the rapid development of energy sector in New cars, led the domestic auto business investment boom lithium batteries, and battery manufacturers are multinational companies with joint venture vehicle, signed a supply contract or cooperate with auto parts manufacturers access to customers and others on the Chinese market.
Compared with foreign-invested enterprises, Chinese enterprises have the capacity, the industry chain, and political support has some advantages, but firms with foreign capital in the base material, product segmentation, production processes , more mature. The future, other countries, the car excess capacity lithium battery will accelerate to enter China, facing stiff competition and has launched the car market within the battery, domestic manufacturers and car manufacturers should strengthen other areas outside the chain of cooperative R & D companies, while diversified products of degradation.
The Chinese automotive market situation lithium
A new energy battery vehicles [1] mainly nickel-hydrogen batteries and lithium batteries, nickel-hydrogen at present China-developed hybrid vehicles, the development of lithium vehicles still in its infancy. The Ni-MH battery production of hybrid vehicles is classified as a mature product, allowing the use of sales nationwide, while the manufacturer of the lithium battery is a hybrid, sony vgp-bps9 , pure electric cars are only a trial limited area (2010) [2]. As the high cost, large size of the lithium battery is still mainly used in electric bicycles and public transport vehicles.
BYD, BAK, the power of God and other domestic companies have begun to produce lithium batteries for cars. Lishen miles with US joint venture for the U.S. to supply car batteries brand Coda, the order of about 2010, 3000. BYD introduced in 2010 on the use of E6 electric car batteries to production.
In the Chinese market, the potential has not yet published the lithium batteries of the car, but can not say to overcapacity. And no plug-in hybrids compared to power plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles to the increased demand for lithium batteries. Chinese companies to actively promote the use of lithium battery electric vehicles, pure electric vehicles in China should become the country’s fastest growing. January 2010, the public 2008EV Motors electric car market, in addition, BYD E6, Chang BenBen i, Qi Rui Ruiqi M1-EV, the leopard and other game Hafei plans electric cars in the domestic market in 2010.
Canada supports the national electric cars, plug-in hybrid development, recently began large-scale national car charging station building, which contributed to the growing market for automotive lithium batteries. The current cost of lithium is approximately 3000-4000 Yuan / kWh, and the introduction of new state subsidies on pure electric cars and plug-in hybrid vehicles standard subsidy is 3000 yuan / kWh. The NiMH battery is the non-plug-in hybrid ordinary, but if the costs can be reduced, lithium batteries are also expected to be further applied to non-plug-in hybrid vehicles, many suppliers were intended. Changan Automobile since the second half of 2010 will make its hybrid vehicles use nickel batteries using lithium-ion batteries.
Foreign companies to enter the market within the vehicle so lithium
battery manufacturers foreign and domestic enterprises to establish joint development of pure electric vehicle and the risk of plug-in hybrid cars. The development of these cars has begun to pay more than the cost of R & D, take market risks. SAIC and the lithium battery maker A123 Systems, a company joint venture vehicle battery system. dell y9943 , SAIC provides the end of 2012 hybrid cars generally, by the end of 2012 the launch of the plug-in hybrids, and launched in October 2012 of pure electric vehicles. South Korea Li-ion battery maker SK Energy, Korea Electric carmaker CT & T Inc. [3] and Beijing, China Motor Corporation will establish a joint venture to produce and sell electric cars in China. BAI new lines of energy technology of the automobile to develop electric vehicles in operation.
Motorcycle, electric bike manufacturers began national automobile, the lack of vehicle design and manufacturing experience, but also an urgent development and manufacturing experience with manufacturers of electric cars lithium battery car companies foreign policy. May 8 Zongshen Power Battery Company and Boston have signed the “Memorandum of Cooperation”, the two parties the power of the battery and power systems integration to cooperate, both parties will set up joint venture in Chongqing.
Weak hybrid systems [4] The development has been relatively mature, there are models in the hybrid system of calculating domestic manufacturers of the weakness of many strategies the coming years, bringing a large number of batteries purchased. Changan Automotive: In 2012, all own brand products to meet the low degree hybrid, and LG Chemical Co., Ltd. will provide the Assembly in Changan car batteries hybrid car. SAIC coming year, “hybrid low” Roewe 750 cars with a lithium battery Johnson Controls-Saft.
