"The first mass-produced intelligent electric vehicle with driverless functions in China", this title alone made me interested in the intelligent technology of WM W6, and then look back at the price, the 520km ACE extreme wisdom version tested only needs 209,800 yuan, which really makes "intelligent" enter the homes of ordinary people. However, the intelligent technology attributes for the car, more should be regarded as a plus, the comprehensive strength of the strong can be called a qualified family car. With a strong sense of curiosity, I will take you through the whole process.
Appearance: Rounded home style
Although WM Motors belongs to the new car-making brand that entered the game earlier, its EX5, EX6 and W6 models do not use overly exaggerated design, but adopt traditional design methods, so that consumers will not have a sense of violation. Of course, as a pure electric model, the new car will still highlight the "electric" identity in the details. WM W6 has a strong family design style, high recognition, rounded body, simple design, exuding a strong "home" attribute.
The front face of the new car adopts the iconic closed front grille of the new energy model, and the middle of the grille is also designed with a penetrating LED light strip, and then with the LED daytime running lights and hidden door handles on both sides, which instantly exudes the smell of "technology". From the side of the body, thanks to the high waistline design, the visual center of gravity is effectively improved, while the D-pillar adopts a black treatment, thus creating a floating roof visual sense. The overall shape of the rear is more regular, and the through-type taillights also echo the headlights.
In terms of tires, the test drive adopts a number of spoke rim styles, and the black/silver two-tone combination visually brings a certain sense of sportiness. The tires are equipped with the Michelin Haoyue 4 series, which are mainly comfortable and quiet, which coincides with the positioning of the car, and the specific size is 225/55 R18.
WM W6 in the left rear fender and right front fenders are designed with slow charge and fast charge interfaces respectively, in fast charge mode, the power from 0% to 80% charge takes 0.67 hours, and slow charge takes 9.5 hours to full charge.
Interior: Simple and comfortable
Inside the car, three LCD screens come into view, and most of the functions are touch-operated. At the same time, the materials used in the car are quite thick, and the soft leather wrapping is used in the places within reach, and the center console is also embellished with silver metal brushed panels + black piano paint, and with the brown color on the seat and steering wheel, it is very homely.
The 12.3-inch full LCD dashboard UI design is relatively stylish, and the internal functions are also rich. It is worth mentioning that the LCD screen adopts anti-glare treatment, and the co-pilot basically cannot see the information display on the LCD screen.
WM W6 is equipped with a 12.3-inch LCD touch screen, the internal functions are very powerful, it uses Qualcomm's first car specification grade 7nm SA8155 chip, the computing power is increased by 8.5 times, and the image processing capacity is increased by 20 times. After the actual operation, the central control screen UI design is concise and clear, the operation logic is clear, basically the first time you can find the function you want to operate, the overall performance during operation is very smooth, and the voice system can quickly respond to you. In addition, there is also a Huawei smart assistant in the left function bar, which you can think of as a third-party APP software platform, which supports bilibili, today's news, lychee FM, and Douyin and other mainstream APP downloads.
WM calls the touch screen below the i-Touch console, although at first glance it is only an air-conditioning area, but the i-Touch console can be said to solve the driver's "blind exercise" operation when driving, and retain the sense of technology. For example, when you want to adjust the air conditioning temperature, your finger no matter which position on the screen, just slide up and down to adjust the air conditioning temperature, the same reason, the left and right sliding fingers is to adjust the air conditioning air volume, the design is still relatively rare in the new forces of car manufacturing, the actual experience can also do the same as the physical button "blind exercise" operation.
As a 200,000-price range of home SUV, WM W6 in terms of comfort performance is worthy of recognition, especially the front seat, the surface is not only wrapped in leather material, the internal padding is quite soft, ride like a sofa at home, while the length of the cushion is reasonable, can play a certain role in supporting the thighs, long driving will not feel tired. In addition, the front seats also support seat heating, which is very intimate for cold northern users. The overhead is also equipped with an openable panoramic sunroof that domestic consumers like, which can bring sufficient sense of open sun for rear passengers.
Power: Power is silky smooth
In terms of power, the entire WM W6 series is equipped with an electric motor with a maximum power of 160kW and a maximum torque of 225N·m, and in terms of batteries, the new car provides two capacities of 66kWh and 82kWh, and the NEDC cruising range corresponds to 520km and 620km respectively.
In the field of fuel vehicles, due to different engines, different gearboxes, and different tuning methods, the driving experience of the whole vehicle is very different, and most of the motors of electric vehicles are the same, so the driving difference is very small. But for WM W6, the driving experience of the whole vehicle is different from most electric vehicles, in the comfort mode, the initial power of the vehicle is limited, when starting, the vehicle will not immediately rely on the characteristics of the motor to "jump" out, but a very gentle slow speed, the whole process can be described as a "silky" feeling, remember the last time there was this experience, or in the Mercedes-Benz 3.0T inline six-cylinder S 450 4MATIC L model experienced.
