After three years of grinding a sword, Hengchi 5 is officially mass-produced
On September 16, the Hengchi 5 was officially mass-produced at the Tianjin factory, marking an important moment for Hengchi Automotive.
Mass production activity site (official website picture, the same below).
New energy vehicles are a revolution in the history of the world’s automotive industry. In order to seize this huge opportunity, Hengda began to lay out the new energy automobile industry in early 2019, taking action to implement its corporate transformation strategy, and striving to build Hengchi into a world-class new energy vehicle brand.
This year, the annual production and sales of new energy vehicles is expected to reach 5.50 million, achieving a 20% penetration rate of new energy vehicles in advance, and setting a new high in August. The vigorous development of the new energy vehicle industry has provided rich and fertile soil for the growth of Hengchi vehicles.
Hengchi Tianjin Factory
Looking back on the development process of more than three years, Hengchi Automobile has been going all out from the beginning, striving to realize the grand vision of world-leading core technology and world-class product quality. In the absence of advantages in talents, experience, technology, etc., Hengchi Automobile has opened up a car-making road of its own. To this end, it has tried every means to introduce more than 2,000 top international scientific research talents, and established the Global Research Institute and the Global Battery Research Institute. Adopting a global integrated R & D model, introducing international advanced technology, and working with the world’s top leaders such as Magna and EDAC to jointly develop models. At present, Hengchi Automobile has world-advanced core technologies in the fields of vehicle manufacturing, chassis architecture, intelligent networking, power batteries, and autonomous driving.
Stamping workshop
Painting workshop
Acquired the world’s leading new energy vehicle 3.0 chassis architecture with independent intellectual property rights from Germany’s Benteler, and jointly developed the H-PLATFORM 3.0 extremely intelligent pure electric platform more suitable for the Chinese market with Germany’s Bosch and EDAC.
● Jointly developed and created intelligent assisted driving technology with Bosch, Ampf, etc., and has released the Hengchi AVP automatic parking system to achieve autonomous driving functions in specific scenarios.
● Cooperate with Baidu to develop Hengchi intelligent network system, with cutting-edge technologies such as the world’s first aerospace-class flagship intelligent cockpit, AI assistant "Xiaochi", and supercomputing platform;
● Join hands with nearly 200 world-renowned suppliers such as Bosch, Continental, APF, Faurecia, and Ningde Times to build a world-class supply chain system;
In accordance with Industry 4.0 standards, we will build world-class intelligent manufacturing bases in Tianjin and other places, and introduce world-leading production equipment and production processes such as German Siemens, Schuler, and Kuka to ensure the high quality of Hengchi Automobile.
● Cooperate with 15 of the world’s top automotive styling masters, including former BMW chief designer Anders Warming, former Audi design director Walter De Silva, former Mercedes-Benz senior designer Andre Frey, and former Nissan global design director Shiro Nakamura, to form a styling design cooperation alliance to ensure that Hengchi has a world-class styling.
It has been granted 2,483 patents and is applying for 3,413 patents.
Body shop
Body shop
General assembly workshop
In the past three years and nine months, Hengchi Automobile has overcome many difficulties and worked hard to grow upwards. Especially in the second half of last year, in the face of huge operating difficulties, all employees of Hengchi Automobile worked hard, did not give up, and walked step by step to the pre-sale and mass production stage. On December 30 last year, Hengchi 5 achieved the first car off the assembly line; on July 6, it started global pre-sale, and orders exceeded 37,000 in less than 15 days. Today, Hengchi 5 is officially mass-produced, and delivery will start in October.
Hengchi 5 new car