Although those electric brains in China boast every day what "electric vehicles are the future", "electric = intelligent" and so on, if you look at the development trend of the global automobile industry, it is not difficult to find that the real reality is: since the means of transportation are commodities, for car companies, it is necessary and spontaneous to set the commodity access threshold, otherwise, cats and dogs can build cars, then the reputation and user habits established by this commodity after more than a hundred years will be eliminated by those "bad money", yes, the author's "bad money" It is those so-called new forces in domestic car manufacturing (there are many similar electric vehicle companies abroad, if there is no original research and development ability, unified can be regarded as bad money), in addition to a tall packaging, there are all kinds of plagiarism and reverse scum in the bones. Although some "world peers" may not accept the author's view, but the frequent domestic various electric vehicle spontaneous combustion, loss of control and other problems, all of which support the correctness of the author's concept, the car this commodity is particularly special, especially to control performance in exchange for safety, this is not only the driver's personal safety issues, more or they will widely involve the third party problem, and domestic public opinion, more only in the emphasis on the vehicle's hardware protection of the driver, and never from the soft part of the analysis of safety, It is not only the sadness of the car media, but also the sorrow of the car culture. Therefore, the car should be left to experienced professional car companies, don't buy the kind of new power invested by Wall Street investment!
Pictured: The current and first-generation Levante was born in 2016, and the name has two sources, one is a Mediterranean style, and the other is Latin for Levare rising, model code M161.
Picture: The chassis of this generation of Levante is the same as Ghibli and Quattroporte, named M156, which is a mechanical structure design based on rear-wheel drive architecture, and the model is positioned in the mid-size luxury SUV, which is commonly known as the E-SUV class, which shows that its kinship is closer to Ghibli.
Looking at the development trend of major international car companies, you will also find that although there is still a dispute between hydrogen energy and pure electric energy, hydrogen energy, whether it is a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine or a hydrogen fuel cell combined with hydrogen and oxygen discharge, there are still many shortcomings, more importantly, its entry threshold is much higher than that of BEV relying on batteries, and it is not those technologies that can be developed by Wall Street billions of dollars of investment, so the so-called new forces of domestic car manufacturing are simply unable to support this technology tree. But hydrogen as a primary energy source, its commercial application is of great strategic significance, this point, I believe that any country's government can see, after all, the elements that make up this universe and everything in the world are hydrogen, which is also inexhaustible, so this threshold must be established. At present, there are many car companies that have the ability to develop hydrogen energy applications, especially those car companies that are mass produced and chased by sales as a profit point, such as Toyota, Mercedes, Honda, Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan, etc. have entered the final sprint stage of hydrogen energy commercial application, it is foreseeable that hydrogen will be the only choice to replace oil in the future, if not the only, at least the most favorable replacement. On the other hand, electric energy is not energy, but just an energy, to put it bluntly, energy is a substance with its own energy is called energy, gasoline is energy, because its mixture can produce energy after explosion, and battery electric vehicles only use batteries to store electricity, and they can not produce energy at all, which is the root of the so-called endurance anxiety.
Pictured: In 2021, the most volatile year of the new crown epidemic, Maserati made a mid-term facelift of the first-generation Levante, the model code remained unchanged, the engine configuration still retained the V6 twin-turbo (F160, Modena), V8 twin-turbo (F154, GTS and Trofeo), V6 diesel turbo (VMA630, Diesel), and added a GT Hybrid model with an inline four-cylinder engine and electric motor.
Pictured: GT Hybrid with eBooster electric supercharger and 48V BSG mild hybrid system, with an 800Wh lithium-ion battery, crucially, it weighs 24kg less than the V6 petrol engine.
Battery life anxiety, for the application of cars as a vehicle attribute, is the first problem, not those brain-dead electric blowers every day to say what intelligent, high-power motor such problems, on the contrary, the more such equipment will make the "endurance" worse, so electric vehicle owners are experiencing the embarrassment of turning off the air conditioner and turning off the stereo in excess of the endurance of tens of kilometers. Therefore, it is not that BEV is useless, but its application environment should be clarified, and some models that do not require high cruising range, BEV architecture is very suitable, such as mini cars that pick up children and buy food, such as play models that only pursue power performance, such as SUVs of sports cars and sports car brands. Therefore, the author can accept Ferrari, Maserati, Limbogini, etc. to launch pure electric sports cars, because the positioning of these cars is not used for transportation at all, one word: fast is the biggest cost, and the motor can really be fast, as long as the transmission system is done; But I can't accept a Toyota and Honda out of pure electric cars, because I can't accept Toyota and Honda that can't run long distances, that's the truth.
Pictured: Although a mid-term facelift model has just been released, the warm-up for the second-generation Levante has already begun, and the GT Hybrid is just Maserati's attempt at electric applications.
It is not too surprising to hear that the next generation Maserati Levante will launch a pure electric version, because in most markets, the Levante SUV is not a simple transportation model, and the people who buy it are more concerned about the trident logo on the ghost mask, and the use environment is mostly just shuttling around the owner's city, and the chance of using it to travel long distances is minimal, and most of the owners of such cars are not only one car.
As part of the "Stellantis Dare Forward 2030 Plan", the Maserati brand is not a volume brand in the group, so it does not have to consider what cruising range and other issues, just need to adjust the brand to make a face, the power performance to the extreme can attract potential buyers in this segment of the market to pay, and the motor drive with strong power parameters is the best signboard, one is not enough to put two, in short, to sell the car must be "horsepower parameters" Pretty. For Stellantis Group, the cost of developing an electric motor is much simpler and cheaper than developing a gasoline engine that can be used by 14 brands. In addition to the motor, the chassis platform can also be shared, and the next generation of Levante will be based on the Giorgio platform with Alfa Romeo as the main research and development force, which will also be used on Grecale and Gran Turismo.
Pictured: The second-generation Gran Turismo (M189), which will be delivered in 2023, has begun to draw a new Folgore series, which has the same meaning as the suffixes such as Modena, GTS and Trofeo, but it refers specifically to the pure electric version of Maserati.
Picture: There is no need to hide it, the author is a hardcore fuel party, because the automotive professional knowledge training we have received is based on internal combustion engine vehicles, and it is not as fast and ruthless as our individual car reviewers, today there is a new electric car, tomorrow you can send a video to tell you "he is in love" Yunyun. Maserati or which traditional car company, pure electric is not a difficult production at all, on the contrary, electric vehicles are both a compromise and a low-level technology, to put it bluntly, it is just to bow to the yuan and US dollars.
As for what to expect from the electric next-generation Levante? Quite honestly, no! How many consumers can be impressed by this kind of electric car wearing the coat of "luxury brand", I believe that its audience will definitely not be larger than the current Levante using V6 or V8 fuel version, and even narrower in the world, the reason is simple, can admire the owner of the Maserati brand, admire its brilliant achievements in the field of racing and sports cars, and agree with the driving atmosphere between sports cars and luxury cars, and this is the mass reputation laid down by the gasoline smell era. But if you change to a Maserati that has been tried quietly and silently, a Maserati that can't hear the roar of the V8 exhaust, will you pay for it? Sorry, my consciousness is not that high! Unless I want the green card tax-free offer in white prostitution countries.