It has to be admitted that the growth rate of the new energy market has surpassed that of traditional fuel vehicles. According to the statistics of china automobile association, from January to November 2021, the cumulative sales of new energy vehicles were close to 3 million. You know, in 2020, the total annual sales of new energy vehicles is only 1.36 million, and a comparison can be found that more and more consumers are now choosing new energy vehicles.
In the current market, new energy vehicles can be roughly divided into three camps, one is a conventional plug-in hybrid vehicle led by BYD, the second is a pure electric vehicle led by Tesla, and the third is an ideal range extender electric vehicle, which also represents three technical routes. Among them, pure electric is a line that many people are more optimistic about, after all, this is also the technology that many manufacturers are using. The scale of plug-in hybrid is not small, because this is also the best "transition product" in everyone's eyes.
But for the extender electric, many people are not very optimistic, even Volkswagen China CEO Feng Sihan, has also complained that it is the worst solution, Weilai's vice president of power management Shen Fei also said that there is no future for the extender. Is this range-extender electric technology, which is not optimistic about peers, really so bad?
(Ideal ONE)
In fact, in my opinion, it is not, on the contrary, the extender power is still the most suitable choice at present. What to say? For the majority of users who want to buy new energy vehicles, it is nothing more than a pure electric vehicle, a mixed model can be green card, free of purchase tax, unlimited weekdays, and good economy. And these "benefits" can also be enjoyed on range-extended electric vehicles, such as the ideal ONE.
Speaking of the ideal ONE, the author also praises it here, in November this year, the car won the first place in the sales list of medium and large SUVs with a single monthly insurance volume of 13438 units, and it is the first time that the Chinese brand car has reached more than 10,000 units of monthly sales in the price range of more than 300,000 yuan, which is another milestone in the history of the development of Chinese brand cars.
(NIO ES6)
Seeing this, some people may say that Weilai is also above 300,000 prices, and it was established earlier than the ideal, why didn't Weilai write a mileage card? Personally, I think that Weilai is the use of pure electric technology line, and the technology is not perfect at the moment, take the brand's hot product ES6 as an example, although the NEDC pure electric endurance can reach more than 600 kilometers, but the actual endurance is different, especially in the case of winter endurance reduction, the access is greater, it is inevitable that the endurance anxiety.
And range extender power technology, there is no such problem, take the ideal ONE, although its NEDC pure electric endurance is only 188km, but the existence of the "oil-electricity hybrid" mode, so that it has no mileage anxiety. Of course, from a technical point of view, plug-in hybrid models can also be regarded as no mileage anxiety. But different from the plug-in hybrid model is that the driving experience of the extended range electric vehicle is better, or take the ideal ONE as an example, although it also has an engine, but the engine does not participate in the drive, only acts as a range extender, so it is the hybrid vehicle with the driving texture closest to the pure electric vehicle.
(Touareg PHEV)
In addition, in terms of economy, the extended range electric vehicle is also better than the plug-in hybrid model, take the Volkswagen Touareg PHEV as an example, although there is a 58km NEDC pure electric mileage, but obviously can not afford the wage earner a week of commuting needs, so most of the time it is still dependent on oil-electric hybrid, the battery has electricity when the NEDC comprehensive fuel consumption is 2.3L/100km, when there is no power, it relies on fuel direct drive, fuel consumption is 9L/100km. The ideal ONE using range extender technology provides a pure electric cruising range of 188km NEDC, the comprehensive fuel consumption of NEDC in the "hybrid fuel-electricity" mode is 1.5L/100km, and when the battery is out of power, the fuel consumption is 8.8L/100km, which is significantly better in economy.
Under the same distance, the models with lower fuel consumption are obviously more environmentally friendly, so the view that the CEO of Volkswagen China believes that the range extension is not environmentally friendly is somewhat one-sided. After all, from the perspective of actual car use scenarios, the extender can not only solve the mileage anxiety, but also has the "welfare" equivalent to pure electricity, as well as high economy, which is also the key factor for the ideal ONE to sell well.
(Huawei AITO Q&I M5 pre-sale)
In short, in the current market, although the "call" of pure electric technology is the highest, from the perspective of the current market situation, the range extender and plug-in hybrid models are obviously more suitable for the present. Among them, the range extender electric vehicle with better driving texture and higher economy is the most prominent, especially the hot sales of the ideal ONE, which further shows that the range increase is not the "worst solution" in the mouth of Volkswagen CEO Feng Sihan. At least in terms of practical value, extended-range electric vehicles can rank at the forefront of other power solution models. Therefore, brands such as Huawei, Nissan, Lantu, and Ziyoujia are launching range extender electric vehicles, and the probability is also the practical value of such power systems.