With the increasing saturation of China's auto market, the competition of domestic car companies has entered a white-hot stage, and the overseas market has become a new growth point. Most Chinese automakers choose the mode of going overseas with complete vehicles, but due to trade barriers, access conditions and other restrictions, it is difficult to form a strong competitiveness. In the long run, systematic going overseas is the key to international and sustainable development.
Recently, GAC Aion announced that the Thai smart ecological factory will be officially completed in mid-July, and at the same time, the high-profile second-generation AION V will also roll off the assembly line globally. This means that Aion's global development has made substantial progress, opening a new stage from "product going overseas" to "ecological going overseas".
Thailand's smart ecological factory is Aion's first overseas factory, which has fully transplanted the homologous technology of the world's only new energy lighthouse factory, achieved a global leader in digital and intelligent manufacturing, and provided more world-class products for global users with high-quality and high-efficiency intelligent production.
At the same time, the second-generation AION V, as Aion's first global strategic model, is built with more stringent European standards, and is one step ahead in terms of manufacturing specifications and international access conditions. It is expected to be officially launched in July, which is expected to become an important step in Aion's global market layout.
Aion also relies on the local high-quality supply chain to promote the development of related industrial chains through joint ventures and cooperation; Previously, an energy company has been established in Thailand to build an integrated energy ecology of "photovoltaic storage, charging and swapping", and to build a "fast, wide and near" energy replenishment network in Thailand; At the same time, through the establishment of a global R&D network and an international talent training base, we can realize the co-creation and sharing of science and technology and products.
Aion's in-depth layout in Thailand is gradually shaping the first new ecology of the new energy vehicle industry in Southeast Asia, which not only demonstrates that as a major brand, Aion has explored a high-quality international path for Chinese auto brands, and contributed a unique "Aion plan", as the head brand of new energy vehicles, it is foreseeable that Aion will usher in another round of high-quality growth and enter a new stage of rapid development of globalization.