Recently, from May 6th to May 12th, the sales list of new power brands was announced. According to the data, Li Auto ranks first in the sales ranking of new power brands in the Chinese market.
With a score of 8,000 units, Li Auto defended the weekly sales crown, and there was only a difference of 2,000 units from the second place. Coincidentally, these two car companies mainly promote extended-range models.
Is it a coincidence? Or is the extended-range model really more popular in the domestic market?
If a few years ago, there was a lot of scolding on the Internet for the range extender, what to take off the pants and fart, backward technology to eliminate technology, if the range extender sells well, it must be a good marketing, brainwashing work is done well, anyway, it is not recognized the advantages of the range extender.
In recent years, most netizens have become a lot more rational and can objectively look at the extended-range model, which is undoubtedly an improvement. In 2023, the growth rate of extended-range models will exceed 170%, and in this case, extended-range models have almost become a must for car companies, and traditional car companies such as Chery, Geely, BYD, Changan, Dongfeng, and BAIC have launched extended-range models.
These people on the Internet are criticizing range extenders, including some so-called car bloggers, and I hear them all as clichés, for example, the engine can't be driven directly, the engine can't be connected in parallel, and there are more plug-in hybrid models. At the end of the day, their understanding of automobiles is relatively shallow, and they only stay on the basis of paper talk.
Why engine direct drive? Someone is going to say, then run a high-speed engine direct drive fuel saving, you have to generate power in the range extender, isn't there an extra energy conversion? The reason is good, but what you are talking about are ideal conditions, even if the engine is directly driven at high speed, can it maintain a constant speed of cruising? When encountering turtle speed cars, it is necessary to slow down, overtake, and accelerate and decelerate when encountering different speed limits, so the internal combustion engine cannot always maintain the operation of the high-efficiency range, while the range extender can always generate electricity in the high-efficiency range, so the difference between the high-speed power loss and energy consumption of the two is very small.
Why do you want engines to be paralleled? Someone is going to say again, the engine parallel can make up for the lack of motor power under low power, so that the vehicle can have abundant power in the whole scene, a set of small words, but this, the range extender can be completely used with a more powerful motor to make up for or even surpass, you look at the range extender models on the market, the motor power is generally larger than the plug-in hybrid, as for the power loss, whether it is the range extender or the plug-in hybrid, it is a serious attenuation, no one should laugh at anyone.
After talking about the disadvantages of the range extender, I began to talk about the advantages of the range extender and the disadvantages of the multi-gear plug-in hybrid model.
First, there is no doubt about the lower cost of the range extender, and there should be no objection if the variables are consistent. Don't compare the price of the ideal L9 with the Emgrand L, how to compare the products that are not of the same level?
Second, the range extender can put down a larger power battery, at present, there are two range extenders with a pure electric range of more than 300 kilometers, and there are more than 200 kilometers, and the multi-gear DHT plug-in hybrid model with the highest pure electric range is a 215 km Wei brand Mocha. Multi-gear plug-in hybrid models, if you want to put down a large battery, one is limited space, and the other is that the cost will get out of control.
Third, the driving experience of the range extender is better than the multi-gear DHT in all directions, because the range extender is a full-scene electric drive, and the multi-gear DHT has an electric drive, with engine parallel and direct drive, no matter how good the tuning is, there is a gap with the range extender in terms of smoothness and responsiveness.
Fourth, the failure rate of the range extender is lower, and the multi-gear DHT is currently at risk of stalling, and a certain brand has recently had a large-scale transmission failure problem, while the range extender model, the risk of stalling is much lower.
These four points, let you say the sky, always irrefutable, the shortcomings of the range extender, in fact, it is not painful, you can't run a few times a year, and the problem of multi-gear DHT, but fatal, especially the stall and transmission failure problem, and the cost problem is directly related to the price and sales.
Of course, typing so much, there must be people who don't read a word, and are ready to hit the keyboard after reading the title, "the range extender is garbage, it's backward", you are still suitable to watch a certain sound, and a certain radio car critic on it, and your point of view is the same, what you are looking for is not a rational and correct point of view, it is the same point of view as you, right.