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No one could have imagined that the hybrid technology, which was originally only regarded as a treasure by Japanese manufacturers, has become the "incense paradox" of the current Chinese car market.
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The hybrid market has become a place of contention.
The reason is that in the process of moving towards full electrification, people are gradually realizing that the development of pure electric technology is far from being as easy as imagined.
Battery technology has encountered bottlenecks that are difficult to break through, with short mileage, low charging efficiency, and even battery safety has become the anxiety brought by pure electric vehicles to people.
How to deal with the many contradictions in the process from fuel to pure electricity, how to eliminate battery life anxiety, charging anxiety and safety anxiety? People began to rethink and found that the most suitable technical route for this transition stage was hybrid technology.
Energy-saving and fuel-efficient, driving quality, high safety factor, no endurance and charging anxiety, hybrid vehicles have become the most preferred in the technical route of automobiles before fully electrification.
However, have you noticed that these car companies with hybrid technology only have a hybrid technology route. Although this is enough to allow car companies to occupy a place in the hybrid market, it cannot bring consumers multiple choices, and it is difficult for car companies to occupy more market share.
And GAC Trumpchi seems to be aware of this.
Recently, GAC Trumpchi officially released its new hybrid technology brand - Julang Hybrid. Different from the single hybrid technology route of other car companies, GAC Trumpchi Julang Hybrid has a dual hybrid technology route, which is the positive self-developed GMC dual motor series parallel hybrid system, and the hybrid combination of turbocharged engine and THS hybrid system that has achieved innovation and breakthrough.
Zeng Qinghong (center), chairman of GAC Group, took a group photo with Yingku
So, how big can GAC Trumpchi, which holds the dual hybrid technology route, have in the hybrid era?
In fact, GAC Trumpchi used Toyota THS hybrid technology, which is the first time in history that Toyota has licensed its THS hybrid technology to non-Toyota brand models. Behind this is undoubtedly the mutual trust generated by the cooperation between GAC Group and Toyota Motor for many years.
For a long time, many people believe that there are only two kinds of hybrids in this world, one is the Toyota hybrid and the other is the other hybrid. This statement actually makes sense, for a long time, the world's car companies only Toyota can do without plugging in.
Because of this, the Toyota THS Hybrid can be called a benchmark in the hybrid world.
AS the first non-Toyota brand to use Toyota THS hybrid system, GAC Trumpchi is bound to bring advantages to GAC Trumpchi. After all, after decades of development, Toyota's THS hybrid system has been quite mature in technology, the fuel-saving effect is superior, and the reputation is quite high.
However, GAC Trumpchi did not copy this hybrid system, but matched the Toyota THS hybrid system with the self-developed 2.0T turbocharged engine, which brought the fuel-saving advantages of the THS hybrid system itself, but also brought strong power.
Take the new generation of Trumpchi GS8 dual engine as an example, this oversized SUV, after matching with the 2.0T + THS hybrid assembly, not only the comprehensive fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is only 5.3L, but also the zero hundred acceleration time can be 6.9 seconds, which truly realizes the perfect balance between fuel consumption and power.
In addition, it is worth saying that the new generation of Trumpchi GS8 dual engine can also achieve a tank of fuel with an endurance of more than 2000 kilometers, which completely solves the user's endurance anxiety.
At present, the new generation of Trumpchi GS8 dual engine has been recognized by consumers, from January to March this year, the terminal sales of GS8 dual engine has ranked first in the 200,000-level autonomous hybrid SUV, and the order for hybrid models in April accounted for up to 60%. In addition, even though chip constraints have affected production capacity, the new generation of GS8 still achieved sales of more than 4,000 units in March.
It can be seen that the innovative 2.0T+THS hybrid assembly has been recognized by users.
However, even if GAC Trumpchi has innovated and made breakthroughs in the Toyota THS hybrid system, in order to bring more diversified choices to users and further occupy a greater advantage in the hybrid era, GAC Trumpchi has not forgotten to develop its own hybrid technology when it has THS hybrid technology.
The more important reason behind this is that GAC Trumpchi has a strong desire to show its own hybrid technology.
After all, although GAC Trumpchi has innovated Toyota's THS hybrid technology, in the eyes of most people, this technology still belongs to Toyota, not to GAC Trumpchi itself.
It can be seen that a set of self-developed hybrid technology is not only very necessary for GAC Trumpchi, but also can break people's prejudices.
In this case, the GMC hybrid system developed by GAC Trumpchi Belt has become a natural thing.
In order to have its own highlights, GAC Trumpchi GMC hybrid assembly adopts many advanced technologies, not only in terms of hybrid technology, but also in the newly developed engine to match it.
First of all, compared to most hybrid systems on the market, this hybrid system is the first to create an integrated dual-motor multi-gear DHT. The advantage of an extra gear is that it can improve torque output, while allowing the engine to be in an efficient working range after intervention in the drive, so that the purpose of lower energy consumption and stronger power can be achieved.
