For plug-in hybrid medium and large vehicles within 200,000 yuan, BYD Han relies on the triangular advantages in price, energy consumption and space to reduce the dimensionality of joint venture medium-sized cars at the same price to a certain extent. With the advent of the fifth-generation DM technology, the energy consumption has also been rolled up to the "3L level" (NEDC mode 3.8L/100km). The new car is still a standard medium and large car with a length of nearly 5 meters, and the entry price has been reduced by 4,000 yuan to 165,800 yuan.
In addition to the strengthening of the advantages of the old triangle, the new car also adds a lidar intelligent driving system, extreme performance improvement, and chassis upgrades. If the lidar scheme needs to pay an additional 30,000 yuan, then the performance and chassis are upgrades that can be enjoyed by the lowest configuration. Even when the new car is faced with the mainstream joint venture models within 200,000 yuan, including the chassis, can it already achieve a comprehensive surpass?
It is also fuel-efficient with 1.5T, and the performance changes more than fuel consumption
Since the advent of the fifth-generation DM technology, BYD's mainstream products have also begun to iterate their own plug-in hybrid technology. However, as we have mentioned many times before, most of the products equipped with the fifth-generation DM technology are products with 1.5-liter naturally aspirated internal combustion engines. As a medium and large sedan, the new BYD Han also needs at least a 1.5T engine to undertake the internal combustion engine part.
Of course, the new BYD Han with a 1.5T engine still refreshes the fuel consumption performance. Under the NEDC mode, the energy consumption of medium and large cars has been rolled up to the level of 3.8L/100km. Even in terms of body weight, the new car is 40kg more than the old model. Essentially, the fifth-generation DM technology is able to decouple the engine, P1 generator, and P3 electric motor from each other. This results in a larger range of electric drive coverage and lower rotational speed when the internal combustion engine intervenes in the direct drive. It has natural advantages in terms of fuel consumption and NVH.
However, the reduction in fuel consumption may only be the most reasonable upgrade for the new BYD Han. After all, the BYD model, which was previously equipped with the fifth-generation DM technology, has already done enough to pave the way in terms of fuel consumption. But in the performance part, with the 1.5T engine underpinning, the growth of the new BYD Han is a bit unscrupulous. The new car directly replaced the drive motor, and the maximum power came to 200kW, which is directly on par with the rear motor power of the previous DM-p Ares version. Of course, the two are not the same motor, and the motor code used in the new BYD Han is TZ210XYD. In terms of parameters alone, the electric drive performance of the new car has been improved by 55kW.
In other words, the performance of the new car is directly improved by about 38% only in pure electric driving conditions, such as urban driving. Specifically, the new car's 000 acceleration directly broke the 7-second mark (6.9 seconds), which was 1 second faster than the old model.
And that's not taking into account the 1.5T engine itself, which also has an increase of 13kW in maximum power. For a plug-in hybrid vehicle, the power increase of the internal combustion engine that can be directly driven is not only an increase in power generation capacity, but also a help for high-speed performance. For example, the top speed of the new BYD Han has been increased from 185 km/h to 200 km/h. In fact, even if it is the electric drive part, the greatly increased power will obviously not be simply enlarged in size. In the case of ensuring energy consumption, it is necessary to increase the speed of the motor. The higher motor speed itself is helpful for the vehicle's performance at high speeds.
To put it simply, the new BYD Han unsurprisingly reduces fuel consumption. And in terms of the experience of daily driving, it will be closer to the experience of pure electric vehicles, which also includes the control of NVH. More importantly, the performance of the new car in terms of oil and electricity has been strengthened, which has greatly improved the running speed, which is not conducive to the working conditions of new energy vehicles.
The chassis is more stable and comfortable, and the effect of running at high speed is more obvious
The experience is also more obvious in high-speed conditions, and there are also changes in the chassis part of the new BYD Han. As we talked about before, the rear track of the new car has been appropriately increased by 10mm. Theoretically, this adjustment will enhance the vehicle's stability in a straight line and the comfort of the rear occupants in corners. After the new car was launched, the new BYD Han rear suspension structure was replaced with a standard five-link link, and the dust finally landed. The five-link rear suspension in one step provides the most direct guarantee for the comfort of the vehicle.
However, if you only put the logic on improving the comfort of the vehicle, in fact, the new BYD Handa can directly copy Toyota, Volkswagen's work in the era of fuel vehicles, that is, the rear E-type four-link suspension. After all, when it comes to comfort alone, the upper limit of the four-link is not much weaker than that of the five-link, and the difficulty of tuning will be greatly reduced.
It needs to be emphasized here that although the new BYD Han is still a front-wheel drive product. But in terms of underlying logic, the new car is still built with pure electric thinking. Because the chassis is under pure electric logic, in order to reserve enough motor layout space on the rear axle, as well as to ensure the support capacity of the body. The four-link rear suspension structure, which is widely used in the mainstream joint venture medium-sized car products of 200,000 yuan, is difficult to be transplanted directly.
Although the standard five-link will increase the adjustment pressure, under the involution of China's new energy brands, the 200,000-yuan vehicle chassis is not only a test of the tuning ability, but also the addition of other execution hardware, such as the variable damping shock absorber used in the new car. BYD's official name is FSD variable damping suspension system, which is actually through the adjustable damping shock absorber, which effectively absorbs the impact of the road surface, maintains the balance and balance of the chassis pressure, and realizes the stability of the body. More intuitively, it is to achieve both comfort and handling of the vehicle.
The full-blooded performance of this suspension is BYD's Yunlin-C scheme. That is, after active sensing, pre-processing is carried out by means of variable damping dampers. However, due to the difference in perception hardware, except for the intelligent driving version equipped with lidar in the top configuration, the rest of the models use a passively adjusted FSD variable damping suspension system. Even so, both in terms of the suspension structure itself, and in terms of active suspension hardware. The performance of the new BYD Han in the chassis part is also enough to reverse the traditional impression of the chassis handling and comfort of mainstream joint venture mid-size cars in the same price range.
Write at the end
The entry price is 4,000 yuan less, and the fuel consumption of the feed has entered the "3L era", and the size space is still a dimensionality reduction blow. The new BYD Han has undoubtedly consolidated its traditional advantageous projects. The comprehensive upgrade of electric drive, fuel direct drive, extreme performance, etc., as well as the performance of chassis comfort and compatibility, may make the joint venture fuel car within 200,000 yuan face greater competitive pressure.