Recently, Lynk & Co launched the 01 EM-F, priced at 18.18-203,800 yuan, and on the third day after its listing, I was invited to Geely Automobile Research Institute to deeply understand Geely's Raytheon hybrid technology, and also conducted a test drive of Lynk & Co 01 EM-F.
For Geely's Raytheon hybrid technology, I believe that the partners who pay attention to the hybrid market have heard a little, as early as the beginning of this year, it has been installed on Geely's Xingyue L, and as for what test drive experience the car is, my colleagues will reveal it to you in two days.
Although I have not yet tested the Xingyue L Thor Hi-F gasoline-electric hybrid version, according to Geely engineers, although Geely and Lynk & Co both use the Raytheon intelligent hybrid platform, due to the difference in tuning, even models born on the same platform have different personality differences.
Geely's hybrid products are more in line with household attributes, will be more inclined to fuel economy, driving comfort and other directions, while Lynk & Co's hybrid products are based on the Raytheon hybrid platform high-end built, pay more attention to sports attributes, through a variety of hybrid special engine + multi-motor drive combination and intelligent electric four-wheel drive system blessing, in the dynamics, chassis driving texture, human-vehicle communication sense has a better experience.
What is the Lynk E-Motive?
In fact, at the beginning I did not have an answer to this question, through a morning of engineer explanation, and factory tours, now I seem to understand some, Lynk & Co intelligent electric hybrid Lynk E-MOTIVE is based on the Raytheon intelligent hybrid platform high-end built, in general, Lynk & Co intelligent electric hybrid Lynk E-Motive includes 3 energy-efficient, high-performance hybrid engines, 2 high-efficiency hybrid transmissions, and matches different specifications of battery packs, and two rear-drive motors, It is available in two power forms: EM-F (oil hybrid) and EM-P (plug-in hybrid).
The Lynk & Co 01 EM-F is equipped with a combination of 1.5TD engine + three-speed transmission + dual motor.
That is to say, if Lynk & Co is willing, just 01 car can make three versions of pure fuel, plug-in hybrid, oil hybrid models, and by 2025, Lynk & Co's entire series of products will be equipped with Lynk E-Motive technology to achieve the electrification of all products.
For plug-in hybrid models, that is, EM-P models, it can achieve a pure electric range of up to 180 kilometers (WLTC), and there are many different combinations such as 60, 100, 150 kilometers. If there are independent charging conditions, the ultra-long pure electric range of 180 kilometers is enough to make the plug-in hybrid model have the same cost as the pure electric model in the urban use scenario.
What are the benefits of EM-F for consumers?
Visited the Geely Automobile Research Institute in the morning, and the Geely engineer personally led to explain the Raytheon intelligent hybrid platform and the inverter hybrid electric drive 3DHT Pro, to be honest, my brain is dizzy for half a day, after all, people engineers have spent so many years to research the hybrid technology, if I understand it in the morning, then I am too powerful, and this is the real reason why this article has dragged on for so long to be released.
Whether it is its 43.32% ultra-high thermal efficiency hybrid dedicated engine, 97.5% high energy conversion, fast response of less than 100ms, or this 3DHT Pro gearbox is 26-56mm smaller than competing products, etc., although for consumers, this is only a little breakthrough marginal effect, but for Lynk & Co, this is undoubtedly an important reliance on its ability to stand at the head of the industry.
If these difficult terms are removed, and some people can understand by the general public, what can Lynk E-Motive's smart hybrid Lynk E-Motive bring to consumers?
The first thing I felt during the test drive was its excellent quietness, the whole test drive process only ejection start, or dynamic floor oil in the end of the speed, will feel the noise brought by the engine, the rest of the time the engine almost no sense of existence, even in the speed after the start of the electric oil conversion, the engine does not have much intervention.
And for the dynamic acceleration that most hybrid models are not good at, the performance of Lynk & Co 01 EM-F is also remarkable, because of its hardware advantages of the three-speed gearbox, so that it can be in the state of 3-gear cruising, switching to the 2-speed gearbox so that the engine intervenes into parallel or direct drive mode, and the engine and motor work together to achieve rapid overtaking.
For some hybrid models with only one gearbox or two-speed gearbox, the first-gear gearbox cannot carry out the function of downshifting and raising the gear ratio due to insufficient hardware conditions, making the dynamic acceleration ability slightly insufficient.
This is like driving a manual gear model to cruise in 6th gear 120km/h, at this time if you need to speed up, you need to downshift acceleration, but the first gear gearbox does not have downshift conditions, so you can only wait for the 6th gear floor oil to wait for the speed to slowly increase before completing the acceleration.
For two-speed gearbox models, although it has the ability to downshift, but because the teeth of the gearbox 1st gear are relatively large, the engine is in a high-speed working condition when accelerating, and the result is naturally an increase in fuel consumption, and vibration and noise will also increase.
As we all know, in the case of low speed and low speed, the working efficiency of the engine is significantly lower than that of the motor, so most hybrid models use pure motor drive in the speed range of 0-20KM/h, even if the floor oil is stepped on to the end, it cannot enter the parallel mode.
The first gear of the three-speed gearbox of the Lynk & Co 01 EM-F is specially designed for starting with strong power demand, and the ejection start mode of the Lynk & Co 01 EM-F can realize the joint output of power of the motor and engine in the state of starting from a standstill, so that the power is further improved when starting at a standstill.
This is what Lynk & Co claims: the world's only system that can be paralleled at full speed.
Now that we understand the three-speed transmission, let's talk about the dual motor.
P1 and P2 motors, engines and batteries can complete more than 20 working modes in 7 major working conditions of charging, EV, kinetic energy recovery, full power output, parallel, series and direct drive through the logical combination of different working conditions, so that they can truly work in their own efficient work areas, so that performance and energy saving seem to be the opposite of the two things cleverly combined.
And as an aside, the later Lynk & Co family will also launch a PHEV model with a P4 motor to choose from, the P4 motor is located on the rear axle, and the drive mechanism of the front axle is completely independently controlled, when the vehicle needs to switch to a four-wheel drive state, the battery will provide energy to the P4 motor, so that it directly drives the wheels.
If you don't understand all of the above, it doesn't matter, translated into the most understandable words: Lynk & Co 01 EM-F has achieved extreme fuel saving under the premise of ensuring power output, and has not dropped the chain in terms of driving texture.
In fact, for a brand like Lynk & Co, I am not surprised to make such achievements, after all, as a brand focusing on young people, the restlessness of youth is an essential element, and sportiness is the primary goal, just like when everyone cares about how beautiful you are, only Lynk & Co cares about whether you have a good life.
When Lynk & Co launched 03+ in 2019, Lynk & Co was committed to solving the pursuit of young people's sports models, and 03+ dared to call out the old powerhouse Golf GTI in this field as soon as it was listed, and now three years later, the wave of electrification has swept the entire automotive industry, but in the face of a number of hybrid only for fuel saving, Lynk & Co once again stood up, combining sportiness and hybrid, providing a choice for Chinese young people.
Three driver perspectives:
In the face of such a high oil price background, hybrid is bound to be a major trend in the future, but if there is still a trace of pursuit of the sportiness of the old era, Geely's Raytheon hybrid system may be an inescapable choice, as we once said, life can not bypass a BMW three series, and when we mention sports models again, perhaps we can't avoid Thor hybrid.