The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing on December 15-16. The meeting pointed out that next year's economic work is full of problems, and it is necessary to proceed from the overall strategic situation, start from improving social psychological expectations, and boost confidence in development, and do a good job in the program.

The meeting proposed to focus on expanding domestic demand, which mentioned to support the consumption of new energy vehicles, then what kind of new energy vehicle industry development ideas were formulated at the meeting, as a charging supporting link closely related to the new energy industry in the new year and what kind of improvement plan, this issue of the public account for you to talk in detail.

Fast automobile consumption has always been an important part of China's national consumption. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, in the field of automobile consumption, from January to November, the retail sales of automobile consumer goods were 4,007 billion yuan, and from January to November, the total retail sales of consumer goods were 3,9919 billion yuan, accounting for 10% of automobile consumption.

  At the same time, in 2022, the growth momentum of new energy vehicles is also very significant, which greatly promotes the growth of total automobile consumption and consumption upgrading. From January to November 2022, 25 million units of automobiles were produced, up 6% year-on-year, and 6.35 million units of new energy vehicles were produced, up 101%, with a penetration rate of 25%, much higher than the global average of 12%.

The rapid increase in the penetration rate of new energy vehicles has also driven the overall upward development of China's automobile industry. From the perspective of the automobile consumer market, today's self-owned brand new energy vehicles not only have strong performance, but also have long product lines and cover a wide range of subdivisions. Self-owned brand cars have also got rid of the once low-price and low-volume model. BYD Automobile, which focuses on the production and sales of new energy vehicles, has ranked first in sales for many consecutive months this year.

Today, we are the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of new energy vehicles, and the new energy vehicle industry is driving China's auto industry to achieve rapid curve overtaking. After years of new energy vehicle subsidy policies, China's new energy vehicles have long been free from policy dependence and successfully turned to market-driven. Consumers no longer choose new energy vehicles because of whether they have subsidies.

Finally, in the instructions of the Central Economic Work Conference related to promoting next year's consumption, it is mentioned to support consumption such as housing improvement, new energy vehicles, and pension services. New energy vehicle consumption is one of the three key points, which will also greatly promote the improvement of new energy vehicle related supporting facilities, the guarantee of new energy vehicle production supply chain, give the new energy vehicle consumer market a reassurance, and inject a booster into the increase of new energy vehicle penetration.

Intercity charging, gradually improved

Coming to 2023, China Southern Power Grid plans to invest 10 billion yuan to continue to improve the charging facilities of the five southern provinces in its coverage area, namely Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou and Yunnan. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions also continue to make efforts, Zhejiang Province took the lead in issuing a notice, planning that by the end of 2025, the province will basically form a charging infrastructure network along the highway with "fixed facilities as the main body, mobile facilities as supplements, full coverage of important nodes, good operation and maintenance services, and guaranteed mass travel", and continue to improve the service guarantee capacity of the public's high-quality and diversified travel needs.

  Reference materials It is not difficult to find that in the new year, the construction focus of charging supporting facilities will gradually shift from the main urban areas to the roads along the intercity traffic, which is a vital part of the new energy vehicle energy replenishment, if the new energy vehicle can not achieve intercity traffic, then the pain points of the owners will always exist, and the experience of using new energy vehicles will always be "almost meaningful". In this regard, we may wish to take a look at the 4 solutions proposed by Zhejiang Province:

1. Strengthen the construction of charging infrastructure in highway service areas

According to the traffic flow, traffic organization, and functional zoning of the field area in the highway service area, promote the layout and construction of fast charging stations, optimize traffic signs, guide the orderly parking of electric vehicles and fuel vehicles, ensure that electric vehicle parking spaces are dedicated, and provide safe and efficient charging services for electric vehicles. Charging facilities in highway service areas should cover a variety of vehicle models, and gradually explore the pilot construction of wireless charging facilities. New expressway service areas should simultaneously build or reserve charging infrastructure installation conditions, and existing expressway service areas should make full use of existing land or parking spaces, accelerate the expansion and transformation of charging infrastructure, and continuously increase the proportion of parking spaces for charging infrastructure and reserved construction and installation conditions.

2. Promote the construction of charging infrastructure along ordinary highways

The charging infrastructure along ordinary highways should be combined with the construction of "four good rural roads" and "beautiful highways" and the promotion of new energy vehicles, etc., and synchronize with the planning, implementation and transformation and upgrading of the road network, and determine the scale of construction in an overall manner, and optimize the layout and setting of charging infrastructure. Promote the construction or transformation of charging infrastructure covering a variety of vehicle types in key tourist scenic spots, transportation hub stations, highway entrances and exits, service stations, post stations, parking spots, maintenance classes, etc. along ordinary highways that meet the conditions, make up for the shortcomings of charging infrastructure construction in counties and towns, strengthen socialized charging services, promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, and help Zhejiang build a high-quality development and common prosperity demonstration area.

3. Do a good job in the power supply service guarantee of charging facilities along the highway

Strengthen the construction and transformation of supporting power grids for charging infrastructure along highways, strengthen the transformation and upgrading of rural power grids, reasonably reserve the charging guarantee capacity of high-voltage and high-power charging infrastructure, ensure that conditions are provided for charging facilities to connect to the power grid, and ensure that the quality of power supply meets the operational needs of charging infrastructure; Actively promote "Internet +" electricity services, promote information sharing with government departments, use the "online state grid" to realize customers' "one certificate for electricity", provide users with convenient data submission, business handling, process inquiry and service quality evaluation, and improve the convenience of network connection. Relevant local departments should support the construction and transformation of supporting power grids along highways, fully reserve power line corridors when planning road networks and building new, reconstructed (expanded) highways, and create favorable conditions for power connection projects in terms of administrative examination and approval, construction and use of pipe corridors.

4. Promote the application of new technologies and equipment

Actively explore technical solutions for the integrated development of charging infrastructure and smart grid, distributed renewable energy, and intelligent transportation along highways, encourage the research and development of large-capacity energy storage technology, improve the power grid collection and delivery capacity, and encourage the research and development of new charging infrastructure and equipment technologies such as wireless charging and automatic unmanned charging, and forward-looking technologies. Promote the construction of ultra-fast charging and high-power electric vehicle charging infrastructure in highway service areas such as around urban agglomerations, and improve the life-cycle benefits of charging infrastructure. Encourage highway service areas (stations), parking lots, passenger transport yards, and logistics parks with construction conditions to carry out the integrated construction of photovoltaic, energy storage and charging and swapping facilities, and support enterprises in electric vehicle production, bus passenger transport, logistics and transportation to build and layout special charging and swapping stations in highway service areas (stations), parking lots, passenger transport yards, and logistics parks.