Regarding the question of whether the fuel car will be discontinued or delisted, whether it is a fan of "Snail Car Chronicle" or a relative or friend around me, I have been asking me for several years. Especially in the past two days, BYD officially announced that it will officially stop production of fuel vehicles from March this year, that is, last month, and this news is extremely fierce, making people feel that looking at this topic before is only a long-term outlook, and now it seems to be close at hand!
Talk about it before. I must first emphasize a very crucial issue! I found that the definition and understanding of fuel vehicles in most public minds has a huge deviation. Many people think that fuel vehicles have stopped production, then it will be all the world of electric vehicles! Everyone can only buy electric vehicles; this misunderstanding is big!
The so-called discontinued fuel vehicles refer to cars that are completely fuel-driven and use fuel as the only power; however, note that they do not include hybrid models, whether they are plug-in hybrid vehicles that can be charged, such as BYD's DM-i series, ideal ONE, or non-plug-in hybrid vehicles that can only be charged on the blue card, like the Toyota dual engine and Honda hybrid version that we are familiar with. Compared with traditional fuel vehicles, these cars are placed in the same category as electric vehicles, yes, it is said that new energy vehicles. Therefore, it is clear that new energy vehicles do not use fuel, but can only use electricity.
You have to ask: will fuel vehicles be replaced by electric vehicles? Definitely not. Although electric vehicle technology and popularization are very fast, but as we all know, whether it is the reliability of long-distance travel, the convenience of supplementary energy, the suitability of the environment and climate, including the cost performance, it is still obviously insufficient, the market is king, for many car buyers, in fact, there is no sufficient reason to give up fuel vehicles and choose electric vehicles.
So will traditional fuel vehicles disappear? Yes. But they were not eliminated and replaced, but through the blessing of the electric drive system, they became a new generation of hybrid models. This process is actually more like the evolution of traditional fuel vehicles, or a huge change.
Therefore, from the perspective of manufacturer topic hype, "comprehensive suspension of fuel vehicles" sounds of course exciting, but in essence, it is the same as every major change in the power of the car in the past, such as the replacement of carburetor vehicles by electronic injection vehicles, such as the replacement of large-displacement self-priming engines by small and medium-displacement turbocharged engines, which we have experienced, in fact, they are very similar in essence.
We noticed that last year emerged a large number of new plug-in hybrid models, they have lower fuel consumption than traditional fuel vehicles; there are often nearly 100 kilometers of pure electric endurance, both fuel vehicles and electric vehicle advantages, the key price and cost are getting closer and closer to fuel vehicles, from these bodies, we can indeed see the trend of eruption, traditional fuel vehicles either change and evolve together, or will be replaced by them, and the time is really not far.
Back to BYD's news, in fact, from several years ago, BYD's new car has long been concentrated in pure electric and plug-in hybrid two categories, pure fuel vehicles in addition to a small number of old models continue to produce, has not been updated for a long time, we can casually look at BYD's production data in January this year, plug-in hybrid models 46540 vehicles, pure electric vehicle delivery 46386 vehicles, these two add up to a total of 92926 vehicles, and BYD's total delivery of how much, 95180 vehicles, That is to say, there are only more than 2,000 traditional fuel vehicles, not even 2.5% of the proportion! Therefore, BYD's announcement of the suspension of fuel vehicles sounds very newsworthy, but it is actually a complete waterway for them, and it is just a small optimization of the product structure.
In fact, not only BYD, but most domestic brands have announced the official news that they have stopped production or significantly reduced the production of traditional fuel vehicles in recent years. We know that whether in engine technology, transmission technology, or brand establishment, compared with overseas big car brands, domestic brands have always had a big gap, and it is not easy to catch up, ten years ago almost all the impact on the high-end market ended in failure!
But it is the development of new energy vehicles in recent years that gives them the opportunity to overtake in curves and break through to the middle and high-end. We can take a look at the current more than 200,000 domestic brand cars with good sales, except for the sword-and-edge tank series, almost all of which are new energy models. Therefore, the faster the mainstream status of traditional fuel vehicles is replaced by new energy vehicles, the more favorable it will be for them, and they are very anxious.
In the same way, although overseas big brands also have corresponding timetables, most of them are more than 8-10 years of vision, in fact, it is not that they do not attach importance to new energy vehicles, but the traditional engine technology, research and development investment and manufacturing experience accumulated over the years, especially in the field of large-displacement engines and advanced transmissions, it is indeed reluctant to be easily abandoned.
So, I think the development and elimination of models, as an ordinary car buyer, you really don't have to mind too much, and you don't have to panic. Whether it is an electric car, a fuel vehicle, or a hybrid car, when you need to buy a car, clearly understand your own demands and needs, and choose a car that is currently the most suitable for you.