"I have been doing automotive research for nearly 40 years, mainly new energy vehicles。”

　　From a nihilism to today's vitality, China's new energy automobile industry is not what it used to be。Since the 1980s，Looking for electric vehicles is the future direction of automotive development，Decades in this field，No distractions, perseverance，It has created many "firsts" in China's new energy automobile industry: It has manufactured China's first electric large luxury bus, the first electric bus, the first low-floor electric bus, and the first fuel cell electric car，Built China's first electric vehicle national engineering laboratory and technological achievements transformation base, the first 2011 collaborative innovation center, the first national big data monitoring platform...

　　Sun Fengchun, born in 1958 in Linli County, Hunan Province, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the School of Machinery and Vehicles, Beijing Institute of Technology。With the 40 years of reform and opening up, China's new energy vehicles from the start to prosperity, looking back in the past, China's new energy vehicles from the start, high-speed development to the golden age, Sun Fengchun are involved, with the love of China's automobile cause, struggle, build achievements, become a leader in China's new energy vehicle industry。

The spring breeze of reform, let me go out of the mountains and get acquainted with electric vehicles

　　"I was born in a remote mountainous area in Linli County, Hunan Province。1966 primary school, to high school graduation, a total of 8 years of school, 16 years old returned to the countryside to do farm work, repair tractors and pumps, as a private teacher, brickwork and many other things。Later research on electric vehicles really benefited from the practical ability of repairing tractors in his early years。”

Sun Fengchun (front row, first from left) Sun Fengchun (front)

　　In late October 1977, the state announced the resumption of the college entrance examination, and Sun Fengchun, who was a brickworker in a brick factory at the foot of the mountain in Lixian County, northern Hunan, became the last of the ten high school students of the commune and nearly 800 college entrance examination applicants after several setbacks, which was only three weeks away from the college entrance examination。With the good foundation laid by the middle school, Sun Fengchun entered the university in 1978。As the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, four years later, Sun Fengchun was admitted to the Beijing Institute of Technology (now the Beijing Institute of Technology) School of vehicle engineering master's degree, two years later and admitted to the doctoral degree, since then began his car dream。In the reform and opening up, Beijing Institute of Technology, which has been serving national defense for a long time, aims at the national strategic needs and ushered in its own "five historic changes", from closed to open, opening up an international perspective for Jinggong students and providing better opportunities for further study。In 1987, as one of the first doctoral students jointly trained by China and Germany, Sun Fengchun went to Germany for further study at the Technical University of Berlin。

　　The deep accumulation of the German automobile industry, so that Sun Fengchun hungry to absorb the nutrients of knowledge, with less than two years to complete the doctoral thesis that usually takes four or five years to complete。During his study in Germany, Professor Weilumet, Sun Fengchun's supervisor, proposed to leave him to work in Germany, and said: "Stay for one more year, and the doctoral degree will be given by our Berlin Institute of Technology.。”

　　"But why would I look down on a degree in my own country？Sun Fengchun thought of his parents who cultivated in the yellow land at that time, and thought of the earnest exhortions of Professor Chen Xiaonan, his tutor at the North Institute of Technology, "As a Chinese, I can go abroad and deeply appreciate how important it is for the country to be strong.。Although China had opened the door to reform and opening up at that time, and Santana car was also put into production in China, the gap between Chinese and foreign automobile industries was so large that we students could not lift our heads。Poor as China is，我们总不能让中国一直穷下去吧！我们中国的事还是要中国人自己干！” 1989年，Sun Fengchun completed his doctoral dissertation in Germany，Between 6,000 marks (about 28,800 yuan) per month and 92 yuan per month，Young Sun Fengchun spirited, determined to return home。

　　During his doctoral studies, Sun Fengchun gradually realized that electric vehicles are one of the future development directions of the automotive industry, but he did not know the details。Because he did a lot of projects with his tutor, and he was very smart, the tutor Wei Lumet two teaching assistants did not make the project for 5 years, Sun Fengchun made it in more than half a year, so the tutor liked Sun Fengchun very much。"Before returning to China, I told the professor that I wanted to copy some materials to take back, and he gave me the key to the copy room and let me use it freely.。In this way, I found a lot of electric car related materials in the library, photocopied them, and loaded a small container。At that time, I had a hunch that electric vehicles must be the future direction of development, and I wanted to study them well。”

　　This is Sun Fengchun and electric vehicles for the first time。He said: "Since returning home to repair tractors in middle school, I have formed a fate with cars, and it is the country's reform and opening up that I have the honor to be married to electric vehicles, and have the opportunity to make contributions to the country and China's automobile industry.。”

"We built the Far-watch."

