CATL

宁德时代

CATL is providing integrated product solutions as well as comprehensive full life cycle services to global clients.

CATL, founded in December, 2011 and headquartered in Ningde, is a NEV power battery system developer. The founder is Zeng Yuqun. Listed on the SZSE on June 11, 2018, the company's major shareholders are Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Port Ruiting Investment Co., Ltd., Huang Shilin and Ningbo United Innovation New Energy Investment Management Partnership (LP). Rivals that have direct and indirect competition with CATL include Weichai Power, EVE Energy, GM, Toyota, etc.

CATL is providing integrated product solutions as well as comprehensive full life cycle services to global clients.

Sector

Industrials

Industry

Electrical Equipment

Sub-industry

New Energy Power System

Founded date

Dec 16, 2011

HQ location

Fujian, China

Legal name

Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd.

Website

http://www.catlbattery.com

CATL-IR@catlbattery.com

Number of Employees

24875

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Updated 12 hours ago ·

CATL Becomes Primary Battery Supplier for Mercedes-Benz

According to CATL’s official Weibo, CATL and Mercedes-Benz have stepped up their strategic partnership - both will continue to develop leading battery technology to support the mass electrification of Mercedes models. While Mercedes is pushing its electrification first strategy, CATL will provide it with advanced batteries, modules, and battery pack products that meet carbon-neutral standards. This strategic agreement covers power battery technology in various fields, including batteries and modules for Mercedes-Benz passenger car products, and overall battery packs for light commercial vehicle products, which will have broad prospects. The innovative technology configuration, such as the CTP (Moduleless Battery Pack) product design of CATL. This design saves the traditional module link and integrates the cells directly into the battery pack. In order to enhance the competitiveness of Mercedes electric vehicles in the high-end market, the two parties also set ambitious goals: EQS pure electric luxury sedan equipped with CATL battery modules will be launched in 2021, with a cruising range of more than 700 km / 435 miles (WLTP standard), and charging speed twice as fast as existing models. To read EqualOcean in-depth report on CATL click here.

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EO Intelligence: 'CATL Research Report 2020'

In 2001, CATL entered Apple’s supply chain and established its leading position in the lithium battery industry, laying the technical foundation for its entry into the new energy vehicle power battery market. Then in 2012, CATL and Brilliance Auto reached a strategic partnership, which proved its product strength in the new energy vehicle power battery market and built a strong endorsement. As of 2020, it has reached a global partnership with EV market leader Tesla. We believe Tesla's global sales performance will become a new growth point for the CATL power battery shipments in the near future. Following the development trend of new energy vehicles, one of China's power battery companies, CATL, has rapidly developed into an industry leader. The '2020 CATL Research Report' conducts an in-depth analysis of the enterprise from multiple dimensions and demarcates a future development strategy based on the results. We hope to provide constructive development suggestions for related industries and enterprises through this in-depth analysis of representative companies in the industry. Talking about the business of the company, in the context of YoY growth in revenue, the proportion of the main business has continued to decline, and the total proportion of other businesses has risen. The revenue structure is rich and diversified, and the company's revenue resistance to risks has increased. In 1Q 2020, affected by COVID-19, both revenue and profit declined YoY. Power battery revenue accounted for an average of over 80%, with lithium battery materials and other businesses accounting for the remaining 20%. Although energy storage system revenue has increased, it has been at a low point. In this paper you can find: • The prospects of the 'Power battery' market. • Insights into the ever-growing NEV market. • In-depth analysis of CATL. • Future challenges and opportunities for CATL. • The future strategy of CATL.

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CATL’s Capital Operation Helping it to Expand Downstream Market

► Before 2018, CATL was cooperating with auto firms to conduct investments. However, after 2018, it began to concentrate more on energy storage firms. ► With the strengths in R&D and industrial chains, the battery maker has shown an increasing trend in its operating incomes in the last five years. In its evolution from start-up to listed firm, CATL has attracted more and more investors. It is worth mentioning that the firm has raised CNY 19.62 billion from 38 investors, including UBS, JPMorgan and Hillhouse Capital in this July. With sufficient capital to start new things, CATL has set up an investment platform, a firm named CATL New Energy Industrial Investment Firm (宁德时代新能源产业投资有限公司). It is not surprising that CATL is running an investment platform, as it is good at operating capital means, judging from its development history. In early 2009, the power battery firm worked with Foton Auto (福田汽车) and BJEV (北汽新能源) to establish a firm called Pride Power (普莱德) – a battery firm which helps CATL work in the industrial battery chain. Moreover, it has cooperated with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (上汽集团) to set up two new energy firms in 2017 and established the Dongfeng Shidai (东风时代) with Dongfeng Electric Car (东风电动车) in 2018. These investments allowed CATL to arrange its downstream market at the initial step. Except for cooperating with auto firms, CATL has utilized these capital sums to expand downstream markets such as electric charging and energy storage firms. For instance, it invested in Shengde (盛德新能源) – a solar charging firm for the angel round – and Hello (哈啰换电), an electric car charging firm for strategic investment. However, most of its investments were in the energy storage industry, with eight related firms by the middle of 2020. Specifically, it has raised CNY 200 billion to support the R&D in the energy storage battery in 2020. The battery maker put so much money in the energy storage firms due to the lower costs in lithium batteries, and there would be more rooms for the energy storage market to grow. As Guoxin Securities (国信证券) said, the market size of the energy storage market should soon be CNY 650 billion, and it will also reach CNY 120 billion by 2030. Thanks to CATL’s investments in the energy storage sector, the ratio of this sector’s operating income to the total has increased from 0.57% to 1.33% in the last two years. Nevertheless, most of its operating income is still from the primary sector – the power battery system, which benefitted from the new energy cars’ favorable policies. Additionally, the penetration rate of global new energy cars was merely 2.5% in 2025, implying a considerable development room in the future. It also expects that the ratio of China’s sales volumes in new energy cars to global volumes would increase to 25%. Furthermore, the rate of Chinese power batteries’ shipments to worldwide shipments also rose from 50% to 60.68%. Regardless of good market conditions, CATL has its own competencies to help grow up rapidly. To begin with, it has a completed R&D system. For example, it has an engineering research center of energy storage technology, Fujian lithium-ion battery laboratory and a test verification center authorized by China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (中国合格评定国家认可委员会). Moreover, its R&D staff has increased from 119 to 142 in the last two years, which has occupied 38.87% of the total employees in 2019. Secondly, the firm is actively arranging its upstream and downstream industrial chains. With power batteries as the core business, CATL has upstream industries in raw materials minerals and battery materials, downstream industries with battery recycling and operating companies. This one-stop industrial chain would help it to lower the costs of raw materials and expand the growth space in its businesses. Compared with better-known competitors, CATL’s operating income started from a lower level but gradually increased in the last few years. CATL, EVE Energy (亿纬锂能) and Guoxuan High-tech (国轩高科) are all specialized in battery manufacture. However, Guoxuan High-tech has shown a dramatic decrease in its operating income, which was 11.29 times smaller than CATL in 2019. This might be due to its low R&D expenses, where CATL’s input amounts in R&D were averaging 5.92 times larger in the last three years. In a word, CATL is good at capital operation, which helps it to acquire firms and expand the downstream market. Also, it benefits from the national policies, the battery firm could take full advantage of its R&D and industrial chains, generating more operating income. With its concentration on the energy storage industry, this sector may account for more percentages of the overall revenues in the upcoming future.

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