On April 26, the night sky of Canton Tower lit up with four words - "Julang Hybrid".
This is the name of the new hybrid technology brand released by GAC Trumpchi on the same night, and along with this technology brand, there is also the first SUV equipped with Trumpchi's self-developed GMC 2.0 hybrid system - Yingku.
Up to now, there have been many hybrid brands launched by Chinese brands: BYD's super hybrid DM-i, Geely's Thor hybrid, Chery's Kunpeng hybrid, Chang'an's iDD, Great Wall's lemon hybrid... Among these hybrid technology brands, Trumpchi's Julang Hybrid, although a "late reacher", is the most impressive.
Because at a time when hybridization is gradually becoming the general trend, GAC Trumpchi's Julang Hybrid is the first technology brand that dares to call itself "China's strongest hybrid".
Zeng Qinghong (center), chairman of GAC Group, took a group photo with Yingku
Yes, you read that right, it is "China is the strongest", without other definite words. Before you show a surprised expression, it is necessary to understand the concept of julang hybrid. After that, you can probably know where Trumpchi dares to shout out this "strongest" undertone.
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Unlike some other hybrid brands, Julang Hybrid does not refer to a specific technology, but a technology group, including both Toyota's THS and Trumpchi's highly extensible GMC hybrid system – covering oil-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, extender hybrid, and even hydrogen power systems.
Far from it, for now, Trumpchi is the only Chinese brand with two sets of hybrid technology routes at the same time. For example, if you don't play it well, julang hybrid is like an army fighting a war, while other hybrids are more like single-soldier combat. Gathering the "Eighteen Martial Arts" of julang hybridization, of course, there is the courage to win the title of "China's strongest hybrid".
You may wonder why other brands are all going all the way to black, while Trumpchi has to develop the Toyota THS hybrid system at the same time after developing its own GMC hybrid system? After all, these two hybrid systems take completely different routes, and the focus is different -
Toyota's THS is a power shunt type, and Trumpchi's GMC 2.0 is a series-parallel type, although both emphasize efficiency and quality, but the path is different. If you want to walk on two legs at the same time, Julang Hybrid will at least take twice as much time and energy as other hybrid brands to bring the product to the market, and it is likely to miss the market outlet.
As you can see, Trumpchi's GMC 2.0 was officially unveiled as early as the 2019 Guangzhou Auto Show. At that time, BYD's super hybrid DM-i had not yet officially appeared, and the Great Wall's lemon hybrid DHT was still in its infancy. But now, BYD DM-i has already sold out, great wall DHT has also launched several models, and Trumpchi's GMC 2.0 has not yet been officially mass-produced.
There are many reasons why Trumpchi insists on walking on two legs at the same time, the most important of which is because of users: as a user-based enterprise, what Trumpchi wants to do is to return the choice to consumers and provide them with as many solutions as possible, rather than simply helping them make decisions.
From left to right, 1.5DHE+GMC 3.0 (not yet officially released), 2.0TM+Toyota THS, 2.0ATK+GMC 2.0.
In China's auto market, it's not uncommon for an ass to decide the head.
For example, many engineers feel that a three-cylinder engine is better than a four-cylinder engine in terms of single-cylinder efficiency, and that its innate vibration problems can be compensated by the day after tomorrow, so it is not a problem to bring it to the market. However, even if you explain everything, no matter how much you publicize, you can never change the consumer's concept of the three-cylinder machine, and the hard push can only accept failure.
In the current "customer first" situation, users do not want "you feel", but "I feel", they want the comprehensive value of the product, not the technology itself. Therefore, for them, there is no so-called best technical route, only more suitable for their own products.
The Shadow Leopard, equipped with GMC 2.0, was also unveiled at last year's Guangzhou Auto Show.
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Trumpchi, who has many ways at the same time, will certainly be questioned: "Don't talk about the Great Wall and BYD, even if you are like Toyota and Honda, these hybrid 'old brands' still insist on going one way to black." Will Trumpchi, who walks on two legs, end up walking on both roads? ”
But in fact, the two-legged Trumpchi walking, instead of the "1+12" gain - whether it is the second-generation Trumpchi GS8 using Toyota's THS, or the subsequent model of the D&Kei GMC 2.0, all indicators have reached the top two levels in the industry.
