Toyota's technology conference today is very informative!
First of all, the domestic manufacturers (Great Wall, SAIC, Changan, BYD, Geely) opened up in the face, saying that Toyota's fifth-generation hybrid is... The smallest fuel tank and the third-ranked hybrid? What kind of logic is this?
He also released the golden sentence of "making the fuel tank bigger is a routine, and making the battery small is the technology"!
Let's be honest, is it possible that the fuel tank is bigger, and it is a special architecture for plug-in hybrids? And you Toyota can only do an extension on the fuel platform, so there is not so much space? Besides, why don't you mention that your crown uses an 84L fuel tank?
Secondly, to make the tank bigger, is cheating? Make the fuel tank bigger, and the fuel consumption will be low? What kind of logic is this?
The reason why domestic car companies can sell well in China is because of their investment in research and development, technology iteration again and again, and constantly improve the thermal efficiency of the engine, improve the efficiency of the motor electronic control, and the transmission system.
I thought that this conference could bring such amazing hybrid technology, but I didn't expect it to be a press conference that stepped on one and held one at a time, to be precise, stepped on five and held one, and justified the name of HEV. Whose products are good, who has a high degree of recognition in China, simply stepping on others and praising themselves, this is boring, right?
Oh yes, there is a new technology preview at this press conference, and in October, a plug-in hybrid that can be quickly charged will be released in China...