Sun Fengchun and Yuanwang

　　From zero, from nothing。In the early days of reform and opening up, China's auto industry had few opportunities for independent development, and there were few automotive talents。With only 30,000 yuan of returnee funds, Sun Fengchun faced with the difficulties of high high-tech content of electric vehicles, difficult manufacturing and high investment risk, took root in the soil of Beijing Institute of Technology, carried forward the spirit of struggle, and worked hard to tackle problems step by step。

　　"I really got into electric cars in 1992。”

　　In 1992, the United States government and the Chinese government jointly developed the military electric drive technology to civilian bus technology, the Chinese side was led by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and the United States was led by the Ministry of National Defense。At that time, we found many colleges and enterprises in China to participate, such as the National University of Defense Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Victory Bus Factory, Changan Automobile and so on。During the project research, a deputy dean of the North Institute of Technology Mechanical School found Sun Fengchun, because he is good at foreign languages, understands business, and can be used as a technical translator。

　　The project negotiation lasted two years, and on the way back from the first negotiation, Shen Rongjun, the former general of the National Defense Science, Technology and Industry Commission, said to Sun Fengchun: "Xiao Sun, the technical person in charge of the Chinese cooperation Committee is you.。In 1994, Sun Fengchun, who was only 36 years old, became the chief engineer of the military-to-civilian electric bus。

　　Machine, light, electricity, chemistry, the development and innovation of each technology are integrated into Sun Fengchun's blood and sweat。After several years of accumulation, development and continuous improvement, in 1994, China's first pure electric bus "Yuanwang" successful test, the former National Defense Science, Technology and Industry Commission, the Beijing municipal government highly affirmed, young Sun Fengchun rose to prominence。

　　After the electric bus project was completed, the project funds provided by the two governments also ran out。In 1996, Hong Kong's CLP Power company wanted to buy the electric bus and paid a deposit of HK $2 million。"We're going to start with two cars and then mass produce them。It was well said at the time that the American companies Westinghouse, Grumman and Hughes supplied the powertrain, motor controller, transmission and charger for $40,000。Then they suddenly raised the price to $100,000 a unit。The power system alone has reached this price, it is impossible to make ends meet, and we have to return the deposit of the Hong Kong company。This is the biggest blow to Sun Fengchun, he also once again firmly to master the core technology of the belief, decided to develop their own motor and controller。

　　Before joining the Sino-US electric Vehicle Project in 1992, Sun Fengchun was the director of the Vibration and Noise Laboratory of the Beijing Institute of Technology, which at that time was the best laboratory for scientific research and economic benefits in the university, and he was also the director of the automobile and motorcycle shock absorber testing center。

　　"However, I quit when I officially entered the electric vehicle project in 1994。I think it's okay not to be the lab director if we have a real project。"Clean out of the house" Sun Fengchun and a teacher of automatic control college with two students, borrowed a storage room from the school for office。"Just to get started, everything started from scratch, we bought four sets of desks and chairs, a computer and a printer, and the work just started。”

　　After more than a year, the results finally made, in 1997, Beijing officially approved the project, which is China's first set of completely independent intellectual property rights of the motor electronic control system, automatic transmission system, and in principle than foreign advanced, energy efficiency ratio is higher than foreign。Later, the achievement also won the second prize of National science and technology invention。

"Bonding" with the Olympic Games, let China's electric vehicles shine on the world stage

The electric bus developed by the Beijing Institute of Technology was used in the Beijing Olympics

　　From 1998 to 2000, Sun was one of the technical members of the transportation field of Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games。"If the Olympic bid is successful, it is necessary to achieve zero emissions in the central area of the Olympic bus system" This is the promise made by Beijing to the world in the 1999 Olympic bid promise。After the successful bid for the Olympic Games, new energy vehicles have become one of the 12 key projects of the scientific and technological Olympics, and Sun Fengchun has naturally become the chief expert of the project。

