The best engines sell the worst sales, and the era of internal combustion engines is really over?

The 2.4T engine, codenamed T24A, can be said to be recognized as the "best product" within Toyota.

This engine with a displacement of only 2393cc was originally developed to replace the 8AR 2.0T engine, and also to iterate on the 3.5L and 4.0L large displacement engines.

It has a maximum horsepower of 279Ps and a maximum torque of 430Nm, with extremely high thermal efficiency, performance and fuel consumption, which can be regarded as an important and core internal combustion engine of Toyota in the era of internal combustion engines, which can be compatible with the 2.0T engine downward and can replace the V6 engine for off-road tasks.

But unfortunately, the sales of this engine are not particularly good at the moment.

The main reasons are inseparable from the following:

One is that Toyota's current layout of 2.4T engine models is still not very many, and there are very few models equipped with this internal combustion engine in China, and the other is that the price is very high, such as Lexus RX, and the upcoming Toyota Prado, the pricing is definitely not affordable for everyone.

The most important thing is that the domestic market is currently an era of electrification, and in the current green brand new energy hybrid era, about forty percent of users have put the consumption direction on the "green car".

This means that the traditional blue plate cars, no matter how crazy the technology, are facing an unprecedentedly small market share, and there is a danger of being compressed day by day.

From a purely technical point of view, Toyota's T24A engine is indeed the pinnacle of the current internal combustion engine.

For example, the compression ratio has been increased to 11:1, which is higher in the Turbo engine sequence, and the high compression ratio can reduce fuel consumption and of course power performance, which is actually designed to match the hybrid system.

Japan's hybrid system is a small battery pack and a small motor strategy, focusing on the motor to assist the internal combustion engine and synergistically exert the maximum power of the power system, so the power of the internal combustion engine is not particularly large.

The horsepower and torque of this 2.4T engine are about 20% higher than that of the 2.0T engine, but it is worth mentioning that the fuel consumption of the new 2.4T engine has not changed compared to the 2.0T engine in the past.

In addition, this internal combustion engine does not need a particle trap to meet emission standards, because it uses a dual injection system, there are stratified combustion and homogeneous combustion under different working conditions, and a large number of low-friction, lightweight technologies are also on board.

Just talking about technology, in the field of internal combustion engines, this engine still represents Toyota's philosophy, injecting new technology into stability and conservatism, and the reliability and durability are still very strong.

But the crux of the problem is whether the current users can accept a pure fuel vehicle, after all, the comprehensive penetration rate of new energy is expected to reach about 40% this year, and the price of its own 2.4T matching models is extremely high, which is not friendly to domestic users.

Many domestic entrepreneurs have thrown out the "oil car doomsday theory", which has brought a lot of anxiety to the market, whether the internal combustion engine has really come to an end, in fact, this is a huge false proposition.

The market is abandoning pure fuel vehicles, not internal combustion engines.

These are two completely different concepts, for example, Toyota's THS, Nissan e-POWER, and Geely's MHEV are actually not traditional fuel vehicles.

More than one power source is used in the power architecture, which is the "hybrid system", including BYD's DM-i, Great Wall Hi4, and Geely Thor, which are actually hybrid systems.

The market will eliminate high-cost pure fuel vehicles, and products that do not do any electrification upgrades are likely to be eliminated by the market, because pure fuel vehicles are facing hybrid models with faster acceleration, lower fuel consumption and better intelligence, so pure fuel vehicles will inevitably not be popular.

Therefore, it is very necessary to adhere to the research and development of internal combustion engines, after all, the thermal efficiency of pure fuel vehicles is less than 40%, and the thermal efficiency of hybrid engines is difficult to exceed 44%, which still has huge room for improvement.