据当地媒体报道，吉利通过旗下子公司，注资5000万元在武汉设立新能源科技公司。吉利集团CEO徐志豪兼任新公司董事长，公司名称是“湖北吉利衡远新能源科技公司”，该公司未来将成为吉利新能源动力电池的重要生产基地。不过暂时没有整车项目落户武汉的计划。吉利正在动力电池领域布局。据报道，本月初吉利在湖北荆州设立动力电池基地，项目总投资人民币80亿元，新基地计划于2020年运营，建设电池及模组生产线和研发中心、综合办公楼、物流配选中心等。过去三年，吉利已经投入巨资在浙江、四川和山西省建立了六家新能源生产基地。除了扩充新能源生产基地，吉利还培育自己的动力电池业务。2017年4月，LG化学与吉利集团达成协议，吉利集团全资收购了LG南京工厂所有生产设备和制造技术知识产权的使用权。双方还同意未来继续合作，LG化学将帮助吉利汽车升级其电池技术。

 

Geely injects RMB 50 million to set up Wuhan-based new energy technology company

Geely Group (New Biz) has contributed RMB 50 million to set up a new energy technology company in Wuhan, Hubei province through its subsidiary, according to local media.

 

Xu Zhihao, CEO of Geely Group (New Biz) will serve as chairman for the new unit. Geely Group revealed that the new company, dubbed Hubei Geely Hengyuan New Energy Technology, is built to make new energy electric car batteries. However, the group currently has no plan for building new energy complete cars in Hubei province.

 

Geely has been expanding its layouts in power battery area. According to the reports earlier this month, Geely's new power battery base has settled in Jingzhou, Hubei province. Involving a total investment of RMB 8 billion, the new base might be put into operation in 2020, equipped with such facilities as production line and R&D center of batteries and battery modules, office building as well as logistics distribution center.

 

Over the past three years, Geely has plowed a huge amount of money in a total of 6 NEV manufacturing programs in Zhejiang, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces.

 

Apart from the expansion in NEV bases, Geely is also cultivating its own power battery businesses. In April, 2017, Geely and LG Chem reached an agreement under which Geely wholly acquired the manufacturing facilities in the South Korean company's Nanjing plant and obtained the legal right to use the seller's manufacturing technologies. In addition, both parties agreed future cooperation that allowed LG Chem to help Geely Auto upgrade its battery technologies.