电车之心：中国动力电池传奇

Why can't the global battery industry detach from China?

From zero to world number one: Uncovering the hidden heart of China's new energy!

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This is a story of "overtaking on a different track."

In 2023, China surpassed Japan to become the world's largest car exporter. In the fourth quarter of the same year, BYD overtook Tesla to become the world's largest pure electric vehicle manufacturer.

As the "heart" of new energy vehicles, power batteries not only affect the car's functions but also its price. In 2023, Chinese power batteries accounted for 63.2% of the global market share, with six Chinese companies among the top ten global power battery enterprises. CATL has held the top spot globally for nine consecutive years.

At the core of China's power battery industry is a manufacturing story.

From handmade workshops to the world's most advanced power battery factories, from market-for-technology exchanges to complete vehicle research and development, from strong central government support to the transformation and upgrading of local industrial clusters. Four years of explosive growth, twenty years of strategic planning – the "hidden heart" of new energy is deeply rooted in the soil of over forty years of China's manufacturing development.

The evolving Chinese manufacturing industry, with its manufacturing capabilities, production environment, R&D investment, demands on workers, and so on, is no longer the stereotype we once held...