Entering 2022, the plug-in hybrid market ushered in a "blowout".
According to data from the China Automobile Association, from January to February this year, the sales volume of plug-in hybrid models reached 160,000 units, an increase of 2.5 times year-on-year. In February, plug-in hybrid vehicle sales were 75,000 units, up 3.4 times year-on-year.
Sales are only the most easily seen results of us, behind the "blowout", it is inseparable from a series of new insertion and mixing technology "a hundred flowers blooming". Plug-and-mix models equipped with TECHNOLOGIES such as BYD DM-i, Great Wall Lemon DHT, Chery Kunpeng e+ and Changan Blue Whale iDD have been launched one after another, pushing the market heat up continuously.
Recently, the plug and mix market has ushered in the latest heavyweight. This is the official release of Thor Hi · X "Super Mix", i.e. based on "Ray's Mind Hi· X" hybrid platform to create a new generation of "large mileage PHEV".
At the same time, Thor's "super electromix" new technology does not have to wait for the market for a long time like some "futures". The first model equipped with this technology, the Emgrand L Hi · The X will go on sale in April, achieving "mass production at launch".
As soon as the new technology and new models were released, they immediately aroused strong concern in the industry and consumers, and looked up to them:
- "3-speed electric drive DHT PRO?" What's different from a regular DHT? ”
——" 100km + pure electric endurance, love love." ”
- "The big boss has struck, and the "ceiling" of the plug-in market is coming!" ”
Why did Thor's "super electric hybrid" attract such intense attention? What is unique about this set of technologies? Today we will find out.
Thor's mind is out to sea
"Super Mix" is more than just green
As we all know, in the current hybrid field, there are two main branches. One is the "blue card" that does not need to be charged, and the other is the PHEV that can be "green card" and can be charged and replenished.
Geely has a strong technical layout in both aspects, and its unified technology platform is the "Ray God Intelligence Engine Hi · X" hybrid platform.
Among them, the first one equipped with Thor Hi · X "HEV" model - Hoshigoku L Thor Hi · X oil-electric hybrid version is coming soon.
On the other hand, with the Thor Hi · With the launch of X "Super Mix", Geely will also complete the "double pillar" landing of HEV+PHEV.
Lei Shenzhiqing's "Double Dragon Going to sea" will help Geely continue to have industry-leading technical advantages in the long cycle of transition from fuel vehicles to pure electric vehicles.
In the past, the traditional PHEV generally had shortcomings such as "short pure electric endurance" and "slow charging". So many consumers have preconceived notions that "buying PHEV is to get a green card".
However, in addition to retaining the advantage of being able to play the green card, Thor's "super mix" also solves the defects of traditional PHEV and subverts everyone's perception of PHEV.
For example, compared with the traditional PHEV generally only about 50km of pure electric mileage, Thor "super mix" can achieve 100km + pure electric endurance. It is understood that Geely will also launch a "super mixed" model with a pure electric mileage of more than 200km, and match the 60kW fast charging technology, charging 80% in 30 minutes. The kung fu of driving to a meal can greatly "return to blue", which is very convenient. "Charging once, commuting purely for a week" is never a dream.
For example, in the past, many PHEVs had shortcomings such as uneven mechanical and electrical power coupling, a sharp decrease in power after power loss, and a large increase in fuel consumption. "There is a dragon with electricity, a worm with lost electricity" is a more objective evaluation.
But Thor's "super mix" experience is fundamentally different from this traditional PHEV. Since Thor's "Super Electric Hybrid" model uses dual motors and above high-performance electric drives, the driving experience can be infinitely close to pure electric vehicles. With a strong range increase strength, it is equivalent to adding a large "charging treasure" to the vehicle, and the mileage is worry-free from then on.
More importantly, the models equipped with Thor's "Super Mix" all use Geely's original "three-speed electric drive DHT Pro". Based on the first model, the Emgrand L Hi· X "Super Hybrid" sedan, for example, the fuel consumption is as low as 3.8L, and the NEDC has a range of more than 1300km. This performance is fundamentally different from many traditional PHEV. And the acceleration of 100 kilometers is only 6.9 seconds, which can combine high performance and ultra-high energy utilization.
Coupled with the fact that Thor's "super electric hybrid" also has the "unique" advantage of the power system FOTA, the car can be "commonly used and constantly new" from now on. It is not difficult to expect that with the increase in model ownership and the accumulation of driving mileage, the power, fuel saving and driving experience of Thor's "super electric hybrid" will continue to improve.
