Qin Pro covers the A + car market BYD power battery capacity will increase significantly

On September 20, BYD's "dynasty" family product camp added new recruits and the A + sedan Qin Pro was officially listed. The new car is divided into three versions: fuel, DM (plug-in hybrid) and pure electric, priced at 79,800 to 299,900 yuan.

Since this year, BYD has accelerated the pace of opening to the outside world. In early September, BYD held a global developer conference on the theme of "Open and Create the Future" to officially launch "BYD + + Open Ecology", and Qin Pro was the first model to be launched in this ecology.

The "Daily Economic News" reporter learned that Qin Pro is currently the only pre-installed Baidu Apollo certified reference vehicle. In the future, it will be used as a Baidu Apollo test vehicle for demonstration road testing. At the same time, Baidu will provide BYD L3 level intelligent driving. Complete solution. According to the plan, Qin Pro will achieve L3 automatic driving within the next three years.

In fact, the Qin Pro is not the only new model BYD has launched this year. For BYD, 2018 is the year of the product. Prior to the listing of Qin Pro, the new generation of Tang, Yuan EV 360 and the new generation of Song have been listed one after another. After Qin Pro went public, BYD will also launch two new energy models, Tang EV and Song MAX, this year.

"BYD's auto business is about to embark on a new growth cycle with the launch of several heavy models. Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD, said: "The development of the new energy car industry has exceeded expectations and BYD's new energy car business is expected to continue to grow. "

According to the data, BYD's passenger car sales totaled about 3 00000 vehicles in January and August, up 24 % from a year earlier. Among them, new energy passenger vehicles sold more than 110,000 vehicles, which is roughly the same as last year's annual sales, and continue to occupy the top spot in the new energy passenger car sales rankings.

It is worth noting that under the influence of new energy policies, other brand car companies, especially the new energy business of independent brands, have also made rapid progress.

For example, Geely Automobile, after launching a number of new energy models such as Emgrand EV450, Borui GEPHEV, and Emgrand GSE, sales of new energy vehicles jumped to the fourth position in August; sales of SAIC passenger vehicles in August also increased to the second position, only after BYD. Coupled with the old rival Beiqi New Energy, it can be seen that the position of BYD's new energy sales champion is not as unbreakable as imagined.

A person inside BYD told the daily economic news that power cell capacity constraints are a major factor limiting BYD new energy sales to further increase, at present BYD is stepping up production of power cells, while also seeking ways to improve the production efficiency of existing factories.

It is understood that in addition to Shenzhen and Huizhou two power battery bases, BYD Qinghai Xining power battery base phase 1 has been put into operation in June this year, new production capacity 12 gwh/year, and its fourth power battery plant has recently successfully settled in Chongqing. It is expected that by 2020, the total power battery capacity of BYD will reach 60 GWh per year.

As the new power cell base is put into operation, BYD's battery capacity will increase dramatically, and it will be able to supply products to other companies while fully meeting its needs, the insiders said.

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