Here, we collect and sort out the new 10 cars that will come out or be redesigned in the next few years to see what positive changes they will bring us. Different from the concept cars that everyone talked about in the past, these models will be mass-produced models that will really appear in our real life in five years.
1. General Chevrolet Volt
As the first product of GM to open the new energy vehicle era in the future, the market has high hopes for this new car, and GM itself is full of confidence in this new car, which will officially open a new chapter for GM in the new energy vehicle era in the future. According to the plan, this new car will be officially launched on 20 10,1,and will be sold in many markets including China market on 20 1. The power system comes from a 16 kWh lithium-ion battery, which can drive the car for 64 kilometers in pure electric mode and serve as a backup.
2. Nissan leaf
This is the only new energy vehicle among the selected 10 models to hold a public test drive in China. This example is not to show how advanced Nissan is in electric vehicle technology, but to emphasize that the era of electric vehicles is really coming. At least after our test drive, almost all media colleagues exclaimed: Even the worst car drivers can control this electric car well, "the era of electric cars is really coming."
Leaf is a new generation electric vehicle platform developed on the basis of Nissan's current TIIDA model. It is a medium-sized hatchback equipped with a thin lithium battery pack, which can generate 90 kW of power, while the maximum power and torque of the motor carried by the vehicle are 80 kW and 280 Nm respectively. This powerful battery drive system can ensure that the new car can travel 65,438+060 km in pure electric mode. At present, such data is only 654,300 kilometers on a single charge. It is particularly worth mentioning that the new car 20 1 1 will enter the China market at the beginning of the year, and Nissan even promised that it will be produced in Dongfeng Nissan as long as it sells well in China. Nissan Leaf's influence on the global automobile pattern may not be as strong as that of Chevrolet VOLT and Toyota Prius, but its influence on the China market is unparalleled.
3. Toyota New Prius
If you want to ask the most influential car reform in the past decade, Toyota Prius is definitely one of the most powerful competitors. Today, this car has not only sold more than 654.38+0 million vehicles, ranking first in the global hybrid car sales, but also established Toyota's position as the king in the global hybrid car field. At present, the third-generation Toyota Prius has been listed, and the new car has evolved on the basis of the maturity of the previous two Prius. Not only is the appearance more impactful, but the interior is more forward-looking and the power system is stronger, which makes Toyota's position as the king of global hybrid power more stable.
It can be predicted that there will be no mass-produced electric vehicles in the next five years, but it is difficult to reach the sales volume of Toyota Prius in the next ten years, which may be the success of Toyota Prius: not only the technology is good, but also the market is big.
4. Volkswagen Up! insipid
If GM Chevrolet VOLT will open a new era of plug-in hybrid vehicles, and Toyota Prius has long been the king of hybrid vehicles, then Volkswagen Up! Lite will undoubtedly be the pinnacle of human beings in the field of traditional automobiles. This car not only represents the development trend of "lightweight and miniaturization" in automobile design, but also consumes only 2.44 liters per 100 kilometers, which is enough to become the most fuel-efficient gasoline car.
At the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show, Volkswagen launched this environmentally-friendly car Up! Lite is a three-door, four-seat hatchback car based on Volkswagen's new small family platform in the future. The car adopts a hybrid system, which has quite high fuel efficiency, and the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is as low as 2.44 liters, making up for it! Lite has become by far the most fuel-efficient four-seater car. On it, Volkswagen's closet stunts in the traditional automobile field-TSI turbocharging technology and DSG powershift have all appeared, and so much effort has been invested in such a small car, which shows that Volkswagen Up! Lite's influence will be different. It is reported that Up! Lite may be released to the world as a new Volkswagen model, and it is expected to be launched at the end of 20 1 1, and the price should not be too high. Please remember every word here, because it may really affect the car design in the next five years.
5. BMW City
From the name, we can see the car's grasp of the future development trend of the car. This A0 class electric vehicle is expected to be officially launched on 20 12, and North America, China and Europe will all be important markets for this vehicle.
