China's Pure Electric Vehicle Patents are Chasing Japan's
In the field of pure electric vehicle technology such as thermal management, Chinese companies are on the offensive. Among the patents related to pure electric vehicles applied by companies in 5 major countries, China has reached 25% in terms of the cumulative number share of each country as of 2021, and is chasing Japan (36%), which currently ranks first. Judging from the number of applications in a single year, China has already ranked first in the world, and its presence has increased year by year. Overseas companies are actively pursuing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of companies with potential technologies, and Japanese companies may also be at a disadvantage in the future. Japanese research firm Patent Result and Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun jointly investigated patents related to pure electric vehicles. The results show that the cumulative number of patent applications in China has increased to 16 times that of 2011, and the share has risen by 19 percentage points. On the contra