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When the new energy vehicle has gradually become the choice of the new market, its safety is still the focus of the industry. In response to this performance, BYD officially announced a few days ago that from now on, all its models will be equipped with safer blade batteries and fully use acupuncture testing as an enterprise standard.

On April 7, BYD officially unveiled four pure electric models that will be equipped with "blade batteries", including Qin Plus EV, 2021 Tang EV, Song Plus EV and 2021 e2, BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu also announced that "BYD's pure electric models began to fully switch blade batteries and fully use acupuncture tests as the enterprise standard." This means that BYD will officially bid farewell to ternary lithium batteries and fully use lithium iron phosphate batteries.

At the press conference, Wang Chuanfu said that the current spontaneous combustion of electric vehicle batteries has become an important problem hindering the development of electric vehicles. With the gradual entry of new energy vehicles into the role and the continuous increase in sales, the safety accident rate is bound to increase. As the main parts of new energy vehicles, safety issues are also very important. I hope that safety issues will no longer be an obstacle to the development of new energy vehicle industry. So that more consumers who are willing to choose new energy can enjoy more security.

According to reports, the blade battery is an innovative product of BYD in the field of power batteries, and it is also the core competitiveness of the company in the past two years, with six major technological innovations: Super safety, super life, super battery life, super strength, super power and super low temperature. The first model with a "blade battery" is the Han, its flagship sedan, which went on sale as early as July last year.

Although the blade battery is a very important "role" for BYD, whether its production capacity can keep up has a certain impact on BYD's development. In early January, Zhao Changjiang, general manager of BYD Automobile sales Company, apologized on social media because of BYD's hot sales. "Han still lacks production capacity, and it takes about eight weeks to place an order," Zhao Changjiang said on social media. "

Now, with the production capacity of the blade battery climbing, the relevant person in charge of BYD said, "now Han's delivery time is about half a month." Although production capacity has been significantly improved, it is still unable to meet consumer demand faster, and as its larger models are replaced with blade batteries, it means that such demand is expanded, making the model more difficult to wait. there is no doubt that consumers' patience with the model will be dispelled.

However, according to a BYD official, the "blade battery" capacity of the Fudi battery plant in Chongqing, which is in charge of the power battery business of BYD, has reached 20GWh and plans to reach 35GWh by the end of this year. In October last year, Fudi Battery Changsha factory "blade battery" production line has also been put into production, the design of annual capacity 20GWh. In addition, the Guiyang plant and Bengbu plant are also under planning, with a design capacity of 10GWh.

In addition to plans to increase blade battery capacity in China, plans have been made to build the first overseas battery factory in Europe. Because BYD has already begun to supply blade batteries to the whole industry. " Wang Chuanfu confirmed at this press conference that the current "blade battery" has been supplied to the Red Flag brand.

It is worth noting that according to the information disclosed by BYD, all brands of ternary battery products are currently in inventory clearance, which is expected to be completed in April, which means that BYD will "break" the ternary lithium battery. In the future, it will only promote and promote its own blade battery, which is very different from the current strategy of most electric car companies in the market carrying ternary lithium batteries in the Ningde era. Therefore, as BYD expands its products, it will take time to verify whether consumers can recognize blade batteries.

In general, BYD officials announced that the replacement of blade batteries should take into account not only the later capacity demand, but also consumer recognition of the products, both of which may hinder the improvement of BYD sales in the later stage. According to BYD's production and sales report in March this year, the production and sales of pure electric vehicles in the field of new energy vehicles were 13739 and 16301 respectively, achieving a sharp increase over the same period last year, and the number is gradually close to fuel models. it means that new energy vehicles, including pure electric and mixed vehicles, will be the focus of BYD's efforts, but will not give up fuel models for the time being. after all, fuel models are higher than new energy models in 2020.

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