The recent "operation" of the technology giant Huawei has made many netizens wonder, and it has been saying that it does not build a car, but it has brought a new electric vehicle, and it still uses the extender electric technology that has been spat at by Volkswagen China CEO Feng Sihan. Although Huawei has repeatedly emphasized its Harmony OS smart cockpit, netizens seem to be holding on to the point of extender, then again, why does Huawei not choose pure electric to choose extender electric?
From a long-term perspective, pure electric power is indeed the ultimate goal. However, in terms of the current pure electric technology and power supply infrastructure, pure electric vehicles cannot bring users a perfect car experience. Because of the current battery technology, although many pure electric vehicle models of NEDC pure electric mileage can reach five or six hundred kilometers, but the actual use of it is certainly still a big difference, especially in the winter environment, battery life shrinkage is very serious.
As shown in the figure above, even if Tesla Model Y, which has the best three-electric system in the industry, directly hits "50% off" in the winter endurance, although the actual mileage of two or three hundred can meet the city's transportation, but if you want to run a long distance, it is more laborious. If you do not plan the path of the charging pile along the way, you may directly "lie down" in the middle of the road.
In addition, when it comes to charging piles, don't look at the state grid is vigorously laying public charging piles, but the maintenance is not in place, a public charging pile station near the author's place of residence, there are individual charging piles can not be used normally, charging pile parking spaces are occupied by fuel vehicles and other issues, in simple terms, whether it can be charged depends on luck. Imagine that it is difficult to stay up to this charging point but encounter these situations, and it is inevitable that the mood will be uncomfortable.
Because of the existence of the above two problems, the author does not think that pure electric vehicles can bring users a better car experience at the moment. And the range extender electric vehicle is not the same, take the ideal ONE on behalf of the model as an example, its NEDC pure electric endurance although only 188km, but it can be generated by the range extender, for the drive motor to continue to supply energy, according to the official said, the ideal ONE comprehensive endurance up to 1080km, can be called no mileage anxiety, after all, as long as there is oil in the fuel tank, the ideal ONE will not throw people in the middle of the road, winter is more at ease!
Here I want to tell you that although the range-extended recharge energy may use gasoline, but the vehicle drive is still electrical, such as the ideal ONE is driven by a dual-motor system at all, and the engine is only used for power generation. Seeing this, some people may wonder, either use oil, or use electricity, why use oil to generate electricity? In fact, the advantage of this is that it solves the second problem mentioned earlier - the charging pile. Because the ideal ONE can not only be replenished with charging piles, but also can be directly filled with gasoline, saving travel time and making it more convenient.
In addition, the travel cost of extended range electric vehicles is not high, or take the ideal ONE as a reference, congested urban road sections can directly use pure electricity commuting, the economy is equivalent to pure electric vehicles. When running long-distance and self-driving trips, the comprehensive fuel consumption of NEDC when the ideal ONE battery is charged is 1.5L/100km, and the fuel consumption when the battery is in the lowest charged state is only 8.8L/100km, which is relatively cheap for a medium and large SUV with a weight of 2.3 tons. So this also overturns Volkswagen CEO Feng Sihan's remarks that the extended range is not environmentally friendly and economical.
Not only that, the ideal ONE also used sales data to prove that the extended range electric vehicle is quite recognized by the Chinese people at the moment, as a Chinese brand SUV priced at 338,000, because of the characteristics of no mileage anxiety, convenient energy replenishment, etc., in November this year, it reached the top of the sales list of medium and large SUVs with a single monthly insurance volume of 13438 units, which is more popular than the same level of Tuang, X5 and other fuel vehicles. Therefore, this also shows that the technical route of extended range electric vehicles is very feasible at present.
In general, through the actual car performance and sales data of the ideal ONE, I believe that everyone can also understand why Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution BU, said at the press conference: "The increase in range is the best option at present." After all, the current electric vehicle is in a "developing" stage, and there is still a long way to go before it matures. Range extender technology is the best solution for this long journey, because it has no range anxiety, is more practical, and the economy is not bad.