On April 15, Sinopec and NIO signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Sinopec's first power replacement station was officially launched on the same day. At the signing of the cooperation agreement, the chairman of Sinopec said that in the next five years, Sinopec will build 5,000 charging stations.
It is a gas station as well as a power station. New energy and traditional energy are from opposition to unity.
Sinopec is the largest oil product sales company in China, with more than 30,000 gas stations nationwide. Faced with the general trend of the transformation and development of the energy industry and the automotive industry, Sinopec is accelerating its transformation from traditional oil product sales to an integrated energy service provider of "oil, gas, hydrogen, electricity and non-", focusing on the development of new businesses such as power station swapping and high-power DC fast charging. It plans to 2025 The number of charging and swapping stations reached 5,000, consolidating the dominant position in the transportation energy market.
Cooperation with new energy companies is an important way for Sinopec to respond to the new energy revolution, and is a concrete measure to help "carbon peak and carbon neutrality".
In addition to the NIO this time, on April 13, Sinopec and Longi signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The collision between traditional energy companies and new energy companies will inevitably produce 1+1 greater than 2 effects.
Experts believe that hydrogen energy is the ultimate energy source in the future. Hydrogen battery vehicles are also the main direction of electric vehicles in the future. In the field of hydrogen energy, Sinopec has already acted and achieved remarkable results.
Sinopec regards the entire hydrogen energy industry chain as the company's core business of new energy development, and is committed to building China's largest hydrogen energy company. At present, Sinopec is already one of the largest hydrogen energy suppliers in China, with an annual hydrogen production capacity of more than 3.5 million tons, accounting for about 14% of the country's total output.
The industry generally believes that one of the main bottlenecks restricting the development of hydrogen energy is the cost problem caused by factors such as immature hydrogen production technology. In the past few years, the cost of photovoltaic kilowatt-hours of electricity has dropped rapidly, making low-cost photovoltaic hydrogen production a reality. As the most professional enterprise in the photovoltaic field, Longi has a deep accumulation in the field of new energy. The cooperation between Sinopec and Longi will be able to give full play to the advantages of both parties, and in-depth coordination and development in all aspects of the new energy industry.
