A founder of an automotive technology company said these words in an interview that I remember deeply:
"Competition is not terrible, because competition is like sunshine."
"Chinese auto people should have the pride of building cars around the world."
"Innovation is the same as trial and error, and it is trial and error at the lowest cost."
"I spend the most time building the team, I'm on a team of the same will."
"Our company advocates 'slow', but not slow, but reverence for the automotive industry and respect for life."
I don't know how you feel when you see these words, but if you put it on the concept of doing the company, I can appreciate the pattern, thinking, and awe and love for the industry of this business leader.
The person who said these words was Li Peng, the founder and CEO of Youpao Technology.
Before becoming the founder of U Power, he was the digital executive officer of Great Wall Motor, the CEO of Xiandou Intelligent, and the founding head of Sharon Zhixing. In April last year, he officially left Great Wall Motors and founded the "new intelligent electric vehicle company that builds cars for scenes.".
On January 11, 2022, Yo-Yo Technology ushered in their first "UP DAY Yo-Yo Experience Day", and Li Peng brought the first appearance of the two major products of "UP Super Chassis" and "UP SPACE Super Cabin" to the audience in the live broadcast.
At the beginning of the press conference, he used the law of the unity of opposites to explain what they thought was "slow and fast". He said, "We pursue slow and we also pursue fast. Slow does not mean slow and inefficient, but our reverence for the automotive industry, and respect for life. We do not reduce the necessary processes in R&D and manufacturing, and we will do things strictly according to industry standards. Fast, is the future of Yo-Pao will improve the efficiency of car manufacturing, with its own UP super chassis to accelerate the iteration and manufacturing of new energy electric vehicles. ”
From Li Peng's words, it can be seen that he is more like a rare entrepreneur who not only has experience in the automotive industry, but also firmly believes in using the Internet to build cars.
We also began to wonder, what is the skateboard chassis of Yo-Yo Technology?
UP Super Chassis is the new car 2.0 era?
At this press conference, the top priority is definitely the UP super chassis of Yo-Run Technology, which is regarded as an upgraded version of the "skateboard chassis".
Both Canoo and Rivian companies in the United States have expressed the concept of "skateboard chassis", and Rivian has achieved mass production of pickup truck models based on skateboard chassis.
Their concept completely subverts the traditional idea of car manufacturing, the body in white is no longer the core component of the control model, but the body and chassis "upper and lower split" research and development and production, and finally achieve the purpose of "personalized upper body, lower chassis standardization".
The reason why Yo-Yo Technology said that they will be representatives of the new car 2.0 era is because the UP super chassis redefines the top-level logic, technical form and supply chain of automobile research and development.
In the past, the development and manufacture of a model required the coordination of major technical departments. This undoubtedly slows down the speed of mass production of models, which cannot adapt to the current situation of rapid upgrading and iteration of software and hardware of new energy vehicles today.
However, the UP super chassis is to make the chassis and the body no longer affect each other, dividing the car research and development into two, and the car fit only needs to verify the durability of the upper body. The standardized chassis with diversified bodywork not only realizes the acceleration of automobile manufacturing, but also realizes the user's demand for personalization and scenario.com.
The advent of the UP super chassis can release the constraints of styling on engineering development, and the tooling adjustment and process verification time of new models based on the super chassis can also be greatly shortened.
Therefore, Yo-Run Technology also confidently said that the emergence of the UP super chassis will shorten the time for developing and manufacturing new models by 6-12 months. This is a sign of the transition from the new energy electric vehicle manufacturing 1.0 era to the 2.0 era.
What is a UP Super Chassis?
Since it is such a significant product, it must have characteristics that today's traditional car chassis do not have. The Yo-Yo RUN UP Super Chassis is a three-electric, suspension, brake, steering, battery, electric drivetrain, suspension and other components, all arranged in the chassis.
While realizing the integrated design, it also has the ability to integrate intelligent hardware and software such as sensors, computing platforms and various service applications, and can also realize independent driving and continuous iteration of software and hardware.
When actually visiting the UP super chassis, the UP super chassis shown by Yo-Run Technology to the media adopted the structure of the front and rear double wishbones, and used composite leaf springs to replace the coil springs of traditional cars.
This composite leaf spring made of glass fiber, resin fiber and other materials also has a good effect on weight reduction. It is understood that in the future, the UP super chassis will provide a variety of suspension forms such as front and rear double wishbones, front double wishbones and rear multi-link. It will also provide electromagnetic suspension like Cadillac, as well as air suspension, etc., which will meet the needs of its customers.
From the communication between the product play/product driving and the yo-yo running technicians, it is understood that the UP super chassis of the yo-run will not only realize the multi-hardware selection scheme, but also the performance of its chassis will exceed the level of luxury cars such as bmw 5 series and Mercedes-Benz E series. Users who used to drive low-end and low-cost models can also improve their driving experience.
Four technical features of the UP Super Chassis
After communication, PinChao understands that the UP super chassis has four major technical characteristics.
1. Full line control technology
Full-by-wire technology is a redundant scheme for high-level autonomous driving, and the chassis is no longer limited by traditional mechanical steering, but is controlled by integrated circuits and "brains". This allows for separate development of the chassis from the body and more flexible placement of interior space.
