"Have you made an extended-range test vehicle? What is the actual performance?" Wang Yi asked further.

Zou Zefeng, vice president of Xingyi Automobile, replied: "Chairman, the extended-range test vehicle has also been made, but the specific parameters are still under test. At present, our energy is mainly focused on the testing of the pure electric version, and we are preparing to launch pure electric first next year..."

"No, your thinking is wrong." Wang Yi waved his hand:

"At present, the battery technology is not advanced enough, the cost is high, the battery life is short, and the cost of pure electric vehicles is too high. Extended range is the way out, and it is also the only way out to solve the short-term cost of new energy vehicles at present."

At present, new energy vehicles are mainly divided into three directions: pure electric, extended range, and hybrid.

Pure electric, as the name suggests, relies on batteries. The size of the battery directly determines the length of the battery life, so there must be an ultra-large battery to ensure sufficient battery life.

But the batteries are too expensive these days, resulting in extremely high prices for pure electric cars and not powerful battery life.

Generally speaking, the NEDC range of pure electric cars is at least 400 kilometers to 500 kilometers, which is enough.

In this way, the actual range is 80% off, and there are 100% off.

After a significant decline in winter, it can still have a range of two or three hundred kilometers.

At this level, you will not throw people on the road at any time, and it can basically satisfy your daily use.

For users who often travel on business trips and long distances, the NEDC range needs to reach 600 kilometers, 700 kilometers, or even higher.

But the batteries are too expensive these days!

At present, NEDC's battery with a range of 400 kilometers is much more expensive than the battery with a range of 800 kilometers in ten years. The cost is too high, which makes it difficult to popularize pure electric cars.

It is precisely because of this that the Tesla Model S has a range of more than 600,000 for 300 kilometers, and this range is not enough.

The 500km-range version costs more than 900,000 yuan, and most people can't afford it.

It can be said that pure electric cars these days are only suitable for users who commute in the city and have charging piles at home.

This pure electric battery life of 300 kilometers is charged twice a week, and it is enough to go to and from get off work every day, and the price is not too high. However, medium and long distances are not enough.

Therefore, Wang Yi directly put the pure electric power in the supporting role, with a range of about 300 kilometers, focusing on daily traffic in the city.

As for the pure electric range of 500 kilometers, it has a high cost, a selling price, and a small sales volume.

On the contrary, extended-range cars and hybrids are the way out.

Both types have batteries and engines.

When there is electricity, use electric drive directly. If the electricity is out of power, you can also burn oil, which greatly improves the overall battery life, even far exceeds that of fuel vehicles.

Even if you run a long distance, it is not a problem. If you find a gas station and add a tank of gas, you can run another seven or eight hundred kilometers, which is truly worry-free.

But there are also big differences between these two new energy sources.

The most important thing is the mechanical structure and driving method.

The internal combustion engine of extended-range cars is not a traditional engine and cannot directly drive the wheels. It is essentially just a pure generator!

Generate electricity with oil and then drive the wheels through the motor.

Extended range cars essentially only have electric drives, similar to pure electric cars, mainly electricity, and there is no direct drive for oil-burning cars, nor any transmissions or clutches.

The generator + drive motor is done, there is no transmission and the mechanical structure is simple.

The internal combustion engine of hybrid vehicles directly drives the rear wheel engine + generator.

Not only can it generate electricity and use electric drives. It can also directly burn oil to drive the wheels like oil trucks when high power is required, and oil-electrically driven can also be driven with oil-electric hybrid.

Therefore, hybrid vehicles have three sets of drive systems, pure electric drive, pure oil direct drive, and oil-electric hybrid drive.

In this way, hybrid vehicles need to achieve multi-power coupling and transmission integration, with more complex structure and greater research and development difficulties.

If you are a hybrid car, Wang Yi will not only develop a generator, but also a fuel engine.

Not only should we achieve high-efficiency pure electric drive, but we should also achieve high-efficiency pure oil direct drive and high-efficiency oil-electric hybridization.

This is much more difficult.

Only those traditional automobile giants who already master traditional fuel engine technology can quickly create excellent hybrid engines.

But emerging new energy vehicle companies are difficult. Traditional engine technology alone is an extremely high threshold.

After all, one of the original intentions of domestic new energy development is that fuel engine technology is relatively backward and transmission technology is also backward, making it difficult to catch up, so I have to change the track.

For extended range, you don’t have to pay attention to the fuel engine and save on the transmission. Just develop a generator directly.

Wang Yi continued: "Next, the test of the pure electric version will continue, and the testing of the extended-range version will be done with all our strength. Next year, we will release the extended-range version first. As for the pure electric version, it will be released with it."

"Yes!" Zou Zefeng suddenly realized.

According to Wang Yi's meaning, it turns out that the extended-range version is the main force and may bear 80% of the sales.

The pure electric version only accounts for 20%.

The reason is that the pure electric version is too expensive and there is also battery life anxiety.

The simplest, hybrid version, nowadays, the small battery with a pure electric range of 150 kilometers or 200 kilometers is enough, and it is enough and the cost is low.

However, the pure electric version does not have enough range of 300 kilometers, and the large battery with a range of 400 kilometers is also very short of limits. It is only reliable to achieve a pure electric battery of 500 kilometers.

Ten years later, the cost of a pure electric battery of 500 kilometers is not high, but at present, the cost of a pure electric battery of 300 kilometers is very high, and a pure electric battery of 500 kilometers is even more expensive!

