Time flies, 2022 has passed a third of the blink of an eye, in the past four months or so, to say which independent brand performance is the most eye-catching, I think everyone will first think of BYD, right?
First at the beginning of the year set an annual sales target of 2 million, and then for many consecutive months sales reached six figures, a while ago it was a strong official announcement to stop the production of fuel vehicles, taking a "cross-era" step. Why does BYD dare to be the "first person to eat crabs" so boldly? In fact, all this stems from the strong self-confidence brought by BYD's DM-i super hybrid system to BYD.
BYD DM-i super hybrid word of mouth, nothing more than fuel saving and good opening, so in the market circle of countless fans, but in the end how fuel-efficient and easy to open, do you have a specific concept? Anyway, Xiaobian has never actually experienced BYD's DM-i series models before.
On April 28, BYD opened a two-session BYD Song Pro DM-i Super Sense Experience Official Fuel Saving Challenge in Fuzhou, and Xiaobian was also very honored to qualify for this competition, just take this opportunity to try for everyone, DM-i super hybrid in the end how many pounds.
The model used in this fuel saving race, for the Song Pro DM-i that was just listed at the end of last year, the appearance of this car is generally based on the fuel version of the upgrade, the general outline shape is basically the same as the fuel version of the model, and there will be an upgrade in the details, for a compact SUV with a partial home orientation, the appearance performance of this set of appearance shapes is good, very exquisite and atmospheric.
In terms of interior, this car is a simple and refreshing design style, without too many fancy designs. The huge 15.6-inch central control screen supports horizontal and vertical flips, while integrating a number of functions including the car system, air conditioning control system, navigation and music player.
In addition, this car is also sincere in the interior materials, using a large number of leather wrapping, soft plastic materials, piano paint trim panels, coupled with this set of Unicorn brown color panels, it is difficult to believe that this car only needs more than 100,000 yuan.
After talking about the design of song Pro DM-i, let's return to this fuel saving competition. This fuel saving race we started from Fuzhou, through the city section, national highway, county road and highway to the beautiful Pingtan Island, and then through the highway to Putian City, and finally reached the destination of the trip - a gas station located in Putian City, through the calculation of the mileage and the actual amount of fuel to get the real fuel consumption of each car. Therefore, before setting off, all the contestants put a "seal" on their vehicle fuel tanks to ensure that everyone's final refueling volume is real and effective.
Since the departure point is at the morning rush hour of work, we have experienced the most painful urban congestion after the departure, not only the traffic is abundant, but also beware of electric bicycles and pedestrians that pop out from time to time. However, the more complicated the road conditions, the more you can feel the engine tuning and transmission level of the vehicle.
In the morning peak of the city road conditions, Song Pro DM-i's E-CVT stepless transmission performance surprised me, under the blessing of this shift system BYD Song Pro DM-i even in the stop-and-go morning peak city conditions did not have the slightest setback or vague gear logic, coupled with the low-speed state of the motor drive, so that the car even in the complex and congested morning peak road conditions are still comfortable, driving experience is also very comfortable.
After passing through the congested urban sections, we entered the national highway and county road sections where the townships were crisscrossed. As we all know, national highways and county roads are generally bad due to the large number of trucks, so it will be a big test for the chassis quality of vehicles when passing through such road conditions. To be honest, before starting this journey, Xiaobian did not have much hope for the chassis of domestic cars, after all, the price of more than 100,000 yuan, there is value, space, good power and fuel saving, it is already very cost-effective, but the chassis performance of this Song Pro DM-i does not say that Xiaobian feels amazing, at least let Xiaobian see the future of domestic cars.
The chassis of this car is generally relatively soft, and it can filter out most of the fine vibrations well when passing through the potholed section, but it is relatively powerless for deeper potholes, which is basically the same for all cars; at the same time, the compactness and regularity of the entire chassis can be described as "transformation" compared to previous domestic cars, which is not at a level at all. However, the rebound rate of the chassis spring is still lacking, and the performance is not particularly good in continuous pothole pavement, which needs to be slightly improved.
After entering the highway section, Song Pro DM-i's NVH performance is also a lot of points. In the two days of participating in the fuel saving race, the weather in Fujian is more complex and changeable, the regional wind speed we pass is also very large, coupled with the speed of 120 kilometers per hour, Xiaobian thought that the wind noise tire noise of the vehicle may be very large, but after nearly two hours on the highway, the tranquility of this car is quite satisfactory to Xiaobian. Limited to environmental conditions, wind noise can still be heard, but it is not very loud, and tire noise is almost completely absent, at the same time you turn on the music, the car is basically not heard any noise.
After a full day of multi-road experience, Xiaobian drove this Song Pro DM-i to the final gas station in Putian in the evening, where the staff would refuel our vehicles and calculate the vehicle's comprehensive fuel consumption according to the mileage driven and the amount of fuel added. As the convoy drove into the gas station, the gas station employees were also smiling and felt that they were coming to "big business".
The participating vehicles in the fuel-saving race are in a state of power loss, so this fuel-saving race also measures the fuel consumption in the state of Song Pro DM-i power loss, which is also more in line with the car scene of most consumers. After calculating the mileage and fuel volume, the vehicle driven by Xiaobian has a comprehensive fuel consumption of 4.2L/100km after experiencing urban congestion, national highways, county roads and highways, which is lower than the official claim of 4.4L/100km.
However, to the surprise of Xiaobian, several other small partners in the same industry actually ran out of fuel consumption of less than 4L, and even a car ran a staggering fuel consumption of 3.42L/100km under full load. Speaking of this fuel-saving challenge, in order to be more in line with the scene of daily use of cars, the route and time period of the test drive have been designed to be very similar to the daily car scene, and due to the hot weather, each participating vehicle is also fully opened with air conditioning, so the fuel consumption calculated this time can be applied to daily driving for your reference.
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After these two days of in-depth contact with Song Pro DM-i, this car is also through its own hard power to prove itself to everyone, first of all, 13.88-16.38 million yuan of people-friendly price, followed by a good value, sincere materials, regular chassis suspension and high fuel economy, it can be said that this car and this hybrid system in this price range is a very cost-effective choice, and because of this, the sales of Song Pro DM-i and DM-i series models will be so hot. BYD also dared to officially announce the suspension of fuel vehicles and be the "first person to eat crabs".