The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is about to enter the final month countdown, and the atmosphere of the winter Olympics is getting warmer and warmer. Just recently, the automotive industry has also launched a different kind of "Winter Olympics", and the 2021 China Auto Ice and Snow Challenge was held in Changbai Mountain. In the low temperature ice and snow environment of -20 °C, it shows the real performance of many production cars on sale under extremely cold working conditions.
However, the most surprising thing about the whole event was not the participating vehicles, but the Alpha T, the Polar Fox, which was the official designated guarantee car of the event, which stole the limelight. Relying on its strong performance advantages, it is perfectly competent for racing entry, event dynamic monitoring, traffic protection, race road condition inspection, etc., and has also participated in the challenges of four major ice and snow events, and the results directly crush a number of fuel vehicle players, which can be called "field sweeping monks".
Extremely cold snow is like walking on the ground, and the whole terrain is full of challenges
Ice and snow roads are known to minimize the grip of car tires, which is an extremely demanding challenge for the vehicle's power, handling, body stability and quality reliability. But at the same time, why is the ice and snow pavement not the best occasion to show off?
Just like alpha T, in the snow pile race and the snow elk race of the Ice and Snow Challenge, it ran 24.10s and 5.63s respectively; the snow comprehensive performance challenge also ran 59.05s, which is a dimensionality reduction for the same level of fuel vehicle participants.
The reason why the Polar Fox Alpha T can be ahead of many similar models depends on its unique "hardcore" technical advantages.
At the beginning of the Alpha T project, Jihu Automobile defined it as an all-terrain performance pure electric SUV, and was empowered by Magna's global luxury manufacturing technology, with the only pure electric adaptive all-terrain four-wheel drive system in China.
Alpha T provides a rare snow, mud, sand 3 driving modes in the same class, the system can combine real-time road conditions and vehicle status, make optimized control in milliseconds, instantly adapt to different road conditions and automatically distribute front and rear axle power to achieve the best performance output. Therefore, even when driving in slippery extremely cold snow, it can still show reliable climbing or getting out of trouble.
Polar Fox Alpha T is also equipped with a three-in-one high-integrated power system jointly created by Siemens, Valeo and BorgWarner, three top international companies, with a single motor power of 160kW, which can burst out 360N·m of torque in an instant, and the 4.6s 100 km acceleration allows it to ride in the same level of fuel vehicles, and it is a piece of cake to deal with all-terrain road conditions.
Of course, the 50:50 front and rear axle-to-load ratio and the all-aluminum hollow closed section subframe provide full support for the excellent handling of the Polar Fox Alpha T. Combined with tCS-driven anti-skid and many other features, even when driving on ice and snow roads, Alpha T can give the driver a strong sense of control, so that you can always be on the verge of running out of control.
"Divine Skills" are practiced to eliminate winter anxiety
With a hardcore, purely electrically adaptive all-terrain all-terrain four-wheel drive system and super power performance, it's no surprise that the Polar Fox Alpha T can conquer the ice and snow arena. But as we all know, the cold winter has always been a "nightmare" that pure electric vehicles cannot avoid, not to mention that now in the extremely cold environment of -20 ° C, pure electric vehicles can be described as exhaustive. However, the Extreme Fox Alpha T has practiced a "cold resistance divine skill".
The three-in-one powertrain equipped with the Alpha T is powerful and has achieved an ultra-high electric drivetrain system efficiency of 93.5%. Combined with the iBooster electronic brake assist system, it can provide 0.3G value energy recovery and deceleration, and the ESPhev system can achieve a 20% increase in endurance. Alpha T ranks first in the industry with a 26% energy recovery rate of 26% and a cruising range of 653km, which is also an industry-leading level.
However, when it comes to the key to alpha T cold resistance, it is actually in the battery. The Alpha T uses SK high-density batteries, which not only has a long driving life of 10 years and 500,000 kilometers, but also does not significantly attenuate in low temperature environments. Even at an ambient temperature of -20°C, the alpha T's battery discharge is greater than 85%, which is higher than most pure electric models on the market.
Not only that, Alpha T also has a unique intelligent constant temperature protection function, which can learn the user's driving time, distance and ambient temperature, intelligent thermal heating of the battery, and power battery constant temperature protection after fast charging or slow charging.
With the Jihu 20kw wall-mounted DC charging pile, it has intelligent networking, remote control, low temperature charging, constant power output, appointment charging, plug-and-play function and safety protection to ensure the efficiency and safety of charging.
It is worth mentioning that in the Ice and Snow Challenge, Alpha T also participated in the air conditioning heating challenge, and the temperature in the car quickly rose from -17 °C to 8.2 °C in 10 minutes, and the whole process only consumed the equivalent of 9km of battery life.
Of course, for the owner of the emergency car, the 10min warm-up may be too long, but fortunately, Alpha T also provides a key backup car, which can be heated remotely through the ARCFOX Polar Fox APP, open the steering wheel and seat heating in advance, and bid farewell to the various anxieties of the winter car.
Leapfrog the new benchmark and lead the intelligent experience of the times
Judging from the excellent performance of Alpha T in extremely cold environments, it is full of deep thinking about user experience in terms of reliability and comfort. As a blockbuster of Polar Fox facing the new era, Alpha T also shows benchmark strength in terms of intelligence.
For example, the α-Pilot intelligent driving system matches more than 20 intelligent perception hardware, including 5 fifth-generation millimeter-wave radars, with a detection range of up to 210 meters, and various blind spots that the human eye cannot reach can be pre-perceived. The unique forward/backward traversal warning function effectively deals with the "ghost probe" that is caught off guard.
Based on the powerful hardware configuration, the Alpha T is also equipped with highway assist enhancements that further enable automatic lane changes on highways in the range of 60-120 km/h. In addition, ASL intelligent speed limit cruise can be combined with the speed limit signal of the high-definition map or the road speed limit sign to intelligently control the cruise speed and avoid speeding tickets. The combination of the two can greatly improve the convenience and safety reliability of highway driving.
Alpha T's friendly index for novice drivers is also directly full, full-scene automatic parking, remote control parking, 360 ° transparent chassis, panoramic AR obstacle display and other functions, eliminating various anxieties of daily driving.
The sense of experience in terms of intelligent interaction has been greatly improved, and Alpha T has brought a high-quality car experience across the era. The interior follows Magna's global luxury manufacturing standards, and the quality of the craftsmanship is superior. The three-screen interconnection meets all the needs of the future use of cars, and supports a variety of interactive methods such as gestures, voice, and face recognition. The 20.3-inch ultra-wide 4k large screen has a delicate look and feel, revealing a different taste texture.
In people's conventional understanding, low temperature has always been a hurdle that pure electric vehicles cannot pass. However, the Polar Fox Alpha T has refreshed our understanding of pure electric vehicles, relying on the innovation of three electric technologies to achieve the industry's leading winter endurance retention rate. At the same time, as an all-terrain performance pure electric SUV, the Polar Fox Alpha T has a strong all-terrain crossing strength, which can not only meet the intelligent and comfortable urban road driving, but also take you through the countryside to wade through the mountains and waters.