Fuel cell vehicles welcome "window": corporate alliance small climax

Honda and GM recently announced that they have joined forces to build fuel cell production facilities, making fuel cell vehicles a "window" for the automotive industry. In addition to the two multinational car giants holding hands for fuel cell vehicles, at the same time, a hydrogen fuel committee across Europe and the United States has also been established, and traditional car manufacturers Toyota, Hyundai and BMW have joined. Due to the high barriers to entry, fuel cell vehicles have been “high and low” over the past few years and have been slow to develop. Now, with the support of car companies and the support of governments, fuel cell vehicles are accelerating fast running. A recent study in the United States estimated that by 2032, there will be 5,000 hydrogen refueling stations worldwide, a significant increase from the 285 in 2016.

â– The fuel cell field is now forming a small orgasm

Recently, Honda and General Motors announced that the two companies will each invest $85 million to build a fuel cell system manufacturing base, which will be located in Michigan near the general-purpose vehicle battery production base. The plant is expected to go into production in 2020, and the new plant is set to cater to the needs of the two companies and other multinational companies for hydrogen fuel cell power systems and related technologies.

Shortly before Honda and GM announced the joint establishment of a fuel cell system production facility, a cross-border, cross-border, and promising hydrogen fuel committee was established. The committee was founded by 13 companies, including automakers Honda, BMW, Toyota, Hyundai and several industrial oil, gas and mining companies. The organization announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the original intention of the committee was to "convuse other companies, regulators and the public, and the use of hydrogen is fundamental to our continued survival."

Some analysts believe that multinational companies take the lead in taking action to promote the development of hydrogen fuel innovation technology, will promote the advancement of hydrogen fuel technology, promote more consumers to pay attention to and even choose to use hydrogen fuel vehicles, and promote hydrogen fuel technology on a global scale. The boom of development.

â–  Japanese car companies lead by? By "holding the group"

Honda, who is a "technical control", has always expressed his preference for independent development. At the beginning of the new year, Toyota chose to establish a joint venture with General Motors to produce fuel cell systems, which is surprising. Not only that, Honda's fuel cell vehicles have already begun to be in full swing in California, and their ambitions to seize the opportunities in the field of fuel cell vehicles are unobstructed.

Honda recently launched a multi-channel marketing campaign in the United States. The theme of the event is “Always pay attention to tomorrow”. The main purpose of the event is to show that Honda's new fuel cell vehicle can be used as a daily transportation vehicle, and hope that consumers will know more about the comparative advantages, performance and usage of Honda's new fuel cell vehicle.

"The new marketing campaign for Honda's Clarity fuel cell vehicles is a key step in our efforts to push fuel cell vehicles to the mainstream market," said Steve Sent, vice president of environmental business development at Honda USA. "This marketing campaign also shows Honda's The strategic determination is to continuously increase the electrified models, so that the Honda brand's electrified model lineup continues to increase. It is reported that the Honda Clarity fuel cell vehicle has a driving range of 366 miles (about 589 kilometers). It is the longest driving range among the zero-emission models recognized by the US Environmental Protection Agency. It is also the most advanced model of Honda's technology. It takes only 3 to 5 minutes to fully hydrogen. Honda plans to launch a large-scale digital advertisement for the model in Los Angeles on February 26.

In November last year, Toyota and Mazda officially reached cooperation in the fields of new energy vehicles and car networking. Mazda will receive Toyota's advanced fuel cell technology and hybrid technology; Toyota will receive Mazda's highly efficient Chuangchi blue sky gasoline and diesel engine technology. Not long ago, Toyota and Suzuki also reached a cooperative relationship in the field of new energy vehicles and automatic driving. It can be seen that Japanese car companies are leading in the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and it is not unrelated to the cooperation between them.

■Enterprises are also indispensable for “the hand of the government”

Recently, Toyota Motor Corporation announced that its hydrogen fuel cell passenger car, the Toyota FC bus, is scheduled to be officially launched this year. Toyota is actively introducing hydrogen fuel cell cars and buses, in order to respond to the Japanese government's national policy of building a hydrogen energy society.

The Japanese government encouraged the development of hydrogen energy vehicles as early as 2009, and in 2014 set the construction of a hydrogen energy society as a national development strategy, and plans to achieve the infrastructure of the hydrogen energy society by 2030. The Tokyo government plans to establish some “hydrogen energy social demonstration zones” during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. In addition to promoting 6,000 fuel cell passenger cars, the Tokyo government will replace some traditional fuel buses with fuel cell buses. Further promote the application and industrialization of fuel cell buses.

In Europe, fuel cell vehicles are also striding forward under the strong government of the European Union. Recently, H2ME's first batch of 100 fuel cell vehicles were put into use in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The H2ME was jointly funded by eight European countries to implement the hydrogen station infrastructure and passenger and commercial fuel cell vehicle deployment plans with the support of the European Union.

At present, H2ME plans to further expand its partners, and will increase the number of vehicles to 1400, adding 29 connected hydrogen refueling stations. The project received financial support from the EU 2020 Outlook Program. H2ME will conduct large-scale market testing of hydrogen fuel infrastructure. The EU believes that fuel cell vehicles are the key to solving European energy security and mitigating environmental pressures. In the future, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are sufficient to meet the long-distance travel needs of consumers, and the use will be very convenient.

In the next few years, the H2ME project will deploy partners' next-generation fuel cell vehicles, including Honda's second-generation fuel cell vehicles and the new generation Mercedes-Benz GLCF-CELL, powered by hydrogen fuel cells and a large lithium ion. The battery will also have an external plug-in function. In the future, the number of fuel cell vehicles operating on European roads will continue to increase and the infrastructure will be further expanded.