From the oil-electric hybrid technology into the national vision, car companies are the first to promote the highlights, always energy-saving, energy-saving, energy-saving, so that we form a car purchase perception: buy a hybrid car is to save fuel, but their high price and fuel-saving technical features, but contradictory existence.

Then there are manufacturers began to "quiet" "smooth" and other directions to re-exalt the technical image of the hybrid models, want to be associated with the performance, but they do not seem to have the qualifications, because as long as you step on the gas pedal at high speed, you can probably understand what I Want to express the meaning.

But with the development of our domestic hybrid technology, today's hybrid cars are not just fuel-efficient, there are turbochargers and multi-gear transmissions to join, as well as the layout of a more powerful multi-motor, the acceleration our chase ET-i (Photo|Configuration|Inquiry), in the guarantee of 4.8L 100 km feed fuel consumption, but also to do The key is to sell it from 152,800 yuan.performance of the full-speed domain has been raised to another stage, as we experienced the StarT

Exeed Windchaser ET-i

Official guide price: 152,800-162,800 yuan

Positioning: compact plug-in hybrid SUV

Power form: 1.5T + dual motors (drive motor)

Transmission: 3-speed DHT transmission

Combined maximum horsepower: 326 hp

Combined peak torque: 510Nm

Emission standard: National six

Model highlights: Powerful and fuel-efficient

Actual model: 2022 1.5TCI-DHT 105KM wind-up version (official guide price: 162,800 yuan)

Technology Chery, the powder is right from exeed

4.8L feeder fuel consumption, break 100 in 6.8 seconds, comprehensive range of more than 1000km ...... exeed Windchaser ET-i can make these achievements, and are backed by Chery's set of "Star Core Power ET-i full engine super hybrid" technology to achieve.

There are not many 1.5T-based hybrid SUVs on the market, such as BYD Tang DM-i, Geely Star Yue L Thor Hi-X, Wei brand Mocha DHT-PHEV, etc., but the only one that can reach break 100 within 7 seconds is currently the starter Chaser ET-i, the reason why it is so hardcore, and its power layout has a lot to do with it, because, at this price point, it can have a hybrid architecture with dual drive motors, probably only it and its distant cousin Chery Ruihu 8 PLUS Kunpeng e+.

Dual drive motor + 1.5T engine, chasing the wind ET-i can output 326 horsepower and 510 Nm torque, basically has been the performance of many high-performance 3.0T engine parameters, but also the only plug-in hybrid SUV in the same class can break 300 horsepower, on such a power level, only sold for more than 100,000, probably can understand why there are so many Chery's loyal technical fans.

Such acceleration, in addition to the mechanical power base, is hardcore enough, more critical assistance is actually the role of the 3-speed DHT transmission, in fact, there are many people who do not understand why hybrid SUVs have to use multi-gear transmission? In fact, the principle is the same as multi-gear fuel cars, we need to accelerate when the vehicle downshifts to bring better acceleration, high-speed cruising for fuel economy, and high gears just better match.

For example, when accelerating rapidly at a low speed, the starter ET-i can let the engine intervene when the speed is higher than 16km/h to form a parallel mode, unlike some single-speed direct-drive transmissions that need to reach a specific speed or speed strategy before they can intervene. This is one of the reasons why the ET-i can break 100 in 6.8 seconds, and the engine can switch between 2nd/3rd gears at mid-speed and high-speed reacceleration, bringing lower energy consumption.

So the conclusion is that compared to single-gear direct-drive transmission, multi-speed transmission matching can bring optimal working conditions, energy consumption, and power to improve the significance of more. So why don't other manufacturers use multi-gear transmissions?

There are two reasons for this, one is the product planning strategy reasons, such as BYD, the first first to put a single-speed direct-drive model, the next multi-gear plug-in SUV will also promote the landing; second is due to the addition of multiple gears, the entire hybrid system on the manufacturer's tuning work difficulty is geometrically difficult to rise, on our discussion of this chase ET-i, just for the driving scenario matching, it brings 9 working modes and 11 gear combinations, very much considering Chery's tuning capabilities, reliable stability is also very worrying.

Considering the durability of the product point, exeed has done 30,000 hours of bench verification and 5 million kilometers of complete vehicle verification for the ET-i, and the reliability results are satisfactory.

What are the other product strengths?How exeed compete with them?

exeed ET-i, in fact, is also based on the fuel version, so the styling design is not too much to discuss here, but I personally think that the design is not too much of a problem, but also did not cause surprises, so the appearance and interior will be left to you to evaluate it!

About the configuration, we brought the same price, the same positioning of BYD Song PLUS DM-i and Haval God Beast DHT comparison chase wind ET-i, the results found that the chasing wind ET-i in intelligent driving basically lag behind the rivals, especially the L2 level automatic driving assistance configuration is basically missing, only equipped with a fixed speed cruise function, the pursuit of intelligent driving consumers may be a little disappointed. It can be seen that most of its costs are spent on top of the hybrid technology because the fuel version is equipped with a wealth of intelligent driving features.

Of course, from the overall configuration level, it is still stronger than many joint venture SUVs, such as the star screen panoramic sunroof, matrix LED headlights, dual 12.3-inch suspended LCD screen, dual-zone automatic air conditioning, N95 level anti-bacterial air conditioning filter, Lion Lion Smart Cloud 4.0 system, Bosch IPB1.1 intelligent electric control system are all standard.

In particular, Lion Lion Smart Cloud 4.0 system, the addition of AR augmented reality navigation in the same class or very rare, which can be combined with the road path markers to restore the original road, the integration of map data, vehicle data, visual data to pull the world outside the cabin into the cabin space, through augmented reality technology to achieve a perfect combination of guidelines and driving routes, to deal with the very complex interchange road conditions like Guangzhou Baiyun District, I believe that Novice drivers will not easily take the wrong route.

Secondly, its human-machine interaction functions are also rich, the car itself has more than 80 types of vertical semantic library built-in, most of the simple or complex voice commands given can be perfectly realized, and it can also realize "sound source positioning", according to the location of accurate voice control, and at the same time, because of Baidu in-depth linkage, some conventional Chinese and English translation, weather, vehicle At the same time, due to Baidu's deep connection, some regular Chinese and English translation, weather, vehicle limit number inquiry, stock price information can be checked in real-time.

The experience of this top model, there are inductive memory electric tailgate, exterior mirror folding & electric heating, flowing ambient light, integrated driving recorder, SONY brand audio, 540 ° panoramic HD video, and other high-end configurations, as long as you do not care about its intelligent driving performance, this chase ET-i conventional configuration is also pulled full level.

Write at the end,exeed has its advantages

So is the exeed Chaser ET-i worth getting? From the power and fuel economy brought by the hybrid structure alone, as well as the price, the exeed ET-i is quite cost-effective, and it is also a model from the high-end Chery brand, and the mechanical driving level can bring enough attraction to make it worthwhile to get it.

But good technology, good price, but not to this exeed chase wind ET-i bring good market performance, listed so far a few months its sales still need to be improved, think or visibility and brand influence issues, wine fragrance is also afraid of alley deep, the key or exeed's soft strength to keep up, in order to bring better sales for the chasing wind ET-i assists.