From the comparison of the core parameters of some of the main sales models sorted out by Kung Fu Automobile, it is not difficult to find that the performance parameters of Thor's "super mix" have properly achieved world-class standards. Its performance is not only ahead of the Current Qin PLUS DM-i, which is "popular" in the plug-and-mix market, but also significantly ahead of the PHEV and HEV of the "Two Fields".
Undoubtedly, the advantages of Thor's "super electric mix" are far more than "being able to play the green card". Surpassing the same type of plug-in and hybrid models, forming a "dimensionality reduction attack" on HEVs and traditional fuel vehicles is the key to this technology leading the era in the future.
Thor's "super electric hybrid", a "new species" of large-mileage PHEV, will not only subvert everyone's traditional cognition of PHEV, but also completely ignite the plug-and-mix market and further promote the development of the plug-and-mix market. With such excellent performance indicators, Thor's "super electric mix" is "highly regarded as a line" by the industry and consumers, which is naturally reasonable.
The plug-and-mix benchmark is more than DM-i
The market "double male" pattern may take shape
Of course, if you only look at the data and don't talk about technology, it still fails to explain things thoroughly.
Especially in the current plug-and-mix market, BYD's DM-i technology already has a first-mover advantage. Therefore, we need to objectively understand what is unique about the plug-and-mix model that takes the DHT technology route.
Leaving aside the very complex technical structure, although DM-i and Thor "Super Mix" are both "electromix" PHEV, because Thor "Super Mix" has a more advanced 3-speed electric drive transmission - DHT Pro, the lower limit of the speed of the engine and motor working together can be reduced to 20km/h.
Compared with dm-i, Thor's "super hybrid" DHT Pro has a wider range of engine interventions. In other words, when the vehicle is under 20km/h, the vehicle will have a completely pure electric driving experience; when the vehicle speed is 20-70km/h, it can achieve full-speed parallel connection, drive electric cocoa oil, intelligent energy distribution. This ensures that it has a strong power output over the full speed range.
That is to say, compared with dm-i that mainly relies on series and provides parallel connections in a small number of scenarios, Thor's "super electric hybrid" can better achieve oil-electricity coordination, so that the overall efficiency of the hybrid system is higher, more fuel-efficient, and more power-efficient. This is also the most critical part of our evaluation of the "gold content" of the hybrid system.
In order to make everyone better understand, we may as well make an analogy: the E-CVT used by DM-i is compared with the Thor "super hybrid" DHT Pro, which is like the 4AT and 8AT in the era of fuel vehicles. The DHT Pro is undoubtedly smoother, has a stronger power delivery and is more economical. The biggest advantage of DM-i is that the structure is simpler and the cost will be relatively lower.
In order to make everyone better understand, we may wish to make a simple analogy. Thor's "Super Electromix" and DM-i are like the "two fields" in HEV, each with its own strengths, but both are strong.
According to Lin Jie, senior vice president of Geely Automobile Group, in 2022, Geely Automobile will fully accelerate the transformation to new energy, bringing more than 10 new energy products such as Leishen oil-electric hybrid, Trachor super hybrid, and pure electricity. Among them, more than five are large-mileage PHEV models equipped with "super hybrid".
Under the "empowerment" of strong technical strength, the future plug-and-mix market may form a pattern of double dominance between the "DM-i faction" and the "DHT faction" with Thor's "super mix" as the ceiling.
Kung Fu Shoot:
Geely's new energy transformation accelerates
Embrace new opportunities upwards
Under the background of the country's "double carbon" goal, Geely accelerates the transformation of new energy with Thor's "super electric hybrid", which can be described as opportune.
At the recent Geely Automobile Holdings 2021 performance conference, Geely Automobile revealed that the total investment in research and development last year was 5.5 billion yuan, and the total investment in research and development in the past five years totaled 25.6 billion yuan.
Facing the future, Geely will continue to increase its investment in research and development in new energy products, and make full efforts on pure electricity, super mixing, alcohol-electric hybridization, power exchange and other tracks.
The arrival of Thor's "super electric hybrid" not only embraces the new opportunity of market technology "upward". This leading, hard-core technical advantage will further drive China's auto industry to achieve "lane change and overtaking" in the new era.
Therefore, Thor's "super mix" with world-class advanced technology is therefore worthy of being looked up to.