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Another Chinese car company has announced that it will stop selling fuel vehicles. At the 2022 LinkedIn Spring / Summer launch electric party held yesterday, Geely holding Group CEO Gan Jiayue announced that LinkedIn will launch four smart hybrid products this year and three more in two years; by 2025, all LinkedIn's products will be equipped with LinkedIn's intelligent hybrid technology to electrify the whole line of products.

On June 6th, the new concept car The Next Day was officially released, and the new car represents the future design trend of Lecker brand. From the point of view of appearance, the The Next Day concept car adds a more radical and avant-garde styling design on the basis of the existing design language of Lecker. The "front middle net" uses a closed design, but the front surrounds the bottom with a large air intake. In addition, the The Next Day concept car uses a through taillight group, officially known as the "full energy slide taillight", which consists of a through lamp belt and a vertical light strip. At the same time, the slip-back body style, exaggerated line handling and streamlined style with black roof make the concept car look very sporty. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4935mm/2030mm/1400mm and the wheelbase is 2930mm.

In terms of interior decoration, the The Next Day concept car uses a 2x2 four-seat layout, equipped with wood grain suspension dashboard, integrated folding controller, velvet zero gravity seats and hand-woven carpets to create a stylish cockpit with a great sense of immersion. The new car is equipped with expandable technology with digital skyline, headlights, lidar and so on, emphasizing the integration of design and technology functions.

With the release of the new concept car, Lectra intelligent electric mixing technology Lynk E-Motive and new brand planning have also been officially announced. It is understood that Lecker intelligent hybrid technology Lynk E-Motive originates from Raytheon intelligent hybrid technology platform, covering three high-efficiency, high-performance hybrid engines, two high-efficiency hybrid transmissions, matching a number of high-performance power batteries of different specifications and two high-power afterdrive motors; provide EM-F (HEV) and EM-P (PHEV) two power forms EM-P can achieve different product configurations such as two-wheel drive / four-wheel drive, standard / long range / ultra-long range, and will be the first to launch all-wheel drive 180km (WLTC) pure electric battery life products, as well as more plug-in hybrid products such as pure electric battery life WLTC 60km, 100km, 150km (all-wheel drive) to meet the needs of more users in different travel scenarios.

It is understood that Lectra is a high-end brand jointly established by Geely Automobile Group and Volvo Automobile Group, in which Geely Motor holds 50%, Volvo Motor 30% and Geely Holdings 20%. At present, the main production bases of Lingke are Zhangjiakou factory in Hebei, Chengdu factory in Sichuan and Yuyao factory in Zhejiang.

On April 3, BYD announced that according to the company's strategic development needs, the company will stop the production of fuel-fueled vehicles from March 2022. In the future, in the automotive sector, the company will focus on pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. As the world's first traditional carmaker to stop producing fuel vehicles, BYD's sales have soared instead of falling under the influence of the suspension of fuel vehicles and limited supply of parts. Data show that BYD's cumulative sales of new energy passenger cars from January to May were 504000, including 114000 in May. For BYD, stopping production of fuel vehicles is not only in line with the development of the market, but also the inevitable trend of the transformation of BYD's automobile sector. compared with fuel cars, BYD's new energy vehicles continue to sell well in the market, and the problem of "not mentioning cars" continues to haunt car buyers.

However, in contrast to BYD, Lecker's sales are still dominated by fuel vehicles. According to the official website, LinkedIn currently sells fuel vehicles including Linked01, Lectra 02, LinkedIn 03Comp03plus, LinkedIn 05 and new energy vehicles Linke 01 PHEV, 02 PHEV, 05 PHEV, 09 MHEV/PHEV. According to the data, the total sales of Lecker brand cars in 2021 was 220500, and the cumulative sales from January to April of 2022 were 52700. In terms of specific models, in 2021, the cumulative sales of Lecker 03, Lok 01 and Lok 06 were 76500, 45900 and 47800, respectively, while the number of new energy vehicles, including 01 PHEV and 06 PHEV, was less than 10,000.

In fact, it may only be a matter of time before automakers stop producing fuel vehicles under increasingly stringent carbon regulations and global carbon neutralization targets. Among them, BAIC, Changan and Nissan will completely stop selling fuel vehicles in 2025, Mercedes-Benz and Honda will stop selling fuel vehicles in 2030 and 2040 respectively, Toyota plans to take the lead in 2030 to stop selling fuel vehicles in China, Europe and North America, BMW plans to stop selling fuel vehicles in 2030, Volkswagen and Kia plan to stop selling fuel vehicles in 2035. In addition, GM, Ford, Jaguar, Volvo, Aston Martin and Maserati have also made it clear that they will stop selling fuel vehicles in the future. Generally speaking, whether at the national level or at the enterprise level, although there is still a big difference in time, it may be inevitable to "stop the sale of fuel cars".

It has to be admitted that the product competitiveness of fuel vehicles has indeed become weak, and to a great extent, the technical conditions of fuel vehicles restrict the design language, while large-scale design resources cannot be given under high costs. it is even more impossible to tolerate complex designs that cause a lot of trouble at the manufacturing end, so there has been little breakthrough in the mainstream price range in recent years. Dolls, face change, and playing lights have become the mainstream play.

However, although car companies such as Changan, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz have entered the new energy vehicle market on a large scale, the main force in the market is still new energy vehicles, and the suspension of production of fuel vehicles may bring a lot of uncertainty. and consumers eventually have a process of acceptance, and how long this process will take is obviously unknown. What's more, the relationship between new energy vehicles and fuel vehicles is not contradictory, but balanced and complementary, and there will not be the phenomenon that fuel vehicles are completely replaced by electric vehicles. In addition, because of the disadvantages of new energy passenger vehicles, it is difficult for them to quickly complete the task of "replacing" fuel vehicles.

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