China's "European tour" of new energy is an overseas breakthrough point

As the epidemic has been brought under control and the auto industry has fully resumed production, China's auto manufacturing industry has also stepped up the pace of "going global".

About 7,000 Tesla cars made in Chinese factories will leave Shanghai in late October and arrive in The Belgian port of Zeebrugge a month later to be sold in Germany, France, Italy and other countries. It was just 10 months before the first Chinese-made Model3 was delivered and less than two years after Tesla's Shanghai gigafactory began operations.

Song Gang, manufacturing director of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai, said, "After the Shanghai plant's capacity climb, we will be able to meet the demand of Chinese consumers while also bringing our high-quality products to customers in Europe. This is our first foray into exporting to Europe and it lays a very solid foundation for our future exports."

Auto industry analyst zhang told reporters that at present there are two tesla vehicle super factory, located in San Francisco fremont super super factory factory and Shanghai, China, to benefit from good disease control, China factory capacity recovery faster, and because of the supply chain in China, can ensure the quality and reduce manufacturing costs.

For Tesla, manufacturing in China is a supplement to the production capacity of American factories, while for Chinese new energy vehicle enterprises, the European market is a new world.

China's new-energy passenger vehicle sales in the first half of 2020 were 313,000 units, down 44.0% year on year, while European new-energy vehicle sales rose 52% year on year to 403,000 units, according to the Passenger Association. Europe may overtake China to become the world's largest market for new energy vehicles.

With a market of about 17 million passenger cars, Europe is a huge market and will be a strategic focus for SAIC in the future, said Zhao Aimin, saic's deputy general manager. It is understood that in The same October, SAIC announced the launch of its European self-run routes. The Anji-Phoenix, saic's largest vehicle roll-on/roll-off ship, will carry nearly 1,800 MG new energy vehicles to Europe.

"This route not only serves SAIC, but also serves its own brand 'going global'." Zhao aimin said.

Saic Yang Junling chase sales company overseas department general manager pointed out that in the field of fuel cars, Chinese auto brands compared with the traditional European brands have a certain distance, but with the aid of new energy automobile market the breakthrough point, saic through product differences, differences, business channel, pricing model based on the European market very well.

Since its resumption of work and production this year, Aic has exported a total of 700 new energy vehicles to the EU, making it the largest Chinese startup exporting smart electric vehicles to the EU. Fu Qiang, co-founder and chairman of AiC, said frankly that the European new energy vehicle market is a blue ocean. "The original idea is that the overseas market accounts for more than 40%, but now it seems more ideal, and the European market offers us more profit space than the domestic market."

Fu Qiang said, to participate in international competition is the future trend of China's new energy vehicle enterprises.

Indeed, strong supply chains have led to a growing number of overseas companies looking to China as an export hub for electric vehicles. BMW, Renault, Daimler and many other auto makers are moving their new energy vehicle production plants to China.

Xin Guobin, vice minister of The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said on the release of the New Energy Automobile Industry Development Plan (2021-2035) that new energy vehicles are the main direction for the transformation and upgrading of the global automobile industry and the green development, as well as a strategic choice for the high-quality development of China's automobile industry.

Xin guobin pointed out that after years of development, China's industrial technology level has been significantly improved, the industrial ecosystem has been gradually established, and the supporting environment has been constantly improved. The new energy automobile industry has become one of the new driving forces of China's economic and social development.