Recently, "volume" has become a new keyword in the automotive industry, and the bigwigs, media, and bloggers of various manufacturers have also stood in line to output their attitude towards the involution of the industry.
As one of the leaders in the global automotive industry, Toyota has entered 2024, and the situation in the domestic auto market can be said to have taken a sharp turn for the worse, completely without the luster of the past, not only in terms of sales continued to decline, but also in terms of price, some models with relatively strong prices have also given very big discounts in terms of price, Corolla, Highlander and other models have even directly reduced the official guide price, it can be said that under the impact of new energy vehicles, Toyota has gone downhill, and the slope of this downhill road is still a bit big.
Obviously, Toyota is also quite anxious, so at the end of June, GAC Toyota held a "similar" technology conference, at which Toyota commented on the fuel consumption and battery life of domestic new energy vehicles. In particular, it is mentioned that some domestic new energy vehicles reduce fuel consumption and improve overall endurance by increasing the fuel tank and battery energy.
Moreover, Toyota, as a global manufacturer, is indeed full of confidence, and does not hide it, and directly announces the fuel tank capacity, battery degree, and WLTC power loss fuel consumption of each manufacturer's iconic technology and model, which is used to highlight Toyota's fifth-generation hybrid technology in the case of small batteries and small fuel tanks, ultra-low power loss fuel consumption performance. And judging from the process of the press conference, it seems that it has also got the "true biography" of some domestic manufacturers, that is, to raise themselves by criticizing competitors, and this just proves that the current Toyota has been very impatient, without the calm and leisure of the past, and began to "lift the table".
Of course, what is embarrassing is that at the press conference, Toyota announced the core technical information related to the Great Wall Hi4-T, SAIC DMH, Changan Blue Whale Power, BYD's fifth-generation DM-i, and Geely Thor Hybrid. Among them, the data calibration of Great Wall Hi4-T and BYD's fifth-generation DM-i technology has attracted the attention of many small partners.
The first "lying gun" is the Great Wall Hi4-T, Toyota gave the core data of this technology on the model is the battery capacity of 37.1 degrees, the fuel tank size is 70L, and the WLTC fuel consumption level is 8.8L. We briefly checked the data and found that the model corresponding to the data released by Toyota Motor is the tank 500 Hi4-T, a hard-core luxury off-road vehicle product with a length of more than 5 meters, and the fuel consumption of 8.8L is also given by the Great Wall.
Although it is said that the manufacturer's data is used, and such a large hard-core off-road vehicle has a loss of fuel consumption of 8.8L, which is not high, but Toyota's "bad mind" is that the Great Wall obviously has a smaller fuel tank, a low battery degree, and a plug-in hybrid model with lower fuel consumption, but it chose such a big car, because of the Haval Thunder, the fuel consumption is as low as 5.3L!
Of course, BYD, as the head brand in the absolute sense of the domestic plug-in hybrid car field, naturally did not escape the fate of being "inspected" by Toyota, Toyota gave the fifth-generation DM-i calibration data, including 15.8 degrees of power battery, 65L fuel tank and 3.98L WLTC fuel consumption, etc. In essence, it is equivalent to helping BYD "reverse" to prove its innocence, because the 65L fuel tank and 15.8 battery can run a range of about 2000 kilometers, which is an ability, which is quite strong.
In fact, although the plug-in hybrid technology of domestic car companies such as Great Wall and BYD has been "compared" by Toyota with its own oil mixture, this comparison can only say that Toyota is still too weak-minded. The reason is very simple, people plug-in hybrid models, who compares comprehensive fuel consumption with you! These plug-in hybrid models basically have a relatively considerable pure electric range, that is, in the case of urban areas or short-distance commuting, they are basically pure electric driving, and for most users, the majority of car use scenarios are urban commuting or short-distance driving. So a large number of pure electric driving, in essence, has nothing to do with fuel consumption, and the fuel consumption generated by occasional fuel driving can be used as a data calibration, but for most users, it is of little significance.
Just like the ideal L8 driven by Xiaobian, high-speed fuel driving, fuel consumption is easy about 10L, but it does not affect the car experience. Because every year, Xiaobian needs to burn oil to run high-speed or long-distance, it is only 3,000 kilometers, and the cost is 2,400 yuan, and the remaining 20,000 kilometers are basically pure electric commuting in urban areas, with an average of about 0.15 yuan per kilometer, and together with the fuel cost, it is 5,400 yuan. However, the fuel consumption of Toyota hybrid 4L, 23,000 kilometers a year, also needs 800L gasoline, according to the price of 1L gasoline 8 yuan, it is more than 7,300 yuan, which is still a lot more expensive! This is still an extended-range electric vehicle, and the plug-in hybrid models above have lower fuel consumption and cheaper cost, so Toyota's oil hybrid is essentially no advantage.
All in all, in this era full of fantasy, we finally saw that the global auto giant Toyota began to be anxious and began to use alternative comparison methods to show its advantages! There is no doubt that the more anxious you are, the more it reflects Toyota's backwardness. Through the above calculations, we can see that Toyota's fifth-generation hybrid technology is still much higher than many plug-in hybrid and extended range models in terms of comprehensive cost, and there is no advantage. As a technical extension, Toyota's models are far inferior to these domestic new energy models in terms of intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit.