On January 27th, Calvin Automobile, a brand new energy commercial vehicle brand under BAIC Group, was officially released. In the future, Calvin Automobile will launch brand-new platform products around the two major technical routes of pure electricity and hydrogen fuel cells, accelerate the transformation of Beiqi Futian into new energy, and help the construction of the Capital Science and Technology Innovation Center.

Nearly 500 people including Zhi Xianwei, deputy secretary of Changping District Committee, Su Guobin, deputy director of Beijing Economic and Information Bureau, and Jiang Zili and Chang Rui, leaders of BAIC Group, attended the conference.

New positioning, activation and development of new kinetic energy

In recent years, BAIC Group has been based on the construction of the "four centers" in the capital, integrated into the "five-child linkage" development pattern, adhered to science and technology-driven development, and continuously promoted the top-level strategic deployment in the field of new energy. The "BLUE Plan" released in 2022 shows that BAIC will further promote comprehensive new energy utilization and intelligent networking, build a full range of green and low-carbon products for passenger cars and commercial vehicles, and fully realize peak carbon dioxide emissions in 2025, and fully decarbonize products and operate carbon neutrality in 2050.

At present, BAIC Group is accelerating the pace of comprehensive new energy strategy, based on the new energy technology innovation of "pure electricity+hybrid", promoting the new energy strategy to land in the whole value chain of technology, products and supply chain, and the genealogy of new energy products is gradually clear in the rapid adjustment of product structure. Among them, in the field of passenger cars, supported by two brands, Extreme Fox and Beijing, a new energy-based product system of BAIC’s own brand passenger cars is composed of pure electric power and hybrid power. In the field of commercial vehicles, Beiqi Foton has formed a full product matrix of commercial vehicles covering all technical routes of pure electricity, hybrid and hydrogen fuel, covering the whole scene.

In this context, Beiqi Foton has made clear that the new energy strategy is the first strategy for the company’s development. In 2022, BAIC Foton and Bosch, Yihuatong, BAIC Investment Co., Ltd. jointly invested and established Calvin Automobile, focusing on a brand-new pure electric and hydrogen fuel platform, positioning to create a low-carbon and zero-carbon industrial ecology, deeply cultivating the global zero-carbon heavy truck, and committed to becoming a unicorn enterprise in the field of new energy vehicles around the world. In the future, Calvin Automobile will introduce more high-quality industrial chain partners as investors, and promote the healthy development of the company through the asset-light strategy way with a more flexible shareholding structure.

At the press conference, Zhi Xianwei, Su Guobin, academicians of China Academy of Engineering, professors of Beijing Institute of Technology, Sun Fengchun, Tsinghua University and Zhang Xiliang, members of the National Committee of Experts on Climate Change, delivered speeches on the development of new energy automobile industry and the development trend of the industry at Beijing and district levels, respectively, and made suggestions on the development of Kawen automobile. Jiang Zili, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of BAIC Group, said that the development of Calvin Automobile will play an important role in supporting and promoting BAIC to implement the "double carbon" strategy and realize the transformation and upgrading of the commercial vehicle sector. The Group will fully support the development of BAIC Foton and Calvin Automobile in the field of new energy commercial vehicles.

Brand new and build a green ecosystem

After the establishment of Calvin Automobile, the company’s headquarters was settled in the Future Science City of Changping District. Over the past year or so, Calvin Automobile has introduced a large number of talents to build a new system around the technology, products, supply chain and brand of new energy commercial vehicles. At the press conference, Calvin Automobile released a brand-new brand strategy.

Calvin Automobile brand will focus on the bright future of new energy technology leadership, user value creation and sustainable development, take "making every kilometer better" as its brand mission, and devote itself to delivering intelligent vehicle services that exceed customers’ expectations, achieving the leading position in platform technology and new energy technology, developing a new eco-business model with high intelligence and building a sustainable green energy business system.

The brand logo of Calvin Automobile was also officially unveiled at the meeting. Among them, the Chinese word "Ka" is fully integrated with the image of leaves, which means that Kawen absorbs natural energy and empowers the industry to develop sustainably with low carbon through the transformation of new energy technology and scientific and technological ecology. English logo "CAVAN", the initial letter C stands for Carbon, which reflects the firm commitment to the development of low-carbon era; The suffix n stands for New Energy and Nature, which promotes the harmonious coexistence of green transportation and nature with new energy technology innovation; AVA is the symbol of Calvin’s "3A" spirit-Advanced new energy technology, Advanced design concept and Advanced quality.

At the same time, Calvin Automobile will build a sustainable zero-carbon ecosystem in the whole value chain with all walks of life through the creation of zero-carbon supply chain, zero-carbon factory and zero-carbon products from the three dimensions of "car-chain-circle". Qin Zhidong, general manager of Calvin Automobile, said that the company promised to achieve carbon neutrality in the whole value chain by 2040.

Brand-new products exceed expectations to meet demand

At present, Calvin Automobile has built the Master architecture technology through independent innovation, focusing on breakthroughs and innovations in core technologies such as vehicle platform architecture, electronic and electrical architecture, fuel cells, hydrogen storage systems, and Sanpower. The company also pioneered a cross-platform, extensible and highly heterogeneous centralized electronic and electrical architecture for commercial vehicles, developed an industry-leading high-power hydrogen fuel cell engine and a liquid hydrogen storage system focusing on trunk transportation, and independently developed cutting-edge new energy and intelligent technologies such as high-performance electric drive bridges.

At the product level, Kavan focuses on two technical routes, pure electric and hydrogen fuel cells. All products are developed in the forward direction, focusing on three platforms, namely VAN, light truck and heavy truck, to create products that meet the needs of urban logistics, medium and long-distance trunk logistics and other scenes, and meet the needs of users with the characteristics of light weight, low energy consumption, long battery life, intelligence and high comfort.

In addition, Calvin Automobile will optimize the supply chain construction, create a green supply chain, and actively explore the continuous innovation of business ecology to provide users with new energy solutions integrating vehicle, intelligent transportation capacity, charging facilities and energy management.

Qin Zhidong introduced that in the next three years, Calvin Automobile will launch three platform products in domestic and foreign markets, and this year will be the first to launch a highly intelligent pure electric VAN product.