The current new energy vehicle market is mainly divided into two camps: one is the pure electric vehicle as the main development direction of the car companies led by Weilai, Xiaopeng, etc., in their view, the zero emission characteristics brought by pure electric drive will be the main direction of future automobile development. In their eyes, the current pure electric models still have some insurmountable problems, and hybrid technologies such as BYD DM-i and Wei brand DHT are the optimal solutions for current cars with the high efficiency brought by hybrids. From the perspective of market reaction, in recent years, the sales of PHEV models have been rising steadily, and more and more car companies have begun to launch hybrid models. At the recent Weipai Mocha DHT-PHEV listing conference, a remark by Weipai CEO Li Ruifeng once again made the relevant controversial topics get attention again.
Weipai Mocha DHT-PHEV
At the press conference, Li Ruifeng bluntly said that Weipai's DHT hybrid technology is the world's best new energy technology, and in a later interview with the media, he said: "Intelligent DHT achieves the most extreme product performance with three elements of high integration, high efficiency and high performance." Compared with weilai, Xiaopeng and other products that use other technical routes, DHT mixed can achieve suspension of Wei Xiaoli." Is Weipai's DHT technology really that strong? With this doubt, Zhichepai recently test-drove the Wei brand latte DHT model using DHT technology and experienced the magic of DHT hybrid technology.
Weipai CEO Li Ruifeng Weibo
The model we tested this time is the Wei brand latte DHT super cup, which is also the top model of the model, from the appearance point of view, the latte DHT has a sense of déjà vu. Yes, it is similar in appearance to the previous Wei brand VV6. The front face of the car adopts the family design of Wei Brand, the advantage is that at first glance you can know that this is Wei Brand's model, but because the design of the three brothers of "Coffee" is more similar, if you only look at the front face, there may be a feeling of "face blindness", but fortunately, the appearance of the whole vehicle is not bad, and it still retains the tough but stylish style of the VV series.
Wei brand VV6
In terms of the interior and configuration of the vehicle, the latte DHT can be said to give you everything that can be given to you. After entering the car, whether it is the use of double-panel colors or a large number of soft materials, the luxurious and advanced sense of the car has been greatly improved. The 14.6-inch central control large screen ranks first in the same price range in terms of size and clarity. In addition to the central control screen, the air conditioning control area below is also equipped with a special screen for control, and it is not inferior in the sense of science and technology. Various configurations, such as 360° panoramic image, L2 level driver assistance, and YanfeiLishi audio, are not absent. However, the interior of the car is not without shortcomings, such as the trapezoidal shape of the dashboard, due to the display area is too small, resulting in the driving on the way to easily appear unclear view of the instrument situation, which can easily lead to the driver in the driving distraction and affect the driving safety.
Wei brand latte DHT interior
Power is the main selling point of the latte DHT this time, the car adopts a set of HEV hybrid assembly composed of 1.5T engine and DHT hybrid system, of which the maximum power of the engine is 115 kW (156 hp), the comprehensive maximum power is 181 kW (246 hp), the comprehensive peak torque is 532N·m, and the official zero hundred acceleration performance is 7.5 s, and the overall power parameters on paper are still good.
After introducing the relevant static parameters and performance, the next step is to test how the real performance of this latte DHT really is. As is customary, we tested the car's power performance first. In the winter outdoor temperature of 5 ° C, the car achieved zero hundred acceleration of 8.6s, although compared to the official announcement of 7.5s has a gap of nearly 1 second, but due to the low temperature in winter, it will have a certain impact on the power performance of the vehicle, so it is normal that the performance is lower than the official announcement. In terms of braking, the car's 100 km / h braking distance is 37.62 meters, which can be said to be decent. In general, the positioning of the car is mainly for the home, so the overall power performance has not taken the tuning of the performance car, so this achievement is also in line with the positioning of the car.
The biggest surprise of this car to me is mainly the skipping experience brought by the daily driving experience. As mentioned above, the car is mainly home-oriented in terms of positioning, so it has put a lot of effort into the daily driving experience. First of all, in terms of the smoothness of daily driving, the car has a very good performance, which is mainly due to the innate advantages brought by the WEI BRAND DHT system. In this system, the vehicle is mainly driven by the motor at low and medium speeds, so when starting or initially accelerating, the car can have a faster reaction speed than the oil car. At medium and high speeds, the engine will begin to intervene, but it will choose whether to generate electricity only for the electric motor or drive the wheels directly in parallel according to the different speeds, but in any case, the latte DHT will not have a significant setback, and at the same time, there will be no lack of power that some hybrid models are prone to when driving at high speeds.
Wei brand latte DHT
In terms of the vehicle's chassis filtering, the latte DHT's performance is also remarkable. Different from the previous test drive of the Star More L, Tiggo 8 and other sports models, the car in the chassis tuning is a comfortable road, the overall suspension performance is soft, the advantage is that after some of the more bumpy road can play a better filtration role, the vibration transmitted to the car is small, in line with people's expectations for the sense of vehicle advanced, even if the high speed over the barrier suspension can also play a better filtering role, the car will not have too obvious shock. However, the problems caused by the softer suspension are still manifested in the posture of the body, which is prone to tilting when driving intensely, and the front leaning of the body is more obvious when braking sharply.
The car's sense of premium while driving is also reflected in the vehicle's NVH control. Since the car is mainly powered by an electric motor at low speeds, it is equivalent to an electric vehicle and performs well in noise control. At medium speed, the engine mainly plays a role in generating electricity, so the noise is not too obvious. Only when the engine starts to power the vehicle at the same time as the electric motor when driving at high speed, the noise will be more obvious than at low and medium speeds, but it is not unacceptable compared with ordinary fuel vehicles. Engine noise will be more prominent because the car has excellent control over other noises such as wind noise and tire noise, but the top-of-the-line model we tested also supports ANC active noise cancellation, which has better performance in noise suppression.
At the end of the test, we also recorded the fuel consumption of the car, and after passing the test of the urban congestion section, the urban elevated expressway and a small section of highway, the fuel consumption of 6.5L per 100 kilometers was achieved. Although this result is still a certain gap compared to the less than 5L of the competitor BYD Song PLUS DM-i, the impact of winter on the thermal efficiency of the engine cannot be ignored. Coupled with the fact that the car is non-plug-in hybrid, it is expected that the energy consumption is slightly higher than that of plug-in hybrid. Like the newly launched Mocha DHT-PHEV, the DHT-PHEV version of the latte will also be officially launched in the near future, and it is believed that the plug-in version of the model will bring better performance in fuel consumption.
Once upon a time, the various models under the Great Wall have always had the title of "oil tiger", and most of the fuel consumption of the previous VV series of 100 kilometers has also reached double digits. With the increasingly stringent national vehicle emission standards, the Great Wall has also begun to exert efforts on new energy vehicles, whether it is the pure electric brand Euler, Salon, or Weipai's DHT hybrid technology, which is the layout of the Great Wall for the future new energy era.
Through this test drive, it can be found that Weipai and even the Great Wall have spent a lot of effort on this self-developed DHT hybrid system, and have also achieved certain results, no matter what, some companies are willing to launch new products and technical routes, so that the current new energy vehicle market has a richer choice, which is not a good thing for us as consumers?