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Wednesday November 23 2022 Selwyn Times 37
Haval joins the hybrid revolution
EVEN THOUGH Haval has
only been in the New Zealand
automotive market for just five
years, its impact must been as seen
as significant given in this industry
that is a relatively short space of
time.
Credit for its success must be
laid squarely in the hands of the
distributor’s dealer network. In
Christchurch Haval is managed by
an enthusiastic team and they have
capitalised on success they gleaned
when Great Wall arrived in the city
in 2012.
Haval is part of the giant Great
Wall conglomerate, a Chinese
company that is no stranger to the
automotive industry, it has been
building cars and trucks since 1984
and together it and Haval dovetail
nicely with a raft of commercial
and family-friendly models.
Mostly, though, Haval is about
sport utility vehicles – H6 and
Jolion, the latter an SUV available
in four specification variants listing
from $29,990. The pricing structure
is one of the ingredients that has
made Haval a popular seller here in
Christchurch, the brand represents
value, but you also get amazing
value within the product.
This evaluation focuses on a
newcomer to the Jolion badge
and it is a hybrid. It’s not a plug-in
hybrid but more of what you would
find in, dare I say it, Toyota’s hybrid
system.
Put simply, there is an engine and
motor, the four-cylinder 1.5-litre
unit drives the front wheels and
charges a battery pack providing
power to the electric motor that, in
turn, assists the engine to accelerate
and maintain pace.
The Jolion Ultra hybrid sits in
the market at $43,490, that’s a price
that will lure many, it is also even
more tempting when you consider
you’ll also get a $2026 rebate back
from the Government as part of its
Clean Car Programme.
It must also be said that the
Jolion in this form has everything.
It’s high in tech as well as
having features for comfort and
convenience. The layout is clean,
tidy and comprehensive with
enough digital depth to keep a
Boeing pilot happy. While the
graphics are extensive, it’s an
intuitive and user-friendly system.
Once familiar, the Jolion is as easy
to drive as any SUV in today’s
market.
What’s more, it is familyfriendly
in terms of comfort and
convenience. Even at just 4.5m it’s a
true five-seater with onboard space
to keep five adults comfortable and
contained safely. If you have cargo
to carry there’s room for 390-litres
behind the rear seats, with them
folded flat that area extends to
1069-litres.
At the other end sits a 1497cc
engine. This is the same unit
that powers the rest of the Jolion
range except that it doesn’t get the
turbocharger of its stablemates. It
doesn’t need it, when you combine
the outputs of the petrol engine and
the electric motor there’s 139kW
FUNCTIONAL: The Haval Jolion has traditional SUV values.
HAVAL JOLION HYBRID: Traditional petrol engine and hybrid driveline.
on tap, enough power to tackle any
of today’s driving situations. Add in
the strong bottom end torque flow
(375Nm) you have figures that are
well up to par.
The hybrid system also has one
other major benefit. That’s the fuel
usage figures. Haval claims a fivelitre
per 100km combined cycle
average, during my evaluation time
the readout was listing around that
figure largely due to the fact that
during majority of the time I had in
the evaluation car it was at highway
speed.
Of course, this has distance
benefits. When I picked up the
vehicle it was showing just half a
tank of fuel, yet it had well over
400km to run before the tank was
empty. On that basis, up to 1000km
could be achievable between fillups
if sensible driving techniques
are followed. To help boost fuel
thrift the driveline incorporates
an economy drive mode, it is one
of four drive modes that can be
chosen, depending on the journey
ahead; the others are normal, sport
or snow mode, the latter to aid
traction on slippery surfaces.
The Jolion in this form isn’t
disgraced either in terms of
acceleration. It will make 100km/h
from a standstill in 8.2sec and will
power through a highway overtake
(80-120km/h) in around 6sec.
Conscious of the evaluation
car being a dealer demonstrator,
• Price – Haval Jolion Ultra
hybrid, $43,490
• Dimensions – Length,
4472mm; width, 1841mm;
height, 1574mm
• Configuration – Fourcylinder,
front-wheeldrive,
1497cc, 70kW
(+110kW), 125Nm
(+250Nm), automatic
• Performance –
0-100km/h, 8.2sec
• Fuel usage – 5l/100km
I didn’t travel as far as I normally
would, but I did head a long way
west taking in some of my favourite
roads near Hororata, returning
home through Dunsandel and
Lincoln. The Jolion in this form is
a superb highway cruiser, it is quiet
and the suspension offers a perfect
combination of compliance and
comfort.
It also handles typically of a
modern SUV, and credit must
be given to the suspension
engineering team who have created
that soft feel beneath, but not at the
cost of wayward body movement in
a corner. The Jolion sits quite tall at
almost 1.6m, but gravitational force
doesn’t work against it in a corner,
the spring and damper rates are
structured to keep that movement
in check without overly firming
spring tension.
It’s fair to point out that the
Jolion in all forms only has drive
to the front wheels and the rear
suspension is a simple torsion
beam type, that being the case, the
fact there is good body composure
in a corner is even more
remarkable.
I must mention as well the
Jolion rides on quality rubber, the
225/55 x 18in Kumho tyres are
quiet and very informative. What’s
more, there is a good footprint on
the road, the driver fully aware of
handling feel when quick corners
are presented. Communication
between the road, chassis and
steering wheel is presented
strongly.
The car buying public are very
savvy at present. There’s a lot of
dialogue going on about petrol
prices versus fully electric vehicles.
Hybrids are there to meet those
options fair in the middle. You
don’t have to go far to find a valuebased
hybrid these days, and they
will all save you a heap of money by
powering past petrol pumps on a
regular basis.
I guess Haval in Christchurch
will find its main competitor is
one of the other brands at the
dealership – MG also has a hybrid
SUV on the lot. I’m sure the sales
teams for both brands will find the
market big enough to compete in
side by side without battling each
other.
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