Electric vehicle research and development transfer to domestic Volvo domestic hybrid car

After the speech made by Peter Merten, Senior Vice President of Volvo Car Group and responsible for research and development, entitled "Volvo Cars Global' Drive-E Green Driving Strategy' Development Roadmap", he participated in the "2012 China New Energy Vehicle Summit" on July 20. "Guests at the forum" were surprised to find that the future planning of this Nordic luxury car brand with nearly one hundred years was actually set by the "Energy Conservation and New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2012-2020) announced by the State Council in the following term "planning". The roadmap for the development of new energy vehicles maintained a high degree of consistency.

Volvo believes that the traditional internal combustion engine will be a major vehicle driving method for a long period of time in the future. However, the thermal efficiency of the internal combustion engine is up to 30%. No matter whether it is supercharging or other solutions, it cannot meet more and more stringent requirements. Emission Standards. The Army is the director of product strategy and implementation for Volvo Cars headquarters. This time, it deliberately rushed from Sweden to Shanghai. It only delivered 15 purely electric C30s that were delivered to Shanghai Motor City for demonstration operation in person.

According to the “Planning” in 2015, the average fuel consumption of passenger vehicles produced in the same year in China fell to 6.9 liters/hundred kilometers, and the fuel consumption of energy-efficient passenger cars fell below 5.9 liters/100 kilometers. In 2020, the average fuel consumption of passenger cars produced during the year will be reduced to 5.0 litres/hundred kilometers, and the fuel consumption of energy-efficient passenger cars will be reduced to less than 4.5 liters/100 kilometers. In the U.S. market, according to the introduction of the Army, around the year 2017, Toyota's traditional hybrid powertrain (HEV model Prius (non-plug-in PHEVs) will not receive any subsidies, and in 2017, the U.S. government will require EV pure electric motors. (cars) account for 10% of PHEVs in 1%. In other words, “traditional hybrids will come to an end and will fully enter PHEVs.

Along with these 15 pure electric C30s landing on the beach, there will be a plug-in diesel-electric hybrid V60 that will be produced in Sweden in November this year. Both models are Volvo's Drive-E green driving strategy. According to this strategy released in 2010, the first stage is the optimization of traditional engine models; the second stage is the plug-in hybrid technology, the PHEVV60 that appeared in Shanghai and the XC60 hybrid concept car that has been unveiled is its Representative; the third stage is pure electric drive technology represented by C30 pure electric vehicle.

At present, the Volvo C30 electric vehicle has been promoted to 200 to 300 customers worldwide, and Volvo's goal is 900. Shen Hui, Senior Vice President of Volvo Car Corporation and Chairman of China, revealed that in 2013, Volvo Cars will launch a new four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engine based on Volvo's environmentally-friendly architecture, VEA, which is comparable to today's. The average engine is 40 kg lighter, and the fuel economy is increased by 15% to 35%.

But to the outside world, what seems to be more interested seems to be planning. In the market that brought about more than 500,000 vehicles in the EV and PHEV to the Chinese market in 2015, how much can Volvo Cars already settled in China benefit from?

The purely electric C30 delivered to Shanghai Automobile City is mainly used for pre-stage data collection for the next generation of EVs and will not be made domestically for the time being. After Shen Hui disclosed the "bad" news, Feng Feng made a turn, and the next generation of pure electric C30 will be made domestically. At the same time, Volvo will include hybrid models in the first batch of cars made in China next year.

According to Shen Hui, the current research and development of Volvo's electric vehicle has all been transferred from Sweden to the Volvo China R&D headquarters in Jiading, Shanghai. Think of the Volvo China R&D engineers who appeared in the launch ceremony of the Shandong Hengyuan lithium-ion battery plant not long ago. Volvo Cars apparently has made preparations for domestic electric vehicles ahead of schedule.

According to news from Volvo Car China, the hybrid model that was mass-produced simultaneously with Volvo’s domestic models is not in Volvo’s existing product series, and is likely to be one of the two new hybrid versions of Volvo designed specifically for the Chinese market. paragraph. This also means that this hybrid model launched in the Chinese market next year will be the world premiere. The world premiere of new energy hopes in China because China is home.

According to the timetable, Volvo's domestically-produced projects will be approved by September this year at the latest, and the production time will be mid-near next year. By then, there will be no choice. "Volvo Cars will start its full-scale electrification with a hybrid model first. The curtain.