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Chapter 436 Pure Electric Vehicles

That's right, Zhou Fei has indeed set his sights on new energy vehicles. This idea has been lingering in his mind for a long time.

If you put it in the previous life, at this point in time, new energy vehicles had already sprung up like mushrooms, and the new car manufacturers led by Tesla and Weilai had almost occupied the new energy vehicle market.

It’s just that in the current world, due to the relatively backward development level of the automobile industry as a whole, there has not been a decent electric car brand until now, let alone an industry unicorn like Tesla.

However, the development of new energy vehicles in the world will soon be placed on the desk of every car manufacturer, because with the increase in the number of traditional cars, the severity of the oil crisis has gradually become prominent. The aggravation of environmental pollution and the development of new energy vehicles are only a matter of time.

Just last year, the United States has introduced a policy to encourage major manufacturers to develop new energy vehicles and reduce vehicle exhaust emissions.

In China, there are also rumors that relevant policies are being studied to provide policy subsidies to companies that develop new energy vehicles.

Zhou Fei intends to let Feichi Company be the first to eat crabs, but he is not trying to cheat financial subsidies, but sincerely wants to develop electric vehicles.

In the previous life, when the concept of new energy vehicles became popular in China for the first time, many new energy vehicle companies emerged, but many of these companies were just for the simple purpose of defrauding the state's financial subsidies and building them casually. A factory building, a concept car, and then you can get hundreds of millions of yuan in subsidies.

However, with the reduction of subsidies, most companies have closed down one after another, leaving only a few truly powerful car manufacturers.

It is foreseeable that what happened in the previous life will continue to be staged in this world. As long as the state's subsidies are strong, there will definitely be capital scrambling to pour into the new energy vehicle industry!
Zhou Fei hopes that Feichi can become a benchmark in the new energy vehicle industry, just like Tesla in the previous life!
The so-called new energy vehicle refers to the use of unconventional vehicle fuel as the power source, or the use of conventional vehicle fuel, but the use of new vehicle power devices, integrated vehicle power control and advanced technology in driving, formed Automobiles with advanced technical principles, new technologies and new structures.

According to different fuels, new energy vehicles can generally be divided into several categories such as hybrid vehicles, pure electric vehicles, and fuel TV electric vehicles.

According to such a classification standard, new energy vehicles are actually not such a novel concept, because hybrid vehicles have already appeared, but they are not common in the market, just like the supercar Lafa, which is essentially It is also a hybrid car.

However, in most cases, new energy vehicles generally refer to pure electric vehicles, and only pure electric vehicles have the most mature technology and the greatest research prospects.

Pure electric vehicles, as the name implies, refer to vehicles that are mainly driven by electricity. Most vehicles are directly driven by electric motors. Some vehicles install electric motors in the engine compartment, and some directly use wheels as the rotors of four electric motors to drive the vehicle.

The electric energy replenishment method of pure electric vehicles is mainly to reserve electric energy through charging. In contrast, fuel cell electric vehicles use electric energy as the power source, but in terms of the source of electric energy, they are not It is fundamentally different from pure electric vehicles.

A fuel cell vehicle refers to a vehicle that uses hydrogen, methanol, etc. as fuel, generates electric current through a chemical reaction, and is driven by a motor.In terms of electricity generation, fuel cell vehicles are produced by chemical reactions like hydrogen or methanol and oxygen, not by charging batteries like pure electric vehicles.

Generally speaking, the energy conversion efficiency of a fuel cell is 2 to 3 times higher than that of an internal combustion engine, so a fuel cell vehicle is an ideal vehicle in terms of energy utilization and environmental protection.

Since fuel cell vehicles have so many advantages, why is the development of new energy vehicles mainly focused on pure electric vehicles?
The main reason is that the fuel cell technology is immature and the cost is too high. For example, hydrogen-powered vehicles have very difficult technical conditions for the storage and transportation of hydrogen fuel, because hydrogen molecules are very small and can easily escape through the casing of the storage device.

In addition to this, the most deadly problem is that the extraction of hydrogen requires electrolysis of water or the use of natural gas, which also consumes a lot of energy. Unless nuclear power is used for extraction, carbon dioxide emissions cannot be fundamentally reduced.

And these shortcomings do not exist at all for pure electric vehicles, which is one of the reasons why most new energy vehicles are mainly produced by pure electric vehicles.

So this time, Zhou Fei also intends to start developing from pure electric vehicles, and then consider the development of fuel cell electric vehicles after the technology gradually matures. .

However, pure electric vehicles are a very strange existence in China and even in the world. Before officially developing this project, Zhou Fei must do relevant research, so he immediately called Zhang Xiang to his office .

"Mr. Zhou, are you looking for me?" Zhang Xiang asked hastily after entering the door.

"Well, I have something to ask you." Zhou Fei nodded, and then continued, "I want to talk to you about the company's new car development work in the next stage."

"What kind of car does Mr. Zhou plan to develop this time?" Zhang Xiang asked with a smile, not surprised at all in his tone, after all, Zhou Fei will propose a new car development plan at this time of year.

But this year Zhang Xiang is very curious about what kind of car Zhou Fei will develop. After all, in terms of car series, Mercedes-Benz is now very comprehensive.

"Electric car." Zhou Fei replied immediately.

"Mr. Zhou is talking about electric vehicles?" Zhang Xiang was startled. This is a new industry. So far, few traditional car manufacturers are willing to get involved in this industry.

"Yes, it is the electric vehicle industry. I plan to make the electrification of automobiles a key development area for Mercedes-Benz in the next ten years, and establish a separate electric vehicle subsidiary to be responsible for the advancement of the electrification project." Zhou Fei smiled and nodded.

Among the four modernizations of the automobile industry, electrification should be the first to be realized. As for interconnection, automation, and intelligence, it may take some time to be realized.

If Mercedes-Benz wants to lead the development of the entire automobile industry, it must always be at the forefront, instead of chasing after other companies like it is now.

In the next wave of development in the automotive industry, Zhou Fei wants to let Feichi be the leader and let other companies catch up with them!

(End of this chapter)