At this stage, plug-in hybrid (PHEV) or more cater to the actual needs of the vast majority of families.
In the past year or so, whether the price of crude oil has fallen or risen, the price of refined oil products has basically risen, and there is a great momentum to break through the 10 yuan mark. On April 21, the price of No. 92 gasoline in Beijing was 8.57 yuan / liter, and the price of No. 95 gasoline was 9.05 yuan / liter. Assuming that a certain fuel vehicle consumes 10L of fuel per 100 kilometers, and travels an average of 10,000 kilometers a year, the fuel cost for a year is 8570 yuan or 9050 yuan. In 2021, the average wage in Beijing is 9758 yuan, and the oil bill almost occupies the January salary, and the cost is too high.
At the same time, due to the shortage of chips to increase prices, power batteries to increase prices, the vast majority of pure electric vehicles have begun more than one round of price increases, the total price of 20-30 million models rose 2-30,000 is not uncommon. How is this good that the epidemic has affected and income is limited?
Fortunately, the price of plug-in hybrid models did not increase. This is a list of new energy vehicle price increases in March, and after collation, we found that none of them are plug-in hybrid models (the ideal ONE belongs to the extender, the battery capacity is slightly larger, and it does not have to be classified in the plug-in hybrid type). The reason why plug-in hybrids did not participate in the price increase is because their batteries are small. The 2021 Song PLUS DM-i 51km battery capacity is 8.3kWh, the 2022 BYD Han DM-i 121km battery capacity is 18.3kWh, and the relatively larger Mocha DHT-PHEV has a battery capacity of 39.67kWh. Pure electric vehicles with a range of more than 400km have a battery capacity of more than 50kWh.
Plug-in hybrid models are oil-efficient and electric, and most plug-in hybrids are intended to "save fuel". The early plug-in hybrid is represented by BYD, which is the effect of simply adding the fuel system and the electric system to achieve 1 + 1 = 2. Like the 2021 Tang DM, it can be used as a pure electric or hybrid vehicle when there is electricity, and can only be used as a fuel vehicle when there is no electricity. In the case of long-term non-charging, it can play a certain fuel-saving effect through kinetic energy recovery, but the effect is not obvious, and the original intention of the design is to let users charge from time to time. Now BYD DM-i, Great Wall DHT, Geely Leishen hybrid, Changan iDD and other hybrid structures are more advanced, using engines developed for hybrid, improving power generation efficiency, optimizing the power output mode, most of them under the premise of not charging to achieve electricity-based, oil-supplemented power form, even if long-term non-charging, fuel consumption is much lower than the same level of fuel vehicles. Among them, BYD DM-i has the highest market recognition, and the models equipped with DM-i hybrids also have the best sales.
No price increase and greatly save fuel, plug-in hybrid can also enjoy the same preferential treatment policy as pure electric (green card unlimited number, free of purchase tax), the spring of PHEV has indeed arrived. From the speed of the introduction of plug-in hybrids by major mainstream car companies in the past one or two years, it can be seen that the models equipped with plug-in hybrids are fist models. Sales can also be reflected, Qin PLUS DM-i since its listing in March last year, sales have soared, the past six months of monthly sales have been stable at more than 20,000 vehicles; Song PLUS new energy monthly sales are also stable more than 20,000 vehicles.
Some data show that compared with the early stage of the "Thirteenth 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%, which reflects the significant increase in the recognition of the new energy vehicle market, and there is certainly no shortage of plug-in hybrid models.
Some people say that spring has arrived, and winter is inevitably coming. Some countries have issued a ban on the sale of fuel vehicles, such as France announcing a total ban on the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles in 2040, and China's Hainan Province is expected to ban the sale of fuel vehicles in 2030. But this winter is really far away, other provinces may not follow up in 2030, even if all provinces ban the sale of fuel vehicles in 2030 is only banned, the same can be driven on the road, and plug-in hybrid models will certainly enjoy better right of way than fuel vehicles. So it's still early, and that winter won't affect the sales of plug-in hybrids now.
PHEV plug-in hybrid is a transitional product of the ultimate era of new energy, but before pure electric, hydrogen energy and methanol vehicles can cope with the full-scenario use, plug-in hybrid is very necessary, even if one day it will withdraw from the stage.