To meet the surging demand for the new energy vehicle (NEV) market in China, the country made new breakthroughs in producing new materials for NEVs with higher motor efficiency and less energy consumption. 

A self-developed high-grade, non-oriented electrical steel production line, which took China six years to construct, was put into operation in Qian'an City of north China's Hebei Province on Wednesday.

The two types of new electrical steel currently under production in the factory can improve the efficiency of the motor by more than 0.8 percent, Hu Zhiyuan, deputy general manager of Shougang Zhixin Qian'an Electromagnetic Material Co., Ltd, told China Media Group (CMG).

"If each car drives 50 kilometers per day, 5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity will be saved per day by 20 million NEVs."

Ma Jiaji, chief engineer of Beijing Shougang Co,.Ltd., told CMG that "once the production line goes fully operational, it will lead the NEV industry with a new production process path."

The production line, expected to produce an annual output of 350,000 tonnes of the new electrical steel, will meet the needs of manufacturing around 5 million NEVs per year.

China's NEV demand soared in the first half of 2022. Some 2.6 million NEVs were sold from January to June, surging 129.2 percent year on year, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. The jump in sales for NEVs also supercharged demand for NEV batteries. 

In addition, core infrastructure to keep NEVs on the road has been expanded, as the National Energy Administration announced a total of 1.3 million charging facilities across the country, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also claimed over 10,000 battery recycling stations in China.   

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