With the continuous release of overall sales information for the whole year last year, accompanied by the product planning of various companies for 2022, many of which have already appeared in 2021.
I believe that you will have a new understanding of the performance of Chinese brands in 2021, this year Chinese brands have begun the rhythm of brand upward and consumption upgrading, and the product strength and self-developed technology derived from Chinese brands have reached a stage of regional maturity. To give a few examples, Geely has a global modular architecture of CMA, BMA, SPA and PMA; Great Wall has 2.0T, 3.0T, 9AT, 7DCT and other self-developed power systems. These are the confidence of Chinese brands to start brand upwards, and in 2021, they have also brought us a lot of hot-selling and explosive products.
In the next year, what products can we expect from Chinese auto brands?
This year's expectations are concentrated on the head enterprises
Whether it is Geely's 1.328 million sales, Great Wall Motor's 1.2809 million sales or Changan's 1.2024 million sales. Behind these achievements is technological innovation, and what kind of new products these three brands can bring us in 2022 is what I am looking forward to, so I put it in the first part.
Combined with Geely Automobile's pre-sale at the end of last year, the Geely Star Yue L was equipped with Thor Hi · From the perspective of the X hybrid system, the pre-sale price is 173,700 yuan, which is less than 10,000 yuan more expensive than the two-wheel drive top model. 2022 will also be a big year for Geely's products, and this year's products will be mainly hybrid models, which was also confirmed at the Guangzhou Auto Show.
Geely's Thor Hi · X hybrid system, in 2022 will also be equipped in Geely Xingrui, Xingyue S, Emgrand L, Lynk & Co brand 01, 02, 03 and 05 these four products will also use Thor Hi · X Hybrid System. In the completion of the three products of China Star last year, Lynk & Co launched the flagship model 09, and the product layout of the two brands achieved advanced and perfect architecture; in 2022, Geely will achieve hybrid loading on these three "China Star" products, and a Geely Emgrand with cumulative sales of more than 3.33 million will also be equipped with Thor Hi· X hybrid system, followed by several products of Lynk & Co that have been sold in the market for a long time to open up popularity and consumer awareness.
Thor Hi · X hybrid system is the first generation of hybrid system independently developed by Geely, which has six core hybrid technologies with 43.32% thermal efficiency, the world's highest 3-speed DHT Pro, more than 40% fuel saving rate, and full power domain FOTA. The hybrid system can be used with 1.5TD and 2.0TD engines, and is matched with DHT and DHT Pro hybrid transmissions respectively, which can cover A0 class to C class models, and can also provide heV, PHEV and REEV three hybrid architectures.
For Geely's expectations in 2022 products, we should focus on its hybrid products this year.
Also doing hybrid products is Great Wall Motors, but our expectations for Great Wall Motors in 2022 should not only focus on its hybrid products, and the powertrain of its self-developed traditional fuel models in recent years is also one of its highlights.
For example, last year's explosive tank 300, as well as this year's tank 500 and haval H6 PHEV version. Putting aside the explosive aura of the tank 300 that gives the tank 500 a little heat, the tank 500 itself comes with its own point of view, the Great Wall self-developed 3.0T V6 engine, 9AT gearbox, and the pre-sale price of less than 340,000 set off a wave of pre-sale climax at the end of last year. The reason why the tank 500 is worth looking forward to is that it makes up for the gap in the category of medium and large luxury off-road SUVs. Another Great Wall Motor worth looking forward to is the PHEV version of the Haval H6, which debuted in Thailand last year, and is said to have a pure electric mileage of 201km.
Changan Automobile's highlight comes from its blue whale power, in 1.5T + 8AT, 2.0T + 8AT, 1.4T + DCT, 1.5T + DCT multiple power combinations in the market has gained a good recognition, Changan CS75 PLUS will also be listed in 2022, will be equipped with 1.5T / 2.0T two different engines, can be expected in 2022 Changan CS75 PLUS can challenge the status of Haval H6.
In addition, Changan's UNI brand will also be further improved in the product layout in 2022, the first car UNI-V, after accumulating a good heat in 2021, will officially usher in the listing this year, the same point of view is also in the Blue Whale NE series of 1.5T engine.