Just like the first A-class hybrid sedan equipped with GMC 2.0 + Trumpchi fourth-generation 2.0ATK engine, in the case of a higher engine displacement than the "Two Fields" class competitors (Toyota is 1.8L, Honda is 1.5L), the comprehensive fuel consumption of 100 kilometers under NEDC conditions is 10% lower than theirs.
Trumpchi does not simply pursue paper data, but starts from the user's point of view everywhere. The thermal efficiency of the engine, Trumpchi emphasizes that the user's actual use conditions - 42.1%, rather than the highest point of uselessness.
While maintaining extremely low fuel consumption, its acceleration performance is not bad.
Although the official did not officially announce its "zero hundred acceleration" results, it is said to be comparable to BYD Qin PLUS, which is a PHEV. You know, BECAUSE THE PHEV has a large enough battery capacity to support a large enough discharge power, which can significantly improve its acceleration performance - "zero hundred acceleration" to increase by 0.3s is not a matter, so the acceleration of a HEV can achieve the level of PHEV, which is not easy.
Paired with Trumpchi GMC 2.0 is a high-efficiency refrigerant direct cooling battery, which not only has good heat dissipation effect and low loss, but also can discharge 70kW for ten seconds under the conditions of 25-40 °C and 50% SOC. Quick, not without reason.
Low energy consumption and fast acceleration are the advantages of hybrid technology of almost all Chinese brands, and Trumpchi GMC 2.0 is no exception. The advantage it really draws from toyota THS is reliability. Because it is clear that the reason why Toyota THS has more than 18 million users worldwide is not only efficient, but also its quality.
In order to improve the reliability of GMC 2.0, Trumpchi has made many efforts and demanded itself to exceed industry standards.
According to the official statement, Trumpchi's GMC 2.0 is the first Chinese brand hybrid system in the industry to pass the 10g vibration acceleration reliability verification and EMC load test through Class 3, and pass the 10+ 100,000 hours bench test and vehicle verification equivalent mileage of 10 million kilometers.
It is not difficult to understand why it, which debuted in 2019, has only been mass-produced and listed until now. As a new technology, it hopes to find out the reliability problems that users may encounter in the real use environment as much as possible in the experimental stage, solve them in advance, and give users peace of mind and peace of mind.
Test bench to test the NVH performance of the system.
In terms of matching Toyota THS, Trumpchi is also to the point of pure fire, and even has a feeling that blue is better than blue.
The fuel consumption of the second-generation Trumpchi GS8 is exactly the same as that of Highlander: under NEDC working conditions, the comprehensive fuel consumption of the two-wheel drive version of 100 kilometers is also 5.3L, and the four-wheel drive version is also 5.8L. This level is among the best in medium and large SUVs. For reference, the ideal ONE, the so-called "new energy" that can be green carded, has a fuel consumption of 8.8L/100km, which is about 34% higher than them.
However, under the premise of maintaining the advantages of THS's low energy consumption, the second-generation Trumpchi GS8 fills Toyota's shortcomings in terms of power: the four-wheel drive version of "Zero Hundred Acceleration" only takes 6.9 seconds, which is nearly 2 seconds faster than Toyota Highlander. It is almost the same as the ideal ONE based on electric drive - "zero hundred acceleration" 6.5 seconds.
The GS8 dual-engine series equipped with Toyota's fourth-generation THS hybrid system has continued to climb orders, ranking first in the first quarter of this year in sales of 200,000 Chinese hybrid SUVs.
In GMC 2.0, in addition to achieving industry-leading performance, Trumpchi also has a little more genes for the reliability and durability of Toyota THS; in Toyota THS, Trumpchi has made up for the shortcomings of the poor acceleration performance of the original version under the premise of doing the same energy consumption as the original version.
Trumpchi not only provides consumers with two different choices, but also integrates their performance and advantages to the extreme, and naturally has more confidence to win the title of "China's strongest hybrid".
