Does the extended-range hybrid MPV really save money? Lantu dreams of spending 24,000 a year on a domestic car

The acceleration of the new energy era has made many traditional domestic car companies have transformed and entered the game, but compared with the new forces of car manufacturing with lighter "baggage", traditional car companies have launched an attractive new energy product accordingly, which seems to be much more difficult. Lantu Automobile seems to have found a breakthrough from the market segment, following the Lantu FREE, it has brought a high-end new energy MPV Lantu Dreamer, and there are still pure electric version and extended range version of the two power options, of which the high-attention extended range version of the model priced at 369,900 yuan.

Lantu Dreamer positioning medium and large MPV, using four-seat and seven-seat layout, the new car length, width and height of the new car is 5315/1980/1810mm, wheelbase 3200mm, with a very domineering shape and simple body lines, it looks very commercial, aura. In terms of interior, the Dreamer adopts a multi-screen design, but cancels the screen lifting function, and the interior is luxurious and technological. In terms of configuration, including 5G in-car entertainment and office system, L2 level driver assistance, automatic parking, remote remote parking, four-tone area voice interaction, vehicle OTA are equipped, and the seat function configuration is also fully full. The Lantu Dreamer Extender model is equipped with a front and rear dual-drive motor, with a total power of 290kW, a range extender for a 1.5T engine, and the WLTC's comprehensive fuel consumption is less than 2L. Then some friends will ask, can a medium-sized MPV with range extender power really save money when used? Let's take a look at predictions and analysis.

The average premium for three years is nearly 8,000, is it not expensive?

Lantu Dreamer Zengcheng Edition has launched a total of 4 models, priced from 369,900 yuan, according to the configuration and price analysis, we believe that the price of 389,900 yuan "2022 low-carbon version want to + smart driving package" is more cost-effective, but because there is no relevant insurance data for the vehicle, so it can only be based on the MPV of the same price, as well as the earlier launch of lantu FREE, the dreamer insurance cost estimate.

According to our investigation, Lantu Dreamer Extender Edition in the purchase of 3 million three liabilities, car damage insurance, traffic insurance three major types of insurance, the first year of premium of about 9200 yuan, if there is no accident in the later use of the process, the premium will be further reduced, we take the standard premium of the second year 20% off, the third year 30% off the calculation, Lantu Dreamer Extended Edition three-year insurance cost total cost is about 23000 yuan, an average of about 7667 yuan a year (the actual insurance price will be affected by the brand, the insured area, insurance projects, and the impact of different insurance companies).

400,000 yuan of MPV, small maintenance is only 700 yuan

Lantu Dreamer Extender Edition and Lantu FREE both use a 1.5T range extender, but there is a difference in adjustment, we can estimate the maintenance cycle and cost of the Dreamer according to the previous maintenance survey of The Lando FREE, for example, the first insurance of the Lantern Dreamer is carried out at 5000km, and the main content is the inspection of the vehicle. After that, the air conditioning filter needs to be replaced every 20,000km, which costs about 300 yuan; the brake oil needs to be changed every 40,000km, which costs about 300 yuan. In addition, every 10,000km need to change the oil and filter, the cost is about 700 yuan; the air conditioning filter is replaced every 20,000km, and the spark plug is replaced every 30,000km.

We take the average family driving 60,000km for three years as the car cycle, and estimate the total maintenance cost of the Lantu Dreamer, which is about 4,000 yuan, an average of about 1333 yuan per year. It can be seen that as a medium-sized MPV priced at about 400,000 yuan, the maintenance price of the Dreamer is a very cheap level, which is much less than the mainstream Buick GL8. The main reason is that the maintenance of the 1.5T range extender is relatively cheap, and the longer part replacement cycle also further reduces the cost of car maintenance.

2.5 tons of vehicle weight, the monthly fuel cost is expected to be less than 1,0003

Lantu Dreamer extender version of the model equipped with a 1.5T range extender, WLTC comprehensive fuel consumption of 1.99L, power loss fuel consumption of 7.4L, CLTC pure electric mileage is only 82km, not long, I believe that most of the time users will not use pure electric mode driving. In addition, due to the large body size of the Lantu Dreamer and the curb weight of more than 2.5 tons, we combine the loss of power and fuel consumption performance of the previous Lantu FREE extended range version, and it is expected that the actual fuel consumption will definitely be higher than the official fuel consumption, and the estimated fuel consumption is about 8.5L/100 km.

We calculated the fuel cost of 60,000 km for the three-year travel of the Lantu Dreamer Extender Edition with a fuel consumption of 8.5L/100 km and 9 yuan /liter of Gasoline, with a total cost of 45,900 yuan and an average monthly fuel cost of 1275 yuan. It can be seen that this fuel level is not high, the range extender power can indeed help the fuel saving, more importantly, even if the calculation is the loss of electricity and fuel consumption, the monthly fuel cost is at least 300 yuan more than the Buick GL8. The only regret is that this 1.5T range extender needs to use 95 gasoline.

Epilogue:

Adding up the estimated maintenance costs, insurance costs and fuel costs, we can calculate that the total cost of the 60,000 km of lantu dreamer extender version in three years is about 72,900 yuan, an average of about 24,300 yuan per year, and an average of about 2,025 yuan per month. The price of this Lantu Dreamer extended range version we calculated is close to 400,000 yuan, which is not cheap, but according to the cost of the general fuel MPV, it is still about 500 yuan cheaper than the Buick GL8, and the Toyota Syna is almost at the same level. The main willingness is that the range increase power allows Lantu Dreamer to have a lot of advantages in maintenance and fuel costs, especially under the weight of 2.5 tons, the loss of electricity and fuel consumption does not exceed 9L / 100 kilometers, I believe that in the case of sufficient electricity, 100 kilometers of fuel consumption can be reduced by half, in other words, the actual fuel cost of three years can also be correspondingly cheaper by at least 20,000 yuan.