The State Council executive meeting held on February 24, 2016 to determine measures to further support the new energy vehicle industry to promote green development with structural optimization. The meeting proposed to accelerate the realization of a revolutionary breakthrough in power batteries. Promote large and medium-sized enterprises, universities, research institutes and other institutions to form a collaborative research, open and shared power battery innovation platform, in key materials, battery systems and other common, basic technology research and development focus on efforts. The central government adopts a subsidy in the form of awards, according to the performance of power batteries, sales and other indicators to give incentives to enterprises. Increase support for digital manufacturing sets of power batteries.

So how should we look at the government's high-level attitude towards the development of new energy vehicles, especially pure electric vehicles?

First of all, from the pure electric vehicles that have been listed and sold in bulk, their basic range is 250-300 km on average, with only 150-200 km at the low end and up to 350-400 km at the high end. Charging time is generally 6-8 hours for a slow charge, and 30 minutes for a fast charge to reach the 80% level.

Secondly, it is the low temperature and battery failure problem is still more prominent. On the one hand, in the cold areas of the north, in winter, even if fully charged, the vehicle can not drive the mileage due; on the other hand, with continuous use, the battery pack shows rapid decay year by year, the original full power will run 100%, to the second year may only run 80%, to the third year can even run 50%.

The State Council executive meeting for the power battery development goals, it should be said that it is to the point. However, what is a "revolutionary breakthrough", but has not seen any authoritative explanation.

One understanding is that the future of new energy vehicles, whether the power battery range, charging time or failure rate, have made a breakthrough, a full charge range and the same level of traditional fuel cars, charging time from the current hours to minutes, the use of a number of years after the power is still not less than 85% of the electricity, which is of course a perfect ending.

Another understanding is that although the range and charging time is not substantially improved, but the safety of the power battery is effectively improved, not due to frequent plugging and unplugging and fires, etc., so as to create good conditions for the future power battery replacement mode.

Of course, if in the foreseeable future, both the power battery range can be improved, charging time is significantly shortened, but also to ensure that its safety is more reliable, it will be more perfect!

However, there is always a gap between the beautiful ideal and the skeletal reality. The general direction of the executive meeting of the State Council, which mentions the need to collaborate with universities, research institutions and enterprises, should be extremely correct, and the concentration of power to do great things is the greatest advantage of our socialist system with Chinese characteristics. But how to achieve the open sharing of innovation platform is not easy to achieve and do in the market-oriented environment. How to solve the problem of division of labor among universities, research institutions and enterprises in the related R&D? How should the costs be shared? Who will ultimately own the intellectual property? How to prevent the possible fraudulent subsidies at the level of universities and research institutions, while changing to "subsidies in lieu of prizes" for enterprises to avoid fraudulent subsidies?

In addition, on the surface, universities and research institutions should be more responsible for the task of research, but for practical products, more of a system integration and data accumulation process, at this time, I am afraid that enterprises are more powerful, and leaving the participation of enterprises in the final commercialization of R & D are problematic.

Finally, which companies can participate in it? Is only car companies can participate, or as long as the willingness of enterprises can be involved? Is the state to build a platform or a number of platforms, or by different enterprises and different institutions to form R & D alliances, a wide variety of seeds? I'm afraid this involves the beginning of how the supply side of the top-level design and arrangement of the problem, not handled well, inevitably a coaxing, a whistle and scattered.

As some places currently exclude hybrid vehicles in new energy vehicles, and as a transitional product of traditional fuel vehicles, hybrid vehicles for traditional car companies, not only to maximize the use of existing resources, reduce waste, but also to achieve a reduction in the use of traditional fuels and reduce emissions. Therefore, if too aggressive across the threshold of hybrid cars, and directly vigorously develop pure electric vehicles, in the face of new energy vehicles is still not finalized technical route, although the direction of the vigorous development of power cells is good, but the results can be as desired, is really worrying. I hope that the "revolutionary breakthrough" is not just in the passionate slogan, in the early stage of the development of new energy vehicles, the relevant government departments put forward the so-called "bend and overtake" strategy lessons should be learned!