Foreign hydrogen fuel cell market booming, why domestic thunder and small rain?

According to foreign media reports, the U.S. leading enterprises Plug Power Inc hydrogen energy company (Plug company) recently said, has been with the network of e-commerce giant Amazon reached a share purchase agreement, Amazon will buy its stake up to 23%. In addition, according to the agreement, the electric forklift in Amazon's retail warehouse will begin to replace the fuel cell provided by Plug.

In recent years, foreign fuel cell vehicles commercialization of frequent news, first of all, TOYOTA and Honda have launched mass production of fuel cell models, and increase the hydrogenation station construction investment. After that, GM, Honda's joint venture to build fuel cell systems (FCSM) companies announced a formal operation.

Domestic development has foundation

Foreign hydrogen fuel cell market seems to have been bustling with activity, but the domestic is loud and small raindrops, the development rate is too slow. Is this because of technical deficiencies or imperfect policies? In fact, the domestic fuel cell vehicles have gradually increased their attention in recent years, and also have a certain amount of technology. China engineering institute director Fu Yuwu told reporters that in the past more than 10 years, China initially mastered the core technology of key materials and fuel cell stack, power system, vehicle integration and hydrogen infrastructure, basic fuel cell vehicle was built with independent intellectual property rights of the power system technology platform, realize the 100 vehicles fuel cell power system and vehicle production capacity.

In recent years, China's policy support is actually increasing. As fuel cell vehicles are one of the future directions of new energy vehicles, there is no doubt that China will support its development. In the last Chinese Automotive Engineering Society annual meeting issued the "energy-saving and new energy vehicle technology roadmap, fuel cell vehicles already and energy-saving cars, pure electric and plug-in cars, cars and other intelligent network together is recognized as the future development goals in china.

Industrial storage distance

Since the existing technical reserves and policy support, why domestic fuel cell car industry is still much more said than done? An unnamed insiders told reporters, because of higher production costs, users lack of knowledge, and product reliability and life span and the overseas technology gap is still large, so the domestic fuel cell vehicle industry have not yet entered the commercialization stage of development.

In addition to these reasons, the delay in the development of the fuel cell vehicle industry, as well as China's hydrogenation station construction. There are only 4 hydrogen refueling stations in China, and they are located in four different cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Shenzhen. They are far behind Europe and Japan in terms of quantity and scale. From the standard level, China's fuel cell vehicle industry is also urgent to improve. Although in the construction of hydrogenation station specifications, our country already has standards, the earlier 2010 on the "hydrogenation station technical specifications", GB50516-2010 this has been detailed regulations. However, the standard 7 years ago, many provisions are not applicable to the current development situation, such as liquid hydrogen strict control, has affected the efficiency of hydrogen storage.

Cooperation at home and abroad is the key

When asked how to promote domestic fuel cell development of the automobile industry, standing Guangdong goohoe Technology Co. Ltd. energy deputy general manager Chen Jianhao said that the current domestic fuel cell system to a higher degree of dependence on foreign technology, why not choose domestic enterprises, because there is no mature products, and most of the technology is still in the development stage the product can not scale on the market. If you want to enter the product phase as soon as possible, it is the best solution to cooperate with foreign enterprises.

Director of the national energy saving and Safety Laboratory of Tsinghua University professor Ouyang Minggao said perhaps more to the fuel cell vehicle industry in China at the stage, he said: "the fuel cell vehicle industry in China only through the technology chain, industry chain basic but not formed, many rely on foreign core products."

To solve these problems, it is necessary to work with both inside and outside the industry to increase capital investment in the fuel cell vehicle industry and improve the product conversion rate. Because only sustained capital investment and synergistic effect of the whole industry can improve the competitiveness of the industry, thus shortening the product research and development cycle, reducing the overall R & D costs, and promoting the development of hydrogen industry.