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        The automotive industry "leader" of the 86th Geneva International Motor Show is open to the media. A global debut of nearly new models and various types of new energy vehicles with high profile. Major manufacturers are to launch hybrid electric vehicles as the representative of the traditional long-term development of new energy vehicles to explore future energy trends in new car, which will bring plenty of surprises to the market.

        As one of the world's top five-auto show, the first in the beginning of each year is the Geneva Motor Show opening in Europe. Many manufacturers in this episode focused on a new car, and the importance of the industry is self-evident. The organizer data shows that this exhibition of car manufacturers launched a total of 68 of the world premiere of bran new cars, with Europa providing 30 for this number.

       Charging is difficult. From the point of view Geneva Motor Show, the car manufacturers are increasing research efforts to find out as soon as possible the bottlenecks that they have in the making of their products.

       Famous electric car manufacturer Tesla started producing ModelX (an American sport utility vehicle SUV) in the European region. Relying on dual-motor and going from 0 to 100 in just 3.4 seconds with a mileage of up to 470 km. According to the staff, Tesla currently offers a variety of charging methods. The use of DC super public, which a charging pile of every 20 minutes for the electric car, offers 200 kilometers of electricity. The whole car full power, however, is about 40 minutes.

      Japan's Mitsubishi Motors main push, i-MiEV electric car, both inexpensive and with fast charging advantages, has a reference retail price of only $24,000 and mileage of 160 km. 30 minutes in fast-charge mode can filled up to 80% of the electricity. Hyundai Motor world premiere of IONIQ superior performance of electric vehicles, with a mileage of 250 kilometers, and 24 minutes in fast-charge mode that can fill up to 80% of the electricity.

     Compared to two years ago, the Geneva Motor Show "praised" the hybrid scenario this year. Many car manufacturers introduced more practical plug-in hybrids, both power and economy can be improved. With the decline in the price of lithium batteries, some manufacturers have introduced hybrid as a price advantage.

     Previous generation hybrids, despite the high cost of the battery, mainly rely on traditional gasoline or diesel powered driving cars with electricity generated in the process that can save battery after driving power of the engine operation.

     Automotive industry believes that the new plug-in hybrids will usher in a breakthrough in the development of this year. Hyundai IONIQPlug-in, Mitsubishi EV, the Audi e-tron series with BMW, Porsche and other major manufacturers in the Geneva Motor Show launch of the latest hybrids are a hit in terms of the charging function. They no longer rely solely on traditional hybrid engine running to meet the needs of the urban commuting.

     Switzerland green car industry organizations "E Cars" responsible person, Philippe Walser, said two years ago the hybrid battery costs will be about half the cost when the current ratio is reduced to 20-30%, if the industry continues large-scale quantitative production of lithium batteries. Only then will battery costs will continue to decline. And his prediction was asserted

     Porsche staff has also recognized this. Porsche introduced the Cayenne hybrid SE price, which models have the same price as diesel, to attract more people to buy environmentally friendly cars.

     Swiss technology company QUANT made a world debut at the Auto Show with the QUANTiNO and QUANTFE, two electric cars. Both cars based on nano flow battery technology. This energy density of the battery storage is five times the current electric vehicle that widely uses lithium-ion battery, so its power is far better than traditional electric cars. QUANTFE, for example, has a  top speed of 300 km and mileage of up to 800 kilometers.

       The company responsible, Ralph Kaiser, introduced the series of electric vehicles that has been the EU road license. As a research and development company, they want to find more car manufacturers of this battery technology to promote their products.

       Japan's Honda Motor exhibition of CLARITYFCV cars powered by combustion of hydrogen fuel injection and emissions combustion, produces only water. The hydrogen fuel cars will soon be commercially available in the United Kingdom and Denmark. But industry experts point out that the hydrogen fuel must be injected under high-pressure conditions. This procedure has some risk and cost as well, due to the fact that construction of hydrogen refueling stations charging stations are higher than the traditional ones by 50 times.

       Chinese companies also provide feasible measures for the future of electric vehicle charging solutions and the development of automotive power mode. Geneva Motor Show was the debut of China's emerging automotive research and development. The enterprise "Tektronix Ruth Tang wind" made a global debut of air power extended range electric vehicle technology. The idea of this technology is the miniaturization of aviation gas turbines installed on electric vehicles, natural gas and other cleaner burning fuel for power generation. Self-charging electric vehicles and charge can achieve car battery charging at any time. Equipped with the technology of ultra-running peak power for up to 768 kilowatts, with high power, low emissions and strong battery life, charging at any time and so on.

      Jin Shin, chairman of the company, stated the use of air power by the electric technology program per 80 liters fuel consumption can travel for 2000 km, which will redefine the future of automotive power mode. The company will be equipped with this technology in recent years to launch China's first ultra-running, with plans to spend 4-5 years in passenger car production on this technology. This will only be realizable if mass production is a success and totally within an acceptable range.

       Looking at the Geneva Motor Show, many companies hit new energy vehicles, with electric cars and hybrid vehicles gradually overcoming their obstacles and into the mainstream market. In the longer term, hydrogen fuel, the flow direction of the new battery electric vehicle, represents the future trend of the automotive industry, which may bring more imagination and will probably change in the future the automotive and energy industry picture.