BYD Great Wall is the first to break the game, the independent brand hybrid force again, can break the Japanese monopoly?

Despite the fact that pure electric vehicles are now in the ascendancy, it's clear to anyone with an eye for detail that a complete replacement of fuel cars will never happen overnight. However, Tesla and China's several new car-making forces listed in the United States, the market value has far exceeded its fundamentals, the capital market is investing in the future, indicating that electrification is the trend.

In addition to pure electric, hybrid may be more imaginative. Under the increasingly stringent emission standards, internal combustion engine technology is squeezed to the limit, hybrid becomes the simplest and most brutal solution, fuel cars will gradually hybridization. BYD Super Hybrid DM-i, Great Wall Lemon Hybrid DHT, are all grabbing new tracks.

Despite new energy subsidies, plug-in hybrids are still cold in China

When it comes to hybrids, the first thing that comes to mind is Toyota and Honda's hybrids, which don't need to be charged, and the experience of using them is no different from that of a fuel car, but the fuel consumption has really come down to a very low level, so it's easier to accept them, and the sales are also on the rise.

In November, Honda's terminal sales of models equipped with the SPORT?HYBRID (Sharp-Hybrid) high-efficiency two-motor hybrid powertrain reached 21,932 units. While FAW Toyota's sales of dual-engine models reached 15,142 units in November, Toyota's sales of hybrid models exceeded those of Honda's if Guangzhou Toyota and Lexus are also included. This shows that consumers are already very interested in "hybrids that don't need charging".

Currently, the fuel car in order to save energy and reduce emissions, are in the hybrid technology to find ways, and the Japanese hybrid is different, the European car is mainly pushed by the 48V light hybrid, in the beginning of the auxiliary engine, performance enhancement of fuel consumption is reduced, but can not be pure electric range. The Japanese oil-electric hybrid can run purely electric for about 3 kilometers, recharged by energy recovery. Of course, neither of these two ways do not enjoy the new energy vehicle subsidies, China's standard for hybrid is pure electric range of 50 kilometers to start.

The hybrids of independent brands are still mainly plug-in hybrids, one of which enjoys new-energy vehicle subsidies, and the other has a lower technical threshold. This is also the reason why the joint venture can also soon launch plug-in hybrid models. However, most of the technical content is not high, and the price is very expensive, so sales are poor. According to statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), the sales of new energy passenger cars in November amounted to 186,000 units, of which 154,000 were pure electric and 32,000 were plug-in hybrids. Obviously, plug-in hybrids are not recognized by consumers.

Autonomous brands break through again, the Great Wall BYD's new play

Of course, when the market opportunity arises, the independent brands can always give us a surprise. In the face of the dominance of Japanese gasoline-electric hybrids, the head of the independent brand is also trying to follow.

Not long ago, BYD? s Qin PLUS Super Hybrid was unveiled, giving the industry a boost. BYD's DM-i Super Hybrid technology, which consists of a 1.5L naturally aspirated engine and an electric motor, and the Qin PLUS is the first model to carry it and will be available in 2021.

BYD started playing with DM dual-mode models, also known as plug-in hybrids, more than a decade ago, and the biggest highlight of the current DM-i Super Hybrid is this Snapdragon - Plug-in hybrid-specific 1.5L high-efficiency engine, which is officially said to have a thermal efficiency of 43%, an indicator that already exceeds the 41% of the self-absorbed engine in Toyota's hybrids. In the case of not using electric drive, 100 kilometers of fuel consumption can also be as low as 3.8L.

And on December 15, Great Wall Motors also made a breakthrough in hybrid, released the lemon hybrid DHT, the system architecture can be summarized as "1-2-3", that is, a set of DHT highly integrated oil-electric hybrid system, two kinds of power This forward-looking technological innovation will provide users with a full-speed range, full-scene, high-efficiency and high-performance vehicle scenarios in the future.

The new car based on the Lemon Hybrid DHT will use two hybrid engines, 1.5L and 1.5T, and will be matched with a fixed-axis transmission, GM/TM dual motors, dual motor controllers, and an integrated DC-DC chip. Based on this set of technology, Great Wall will build two power forms of HEV and PHEV, and the lowest 100-kilometer fuel consumption of A-grade SUV can be as low as 4.6L.

From the technical point of view, BYD and Great Wall have two highlights, one is the introduction of hybrid-specific engines, and the other is to make a play on the electric drive, an idea which is similar to that of Honda's i-MMD hybrid technology. From the official data given, both BYD and Great Wall, technical indicators are comparable to Toyota and Honda. Of course, there are no actual cars on the market yet, so the real strength remains to be seen, but it's well worth looking forward to.

Fuel car hybridization, imagination space is not worse than pure electricity

How much space is there for hybridization? You can refer to the situation in Europe. At present, from the sales situation in the last two months, Europe's new energy vehicle sales accounted for more than a quarter of the share, more than the share of diesel vehicles.

November, Europe's new energy vehicle sales ranked top seven countries, including Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, new energy vehicle sales reached 128,500 units, an increase of 218%. Among them, Germany and France's new energy vehicle sales amounted to 59,600 and 18,600 units respectively, up 442% and 236% year-on-year.

As for the structure and market share of new-energy vehicles, let's take Germany, the largest market, as an example. in November, total sales of passenger cars in Germany amounted to about 290,150 units, with new-energy vehicles accounting for about one-fifth of the total. Of these, 28,965 were pure electric vehicles and 30,621 were plug-in hybrids, with the latter slightly higher than the former.

Unlike the Chinese market, plug-in hybrid sales are still good in Europe. One is from economic considerations, plug-in hybrids can use electricity for short distances, and European countries are generally small enough to meet the vast majority of travel scenarios with electricity. At the same time the electric drive has an inherent advantage in performance, you can enjoy a higher driving pleasure at low cost, and electricity relative to oil in terms of saving money is also real. Another is policy-oriented, stringent emission standards, making it difficult for pure fuel vehicles to meet the standard. This is forcing companies to put more effort into hybrids in order to quickly launch models that comply with the policy, which is the most convenient transition program before the popularization of pure electric vehicles.

China's policy development in more reference to Europe, I believe that the emission standards will also continue to increase, coupled with the acceptance of pure electric vehicles to enhance the objective will also pull the growth of hybrid, with the gradual improvement of infrastructure, I believe that China's hybrid car sales will also gradually go up, not only the HEV models, PHEV space is also very large. May as well boldly predict that the future automotive market is likely to be half pure electric, half hybrid, and pure fuel cars or really like a horse-drawn carriage, became a luxury of niche players.

This article was written by the author of Automobile House Car Family, and does not represent the viewpoint of Automobile House.