GCL Energy wins two awards in China's battery swap industry in 2022

Suzhou, December 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 21-22, the 2022 China International Battery Swap Vehicle Industry Conference and the 2022 China International Battery Swap Model Industry Conference with the theme of "Opening a New Era of Battery Swap" were held in Shanghai (hereinafter referred to as the "BRICS Battery Swap Forum"). As the only third-party battery swap operator in the A-share market, GCL Energy won the "2022 Best Battery Swap Solution Award" and "2022 Best Battery Swap Operator" for its innovative practices in energy replenishment ecological structure, model transformation, and technology iteration this year, as well as the electric city and green transportation infrastructure construction cases provided to solve industry pain points.

Model innovation to build a zero-carbon ecosystem

Integrated solutions recognized by the industry

As the new energy vehicle industry is booming, the energy replenishment industry is experiencing a huge boom. In 2022, GCL Energy will focus on green energy and digital energy companies, forge three core capabilities: source-grid-load-storage linkage, digital intelligent operation, and energy replenishment technology iteration, and continue to increase investment in technology, finance, capital, and market promotion.

The company focuses on scenarios such as heavy trucks, online rental, and zero-carbon parks, creating a 3+X integrated solution covering vehicles, batteries, and stations, and innovatively launching products such as "rent instead of buy" under the vehicle-battery separation model, effectively improving battery utilization and vehicle operating efficiency; and using the 5S standards of mobile energy that are economical, safe, convenient, intelligent, and professional to improve the operating efficiency and economic benefits of the energy replenishment system.

It is worth mentioning that at the 2022 Global Intelligent Automobile Industry Summit which just concluded, Tsinghua University and GCL Energy released the "Urban Zero-Carbon Transportation White Paper", actively exploring the five key paths of "regulations, management, roads, vehicles, and people" and six typical application scenarios, providing the industry with a zero-carbon path to achieve a new urban landscape.

While leveraging its own advantages, GCL Energy cooperates with vehicle operating platforms, OEMs, and battery manufacturers to integrate key resources in the industrial chain and strive to build a lower-cost, higher-efficiency, low-carbon, circular, and value-added urban zero-carbon smart transportation ecosystem.

Business deployment is accelerated to cover multiple scenarios and multiple city clusters

Accelerating the electrification of mobility

In 2022, GCL Energy released the GCL Electric Port's self-developed energy replenishment product series, covering all scenarios of heavy trucks, light trucks and passenger cars, and innovatively realized functions such as one package for multiple vehicles, one package for multiple energy, and combined charging and swapping; the GCL Zhuji battery swap station production base was fully put into production and batch delivery in the third quarter; after completing the listing, the first private placement raised 3.765 billion yuan, and the first phase of the CICC GCL Carbon Neutrality Industry Investment Fund of nearly 4.5 billion yuan was landed.

At the same time, the layout of mobile energy business terminals has been further accelerated. A smart energy replenishment network with "integrated energy station + charging and swapping points" as the main framework and adaptable to multiple scenarios such as hubs, trunk lines, and industrial clusters has been constructed nationwide. Nearly 100 charging and swapping stations have been built in more than 20 cities in many provinces and autonomous regions. At the same time, nearly 300 port stations are planned and under construction, connecting 16 types of vehicles and 10 types of stations; promoting network coverage in key areas such as Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and taking the lead in completing the first phase of layout in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta urban agglomerations, forming a typical application benchmark that can be replicated and promoted.

The "BRICS Battery Swap Forum" is jointly hosted by the Battery Swap Hundreds Association, China Charging Pile Network, Lianlian Charging, State Power Investment & Qiyuan Core Power, Electric Transportation Battery Swap Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, Charging Alliance and other units. It is the largest, most international, forward-looking and industrialized battery swap summit forum in China. As one of the important agendas of the forum, the 2022 Best Battery Swap Brand Series Selection Activities aims to shape brands, create benchmarks, give play to the leading role of outstanding enterprises, and better promote the development of the industry and ecology.