"This is a highlight era for BYD and a highlight era for Chinese brands." On the evening of August 9, Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD Co., LTD., announced at the global headquarters in Shenzhen that BYD's 5 millionth new energy vehicle officially rolled off the assembly line, becoming the world's first auto brand to reach this milestone.
At the event, Wang Chuanfu delivered BYD's 5 millionth new energy vehicle, Denza N7, to the keynote speaker of the "Friends of Time" New Year's Speech and App founder Luo Zhenyu.
In 2008, BYD launched the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric vehicle; In 2021, BYD's world's first pure electric vehicle equipped with BYD blade batteries rolled off the assembly line. It took 13 years from "the first car to the millionth", and 1 and a half years from "1 million to 3 million", and less than 9 months from 3 million to today's 5 million.
"Byd has spent 20 years making a proof that BYD can, new energy can and Chinese cars can." At the scene, Wang Chuanfu choked up several times when reviewing BYD's 20-year road to new energy vehicles. He said that technology research and development is the "new long March" of science and technology self-reliance, the past 20 years BYD in the core technology continued to invest, BYD has 11 research institutes, R & D personnel of more than 90,000 people, an average of 15 patents per working day, for BYD's technological innovation injected a steady stream of power.
Adhering to the "technology is king", BYD has created a huge "technology fish pool", and continues to lead the change of global green travel with disruptive technologies and applications such as blade battery, DM-i super hybrid, e Platform 3.0, CTB battery body integration, Yisong technology platform, Yunlien intelligent body control system, etc. The layout of the five brand matrices of Dynasty, Ocean, Denza, Look Up and Equation Leopard has been completed.
20 years of perseverance to usher in upward breakthroughs, in the recent 2023 "Fortune" World 500 list, BYD has become the largest increase in the ranking of Chinese enterprises this year, known as the dark horse to achieve new energy vehicle technology innovation and breakthrough.
New energy vehicles have provided a new "acceleration" for the development of Chinese automobile brands. At present, China's export volume of new energy vehicles is the world's first, more than 60% of the world's new energy vehicles are produced and sold in China, China's new energy vehicle patent disclosure accounts for 70% of the world's, more than 63% of the world's power batteries are supplied by China, China has mastered the core technology of new energy vehicles and a complete industrial chain.
"China has become a power of new energy vehicles." Wang Chuanfu said that the development trend of new energy is irreversible, and it is predicted that by 2025, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles in the Chinese market will exceed 60%, and the market share of Chinese automobile brands will increase to 70%, achieving leapfrog development. "China has the foundation and strength to create world-class automobile brands, and China's automobile industry will surely give birth to a number of respected world-class brands."
