Will the auto market "Jin 9 Silver Ten" come to an agreement?

With the fluctuation of international crude oil prices, the research of alternative fuel vehicles has once again been focused on. Recently, Dai Ke and Ford jointly acquired a well-known fuel cell R&D company. The emergence of this new group alliance shows that the research of the world's alternative fuel vehicles has entered a new phase. Multinationals form an alliance to develop fuel cell vehicles On September 1, DaimlerChrysler and Ford Motor Co. announced that they had acquired the advantages of the world's fuel cell vehicle technology. The two companies jointly acquired the famous Canadian Ballard Power System. The company establishes a new group alliance. It is reported that Ballard has been committed to the research and development and production of automotive fuel cells, and is a leader in the world. The company developed the concept car for the first time in 1993. In 1997, the company's 16 fuel cell buses were commissioned in Chicago in the United States and Vancouver in Canada. Even more striking is its cooperation with auto companies - in August 1997, the company and Dai Ke formed a joint venture to jointly develop the fuel cell vehicle market. In December of the same year, Ford Motor Co., Ltd. joined in order to commercialize the research and development of the fuel cell power system to support fuel cell vehicles by 2004. It is reported that Dai Ke and Ford recently announced that the group has decided to invest $58 million in the development of the next-generation new fuel cell vehicle. Ballard's joining will accelerate the pace of the two new energy clean vehicles and increase the chance of success. At the same time, its integration also means the emergence of a new group alliance established by auto giants and fuel cell giants, and the competition for a new fuel vehicle R&D will intensify. The competition for fuel cell vehicles is divided into two major camps. In recent years, the development of fuel cell vehicles is not just a laboratory project, but more and more integrated into corporate behavior. The world's major auto manufacturers and fuel cell companies are almost always involved. In this competition. So far, the world is divided into two camps in terms of fuel vehicle development competition: Toyota and GM are on the one hand, Dai Ke, Ford and Mitsubishi are on the other. Fuel cells use oxygen and hydrogen as raw materials. The oxygen needed for fuel cells can be obtained from the air. The big difficulty lies in how to obtain another fuel, hydrogen. The Toyota and GM camps use hydrogen to obtain hydrogen from a new type of gasoline called clean hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier this year, Exxon-Mobile Corporation of the United States reached a research and development agreement with GM and Toyota. The Daikook, Ford and Mitsubishi Motors camps decided to use natural gas as a raw material and adopt a method of upgrading methanol to produce hydrogen. From this year, the competition between the two camps has become very fierce. Dai Ke, Ford, and GM announced that their company's fuel cell vehicles will go to market in 2004. Toyota's president is also claiming to surpass the top three companies in the fuel cell vehicle market. In addition, companies such as Fiat, Renault, Volvo and Peugeot have adopted fuel cells from Italian De Nora and have developed or are developing fuel cell vehicles. Volkswagen, BMW, Nissan and Mitsubishi have their own fuel cell development plans. Energy experts predict that by 2010, the production of fuel cell vehicles will reach 1 million. National governments provide financial and policy support. Governments have provided sufficient financial and policy support for the development of fuel cells. The United States has been very active in this regard. The Bush administration approved the "hydrogen plan" developed by the U.S. Department of Energy. In the next five years, US$3 billion will be invested in the development of hydrogen fuel technology, and it is proposed that fuel cell vehicles will account for 25% of the automotive market in 2010 and hopes to promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles by 2020. The development target proposed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan in July this year is to reduce the price of fuel cells for automobiles to the level of ordinary gasoline engines before 2010, and it is necessary to first popularize fuel cell vehicles from government agencies. At the same time, it announced that the government's budget for the plan for the next five years will be 88 million U.S. dollars. It is expected that the government will invest 4 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. The British government also attaches great importance to the research and development of fuel cell technology. In its technical forecast report transportation section, it clearly defined fuel cell vehicle technology as a technology that will enter the practical stage in the next 5 to 10 years, and listed hydrogen storage as a key supporting technology. At the same time, there are also cooperation between countries. In January this year, in order to develop fuel cell technology, the US Department of Energy and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry signed a pre-competitive cooperation agreement, which stipulated the regulations for the joint development of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies by the two countries. The American "Fortune" magazine stated: "The fuel cell will eliminate those noisy and polluting piston engines that drive the world's cars, trucks and buses, just like the steam engines." Expert analysis believes that judging from the current status quo The competition of major auto groups in the new technology revolution has been escalated. (Liu Liu)