　　“我清楚记得，时任国家副主席的习近平同志在考察时对我说，车不能出问题，因为24小时在运行。For the Olympic project, we have done a lot of technical research。To achieve electric vehicles in more than two months 24 hours uninterrupted operation, the challenge is very big, and technicians can not enter the "Bird's Nest" those sites, can only monitor outside the venue。In 2003, when Sun Fengchun learned that technicians could not enter the Olympic core area, he immediately started remote monitoring of new energy vehicles and conducted reliability operation tests on the roads of Beijing。"In retrospect, this was actually the precursor to the Internet of cars that we do today。”

　　During the 2008 Olympic Games, Sun Fengchun led the Beijing Institute of Technology team to develop 55 Chinese independent innovation of pure electric buses on the road to provide 24-hour service for Olympic officials, media reporters and athletes。For the first time in the history of the world Olympic Games, the large-scale use of electric vehicles has achieved zero emissions in the central area of the Olympic Games, fulfilling the promise of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee of the "science and technology Olympics, Green Olympics"。

　　However, behind the green, scientific and comfortable electric vehicles, is the untold hard work of the North Technology team。For this responsibility，Sun Fengchun's schedule，I haven't seen a weekend or holiday in years，At work，He spent all his time in the laboratory，Promote subject research;After work，He went non-stop to Miyun, Tongzhou and Fengtai three production plants，Direct the production of electric buses，Driving nearly 10,000 kilometers a month。"At that time, we had to drive to Tongzhou every day, whether it was late at night or winter, we were constantly tackling and debugging, and we must make the car foolproof!"We have trained a large number of master and doctoral students, all of them were trained at that time, and now they have grown into the pillars of the industry。The backbone of the team, Professor Lin Cheng of the College of Machinery and Vehicles of North Technology, recalled。

　　"For us, the Beijing Olympics is definitely not a 'car show', but an opportunity to show Chinese standards.。We want to show the world that this is how electric cars should work。"Sun Fengchun said。

　　Since then, the Shanghai World Expo, Guangzhou Asian Games, APEC meetings have adopted this pure electric bus operation system。At present, Sun Fengchun's team has solved the battery cold problem, so that new energy vehicles can be used in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and it will be promoted in the northeast of our country, the patriotic struggle and the story of the new energy vehicle is still writing a new chapter。

"China's new energy vehicle strategic decision-making and technology routes lead the world!"

National Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles

　　From the original research and development team of 4 people, to today's research team of dozens of people, Sun Fengchun's team has accumulated rich experience in electric vehicle research, industrialization and demonstration operation, and has won many awards。In January 2010, Beijing Institute of Technology officially established the National Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles, followed by the establishment of the Beijing Collaborative Innovation Center for Electric Vehicles and the National Monitoring and Management Center for New energy Vehicles。

　　Talking about reform and opening up, Sun Fengchun said excitedly: "In the 40 years of reform and opening up, what impressed me most was that in 2010, the state included energy-saving and new energy vehicles in one of the seven strategic emerging industries, and in 2015 it was included in the key areas of transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.。The attention from the policy level touches me the most. For me personally, electric vehicles are my professional direction.For China's automobile industry, in the face of the dual pressure of environmental protection and energy conservation, the development of new energy vehicles is the trend of The Times, even in the global scope, China's investment and support is also the largest。From an objective point of view, China has played a leading role in strategic decision-making and technological routes。Compared with traditional fuel vehicles, the use of intelligent network technology in new energy vehicles is easier and faster to achieve, which lays the foundation for later industrialization, and also does traffic intelligence。I think this is a basic line for the development of China's auto industry, that is, intelligent and networked based on new energy vehicles, which will also be the development trend of the world's auto industry in the future。”

　　40 years of reform and opening up，From the manufacture of a whole car，To a breakthrough in a key technology，To build a standardized platform，To the formation of an industrial chain;From solo to team，Sun Fengchun shouldered the mission given to the workers of Beili by The Times，The quality and gene of BEIT will be injected into China's new energy automobile industry，To this end, the team, the system and the standard of the North Institute of Technology were created。

　　Reform and opening up for China to take off into a strong impetus, with Sun Fengchun as the representative of the north Li workers, with the spirit of patriotic struggle, in the construction of the country on the road, engraved under the bright ruts, continue to make contributions in the new era, Mufeng flying!

　　(Content source: Written by the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee based on Xiaoxiang Morning Post, China Automotive News, China Science Journal, People's Daily and other news reports;The pictures are from myself and the Internet。）