"Science and Technology Daily" Focus! Sany 6 minutes "intelligently made" an electric heavy truck

"Input" steel plate, just 6 minutes later, a heavy truck will be "output".

On April 22, walking into the world's largest pure electric heavy truck production base in Sany Zhilian Heavy Truck Industrial Park in Changsha, Hunan Province, a reporter from Science and Technology Daily witnessed the "metamorphosis" of a steel plate: in a single heavy truck plant with a global lighthouse factory-level high-end manufacturing process, the steel plate is cut on demand, and a heavy truck is "baked" after stamping, welding, painting, assembly and other processes.

"This year, we have rolled off the assembly line of nearly 10,000 heavy trucks, and sales are expected to double."Sany heavy truckHe Qi, president of the Product Research Institute, introduced to reporters.

Build a localized industry chain

Founded in 2017, Sany Heavy Truck was born out of Sany Group and is an enterprise focusing on the research and development of heavy trucks. Its birth has filled the gap in the heavy truck industry in Hunan Province.

The excellent equipment manufacturing gene and network marketing model have made Sany Heavy Truck show a strong momentum of development as soon as it "debuted". In 2018, Sany Heavy Truck "hung" the first batch of fuel heavy trucks developed on the Internet. In just 53 seconds of "putting on the shelves", 500 heavy trucks were sold out. From 2018 to 2020, the sales of heavy trucks almost doubled year by year.

In 2021, in response to the "double carbon" goal, Sany Heavy Truck made a strategic decision to comprehensively transform the development of electric heavy trucks. As the "first person to eat crabs", Sany Heavy Truck not only organizes the R&D team to carry out the research and development of the key technologies of electronic control, electric drive and battery, but also solves the problem of lack of key components in commercial vehicle manufacturing.

Sany Heavy Truck has "run-in" with one of the few key component suppliers in the market. They started out as passive adopters of existing parts in the market to industry standard-setters, working with suppliers to develop key components. "This is conducive to the 'latecomers' in the field of electric heavy truck manufacturing to quickly find the key components that are 'handy' and reduce the investment in R&D 'running-in'." He Qi said.

While "running-in" with parts suppliers, Sany Heavy Truck actively plans the layout of supporting industries and builds an independent industrial chain. The company relies on the newly established battery R&D enterprise of Sany Group - Sany Lithium Energy, as well as the transmission division of R&D of electric axles, to enjoy supporting services.

In addition, through the construction of new industrial parks in the surrounding cities of Changsha, the company actively introduces supporting suppliers in the industrial chain to build factories in the park. Based on Sany heavy truck, the localization rate of related parts in Hunan has reached 60%, effectively driving the development of the province's heavy truck industry chain.

Open up new application scenarios

Starting in 2023, Sany heavy truck sales will "bottom out". Beidou operation data shows that in 2024, Sany heavy truck electric heavy truck will account for 16% in the field of electric vehicles. The transformation and upgrading has enabled Sany Heavy Truck to achieve a "double harvest" in sales and profits.

He Qi believes that taking the lead in launching the research and development of electric heavy trucks has accumulated a solid competitive advantage for the future development of Sany heavy trucks. Taking batteries as an example, the team has accumulated valuable experience in the process of co-developing more suitable batteries with suppliers, which has been quickly fed back into the research and development of Sany Lithium Energy. Today, the electric heavy trucks manufactured by Sany Heavy Truck have excellent endurance. Compared with electric passenger vehicles, commercial heavy-duty truck application scenarios have more stringent vibration limit environments, large loads, overloads, and large torque requirements. Through technological innovation, the team has manufactured a heavy truck with the lightest front weight and the best battery energy consumption in the industry, and through the creation and continuous upgrading of the Internet of Vehicles, it has created a superior intelligent ecology and enhanced the stickiness of users.

He Qi said that in the next step, Sany Heavy Truck will develop new application scenarios for electric heavy trucks, and strive to create a full closed loop of intelligent ecology for electric heavy truck application scenarios to enhance market competitiveness.

The reporter learned that up to now, Sany Heavy Truck's electric heavy trucks have been promoted in more than 40 overseas countries and regions. "In the past two years, our electric heavy trucks have entered Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries in batches. We hope to become a pioneer in the global new energy heavy truck industry, lead the development of the global new energy commercial vehicle industry, and continue to accumulate strength for a new round of industrial upgrading of the industry. He Qi said.

Content source: Science and Technology Daily