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The dispute over the route of oil or electricity is still not unified,
The final answer requires the market's assertion.
However, on the 2021 SUV sales list,
The ideal ONE won the championship with 91,000 units.
Far more than the runner-up SAIC Volkswagen Tuang more than 20,000 units.
Obviously, the ideal ONE sales have made great strides, and the biggest reason is to grasp the core needs of users. Generous size, oil and electricity, price advantages, and medium and large SUV market is still concentrated in first- and second-tier cities, coupled with the benefits of the green card policy, it is really to make the ideal ONE occupy the time, location, people and people.
"Thanks for the encouragement, keep up the good work." Ideal Auto founder Li wanted to write on his personal Weibo post about the modesty of the victor. Li wants to prove through market choice that range extender electric is not a "bad solution" compared to plug-in hybrid and pure electric, as Volkswagen Group (China) CEO Feng Sihan said in 2020.
As a loyal advocate of extended-range electric technology, Li wants to be convinced of this, and even spare no length to spit on the doubters. From the perspective of the test drive experience on the product side, the ideal ONE has indeed fully verified the advantages of extended-range electric compared to plug-in hybrid.
Without a plug-in hybrid transmission, the Ideal ONE achieved near-perfect performance in its class. The three-row seat layout is very close to the MPV standard layout, each occupant in the car is easy to find a comfortable sitting position, while a total of 8 groups under the stage, from the Ningde era ternary lithium battery pack, and the total battery capacity is only 40.5 kWh, even in the cold winter in the north, the rated capacity can also fully meet the pure electric endurance of more than 120 kilometers, supplemented by the 2021 ideal ONE re-optimization of the fuel tank layout, 55 liters of fuel volume can also fully meet the needs of intercity commuting.
Under the demand for urban vehicles, the ideal ONE performance is commendable, compared to the vast majority of plug-in hybrid models, the ideal ONE battery pack not only supports fast charging, the appropriate battery capacity between plug-in hybrid and pure electricity, and the fast charging time is just equivalent to the meal or shopping time, so the vast majority of users can enjoy low costs of use and time costs even if they do not have the conditions to install charging piles.
Intercity commuting, the ideal ONE due to the equipped with a 1.2T range extender, endurance will not produce anxiety, but close to the speed of 120 km / h cruising, the range extender will be in the high speed range, fuel economy efficiency will be greatly reduced, winter performance instantaneous fuel consumption is mostly in 100 km 10 liters or more, even if the fuel tank is increased to 55 liters, considering the emergency fuel reserve and battery reserve, the ideal ONE actual endurance can only be slightly stronger than the NEDC 600 km model, less than most plug-in hybrid endurance.
In the NVH experience, the ideal ONE range extender is more thoroughly suppressed when generating power at high revolutions, and the sound wave does not have the grumpiness of most three-cylinder machines. On the contrary, when the range extender generates power at low speed, there will be a unique sound wave of the three-cylinder engine, and the sense of beat produced by the combined action of the valve and direct injection system, after all, from the mechanical level of the engine, this 1.2T engine from Dongan Power, the gas distribution mechanism, the combustion chamber structure and the turbocharging part have almost no highlights, and the ideal car has not announced the thermal efficiency of the engine so far.
This leads to a certain extent that the ideal ONE even if equipped with a large capacity than the Highlander dual engine N times the battery capacity, the power loss of the city working conditions hybrid mode, the ideal ONE fuel consumption is not larger than the displacement, the battery is extremely small Highlander dual engine fuel consumption to open up too big gap, so the biggest advantage of this set of range extenders may only be the manufacturer's low purchase price.
On the drive motor, the ideal ONE gives a permanent magnet synchronous motor configuration for each front and rear axles, the front motor uses the mainstream BorgWarner motor, with a maximum power of 100 kW and a maximum torque of 240 Nm; the rear motor comes from United Electronics, with a maximum power of 145 kW and a maximum torque of 215 Nm. It is not difficult to see that the ideal ONE front and rear motor data calibration is more flattering, the front motor mainly responds to the initial acceleration experience, and the rear motor emphasizes the acceleration ability of the middle and rear section, but the body volume and weight are too large, the front and rear are permanent magnet synchronous motors, and the 100 km acceleration in the catapult mode is only 6.5 seconds.
Ideal ONE extreme acceleration results, the same level of fuel SUV than indeed one of the best, while there is a range extender, theoretically the limit current output is far stronger than the pure electric model, but the ideal ONE has not been able to exceed the same level of pure electric SUV acceleration performance, such as the industry benchmark Tesla Model X, 2016 Model X 75D model, front and rear two AC asynchronous motors, you can achieve 396 kilowatts of output power, the ideal ONE permanent magnet synchronous motor technology has a lot of room for improvement.
Returning to the needs of home use, the ideal ONE product capabilities at this stage are fully satisfied, 90% of the travel scenarios of users in first- and second-tier cities, and the driving experience is slightly better than the balance of Highlander. The four-piece large-screen design of the central control also makes up for the mainstream joint venture models, the in-car entertainment system is not grounded enough, and at the same time, on the ideal ONE in 2021, the NOA navigation driving assistance function is upgraded through the OTA method, and the intelligent driving part is also considered to be the trend of achieving parallel progress with Weilai and Xiaopeng.
It is the unique equilibrium of the ideal ONE, in order to end the sales of the old rival Highlander, but the ideal ONE next face many new challenges, such as plug-in hybrid models, once the joint venture brand solves the battery capacity, charging problems and reasonable price, will have an impact on the ideal ONE sales, it can be seen that the new energy market in 2022 is dramatic, and its degree of "catching horses" is even beyond the imagination of fictional writers.