Focus: Charging market grows significantly; Toshiba develops new generation of lithium battery fast charging technology

　　After the National Day holiday, the new energy vehicle market has expanded, driving the development of related industrial chains. The lithium battery market has ushered in a new wave of growth. The new energy vehicle charging market will also start a new competition and enclosure movement. The new energy vehicle market is developing vigorously. Let's follow the power management editor to learn about the relevant content.

　　The charging volume in Hubei Province increased by 7 times year-on-year. New energy vehicles have become a new travel option during the Golden Week.

　　Data released by the State Grid Hubei Electric Power Company showed that from October 1 to 7 this year, charging stations in Hubei province provided electric vehicle charging services 7,046 times, with a charging volume of 148,500 kWh, a seven-fold increase year-on-year.

　　New energy vehicles are popular, thanks to the accelerated construction of charging stations. On the national and provincial highways that pass through Hubei, a large number of charging piles have been built and put into use since this year, providing great convenience for new energy vehicle owners.

　　BYD's largest electric bus factory in North America starts production in the U.S. with an annual production capacity of 1,500 units

　　On October 6, Chinese automaker BYD held a completion ceremony for its factory expansion in Lancaster, California, USA. The newly built electric bus factory covers an area of ​​about 41,000 square meters. It is the first wholly Chinese-owned bus factory in the United States and the largest electric bus factory in North America.

　　Currently, BYD's bus factory has employed nearly 800 people locally. The new factory, which is fully powered by new energy, is expected to provide more than 1,500 jobs locally.

　　Since 2013, BYD has invested approximately US$230 million in the U.S. electric bus market, accounting for more than 80% of the U.S. pure electric bus market share.

　　Huafeng shares plans to raise 827 million yuan to acquire Ligong Huachuang

　　Huafeng Co., Ltd. issued an announcement on the evening of October 8, announcing that it plans to issue shares privately to 30 transaction counterparties including Lin Cheng to purchase 100% of the equity of Ligong Huachuang. The preliminary transaction price is determined to be 827 million yuan. At the same time, it plans to issue shares privately to no more than 10 specific targets to provide supporting financing of no more than 670 million yuan, which will be used for the research and development and industrialization of key components for electric commercial vehicles.

　　Huafeng shares stated that after the completion of this transaction, Ligong Huachuang will be included in the consolidated financial statements as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, helping the company to form two main business lines of "new energy vehicles" and "electrode foil", and realize the development layout and industrial upgrading from new materials industry to new energy industry. In addition, Lin Cheng and 30 other counterparties promised that the audited net profit after deducting non-operating income of Ligong Huachuang in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 will not be less than 20 million yuan, 40 million yuan, 52 million yuan and 68 million yuan respectively.

　　Chengfei Integrated's current lithium battery production capacity is 5GWH, including 1GWH of ternary batteries

　　Recently, Chengfei Integration revealed in an interaction with investors that the company's current production capacity is about 2.5GWH in Luoyang, mainly lithium iron phosphate; 2.5GWH in Jiangsu Phase I, including 1GWH of ternary batteries; 5GWH is planned for Jiangsu Phase II, which is currently under planning, basically ternary batteries, targeting the passenger car and logistics vehicle markets in 2018-2019; Jiangsu Phase III Industrial Park is still under planning.

　　Taier shares acquired 51.40% equity of lithium battery equipment leader Zhongmai Technology for 150 million yuan

　　On September 30, Taier Holdings, a leader in China's metallurgical industry, issued an announcement that it plans to acquire 51.40% of the equity of Shenzhen Zhongmai Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhongmai Technology) for RMB 143.92 million in cash. The transaction cash will be paid in three installments in proportion.

　　The acquired company, Zhongmai Technology, is a lithium-ion battery and supercapacitor production equipment manufacturer that integrates R&D, design, production and service concepts. The company's products mainly include cylindrical battery automatic liquid injection machines and square battery automatic liquid injection machines, which are mainly used in lithium-ion battery production lines in the three major fields of new energy vehicle power, energy storage and consumer electronics products.

　　Dongfeng New Energy Vehicles sold 28,200 units in the first eight months

　　The latest statistics show that in the first eight months of this year, Dongfeng Motor Corporation sold 28,200 new energy vehicles, more than 3,000 more than the whole of last year, a year-on-year increase of 127.25%, much higher than the 30.2% sales growth of new energy vehicles nationwide during the same period. In 2014 and 2015, Dongfeng sold 1,153 and 15,114 new energy vehicles respectively. It is expected that this number will exceed 40,000 in 2017, showing a continuous blowout trend.

　　Toshiba develops new generation lithium battery technology that can be charged in just 6 minutes

Toshiba Corporation 　　of Japan recently announced that it will develop a new lithium battery technology for electric vehicles. It is understood that the new generation of products has a higher energy density and supports ultra-fast charging, which can be charged to 90% in 6 minutes.

　　The electric car used by Toshiba was put on the road for testing after charging for 6 minutes, and finally achieved a range of 320km. It is worth mentioning that this battery still has more than 90% of its available capacity after 5,000 cycles, which is unimaginable with current battery technology. At the same time, it can still be charged quickly in a low temperature environment (-10℃).

　　Audi and Porsche jointly build PPE electrification platform. 60% of future models will be equipped with new energy technology

　　Recently, Audi CEO Rupert Stadler further revealed the future development strategy of new energy, and said that Audi will produce electric vehicles in various factories around the world in the future. According to the plan, Audi will produce e-tron EV models in its Brussels factory next year, and the hatchback version of e-tron will also be put into production in 2019; in 2020, Audi will produce compact electric vehicles based on Volkswagen Group's modular electric platform MEB, and from 2021, Audi will produce electric vehicles based on the high-end electric vehicle platform jointly developed with Porsche.

　　Tesla delays Model 3 launch as Elon Musk says it's in 'production hell'

　　Recently, Musk tweeted that due to the production bottleneck of Tesla Model 3 and the company's disaster relief in Puerto Rico, Tesla will postpone the release date of its all-electric semi-truck model to November 16.

　　When netizens asked how long it would take for them to get their pre-ordered Model 3, Musk replied on Twitter: "Probably 6 to 8 weeks... We are already in production hell."

　　On October 2, Tesla announced its third quarter 2017 vehicle delivery data, of which only 260 Model 3s were delivered, which was only 17.3% of the expected delivery volume (the original plan was to deliver 1,500 vehicles).

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