Tesla's new patent! Replace the battery in 15 minutes and fully charge it for 30 minutes. Tesla must go against the sky! New energy vehicles coming soon

New energy vehicles are about to become the next rumor, do you believe? Recently, the new energy vehicle Tesla has issued a patent, which can quickly replace the battery in 15 minutes. Does the fragrance feel a bit unbelievable? Specifically, let's take a look at the latest news and learn about the outbreak of new energy vehicles.

The patent filed by Tesla in May details a battery replacement system in which the Model S or Model X will drive to a slope or elevator before raising it to a predetermined height. Technicians assigned to the charging station will be able to assist with machine operation and replace the battery with a fully charged battery. From start to finish, the entire process takes about 15 minutes.

Tesla is expanding its super charging station to parts of Boston, Chicago and South Australia. Typically, charging can take about 30 minutes, while the Chicago and Boston charging stations are smaller and take 45-50 minutes.

“This provides a faster way to supplement the electric vehicle's electrical energy and allows the electric car to travel virtually uninterrupted during long road trips.”

This is not the first time Tesla has considered introducing a battery replacement station. As early as 2014, the company launched a pilot program that allows people to change car batteries within three minutes, but requires an advance reservation. At the time, Tesla believed that future iterative services would take less than a minute because the process became more automated.

TechCrunch pointed out that although the patent only mentions Model S and Model X, these charging stations may also benefit other Tesla vehicles. The company's automatic semi-trailer truck will be officially launched on October 26 and will be a model that benefits from a mid-range replaceable battery. If the battery replacement system is really faster than the super charging station, then the travel time of the semi-trailer truck can also be reduced.

However, the existence of patents does not mean that Tesla has plans for the project. It remains to be seen if Tesla thinks this is worth pursuing.

After the world, especially China, announced that it will set a timetable for the suspension of sales of traditional energy vehicles, A-share new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, Tesla and other concept stocks continued to perform, and the relevant concept index also hit a new high after the 2015 stock market crash. . In addition, concept stocks such as fuel cells and charging piles have also turned from low-level consolidation to pull-up – although this pull-up has not recovered before the decline. Corresponding to the A-shares, Tesla, the “share king” of the Nasdaq auto manufacturing industry, seems to have reached a new platform after the slow-moving trend. After hitting a new high on June 23 this year, it has been consolidating at a high level.

The market seems to confirm that a long-established traditional energy car is about to close. However, in the still vague concept of new energy vehicles, no one can determine which technologies and brands will dominate the future of the automotive industry. Even in the current lithium battery technology system, there are many technical routes. What's more, there is also a seemingly subversive hydrogen fuel cell technology that may be subversive.

In the first five months of this year, the total sales volume of new energy passenger vehicles in the world was 334,400 units, an increase of 45.15% compared with 227,700 units last year, which is 78.75% higher than the same period of 2016 and 2015 (total sales volume of 128,800 units). The magnitude has dropped. Among the sales of 333,400 vehicles this year, China, Japan and the United States sold 116,000, 71,200 and 68,200 respectively, occupying the top three positions in global new energy vehicle sales, up 34.9%, 37.19 and 20.45% respectively. .

According to different technologies, the global pure electric passenger vehicle (EV) sales volume was 234,700 units in the first five months of this year, the number of passenger cars (PHEV) was 97,400 units, and the fuel cell passenger vehicle (FCV) was only 1310. The vehicles increased by 77%, 0.9% and 173% respectively. Nissan, Beiqi New Energy, BYD, Tesla and Toyota ranked the top five pure electric passenger car sales in the first five months of this year. The most popular products are Nissan Note, Beiqi E and Nissan Leaf. It sold 47,400, 25,000 and 21,200 units respectively.

The above data shows that global new energy vehicles still maintain a high growth rate, of which pure electric vehicles are the mainstay, while fuel cell vehicles are growing at a faster rate, but the total volume is still small.

In China, under the support of policies such as “Energy Conservation and New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2012-2020)” (hereinafter referred to as “Planning”), new energy vehicles have gone through a period of rapid growth and development. According to the "Plan", by 2020, the production capacity of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles will reach 2 million, and the cumulative production and sales volume will exceed 5 million. The China Automobile Association has predicted that it will complete the sales target of 700,000 to 800,000 new energy vehicles this year. According to the latest production and sales data, in the first eight months of this year, new energy vehicles sold 320,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 30.2%. If the minimum target of 700,000 vehicles is completed this year and the annual growth rate is 30%, by 2020, the cumulative sales volume of new energy vehicles in China will reach 5.33 million.

Considering that by the end of 2016, China's car ownership reached 194 million vehicles, and the expected sales target of 5 million new energy vehicles in 2020 will only account for 2.58% of the total number of cars in 2016. From this point of view, the future of new energy vehicles still has a good room for growth.

For the future development prospects of new energy vehicles, senior auto analyst Jia Xinguang told the Red News reporter that the sales target of 5 million vehicles is "only an expected value. It is difficult to say whether it can be achieved. Many countries have similar expectations, but they have not mentioned It is not impossible to see that it will reach 5 million vehicles. The key is that the private purchase market has not really started, and there is no new breakthrough in electric vehicle technology."

In general, as the heart of new energy vehicles, power batteries have always been one of the most concerned technologies in the industry and secondary markets. At present, the batteries of pure electric vehicles are mainly lithium iron phosphate batteries and ternary lithium batteries. The ternary lithium batteries are being used for a wider range of applications due to their own characteristics, and the market for related materials, especially ternary cathode materials, has risen.

In Jia Xinguang's view, neither the lithium iron phosphate battery nor the ternary lithium battery is the ultimate product of the power battery, and it has gradually replaced the lead acid battery with these batteries. "Power battery technology may have new breakthroughs, such as curing lithium batteries, water electrolytes, etc., but it takes time from the laboratory to the market."

At the same time, when lithium batteries cover investors' eyes, some manufacturers are also noteworthy about the action of hydrogen fuel cells. At the beginning of last year, Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell vehicle was officially launched. Mercedes-Benz also has long-term technical accumulation in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and is planning to launch related models. In Japan, the Japanese government has also built hundreds of hydrogen refueling stations to promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Mercedes-Benz and Toyota are the alternatives in the current major automakers' announcement of the development of electric vehicles, but it is still a technological trend.

Technically speaking, hydrogen fuel is ultimately discharged from water, which is a true zero emission, which is an improvement over batteries using secondary energy. In addition, it is also superior in terms of cruising range and service life. The current problems of hydrogen fuel cells are mainly due to high cost and safety. These two points may be solved quickly with the technical iteration and commercialization of some automobile brands. Once this is done, the electric vehicles will not be ruled out. . According to research reports, by 2050, the number of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries will exceed 100 million units, accounting for 30%.

Domestically, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have been encouraged by the policy. On December 29 last year, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued a new subsidy standard for new energy vehicles. Each fuel cell vehicle can receive a state subsidy of up to 500,000 yuan. Some institutions have calculated that the subsidies for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are higher than those of traditional lithium battery vehicles, and they have already made the manufacturers profitable. In September this year, Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, invested in a multi-billion-dollar industrial project, the Yangtze River Hydrogen Power R&D Center and a vehicle production project. In addition, the country's first fully commercialized hydrogen refueling station has also been put into use. This shows that China's hydrogen fuel cells began to catch up with leading countries such as Japan.