Boy! Sony has also announced its entry into the ranks of car manufacturers! On January 5, Sony's official website unveiled a new concept SUV called VISION-S 02.
Two years ago at CES, Sony released the first concept car Vision-S, when many media believed that Sony was going to build a car, but Sony immediately sent a message to clarify: at present, the company is only committed to the research and development of automatic driving technology, and plans to test this automatic driving technology in 20 years, Vision-S exists only to more conveniently show this technology, Sony does not have the intention of building a car.
Well, Sony said so, and did do it, the time has passed two years, Sony really has no intention of building a car or a car, just when everyone is going to forget about this matter, Sony suddenly determined that he wants to build a car, what is going on?
Affected by the news, Sony's pre-market share price rose more than 5%.
According to reports, Sony Vision-S 02 is built by Sony's artificial intelligence team and robot team, and it is expected that the car will become an SUV model of Sony's Vision series.
First of all, in terms of appearance, the front face of Vision-S 02 is designed for a closed grille, and the LED daily running lights at the front of the car are through-type, perhaps to improve recognition, or perhaps a new design style, Sony placed the LOGO in the daytime lights; the side of the body, the arc of the roof is very obvious, especially the D-pillar part, the curvature of the back design is very large; the rear part, slightly flat, uses the upturned ducktail shape.
Body size, the official has not yet given the established parameters, but what we know is that the new car is based on a new pure electric platform to build, scheduled for a medium-sized SUV, from the current only pictures, the width of the concept car is not ideal, but may be in the future production car to do some improvements.
Look at the interior part of the car, the central use of three large screens, the center console T-shaped area is expected to be the car system control screen, it is worth mentioning that at the press conference site, Sony has always emphasized that the car will be based on safety, so the new car will be equipped with up to 40 sensor hardware, is bound to do the best in the car intelligence.
Finally, the power, Sony official has not yet announced the power of the new car and the battery parameters, but we can refer to the vision-S power parameters, the maximum power of 400kW, 0-100km/ h acceleration within 4.8 seconds.
In fact, in January 2020, Sony officially released its first pure electric concept model VISION-S. It is worth noting that this concept car is not built by Sony alone, but is jointly built by a number of companies, including NVIDIA, Qualcomm, ZF, Bosch, BlackBerry, QNX, Mapai, Benteler, Magna, etc., and the electric vehicle platform is jointly designed by Sony and Magna. In July 2020, Sony China's official Weibo said, "Come on, try to take your driver's license!" And attached a picture of the VISION-S pure electric concept car.
Sony China's Weibo has caused a lot of speculation, and many netizens believe that Sony intends to enter the automobile manufacturing industry and become a member of cross-border car manufacturing. However, sony group responded at that time: the company is committed to the development of autonomous driving technology, and plans to test the technology in 2020. Vision-S is only to show off the technology, Sony has no intention of building a car. Vision-S project leader Izumi Kawanishi said in an interview with foreign media that Sony will not become an automobile manufacturer, but is committed to becoming a driving force for change in the automobile industry.
Although Sony previously denied making cars, but as more and more companies, including Apple, Foxconn, Xiaomi, Baidu, etc. have announced the layout of the automobile market, now more than a year has passed, Sony officially announced the layout of the automotive field may have been prepared, and this action is actually expected.
So according to the current degree of car rolling, will Sony's joining bring threats to other car companies? Not necessarily, in general, according to the general law in the industry, the car manufacturing cycle is about three years, which means that if we want to see the real Sony car, we have to wait for a few more years, and not necessarily, for example, we can look at Apple, which said in a high-profile way that it wants to build a car early on, and has not seen the product release until now, and even the concept car has not yet, so whether it can be successfully on the road, it depends on Sony's creation.