Introduction: In the hybrid market, Geely, which did not seize the first-mover advantage, what has it been polishing over the years?
2021 is known as the first year of hybridization in China's auto market, this year, the vast majority of automakers have launched their own hybrid systems, and some are borrowing the resource advantages of the parent company to directly transfer the hybrid systems of the group's joint ventures.
Compared with other independent brands, Geely did not win the first-mover advantage in the hybrid market, but until November, it disclosed some of the core information of the new hybrid technology at the Thor Power conference.
So the problem is, this set of positioned as a world-class modular intelligent hybrid platform of the Thunder God Intelligence Engine Hi · What's so great about X? In the past period of time, what is Geely polishing on this Thor-powered hybrid system?
A month after the release of Thor Power, Geely sent three consecutive moves and gave the answer through three theme activities.
First, through the way of actual measurement, it was shown that the star-cross L Thor Hi · X oil-electric hybrid version steadily exceeds the ultra-long endurance level of 1300km; in addition, it also enters the Yiwu Power Intelligent Factory through online live broadcast to reveal the secret behind its excellent performance; and finally hit the iron while it is hot, announcing the Star Yue L Thor Hi · The pre-sale price of the X oil-electric hybrid version has brought extremely high popularity to the "China Star Hybrid".
In fact, as early as the "Dragon Bay Operation" in November, people already had a general understanding of the newly released Thor Power, especially the hybrid part.
At that time, the R&D cost of spending 5 years and investing 50 billion yuan was too abstract for most ordinary people, and 43.32% thermal efficiency, 3.6L of 100 km of comprehensive fuel consumption, as well as 1300km endurance, powertrain that can support FOTA and 148 NVH optimizations, etc., although it is very eye-catching, but at the same time, it is also inevitable to wonder whether these excellent results contain moisture. What's going on behind it?
So, we did the first event of the "Three Moves" - Hoshigoku L Thor Hi · X One Tank Fuel Challenge 1300km Ultra Long Endurance Challenge got the answer. Compared with the winning result of 1426.1km, which is close to the limit, the actual 10 stars participating in the race are L Thor Hi· The X's endurance performance of easily surpassing 1300km is more commendable, after all, earlier, it was very difficult for some joint venture brands to challenge 1100km for plug-in hybrid models.
In the live broadcast footage, most of the experiencers mentioned the driving experience and said that they were impressed by the medium-high speed acceleration performance and NVH. Although it was impossible to intuitively get the same feeling across the screen, Geely quickly revealed the essence of the hybrid system to people through an online event that went into the factory through a live broadcast.
Among them, the outstanding performance of the medium and high speed acceleration process is mainly due to the unique design of the 3-speed hybrid electric drive transmission DHT Pro, which is different from the traditional hybrid system blindly pursuing economy, and the dhT Pro is designed in three gears under the compact size, which can make Ray Smart Engine Hi · X takes into account the dynamic performance in more speed domains from the structure.
It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time that Thor Power DHT smart micron factory has been opened to the public. In the plant, which is planned to produce 300,000 transmissions per year and has an automation level of more than 70%, the DHT Pro has been given a manufacturing level that is two levels of accuracy higher than conventional AT transmissions. Coupled with the blessing of a series of other leading manufacturing processes, from the processing and manufacturing level, from the source, this hybrid system has better NVH performance.
Only 24 hours later, Geely then released the Hoshikoshi L Thunder God Intelligence Engine Hi · The pre-sale price of the X oil-electric hybrid version - 173,700 yuan. Since this pre-sale only announced the pre-sale price of the Super Xun, a medium and high-end model, it is clear that with the release of the price of the subsequent models, the Star Yue L Thunder God Intelligence Engine Hi · The X oil-electric hybrid version will also bring us more surprises.
During the live broadcast of the press conference, people can hear the judgment of "surpassing the Japanese system" from the expressions of experiencers, experts and others many times. Today, in the context of technological upgrading and innovation brought about by the development of electrification, China is also changing from an "importing country" of hybrid technology to an "exporter" of more advanced hybrid technology.
In the Chinese market, Raytheon Power will become the Star-Vietnam L , a new killer for Geely's annual blockbuster model, which has sold more than 40,000 units in less than five months. Facing the world, with the cooperation with Mercedes-Benz and Renault respectively, Geely hybrid system is bound to show greater international influence in the world.