On May 17th, both energy team and advanced manufacturing and new materials team of Wuhan Branch Library went to the Wuhan Economic Development Zone to investigate the development of Automobile industry of Hubei Province.At the same time, with the help of the Tenth Central China International Auto Show,theycouldsurvey the latest developments of new energy vehicles for major automobile manufacturers at home and abroad.
In the process of inspection, members of the research group surveyed the pure electric vehicles, hybrid-powered cars, LNG vehicles and new energy vehicles from the aspects of their power unit, battery technology and structural materials, and communicated with the manufacturers of Nissan, Toyota, Chery and BYD on the future development of their new energy models. The research group believed that the international auto giants were accelerating the new energy vehicle technology R & D investment, and had already introduced a variety of concept cars, to speed up auto industrialization and attempt to seize the Chinese market through joint ventures in China. However, domestic R & D investment was relatively weak, because of the lack of the core technology and competition among the manufacturers, the prospect was not optimistic.