Domestic car companies have been catching up over the years, and independent models have surpassed the joint venture in many aspects, but the strength of the independent engine in the comprehensive performance is still significantly behind the Japanese engine, mainly because the fuel economy performance is relatively bad.
The reason why japanese engines are excellent is because their thermal efficiency performance is quite eye-catching, while the performance of domestic engines is relatively inferior, which is also the root cause of high fuel consumption of domestic engines.
However, the thermal efficiency performance mentioned above is generally for domestic gasoline engines, in fact, in the field of diesel engines, the mainland has made a huge breakthrough, Weichai Power has completely changed the public's perception of domestic engines with strong technical strength.
As early as two years ago, Weichai Power showed off a diesel engine with a thermal efficiency of 50.23% of the body, and the performance of this engine broke the best performance in history at that time.
However, Weichai Power did not meet the results at that time, and then actively sought a breakthrough, so in January this year, Weichai Power announced the latest technology research and development results, and its external display of diesel engines, the body thermal efficiency of up to 51.09%.
It should be known that the current mainstream diesel engine on the market has a thermal efficiency of only about 46%, and Weichai Power has increased by several percentage points on the mainstream basis, becoming an important milestone in the history of domestic engine development.
According to netizens' speculation, After the popularization of Weichai Power's ultra-high thermal efficiency diesel engine, it can save 16 million tons of diesel fuel per year and reduce carbon emissions by 50 million tons, which is indeed conducive to promoting the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.
I have to say that the strength of such a company can not be underestimated, and now the market value of Weichai Power is also more than 100 billion, which can be said to be the leading enterprise in the field, and the enterprise with such strength naturally has more forward-looking thinking.
However, at The 2021 annual results conference of Weichai Power recently, Tan Xuguang, chairman and CEO of Weichai Power, directly shelled the unmanned driving technology, saying that the technology was a flicker.
Tan Xuguang said that he never tells lies, assisted driving is the hope, specific environments can be achieved, and driverless technology can be used first in mining and other environments. He also said that L1 is OK, L2 is also so-so, and L3 is not possible.
In addition, Tan Xuguang also commented on the current situation of the very hot new energy industry, he believes that the whole vehicle of new energy, especially passenger cars, will have a catastrophic overcapacity in the future.
After this remark was exposed on the Internet, it triggered a heated discussion among netizens, many netizens supported it, and many netizens opposed it, believing that this was a blind eye to new technologies and new technologies, and was too conservative.
But proponents say that this is the truth, because the safety of autonomous driving technology is difficult to be guaranteed, the car company does not have to bear any responsibility, and the users who use self-driving technology are spending their own money and taking their lives to help them test the BUG of automatic driving.
Weichai Power, as an enterprise that can develop the world's leading diesel engine, naturally has a certain strength, and the company's chairman commented on the automatic driving technology is also reasonable.
So do you think there is any promise for commercial use of autonomous driving technology in the future? Will new energy vehicles really have overcapacity? Comment, like, share, and share your opinion.