Future cars, rely on fuel cells or hybrid

In order to get rid of the dependence on oil, car designers try to design electric cars and hybrid cars. But what exactly is the new energy solution that is truly "fledged" is the dominant way of stimulating the next generation of human society? Will electric cars or hybrid cars be popular?

At the end of January 2013, Wanxiang Group, a Chinese auto parts manufacturer, acquired A-123, a US battery manufacturer, and finally obtained approval from the Federal Foreign Investment Committee. This acquisition that lasted more than five months has been controversial in the industry.

On the one hand, there are comments that Chinese companies acquired the star enterprises of the “Great Leap Forward” era of new energy industry in the United States because the future of power is determined by electricity; on the other hand, it is also said that the bankruptcy of A-123 means power. The failure of the automotive power sector, and the acquisition choice of Chinese companies at this time is a strategic mistake.

In fact, the industry believes that whether EV technology is mature and whether it can succeed in the market is still to be examined.

However, the advantages of electric vehicles are also obvious: environmental protection, low prices, low failure rates, and no petrol smell.

In early 2013, the British government formulated a plan to vigorously develop fuel cell vehicles. According to the planning of the government's commercial sector, the number of electric vehicles in the UK will reach 1.6 million by 2030 and 30% to 50% of the entire automobile market by 2050.

According to data from the British investigation agency, 10% of the 3,000 respondents said that they are willing to purchase electric vehicles equipped with energy batteries under the conditions of mature technology. The government has accordingly speculated that the potential annual sales of electric vehicles may exceed 300,000.

Similarly, some traditional car manufacturers are also optimistic about the market prospects of electric vehicles . Both Hyundai Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. of Japan have planned to launch electric vehicles by 2015.

However, some market analysis agencies also warned that the pre-cost of electric vehicles is too high, once large-scale popularization, it means that large-scale construction of electric vehicle infrastructure, such as hydrogen fuel cell supply stations, other electric vehicles, "charging station." In the United Kingdom, for example, if a scaled electric vehicle is to be driven on the road in 2030, it will require at least about 1,200 electric energy supply stations, which will cost a huge amount of money.

Compared with electric vehicles, hybrid cars are easier to implement. The so-called "hybrid" refers to a car that contains at least two kinds of driving power sources. The common hybrid vehicles on the market today are equipped with two kinds of power sources, traditional internal combustion engines and storage batteries. At the same time, they use oil and gas and power systems to provide power for automobiles.

Depending on the degree of use of electrical energy, hybrid cars are subdivided into several types of micro-mixed, light-mixed, medium-mixed, and fully hybrid. The ultimate technical challenge is how to achieve a perfect variety of power distribution ratios in order to achieve more High energy efficiency and less exhaust emissions.