New energy vehicle qualification approval will restart and the foundry model will be recognized

On May 25, the reporters of the 21st Century Business Herald learned from the industry that the National Development and Reform Commission's "Regulations on Investment Management of the Automobile Industry" (draft for comments), at present, the stage of soliciting opinions has ended. It is reported that this regulation will be officially introduced in 2018.

The opinion draft indicates that the state supports social capital and enterprises with strong technical capabilities to invest in the research and development and industrialization of new energy vehicles, smart cars, energy-saving vehicles, and key components. At the same time, encourage enterprises to carry out mergers and acquisitions and strategies through equity investment. Cooperate, jointly research and develop products, jointly organize production, enhance industrial concentration, support state-owned auto companies and private auto companies to carry out mixed ownership reform, and join forces to form a world-class auto enterprise group.

"This means that the NDRC will restart the production qualification audit of pure electric passenger cars." Industry insiders told 21st Century Business Herald.

According to the content of the opinion draft, the new independent pure electric vehicle enterprise investment management project needs to meet certain requirements in the province, enterprise legal person and research and development funds.

Among them, the opinion draft requires that the number of new energy vehicles and the proportion of pile cars in the provinces where the new projects are located is higher than the national average, and the new energy zombies and zombie cleaning work are all completed; the existing new electric vehicle investment projects have been inspected. Its production reached the scale of construction.

At the request of the corporate legal person, all shareholders are required not to withdraw the shares before the completion of the project. The shareholders need to have the intellectual property rights and production capacity of the key components such as the vehicle control system, the drive motor, the vehicle power battery, and the key components. Strong control ability; existing new electric vehicle enterprise investment projects have been completed, and the output has reached the construction scale, there is no illegal construction projects.

It is worth noting that for a major shareholder with more than one-third of the equity, free capital, and financing capabilities to meet project and operational needs, one of the following conditions must be met:

1. The automobile enterprise is a major shareholder. The production of new energy vehicles in fuel vehicle enterprises in the past two years is higher than the industry average. The output of pure electric vehicle enterprises reached the construction scale last year.

2. The auto parts enterprises are the major shareholders. The total number of key components (policy control systems, drive motors, and vehicle power batteries) in the last two years is more than 100,000 sets.

3. Designing R&D enterprises, overseas enterprises and other market entities as major shareholders, and developing and owning pure electric vehicle products with intellectual property rights. The cumulative number of market sales and registrations in the last two years is more than 30,000 passenger cars or 3,000 vehicles. Commercial vehicles and the average bicycle mileage is more than 10,000 kilometers.

“This means that the foundry model has been recognized, and this policy will be very beneficial to these new car companies. Once the models they produce through the foundry model meet the above conditions in the market, the production qualification is not far off.” The above-mentioned insiders told reporters.

However, now, these new forces, car manufacturers, who will laugh at the end?

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