Sunwise, Haima Automobile and partners advance Hainan's hydrogen industry
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Recently, in Hainan Province, the first Hainan Hydrogen Automobile Industry Development Workshop was held in Haikou City, China Province, where Sunwise (hereinafter “Sunwise”) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hainan Haima Automobile Ltd. and Sinopec (Hainan) Branch to jointly construct the Hainan Hydrogen Motors Ecosystem, the first “storage-plus-use” of the entire industrial chain of zero carbon emissions, which marked the beginning of a substantial phase in the industrialization of the South China Hydrogen Cars process and provided a key support for the 2030 target of industrialization of the Henan Hydrogen Energy Vehicles.
Henan has a double advantage in pushing the hydrogen energy industry into the development fast track.
The Hainan Free Trade Port is accelerating the deployment of the hydrogen energy industry by virtue of its policy highlands and location advantages. Under the Long-term Plan for the Development of the Hydrogen Energy Industry in Hainan Province (2023-2035), Hainan will phase in the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in such areas as cold chain logistics vehicles, short reverse heavy trucks and tourist buses, and will gradually penetrate into the passenger vehicle market. The Deputy Director of Engineering and Information Services in Hainan Province, Huang Wen-Chu, noted that Henan's unique geo-closing features and differentiated applications provided a unique market environment for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. At the same time, the “first-in-first-off” policy advantage of the Hainan Ito autonomous port provides test fields for the development of standards for the hydrogen energy industry.
In his analysis, Haima Automobile, Deputy Chairman and Director-General of Hainan Seamar, Lu, noted that, with the breakthrough in national production core technology, the cost of the entire vehicle is expected to be equal to or even lower than that of a pure electric vehicle of the same grade when the annual production of hydrogen-energy vehicles crosses the threshold of 10,000. It is expected that by 2030, the cost of the Henan hydrogen energy vehicle will be reduced to $0.25/km, corresponding to the cost of the pure electric vehicle, at which time there will be either more than 10,000 hydrogen vehicles in the province and 66 auxiliary hydrogen-filled stations. Photo by Flickr user pic.twitter.com
In response to the two-fold bottlenecks in the current development of hydrogen energy resources in the hydrogen energy industry and high hydrogen prices, the founder of the China Industry Development Promotion Association's Hydrogen Energy Branch, Zhang Woo, suggested that Henan could use renewable energy sources, such as photovolts and wind power, to dump electricity, and local hydrogen production projects to solve the problem of the cost of hydrogen.
In order to provide a technical route to break the contradiction between “hydrogen waste” and “hydrogens”, Sunwise will deploy hydrogen-filling stations at multiple points around regional hydrogen-making centres and construct an asteroid-hydration network of “mother stations plus selected substations”.
Sunwise Innovation Project to accelerate the commercialization of hydrogen energy
As the country's leading provider of the overall solution to hydrogen energy systems, Sunwise plans to develop an infrastructure network of asteroid-hydrogen-added stations by the end of 2025, giving priority to the promotion of both the sea mouth and the tria. The “Asteroid Plan” is an implementation plan for the rapid and phased scale-up of fuel cell vehicles using vehicle-based vehicles, accompanied by the construction of hydrogen grids, supported by a small 70-MPa hydrogen plant (hydrogen amalgamation model), supported by a medium 35-MPa/70MPa hydrogen station (pure hydrogen model), and a hydrogen source infrastructure supported by industrial by-product hydrogen-based renewable energy and nuclear-electric hydrogen. Sunwise will take full advantage of the experience gained in the hydrogen storage equipment and hydrogen-filling equipment solution, contribute to the development of replicable hydrogen energy commercialization templates in Hainan, achieve the twin objectives of optimized construction costs and increased operational efficiency, and provide infrastructure guarantees for industrial scalability development.
To date, the Helmma 7X-H Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Demonstration Operation Project has accumulated over 2 million kilometres of safe travel to serve the Asia Forum, Recreation and the World New Energy Automobile Congress to achieve a 2 million-kilometre “zero failure” operational record. The 70-MPa vehicle carrying Sunwise was loaded into the hydrogen system for three to five minutes, with a continuous mileage of 600 kilometres, with technical indicators of international leadership and a test of the technical feasibility and economic nature of the Hainan model.
Strategic synergetic deepening of the whole chain of the Hainan model.
With the implementation of the Hainan Free Trade Ports Master Programme, the hydrogen energy industry is becoming a key pillar in the development of clean energy islands in Hainan. Sunwise will use this strategic cooperation as an opportunity to work with industry chain partners to promote the development of a platform for vehicle operations and hydrogen-filling stations in order to market our hydrogen-energy industry.
Prepared by: Miefan
Audit: Sun In
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