If it really needs to have a pure electric range of 500 kilometers, it is not realistic to start at 400,000 yuan in Xingyi Auto.

Tesla's 500-kilometer range is sold for one or two million, and Xingyi Technology will also have to sell for six or seven hundred thousand.

This way, sales will be bleak.

The best way out is to have a small battery of 150 kilometers to 200 kilometers + extended range.

The outstanding features are the fuel tank range, low cost, low overall fuel consumption and long range!

Hang up a 56L email address, plus the pure electric range is 150-250 kilometers, and the comprehensive range is 1300-1400 kilometers!

It is much stronger than a fuel car, and the battery life is worry-free.

"How do you match the extended-range version?" Wang Yi asked.

"Chairman, Xingyi S5 extended-range sedan, the standard version is equipped with a 30kWh self-developed blade battery. The preliminary test of pure electric range can be more than 150 kilometers, and the subsequent optimization will continue, and the pure electric range is expected to reach 180 kilometers. There is also a 30L fuel tank, and the preliminary test of full oil and full power comprehensive range is about 700 kilometers. The subsequent optimization will be expected to reach 800 kilometers."

"The flagship version is equipped with a 40kWh self-developed blade battery. The preliminary test of pure electric range can be more than 200 kilometers. It will continue to optimize in the future. The pure electric range is expected to reach 250 kilometers. It is also a 30L fuel tank. The preliminary test of full oil and full electric range is about 800 kilometers. It will continue to optimize in the future and is expected to reach 900 kilometers."

"The configuration of Xingyi X5 extended-range SUV is similar to that of S5, but the battery life is attenuated due to the heavier SUV."

Wang Yi nodded: "The standard version of 30kWh self-developed blade battery, the high-end version of 40kWh self-developed blade battery, the pure electric range is 180 kilometers and 240 kilometers, which is no problem. But there are too few 30L mailboxes, so it is directly achieved by 56L."

"Chairman, do you need such a large fuel tank? 30L, full fuel and full power comprehensive range is enough, right?"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "It's not enough, just make the fuel tank bigger. The comprehensive range of full fuel and full power is 1,300 kilometers-1,400 kilometers. Let users be completely worry-free."

"The fuel tank must be given enough. The user can not fill it up, but we cannot give it to the small one."

"Once the fuel tank is smaller, the sales will not be improved."

This is the case with the BMW I3 in his previous life, the first extended-range car with a good sales volume.

Pure electric range is about 130-160 kilometers (NEDC standard), 9L fuel tank, and comprehensive range is about 300 kilometers.

It can only be said that it is useless. You have to work hard frequently when running on the highway. How can users not be upset?

The result is that although the sales of the BMW i3 range extended version are still OK, it is not very good, let alone a big hit.

If the 9L fuel tank is replaced with a 56L fuel tank, and the comprehensive range of 300 kilometers is turned into 1,200 kilometers, the sales of the i3 extended-range version will be amazing.

Therefore, Wang Yi decided to replace the 56L large fuel tank directly.

In a word, users can not be filled, but we can’t have them!

"Okay, Chairman, I'll arrange for a replacement now and start the test as soon as possible."

"Um."

Wang Yi nodded with satisfaction, and then changed his mind:

"And the capacity issue you just mentioned, starting from the year after tomorrow, there will be sufficient capacity, but the capacity will be scarce in the first half of next year."

"Yes, Chairman, in the first half of next year, production capacity will need to climb, and the production capacity is indeed short of limits. Therefore, the total capacity in the first half of the year is only 36,000 to 40,000 units. By the second half of the year, it will reach an average of 10,000 units per month."

Wang Yi nodded: "That's how to calculate it, the total production capacity will be 40,000 units in the first half of next year, 60,000 units in the second half of next year, and 100,000 units in the whole year."

"That's right, Chairman, but in the year after year, the first phase of the factory will produce 120,000 vehicles per year, and the second phase of the factory will start production, and there will be no pressure on 220,000 vehicles per year after year."

"Well. The key is that in the first half of next year, the production capacity will be too small, only about 40,000 units. Especially in January, the production capacity will be only 2,000 units, and in February it is estimated that only 3,000 units will be only 3,000 or 4,000 units."

"With such a small production capacity, it will be even more difficult to divide into two models, S5 and X5."

Zou Zefeng understood Wang Yi's meaning: "Chairman, what you mean is that in January next year, we will only send one car first, quickly increase the production capacity, and then send the second car in the future?"

"That's right. In the first few months of the first half of the year, the production capacity was already tight, so there would definitely be orders. Two more cars were released, and consumers would have to queue up to pick up the car, so they would definitely scold me. It would be better to make only one and deliver it as soon as possible. Quickly increase the sales volume of the single model and make a reputation."

"In this way, if the production capacity of a single model is abundant, we will produce another one."

"Yes, this arrangement is the most appropriate." Zou Zefeng agreed very much: "But which one should we release first for Xingyi S5 sedan or Xingyi X5 SUV?"

"First release the Xingyi S5 extended-range version, which looks good and is suitable for our Xingyi Automobile's first flagship product! The pure electric version is released simultaneously."

After Wang Yi said that, he silently said sorry to Porsche.

That's right, the design of Xingyi S5 comes from Xiaomi su7, no, it comes from Porsche Taycan!
To be continued...