When it comes to traditional Chinese car companies, which one do you think is strong first?
If you add "Chinese cultural products" under this premise, are you the first to think of Great Wall Motors?! As a well-known "big brother" in China, its sub-brands are also quite rich, including Weipai, Euler, Haval, tanks and other all-round "little brothers", almost covering the common passenger car field.
Among them, Wei Pai, which focuses on the high-end market, has adapted to the Chinese people's concept of car purchase consumption in recent years, regardless of appearance, advanced atmosphere or intelligent hardware, which has promoted the continuous heating up of fame.
In the face of the imminent arrival of electrification, the Wei Pai family also began to adapt to the times, with the premise of solving the anxiety of endurance, and began to start its products.......
On March 1, Weipai Mocha DHT-PHEV was officially launched, and a total of 2 models of new cars were launched, priced at 295,000 yuan to 315,000 yuan, as a PHEV model, the main focus of the new car was added to the lemon DHT hybrid system independently developed by the Great Wall.
Small partners who are familiar with the design style of the Wei Pai family will not be unfamiliar with the entire shape of the Mocha DHT-PHEV, and the front face still maintains the iconic polygonal grille, and the internal dot matrix decorative strip layout, the aura interprets the full sense of strength.
Of course, mocha DHT-PHEV has also made certain modifications to the style of the front encirclement, not blindly attacking the sport, radical style, and has some solemn and stable feelings, which is why the Wei Pai family has been so popular with the Chinese people in the past.
The silhouette of the side uses a small slipback shape as an embellishment, but in general, you can still see a little shadow of the VV7, but the evolved mocha series, the body trim is much larger than the VV7.
The length, width and height of the car are 4875/1960/1690mm, the wheelbase is 2915mm, in terms of body parameters, the wheelbase size has surpassed many mainstream medium and large SUVs, and the advantage is that the rear row has a very considerable large 5-seat space, which can compete with the first echelon of the mainstream.
The visual effect of the rear of the new car is also orderly and generous design concept, and the upward convergence of hard rib lines highlights the three-dimensional sense. Unlike today's popular designs, many models like to widen the horizontal look by adding a penetrating taillight group, but the Mocha DHT-PHEV adheres to a simple style and is more in line with the aesthetic sense of the general public.
Entering the car, you can feel that the "fine decoration" has been targeted, and the most obvious thing is that a large amount of leather coating has been added to the entire cockpit, and the exquisite luxury atmosphere has been raised from the materials alone. At the same time, the aspect of intelligent technology is also integrated into the multimedia ecosystem, which is composed of a 14.6-inch central control screen + a 9-inch air conditioning control screen and a 9.2-inch full LCD instrument, and also adopts a Qualcomm 8155 vehicle chip to enhance the fluency of human-computer interaction.
Of course, you may also be wondering why the Mocha DHT-PHEV switched to a slender-style dashboard that can display not too much content. Indeed, although the information that this full LCD instrument can display is not too rich, its existence is largely to make more space for the AR-HUD function, which can project a good and rich vehicle information, navigation lines and other content on the front wind block, effectively allowing the driver's attention to focus more on the road.
In terms of power, it is equipped with a plug-in hybrid system composed of 1.5T engine + electric motor, and provides two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive performance versions, the system comprehensive power is 291 and 355kW, the comprehensive torque is 570 and 762N·m, of which the four-wheel drive performance version 0-100km/h acceleration takes only 4.8 seconds, and it is matched with a DHT hybrid special gearbox.
The MOCHA DHT-PHEV battery pack is equipped with a 39.67kWh battery, WLTP pure electric mileage is 204km (two-wheel drive version) and 175km (four-wheel drive performance version), and the minimum charge state of the two-wheel drive version is 5.55L/100km, but compared with the similar plug-in and mixed product BYD DM-i hybrid system, the fuel consumption performance is not eye-catching, after all, BYD can come up with a report card of about 4L/100km.
Although the 2022 1.5T 0 Anxiety Smart Edition is used as an introductory version, the configuration of the internal intelligent technology is basically in line with the top model, and it only takes 295,000 yuan to enjoy the higher-order configuration experience such as front seat ventilation/heating, front seat massage, Yanfeilix sound system, full-speed adaptive cruise, etc., so the professor believes that the introductory version is very recommended.
Looking at the current lineup of plug-in and mixed medium-sized SUVs, in fact, there are not too many models to choose from, so the main competitors in the future are STILL BYD Tang DM-i, Tiguan L 430PHEV, Jeep Commander PHEV and other models.
BYD Tang New Energy
The guidance price is 192,800-28.98 million yuan
Jeep Grand Commander PHEV
The guidance price is 309,800 yuan
Volkswagen Tiguan L New Energy
The guidance price is 257,800-26.88 million yuan
Although the latter two come from joint venture brands, according to the market response, the impact on Mocha DHT-PHEV will not be too large. The most direct confrontation is still BYD Tang DM-i, and Tang DM-i has also reached the stage of upgrading, as far as the current situation is concerned, the threat brought by the current Tang DM-i will naturally be weakened, so mocha DHT-PHEV still has a greater advantage in the plug-and-mix market.
In the face of the rapid development of electrification, Mocha DHT-PHEV is also the second product of the Weipai family to enter the new energy field, in addition to continuing the strength of the hard-core product of the pure fuel version of the Mocha, it is also equipped with a lemon DHT hybrid system on this basis, bringing better fuel economy, as well as the problem of no endurance anxiety, to meet the needs of some users who pursue low fuel consumption.
At the same time, as the flagship series of the Wei Pai family, Mocha has a rich intelligent configuration. So, if you consider the plug-and-mix model, will you choose the Great Wall's plug-and-mix or BYD's DM-i super hybrid series?