Compared with the hybrid system with a two-speed transmission mechanism on the market, the GAC Trumpchi GMC hybrid system can also bring a more flexible shifting experience.
Secondly, the GMC system has multiple operating modes such as EV pure electricity, series increase range, parallel hybridization, and energy recovery, which can always keep the system in the best working state to achieve a balance between performance and fuel consumption.
It is worth mentioning that the GAC Trumpchi GMC system is also very intelligent. Among them, a very bright thing is that it provides a full-speed domain full-field intelligent energy management strategy.
Through the real-time road conditions and traffic flow information of the on-board navigation and high-precision map, the working state of the existing power system can be intervened and optimized in advance, especially the working mode and energy flow distribution state adjustment involving the multi-power source of the hybrid system, so as to optimize the drivability, economy, comfort, safety, convenience of use and other performance of the hybrid vehicle under the actual road.
In addition, consumers are also extremely concerned about the quality of the battery. GMC system has an efficient refrigerant direct cooling battery, not afraid of extreme heat and cold, not only to meet the needs of users in any geographical location, but also to ensure the high efficiency and longer life of the battery.
In order to perfectly match this hybrid system, GAC Trumpchi also developed a 2.0ATK high-efficiency Atkinson hybrid special engine, with GAC GCCS efficient combustion system, low friction design, waste recycling system, intelligent thermal management and noise reduction design, with a maximum thermal efficiency of 42.1%, which can be regarded as the industry's top.
In the end, the perfect combination of the two makes this hybrid assembly have five advantages of "high quality, low fuel consumption, strong power, quieter and super smooth". In addition, the scalability of the GMC system is also very strong, covering oil-electric hybridization, plug-in hybridization, extender hybridization, and even hydrogen power system, which can be said to cover the full hybrid scene.
The first SUV Yingku of Julang Hybrid GMC2.0 has also officially landed, marking a comprehensive advancement of GAC Trumpchi's dual hybrid strategy.
It is worth mentioning that GAC Trumpchi Yingku originated from the concept car EMKOO released at the Guangzhou Auto Show last November. Now, only a few months have passed, and the mass production version of this concept car has officially landed, which can be said to refresh the fastest speed of mass production of concept cars.
As a product of user co-creation, Trumpchi Yingku is equipped with the 2.0ATK high-efficiency Atkinson engine + GMC 2.0 second-generation electromechanical coupling system, becoming the first model equipped with this set of powertrains.
This indicates that GAC Trumpchi and even the group company have finally been shown in the accumulation of hybrid technology over the years. However, in order to meet the diversified power needs of consumers, Trumpchi Yingku also provides two pure fuel-powered versions of Julang Power 1.5TGDI and 2.0TGDI.
Unlike any of the previous models launched by GAC Trumpchi, Yingku is an avant-garde and intelligent technology full of A-class SUV. Its target user portrait is a group of pan-Z generations who are very picky about appearance, personality, and technology.
"Post-wave Era": Post-90s Auto User Insight Report" shows that the current car market users are gradually younger, and the "post-90s" "post-90s" have begun to become the main force of consumption. In addition, data show that at present, the proportion of post-90s car users in the mainland accounts for 41%, which is the most important component of current car users.
Not only that, according to the 2021 China New Car Purchase Intention Research Report released by consumer insight and market research institute J.D. Power last year, the "post-95s" tend to buy their own brands the most willing, reaching 61%.
According to the report, the top five reasons why the "post-95s" favor independent brand cars are good looks/attractive shapes, high driving comfort, spacious and comfortable riding space, safety and fuel saving/power saving.
It can be seen that GAC Trumpchi Yingku is undoubtedly standing on the cusp of this consumer trend and catering to the demands of more young people in China.
With the launch of the new generation of GS8 and the arrival of the new SUV model Yingku, GAC Trumpchi's dual hybrid technology route has been landed, thus GAC Trumpchi is moving towards a new hybrid era of dual hybrid strategy.
Write at the end
In today's chaotic era of competing deer, in order to occupy more market share, car companies need to solve problems for them from the perspective of users. GAC Trumpchi has this kind of thinking, which is different from other car companies and brings double hybrid technology to users.
In order to achieve such a two-wire hybrid strategy, this is inevitably inseparable from the technical accumulation of GAC Trumpchi and GAC Group in the field of hybridization for many years, and the self-developed GMC hybrid system is undoubtedly the best verification. In terms of electrification strategy landing products, this year GAC Trumpchi will also successively launch hybrid models of Shadow Leopard and M8.
Through the parallel of two roads of open cooperation and independent research and development, GAC Trumpchi is bound to be able to rely on the two major "killers" to stand out in the hybrid era of the crowd chasing the deer.
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