On the afternoon of July 31, China Automotive Technology Research Center (hereinafter referred to as "CICC"), Nissan (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. and Social Science Literature Publishing House jointly held the "2015 new energy vehicle blue book release and industry development seminar" in Beijing. At the meeting, senior experts from the field of new energy vehicles and Social Sciences gathered to put forward suggestions and measures on the current situation and trend of the development of new energy vehicle industry, technology and products, as well as the problems faced by the industrial development.

2014 is an important year for the development of China's new energy automobile industry. Wu Zhixin, deputy director of China Automotive Technology Research Center, said at the meeting: "due to a number of support policies issued by the central and local governments, the production and sales of new energy vehicles are growing rapidly, the international competitiveness of the industry has been greatly improved, and the gap with the United States and Japan is narrowing. At the same time, China's electric vehicle standard system has been further improved, business models have been continuously innovated and enriched, power batteries and drive motors have achieved rapid development, and the quality and performance of electric vehicles are becoming increasingly mature. With the further improvement of the policy system, it is expected that China's new energy vehicle market will continue to maintain a high growth trend in 2015. "

■ international competitiveness

Wu Zhixin said at the press conference that compared with 2012 and 2013, the competitiveness of China's new energy automobile industry has improved significantly in 2014. Compared with the United States, Japan and other countries, the competitiveness of China's new energy automobile industry still has a certain gap, but the gap is narrowing.

In 2014, the comprehensive international competitiveness index of China's new energy automobile industry was 80% of that of the United States, 85% of that of Japan, 88% of that of Germany and 97% of that of South Korea. Although ranked last in the five evaluation countries, compared with the above countries, this year's growth was 7, 14, 11 and 9 percentage points respectively. Experts at the meeting agreed that last year, the central government intensively issued various policies to support the development of new energy vehicles, which directly led to a substantial increase in the overall development speed and market demand of the new energy vehicle industry, and led to the rapid growth of new energy vehicle research and development, industrial chain supporting and business model.

In terms of specific models, compared with 2013, the competitiveness level of each model has been improved to varying degrees. The competitiveness of new energy commercial vehicles is still higher than that of new energy passenger vehicles as a whole; in new energy passenger vehicles, the competitiveness of pure electric and plug-in hybrid passenger vehicles is stronger than that of fuel cells and ordinary hybrid passenger vehicles.

"Due to the strong dependence of enterprises on policies, the development speed and market demand of the whole new energy vehicle industry will be greatly improved, which will make the overall competitiveness of China's new energy vehicle industry rise compared with the same period last year," said engineer time of the new energy vehicle and fiscal policy research Office of China automobile center at the meeting

Since 2014, the relevant national support policies for new energy vehicles have been introduced frequently, and a relatively complete policy support system has been established in the aspects of industry management, promotion and application, tax preference, scientific and technological innovation, infrastructure construction, etc. Last year, the report on the development of China's new energy vehicle industry put forward suggestions on "reducing the tax on the purchase of new energy vehicles, introducing measures to encourage the construction of charging and replacing infrastructure, introducing implementation plans for government procurement, and introducing measures for the assessment of pilot cities and regions". At present, this series of measures have also been introduced and implemented.

■ outstanding problems still to be solved

In addition to the industrial competitiveness, the research group of the blue book Editorial Committee also uses benchmarking analysis to compare the leading domestic enterprises such as BYD, JAC, BAIC with the international enterprises such as GM, Tesla, Benz, Nissan, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Ford, etc. The results show that although the main indicators of Chinese enterprises, such as the number of models, price level, driving mileage and power consumption level, have a small progress compared with 2013, there is still a certain gap compared with foreign leading enterprises.

In 2014, the number of new energy vehicle models launched by enterprises was small, although slightly higher than that in 2013, but the ability to launch new products was not very strong, both in the initial stage. Many enterprises only show a few models, not really put into the market. The reporter noted that BAIC Motor Co., Ltd. last year launched four models, ranking first among domestic automobile enterprises.

Compared with the prices of the original models or similar competitive models, the price difference between BYD Qin, E6, JAC IEV and BAIC e150ev and traditional cars is 104%, 156%, 204% and 224%, which is significantly higher than the price difference between electric cars and traditional cars of foreign enterprises. "This shows that the price of new energy vehicles in China is still on the high side and the competitiveness is weak." Time says.

In addition, in terms of battery, "mileage anxiety" has always been a tough problem for new energy vehicle enterprises. Xiao Chengwei, a battery expert at the 18th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Corporation, said that people who have used pure electric vehicles are more or less troubled by "mileage anxiety". Although the driving mileage is far greater than the mileage you are going to drive, you can't help but feel this emotion. In order to solve this negative sentiment, the government and automobile enterprises have made a lot of efforts, including the construction of emergency charging facilities, the release of the city's charging network map, etc. However, to fundamentally solve the problem of short driving range of pure electric vehicles, we need to start with the power battery itself. Once the driving mileage of pure electric vehicle exceeds 300 kilometers, the "mileage anxiety" of consumers will be greatly relieved, and then the electric vehicle is expected to achieve real rapid development.

■ the local government can "get on the horse and send off"

Last year, in the process of rapid development of China's new energy automobile industry, some cities (regions) developed, purchased, operated and built infrastructure