How do we look at hybrid development prospects in the construction machinery?
Post Date: 29 Apr 2011 Viewed: 453
Regarding China’s construction machinery most of the core technology is mastered by a number of supporting enterprises in foreign countries, from key components to the system, most of them are from abroad. The main reason is foreign to the related components and technology with several decades or even centuries of accumulation, while domestic enterprises are mostly from the last century or even late 90′s started to work in this area, the gap is not a short period of time to be able to remove. As a new hybrid technology, the development of construction machinery plays a very important role.
Most importantly, the domestic research for this technology is not much later than abroad, and from now, the gap in technology is relatively small, it can be said in the same starting line. Therefore, this for the domestic manufacturers of construction machinery is a rare opportunity is a chance of competing against and their foreign counterparts. Therefore, the development of hybrid power to seize the opportunity for narrowing the gap with foreign construction machinery and improve the competitiveness of their products is very important.
Ancillary supply of key components is not very mature, and some of the major hybrid domestic fittings such as high efficiency motors and energy storage component suppliers are engaged in the development of hybrid vehicles, products are stuck in low-volume prototype stage, and basically no construction machinery component parts of production experience.
Environmental- friendly hybrid manufacturing costs with the formation of higher conflict will greatly hinder the promotion and application of hybrid. Like a Japanese hybrid excavator company in the Chinese market price and the same type of hydraulic excavator, only about 10% higher. As the company is quite strong, it is possible to promote in the market and use this strategy to sell even parity, which is the market strategy.
On the hybrid technology used in construction machinery, especially in the use of excavators, mainly taken the form of, or hybrid, but large-scale production and sales need considerable time. Hydraulic hybrid research and development in the construction machinery is still in the stage, still far away from the market, especially related to the maturity of technology and component parts production costs are all issues to be considered.