Previously, there was a very popular saying in the automotive circle: there are only two hybrids in the world, one is Toyota, and the other is other. Later, it evolved into Toyota and Honda. However, this situation may change in the future, and the real opponent of the "two fields" hybrid has finally appeared.
On December 3, based on CMA's innovative architecture technology, and integrated with Geely's most powerful intelligent manufacturing system, as well as the most advanced intelligent technology, the dual flagships of China Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing, were officially launched, with prices of 1267-14.670,000 yuan and 1677-17.770,000 yuan, from now on, users can also enjoy a number of limited-time rights and interests including a 3,000 yuan New Year's red envelope subsidy.
You know, as Geely Automobile 4The double flagship work of the 0 era, the Chinese "twin stars" composed of Xingrui and Xingyue L play an important role in both their respective market segments and their own product systems. This time, Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing are like a bomb, pointing to the new era of fuel vehicles with a fuel consumption of 4 liters per 100 kilometers with more advanced gasoline-electric hybrid technology, which will be completely detonated in the family hybrid car market in the 12-180,000 range.
When talking about the latest generation of Zhiqing hybrid technology, Wang Bo, deputy general manager of Geely Automobile Sales Company, said: "China Xingzhiqing is a Chinese solution in the hybrid era, which makes the power performance of gasoline-electric hybrid a generation, the driving experience a generation, and the ultra-low fuel consumption a generation. At the same time, "Yipin Auto" believes that the arrival of Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing has made the Japanese "Liangtian", which has long dominated the gasoline-electric hybrid market, have to re-examine their market strategy, and the value benchmark of gasoline-electric hybrid will be reshaped.
Leading the layout of the hybrid technology path of oil and electricity
In fact, since 2020, when China proposed to achieve the "dual carbon" goal of "achieving carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060", comprehensive decarbonization has become an irreversible wave. Under this goal, while the major car brands are vigorously developing new energy pure electric vehicles, the current hybrid technology route of "optimal solution" is also ushering in new development opportunities.
As the "first brother" of its own brand in the era of traditional fuel vehicles, Geely Automobile officially released a new power brand Leishen Power and a modular intelligent hybrid platform Leishen Zhiqing HI·X in October 2021 with strong scientific and technological innovation capabilities and manufacturing capabilities.
Compared with some brands that have transformed into pure electric and plug-in hybrid routes, Geely's approach of focusing on R&D towards high-efficiency internal combustion engines and hybrid technology is more favorable and tolerant to the market, and it is also applicable to Geely itself, so this has also achieved the phenomenal hot sales of Xingyue L.
As the first model equipped with the Thor hybrid system, Xingyue L has ushered in a sustained high in sales in recent years. Especially in October this year, the sales volume of Xingyue L exceeded the 20,000 mark in one fell swoop, reaching 22,613 units, setting a new monthly sales record since its launch more than two years ago.
In such a momentum, it is naturally the best choice to further meet the needs of the market and expand more product lines to occupy more market segments. According to the previous plan of the Geely brand, after the Xingyue L Thor Hi·X diesel-electric hybrid version, Geely plans to expand the model lineup equipped with the Thor Zhiqing hybrid system to more than 20 models in the next three years, achieving the first sales volume in the mainstream hybrid market segment. I have to say that this goal is enough to shock the tiger body of "Liangtian".
And when Geely officially brought the Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing under the blessing of the China Xingzhiqing system to consumers last night, in the view of "Yipin Auto", this not only reflects Geely's hope to give consumers more choices, but also hopes to open up a new overtaking lane outside the pure electric vehicle market.
The three major killer moves create the era of 4 liters of fuel vehicles
Although it is menacing, in all fairness, "Liangtian" has been working in the field of oil-electric hybrid for decades, and the market foundation is still very solid. In order to enhance the competitiveness of Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing, China Xingzhiqing has also released three major killer moves.
One is the new generation 15TD four-cylinder hybrid engine. In terms of parameters, this engine can release a maximum power of 120kW and a peak torque of 255Nm, and also has the highest 44 in a production car26% thermal efficiency, so that Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing have 75 seconds and 70-100 km h in 9 seconds.
Another killer move is the world's leading three-speed intelligent hybrid inverter technology. Compared with the basic single-speed series-parallel structure, the three-speed intelligent hybrid inverter technology is more complex in structure and has more precise requirements, which is equivalent to the 10AT gearbox of fuel vehicles, so it realizes the so-called "full-speed parallel", that is, the engine can be kept running in the high-efficiency range to meet the driver's experience under various working conditions.
The last one is the X·System intelligent control system, which has 8 core intelligent technologies, including intelligent power management, intelligent power management, intelligent energy management, intelligent driving management, intelligent kinetic energy**, intelligent thermal management, intelligent NVH management, and intelligent diagnostic management, to ensure that the whole power system brings a sense of refreshing acceleration, and also makes every drop of fuel to the fullest.
It is also with the blessing of these three killer moves, the WLTC fuel consumption of Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing is as low as an astonishing 422l and 479L, the comprehensive cruising range can easily reach more than 1000km, comparable to many plug-in hybrid drive models of the same level.
At the same time, in view of the intelligent and security configuration aspects that family consumers are concerned about in the new era, Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing have come up with a full set of technologies. Level 2 intelligent driving assistance including AEB active emergency braking, ICC intelligent navigation, LKA lane keeping assist and other ADAS functions, Galaxy OS 2 with built-in Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip0 car machine, 360° panoramic image, 132-inch 2K HD central control screen, as well as Xingyue L Zhiqing's 123-inch main and co-driver dual screens and other configurations appear in the list of standard configurations.
In addition, these two cars also meet the five-star standard requirements of China's C-NCAP, Europe's e-NCAP, and the United States' IIHS in terms of passive safety, while the intelligent in-vehicle advanced fragrance system, 12-speaker Harman Infinity audio system (including headrests, sound, color, ambient lighting, and other luxury and comfort configurations are also readily available, comprehensively improving the luxury technology and comfort of the vehicle.
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There is no doubt that in a certain period of time in the future, in the face of a huge base of fuel vehicle market, hybrid models will gradually become the main choice for consumers to buy cars, and through the listing of Geely China Xingzhiqing dual flagships, it is not difficult to see that the independent brand has crossed the technical barriers, and then it will really accept the test of sales.
It is worth mentioning that at present, the oil hybrid vehicles in the 12-180,000 range of the market are basically based on the entry of joint venture models, therefore, Xingrui L Zhiqing and Xingyue L Zhiqing themselves are more pragmatic, larger space size and richer and leading configuration, the formation of dislocation competition, is also a major advantage of their entry into the competition.