Deputy Zhang Xiyong: Take the opportunity of the Winter Olympics to promote the new energy of commercial vehicles

"With the increasing maturity of the 'three electricity' technology and the sharp decline in cost, the scale inflection point of new energy vehicles has arrived." Zhang Xiyong, deputy to the Municipal People's Congress and general manager of BAIC Group, said that it is recommended to take the green Winter Olympics as an opportunity to further accelerate the promotion of new energy vehicles, especially commercial vehicles.

BAIC Group began to develop new energy vehicles as early as 2003, and Zhang Xiyong truly felt the rapid development of China's new energy automobile industry in the past 19 years. He believes that after the initial stage of policy-driven development from 2012 to 2018, and the climbing period from policy-driven to market-driven since 2018, new energy vehicles are moving towards a high-speed growth period driven by technology, and sales will show exponential growth.

As the earliest vehicle enterprise in China to enter new energy vehicles, beiqi Foton Ouhui hydrogen fuel bus provided services for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. With the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics imminent, 212 hydrogen-fueled buses and 330 electric vehicles of BAIC Group have been delivered to the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee to support the travel of the event.

The environmental benefits brought by new energy vehicles are obvious. According to reports, from last year's guarantee of the "Meet beijing series of winter sports events", Foton Ouhui hydrogen fuel bus and Ouhui pure electric intercity bus daily battery life demand reached an average of 150 kilometers, according to the 12 meters of traditional power city bus 100 kilometers fuel consumption of about 18 liters, a new energy bus reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 67.5 kg per day, 75 days of cycling to reduce carbon dioxide by about 5.06 tons. This is equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by more than 1,000 50-year-old trees in a day.

The policy level also supports the development of new energy vehicles. In the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of Beijing Municipality and the Outline of Long-term Goals for 2035", it is clearly proposed to actively promote the "public to rail" of transportation and the "oil-to-electricity" of vehicles, and promote the basic replacement of pure electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles by public transport (commuting), sanitation, taxi, slag and postal and express delivery vehicles in the city.

In view of a series of prominent problems faced by the comprehensive new energy of commercial vehicles, such as the lack of systematic and sustained new energy promotion guidance policies; the restriction of the right of way for new energy logistics vehicles; the high purchase cost and the restriction of market-oriented promotion; the imperfect infrastructure of new energy commercial vehicles, Zhang Xiyong also put forward 6 targeted suggestions: clarify the comprehensive new energy target plan for commercial vehicles, improve supporting policies; accelerate the opening of new energy logistics vehicle road rights; give new energy commercial vehicle operation subsidies to reduce vehicle purchase costs Accelerate the construction of charging infrastructure for new energy commercial vehicles; give full play to the demonstration and leading role of key industries and key enterprises; and strengthen the integrated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.