The no-frills Chinese carmaker Changan, also know as Chana, is a state-owned enterprise in Chongqing China and is one of the top 4 automakers in the country. The company is to produce 34 new energy models by 2025 and invest 18 billion yuan ($3 billion) into new energy vehicle development during a 10-year period. The company expects that by 2020 between 7%-10% of its sales to be of new energy vehicles. The Eado EV is Changan’s first electric vehicle in a planned pipeline of electric cars by 2025. The popular Changan BenBen EV followed the Eado EV in October 2016 with the Eulove MPV van and Eado PHEV expected in 2017 with talk of the CS15 SUV EV following thereafter. Other PHEV models will include the CS75 PHEV, CS35 PHEV, and V7 PHEV. Various international automakers including PSA, Ford, and Suzuki has joint ventures with the company.
Changan’s EV strategy is underpinned by its “6321” new energy technology goals, which includes a pure electric vehicle range of 600km, the technology to be electric, intelligent and lightweight, consisting of two pure electric vehicle platform’s including and setting a goal of 1l/100km fuel consumption goal for its PHEV models.
Changan and Baidu entered into a cooperation agreement in 2017 to develop autonomous technology.
Changan
Auto this week broke ground on it’s 240,000 unit EV plant in Jiangning
District, Nanjing. The RMB 20 billion EV plant is expected to be put
into operation in June 2020. Changan will discontinue the production of
combustion vehicles in 2025.
Changan Auto realigned its EV strategy by
creating four independent brands to achieve its NEV strategy billed as
Mission Shangri-La. Mission Shangri-Li aims to build 21 pure electric
EVs and 12 plug-in hybrid EVs by 2025, spanning from small city EVs to a
high-performance coupe developed on three platforms. Changan Auto plans
to complete the development of the three platforms by 2020. The brands,
pictured below, will be as follows: In H2 2018 Changan will announce its Autonomous vehicles strategy,
billed as “Beidou Tianshu” which aims to achieve autonomous driving
under certain conditions by 2020 and production of L4 vehicles by 2025.
Changan is also investing in OTA (over-the-air)
maintenance technologies.
Even foreign brands are not spared, state-owned Changan this week had to approve a 1.8 billion yuan ($285 million) bailout for PSA’s local Citroen DS
venture after suffering a 68% drop in sales in 2017 which contributes
to the company technically becoming insolvent. The funds will be used to
realign the lossmaking 50/50 JV and to develop EV models. Most
automakers are now focussing on EV development as a way to yet again use
state incentives to prop up their finances. Changan also announced a
50/50 JV with Mazda
to develop EVs where the local operator will supply the technology and
the Japanese automaker the body. The first EV from the JV will be
a compact crossover in 2019.
Ford and the Chinese automaker Anhui Zotye
this week announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to
establish a 50/50 JV to develop electrified passenger vehicles in China.
The JV is the second such JV announced by Ford, which is experiencing
sales declines in the Chinese vehicle sector. The Detroit based company
and another Chinese domestic JV partner, Changan, announced in April that they would offer PHEV and BEV versions of all the vehicles they manufacture by 2025.
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