On the 6th, the reporter learned from the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security that according to the statistics of the Ministry of Public Security, by the end of June 2022, the number of motor vehicles in the country had reached 406 million, including 310 million cars and 10.01 million new energy vehicles.

It is understood that as of the end of June, the number of new energy vehicles in China accounted for 3.23% of the total number of vehicles. Among them, the number of pure electric vehicles is 8.104 million, accounting for 80.93% of the total number of new energy vehicles. In the first half of 2022, 2.209 million new energy vehicles were newly registered, an increase of 1.106 million compared with the first half of last year, an increase of 100.26%, a record high. The new registrations of new energy vehicles account for 19.90% of the new registrations of automobiles.

In fact, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in China have ranked first in the world for seven consecutive years. In 2021, even under the background of the COVID-19 epidemic and the decline of related subsidies, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in China increased by 1.6 times year-on-year, both exceeding 3.5 million. New energy vehicles have entered a new stage of market-oriented development.

In the process of promoting the development of new energy vehicles for more than 20 years, China has always adhered to scientific and technological innovation as the core driving force for the development of the industry, and has embarked on a new path of automobile industry transformation and upgrading. At the beginning of promoting the development of new energy automobile industry, the Ministry of Science and Technology systematically constructed the overall R&D layout of 'three verticals' for hybrid electric vehicles, pure electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles, and 'three horizontals' for energy powertrain control system, motor and its control system, battery and its management system, which laid a strong technical foundation for the development of new energy automobile industry in China. Encourage enterprises to take the lead in organizing the implementation of major national scientific and technological tasks, support leading enterprises to take the lead in setting up innovation consortia, and promote the construction of an industrial innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market demand as the guide and Industry-University-Research as the combination.

At present, enterprises have become the main body of technological innovation, and industrial technological innovation is characterized by demand-oriented and scene-driven. The influx of capital has also accelerated the commercialization of technology. On this basis, the technological innovation speed and industrial maturity of new energy vehicles have been accelerating. The energy density of the new semi-solid battery cell reaches 360 Wh/kg; The life of the fuel cell system exceeds 10,000 hours, and the cost is greatly reduced; Advanced technologies such as the third generation semiconductor motor controller and all-in-one integration continuously improve the economy of the drive system; Technologies such as solid-state laser radar for vehicles, 4D millimeter wave radar, high-power autopilot chip, intelligent cockpit, etc. have improved safety performance; Network communication technology realizes the over-the-horizon perception and dynamic update of the road state of vehicles, and meets the demand of safer and more efficient travel scenes. It can be said that technological innovation not only accelerates the development of new energy vehicles, but also reshapes the form and pattern of the automobile industry.

In 2022, the financial subsidy for new energy vehicles will be further greatly reduced, and new energy vehicles will basically stand on the same starting line as fuel vehicles. New energy vehicles need to further intensify scientific and technological innovation, and lay out key core technologies such as all-solid-state batteries and a new generation of electric drive systems based on new materials and devices in a forward-looking manner, so as to shape the core competitiveness of future industrial development, continuously improve product performance, reduce costs and improve the convenience of use, and provide smarter, greener and safer new energy vehicle products to the market and users.