suitable for use in highway rest stops and gas stations. It is reported that the power of this charging pile is almost three times that of the Tesla super charging pile, and it is also the highest power car charging pile in the world.

The reporter learned that ABB chargers are currently being installed around the world and have recently been selected by the U.S. power company. This is by far the largest electric vehicle infrastructure project in the United States.

In addition to the United States, China, which plays an important role in the global production, R&D and investment of new energy vehicles, also has a large space in the charging pile market.

In 2015, the “Guideline for Accelerating the Construction of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (Guobanfa [2015] No. 73)” was promulgated by the General Office of the State Council. This is an important policy document in the national sense. Since then, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly published the supporting documents “Guide to the Development of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (2015-2020)”. This guide has set clear construction goals for the development of domestic electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Wu Qi, a senior researcher at Pangu think tanks, told the First Financial reporter that a rough estimate of the entire construction target will support the formation of a 100 billion-level industry.