China’s auto new energy dilemma for the laptop battery

Corn prices rose by the impact of China’s bio-fuel, hybrid and battery cars several cars new energy program, which will choose as the main direction of development, has become a focus of concern to the industry has a Apple Battery. Xu Zhen very busy these days, as vice president of Ford China, he needs to take care of Ford at the Shanghai auto show in every detail. For the Ford in terms of how to display their product’s environmental philosophy is this important task of the Shanghai auto show, “This is very important because this is the theme of Auto Shanghai environmental protection, environmental protection and automobile industry are increasingly linked closely. “Xu Guozhen the” Financial Times “said.

Xu Zhen busy in managing the Shanghai auto show, when a number of issues, Ford and General Motors, Chrysler, clean swept the North American market-based “flexible fuel” cars has been Chairman of International Automobile Manufacturers Association, Mike Stanton questioned: “We are also did not like the U.S. domestic automobile manufacturers to fully acknowledge this as fuel, although it is very effective, very clean. ”

This “flexible fuel” vehicles with E85 fuel, from 85% ethanol and 15% of the gasoline A1008 mixture, which in the Chinese market is almost unthinkable because of the domestic ethanol gasoline in the ratio of ethanol and gasoline is 90 %?? 10%. “If you can produce enough ethanol, E85 is obviously a very effective alternative energy.” Kenneth Hsu said.

“There is no doubt that in the automotive manufacturing and the globalization of markets today, E85 for the future of China’s auto industry provides a possible alternative energy sources.” Automotive analyst, said the division bell.

Embarrassment of ethanol

Xu Zhen frankly, in the structural design of the engine, E85 is not insurmountable A1012 technological barriers, as long as the engine for structural improvements, you can use E85 fuel, and to improve the engine can either use the E85 fuel, can also use regular gasoline. The reason why the current domestic use only less than 10% of the proportion of ethanol gasoline, because to add no more than 10% of the proportion of ethanol, you can keep the engine in the case of the original structure does not affect the normal operation of the engine.

Since the technical threshold is not high, in the context of rising oil prices, the Chinese government has been trying to promote alternative sources of energy to the development of the automotive industry, and has not set up foreign investment in this field threshold. Why does Ford have not used this advanced alternative energy to China?

“Although a national policy of support, but derived from bio-ethanol fuels, the question boils down to the food problem, but the food problem is directly related to the whole society and the country’s economic stability, which may be implemented in China E85 can not be the most fundamental reason for . “Chung Shi said.

In fact, E85 is beginning to affect U.S. food prices. Because a successful alternative A1022 to gasoline, E85, in its initial public when they caused a sensation in North America, 12 months later, the number of 1 million E85 fuel vehicles began to play its power industrial chain in the United States to form shock waves, the United States Detroit Motor City as the center of the surrounding several continents rapidly changing the original structure of agriculture, almost all domestic agriculture are planted with corn and soybeans, because these two crops are the main raw material for production of bio-ethanol.

The United States is the world’s largest corn exporter, but because of its domestic market, increased demand for corn exports, not only has declined, recently even started importing corn and soybeans, which led to the international corn and soybean futures prices soared.

Affected by this, the domestic market has been steadily rising corn prices, there is information that, since the main raw material of corn prices, the domestic ethanol production plants all of the four fixed-point loss, they are responsible for providing alcohol ethanol in gasoline. In order not to further stimulate the demand for corn, the National Development and Reform Commission had also stopped a number of small ethanol production projects.

Because corn and soybeans are the main raw material for production of animal feed, animal feed prices passive obvious trend of rising feed prices and promote the meat and other food prices. A large group of domestic grain bosses said: “People should not be so stupid, with a valuable food to fill the A1039 machine.” He was clearly not in favor of a large number of corn into ethanol for fuel used by cars.

The CEOs stated a truth that exists on the premise that E85 has an abundance of surplus grain, because production of 1 ton of ethanol required more than 3 tons of food, the U.S. per capita farmland is 1.64 hectares like this, if the per capita arable land area of only 1.43 acres in China, without restraint to the implementation of E85 bio-fuel is likely consequences can be imagined.

Thus, while supporting the development of bio-energy, the Chinese government is still cautious about fuel ethanol. National Development and Reform Commission officials, Liu Qun, for biofuels in 2006, meeting of the national publicly stated that the “Eleventh Five-Year” period (2006-2010), China plans to the proportion of ethanol gasoline consumption from the current less than 20% to 50% . But he also stressed that the Government would continue to “moderate” development of fuel ethanol industry, insist on energy and food win-win situation, “in the premise of ensuring food security,” the State will adopt fiscal and taxation support policies to support part of the conversion of grain into fuel ethanol.

How to get a new energy path?

In addition to ethanol, the international automotive industry for alternative energy research also focused on electric vehicles, hybrid fuel cell vehicles and a few areas, “in the field of electric vehicles, continued driving a short distance, charging time is too long, cost too high is the industry recognized the constraints A1057 of a purely electric car development and promotion of the three major problems, even Toyota, are also not solve a number of critical issues. “Toyota China Yang Hongjian the” Financial Times “said.

Not only Toyota, including General Motors, Ford and other international auto giants, in a pure cell vehicle three bottlenecks in the field of study has not yet made marked progress. “The current demand for more realistic alternative energy is a hybrid battery, because the hybrid batteries and other new energy sources like hydrogen fuel needs to re-building of stations, so long as he can get regular gasoline higher energy efficiency than petrol.” Yang Hongjianč¯´.

Toyota Prius is such a model, equipped with the world because of its relatively mature within the hybrid battery, the road in the city will save about 50% of the fuel, so this product because of its actual environmental effects arising from popular Europe and the United States has become the object surrounded by a number of star politicians. But the Prius also has its weaknesses: First, the high cost of hybrid batteries; secondly, in the distant inter-city driving, the hybrid batteries will increase the body weight, energy-saving effect is A1060 limited.

Of all the alternative energy sources, Xu Zhen’s most respected or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, “This is the most clean energy, however, penetration of the current technical point of view, is too costly, and, in the country to re-establish a large-scale hydrogen refueling station, require a huge investment. “Hsu said. Obviously, different manufacturers, to be how to develop the car has its own understanding of new energy sources.

Cutting-edge alternative energy development, from another angle, the uncertainty of the infinite possibilities of its interpretation, although such a possibility is still nowhere in sight, but because of the country’s strong proponent of alternative energy development has emerged “investment overheating” of the signs.

From the official data showed that China’s current R & D of new energy vehicles set up on behalf of the enterprise for at least more than 100, including batteries, spare parts production enterprises, but the fish in the continuous increase in those who have exceeded the relevant state departments to the limits of A1061 tolerance.

In this context, early in March, the NDRC announced a “new energy vehicles access to the management of production rules (draft).” “Rules” for the first time the production of new energy vehicles set the access threshold – up to 15 standard, and a strict system of a veto. “Access threshold set was so strict, that the field of Development and Reform Commission automobile manufacturers got rid of alternative energy research and development will very firmly.” Automotive analyst, said Jia Xinguang.

“We want to know how many companies are not doing alternative energy research and development, we are concerned is the core issue, the relevant state’s new energy policy is not clear, in the bio-fuel, hybrid and battery cars are several alternative energy fuels, the next major developments in what remains to be seen what kind of alternative fuels A1078, A1079. “Xu Zhen says.