What will the cars of the future look like? On January 5th, the Chang'an UNI-V Global First Experience Tour with the theme of "Driving the Future Realm" was successfully concluded in the mountain city of Chongqing. Unforgettable appearance, understand the power you want, give you the configuration you need... Regarding the shape of future cars, Changan UNI gave its own thoughts at this test drive meeting.
Take advantage of the momentum and UNI-V to form the finale highlight
In 2022, Changan Automobile's annual cumulative sales exceeded 2.3 million units, up 14.8% year-on-year. Among them, the achievements of Changan Chinese brand cars are particularly dazzling, and the annual cumulative sales of Changan Chinese brand cars exceeded 1.75 million in 2021, an increase of 16.7% year-on-year.
The best selling, of course, is the Changan CS75 series. This model has become the sales ace of Changan Automobile, with terminal sales exceeding 280,000 units in the whole year, an increase of 5.6% year-on-year, surpassing many joint venture competitors of the same level.
Another champion model is the Changan CS55 series, which is a "phenomenon-level explosion" in the 100,000-yuan SUV market, with annual cumulative sales exceeding 140,000 units, an increase of 27.9% year-on-year, and its strength cannot be underestimated.
In terms of cars, the annual sales volume of the Changan Yidong series exceeded 170,000 units, continuing to maintain the market position of "the leader of the national car". In the high-end market, as the high-end product sequence "UNI" models continue to penetrate the market, the average monthly sales volume has steadily exceeded 10,000 vehicles, and this series of models has finally achieved good results of annual sales of more than 120,000 vehicles, becoming the reputation of Chinese car brands in the high-end market.
For Changan Automobile, with its good layout, excellent product line and stable quality, it has achieved sales growth in this year's turmoil, which is already a huge success. However, Changan Automobile's ambitions are far more than this, in the face of the new situation and new formats, Changan Automobile released the "New Automobile, New Ecology" development strategy in August 2021 to accelerate the transformation into an intelligent low-carbon travel technology company.
Focusing on the end market, the key model UNI-V launched after the release of the new strategy is undoubtedly a key part of the company's transformation. It is worth mentioning that UNI-V is the first sedan under the Ark architecture, and under the powerful technical empowerment of this architecture, UNI-V is a must in terms of design, power, intelligence and control.
Taking advantage of the momentum is changan automobile's sales trend this year, and from the fourth quarter of the release of a variety of new cars, including UNI-V, Changan Automobile after the product potential to improve, 2022 is more promising.
The intelligent ark architecture that will evolve will be landed
At present, the scalable modular platform architecture has gradually become the "magic weapon" of major automobile companies, and more and more car companies are laying out their own modular platforms, including Chinese car companies such as Changan Automobile.
The solution of structural problems has never relied on clever moves, but can only rely on technological progress. At present, Changan Automobile has accumulated 6083 domestic and foreign patents, including 1545 invention patents. Since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", Changan Automobile has invested more than 110 billion yuan in research and development. It has 194 laboratories in 16 fields, including vibration and noise, crash safety, braking performance, chassis testing, and drive systems.
With the accumulation of many years of technical experience, the Chang'an Ark architecture broke out of the cocoon.
The Chang'an Ark architecture is not a simple platform, but a higher-dimensional architecture. It is understood that the Ark architecture uses intelligence and big data to empower the body, chassis and other vehicle basic performance iterative evolution, set high-end automatic driving pre-layout, intelligent growth of electronic and electrical architecture, continuous improvement of the basic modular platform, to meet the global mainstream safety evaluation system of high safety benchmarks and complete process assurance system in one.
The technological sophistication of the Ark architecture was evident in the first sedan, the UNI-V. This new car is equipped with a high-end intelligent driver assistance system, which integrates full-speed domain adaptive cruise and intelligent lane recommendation, trigger lane change function, the driver can issue lane change instructions through the turn signal lever or voice control, and when the conditions are met, the vehicle intelligently changes lanes and reduces the driving burden.
Forward-looking power layout is also a major advantage of UNI-V, thanks to the Ark architecture empowerment, UNI-V from the underlying kinematics, reconsider the suspension hard point design, based on advanced genetic algorithms, after tens of thousands of iterations of evolution, fundamentally optimize the suspension KC characteristics, with better handling stability and driving texture.
In addition, UNI-V also has an active intelligent safety system, equipped with Continental's new 3rd generation ESC body stability control system, which can see six roads and prevent problems before they occur.
In addition to technology, user-centered car-building thinking is also one of the cores of the Ark architecture. Based on the upgrading of user needs, UNI-V under the Ark architecture not only has a new generation of ergonomic sports seats to provide all-round support for the driver, but also the IMS intelligent cockpit interaction system can also realize the face brushing on the car, insensitively log in to the FACE ID super account, automatically call exclusive vehicle settings, provide active services such as integrated fatigue driving intervention, and bring users a pleasant driving experience.
Leading track ARK architecture sets the industry benchmark
The idea of a "software-defined car" seemed like a fantasy in the early years, but by the time cars were ridiculed to the outside world about becoming computers with four wheels, the value sequence of the automotive industry chain had changed.
From traditional cars to intelligent networked vehicles, the biggest change is that the vehicle development cycle has been greatly shortened, which means that the operation mode, research and development mode, manufacturing model, and supply chain model of car companies have begun to encounter the challenge of digital reconstruction. When the complete electrical and electronic architecture and the software architecture that controls the entire car become the brain of the car, the competition in the field of automotive software opens up a new track.
At present, both international and domestic, the layout of electronic and electrical architectures is accelerating. The successful landing of the Changan Automobile Ark architecture marks that Chinese auto brands are entering a new era of comprehensive intelligent car manufacturing, and also raise the safety line of Chinese cars, providing a world-class driving experience.
Under the background of intelligence and big data, the Ark architecture integrates the four core values of "future technology pre-positioning, human-vehicle integration genetics, experience design diversification, and quality bottom line leapfrogging", and continuously evolves and continuously improves the basic performance of the vehicle. This is a perfect interpretation of the new car-making concept of Changan Automobile's R&D 4.0 era, and also the evolutionary carrier of Changan's new car-making technology.
In addition, the Ark architecture is not only more compatible with new forms of energy, but also offers more powerful computing power and the possibility of intelligent driving. It can provide users with high-value products that are constantly evolving and improving, bringing high safety, pleasant driving and high-quality car experience. From the perspective of this product, the importance of the landing of the Ark architecture is self-evident.
Like "Noah's Ark", the Changan Automobile Ark architecture not only has a perfect internal structure, overall coordination and unity, and perfectly combines Changan Automobile's intelligent technology with the basic technology of car manufacturing; more like "Noah's Ark", it can continuously evolve itself and make self-breakthroughs to adapt to future environmental changes, bringing users a safe, reliable, trustworthy and future-oriented car experience.
Carrying the good expectations of users, the Ark architecture will further exert its potential and become the boat of hope for Chinese auto brands.
(Editor-in-Charge: Linghua Kang)