Geely may well not have the best designed cars on the road, at least compared to their biggest rival Chery, but Geely is a private company and doesnt enjoy state funding as Chery probably does. But one thing that Geely excels at is developing its own technology, and reacting to what the market actually needs. Geely has produced an LPG model of the excellent Geely Vision with a price tag of a mere 70,580rmb, sure the trunk has a 60l gas tank, but you can go for 180km on one refill, and with gas only costing 4.20rmb (probably cheaper out in the suburbs) a litre its quite cheap to fill up.
They should export it to europe! The market in Germany is desperate for low-budget super economical cars. LPG is around .70€ a litre while petrol is around 1.40€ a litre in Germany.
This looks like a prototype. I hope the production model’s luggage room has a more finished appearance.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this doesn’t seem very economical to me.
60 liters at 4.2rmb per liter for a total of 180 km means about $0.204 per kilometer driven
For comparisons sake, a 15 gallon car at $3.75 per gallon for an average distance of 500 km means only $0.113 per kilometer driven.
This makes liquified natural gas twice as expensive?
I can’t find any info on the actual fuel consumption, but apparently Geely was working on a LPG TX4 for Hong Kong back in 2007. So perhaps this is where the tech came from. The sources on Wiki are dead now, so I can’t find out if it was a dual fuel or what.
Jing - this is not LNG. It’s LPG.
The consumption is 25-50% worse compared to petrol and the power is reduced 20-30%, albeit based on Australian taxi figures.. small 4 cyl will me different.