In fact, there has always been a great controversy about whether pure electric vehicle models are really more environmentally friendly, or whether they really belong to new energy, and the focus of this controversy is whether the electric energy itself belongs to clean energy, and it also needs to see what kind of way to generate electricity. After the Fukushima accident in Japan, the proportion of nuclear power in the grid of France, Europe's former nuclear power power, has dropped from nearly 70% to about 20%. With more thermal power plants reactivated, there are more questions about whether pure electric vehicles are really more environmentally friendly. On the other hand, China's recent trade frictions with overseas have led to a high price of imported coal, and many places in China have also pulled the brakes and curtailed power in a short period of time.
"You say that the price of coal burning is still high, is it that domestic coal mining enterprises have to be better again?" Lao Fan, who was quite concerned about the international situation in the office, said.
"It should not be, the small and medium-sized coal mines that took so much effort to shut down, it is impossible for this small storm to make them resurrect."
"Hey, when will the house I was trapped in Ordos be untied?"
"I still really care about the country's major events, it turns out that the speculation is trapped?"
"What kind of speculation is there, just being fooled by people"
In fact, when I carefully understand the situation of domestic power curtailment, I will find that in fact, this power curtailment is related to the rise in coal prices, but there is no such relationship, more is the domestic industrial adjustment of the power generation industry to reduce the overall proportion of thermal power generation, so that the proportion of wind power generation and water power generation is higher, some areas have not implemented the adjustment on schedule, and zero hours have led to the power curtailment. Of course, after this series of events, the proportion of thermal power generation in China's power grid has dropped to about 30%, which can really be said that pure electric vehicles are more clean energy vehicles.
After checking this series of data, I can't help but think of a new car that Toyota just released, toyota bZ4X. While whether the pure electric model is really environmentally friendly, Toyota has been pointing out another talent tree in the field of new energy, that is, hydrogen energy. From Toyota's point of view, we can indeed understand why hydrogen fuel cells are preferred. Due to the limitations of Japan's local geography, it is difficult to have clean energy for power generation. The implementation of pure electric vehicles in Japan is indeed suspected of passing on pollution.
But today, when globalization is deeply rooted, Toyota obviously cannot rely solely on the Japanese domestic market, and hydrogen fuel cells obviously have no universal applicability in other parts of the world. Pure electric models have still become a trend today, if Toyota still desperately insists on promoting hydrogen fuel cell technology, it will not take too long for Toyota to be eliminated by the market. The launch of this Toyota bZ4X has a hint of a backup plan.
In fact, the bZ4X concept car was launched in June 2019, and it was also unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show in April this year. The model is based on the e-TNGA architecture, and it was Toyota's response to the Japanese government's "green growth strategy" released in December last year that it was able to officially release this year, and the scene of the conference also proposed to reduce the cost of the car by 50% by 2030, in addition to its battery life goal of maintaining 90% of the battery capacity after 10 years of use.
Toyota, returning to the pure electric track, clearly wants to catch up with its rivals in a big stride, the bZ4X has appeared in both technology and design with very non-"Toyota" elements, the motor performance is not eye-catching, the maximum power of the single-motor front-drive version is 150 kW (204Ps), the acceleration time of 0–100 km/h is 8.4 seconds, and the maximum combined power of the dual-motor version is 160 kW (218Ps), and the acceleration time of 0–100 km/h is 7.7 seconds. It is worth mentioning that the bZ4X uses a steering wheel by wire, that is, a non-mechanically linked "electronic steering wheel", which is not allowed in many regional regulations, and such a design will further reduce the feedback of road information, but fortunately Toyota also provides a normal version of the steering wheel for selection. And the interior design of the new car also rarely appears a sense of technology element, which is very rare for Toyota.
"In fact, this wave of coal-fired price increases or trade frictions means more strongly, but the domestic coal mining industry will not have much impact."
"Hey, I don't want anything else, I just want to be fooled into investing money to get it back"
"You might as well buy new energy stocks, more reliable than counting on that solution"
"Farewell, I should go to the roof again"
"What an exaggeration~"...
Toyota bZ4X launch is more Toyota's compromise on reality, Toyota Akio also publicly said to the outside world that Toyota will have different carbon emission solutions according to the situation of each country and region, hybrid and hydrogen energy and pure electric are the development direction of Toyota new energy. But the current pure electric model is obviously the best solution, which means that Toyota needs to re-compete in this track that it was about to give up. But just like Daimler and Volkswagen's investment in Toyota's hydrogen energy technology, Toyota's research and development of pure electric technology may still be an alternative in the eyes of Toyota Akio.