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Of course, Trumpchi dares to call itself "China's strongest hybrid", and there is also "big data" behind it. The big data mentioned here refers to its large amount of time and experience.
Sometimes, I really don't understand why consumers trust the technology of the new forces that have been building cars for a few years. Good technology is often not achieved overnight, and it takes a lot of time and experience to precipitate. Like Trumpchi's julang hybrid, the earliest can be traced back to 13 years ago, when Trumpchi was just established.
Feng Xingya, general manager of GAC Group (third from right), took a group photo with Yingku
Trumpchi can be said to be the earliest Chinese brand in China to explore a variety of hybrid technology routes.
As early as 2009, Trumpchi had already started the development of the first hybrid model, and soon introduced 200 hybrid models based on the P1+P4 configuration to the market.
In 2014, Trumpchi officially launched the first range extended electric vehicle in China , the GA5 REV. The performance of this electric vehicle is still very interesting today: it only has 13kWh of electricity, pure electric endurance of up to 50km, and the comprehensive fuel consumption of 100 kilometers under NEDC conditions is only 2.4L.
Trumpchi is not going with the flow to do the hybrid. In fact, for more than a decade, it has been a leader in Chinese brand hybrid technology, but it has only kept a relatively low profile.
In 2017, just 3 years later, Trumpchi abandoned the range-extended route in favor of upgrading the hybrid system to the series-parallel style now used by most Chinese brands – the predecessor of GMC 2.0, GMC 1.0, and equipped with a hybrid engine , the 1.5L Atkinson cycle engine.
At that time, there were only four OEMs in the world with special transmissions for hybrids, in addition to Toyota and Honda, SAIC and Trumpchi. Among them, on the route of parallel connection, Trumpchi is the first Chinese brand with complete intellectual property rights, and the first Chinese brand to achieve large-scale mass production.
In other words, the current popular extender, series parallel... As early as five years ago, Trumpchi had played it all, and there were corresponding products to the market, it was too clear about the advantages and disadvantages of each system, and systematically screened according to whether it had inevitable fatal shortcomings.
At the beginning of 2020, Trumpchi carried out a systematic upgrade of GMC 1.0, upgrading the original 1.5L ATK to a 1.5T turbocharged engine, making it more efficient, more powerful and more widely used. If I remember correctly, the GS4 PHEV equipped with this system is the first Chinese brand plug-in hybrid model that dares to announce its poor fuel consumption.
It may be that the market did not know much about PHEV at that time, so even though the GS4 PHEV performed well, it still failed to shake the market.
You read that right, as early as two years ago, Trumpchi has developed a hybrid model that is very competitive even now, and its 4.6L/100km of power consumption is still the top level in the industry, and now equipped with DM-i hybrid technology, the same as the compact SUV Song Pro, Song PLUS is almost the same.
It is reasonable to say that with the good performance of GMC 1.0, Trumpchi's next need to think about how to reduce the cost gain and fully market this technology.
Unexpectedly, however, Trumpchi is still seeking a technological breakthrough. To this end, it cooperated with some consulting companies in Europe to analyze one by one the 190,000 possible options for hybrid transmissions, and finally chose the current two-stop series parallel configuration - GMC 2.0.
Industry-award-winning GMC hybrid system.
"Why 'two gears'?" Probably a lot of people will ask.
The reason why the hybrid special gearbox needs gearing is so that the engine in the efficient work area directly drives the vehicle, making the whole system more efficient. However, if there are too many gears, as the gears increase, the weight, size, and cost of the system will increase, but the performance will not increase linearly with the increase of gears, and the gains will not be worth the losses.
That's it, Trumpchi can bravely shout out: "Comprehensive cost and performance and other factors, the current two gears are the best!" ”
Yes, Trumpchi has big data at every step of the way in the field of hybrids, and it can directly take out the data to tell you why you want to do this and how to do it optimally. And this is the confidence of Trumpchi to shout out "China's strongest hybrid".
Text | Green Lord
(This article is the author's personal opinion only and does not represent the position of DearAuto.) )
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