Author: little magic
Chinese brands want to achieve “change lanes to overtake” in the global market, new energy is the most important area.
located in Great Wall Motor’s independent luxury brands WEY, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the birthday of the release of strategic plans to enter the global market, this young independent luxury brand is committed to being a world-class luxury brand, it knows to achieve in the global market “change lanes to overtake,” the new energy is not only the most important force field, but also to get the best entry point for users worldwide recognized, after all car brands in this field is still in the same starting line.
To this end WEY be its new energy future layout of a clear plan: accelerating the implementation of electric and comprehensive decarbonization strategy plan, a comprehensive exploration of plug-in hybrid, pure electric, hydrogen and other full solutions and create high-quality SUV in line with the diverse needs of consumers around the world.
2021, WEY all of its models offer electric options, covering a variety of drive launched in the form of HEV, PHEV, BEV and other new energy vehicles to achieve broad coverage of brand new energy vehicle market; to 2022 introduced the first fuel cell vehicle to achieve further energy clean the floor.
In plug-in hybrid open electrification distribution
and other brands in the field of new energy development ideas different from the pure electric vehicles popular today, WEY first layout is PHEV field of products. Such considerations not only because PHEV is also an important future trends in the field of new energy sources within a decade, which itself is the only way towards a pure electric powered by the engine power evolution, PHEV combines the advantages of maximizing the internal combustion engine and an electric motor, in performance, fuel consumption and life areas to better meet the needs of today’s consumers.
To this end, WEY a specially developed mixed Pi4 interpolation internet. Pi4 combination of three letters and numbers can be simply understood as: Plug-in plug-in, Intelligent intelligent, 4WD four-wheel drive.
Pi4 platform itself PHEV is a highly flexible platform that can support three different combustion engine, the three different transmissions, the two different battery power, motor power, and three different two different structure of the motor reducer. WEY launched last year and VV7 P8 product this year in Guangzhou auto show listed under GT PHEV is the platform.
All three cars are P0 + P4 of the hybrid architectures, it can be seen as VV7 with GT PHEV models P8 upgrade . With the WEY plug in hybrid technology research and development of sophisticated, just over a year’s time, these two new PHEV has in terms of performance and fuel economy significantly improved performance, including a hundred kilometers reduced from 6.5 seconds to 5.9 seconds, fuel consumption dropped from one hundred kilometers 2.3L breakthrough to 1.6L.
In particular applications two gear reducer, and so VV7 GT PHEV while significantly improved acceleration performance, but also to enhance the driving efficiency of the electric endurance at high speed, and therefore with the 17.7kWh battery has been able to make these two mid-sized SUV maximum 70km of pure electric mileage. I believe that this optimization and upgrading of plug mix platform, the future VV5 and VV6 PHEV’s performance is also worth the wait.
also open the corresponding electric-internet technology reserves
While the plug is WEY mixed operation for the incoming direction of the new energy field, but does not represent a pure electric no field of its technical reserves. In an interview with Guangzhou Auto Show, we learned from the Great Wall Motor vice president and general manager of brand marketing WEY Liu Yan here, WEY team has been conducting research and development of pure electric platform, but there was no time to publish.
while Yan Liu also stressed WEY platform thinking in terms of EV and PHEV and product development which is the same, completely internationalized R & D team. From R & D model and platforms no gap, there will be no difference between the treatment of domestic and foreign, is a reserve situation.
but will beEnter the global market of new energy products, Liu Yan also said, “The whole direction or is mixed with pure electric plug or is not yet fully confirmed, are currently in reserve, of which R & D. At the same time consumers are doing research abroad and then only in the end to be able to determine what kind of product launch, but in Europe and North America, WEY will use the plug-in hybrid vehicle main high-end market, which is an important measure brand presence in high-end market, but also the follow-up to the BEV even go FCEV iteration. “
Although its pure electric platform has not disclosed the information to the outside world, but we can also display from this show electric concept SUV WEY-X to spy two. According to information provided by WEY, pure electric car is based on proprietary scalable platform to build. The intelligent platform Pi4 like four-wheel drive hybrid electric plug platforms, can be derived from different wheelbase, a variety of models of different sizes.
WEY-X concept car inspired by airplane wings, in addition to pure electricity from the platform, the car is also equipped with many future technology configuration, such as smart pixel headlamps, suspension seat 2 + 2, 3D panorama roof, a display screen before and after the vehicle body, L5 level automatic driving. Dynamic aspects, this pure electric four-wheel drive SUV equipped with front and rear respectively 130kW and 190kW power of dual-motor, hundred kilometers in just 4.5 seconds, top speed of 200km / h, and can achieve 510km mileage.
According to the plan of WEY, no later than 2021 it’s all electric models will offer options, although some of the advanced technology concept car configuration can not mass production applications, but performance should be reference WEY-X. So we can safely guess, based on pure electric SUV WEY-X, perhaps the fastest debut next year will become a pure electric SUV market a strong competitor.
prospective domestic pioneer hydrogen energy technology
in addition to PHEV and BEV technical layout, WEY or brands in a rare vote for hydrogen fuel cellsThe research and development of the brand, but many car brands in the country are not so full of bus route. Do not say FCEV development itself will put a very high cost of capital and personnel, and in the country also lack of appropriate policy support, in particular, its prospects uncertain in terms of passenger cars too high, so are the country’s main layout FCEV car prices is the commercial vehicle industry, such as Fukuda and SAIC Chase, passenger cars rarely have to participate.
Even the international mainstream car prices, it was only Toyota, Hyundai – Kia, Honda, Mercedes-Benz has been working on this a few FCEV development, and PSA Group also decided to re-invest in this year’s FCEV program but R & D direction has been changed to commercial areas.
relatively speaking, WEY its parent company, Great Wall Motor to see the new field of energy is more long-term, insisted that the new energy technologies comprehensive development, particularly hydrogen fuel cells have to master the core technology developed independently. Thus last year, which was established comprising a material analysis, the fuel cell prototype line, the fuel cell test, the hydrogen storage system line trial, five test sub-system hydrogen storage technology, including ICHET center, which is the subsequent hydrogen-powered vehicles WEY the introduction of technology to lay a solid foundation.
In addition, WEY still in Munich, Germany, and national hydrogen energy research and development center in Baoding Innovation Center jointly set up a more than 600 world-class hydrogen technology R & D team, and shares the world’s largest hydrogen refueling station operators –H2M. It can be said to have the backing of parent company support to do the Great Wall, as well as international R & D team, WEY in the country to maintain technological leadership FCEV passenger car, so you can quickly launch the brand’s first FCEV vehicles in 2022.
can see WEY although the brand was established only three years, but its layout in the new energy field is very forward-thinking, very comprehensive. Although the past two years, a pure electric car market is very hot, and many have their own brands are a big issue in pure electric SUV, but WEY not blindly follow the trend, but to comply with the actual needs of consumers choose to start from PHEV, and in a progressive technology BEV accumulated slowly transition to the product launch. And open for new energyHair is also not limited to the lithium battery technologies, but to seek diversified development.
now WEY Technology has accumulated in the new energy is becoming more mature, as an opportunity to inbound the global automotive market is a good opportunity, especially international car brand in the field of new energy mostly in its infancy. Perhaps in the past, it seems a big gap between Chinese brands with foreign countries, but now would be the smallest gap in the history of the moment, as there is with WEY and its technical strength of its own brand more to the world stage, China ranks among the global car brand front of the industry may no longer just be our dream.