At the press conference of BYD DM-i Hybrid, Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD Group, said that DM-i Super Hybrid will play the role of a disruptor of fuel vehicles. A year later, in early 2022, BYD did it. Today's BYD hybrid models are difficult to find, BYD Qin ranks among the top three in the car rankings, killing the same level of fuel vehicles and abandoning armor.
Recently, another news about BYD hybrid came that this year, BYD will launch a plug-in hybrid large battery version, with a maximum endurance version of more than 250 kilometers. The Tang DM-i model is equipped with a 45.8 kWh battery pack, NEDC pure electric range of 252 km, B state power loss fuel consumption of 5.6L/100 km. The HamM-i is equipped with a 37.6 kWh battery pack, NEDC pure electric range of 242 km, B state power loss fuel consumption of 4.3L/100 km. BYD's move is obviously not only to kill the fuel car, but even to kill the range extender hybrid.
Range extender hybrid was once considered by Volkswagen China CEO Feng Sihan to be a bad structure, there is no future, and there are many people in the industry who are not optimistic about range extender hybrid. But what hit the face is that the representative model of the range extender hybrid, the ideal ONE, became the sales champion of the medium and large SUV in 2021, and the sales even exceeded the sum of the Tourone, Tuuareg, Lanjing, and ID.6 series.
The reason for this contrast is because the ideal ONE drilled such a loophole, the six-seat SUV model on the market itself is not much, the size is larger than the ideal ONE, the price is often higher, the energy consumption performance and performance performance are not as good as the ideal ONE, and the ideal ONE Although the thermal efficiency of the 1.2T three-cylinder engine is general, the power loss fuel consumption is high, but the pure electric endurance is 188 kilometers, which is enough to meet the daily transportation, and many people do not care about how much the car's power loss fuel consumption is. And BYD's large battery version of the DM hybrid came out, and the advantages of the ideal ONE were all gone.
On pure electric endurance, BYD Tang DM-i's NEDC pure electric endurance is 252 kilometers, which is 70 kilometers higher than the ideal ONE, which means that if there is a charging condition, it can be used as a pure electric model. Only when traveling long distances did I remember that this car could be refueled.
On the power loss fuel consumption, byddy Tang DM-i equipped with a four-cylinder Atkinson cycle engine, the thermal efficiency is much higher, B state power loss fuel consumption of 5.6L / 100 km, significantly lower than the ideal ONE.
In terms of price, the price of the ideal ONE is as high as 338,000, and the price of the BYD Tang DM-i large battery version is unknown, but considering the price of the existing Tang DM-i model, the price of the large battery version should be lower than that of the ideal ONE.
In contrast, the ideal ONE is really an advantage, and may only have a certain advantage in the riding space, but if BYD launches a larger size model, the ideal ONE has no advantage.
And BYD launched the large battery version of DM-i, nothing more than hoping to strengthen its advantages in plug-in hybrid models and enhance the experience of DM-i models, but in this way, the fuel vehicles, plug-in hybrid models, and extended range hybrid models on the market may feel a chill in the back. Now the only suspense is the price, if the price can give us a surprise, this year BYD hit the sales champion of its own brand, may really be a clutch.