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Chapter 410 The Battle of Ideas

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It is now 2005, when the second-generation Prius launched by Toyota began to gain popularity in the market. It was also the year when the Prius ushered in an era of profitability.

Other car companies in the world do not pay as much attention to hybrid vehicles as they did five years later.

American automobile manufacturers such as General Motors and Ford are still obsessed with the research and development of large-displacement models, while Volkswagen is tirelessly pursuing fuel-saving technology for small-displacement models.

As for France's PSA and South Korea's automobile manufacturing companies, they are still confused about their future path and where they are.

However, powerful and technologically advanced luxury high-end cars such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW are still competing in the high-end car market, fighting to the death.

It can be said that no one has spared much energy at this time to pay attention to the hybrid vehicles that are now quietly emerging.

At this time, only Toyota was still taking advantage of the situation, quietly laying out plans, and could even be said to be quietly making a fortune, while other Japanese car companies kept jumping out of the front desk and covering for Toyota.

But at this time, Jin Xiaoqiang, who was very clear about the future direction of hybrid vehicles, had already begun to think about how to enter the hybrid vehicle market.

If you want to compete with the second-generation Prius in the market, you must come up with better technology than the Prius. The current engine used by the Prius is still a 1.5L gasoline engine and a nickel-metal hydride battery.

If you want to surpass him, you must have a higher engine and battery than their performance data.

Fortunately, Jin Xiaoqiang has already started working on the research and development of lithium batteries. After all, lithium batteries are the main electric energy mode for future hybrid vehicles.

By 2012, the latest generation of Prius, the Prius c, used lithium batteries, and the gasoline engine of the overseas version of the car used a 1.4L displacement, which was able to provide 74 horsepower.

The price of this Prius C is only about 20,000 US dollars, but once it was launched on the market, it became very popular. In the United States, many dealers even arbitrarily increased the price. Later, due to insufficient car supply, it once reached

The price increase is $4,000 per vehicle.

It was launched on the market after the beginning of 2012. In just three months, hundreds of thousands of vehicles were sold, but there was still a backlog of orders for more than 120,000 vehicles, causing Toyota's factories to operate around the clock.

This shows the popularity of this car. At that time, this car claimed to have a fuel consumption of 2.8L per 100 kilometers, which was the main reason for its popularity.

When Jin Xiaoqiang learned about such data back then, he also felt that the data of this Toyota Prius could be said to be quite incredible.

Although this kind of car is not favored by the oil oligarchs, consumers don't care what the oil oligarchs think. They only care about this car, which can keep the thickness of their wallets.

That year, China's oil price once exceeded 8. Although it dropped slightly later, it still showed an upward trend overall. Therefore, Jin Xiaoqiang felt that if China could have such a model back then, then as long as the price was reasonable

, you will never be afraid of not being able to sell it.

Now that he plans to join the hybrid vehicle market, he must come up with products with corresponding technical content. In Jin Xiaoqiang's view, such a powertrain is enough to take over the current market in this area.

Prius, give it a complete PK.

The working method of the first two generations of Prius can be said to be electric first and then oil. Although it is very fuel-efficient, it only requires good road conditions and a relatively short journey to the destination.

You must know that although Toyota engineers have made the greatest improvements to the Prius in this area, at this time, the second-generation Prius has the longest range under pure electric power, which is only about 24 kilometers.

This is also the biggest shortcoming and embarrassment of hybrid vehicles these days.

If you want to save fuel, you must ensure that your electric motor can work longer and drive the car farther. When the battery power is low, you can switch to the gasoline engine to work.

However, current battery technology is not yet capable of supporting a car to run a long distance.

Everyone knows that the moment a car starts, it consumes the most fuel. In order to ensure that the engine can ignite smoothly, the pressure of the fuel nozzle injection device will be set very high at the moment of startup to ensure that enough fuel is injected.

into the cylinder to ensure that the car ignites normally.

Moreover, in the starting stage of the car, because the instantaneous speed cannot be increased, a low gear will be used. Due to the gear ratio design of the gearbox, the low gear will also consume a lot of energy and waste fuel.

