Natural gas heavy truck sales are booming, Shaanxi Auto wants to return to the first in the industry.
Since the beginning of this year, by the domestic refined oil prices climbed, natural gas price reduction and other factors, natural gas heavy trucks have become a popular model in the heavy truck market. In the first half of this year, the domestic natural gas heavy trucks cumulative sales of 49,000 units, compared with the same period last year, a net increase of 36,000 units, a year-on-year surge of 273.6%.
"Shaanqi accurate research and seize the opportunity, comprehensive layout of the chain of resources, collaborative attack and rapid response, as of the end of August, natural gas heavy truck sales exceeded 13,000 units." Shaanqi sales company natural gas project manager Zhou Zilong told the Securities Daily reporter.
Data show that in the first seven months of this year, Shaanqi natural gas heavy truck sales totaled 12,000 units, an increase of 196.6% year-on-year, ranking second in the industry. As a former natural gas heavy truck "brother", Shaanqi's goal is naturally to return to the industry's first.
Behind the good results of natural gas heavy truck sales, is Shaanqi in advance and accurate prediction of the layout, rapid response to seize the results. Zhou Zilong said, last June, shaanxi automobile heavy truck set up a special natural gas attack group, advance planning and seize the natural gas market opportunities.
"It can be said that Shaanqi in this year's natural gas heavy truck market, has made certain achievements, although there is a gap with the industry's top sales, but the gap is gradually narrowing." Zhou Zilong said that for the industry's head enterprises, the natural gas market will become a new competition track, and Shaanqi heavy trucks thanks to years of technology, product precipitation in the field of natural gas and commercial application of the accumulation of good reputation, in this track has a unique advantage.
In addition, Shaanqi also actively layout hydrogen heavy trucks and other new energy trucks, the first half of this year, Shaanqi under the Deltron future signed a total of 1,395 orders for new energy vehicles, of which 831 orders for hydrogen fuel cell heavy trucks.
As a power chassis research institute under the future, Wang Dongbin has been engaged in research and development work in the heavy truck innovation chain, only before focusing on fuel heavy truck power system, now focusing on hydrogen fuel cell heavy truck power system. He told the reporter of "Securities Daily" that for the core research and development direction of automatic driving, hydrogen fuel cell, etc., Deltronics future integration of Suzhou, Beijing and other places of the team, the introduction of nearly 20 technical backbone, through the continuous aggregation of capital, talent, technology and other elements, Deltronics future has been incubated at all levels of subsidiaries of the total number of 20.
Wang Dongbin revealed that the company will deeply participate in the hydrogen energy city demonstration group project, reduce the cost of fuel cell vehicles through the scale promotion, increase the volume of hydrogen energy commercial vehicles, accelerate the transformation from the product introduction period to the industry's growth period, accelerate the hydrogen energy industry growth and upgrading, and realize the sales of 5,000 hydrogen energy heavy-duty trucks in 2025 to achieve industry leadership.
