On March 4th, Time Finance learned from Xiaopeng Motors that during the 2024 National People's Congress and National People's Congress, He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of Xiaopeng Motors, brought suggestions on exploring limited scenario unmanned driving regulations and accelerating the integration and interaction between new energy vehicles and the power grid, as well as promoting the application of flying vehicles and promoting the development of new quality productivity in low altitude economy.
He Xiaopeng believes that currently, China's penetration of new energy vehicles is accelerating and the number of vehicles is growing rapidly. In order to ensure the charging needs of the vast number of users, although the charging infrastructure continues to grow rapidly, it still faces many challenges such as limited land resources, insufficient power capacity, and long investment return cycles. At the same time, the structural contradictions in the current charging market remain prominent. Public charging stations generally bear higher energy replenishment pressure and highly overlap with the peak hours of the power grid. Unlike the tense use during the day, public charging equipment is widely vacant at night, resulting in significant waste of land, electricity, and equipment resources, while also greatly weakening the profitability of charging stations.
He believes that in this context, leveraging the autonomous driving ability of vehicles to achieve autonomous charging of unmanned vehicles at night, and transferring electricity loads from peak daytime periods to low nighttime periods, can significantly improve the supply-demand contradiction during peak daytime periods, enhance the utilization rate of charging infrastructure, and fully leverage the advantages of abundant and low-cost nighttime electricity, but there is still a lack of relevant policy and regulatory support.
He Xiaopeng proposed two suggestions based on this: exploring policies and regulations for low-speed unmanned driving in limited scenarios, and carrying out pilot applications of low-speed unmanned driving and energy supplementation in limited scenarios at night; Promote top-level design of car network interaction, build mature business models, unify relevant standards, explore more application scenarios, and accelerate market-oriented promotion.
Its suggestion is to carry out a pilot application of night low-speed unmanned driving+energy replenishment, achieving a shift from "finding piles for people" to "finding piles for vehicles", and shifting the scale of electricity consumption from peak daytime periods to low nighttime periods. Charging should also be transformed from active behavior to automated roaming services, thus forming a win-win situation for the power grid, users, charging station operators, and vehicle enterprises. The relevant regulations and pilot programs will also apply to scenarios such as autonomous parking and low-speed logistics for users at night.
At the same time, He Xiaopeng suggests promoting the top-level design of vehicle network interaction, building a mature business model, unifying relevant standards, exploring more application scenarios, accelerating market-oriented promotion, and quickly developing a standard system for each link of vehicle network interaction, clarifying the trading mechanism of the electricity market, and accelerating the construction of a mature business model for vehicle network interaction, forming stable profit expectations for all participants.
Currently, the innovative development of intelligent connected vehicles is moving towards depth, demonstrating the leading strength of many Chinese brands in the field of intelligent electric vehicles. At the same time, flying cars are experiencing vigorous development, with a focus on the research and application of future urban air traffic in full swing. The trend of the flying car industry has arrived.
He Xiaopeng believes that as an advanced intelligent transportation tool, flying cars are becoming a hot topic in the field of science and technology innovation that countries such as China, the United States, Japan, and Europe are rushing to enter, and have entered a period of explosive development. China is at the forefront of the world in the research and development of amphibious flying vehicles, with broad prospects for the development of low altitude economy. However, as a new species, flying cars cannot meet the urgent market demand due to their corresponding product regulations and certification efficiency. Flying cars, similar to new energy vehicles ten years ago, require strong policy support before commercialization.
Faced with the blue ocean market of flying cars, He Xiaopeng also proposed three development suggestions: accelerate the forward-looking top-level design and planning of flying cars in product management, product certification, standard system design, etc., and promote the internationalization process of Chinese standards; Establish a flying vehicle driving qualification certification and training system based on the demand for large-scale application of flying vehicles; Referring to the development experience of the new energy vehicle industry, we will coordinate industrial development policies and resource guarantees, and promote the rapid development of the aviation vehicle industry.