The era of accelerating the electrification vehicle ecosystem only started in 2019. However, for those of you who don't really care about automotive, you may need to know that electrified products have been on sale for much longer than that.
Toyota has launched the Prius in the country since 2009. At that time, hybrid cars began to creep into a trend in countries such as Japan and the United States, but they were still considered 'weird cars' in Indonesia.
The general definition of a hybrid car is a car with a drive system that utilizes two energy sources, namely fuel that is processed by an internal combustion engine and electricity from a battery processed by an electric motor.
The combination of the use of these two is claimed to produce higher efficiency than conventional engines.
Hybrid technology is one of the electrification products, besides that there are also so-called electric cars (Battery Electric Vehicle/BEV) and fuel cell cars (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle/FCEV).
Types of electrification products
Based on Government Regulation Number 73 of 2019, there are four types of electrified cars, namely Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV), Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV), and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV).
From there hybrid cars are grouped into two, namely Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Especially for Hybrid Electric Vehicles, it is further divided into two parts, namely full hybrid and mild hybrid.
Based on that rule, the definition of a full hybrid is a Hybrid Electric Vehicle that has the function of turning off the engine automatically when pausing (idling stop), regenerative braking, motion aids in the form of an electric motor (electric motor assist), and capable of being fully driven by an electric motor. electric motor (EV running mode) for a certain time or speed'.
Toyota Camry and Alphard.
While the meaning of mild hybrid is as follows, 'A Mild Hybrid Electric Vehicle is a Hybrid Electric Vehicle that has the function of turning off the engine automatically when pausing (idling stop), regenerative braking, and motion aids in the form of an electric motor.
An example of a mild hybrid car is the Suzuki Ertiga Hybrid. The difference between a mild hybrid and a full hybrid is that this type has no option to drive in electric motor mode.
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
This type is defined as 'an electric motor vehicle consisting of at least one electric motor or generator motor and at least one combustion motor as a power transmission and equipped with an external charging system'.
Charging this type of vehicle battery using a tool, for example using an electric plug at home or office. One example of a Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle product is the Mitsubishi Outander PHEV.
Battery Electric Vehicle
Other names for this car are pure electric cars such as Tesla cars, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Wuling AirEV. The description of this type is 'a motor vehicle having only an electric drive motor with a rechargeable battery energy storage system as a power source for the vehicle'.
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle
Different from other electrified products, this car is described as 'a motor vehicle equipped with a fuel cell as an energy source and an electric motor as a propulsion system'.
There are no FCEV products sold in the country. However, in the global market, the Toyota Mirai, Honda Clarity and Hyundai ix35 are available.
