【Automotive machining】Is China's advantage in new energy vehicles about to be surpassed by Japan?

According to the Financial Times, Toyota announced a new breakthrough on July 4th, stating that it is about to halve the size, weight, and cost of electric vehicle batteries. Just half a month ago, Solid-state battery technology was broken through by Toyota, and the "10 minute charging and 1500 km endurance" was realized.

In fact, since the rise of new energy vehicles, Toyota has been a pioneer in opposing electrification. The slogan is loudly shouted, but the actions are honest. The successive official announcements of the two breakthroughs made by the Japanese media excitedly declared that it is very close to surpass China's new energy!

 1  Japanese car companies want to turn around with verbal criticism and covert efforts

In the 1970s, the oil crisis swept across the world, and the "energy-saving" function was utilized by Toyota, thus legitimizing the dominance of the era of gasoline vehicles.

In the era of new energy, Chinese car companies have only taken 10 years to change lanes and overtake, leaping to become leaders. In the first quarter of this year, our car exports once again reached the top of the world, and domestically produced new energy sources captured 75% of the global market share!

Faced with China's fierce offensive, major overseas car companies are constantly losing ground. Especially for Japanese car companies such as Toyota, the sales of electric vehicles in 2022 were only 24000 units, not even a fraction of BYD's monthly sales.

In order to maintain its position as the dominant fuel powered vehicle, Toyota began to wave the banner of "rejecting electrification". At this year's G7 Summit, Toyota Chief Scientist Jill Pratt strongly said: "The future development direction is not electric vehicles!"

Its former president, Akio Toyoda, has repeatedly denounced electrification, not to say that electric vehicles are not environmentally friendly, but that electric vehicles are hype, and even established the "Anti electricity Alliance" with Mazda, Honda, etc.

Say no, act honestly.

On the surface, Toyota strongly refuses electrification, but secretly began to lay out a new power development direction - Solid-state battery as early as 2012. The latter has been recognized as the "best solution" to solve the defects of new energy vehicles.

According to publicly available data in this field, Japanese companies monopolize the top three related patents, and Toyota ranks first with over 1300 patents.

Toyota's trick of "sneaking into the past" made Japanese media feel satisfied. Solid-state battery were also regarded as the "key" to counter attack China, and they also arrogantly responded: China's new energy is going to lose!

 2  Is China's new energy status uncertain?

At present, new energy batteries have been "criticized" due to three major problems: difficult charging, short battery life and easy fire. Solid-state battery are called "the future development direction of electric vehicles" because of their stability, fast charging and long battery life.

For example, today's enterprise announced that it will achieve mass production of Solid-state battery in 2027, and many new breakthroughs have been made. Following this trend, it is not impossible for Japanese media to surpass us, as they are afraid that they will come up with a "monopoly package" for us at that time.

Professor Ouyang from Tsinghua University issued a warning: China should have a sense of crisis!

In the field of cutting-edge technology, such incidents have occurred repeatedly! The semiconductor industry has been jointly surrounded by the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands; The People's Daily's warning of "recognizing the situation and giving up illusions" is still in our ears.

Although China is still the industry leader in the field of new energy at present. However, according to the past behavior style of the United States, Japan and other countries, the successful mass production of Solid-state battery may have a monopoly on us, so it is inevitable.

Being backward can only be exploited by others, and this principle applies to every field.

Especially since our new energy advantages are not easy won, we cannot easily give up. Only by accelerating the pace of self research in the battery field can we ensure that it will not be surpassed.

 3  The Power Battery Race Begins

From the data point of view, Japanese enterprises currently account for half of the patents of Solid-state battery, and China's new energy faces great pressure.

It seems that Japan is gaining momentum, but China is not without a counterattack. We are still in an advantage in the field of new energy, let alone research on solid-state power batteries, which has already begun.

Data shows that China has the highest number of related articles published in global scientific journals in the world.

At the beginning of 2021, GAC Ai'an officially announced a breakthrough in new power battery technology. The Graphene technology they used not only supports super fast charging, 80% of which can be charged in 8 minutes, but also can achieve a pure electric endurance of 1000km.

The competition for Solid-state battery has just begun, and the battle between China and Japan in the field of new energy is still uncertain!