On Monday (25th), the US electric car giant Tesla's share price rose in the US stock market, driving its market value to exceed one trillion US dollars. ), the market value is more than the total of the other nine global auto production companies.
In this regard, because Tesla received an order for 100,000 electric vehicles, but in the long run, and because countries around the world are committed to environmental protection, electric vehicles have become the only way to deal with climate warming and reduce carbon emissions. Therefore, governments of various countries have provided many tax concessions and created many favorable conditions for electric vehicles.
As governments of various countries have successively proposed to gradually replace traditional pure gasoline and diesel vehicles with electric vehicles, in addition to accelerating the strategic adjustments of enterprises, the technology and infrastructure of electric vehicles have also become the incentives and investment of governments. direction.
Especially when the world gradually recognizes that electric vehicles are the future of cities, the development and promotion of electric vehicles has already entered an "arms race" type of competition for hegemony among the powers. Many countries have realized that whoever masters this technology will also master this market. Future share.
The trend of independent research and development of electric vehicles
As early as the beginning of 2009, the four main ministries and commissions of the State Council of China proposed the "Ten Cities and Thousand Vehicles Project" to invest and fund the development of new energy vehicles.
The plan started with 10 cities as pilot projects, with the goal of launching 1,000 electric vehicles to operate in cities within three years, and expanding to 30 pilot cities across the country the following year, and further including subsidies for private purchases of electric vehicles.
In 2011, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the State Council also formulated the "New Energy Automobile Industry Development Plan (2011-2020)" to support the development of electric vehicles in China by providing 100 billion yuan in funding, with a budget of nearly 50 billion yuan. It is invested in the research and development of electric vehicles, especially the matching of batteries and various charging technologies.
In October last year, the General Office of the State Council also further issued the "Notice on the Development Plan for the New Energy Vehicle Industry (2021-2035)", and established that electric vehicles are China's "strategic orientation for driving electric vehicles."
In the Chinese market, the sales of electric vehicles independently developed by China have been closely following Tesla. Groups such as BYD and BAIC Group have set sales figures of 26 and 18 vehicles per minute in 2021.
Although Tesla's sales are overwhelmingly publicized in the Chinese market, in fact, sales of electric vehicles independently developed by China have been closely following.
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In the United States, President Biden signed an executive order in August of this year, setting the goal of making electric vehicles account for half of total car sales by 2030, and proposing to promote the development of electric vehicles with US$174 billion.
Also this year, the Korean government also announced a series of policy measures. In addition to promoting the popularization of domestic electric vehicles, it also actively provides tax and subsidies to Kia and Hyundai in the country to develop battery technology. The number of electric vehicles used in South Korea will increase to 2.83 million by 2025, which will further promote the export of South Korean electric vehicles and seize the relevant market share.
In addition to the Chinese government investing a lot of resources in the research and development of electric vehicles, governments of various countries have also rushed to catch up with the research and development of electric vehicles.
The picture shows the MEB electric vehicle chassis developed by Volkswagen specifically for small cars.
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The research and development of electric vehicles is even more important in Europe, especially in Germany, which is a large traditional automobile manufacturing industry.
The development of electric vehicles in German car factories has been slow, and the proportion of electric vehicles in the country's 48 million vehicles is only 1.2%.
In 2019, Prime Minister Merkel once proposed the goal of one million electric vehicles in 2030 and invested heavily in the construction of electric vehicle infrastructure.
In her speech at the opening ceremony of the German International Automobile Exhibition in September this year, she also pointed out with a heavy tone that electric vehicles are an important development direction for the German automobile industry in the future.
The German Volkswagen and BMW have successively proposed long-term goals for the development of electric vehicles this year, and are determined that electric vehicles will account for half of sales by 2030.
It can be seen that electric vehicles are not only the government's measures to deal with global warming, but also the strategic direction of the national government to ensure its own energy security and promote industrial output.
Now that all technological fields have entered the competition for hegemony, how can the government not think about the direction of the future industry?
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