According to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, from January to November this year, the cumulative sales of new energy vehicles in China reached 2.990 million units, a substantial increase of 166.8% year-on-year, of which plug-in hybrid models (PHEV) also played an indispensable role, and the cumulative sales volume exceeded the 500,000-unit mark from January to November.
PhEV models, which were once considered "marginalized", have now become an important component of new energy vehicles, and the explosive models of BYD, Ideal and other car companies continue to sell well. On December 22, BYD launched another DM-i series of new cars, yang Dongsheng, vice president of BYD Co., Ltd., said that the PHEV model is a soft landing of new energy vehicles and plays an important role in the transition of the industrial chain.
PHEV still promising?
In 2019 and 2020, BYD suffered two consecutive years of sales decline, although there was a superimposed impact of the car market adjustment and the epidemic, but the "leading decline" of PHEV models was an important reason for the decline in BYD's sales at that time.
Taking 2020 as an example, BYD's PHEV passenger car sales in that year were only 48,000 units, a year-on-year decline of more than 30%. As a transitional product between fuel vehicles and pure electric vehicles, the development of PHEV was once in an embarrassing situation.
However, from the technical route, THE EV model does not have the mileage anxiety of pure electric vehicles, and it also has the advantage of energy saving compared with traditional fuel vehicles. The rapid growth of new energy vehicles this year has also made PHEV models "red".
(Yang Dongsheng, vice president of BYD Co., Ltd.) ）
Taking BYD as an example, after the introduction of DM-i hybrid technology in its PHEV model, many models continue to sell well or even in short supply, and the extended-range hybrid technology used by the ideal ONE is also classified as a PHEV model, and its recent monthly sales have also successfully exceeded 10,000 vehicles. In November, the on-line data of the China Automobile Center showed that four of the top five models sold by PHEV in that month were BYD PHEVs, and the other was the ideal ONE.
Although pure electric vehicles are undoubtedly the most important technical route of new energy vehicles, from the perspective of annual data, from January to November, the cumulative sales of domestic PHEV passenger cars reached 519,000 units, accounting for about 18.3% of the overall sales of new energy passenger vehicles, considering that PEV models are mostly medium-sized cars, medium and large vehicles, and the overall price is higher, so the gold content of this data is worthy of recognition by the industry. According to the announcement of BYD's listed companies, from January to November this year, the cumulative sales of PHEV models have reached 228,400 units, an increase of 471% year-on-year.
In this regard, Yang Dongsheng told reporters that PHEV is the carrier of the "soft landing" of new energy vehicles, and its primary advantage is that it can alleviate mileage anxiety, "PHEV models can achieve short-distance electricity, long-distance oil, 2/3 of carless families buy new energy vehicles for the first time Are FIRST choices are PHEV." Yang Dongsheng also pointed out that PHEV has also played an important role in consumer training for the experience of charging and driving these new energy vehicles, and more importantly, PHEV has played a transitional role in the upgrading and transformation of the engine and transmission industry chain.
At the end of the year, car companies gathered to launch hybrid vehicles
THIS year, BYD, which tasted the sweetness of THEPHE model, launched a new new car again at the end of the year, and the 2022 Song Pro DM-i was officially launched a few days ago, with a price range of 134,800 yuan to 159,800 yuan, and a pure electric mileage of up to 110 kilometers. In fact, whether the PHEV is really energy-saving, and the energy consumption when the power is lost, there is a direct correlation, taking the new car as an example, its 100 km loss of power fuel consumption is 4.4L, compared with the traditional fuel vehicle, fuel consumption has a certain advantage, full of oil and electricity, the vehicle endurance can exceed 1000 kilometers.
（宋Pro DM-i。 ）
Not only BYD, but also geely, Great Wall and other mainstream independent brands, all launched new hybrid models at the recent Guangzhou Auto Show, both PHEV and HEV (oil-electric hybrid) models, such as Geely announced that it will carry Thor Hi · X hybrid system, and BYD gradually put the past DM model "eliminated", replaced by a DM-i system equipped with a PHEV model, in the Tang, Song Pro, Song Plus, Qin Plus and other car series after the introduction of DM-i, Han will also launch a DM-i version.
In terms of joint venture brands, Japanese car companies such as Toyota, Honda, and Nissan are also accelerating the introduction of hybrid models, such as Toyota Highlander, Xena, and honda odyssey, which have been replaced or remodeled in a hybrid manner. Similarly, Toyota and Honda, which used to be "obsessed" with HEV models, have also launched PHEV models.
Caambiz predicts that the market size of passenger cars will reach 23 million in 2022, an increase of about 8% over 2021, of which the sales of new energy vehicles are expected to be 5 million, an increase of 47%, according to the PHEV model accounted for 1/6 of the calculation, next year's PHEV market size or reach 800,000 vehicles.
Nandu reporter Zhong Jianting