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It's only 2005, and it's the year when Toyota's second-generation Prius began to gain traction in the market, and it was also the year when the Prius won the profitable era.

And other car companies in the world do not attach as much importance to hybrid vehicles as they did five years later.

General Motors, Ford and other American automobile manufacturers 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 the French PSA and the Korean car manufacturers, they are still confused about the future and where they are.

And Mercedes-Benz BMW, such as luxury high-end cars with strength and technology, are still in the market of high-end models, fighting to the death.

It can be said that everyone has not devoted much energy to paying attention to the hybrid vehicles that are now quietly rising.

At this time, only Toyota is still lying on the salary, quietly arranging the layout, and it can even be said that it is making a fortune in a muffled voice, while other Japanese car companies are constantly jumping out of the front desk and then covering for Toyota.

But at this time, Jin Xiaoqiang, who is very clear about the future direction of hybrid vehicles, has begun to think about how to enter the hybrid car market.

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

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

Fortunately, Jin Xiaoqiang has already begun to work on the research and development of lithium batteries, after all, lithium batteries are the main electric energy mode for hybrid vehicles in the future.

Wait until 2012. The latest generation of Prius C uses a lithium battery, and the overseas version of the car uses a 1.4L displacement engine, which can provide 74 horsepower.

The price of this Prius C is only about 20,000 US dollars, but once it was launched in the market, it was very popular, and there were even many dealers in the United States who arbitrarily increased the price, and later because of the lack of supply of cars, it once reached the point of increasing the price of 4,000 US dollars per car.

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 more than 120,000 orders, leaving Toyota's factory to work day and night.

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

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

Although such a model is not welcomed by those oil oligarchs, consumers do not care about those oil oligarchs. How to figure it out, they only care about this car, which can keep the thickness of their wallets.

That year, the oil price of the Celestial Empire also broke eight for a time, and although it dropped slightly, it still showed an upward trend overall, so Jin Xiaoqiang felt. In fact, if the Celestial Empire could have such a model, then as long as the price was reasonable, it would definitely not be afraid of not being able to sell.

Now that he plans to join the hybrid car market, he must come up with a product with corresponding technical content, and in Jin Xiaoqiang's view, such a set of powertrains. It's enough to give the current Prius in this area a complete PK.

The working method of the first two generations of Prius can be said to be the working method of electricity first and then oil, although it is very fuel-efficient. However, this is required in good road conditions and the journey to the destination is relatively short.

You must know that although Toyota's engineers have made the greatest improvements to the Prius in this area, at this time, the second-generation Prius has the longest journey in the case of pure electric vehicles, which is only about 24 kilometers. …,

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

If you want to save fuel, you have to make sure that your electric motor can work longer, drive the car farther, and when the battery is low, you can switch to a petrol engine.

But the current battery technology can't support the car to run too long distances.

We all know that the car is the time when the fuel consumption is the largest at the moment of starting, in order to ensure that the engine can be ignited smoothly, so at the moment of starting, the pressure of the fuel injection device of the fuel nozzle will be set very large to ensure that enough fuel is injected into the cylinder to ensure that the car ignition normally.

Moreover, in the initial stage of the car, because the instantaneous speed cannot be raised, a low gear will be used, and the low gear will also consume energy very much and waste fuel because of the gear ratio design of the gearbox.

Therefore, pure fuel vehicles can be said to be the most fuel-intensive time in the ignition and initial stage.

Hybrid vehicles 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 speed of the car reaches a certain level, the gasoline engine intervenes to achieve the maximum fuel savings.

And the first two generations of Prius achieved success by making a big fuss about it.

First of all, Toyota's engineers set the car's electronic control system separately, and when the car starts and drives at a speed of less than 100 kilometers per hour, the car will be driven by an electric motor.

If the speed exceeds 35 kilometers per hour, or when you need to speed up, and when you encounter uphill conditions, 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, such as more than 100 kilometers per hour, only the gasoline engine will work, and the electric motor will stop working and be charged.

And within 100 kilometers, it is the gasoline engine main worker, and the electric motor auxiliary work.

As long as you press the brake pedal, the car's electric system will automatically convert the kinetic energy of the brake into electrical energy and store it in the car's battery.

This way of working was present in the first two generations of the Prius, and it wasn't until the third generation of the Prius that an outward charging method was developed.

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

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

Because the Prius has been a direct success since the third generation, and with the way of outward charging, the car can be more flexible to supplement electric energy, so as to achieve the purpose of more energy saving.

Moreover, the engine technology and battery technology of the third-generation Prius are also more mature, which can support the Prius to run farther in the case of pure electric vehicles.

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

However, the third-generation Prius, which was only launched in 2009, is still using nickel-metal hydride batteries, and it 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 ability, large weight, large pollution, memory effect and other shortcomings.

Later, in 2012, major automobile manufacturers began to pay attention to hybrid vehicles, and when they entered the market, lithium batteries have become the main electric energy source for hybrid vehicles. …,

So this time, when Jin Xiaoqiang was planning to enter the hybrid car market, he started with the idea of lithium batteries.

In the next few years, the domestic BYD has also been working hybrid vehicles, and they have also launched several moderation power cars, such as their F3DM and other models.

Although the sales have not been very good, but it is also a very good attempt, they use lithium batteries on their hybrid cars, but at the beginning they gave their lithium batteries a gimmick called iron batteries, because their batteries use lithium iron hydrochloride solution.

It's a pity that this thing is not too safe, and there have been several explosions later, which also makes Jin Xiaoqiang feel a little uneasy.

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

Since he invited this guy into the company and formed a battery research team, this scientific madman has been buried in the laboratory with his team, and I don't know how to study his scientific research topic.

Although Jin Xiaoqiang has also spoken to him on the phone several times, but listening to him, it seems that the current research and development project is not very smooth, although they have found some suitable materials as battery anodes, but they have not made too many breakthroughs.

Although he knew that it was useless to be in a hurry, Jin Xiaoqiang at this time could not help but be anxious, because this project involved his upcoming hybrid car project.

At the same time, in his heart, in fact, there is also a record, that is, if you can't make a breakthrough in lithium batteries, it seems that you can only make a fuss about another hybrid car.

And the name of this hybrid car is called an extended-range electric vehicle!

In fact, the concept of this new hybrid car is not new, it has been around for some years, and even once had a sign of Toyota's hybrid concept, but unfortunately it was defeated in the end.

However, the Volanda launched by Chevrolet later carried forward this concept