The WM W6 offers three driving modes, Economy, Comfort and Sport, as well as three steering feels, namely Comfort, Standard and Sport. In each mode, WM W6 will be "differentiated" clearly expressed, in the economic mode you can feel the laziness of the accelerator pedal, sports mode, lightly tap the accelerator, is the electric car "jump" of the momentum. In addition, the strength of the three steering feels is also more distinct.
In terms of kinetic energy recovery, WM W6 also has two adjustable gears, namely strong and weak, and WM W6 also supports the closure of kinetic energy recovery. In the "strong" gear, release the accelerator pedal, you can feel the obvious slowing and dragging feeling, but unlike most electric vehicles, the abruptness is obviously alleviated. When adjusted to the "weak" gear, the kinetic energy recovery force is obviously reduced a lot, which is basically the same as the driving experience of the fuel vehicle, and there will be no discomfort.
In terms of suspension, the new car adopts the front McPherson independent suspension + rear variable section longitudinal arm torsion beam suspension combination, the overall adjustment is undoubtedly biased towards comfort, especially after some fine bumps on the road, the suspension can be very calm to filter out excess vibration, but after some ditches and bumps, the rebound of the shock absorber is not fast.
In the state of rapid bending and emergency paralleling, the lateral support of the initial section of the WM W6 suspension is sufficient, and it is more confident in high-speed lane change and high-speed cornering. In addition, the steering wheel is more blurred, and basically do not feel the sense of the road, the overall more inclined to easy daily driving, for home positioning is no problem.
It is worth mentioning that the Michelin Haoyue 4 series tires play an important role in the WM W6, which is manifested in the daily driving tire noise and vibration, whether at low speed or high speed, the suppression of both is very good.
The biggest highlight of WM W6 is "intelligence", a brief introduction to the hard-core equipment, WMA W6 is equipped with 5 millimeter wave radar, 4 surround view cameras, 2 front view cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars and 1 driving behavior detection camera, and has the million-level cloud computing power of Baidu Apollo platform, which can be said to be full of sincerity.
With the above equipment, WM W6 can realize the "Cloud Intelligent Unmanned Parking System" (Cloud AVP), which is developed by Baidu and WM Motors, and its automatic parking system can be divided into two landing scenarios, one is a commercial parking lot similar to an office building; the other is a parking lot with fixed parking spaces such as its own or company. The former is called PAVP, the latter is called HAVP, which can realize automatic parking without fixed lines and unmanned vehicles, respectively; autonomous parking through mobile phone operation vehicles.
When using HAVP, the user needs to drive the vehicle to complete the learning of this route, and the WM W6 will remember the start and end of the path, and the memory route can be up to 100 meters long. After that, the W6 can automatically park or drive out of the parking space without manual intervention. This scene is very practical for consumers with basements and fixed parking spaces.
In addition, the driving behavior detection camera equipped with W6 can be said to be very practical, it will monitor the facial expressions and movements of the face, so as to analyze whether fatigue driving, and remind. Take me as an example, on the way to the test drive vehicle to the shooting location, the individual is completely sleepy, but the detection camera detected that I was tired driving, and automatically opened one-fifth of the main driving window, in order to achieve the "refreshing" effect, I only want to borrow Li Ronghao's words: "My ** eyes have been opened to the maximum." Although it has been fiercely despised, the function is really practical and avoids the driver from driving the vehicle dangerously.
Space: Can meet daily use
In terms of riding space, the WM W6 is at the mainstream level of the same level, and the experiencer with a height of 178cm enters the front row, adjusts the seat, and has a punch and a finger distance on the head. In terms of storage space, the front door panel storage slot of the new car is larger, and the front section is also designed with an exclusive groove for the water cup holder. The knob shift mechanism is equipped with two cup holders with limiters on the right side, while the front is equipped with a storage compartment and supports wireless charging of mobile phones, it is worth mentioning that this position can also charge car keys, which is convenient. In addition, the bottom of the central aisle has been hollowed out to create a small storage slot for items such as tissue boxes.
Keeping the front seat unchanged, the experiencer comes to the back row, at this time the head has a punch distance, the legs reach more than two punches, and there is no bulge on the platform, which will not affect the comfort of the intermediate passengers. Rear storage spaces such as rear door panel slots, rear seat pockets and two cup holders at the front of the central armrest box are more conventional for everyday storage.
In terms of trunks, the platform of the new car is very flat, but the interior sides are occupied by wheel arches, making the interior not particularly regular. The rear seats support 4/6 ratio reclining for good spatial malleability. When the platform is lifted, the bottom is equipped with vehicle tools and a number of storage compartments.
Safety: All-round protection
With the above intelligent hardware equipment, the WM W6 can have L2+ level road functions, such as full-speed domain adaptive cruise, intelligent lane following assistance, adaptive speed limiting assistance, lever lane change assistance and so on. At the same time, the car is also equipped with front/rear parking radar and 360-degree panoramic images, of which the panoramic image camera resolution is relatively clear, and the "transparent body" can be selected in the left setting to further improve driving safety.
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