"In the past year, many cars did not come with batteries due to production problems from battery suppliers, so they were identified as' cheating '." Chen Wei, vice chairman and chief scientist of Lifan, told NBD auto that lifan did not do this on purpose. "We want to show people that we are doing new energy industry with our feet firmly on the ground."
On November 1st, The first centralized energy station of Lifan Group shifted peak Energy was put into use in Chongqing, which will provide electricity changing service for more than 2,000 time-sharing rental new energy vehicles invested by Lifan in Chongqing.
NBD auto learned that lifan's time-sharing leasing business based on electric switching mode has entered 7 cities at present. According to lifan relevant chief introduction, begin this year, lifan will further speed up the promotion of this one mode, and take advantage of this response before the boiling profusely "cheat fill" problem.
Just three days before lifan's first power station opened, BAIC said it had completed 10 power stations in Beijing, with plans to expand to 50 by the end of the year, enough to power 6,000 taxis.
In addition, Dongfeng, Kandi and other companies have invested in new energy vehicles for electricity, electricity focused on taxis, operating vehicles, it seems to have become a consensus.
Even so, the manufacturers' standards for electrical switching are completely inconsistent, and the vehicles and electrical switching equipment are not universal, which has become a major bottleneck restricting the promotion of electrical switching mode.
● Lifan cheat due to insufficient battery production?
In October this year, Lifan passenger car received a penalty notice issued by the Ministry of Finance, which recovered a total of about 114 million yuan of subsidy funds, and cancelled the pre-allocation of central financial subsidy funds in 2016.
"The disqualification has no impact on us." A few days ago, Chen Wei said in an interview with NBD car, pre-allocation is the central finance for some new energy vehicle enterprises, in the declaration of vehicle production before the subsidy funds allocated to the company, "Lifan has always chosen the year-end settlement, did not choose pre-allocation."
However, the MOF pointed out that as of the inspection date, 2,395 of Lifan's new energy vehicles did not meet the requirements for the declaration, including the number of electric cells less than the number of the notice and the discrepancy between the battery manufacturer and the notice.
"Our battery supplier has a shortage of production, and many vehicles without batteries applied for subsidies after production, but we thought the batteries could be replaced in a short time." "Power lithium-ion battery production was an industry-wide problem last year, and it was not intentional," Chen said.
In May 2015, Lifan announced to raise 5.2 billion yuan to invest in new energy vehicles and other businesses. In this case, "fraud" became the biggest scandal of the company in the past year. In this regard, Chen Wei hopes to accelerate the pace of development in the field of new energy.
According to Chen Wei, Lifan's time-sharing leasing business for new energy vehicles has entered seven cities including Chongqing, Chengdu and Zhengzhou, and plans to enter eight more cities this year. On this basis, in 2016, Lifan plans to build 16 centralized energy stations in the country, in addition to 200 power changing stations, power cutting stations put into use.
"The construction cost of each centralized energy station is 50 million yuan, and the investment cost of switching station and cutting station is relatively low." Wu Jifu, deputy general manager of Shift Peak Energy, said that shift peak energy through changing stations, cutting stations to increase the coverage of switching outlets.
NBD Auto learned that Shifeng Energy and Pandar Vehicle are two subsidiaries of Lifan, among which Shifeng Energy is mainly engaged in the operation of energy stations and charging and changing stations, while Pandar vehicle is engaged in time-sharing leasing business of electric vehicles.
Lifan plans to expand its neV fleet to 500,000 by 2020, 300,000 of which will be in panda's time-sharing leasing business.
● The development of electrical switching mode meets the standard bottleneck
Not only Lifan, but also BaiC, Dongfeng, Kandi and other companies use new energy vehicles in taxis and other operating vehicles due to their short energy replenishment speed in electric-switching mode.
According to the relevant person in charge of BaiC, the electric change mode of its new energy vehicles does not take more than 3 minutes, and according to the previous charging mode, even if the fast charge also takes 30 minutes, about the operation of taxis, electricity once means a lot of time waste.
Baic has 100 power stations under construction, 10 of which have been delivered so far and 50 of which will be delivered by the end of the year, enough to operate 6,000 taxis, according to Xu Heyi, baiC's chairman. In addition, BAIC plans to have 200 power stations in 2017, enough for 30,000 taxis.
However, NBD understands that baiC's investment plans for its power stations and taxis are currently limited to Beijing's taxi market. In addition, dongfeng Fengshen's electricity-changing taxi is currently limited to Hubei province.
"Some cars have batteries in the chassis, some in front of the car, some behind the car, and some even under the seat. It is difficult to promote if the standards are not unified." An official of a charging device operator told NBD Automobile, "It is almost impossible for the electric switching model to become mainstream in the consumer sector. It has to be concentrated in the taxi business."
It is understood that BAIC's new energy vehicle battery is integrated into a piece, centralized installation in the chassis; Lifan, on the other hand, divides the battery into eight pieces and installs them on the front and rear of the car. In this case, energy stations and power stations between companies cannot be used in general.
According to Chen Wei, in order to solve this problem, including Dongfeng, Beiqi, Kangdi, lifan and other companies will organize a communication meeting in the near future to discuss the unification of electricity standards.
"There are advantages and disadvantages in these ways, and it is difficult for car companies to reach an agreement." "It is unlikely that these automakers will give up their own standards because they have already invested in them," said an expert at the Committee of 100.
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