Therefore, the ignition and starting stages of pure fuel vehicles can be said to be the most fuel-consuming time.

Hybrid cars can solve this problem very well, because if the electric motor is used to provide power during the starting and initial acceleration stages of the car, there will be no problem of wasting fuel at all.

Then when the car's speed reaches a certain level, the gasoline engine intervenes, so that the maximum fuel saving can be achieved.

The first two generations of Prius achieved success precisely by making a big fuss about this aspect.

First, Toyota engineers separated the car's electronic control system. When the car starts and travels at a speed of less than 100 kilometers per hour, the car will be driven by the electric motor.

If the speed exceeds 35 kilometers per hour, or you need to speed up, or encounter situations such as going uphill, you must step on the accelerator deeply, and at this time the gasoline engine will naturally ignite and intervene in the work of the car.

Once the speed of the car reaches a certain level, for example, when it exceeds 100 kilometers per hour, only the gasoline engine will work, and the electric motor will stop working and be charged.

When the distance is within 100 kilometers, the gasoline engine does the main work, and the electric motor assists.

Moreover, kinetic energy can be recovered during braking to charge the motor. As long as you step on the brake pedal, the car's electric system will automatically convert the kinetic energy of the brakes into electrical energy and store it in the car's battery.

This working method has always existed in the first two generations of Prius models. It was not until the third generation of Prius that an outward charging method was developed.

For example, when parking, you can use an external power source to charge the car's battery.

And this third generation technology is what Jin Xiaoqiang now wants to copy and use directly.

Because the Prius has become a great success directly from the third generation, and with the external charging method, the car can replenish electric energy more flexibly, thereby achieving more energy-saving purposes.

Moreover, the engine technology and battery technology of the third-generation Prius are also more mature and can support the Prius to run further on pure electric power.

Only these can maintain the advantages of hybrid vehicles in energy saving.

However, this third-generation Prius, which was launched in 2009, still uses nickel-metal hydride batteries and was replaced with lithium batteries two years later.

Although the technology of this nickel-metal hydride battery is relatively mature, it also has its own shortcomings, that is, long charging time, poor discharge capacity, heavy weight, large pollution, memory effect and other shortcomings.

Generally speaking, such batteries are not suitable as the main electric energy source for future hybrid vehicles. Later, in 2012, when major automobile manufacturers began to pay attention to hybrid vehicles and entered the market one after another, lithium batteries

It has become the main electric energy source for hybrid vehicles.

So when Jin Xiaoqiang planned to enter the hybrid vehicle market this time, he originally had the idea of ​​​​lithium batteries.

In the following years, the domestic BYD company has also been working hard on hybrid vehicles. They have also launched several moderately powered vehicles, such as their f3dm and other models.

Although sales have not been very satisfactory, it is still a very good attempt. They use lithium batteries in their hybrid cars, but at first they called their lithium batteries iron batteries because they

The battery uses a solution of lithium iron hydrochloride.

Unfortunately, this thing was not very safe, and there were several explosions later, which also made Jin Xiaoqiang feel a little frightened.

Recently, although Jin Xiaoqiang has been traveling around the United States, France and other places, he has never forgotten to care about the battery research and development situation at Binxin WeChat in Nanyang.

Ever since he invited this guy into the company and formed a battery research team, this scientific madman has been burying himself in the laboratory with his team, and he doesn't know how his scientific research topic is going.

Although Jin Xiaoqiang has talked to him on the phone several times, from what he said, it seems that the current research and development project is not going very well. Although they have found some suitable materials for battery negative electrodes, they have not made much progress.

Many breakthroughs.

Although he knew there was no point in rushing, Jin Xiaoqiang had to be anxious at this time because this project involved his upcoming hybrid car project.

At the same time, there was actually a record in his mind, that is, if there is no breakthrough in lithium batteries, it seems that he can only make a fuss about another hybrid vehicle.

The name of this hybrid vehicle is called an extended-range electric vehicle!

In fact, the concept of this new hybrid vehicle is not new. It has been around for some years. It even tried to compete with Toyota's hybrid concept, but unfortunately it failed in the end.

However, Chevrolet later launched the Volt, which carried forward this concept.

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