Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 758: Historic Breakthrough, Protests Are Useless

2012 12 Month 12 Day.

At this time, Double Twelve did not have the popularity of later generations.

The China Automobile Association has chosen such a time to hold its 2012 annual meeting.

Although the whole year is not over yet, the situation of the entire automobile industry is basically clear.

After all, the sales data from January to November have come out, with single-digit growth!

This increase is the lowest in recent years.

This also means that competition in China's automobile market has become more intense.

Of course, different car companies perform differently.

Companies such as Toyota, Honda and Nissan saw double-digit declines, let alone growth.

This can be regarded as providing a certain market expansion space for China's independent brands.

Volkswagen is still the largest selling brand in China.

"Even these standards have no specific reference, just a relatively general content."

Over the past many years, the standards of various industries have been mainly in the hands of European and American companies.

This year, China's electric vehicle sales exceeded 50, quickly approaching 100 million.

"Currently, only Nanshan Semiconductor's gallium nitride power components have entered mass production in the world."

Even because of the rapid development of electric vehicles in China, Volkswagen has accelerated the pace of electrification transformation.

It just so happens that Nanshan Auto Parts has launched a gallium nitride household fast charging pile.

This requires design according to China's industry standards.

Just like Volkswagen, they definitely need to consider the needs of the Chinese market when designing their own charging piles.

After Strauss listened to the report from the relevant departments, he immediately came to Vondel's office.

"And almost all independent brand car companies purchase a large number of key parts from Nanshan Auto Parts."

Currently, there is no unified standard for charging piles in the world. If a unified standard emerges in China, it is likely to affect the formulation of global standards.

"Nanshan Automobile Group's position in China is so special. Almost all gearboxes of its own brands are supplied by Nanshan Transmission."

Under this circumstance, Volkswagen China is naturally very concerned about the various policies related to electric vehicles issued by China.

However, after the decision of the Automobile Industry Association was officially announced, it caused dissatisfaction among some car companies.

"Nanshan Auto Parts took the lead in drafting this standard with strong selfish motives."

"It's equivalent to everyone having to refer to their plans to produce charging piles in the future."

At this meeting, the most concerned thing was that the association passed a resolution to recommend the "Technical Conditions and Installation Requirements for Off-board Chargers" drafted by Nanshan Auto Parts as an industry standard.

This kind of unification of standards can be regarded as a historic breakthrough.

It's just that before, each company wanted to unify it as its own standard, and the sales volume of electric vehicles was not that large, so the problem in this regard was not so obvious.

Otherwise, everyone would probably have to reroll it.

Even Volkswagen currently sells no electric vehicles in China.

"Vondel, according to the standards announced by China, future charging piles must use gallium nitride power components to meet relevant performance requirements."

In addition, Volkswagen has not yet officially sold any mass-produced electric vehicles in China, so this time he did not want to be on the front line of opposition.

"Even if we are dissatisfied, we have no way to object."

"In addition, Nanshan Group not only has a deep presence in the automotive industry, but also has a huge influence in equipment, materials and semiconductors."

He is all too aware of the influence of mastering standards.

No matter what it is called uniformly, it is unlikely to be uniformly called Volkswagen's standard.

Therefore, after the standards for charging piles were released, they immediately started relevant discussions internally.

This flat situation is still a blessing to the Japanese car companies' declining market share, otherwise the sales of North and South Volkswagen will definitely decline.

But the necessity of unification is recognized by everyone.

"Their influence in China is not much worse than Volkswagen's in Germany."

The market performance of Spring City Volkswagen and Modou Volkswagen this year is not very good. Although sales have not declined, they have basically not increased.

Strauss was a little concerned about this.

But that doesn’t mean there won’t be any in the future.

“Some previous industry standards were often relatively reasonable in content after discussions between all parties.”

"That's the truth, but I think it's a very bad start."

"But this time the charging pile situation is different. The mature solution of Nanshan Auto Parts will be directly used as the standard."

Vondel has been fighting with the Nanshan Group for so many years, and he has a relatively clear understanding of the current situation.

In this way, the unification of this standard will become much faster.

Although there are many types of charging piles, it is difficult to say which type is the best.

If there are no other unified standards in places such as Germany and the United States, would it be easier to sell products directly according to China's standards?

Invisibly, this is an act of exporting Chinese standards to the outside world.

Strauss saw the long-term effects immediately.

The key is that in the electric vehicle industry, China seems to be leading the way now. In the future, in addition to charging piles, it is likely that key components such as batteries, motors, and OBCs will have similar situations.

This was something he found difficult to accept.

"We can try to protest and hope that all car companies in China can participate in the formulation of charging pile standards."

"But we must also be prepared. This protest may not have much effect."

Vondel can certainly understand Strauss's concerns.

But he didn't have many good ways to solve this problem.

He was not sure about standing up and protesting appropriately to see if the official release of the standard could be postponed or the content of the standard could be modified.

Also having similar concerns as Volkswagen is General Motors.

"Edward, China is preparing to release an industry standard for electric vehicle charging piles. It is said that it is a direct reference to the content drafted by Nanshan Auto Parts."

"According to this standard, all electric vehicles sold in China in the future will use gallium nitride power components to meet the standard requirements."

"And the best solution is to buy charging piles directly from Nanshan Auto Parts."

"This situation has already caused dissatisfaction among some car companies. I would like to confirm what impact this matter has from a design perspective?"

As the general manager of General Motors, Austin directly held a video conference with Edward, the design director of General Motors, to discuss the impact of charging pile industry standards on General Motors.