When we were discussing plug-in hybrid cars, there was a very interesting thing, Honda fans suddenly began to interject, saying that the Honda Accord PHEV is the top class of Japanese plug-in hybrid cars, what do you think of this car?
This is a very interesting topic, and the Accord plug-in hybrid version is indeed a very interesting car.
It's just that it's hard to evaluate whether it belongs to the top stream, maybe it's the top stream in the Japanese car camp, but after expanding the scope of comparison, it can't be highly evaluated;But subjective evaluations will always seem unconvincing, and if you want to make the conclusion convincing, you need to have data to support it, so you might as well take a look at the sales data of this car first.
The car will be launched in May 2023, and deliveries will begin in June.
The following is the monthly sales data of the car after its launch:
In June, 176 vehicles.
In July, 567 vehicles.
In August, 612 vehicles.
In September, 643 vehicles.
In October, 737 vehicles.
In November, 676 vehicles.
The monthly sales of a "top car" should not be so low, after all, its guide price is only. 880,000 yuan, a total of three options.
The sales of mid-range cars can still be very high, and the maximum monthly sales can reach 20,000 or 30,000 unitsTherefore, the Honda Accord plug-in hybrid version is an unpopular car, and it will be unpopular under the premise that it is not high, and the reason must be that the quality of the vehicle itself is not high enough. The main mode of operation of plug-in hybrid vehicles is "EV", that is, pure electric driving mode, because of the low cost of charging and driving, so statistics show that more than eighty percent of plug-in hybrid car users use the car as an electric vehicle;The longer the mileage, the lower the probability of using the hybrid mode, and the lower the comprehensive car cost.
At present, the 150,000-level domestic plug-in hybrid car has a pure electric mileage of about 100 kilometers (WLTC test value), and the car with a price of about 200,000 yuan can reach about 200 kilometers.
The pure electric range of the Honda Accord plug-in hybrid version is 82 kilometers, which is also the test result of the WLTC mode, which is really poor.
Mid-range plug-in hybrid cars not only need to have a long enough pure electric range, but also need to have strong power and excellent handling, does the Accord have it?
Power is not the highlight of this car, it is equipped with 2The 0L engine has a power reserve of 109kW and 182N·m, and the E-CVT integrated motor parameter is 135kW and 335N·mThe total power and total torque are large enough, but its operation mode is a range-based hybrid after all, and the electric motor is the core, so the best acceleration time of this car is only about 8 seconds.
The most comparable domestic cars of the same level are generally four-wheel drive vehicles, and the acceleration of 100 kilometers is about 4 seconds, which is not a big difference.
The front-wheel drive is a big flaw of the Accord plug-in hybrid, and the handling is not a suitable topic for discussion in the car.
The Accord plug-in hybrid version uses front-wheel drive, which is no different from the ordinary diesel-electric hybrid version;The center of gravity of the front-wheel drive car is at the front of the car, the front and rear axle loads are very different, the rear wheel grip is relatively weak, and all the handling limits are often relatively low. All kinds of mid-range new energy models generally use rear-wheel drive or multi-engine four-wheel drive, and some joint venture brand vehicles meet this standard, so the handling of the Accord plug-in hybrid version is not worth discussing.
Its suspension structure is the most common front MacPherson and rear multi-link, which is also far from the front double wishbone and rear multi-link to five-link commonly used in mid-to-high-end carsAnd Honda's joint venture company Anstemo has also been found to have "small actions" in designing vehicle suspension and braking systems, and objectively there are indeed some Honda cars with strange rear wheel angles, and the handling level of these cars is generally not ideal.
This is the level of the Honda Accord, if this car can be regarded as the top class of Japanese plug-in hybrid cars, perhaps the curtain of Japanese joint venture cars will fall completely in the near future.
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