How did Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. enter the power battery industry?

In 2007, with the gradual expansion of the new energy vehicle market, the ATL board of directors put forward the idea of "second venture". This time, Zeng Yuqun focused on the field of power batteries. 20 1 165438, Contemporary Amp Technology Co., Ltd. was formally established with a registered capital of100000 yuan, and the capital was increased to 200 million yuan in June of 20 12.

Although Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. has achieved success in mobile phone batteries, there is not much foundation and technology accumulation in the field of power batteries. At that time, Panasonic, LG, BYD and other enterprises occupied the dominant position in the power lithium battery industry, while Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. was just an unknown junior.

The key event to help contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. gain a firm foothold is its cooperation with BMW Group in the field of power batteries. In 20 12, BMW Brilliance launched "Zino 1E" electric vehicle in China market. In order to promote local production and sales, BMW tried to adopt power batteries made in China. However, there were not many lithium battery products that BMW could choose at that time. The first power battery partner BMW Brilliance chose was a state-owned enterprise, but due to many problems in product quality and cooperation efficiency, BMW had to stop cooperation.

Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. lost no time to cooperate with BMW. For Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd., this cooperation is a golden opportunity to enter the power battery market. Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. has made great efforts to board the BMW bus. In order to help Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. produce power batteries that meet BMW's requirements, a senior engineer of BMW stayed at the site for two years to give on-site guidance. At the same time, BMW also provided a set of German original power battery production standards to Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd., with a thickness of thousands of pages. According to the actual situation at that time, BMW's technical requirements exceeded the technical strength of contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. However, in order to seize the opportunity, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. conducted R&D and manufacturing research item by item according to BMW's requirements. In view of many problems in lithium battery technology and manufacturing, Zeng Yuqun and Huang Shilin personally led the team to tackle key problems, and finally produced a power battery that met BMW standards [1].

Through this cooperation, the battery technology level of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. has been qualitatively improved, and it has become the only power battery supplier of BMW Group in China, creating a precedent for domestic power battery enterprises to successfully enter the supplier system of international automobile enterprises.

Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd., which passed the test of BMW, quickly opened the market. In just a few years, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. has successively obtained orders for power batteries from Yutong, SAIC, BAIC, Geely, Foton Motor, CRRC, Dongfeng, Changan, Mercedes-Benz and BMW. At the same time, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. also cooperated with new automobile enterprises such as Weilai Automobile to lay out the field of smart cars [2]. With the rapid growth of orders and good market reputation, the sales performance of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. soared. According to GGII statistics, since 20 15 years, the sales volume of power battery system of Contemporary Amp Technology Co., Ltd. has been among the top three global power battery enterprises for three consecutive years. In 20 17, the sales volume of power battery system of contemporary ampu technology co., ltd reached 1 1.84GWh, accounting for nearly 30% in China, ranking first in the world.