As integral efforts of the hydrogen energy strategy, Great Wall Motors will build an international supply chain ecology integrating hydrogen “production -storage-transportation-refueling-application”, break barriers on core technologies and connect the downstream industry chain, accelerating the commercial popularization of hydrogen energy.
The Great Wall Motors Hydrogen Energy Strategy Global Launch was held in the Haval Technology Center of Baoding. The ceremony was attended by Jack Wei , Chairman of Great Wall Motors, Meng Xiangjun, the Rotating President, Mu Feng, Vice President, and Zhang Tianyu, Chairman of GWM’s subsidiary FTXT and Chen Xuesong, President of FTXT, as well as nearly 100 leaders, experts and scholars from government agencies and various fields such as energy, environmental protection, economy, finance and automobile. They all witnessed this historic moment.
As integral efforts of the hydrogen energy strategy, Great Wall Motors will build an international supply chain ecology integrating hydrogen “production -storage-transportation-refueling-application”, break barriers on core technologies and connect the downstream industry chain, accelerating the commercial popularization of hydrogen energy. In the hydrogen energy strategy, Hydrogen-L.E.M.O.N. Technology is also proposed to speed up product realization and propel the transformation of energy structure in China. The technology is a world-class full-scene solution of “hydrogen power systems” and meets vehicle regulations.
Aspiring to be among the top 3 players in the world, GWM builds an international supply chain ecology integrating hydrogen “production – storage – transportation – refueling – application”
China is the largest renewable energy country of wind energy and solar energy, among others. The future sustainable development of China rests in making the most of the renewable energy sources, as well as obtaining and using hydrogen energy in a scientific and rational manner.
In the face of the transformation in energy structure, Great Wall Motors launched the hydrogen energy strategy that focuses on the “green+intelligent” mobility idea and takes “building a sustainable and beautiful society characterized by hydrogen energy” as its ultimate goal. In the ceremony, Mu Feng, Vice President of GWM, said: “If 1 million vehicles running on the roads of China are powered by hydrogen fuel cells, the carbon emission in one year would be reduced by 510 million tons. This would be especially helpful for realizing the carbon neutrality goal”.
The hydrogen energy strategy of GWM covers both an international supply chain ecology integrating hydrogen “production -storage-transportation-refueling-application” and the Hydrogen-L.E.M.O.N. Technology—a world-class full-scene solution of “hydrogen power systems” meeting vehicle regulations.
Thanks to the hydrogen energy strategy, Great Wall Motors will attach equal importance to both commercial vehicles and passenger cars to promote technological and industrial development through scene exploration and accelerate product realization. “This year, GWM will launch the world’s first SUV with Class C hydrogen fuel cell and take the lead in implementing the application project of one hundred 49-ton hydrogen energy heavy trucks in the world; 2022 will see the first service fleet of high-end passenger cars on the arena of the Olympic Winter Games; in 2023, we will become a leader domestically in terms of the number of core power components promoted; we will ride into top three in global hydrogen market share by 2025.” Zhang Tianyu, Chairman of GWM FTXT, said.
Based upon the R&D of core components and technology of the downstream of the hydrogen energy industry, GWM has been taking a product-oriented approach to explore the core material joint cooperation mode upstream and upgrade product applications downstream through demonstration operation. By expanding scenario applications, GWM integrates the optimum resources of internal and external industry chains.
In terms of R&D investment, GWM will plunge another RMB 3 billion into the hydrogen energy R&D sector to reach the production capacity of 10,000 sets. Meanwhile, GWM gathers more capable personnel and pools foreign experts from Europe, America, Japan, and other countries with over ten years of experience in hydrogen energy technology R&D, to create the largest hydrogen energy technology R&D team at home. GWM has also built a global R&D system covering four countries and five regions, laying a solid foundation for the breakthrough of core hydrogen energy technology.
Currently, GWM has been completely independent in intellectual property rights of the six core technologies and products of “stack and core components, fuel cell engines and components (controllers, etc.), IV hydrogen storage cylinders, high-pressure hydrogen storage valves, hydrogen safety, and liquid hydrogen process”, with many technologies having broken through industrial “bottlenecks”. It is committed to boosting the advent of a hydrogen society through technological progress.
At the upstream of the industry chain, GWM’s new generation of solar PV technology of perovskite features a 20.01% photoelectric conversion efficiency recorded in the world, marking the formal step of the conversion efficiency of large-area PV modules of perovskite into the “2.0 era.” With regard to large-scale energy storage and application, the hydrogen + electric energy storage system leading the industry provides a solution for large-scale renewable energy storage and lays a foundation for the comprehensive utilization of mobile and stationary energy.
At the downstream of the industry chain, GWM has been part of the four demonstration pilot city clusters of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, Henan, and Hebei. More than 1,000 demonstration vehicles are planned, involving multiple application scenarios such as passenger cars, heavy trucks, logistics, public transport, ships, and rail transit, to draw a broader market blueprint.
“1+3+5″—GWM’s Hydrogen-L.E.M.O.N. Technology Supporting Full-scene Applications
GWM’s Hydrogen-L.E.M.O.N. Technology, as a world-class full-scene solution of “hydrogen power systems” meeting vehicle regulations, is the core technology pillar of GWM’s hydrogen energy strategy and one of the core technical routes of GWM’s L.E.M.O.N. platform, covering hydrogen fuel cell system, on-board hydrogen storage system, and key components. It can be summarized as “1+3+5”, namely 1 complete R&D system meeting the vehicle regulations, 3 technology platforms, and 5 performance advantages.
As the root of Hydrogen-L.E.M.O.N. Technology, the one complete R&D system meeting the vehicle regulations spans more than 100 enterprise standards, over 500 hardware requirements, 5,000-plus software requirements, thousands of detections, and tens of thousands of tests. It can quickly define, disassemble, simulate and design fuel cell engine systems, parts and components, and materials from top to bottom according to vehicle hydrogen demand, and ensure the excellent performance, high quality, and low cost of the products via trial production test.
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