2023年1月17日

2019年10月12日，沙特阿美公司的标志在沙特阿拉伯阿布盖克的石油设施拍摄。路透社/Maxim Shemetov 2023年1月17日12:15PM(更新:2023年1月17日12:15PM)北京/巴黎:三名知情人士表示，雷诺公司和中国吉利汽车控股公司正在努力敲定一项协议，将沙特阿拉伯国家石油生产商阿美作为投资者和合作伙伴，开发和供应汽油发动机和混合动力技术。上述三位知情人士对路透社(Reuters)表示，这家沙特石油生产商参与了深入讨论，拟在吉利-雷诺(Geely-Renault)此前宣布、但仍未具名的一家动力总成技术公司中持股至多20%。吉利-雷诺正在努力成立这家公司。根据路透社看到的两家公司准备的一份文件，其目标是在今年成立一家动力系统公司，年产能超过500万台“低排放和混合动力发动机和变速箱”。上述知情人士告诉路透社(Reuters)，沙特阿美的这笔投资将使雷诺和吉利各持有合资企业40%的股份，合资企业将把法国汽车制造商雷诺现有的内燃机生产与吉利的汽油和混合动力技术及相关资产结合起来。雷诺和吉利均拒绝置评。沙特阿美没有立即回应路透社的置评请求。两名知情人士表示，这家新合资企业的代号为雷诺(Renault)“马”(Horse)，吉利(Geely)为“鲁比克(Rubik)”。该公司的目标是开发更高效的汽油发动机和混合动力系统。目前，汽车行业大部分企业的重点都放在向纯电动汽车的资本密集型转型上。目前尚不清楚沙特阿美对这家合资企业潜在投资的财务条款。根据该文件，沙特阿美的投资将用于支持汽油发动机脱碳技术的开发。 Aramco would also contribute to research and development of powertrain technologies, especially synthetic fuel solutions and next-generation hydrogen technologies, the document said. The people who described the outline of the deal being negotiated asked not to be named because it had not been announced. Last year, Aramco announced a partnership with Hyundai Motor Co to study advanced fuels that could be use in hybrid engines to reduce a vehicle's reduce CO2 emissions. SUBJECT TO BOARD APPROVALS The oil company's deal with Geely and Renault still needs approval by the boards of the automakers, one of the people said. The three companies have been working to complete a letter of intent in coming weeks, according to one of the sources. Geely and Renault said last year when they announced the new venture that it would employ 19,000 people at 17 powertrain factories and three research and development hubs. By carving out its internal-combustion-engine business, Renault plans to focus on electric cars, part of the French automaker's effort to revamp its alliance with Nissan Motor Co. As part of that, Renault is trying to convince Nissan to invest in its new electric vehicle unit. For Geely, the deal with Renault extends its pattern of building partnerships to expand beyond China. A strategic focus for the joint-venture will likely be on an advanced four-cylinder engine, two of the sources said. One way to use those engines would be as a dedicated power generator to supply a charge to a hybrid car's battery system, rather than powering the vehicle directly when the battery charge was low, one of them said. In that kind of arrangement, gasoline engines could be designed to operate in an "exceptionally efficient mode," one of the sources said. Geely has a previously announced a hybrid gasoline engine development deal with Mercedes-Benz and holds a stake in the German automaker. The new Geely-Renault joint-venture is not the only company that is investing on the view that fuel-efficient hybrids will remain part of the mix even as more automakers roll out electric vehicles. Toyota Motor Corp chief executive Akio Toyoda has defended his company's continued investment in hybrids, such as the Prius, saying that electric vehicles remain expensive and the charging infrastructure is incomplete. Source: Reuters