In the past few years, the transition from internal combustion engine to electrification has become the development trend of global automotive power, although at present, the global automotive industry still occupies an absolute advantage in the power level. However, from the trend level, the more powerful electric drive system, as well as more fuel-efficient, emission-friendly, stronger performance of the hybrid system, has become a period of time in the future, people in the choice of new cars when the "new favorite", the past many years widely affected by any small displacement, large displacement engine has become the past, electrification is the development direction of automobile power!
Not long ago, the "2021 Ward Top Ten Engines and Powertrains" was released, and we saw that among the top ten engines and powertrains selected by the agency, only Chevrolet's 1.3T inline three-cylinder engine and Hyundai's 2.5T inline four-cylinder engine were selected as pure fuel engines and powertrains. The rest are all hybrid power, pure electric drive system, proportionally speaking, the traditional pure internal combustion engine in Ward's selection system, can occupy very few seats! If you turn your attention to the domestic, the popularity of Chevrolet's 1.3T three-cylinder engine and modern 2.5T engine is very low, and it is difficult to form a strong scale effect!
Of course, judging from Ward's selection results, we can also see the changes in the power era! We see that the selected pure electric drive system representative models include Mustang Mach-E, Hyundai Kona EV, Polestar 2, Porsche Taycan 4S, models with hybrid systems include BMW 330e, Ford F150, Jeep Wrangler 4xe, and models equipped with hydrogen fuel cells/electric drive systems are Toyota Mirai, or in essence, although mirai's power source is hydrogen fuel cells. But the drive system is still an electric drive system!
From the power distribution of these models, it can be clearly seen that electric vehicleization is already a completely irreversible process, or that all cars in the future may have to be electrified. Compared with pure fuel vehicles, the advantage of electric vehicles is that the use of more environmentally friendly, which is also one of the core reasons for the emergence of electric vehicles, and reflected in the power level, is the special process of electric energy driving motors, so that the torque of electric vehicles is stronger, acceleration is more rapid, so to speak, because of the emergence of electric vehicles, people buy "performance cars" The threshold for people to buy "performance cars" is greatly reduced, such as tesla Model 3 high-performance version models priced at 339,900 yuan. 100 km acceleration as long as 3.3 seconds, if in the era of pure fuel vehicles, want to achieve such a power performance, then the cost of buying such a fuel car is probably at least more than 1 million yuan, and there are very few models to choose from, and now, in electric vehicles, 100 km acceleration can run into 5 seconds of models abound. I think this is also the reason why Ward in the 2021 list, four of the top ten power systems rated electric drive systems and electric vehicles, in the era of electric vehicles, performance is no longer the core problem of the power system!
Of course, we know that in the process of evolution from pure fuel vehicles to electric vehicles, it is bound to go through a transition stage, so from a long time in the past to the demand level of the market today, hybrid power is a topic that cannot be avoided. With the strict control of automobile emissions in various countries and regions around the world, high-horsepower internal combustion engines have been unable to meet the strict needs of environmental protection and emissions, but for many models or use scenarios, there are many restrictions on the use of electric drives, such as many off-road vehicles, medium and large tool vehicles using pure electric drives, which may not be realistic to a large extent!
Therefore, for a period of time, for some internal combustion engines that do not have a large displacement equipped with motors and batteries, making it a hybrid power system, the power system can to a large extent ensure the endurance of the vehicle, as well as the use of performance under special working conditions, while lower fuel consumption, less emissions, performance can also be stronger. For example, the Ford F150, which used to be equipped with a 6.2L eight-cylinder engine for a long time, but such an engine displacement and fuel consumption will not be very low, in many countries and regions, it is difficult to "survive". So Ford for this model equipped with a 3.5T V6 hybrid system, although the 3.5T displacement still looks very large, but compared with the 6.2L displacement, it still shows a large decline in displacement, but the power is not lost, but it has become stronger!
Therefore, from the perspective of trend, only two of the top ten engines and power systems selected by Ward are pure fuel engines, and the rest are pure electric drive and hybrid systems, and the proportion is very clear at a glance. So in fact, although many media and netizens are now discussing the problem of whether electric vehicles should buy or not, this problem may only exist in the present, in the future, the living space of pure fuel vehicles will be further compressed, many car companies in the active layout of electric vehicles at the same time, but also the development of fuel vehicles to the field of hybrid systems! This point has been evident in the domestic automobile market, especially independent brands, and the force of hybrid has become the focus of work at this stage! Therefore, in the future, the transition from pure fuel vehicles to hybrid systems and then to pure electric drives will become an irreversible trend, and it may be two years later, the selection of Ward's top ten power, there will be no pure fuel engine!