As 2018 drew to a close, the editor-in-chief of Battery network carefully summarized the top ten domestic news of the new energy battery industry in this year, reviewed the industrial changes in 2018, in order to gain insight into the development trend of the industry in 2019. 2018 is the turning point year of China's new energy battery industry policy. Under the guidance of the policy, the market investment enthusiasm is not reduced, the industrial transformation and upgrading is accelerated, the battery technology route is active, and the competition pattern is accelerated.

In this year, the new energy battery project reorganization and acquisition, investment and production expansion, start and put into production hot, statistics of 100 lithium battery and upstream material investment projects, the total investment of more than 571 billion yuan. In addition, 42 new energy battery industry projects started, with a total investment of 314.338 billion yuan; 43 new energy battery projects were put into operation, with a total announced investment of 97.664 billion yuan. 44 mergers and acquisitions, with a total announced amount of about 87.536 billion yuan.

This year, with the continuous upgrading of the new energy consumption market, battery technologies emerge in endlessly, including high-nickel batteries, fuel cells, graphene batteries, solid state batteries, aluminum air batteries... Who is king of the next generation of batteries? With policy support, increasing enterprise size and continuous improvement of market application, fuel cells have mastered the first-mover advantage.

This year, the new energy vehicle market ushered in a reshuffle, before the formal implementation of the "612 subsidy New Deal", to guide high mileage electric vehicles racing to market; After the market investment management New Deal big reform, strictly prevent pure electric vehicle enterprises blind distribution and low-level repeated construction. At the same time, the photovoltaic energy storage industry also ushered in a reshuffle, "531 New Policy" issued, the photovoltaic industry scale expansion era has come to an end, activating the photovoltaic parity Internet era.

This year, the Chinese automobile market ushered in the first negative growth in 28 years, but the high fever of new energy vehicles has achieved the first share of the domestic new energy vehicle -- BaiC Blue Valley listed; Nextev's successful listing on the New York Stock Exchange came after a year of mixed reviews. Driven by the new energy vehicle market, the demand for lithium power batteries is growing, and battery companies are starting a battle for the giants. In 2018, battery giant Ningde Times successfully went public, and BYD also announced that its battery business would be listed independently by 2020.

In this year, EVTank, Battery Network, Iwei Think Tank, Iwei Economic Research Institute, Iai Electric car Network and Energy Finance network jointly investigated and published the annual competitive brand list of China's lithium new energy industry chain in 2018. Seventy companies from positive electrode materials, negative electrode materials, electrolyte, diaphragm, power batteries, new energy passenger vehicles, charging pile operation and other fields made the list. The rapid development of the new energy industry has also created a number of "richest people" in the new energy industry. Among the 2018 Hurun rich, 115 entrepreneurs involved in mineral resources, materials, batteries, equipment, photovoltaic and other new energy industry chains made the list.

This year, the annual sales volume of new energy vehicles in China exceeded 1 million for the first time. With the expansion of the industrial scale and technological improvement, the comprehensive cost of lithium batteries continued to decline and quality safety became the general trend. In addition, no matter the traditional vehicle enterprises, new energy vehicle brand, or car manufacturing new forces, are seeking new opportunities for transformation and upgrading: traditional vehicle enterprises accelerate the layout in the field of new energy vehicles; Self-owned brands and joint venture/foreign brands began to compete; The new force of car making suffered "life and death"...

As 2018 drew to a close, the editor-in-chief of Battery network carefully summarized the top ten domestic news of the new energy battery industry in this year, reviewed the industrial changes in 2018, in order to gain insight into the development trend of the industry in 2019.