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Power battery industry faces serious overcapacity in China, says Changan chairman

China will need 1,000-1,200 GWh of power battery capacity by 2025, but the industry is already planning for 4,800 GWh of capacity, according to Changan's chairman.

The chairman of one of China's largest automakers has warned about oversupply in the power battery industry, at a time when the risk is a growing concern.

China's power battery industry is currently suffering from a serious overcapacity and the sector is bound to return to a rational state, Zhu Huarong, chairman of Changan Automobile, said today in a speech at an automotive forum in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing.

China will need 1,000-1,200 GWh of power battery capacity by 2025, but the industry is currently planning for 4,800 GWh of capacity, Zhu said.

In a speech at the 2022 China Auto Forum on November 9 last year, Zhu said the tight supply of chips and batteries facing China's new energy vehicle (NEV) industry had eased, but their expensive prices stand out, seriously affecting the profits and production of NEV companies.

High battery prices were caused by factors including raw material price increases, capital speculation, sellers' hesitation to sell and middlemen hoarding, Zhu said at the time.

Zhu's latest comments come as the issue of power battery overcapacity is a growing concern.

In a research note yesterday, Morgan Stanley analyst Jack Lu's team said that despite a near-term recovery in orders for China's battery industry, there will still be excess battery capacity and price competition is inevitable.

More and more second-tier battery suppliers are adopting increasingly aggressive pricing strategies, and may have to do the same, Lu's team said.

Power battery overcapacity is an industry consensus, but in the first quarter, expansion of power and storage batteries continued, the official Economic Information Daily said in a report yesterday.

In 2022, China's power battery shipments were about 480 GWh, while the installed power battery capacity was only about 260.94 GWh. Even counting the export volume and the installed power battery capacity in the segment including construction machinery, the current inventory pressure of the whole industry is still high, the report said, citing industry research institute GGII.

In the next few years, the structural overcapacity of power batteries will intensify, and the industry will enter a deep reshuffling stage, with a degree of competition that may be more severe than imagined, the report said.

China's power battery installed capacity in April was 25.1 GWh, up 89.4 percent year-on-year and down 9.5 percent from March, according to data released by the China Automotive Battery Innovation Alliance (CABIA) on May 11.

The power battery production in April was 47.0 GWh, up 38.7 percent year-on-year and down 8.3 percent sequentially, according to the CABIA.

May's data is expected to be available in a few days.

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Chinese auto giants Geely and Changan sign strategic cooperation deal

In the first quarter, Changan and Geely ranked third and fourth, respectively, in China in terms of retail vehicle sales.

Chinese auto giants Geely and Changan sign strategic cooperation deal-CnEVPost

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It's interesting to see tow of China's largest automakers announce a cooperation agreement, even though they are rivals.

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Chongqing Changan Automobile signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement on May 9, according to press releases issued today by the two companies.

The two sides will launch strategic cooperation in areas including new energy, intelligence, new energy power, overseas market expansion, and mobility to jointly promote the upward development of Chinese brands, according to their press releases.

This this will help create a better consumer and travel experience for users and help transform and upgrade the Chinese auto industry and develop with high quality, the two companies said.

Changan chairman Zhu Huarong, Geely chairman Eric Li, and Fu Bingfeng, executive vice-president of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) attended the signing ceremony.

Changan and Geely are excellent representatives of Chinese auto companies, and the open cooperation between the two is conducive to building the image of Chinese auto brands and spawning industry synergies, said Fu.

Intelligence and electrification are the focus of the strategic cooperation between Geely and Changan.

In the field of new energy, the two sides will cooperate on battery cells, charging technology, battery swap technology, new energy vehicle (NEV) product safety, and new energy industry layout.

In the field of intelligence, they will cooperate around chip, operating system, vehicle system interconnection, high-precision map and autonomous driving.

The two sides will also work together on power platform and power technology, explore cooperation in overseas development and mobility ecology, and cooperate in the fields of industrial internet, block chain and carbon trading.

The two companies will work together to enhance their core competitiveness and help Chinese vehicles enter the middle and high end of the global automotive value chain, said Geely's Li.

Neither Geely nor Changan -- which ranks in the top five in Chinese auto sales -- provided more details on their partnership in their press releases.