The head enterprises of Chinese automobile brands will continue the technological innovation + brand upward development direction in 2021 in 2022, and there are new products worth looking forward to from internal combustion engine technology to hybrid technology. This year's topic of Chinese auto brands will continue to be based on product strength, and the head enterprises who are strong and who are weak will judge themselves. After seeing the development rhythm of the head enterprise, we look at the 2022 new car planning of the quasi-head enterprises such as Roewe and MG.
After the head enterprise, are there still expectations?
Great Wall Motors, Changan and Geely Automobile can become the head enterprises of Chinese brands, which is inseparable from their technological innovation and self-research capabilities. And after the head, SAIC Roewe and SAIC MG, can we bring us any new product expectations in 2022?
The new model that SAIC MG can know at present is the β series of MG ONE, while the α series of MG ONE that was previously listed in 2021 is that the difference between α and β series is that there are two different design teams behind it, and there is no other difference in appearance except for different differentiated design routes. If this car is said to be the highlight product of SAIC MG in 2022, it is indeed not enough.
The 1.5T engine used by MG ONE is already an iteration of the old engine many years ago, with a maximum power of 133 kW and a maximum torque of 285 Nm. Under the premise of better power and greater torque, the fuel consumption performance of the 1.5T engine of The Changan Blue Whale NE is also better than the 1.5T engine used by mg MG ONE, and it is matched with a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. In contrast, under the premise of USing the CVT gearbox, the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is still around 6.3L-6.5L.
In addition, at present, SAIC MG does not have other models of new car planning, in the absence of new product layout pure electric, hybrid market premise we can look forward to its 2022 models are not much, and the current new product planning has and only MG ONE's β version, but also only in the design of adjustments, no highlights of self-developed technology as a support of the new product does lack some expectations.
Regarding SAIC Roewe, since the launch of roewe RX5 since 2017, there have been no explosive models, and then successively launched Roewe RX5 PLUS, RX5 MAX and high-end electric vehicle Marvel X, but all sales are mediocre. Regarding the new car planning for 2022, the only new product information that can be obtained so far is a compact SUV - Whale.
Although only the general information was released, the size is slightly longer than the same level of Changan CS75 PLUS and Haval H6, the most eye-catching part of the whole we can attribute to its design part, technical highlights we are difficult to find.
According to the information currently released, Roewe Whale will be equipped with a 1.5T engine and a 2.0T engine, which is expected to use SAIC's self-developed blue heart engine, and the matching gearbox will be a dual-clutch transmission, which can actually be compared with Changan's Blue Whale NE series powertrain.
Putting aside product technology and R&D capabilities, the product layout of SAIC Roewe and MG is chaotic. For example, saic motor Roewe in the layout of compact SUV, there is now a price of 9.33-139,800 Roewe RX5, priced at 12.98-16.58 million Roewe RX5 MAX, if the new product Roewe Whale layout into the product matrix, if the price exceeds 160,000 may be priced at 168,800 yuan Roewe RX8 price overlap, further internal consumption. Another example is MG, about 100,000 classes have MG 5, MG 6 two compact cars, without making a clear product segmentation, if mg ONE is divided into α and β version will make the product line more complicated. Moreover, neither company has its own highlight products, and the products are less recognized by the market than the head companies mentioned above.
summary
This year's automotive industry, we can expect the head of chinese brands, they will provide us with another technological innovation from the internal combustion engine to new energy products, Geely will increase the layout of the hybrid market this year, the Great Wall in addition to the investment in the internal combustion engine powertrain, will also take into account the new energy pure electricity, hybrid field. Changan Automobile will rely on its self-developed powertrain, which can improve Changan's UNI series matrix. The head enterprise of Chinese brand car manufacturing has left us a lot of expectations in 2022.
SAIC MG and SAIC Roewe, as the quasi-head enterprises in Chinese brands, can not give us much expectation in 2022, and there are few highlights, only limited to the layout of traditional fuel vehicles, and there is no new car planning information in the field of new energy pure electricity and hybrid. From the product launch, self-research ability, we see clearly that SAIC Group after completing the capital obligation, is to let the enterprises play freely, so we can see that after BYD layout semiconductors, batteries independent self-development and self-production capabilities, SAIC Group and even its subsidiaries have not yet owned the ability of batteries and semiconductor self-research, in the field of new energy has gradually drifted away, there is no independent battery, electrification architecture, compared to the Head of Chinese brands, SAIC Roewe, SAIC MG There is still a big gap.