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Stephan Wollenstein, CEO of Volkswagen China, reiterated on Monday: "From a customer value perspective, extended-program hybrid power is a transitional technology that Volkswagen Group will not pursue," according to the Financial News Agency. It should be noted that Feng Sihan used "transition" rather than "outdated", indicating that there is still some recognition of the technology.

This is not the first time Feng Sihan has publicly announced diss extended-range electric vehicles. As early as September 2020, Feng Sihan expressed his views on extended-range electric vehicles at an SUV product test drive event held in Chengdu: extended-range electric vehicles may not be as environmentally friendly as imagined. From the perspective of the whole country and the earth, generating electricity for automobile power systems by burning fossil fuels is a "bad solution". At the same time, the head of the R & D department of Volkswagen Group (China), Widman, said that the program is already an outdated technology with little development potential.

In August 2020, Li wanted to scold directly on the ideal user day: "I first said bad words, TMD, a group of smelly technology, every day rushed to us bb, what extended range electric is a backward technology." Excuse me, did they come up with any fucking technology? Right, let a group of people who don't have any user thinking and don't care about users study technical routes every day. F * ck what technical route? Nonsense!" Later, Li Xiang could not resist the anger in his heart and wrote in a circle of friends: "Why did the technical route more than a hundred years ago become the moral high ground of today's technology?" The R & D personnel of those third-rate automobile enterprises in China suggest that you listen more to the needs of users, do more practical things, experience more products, all of whom have serious work, and don't accept small black money and endless black ideal ONE and extended range electric technology on Zhihu and Weibo. You are welcome to sit down. You look down on you even more than the navy."

You know, in 2020, the main push to increase the program electric vehicle is also only an ideal car, although Feng Sihan did not say it clearly, but it was interpreted as an implied ideal, naturally and Li Xiang formed a "Liang Zi". In December 2021, Li wanted to post a post on Weibo, which was particularly simple with only eight words: "Thank you for urging, continue to work hard." The accompanying picture shows the sales comparison between ideal ONE and Volkswagen's medium and large SUV. The data shows that in December 2019, the ideal ONE's first month risk was only 1011, while the total number of Touang + Touareg was 13173; In September 2020, the ideal ONE's risk was increased to 3830, while the total number of Touareg + Touang was 9304. At that time, Volkswagen said that "increasing the program is the worst solution"; In November 2021, Volkswagen's large SUV in Central China included five models: Touang, Touareg, Lanjing, ID.6X and ID.6CROZZ. In November, the cumulative risk was 12445, which was less than the ideal ONE of 13438. At this point, Li wants to finally use data to clarify that "increasing the program is not the worst solution" and smoothly "revenge".

Is programming backward technology? The answer is yes. One hundred years ago, the world's first pure electric car Lohner-Porsche was born. Because the range was too short to be practical, Porsche founder Ferdinand Porsche installed an internal combustion engine to generate electricity in order to solve the mileage anxiety. This is the world's first series gasoline engine hybrid car and the earliest extended range electric car. Therefore, if the extended range electric vehicle is a new technology, it is definitely not.

Extended range electric vehicles are really good technology today, but in the automobile industry at that time, oil development and internal combustion engine technology improved, electric vehicles gradually lost their advantage after 1920, replaced by internal combustion engine driven cars. Today, fuel vehicles have reached their peak, but air pollution and energy depletion are urgent. Therefore, the electric vehicle that has stagnated for half a century has been pushed to the market again. Unfortunately, after more than one hundred years of history, the battery technology has not achieved qualitative progress, and the cruising range has restricted the development of electric vehicles again. At this time, the extended range technology of more than 100 years ago has been pushed onto the stage again.

At the 2007 North American Auto Show, the Chevrolet Volanda concept car was unveiled, indicating that the extended-range electric car will return to people's attention after more than 100 years. Volt uses the original Voltec electric drive technology to charge its T-type 16kWh lithium ion battery on a standard 220V ordinary household power supply, which can drive 80km on pure electric drive to meet daily driving needs. In the case of insufficient electricity, the engine drives the generator to generate electricity to supply the motor. Under the condition of 35L fuel tank volume, Vlot can increase the mileage by about 490km. This principle is basically the same as Ferdinand Porsche's extended range electric vehicle principle. Later, including BMW, Audi, Buick and other brands launched six extended range electric vehicles. However, the extended range is ultimately a technology that burns oil, even higher than some fuel vehicles. Take the ideal ONE as an example, it is equipped with a 1.2L three-cylinder range extender. This engine does not directly drive the wheels, but directly drives the generator to charge the battery. Its fuel consumption for 100 kilometers is 8.0L.

On July 6, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei terminal BG and BU CEO of smart car solutions, said on Weibo that "it will take time for the improvement and popularization of charging piles at present, and the extended range mode is the most suitable new energy vehicle mode at present." At the same time, Yu Chengdong also praised the extended-range hybrid system and thanked Li for his efforts and contributions to exploring the extended-range mode, while Li wanted to forward Weibo and send "love" on Weibo.

That night, Li Ruifeng, CEO of Great Wall Wei Brand, posted on Weibo that "it is the consensus of the industry that iron still needs to be hard by itself, and the backward technology of increasing program mixing is the consensus of the industry. No matter how big your mouth is, you can't say big words." Later, Li Ruifeng tweeted again,"Increase program is backward, alternate lines such as mountains, don't take casual sex as personality","Do increase the distance of silence to make a fortune is good, big mouth why say it out".

From the perspective of national strategy and the development of automobile industry, the state has clearly classified extended range electric vehicles into the field of new energy vehicles, while PHEV still belongs to the category of fuel vehicles, which also brings new opportunities for the development of extended range electric vehicles. In addition, from the sales point of view, as the ideal ONE of the extended-range electric vehicle, whether in the medium and large SUV or in the new force products are among the best. In other words, the extended range may be backward technology, but it is not a bad solution. In addition to ideal cars, manufacturers including Lantu Automobile and Selis have successively announced new extended range electric vehicle models, which is to some extent recognition of the technology.

As for Great Wall Lemon DHT Hybrid, this technology was released in December 2020 and is an efficient hybrid system developed by Great Wall for three years. It is understood that Great Wall Lemon DHT Hybrid adopts a set of DHT highly integrated oil-electric hybrid system, integrating 1.5L/1.5T hybrid special engine, power generation/drive dual motor, fixed shaft gearbox, dual motor controller, integrated DCDC, which can realize EV driving, hybrid drive, series drive, energy recovery, idle stop and other working modes.

As for Li Ruifeng's anger at the increased-program electric vehicle, it is actually understandable. After all, the increased-program technology, as a backward technology, is now being pushed to the market again. The feedback obtained from the three-year-old Great Wall Lemon DHT Hybrid has little effect. It is reasonable to be unable to resist the anger in his heart. It is understood that Wei brand and Haval owned by Great Wall Motor are equipped with DHT hybrid technology for six consecutive years, but the sales performance is ordinary. In the first half of the year, the cumulative sales volume of Wei brand latte DHT is only 9764, Macchiato DHT is only 1300, and the ideal ONE is 60403. The order volume of M7, which is also equipped with extended program hybrid technology, exceeds 20,000 units in 4 hours.

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