In the first quarter, Changan sold 302,898 vehicles at retail, making it the No. 3 brand in China for the period, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).

Geely ranked fourth with retail sales of 269,701 units in the first quarter. The top two were BYD and FAW-Volkswagen, with retail sales of 508,706 and 368,762, respectively.

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Changan’s NEV brand Shenlan aims for 200,000 sales this year

Shenlan's goals for 2023 include selling 200,000 vehicles and making both the SL03 and S7 hot sellers, the brand's CEO said.

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Shenlan, Changan Automobile's new energy vehicle (NEV) brand, aims to sell 200,000 vehicles this year, becoming the latest to reveal aggressive plans.

Shenlan's goals for 2023 include selling 200,000 vehicles and making both the SL03 and S7 hot-sellers, the brand's CEO Deng Chenghao said in an interview with Auto Home, according to the text of the interview released yesterday.

The Shenlan brand, which was officially launched by Changan on April 13 last year, unveiled the Shenlan SL03 electric sedan on July 25, another strong competitor to the Model 3.

The brand unveiled its first SUV, the Shenlan S7, a similar model to the Tesla Model Y crossover, on March 5, with pricing information yet to be announced.

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Shenlan began deliveries of the SL03 in late August 2022 and has accumulated nearly 50,000 deliveries through the end of March this year, including 8,568 units in March.

Deng did not disclose how Shenlan will meet its goal of selling 200,000 vehicles this year, and the brand offered up to 42,000 yuan ($6,090) in purchase discounts during last month's price war in the Chinese auto industry. The offer was valid from March 10 to March 31 and was limited to 10,000 units.

The price war was a short-term behavior, automakers ultimately need to compete with product competitiveness, technology, brand, channels, and service capabilities, Deng said in the interview.

"I think the whole industry will be sustainable only if there is a value war," he said.

Deng believes that the current trend of electrification in China's auto industry is very clear, and that the penetration rate of electric vehicles (EVs) will exceed 50 percent in the next three years, with EVs becoming absolutely mainstream.

As the primary adopters of EVs shift from tastemakers to the average consumer, the product definition, research and development of vehicles will need to be able to address consumer anxiety and meet demand, he said.

Consumer anxiety is not about the amount of infrastructure or the range of EVs, but about the time it takes to replenish energy, according to Deng.

There is still a long way to go in terms of technology to get charging times from 0.5-1 hour to 5-10 minutes, he said, adding that this anxiety will be there for another 5-10 years.

($1= RMB 6.8930)

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Changan’s EV brand Shenlan offers up to $6,030 discount on vehicle purchases

Shenlan is currently selling only one model, the SL03, a Model 3 competitor, with 4,103 units delivered in February.

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Shenlan, Changan Automobile's new energy vehicle (NEV) brand, is offering consumers tens of thousands of yuan in incentives to purchase vehicles as the auto price war in China continues.

Shenlan, based in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, announced today that it is offering discounts of up to 42,000 yuan ($6,030) on vehicle purchases.

The offer includes an RMB 22,000 cash subsidy and up to RMB 20,000 in option benefits.

The subsidy is valid from March 10 to March 31 and is limited to 10,000 units.

Shenlan, Changan's NEV brand announced in 2022, officially launched the Shenlan SL03 electric sedan on July 25, another strong competitor to the Model 3.

Unlike the Tesla Model 3, the Shenlan SL03 is available in three powertrain variants -- an all-electric version, an extended-range version and a version with a hydrogen fuel cell.

The Shenlan SL03 BEV currently has a starting price of RMB 189,900, lower than the Model 3's starting price of RMB 229,900 in China, and the SL03 EREV starts at RMB 171,900.

Shenlan began deliveries of the SL03 at the end of August 2022 and has delivered a total of 37,328 units as of the end of February this year, including 4,103 units last month.

On March 5, Shenlan officially unveiled its second model, the Shenlan S7, a model similar to the Tesla Model Y crossover, in Shanghai.

In addition to the Shenlan brand, Changan is offering car purchase incentives for its other sub-brands.

Changan announced yesterday that for consumers who buy any of its passenger cars and get a delivery this month, they will receive a coupon for thousands of yuan.

($1 = RMB 6.9675)

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