BYD Chairman Raises Concerns Over Depleting Fossil Fuel Resources

وانغ تشوانفو, chairman and president of بي واي دي, has urged humanity to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and transition to new energy sources as quickly as possible for sustainable development. In a speech at the 2023 ESG Global Leaders Conference in Shanghai, Wang highlighted the heavy cost to human society of using fossil energy, which began over 260 years ago during the first industrial revolution.

According to Wang, humans have used up nearly half of the planet’s fossil energy in the past 260 اعوام. If consumption continues at the current rate, coal will only last for another 200 years and oil for another 50 اعوام. He posed the question of where human society will go once these resources are depleted.

BYD has been contemplating how to bring about change and promote the progress of human civilization and sustainable development with green technology and industry. في 2008, BYD proposed its green dream of solar energy, energy storage power plants, and electric vehicles, connecting the entire industrial chain link of energy from acquisition to storage to application.

After a long period of perseverance, BYD has become the world’s largest مركبة الطاقة الجديدة (نيف) maker and the world’s second-largest maker of power batteries. The company stopped production of vehicles powered entirely by internal combustion engines in March 2022 and built the first zero-carbon headquarters for a Chinese auto brand in Pingshan, شنتشن.

Wang emphasized that corporate social responsibility is not only manifested in participation in public welfare but also in using scientific and technological innovation for the benefit of mankind to solve problems such as the energy crisis, climate change, air pollution, and traffic congestion.

في أغسطس, BYD sold a record 274,386 سيارات الطاقة الجديدة, marking its seventh consecutive increase. من يناير إلى أغسطس, BYD sold 1.79 million NEVs, about half of which were plug-in hybrids (السيارات الكهربائية الهجينة القابلة للتوصيل بمصدر كهرباء) and the other half were zero-emission battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The rapid growth in NEV sales has fueled growth in BYD’s battery business. From January to July, BYD installed 58.1 GWh of power batteries, فَوْق 94.1 في المئة من 29.9 GWh in the same period last year.