Li-ion battery manufacturer EnerDel and domestic automotive Wanxiang cooperation group, access to special areas of electric vehicles. The two sides will establish joint venture production of automotive batteries and battery systems, one objective is customer universal heavy trucks. universal car parts in the field of heavy experience with a number of manufacturers of heavy vehicles have a good partnership, and with the development of a battery supply is also very interested, and the main purpose is to EnerDel the Chinese market for cars of the heavy battery. Currently, demand for lithium batteries in the car, little heavy, but also the power systems of traditional experience.
By combining the characteristics of the local Chinese industry, the batteries of Boston also intends to establish a wide range of lithium products factory. based production company in Boston lithium in Chongqing, including not only the cause of car batteries, but also provided companies in Chongqing lithium battery electric bike, and the supply to the HP plant in Chongqing, the company of consumer electronics with a lithium battery.
Comparison of the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises and foreign
domestic firms in battery technology, and the battery management system,dell inspiron 1720 battery , production process, it remains to be improved. Most cellular companies do not have the internal design of the system independent of battery management and capacity development, the system’s internal battery management developed in isolation on small businesses, and many other research institutions, non-academic the mass production of products. Simple battery car battery must be integrated, the key is to ensure the consistency of the battery. Although many national companies have production experience in lithium battery, but the manufacture of car batteries needed for the combination of battery and consistency of the production process does not depend on the magnitude of the investment and improvement can be obtained quickly. Current pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid pilot projects are small scale, large scale production can have problems. Nissan technology product consistency lithium took decades to finally finish.
More domestic firms to produce lithium-ion batteries for electronic products started, extensive product portfolio, but the breakdown products of foreign companies to do better, can be targeted to the market. EnerDel, A123 system, SK Energy and other companies have implemented a system for supplying the perfect battery, covered trucks, appliances, automobiles, etc., and there were different types of new energy vehicles for characteristics of the product range of the battery.
Chinese companies in the industry chain lithium has certain advantages, but the basic elements of the marginal zone of foreign companies. Relatively complete industrial chain of China Li-ion battery, domestic firms have a long-term cooperation in upstream and downstream to form a stable relationship. Investment in BYD battery industry has been involved in many aspects, including hardware commodity cathode of the battery, the electrolyte and battery components, automotive manufacturing, in addition, the company has built power plants, and ore resources of lithium in the study. The base material of lithium electrolyte LiPF6 are Japanese and Korean corporate monopolies, the domestic production of lithium battery separator has only just begun. SK Group in the production of lithium-ion batteries have gained considerable experience.
Government support may be the biggest advantage of battery manufacturers. 2010 state validated enterprise technical centers, including car batteries for the first time the scope of research and development. Soon the “new energy development plan for vehicles, the rate of localization of key pieces can become important.
Outlook and Recommendations
Other countries, the excess capacity of lithium to enter China as soon as possible, intensifying competition in the domestic market. lithium in Japan can be a lot of excess capacity. Many battery manufacturers have foreign partners stability in international transfers of vehicles,Compaq Tablet PC TC1000 battery , these vehicles partners in China has launched a company vehicle, through their channels, will soon enter the market.
Accelerate the car battery to establish a national unified standard. If all manufacturers of vehicle batteries have different standards, with initial orders for small, battery makers are difficult to scale. Although the market has just begun, the standard set up is very difficult, but it must play a role in the League, to discuss the direction of development. 10 Chinese automakers have formed an alliance composed of the standard T10 Working Group, jointly develop components for electric vehicles and vehicle standards.
In addition to automakers, the future of the domestic auto manufacturers should also strengthen the industry chain lithium and R & D cooperation of other manufacturers. Compared with ordinary lithium batteries, lithium battery car on the purity of raw materials, quality requirements are high, while Canadian manufacturers of raw materials in the lithium battery that many enter the field. To improve mileage battery life, and more from the battery itself, but also to optimize the body material, improve efficiency, driving to achieve, and these areas must also improve domestic technology.
calls for release of passengers of lithium batteries will take some time, mass production scale there are some difficulties,dell kd476 , firms should diversify product segments, to pursue other opportunities. As consumption patterns, costs and infrastructure and other reasons, the popularity of electric vehicles will spread slowly, while public utility vehicle market due to the Government to promote, facilitate the development.

