Since BYD DM-i hybrid detonated the plug-and-mix market, many independent brands have also begun to gradually follow up, including Chery's Kunpeng DHT hybrid, Great Wall's lemon DHT hybrid, Changan's iDD hybrid and Geely's Thor hybrid. Among the many hybrids, Geely's Thor hybrid can be said to be the toughest, because when other hybrids are still only fighting in the SUV field, it jumped to BYD's best car field and launched the Emgrand L Thor Hi · X plug-in hybrid version to face qin PLUS DM-i.
Front hard hard BYD DM-i, Gilly Thor Hybrid really has this strength? Today we will combine the newly listed Emgrand L plug and mix, and let's talk about this matter.
In terms of appearance, the Emgrand L plug-in hybrid version directly applies the radical design of the Emgrand L, and the front face is an oversized mesh grille + three-stage pulse running lights + exclusive digital streamer logo. Overall, the momentum of this front face is still very strong, not weaker than BYD's Qin PLUS and the newly launched destroyer 05.
In terms of side design, the more obvious difference between the new car and the fuel version of the Emgrand L is mainly reflected in the fact that the Emgrand L plug is equipped with a 17-inch low wind resistance contrast wheel and a charging port that appears at the left front fender. As for the rear, the new car is also directly applied to the Emgrand L fuel version design, but the wordmark has added a special logo of "Thor Hybrid Technology" to indicate its new energy identity.
In the interior part, in addition to using a new forest green double-panel interior color, the new car is equipped with a 10.25-inch full LCD instrument and a 12.3-inch suspension central control screen, it is also equipped with Thor's exclusive electronic gear. The overall interior looks both simple and atmospheric and full of technology, purely from the perspective of texture and high-grade sense, it is obviously superior to the interior of Qin PLUS.
Emgrand L plug-in interior
BYD Qin PLUS interior
In the car machine, the Emgrand L plug-in hybrid system is equipped with the Geely Galaxy OS ecosystem as standard, using the E02 new generation of digital cockpit platform, which can support APP remote control, voice interaction, TTS live voice customization, three-finger flying screen, global FOTA upgrade and other functions.
In terms of configuration, the new car is also equipped with AQS air quality management system, negative ion purifier, vehicle grade CN95 air conditioning filter, antibacterial multi-function steering wheel and other configurations, supporting L2 level assisted driving system. Among them, ELKA Emergency Lane Keeping Assist has added the function of collision risk recognition for oncoming vehicles and road edges, and AEB-P pre-collision safety system has added two-wheeler scene recognition.
After a brief understanding of the appearance, interior, and configuration, the next step is the motivation that everyone pays attention to! The Emgrand L plug-in hybrid is equipped with a 1.5TD-3DHT RYOGE hybrid system, in which the 1.5TD turbocharged in-cylinder direct injection engine can output a maximum power of 133 kW and a peak torque of 290 N·m. It should be noted that the 1.5T engine used by Emgrand L plug-in is not the three-cylinder engine that everyone imagines, but a new four-cylinder engine that is genuine.
As for the 3-speed DHT Pro transmission, it can achieve up to 20 operating conditions, coupled with a motor with a maximum power of 100 kW and a 15.5 kWh ternary lithium battery. Emgrand L plug-in can achieve zero hundred acceleration for 6.9 seconds, power loss fuel consumption of 3.8L/100km, and pure electric mileage of 100km.
For this data, you may not have any feelings, but when you take it to compare with Qin PLUS DM-i, it can be found that it is the most important fuel consumption link of "affordable plug-in mixing", Emgrand L plug-in mix has caught up with Qin PLUS plug-in mix, reaching the same level; in terms of power performance, it is obvious that Emgrand L plug-in mix has more advantages; electric drive, it is the comparison between three gears and one gear, each has advantages and disadvantages, the former adapts to the scene more, the latter is more smooth; pure electric endurance, Qin PLUS DM-i can choose one more, The Emgrand L Plug Mix will only be available at 100km at the moment.
On the whole, Emgrand L plug-in mixing is indeed the strength of hard Qin PLUS DM-i, but when everyone focuses on the price, they will immediately feel that the higher starting price of Geely Emgrand L plug-in mix is not worth it, and it is expensive! So after the subsidy of 129,800 emgrand L plugs, is it really expensive?
In fact, the reason why everyone thinks that Emgrand L plugs are expensive is more because it is compared with the Qin PLUS DM-i with 55km pure electric endurance. But in fact, the Dorsett L plug-in hybrid is the 120km pure electric endurance of the Qin PLUS DM-i, yes, that is, the version from 135,800. Compared with this version of Qin PLUS DM-i, although the pure electric endurance of Emgrand L plug-in hybrid is less than 20km, its price is 6000 pieces, in addition, its power and high-grade sense are also more sufficient. In this conversion, Emgrand L plug mix is actually not expensive.
In general, Emgrand L plugs are still very good at playing, with hard BYD DM-i strength. Of course, as a latecomer, Geely's Thor hybrid still needs to go through more market tests. At that time, whether Geely's Thor series can be comparable to BYD's DM-i series will have to be decided by the market. What do you think about that?