Judging from the current situation, the volume of BMW city will be smaller than that of current BMW 1 series and Mini Cooper. This car still maintains the design style of BMW, with short front suspension and low roof. At the same time, the price of this car is also lower than that of BMW 1 series and Mini Cooper. Once released, it may become the smallest front-mounted rear-wheel drive vehicle in the world. The data shows that BMW city is driven by electric motors. Although its goal is to go global, especially to enter the China market, it is designed according to the American market to meet the requirements of California's zero-emission vehicles. Therefore, BMW City in the US market will use water-cooled lithium-ion batteries, which can travel 65,438+000 miles on a single charge, while BMW City in China and other regions will probably use natural gas or diesel as power.
6. Mercedes smart electric car
In fact, even without considering that Mercedes-Benz will launch SMART electric vehicle in 20 10, the appearance of this car itself is a subversion of the traditional car concept: this product, originally designed by Mercedes-Benz and fashion brand Swatch, provides a personal mobile transportation solution that is difficult for traditional cars to understand: smaller, lighter and more environmentally friendly, with only two seats and a body of only 3 meters.
Now, Mercedes-Benz has decided to take the forward-looking concept of this car one step further and launch an electric version of SMART. The new car is expected to be officially launched on 20 10, and the power required for Mercedes-Benz smart electric vehicles is provided by lithium-ion batteries. Made by Tesla, this battery pack can store up to 14 kWh of electric energy, and the maximum mileage can reach 12 1 km.
7. Reno Zoe Z.E.
Like the cross-border cooperation between Mercedes-Benz and Swatch originally envisaged by SMART, Renault Zoe Z.E also comes from the cross-border combination of automobile companies and fashion brands. This model, which is scheduled to be launched on 20 12, is the product of cooperation between Renault and fashion brand biotherm. Renault provides the design of the main parts of the car, and biotherm provides the valuable advice of the car interior materials with his grasp of fashion. It seems that with the concept of "cross-border" becoming more and more popular today, it will be one of the trends of automobile design and development for automobile enterprises to join hands with fashion brands to create fashion cross-border combinations.
Of course, the impact of Renault Zoe Z.E on future automobile development will be far more than the cross-border combination of automobile companies and fashion brands. In fact, it is an important electric vehicle that Renault will release in the next few years. The power of the new car is stored in the on-board lithium battery. The car has a maximum power of 70 kW (95 HP) and a peak torque of 225 Nm. Top speed 140 km. There is no doubt that the new car will be another new favorite of the fashion industry after the listing of 20 12.
8. Honda Insight
1999 Honda Insight listed in the United States is the first hybrid vehicle listed in the United States. Although the popularity of Honda Insight was suppressed by Toyota Prius for ten years, in recent years, with the decline of Honda Insight price and the progress of design, the situation of "two-person war" began to be staged. In April, 2009, Honda Insight even won the first place with the sales volume of 1.048 1 10,000 vehicles on the Japanese new car sales data list. It is also the only hybrid model that won the monthly new car sales champion. Prior to this, the best hybrid car was the third place in June+February, 2008, which was set by Toyota Prius.
Now, Honda Insight has become the most powerful opponent of Toyota Prius, and the actual combat between Toyota and Honda in the field of new energy vehicles has also begun. In the next five years, the large-scale popularization of electric vehicles is still hopeless, but the mixed heat wave set off by Honda Insight and Toyota Prius has come to the fore.
9. Mitsubishi Imiyev
It's Mitsubishi's Chevrolet Volt and Mitsubishi's Toyota Prius. This lovely pure electric drive electric vehicle is Mitsubishi's masterpiece in the field of electric vehicles. The new car was sold in Japan in the middle of this year, but the sales target is limited to specific people. After the technology is further mature, the new car is expected to be officially sold to the market in the middle of 20 10. Mitsubishi iMiEV is equipped with a lithium-ion battery, which can run 65,438+060 km with a top speed of 65,438+030 km/h on a single charge, while iMiEV electric vehicle provides a maximum power of 47kW. Because it uses a motor, the maximum torque can output the peak value of180 n m from the start.
10. Ford Focus Electric Vehicle
After GM announced the Chevrolet VOLT, Ford Motor also announced its own electric vehicle research and development plan, which will be used as a production platform together with Ford Focus, which is popular in China. Ford said that the new car will reach 65,438+000 miles on a single charge, and the estimated price will be less than 40,000 US dollars. The new car will be launched around 2065,438+00.