Author | ALEX
Edited | windmill
With the prosperity and development of the new energy vehicle market, automobile products with hybrid oil-electric and pure electric as energy have been increasingly popularized in the market, and consumers' recognition and acceptance of new energy vehicles have gradually increased. However, at present, the mainstream new energy products on the market are actually only two types of new energy in the category, and there are more clean energy as the power of automobile products are gradually moving towards the public vision, of which mature technology, safety and stability and higher energy efficiency is methanol energy.
Compared with pure electricity and oil-electric hybrid, car products with methanol as fuel or methanol electric energy hybrid have more advantages in terms of power performance, driving control experience, emission level and so on. However, due to the relatively high technical threshold, there are not many participants in this field, and even fewer can come up with mature products. With the recent exposure of the world's first alcohol-electric hybrid sedan, the 4th generation Emgrandol-electric hybrid sedan, Geely's trend in this field has received widespread attention.
Geely Automobile, which is driving on the new track of new energy vehicle methanol, what new breakthroughs can it bring to the new energy vehicle market?
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Focusing on the layout of the methanol automobile industry, Geely has helped to achieve the goal of "double carbon"
With the further rise of international oil prices, domestic refined oil prices have once again stood at a high level. In addition, the tight supply of traditional fuel energy, as well as the increasingly serious problems of environmental pollution and ecological degradation caused by it, have been highly valued at all levels.
In the process of practicing the low-carbon emission reduction strategy, car companies have also made multi-directional efforts, in many new clean energy, methanol with low-carbon, liquid, efficient and other characteristics has become a world-recognized excellent green clean energy, its combustion efficiency, safety and convenience attributes are especially suitable for the automotive industry, so countries around the world have begun to lay out methanol field early. At this year's national two sessions, Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Automobile, put forward a relevant proposal on "promoting the application of methanol vehicles", officially bringing methanol vehicles into the public vision.
Behind the promotion and application of methanol vehicles is based on deep thinking about the current economic environment, ecological environment and energy reserves. This new green clean energy is not only in line with the requirements of sustainable ecological development, but also in line with the interests of national energy security, so Geely has long realized the importance of methanol vehicles, in recent years, it has continued to focus on the layout of methanol automobile industry, and constantly linked more enterprises to invest in the research and development and application of methanol vehicles, hoping to accelerate the realization of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the transportation field.
This undoubtedly made a good start in China's automotive industry, and also provided new ideas for the next innovative development of China's new energy vehicles, opening up a "new track of methanol" that benefits the country and the people and has broad prospects.
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Refresh the "three most" of the same level, Emgrandol electromix allows consumers to feel the new experience
Driving on the "new methanol track", the first global strategic model released by Geely Automobile is the world's first alcohol-electric hybrid sedan - the 4th generation Emgrand alcohol-electric hybrid car. In fact, since 2005, Geely has taken the lead in the field of methanol energy vehicles, and has launched six generations of methanol models, which are widely used in the urban operation transportation industry. This time, the new car breaks through the single energy source of methanol as fuel, using a hybrid system of methanol and electric energy, so that the 4th generation Emeaper alcohol electric hybrid has the strongest 40% energy saving rate of the same class and the industry's highest 4920N·m differential maximum design output torque, truly achieving "low energy consumption" and "strong power".
The experience improvement that alcohol-electric hybrid can bring to end consumers is unmatched by traditional oil-electric hybrids and pure electric vehicles. Nowadays, the users of new energy vehicles are generally most troubled by several core problems: endurance anxiety, performance bottlenecks, poor environmental adaptability, and the cost of comprehensive vehicles is still high. Alcohol-electric hybrids have obvious advantages in these aspects.
Taking the 4th generation of Emgrand alcohol electric hybrid car as an example, for the owner, the 100 km alcohol consumption of the model is about 9L, the alcohol consumption is reduced by more than 40%, which is equivalent to less than three cents per kilometer of travel cost, which is not only far lower than the traditional gasoline car, compared with the hybrid model of oil and electricity, it is also more economical and cheap. In addition, another major advantage of the alcohol-electric hybrid is the driving experience of its power control, not only the acceleration of the front section, the continuous output capacity of the middle and rear sections is not inferior, and there will be no phenomenon of pure electric vehicles in winter power decline, weak power, etc., the overall driving sense is better, and the "low energy consumption" and "strong power" are truly realized, which also confirms the most environmentally friendly, economical and powerful characteristics of the same level of alcohol-electric hybrid, so that consumers have a better new experience of using the car.
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Ji used its technical strength to become a leader in methanol tracks
Behind this good car experience is the support of strong technical strength. As a new energy type that is still in the development stage, the research and development and production of methanol vehicles requires a lot of time to accumulate technology and also requires huge capital investment as a guarantee. In this regard, Geely is a well-deserved leader in the domestic automobile industry.
As one of the earliest independent brands in China to respond to national policies and devote themselves to the field of methanol vehicle research, Geely Automobile's research start in the methanol automobile industry can be traced back to 2005, and it is an absolute pioneer in the methanol automobile industry. In the past 17 years, Geely's investment in this field has exceeded 3 billion yuan, these huge investments and relying on its own strong accumulation in the automobile industry, geely has more than 200 related core patents, not only mastered the technical production strength of "collecting carbon dioxide to synthesize clean methanol fuel", but also has the full chain system capability of methanol vehicle research and development, manufacturing and sales.
At the same time, Geely is also the first car company in China to put the research and development results of methanol vehicles into actual use scenarios and make methanol vehicles truly commercial. In the past 17 years, Geely has developed more than 20 methanol passenger cars and commercial vehicles in six generations, with a total of 27,000 methanol vehicles on the market and a total operating mileage of 8 billion kilometers. Since 2013, it has also participated in a number of domestic and foreign methanol vehicle pilot projects such as Jinzhong and Guiyang, accounting for 64% of the industry, and has been unanimously recognized by the industry, helping China's methanol vehicle technology reach the international leading level.
In the "Smart Geely 2025" strategy, the research and development of new energy vehicles occupies a very important position. Methanol energy, which has opened up a new track, will undoubtedly become the focus of Geely's development area in the next stage. According to Geely's plan, in the future, it will continue to increase investment and research and development in the field of methanol vehicles, build an intelligent energy system, explore a realistic and effective path to achieve healthy and sustainable development in the field of transportation, continue to play a leading role in the role of methanol vehicle leaders, and run the methanol track of new energy vehicles wide and smooth.