Mention the fuel consumption of the car, it is estimated that most car owners will give a thumbs up to the "Japanese car", everyone says "Japanese car economy fuel saving", it is also confused by everyone's remarks, so, in 2019, I mentioned a Honda Accord, 1.5T + CVT high-power version powertrain, nothing else to say, first give everyone a bright light on the fuel consumption of the vehicle, 100 kilometers of fuel consumption reached 10.6L, this car fuel savings?
The Accord is really not fuel efficient
Compared with the same level of 2.0T + 8AT version of the Sonata ten, people match the 2.0T engine, the maximum torque is 353Nm, the maximum power is 176.5kw, the vehicle's certified fuel consumption is 6.8L/100km, the actual driving fuel consumption is less than 10 oil; 2.0T+7DSG version of volkswagen Maiteng, high-power version of the 2.0T engine, the maximum torque is 350Nm, the maximum power is 220Ps, and its fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is about 9 more fuels. Compared with other people's cars, I found that my Accord is really not fuel-efficient!
You may say that the fuel consumption of the car is closely related to the driving habits of the owner, the driving road conditions, and the external environment, which is undeniable, after all, what I drive is the urban working conditions, and sometimes encounter traffic jams, but by querying relevant information, the Japanese car economy and fuel saving may have become the past. First of all, why are Japanese cars considered "economic and fuel-efficient"?
The origin of the "economic and fuel-saving" of Japanese cars
We all know that although Japan is a big country in science and technology, it is a small country in terms of resources, Japan lacks oil, and all the gasoline burned by family cars depends on imports, due to the shortage of energy, so Japanese cars have to be committed to creating economic and fuel-efficient models.
The fuel-saving strategy for Japanese cars is simple, reducing the weight of the vehicle while improving the thermal efficiency of the engine. Due to the reason for the reduction of vehicle weight, therefore, Japanese cars are "light and fluttering" feeling, the owners of the Japanese car evaluation is very pertinent - "thin car light", "poor safety"; for improving the thermal efficiency of the engine, this is indeed an effective measure to reduce fuel consumption, but the engine technology has been very mature, the thermal efficiency of the engine is also difficult to get significantly optimized, as far as the technical level of the engine is concerned, the thermal efficiency of the Japanese car engine is not much different from the Korean car, Volkswagen, general purpose car, With the exception of Mazda's compression-fired engines, thermal efficiency has reached more than 50% of the metamorphosis, but it has not yet been applied. For the weight of the car, Volkswagen, GM, and Korean cars have also begun to reduce the allocation of vehicles, and the maintenance quality of vehicles has also declined significantly, which has led to the fact that compared with other joint venture vehicles, Japanese cars do not have significant advantages in fuel economy.
Other car companies also have a good performance in terms of fuel consumption
With the increasing development of the economy, the global environment is also deteriorating, in order to improve the quality of the environment, governments began to strengthen control in terms of vehicle emissions, as far as the Chinese automobile market is concerned, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology took the lead in introducing the National 6 emission regulations, which is the most stringent in history, in addition, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also launched the average fuel consumption of enterprises, so that all car companies as far as possible to develop low fuel consumption of fuel vehicles, while moving closer to the field of new energy vehicles.
Under the inducement of this policy, car companies in various countries have also made concerted efforts to reduce the fuel consumption of vehicles. In order to reduce the fuel consumption of the vehicle, the German car has developed a turbocharged engine and a dual-clutch transmission, the Korean car has developed a new powertrain in order to reduce the fuel consumption of the vehicle, and also reduced the curb weight of the vehicle, and GM has even launched a three-cylinder engine in order to reduce the fuel consumption of the vehicle. Therefore, in today's automobile era, the advantages of low fuel consumption of Japanese cars have ceased to exist, and the overall level of everyone is almost the same.
In summary, low fuel consumption is no longer a patent of Japanese cars, and the fuel consumption of other joint venture car companies is also very low.