Beijing, March 28 (Xinhua Finance) -- The mainland new energy automobile industry has entered the market and policy "two-wheel drive" stage, and many technical lines have shown the characteristics of multi-head and a hundred flowers. At the 2022 China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum held recently, a number of industry insiders said that the long-term parallel of extended range electric, hybrid and pure electric is the best route combination to accelerate the large-scale replacement of fuel vehicles with new energy and realize Chinese brands surpassing overseas brands. Among them, Extended Range Electric provides a solution of "urban electricity consumption and long-distance power generation", which meets the diversified needs of users and is becoming more and more valued and recognized by the market.
A hundred flowers bloom on technical lines A number of car companies have laid out extended range electric
According to public data, in 2021, the mainland will sell 3.521 million new energy vehicles, an increase of 160% year-on-year, ranking first in the world for seven consecutive years. In particular, it is worth mentioning that compared with the early days of the "13th Five-Year Plan", the proportion of private consumption of new energy vehicles has increased from 47% to 78%, and the proportion of private consumption in non-restricted cities has increased from 40% to 70%.
Under the two-wheel drive of market and policy, the technical line of new energy vehicles shows the characteristics of multi-headed parallel and a hundred flowers. Charging and replacing pure electric vehicles, extended range electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel vehicles, methanol vehicles and other technical lines have blossomed, achieving good social and economic benefits, and emerging a number of technically proficient and market-recognized head brands.
For the issue of passenger car energy utilization lines, Li Xiang, founder and chairman of Ideal Automobile, said at the 2022 China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum on March 26: "In the long run, it is government-led and enterprises participate", to judge the market prospects in this field, we must combine two core elements, "the first is what the people need, the second is what the government needs."
"Today, so many people are willing to buy new energy vehicles because new energy vehicles meet their needs." In Li Xiang's view, the demand for new energy vehicle owners is mainly concentrated in three aspects: one is the convenience of energy access; the other is the cost of energy acquisition; and the third is environmental protection.
Li wanted to calculate an account: "The cost of charging extended-range electric vehicles at home can be as low as less than a dime per kilometer; the cost of using public charging facilities is about 2-4 cents per kilometer; in contrast, the cost of using fuel vehicles is 6-8 cents per kilometer." If combined with the convenience of charging, the advantages of electric vehicles are more obvious. ”
In fact, as an important force in the technical line of new energy vehicles, extended range electric vehicles not only retain the excellent driving performance, low cost of use and low-carbon environmental protection characteristics of electric vehicles, but also achieve the advantages of endurance and energy supplementation comparable to fuel vehicles, which is becoming more and more valued and recognized by the market, and has also attracted a number of traditional large car companies and new car-making forces to enter the game. At present, in addition to the ideal car, Dongfeng, Huawei and other companies have laid out the field of extended range intelligent electric vehicles, such as ideal ONE, Lantu FREE, AITO Q&I M5, Mocha DHT-PHEV, etc. have been successively launched.
The choice is left to the market for range-increasing electric to meet diverse needs
From a policy perspective, supporting the diversification of new energy technology routes has always been the meaning of various industry guidance documents. For example, the "Energy-saving and New Energy Vehicle Technology Roadmap 2.0" released in the early stage places special emphasis on the study of the market and gives the choice of technical route to the market.
People in the industry generally believe that in the future, technologies such as extended range, pure electricity, plug-in hybrid and so on will coexist for a long time. Xu Lin, chief technology officer of Xiaokang Group and president of Xilis (rotating), said: "Pure electric vehicles are more suitable for users who mainly commute to cities, and for users who often have to run long distances, oilable and electric extended range electric vehicles will be more suitable, and we must leave the choice to consumers." ”
Liu Hanru, chief scientist of Geely Commercial Vehicle Group, also said that the new generation of commercial vehicles with green and intelligent technology as the core will gradually replace traditional fuel vehicle products, which has become an irreversible trend in the development of the industry. Power battery as one of the core three electric systems of electric drive commercial vehicles, its cost directly affects the price of the market terminal, commercial vehicle companies in the process of new energy transformation, should also consider more possibilities in addition to pure electric drive, pay attention to the diversified development of energy technology routes.
"In the past, the traditional PHEV had a big problem, its pure electric endurance was generally only more than 50 kilometers, and it did not meet the use of the city very well. And when the power is exhausted, the vehicle energy consumption will become higher. Li Xiang explained that through the survey of urban users, it was found that if the pure electric mileage can exceed 150 kilometers, it can cover all mainstream large cities in the world, so that users can drive with pure electricity in the city.
The ideal ONE pure electric mileage reaches 188 kilometers, which can meet the needs of most urban users. Judging from the sales data, this product strategy has also been highly recognized by the market and users: in 2021, the delivery volume of the ideal ONE reached 90,419 units, an increase of 177.4% year-on-year, ranking first in China's medium and large SUV sales; by the end of February 2022, the total delivery volume of the ideal ONE has reached 144,770 vehicles. Based on similar considerations, after the success of the ideal ONE, more and more Chinese car brands have begun to follow up on the extended range electric technology, and have determined a higher pure electric mileage, and a large number of PHEV have achieved a pure electric range of 150 kilometers or even 200 kilometers.
Li Xiang: Strive to reduce carbon emissions in vehicle cities by more than 90%.
For the extended range electric technology, some people also questioned: is the extended range electric vehicle to cater to the "compromise line" of users without charging conditions? How meaningful is it to reduce carbon emissions?
In this regard, Li xiang said that 70% of ideal users have installed home charging piles, and more than 90% have fixed charging conditions. The actual results of the past two years of operation show that in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, the proportion of pure electric mileage of ideal car owners has reached an average of 70%, and the proportion of pure electric driving time has exceeded 80%. This makes the extended range electric truly realize the "city electricity".
The data is the best proof, Li wants to introduce, energy conservation and emission reduction, compared with the same level of fuel vehicles, the ideal ONE carbon emissions can be reduced by 65%; if concentrated in cities such as Beijing, carbon emissions can be reduced by 76%.
Li Xiang believes that at present, the mainland automobile industry has entered a period of strategic opportunities for transformation and upgrading, from big to strong, and driven by strong domestic demand, the industry has continued to develop with high quality. Looking to the future, central-style power energy and distributed liquid energy will coexist for a long time. "With the simple small-scale practice of extended-range electric vehicles, we believe that for a superpower like China, central-style energy and distributed energy must coexist for a long time, and jointly promote the realization of national energy security and 'double carbon' goals." He said.
Source: Xinhua Finance