At the same time, the excellent UP super chassis can realize the driving style of software-defined cars, no longer the switching of the driving mode of traditional fuel vehicles, but the change of all mechanical properties, which only needs to be achieved through software or APP, one-click switching.
2. Pluggable ring network electronic and electrical architecture
Pluggable ring network electrical and electronic architecture is to standardize the hardware interface of the UP super chassis in the VIU area, thereby realizing software platformization and soft and hard decoupling. The entire vehicle can be developed asynchronously, ultimately providing users with a personalized experience.
The expandable computing power of the UP super chassis also reserves a larger experience space for users, and in the future, users can not only enjoy the automatic driving solutions pre-installed by the main engine factory, but also enjoy the automatic driving solutions provided by other manufacturers to achieve automatic driving APP.
3. CTC battery system
CTC battery system is actually integrated with the chassis design, the battery compartment space utilization rate can be increased by 10%, compared with the same length of the model, the endurance can also be increased by 10%, the longest range can reach 1000 kilometers.
Yo-TrotUP super chassis can provide flexible combinations according to the specific needs of customers: in addition to CTC battery technology, compatible with the current mainstream CTP (Cell to Pack) and other different battery technologies; can also use lithium iron phosphate, lithium ternary and other battery materials; the future also support solid and semi-solid state batteries.
4. Highly integrated thermal management system
The highly integrated thermal management system of the UP super chassis can improve the thermal management efficiency of electric vehicles, so that the energy of air conditioning cooling or heating is more concentrated, thereby saving the power of the whole vehicle. It is reported that the energy efficiency of up the super chassis integrated energy management can be doubled, and the energy consumption of winter heating can be saved by more than 70%.
The "UP SPACE Super Cabin" redefines body functions
At the press conference, Yo-Pao Technology unveiled three different models equipped with the same UP super chassis, so that everyone can personally feel the magic of the separate design of the chassis and the body.
These three models not only have certain innovations in styling design, but also redefine their functional design. This is the innovation achieved by new energy vehicles and UP super chassis.
UP SPACE 01 super sedan is the design style of the coupe, the whole car line is not only low, but also from the front to the rear of the car almost a curve through, let us see the novel design.
The UP SPACE 02 Super MPV is slightly larger than the Volkswagen Golf's body size and accommodates three rows of seats. And because the UP super chassis saves body space, it can realize functions such as co-driver scene customization and rear seat business mode, which is a new interpretation of the MPV concept.
The UP SPACE 03 Super SUV has some "mecha" style, after the cancellation of the engine, it has a stronger space expansion ability, which can be customized according to functional needs.
For example, an electric energy kitchen can be stuffed into the front trunk to benefit users who prefer to travel by car. This is a feature that traditional SUVs of the past did not have.
Build a car, but do not do "C-end car brand"
There will be such a question here: will Yo-Run Technology build a car for the C-end, and when will it sell its own car?
It is not difficult to see from the information at the press conference that Yo-Yo Technology does both UP super chassis and upper body, but in Li Peng's online interview with the media, he clearly stated, "Yo-Pao can currently do vehicle manufacturing, but does not do brand operation and sales for C-end customers." ”
In other words, although Yo-Pao Technology has the ability to manufacture complete vehicles, it is still willing to do "green leaves", mainly to sell its UP super chassis, UP SPACE body, and vehicles to traditional automobile OEMs, new car-making forces, or cross-border companies that have never had experience in car manufacturing.
All they have to do is help others build cars, rather than start a car brand themselves, which seems to have some "Magna" flavor.
From Canno and Rivian in the United States to Yo-Yo and Box Cars in China, we are increasingly attracted by the four words "skateboard chassis".
At this press conference, Li Peng comprehensively explained the advantages and significance of its UP super chassis, which took root in the field of skateboard chassis, and it was precisely because of the subversive changes of skateboard chassis to the traditional automobile manufacturing model.
The spurt development of the era of new energy electric vehicles has forced car companies to innovate and trial and error. At the same time, there are many cross-border enterprises that see the steaming heat of electric vehicles and want to share a piece of the pie.
Yo-Yo UP super chassis is to make car companies and cross-border car manufacturers build cars simpler, faster and cheaper. Brand operation, sales model, user operation, etc., are left to those companies that want to sell cars to play their own roles.
This seems to be a new "turnkey" approach. From traditional fuel vehicles to new energy vehicles; from the platform-based car manufacturing of traditional car companies to the scene-based manufacturing of electric vehicle companies; from the integrated research and development of the whole vehicle to the research and development of the body and chassis split, we have seen the historic evolution of the automobile industry. The emergence of the Yo-Yo UP super chassis shows us an alternative future car-making model.
In the future, how many similar skateboard chassis manufacturers will appear, we do not know. But we should be able to feel that the car model based on the skateboard chassis will give us a lot of fresh and subversive cognition.
Perhaps, we only need to buy a chassis in the future, and the body can use whatever it wants. SUVs, cars, and MPVs may no longer be clear models, but different "scenarios".