Plug-in hybrid vehicles have been launched like a blowout, which has indeed solved the rigid demand of consumers for energy saving and cost reduction, or in other words, the rigid demand of consumers south of the Yellow River. But in the north of the Yellow River, the long winter and extremely cold weather, still make many plug-in hybrid SUV owners miserable, taking BYD Song PLUS DM-i as an example, many owners in the northeast and northwest reflect that when the temperature drops below zero, the fuel consumption of the feed easily exceeds 7L 100km, and the battery attenuation is serious, which also leads to a decrease in the heating capacity of the air conditioner.
However, in the 2023 winter test event held by the China Automotive Center in Yakeshi, Inner Mongolia, Dongfeng Honda CR-V E:PHEV has sprung up, and various evaluation data are shining, becoming the leader in plug-in hybrid SUVs. Taking the fuel consumption that everyone is concerned about, for example, the measured fuel consumption of the CR-V e:PHEV is 5 in the extremely cold climate of minus 2501L 100km, far lower than the official 581L 100km, sitting on the reverse false standard.
This is still in the extreme climate of Yakeshi, if the temperature is relatively high in other provinces, the actual fuel consumption in winter is actually lower, fundamentally solve the problem of fuel consumption and endurance in winter, this alone exceeds the vast majority of plug-in hybrid SUVs of the same level, and it can also be seen that Honda's deep power technology, even if it is transformed into the plug-in hybrid field, it is still in a leading position.
Talking about thermal management technology, after testing by the China Automotive Center, the cabin temperature of the Dongfeng Honda CR-V e:PHEV was minus 137. At a low temperature, it only takes 2 minutes and 50 seconds to raise the temperature in the car to 26, and after 30 minutes, the temperature of the rear headrest can reach 436 degrees Celsius, compared to about 5 minutes (26) for the average plug-in hybrid car in the same competition, which also means that the thermal management of the CR-V E:PHEV is quite good.
This is important because not every community or consumer has the ability and conditions to have underground parking spaces, especially during work hours, and parking in the open is the norm. After a long day of work, going from a warm office to a cold carriage is a very difficult thing in itself, and if the temperature difference causes a cold, it will also bring a lot of trouble to work and life.
The air conditioning system of Dongfeng Honda CR-V e:PHEV can not only heat up quickly, but also adjust the cabin temperature in advance through remote control of mobile phones, making the interior to the cabin seamless. Get up in the morning to send your children to school, or take the elderly out, and you don't need to worry about the health hazards brought by the low temperature of the carriage.
CR-V E:PHEV pays more attention to the humanization of details, when the new energy vehicles are piled up with hidden door handles, followed by the commonplace "frozen to death state", even if it is a high-end model priced at four or five hundred thousand yuan, in the extremely cold weather environment, the owner is still "looking at the door and sighing", empty but unable to open their own door, with boiling water to pour the door is not uncommon in the north. The CR-V e:PHEV insists on using traditional mechanical door handles, not that they cannot afford to be hidden, but that the mechanical type is more practical, and the owner does not need to worry about being blocked in the cold wind.
Window icing and fogging, is the northern car owners to face every day with the car troubles, even in the process of driving is often appeared, although the technology of de-icing and defogging is commonplace in new energy vehicles, but through the central control screen to operate is not only cumbersome, and the owner concentration is scattered can easily lead to traffic accidents. The CR-V E:PHEV is still very "conservative" in its use of physical buttons, which can be operated blindly with the tap of a finger.
When exaggerated marketing methods such as "the best SUV within 5 million, the best SUV within 10 million" are called industry chaos, we seem to have forgotten that the standard for measuring a good car should be mechanical, stable and reliable, and the three-electric system can replace the engine and gearbox, but it cannot distort the mechanical essence of the car.
Dongfeng Honda CR-V e:PHEV can maintain low fuel consumption and thermal control in extremely cold weather, which shows Honda's persistence in hardware technology, the so-called strength is not paper data, but from the daily car experience has no shortcomings, in fact, many so-called leading new energy vehicles, in front of the CR-V e:PHEV performance of insufficient strength.