＂Made in Chengdu＂ new energy bus speeds up its journey to home and abroad.

Although it was a weekend yesterday, the workshop of Chengdu Gree Titanium New Energy Co., Ltd. in Xinjin District was still busy. "There are too many orders waiting to be delivered before the Spring Festival. We work overtime until 11 o’clock every night and work overtime as usual on weekends and holidays." Yang Tianfu, the director of the automobile factory, told the reporter that in the past 2023, compared with 2022, the order volume increased by more than 30%. "The factory has achieved full production, the efficiency has improved, and everyone is more motivated!"

In 2023, Chengdu Gree Titanium New Energy Co., Ltd. achieved a great leap in terms of orders, production capacity and export volume. In particular, it won the largest order worth 360 million yuan in the new energy bus industry that year and became famous in the industry. The large-scale popularization and application of new energy vehicles in the public transport industry has brought market opportunities for enterprises like Chengdu Gree Titanium. Seize the opportunity and share more market cakes. "In 2024, we will work harder, not only to further expand the domestic market, but also to speed up the pace of going abroad and let more regions in the world apply the’ Chengdu-made’ new energy bus." Dong Feng, general manager of Chengdu Gree Titanium New Energy Co., Ltd. said.

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A car goes offline every 8 minutes.

Sprint 100 logistics vehicles every day.

Walking into the assembly workshop of Gree Titanium, the reporter saw that two 400-meter-long production lines were filled with logistics vehicles being assembled, and more than 200 workers were distributed in chassis tire installation, cab installation, seat installation, glass installation and other links. Through orderly assembly line operation, every 8 minutes or so, an assembled logistics vehicle was commissioned, rolled off the assembly line and drove to the parking lot for shipment.

"Before the Spring Festival, a number of logistics vehicles are being rushed, and they are full of horsepower. They sprint the output of 100 units every day and start while producing." Yang Tianfu proudly introduced that logistics vehicles are another important product of Chengdu Gree Titanium besides buses. In 2023, the factory delivered tens of thousands of logistics vehicles, and the order volume of logistics vehicles will exceed 10,000 in 2024.

In Dong Feng’s view, the company achieved a big breakthrough in 2023. He told reporters that when competing for the largest order of 200 18-meter buses from Yinchuan, Ningxia, there were also domestic first-class car companies such as BYD and Xiamen Jinlong. Chengdu Gree Titanium successfully won this order by accurately grasping the customer’s needs, designing a customized appearance plan according to the local culture and characteristic elements, and establishing a supporting after-sales service station in the local area to quickly respond to the customer’s after-sales needs.

"These 200 18-meter-long buses have been delivered. Some time ago, I just delivered a batch of customized buses in Linyi, Shandong. On the evening of the 20 th, another batch of buses customized by Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province were sent away. " Dong Feng introduced that in 2023, in addition to Chengdu’s local market, Gree Titanium’s buses also expanded greatly in other places, and were sold to Yibin, Meishan, Yinchuan, Xining, Linyi, Beijing, Tianjin, Zhanjiang, Xingtai and Hangzhou.

Not only that, Gree Titanium’s new energy buses have also opened up the international market, and were sold to Norway, Israel and other countries last year. It is understood that Gree Titanium new energy bus has the characteristics of wide temperature resistance and fast charging, and can adapt to extremely cold or extremely hot environments. "We are communicating with some Central Asian countries and Southeast Asian countries to try to open up the markets in these places." Dong Feng said.

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The additional production line is at full capacity.

Seize the development opportunity of new energy industry

"Lithium battery and hydrogen energy are the two tracks of the new energy industry. Xinjin District is closely following the action of building a strong chain, aiming at the two tracks of lithium battery and hydrogen energy, and is vigorously developing the new energy industry. " He Zhongheng, director of Xinjin Economic and Information Bureau, said that leading enterprises such as Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, Gree Titanium and Sinoma Technology, as well as upstream and downstream enterprises such as Silibao, Indira and Mingran Intelligent, are all producing at full capacity at present, and some of them have invested in expanding new production lines, all of which are seizing market opportunities.

As a leading manufacturer of hydrogen bottles in the industry, Sinoma Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. recently signed an agreement with Xinjin District to invest an additional 500 million yuan to build 100,000 automatic production lines for hydrogen storage bottles. After the completion of the new project, Xinjin Base will become the largest production base of hydrogen storage bottles in the Asia-Pacific region, with an annual production capacity of 200,000 bottles, more than 100 new jobs and an annual output value of more than 500 million yuan.

The reason for adding a new production line is that with the vigorous development of green hydrogen industry, the market demand for safe and efficient gas storage and transportation equipment has greatly increased. At present, the application scenarios of hydrogen storage bottles of Sinoma Technology have blossomed everywhere, and have been applied to hydrogen-powered light rail vehicles, hydrogen-powered work boats, CNG buses, hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles, etc. The market is in short supply.

In 2021, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, which settled in Xinjin District and built five lithium iron phosphate battery production lines, increased its weight again in 2023, investing in the construction of two battery PACK production lines with an annual output of 6.6GWh, and now it has been officially put into production. It is understood that the battery PACK is the terminal product provided by the battery factory to the downstream automobile factory, which mainly includes several parts: battery core, module, electrical system, thermal management system, shell and BMS.

The new energy industry is developing rapidly. How can the government provide good service and relieve the worries of enterprises? "On January 18, Xinjin District held the first political and business forum to optimize the business environment this year, and invited more than 20 enterprises to make demands face to face. Several major new energy enterprises were invited." He Zhongheng said that new energy enterprises raised issues such as electricity security and transportation security at the meeting. "We must escort the development of the industry with a better business environment and promote the qualitative change of the new energy industry from a single project to an industrial cluster."

Original title: "Made in Chengdu" New Energy Bus Speeds to Home and Abroad "

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