Different from the previous ice and snow test drive, the difficulty of the "Thousand Miles Extreme Cold Challenge" is repeated. (WeChat public account: CNWAUTO)
More than 600 kilometers northwest from Changbai Mountain, it is another very popular scenery in Jilin Province. Despite the cold weather, all you see along the way is thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow, and it is impossible to stop people who cross the 45 degrees north latitude and rush to the challenge of extreme cold.
Chagan Lake, the largest natural lake in Jilin Province, has always been known for its fishing and hunting culture marked by winter fishing, and now nearly 3 million kilograms of fish are caught and sold every year, and the auction price of "head fish" is rising year by year, attracting countless tourists. In January, more than 300 square kilometers of the lake was completely frozen, and in addition to winter fishing, there was another group of people boiling with blood on this year's Chagan Lake.
On the bright mirror-like ice surface of Chagan Lake, FAW-Volkswagen has created a super-large ice and snow maze of more than 250,000 square meters with ice and snow. Tens of thousands of cubic meters of snow, the industry's first largest ice and snow labyrinth in history, which took 7 days to complete, ushered in a unique "Thousand Miles Extreme Cold Challenge" test drive in the extreme environment of minus 30 °C.
Different from the previous ice and snow test drive, the difficulty of the "Thousand Miles Extreme Cold Challenge" is repeated one after another, and the event sets up three highly topical hardcore challenges: "The Largest Ice and Snow Maze Comprehensive Challenge in History", "Linhai Snowfield Off-Road Challenge" and "Running Around the Lake ID" Endurance Challenge".
What kind of model is such a "head iron" that challenges the extreme cold on the ice and snow?
FAW-Volkswagen Lanjing, Tanyue, Tanyue X and ID.CROZZ families. In fact, this is the first media concentration test of the FAW-Volkswagen flagship SUV 2.5T model, and the first time that the ID.CROZZ family has conducted a battery life test in an extremely cold environment. 2021 is an important node for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of FAW-Volkswagen, and the listing in this year and the ID.CROZZ family, which officially opened a new journey in the field of FAW-Volkswagen electric vehicles, all carry the strategic significance of "heart to the future and start a new bureau", and the importance is self-evident.
Perhaps because of this, FAW-Volkswagen will carefully design such a series of difficult tracks to test several models to highlight corporate confidence and product strength, and prove what is the "safe choice".
Above the snow and ice
Even northerners, who are already accustomed to ice and snow, are quite shocked to see such a huge ice and snow labyrinth on the vast ice, and they will feel a little dizzy in it. Because in such an environment, it is difficult not to feel the size of heaven and earth and the smallness of human beings, of course, if you sit in a car you trust and watch all this, your sense of security will follow.
In the industry's largest, most complex and yet most interesting labyrinth, in addition to the giant drift loop for test drivers to bring an immersive driving adventure experience, the ID.4 CROZZ is specially set up with a sharp steering angle "ID. bend". Similarly, in order to test the power and four-wheel drive strength of FAW-Volkswagen SUV models, 20 extreme challenge subjects such as linear acceleration and cross-axle are set up in the maze to comprehensively simulate various extreme road conditions that users may face when using a car in winter.
In the extremely cold weather, on the smooth ice, even the "experienced" auto media people are inevitably trembling. In this state where walking is extremely difficult, the only thing that can bring security is the car around you.
As two models successively launched by FAW-Volkswagen South China Base Foshan MEB Factory, the ID.CROZZ family, with the blessing of Volkswagen Group's new electric vehicle MEB platform, has the innate advantage of "short suspension long axis", only 4.8 meters of ultra-small turning radius, the vehicle driving corner is very light, alleviating the user's trouble of repeatedly moving when turning or turning in a narrow space, so that they can cope with daily driving scenes and drive with confidence.
As a result, even in the complex snow and ice maze, ID.CROZZ is able to complete the challenge while presenting excellent driving pleasure. Under the commissioning of the engineers, the four-wheel drive, special control and "power" output were perfectly balanced, and the cornering posture was light and controllable, and the drift on the ice was not a problem.
Based on the powerful system of the new MEB intelligent pure electric platform, the ID.CROZZ family brings more interior space and smaller turning radius with a short overhang long shaft design, allowing flexible control; 50:50 golden ratio of vehicle counterweight, rear drive/four-wheel drive + five-link rear axle system, creating an excellent driving experience; coupled with the motor, electronic control, reducer "three-in-one" highly integrated electric drive system, even in the harsh driving environment, still allows the driver to experience pure driving pleasure with confidence.
Tanyue, who was born in the FAW-Volkswagen all-digital visualization factory, also pushed the playability of the ice surface to the extreme with the sporty debugging, passing all the challenges and drifting routes at the fastest speed, which amazed the whole audience. In order to better explore the performance limits of Tanyue, after the ice and snow maze "escaped", FAW-Volkswagen also arranged a 75km complex off-road section for Tanyue to challenge. The 4MOTION intelligent four-wheel drive system equipped with Tanyue can analyze the road conditions based on the driving electronic signal and quickly adjust the power distribution of each wheel. In normal road conditions, it mainly relies on front-wheel drive to provide an economical driving experience, and when it is in the extreme state, the power can be distributed to the rear wheels at most, so that the vehicle can easily get out of trouble and can also travel freely in the off-road section.
As the backbone of the FAW-Volkswagen SUV family, the Tanyue family has formed a high-end mid-size SUV product matrix. Over the past few years since its listing, Tanyue, as a full-featured SUV positioned to cope with multiple road conditions and apply to all scenarios, has fulfilled its original promise: to meet the needs of consumers to release themselves with confidence while assuming family responsibilities.
Under the extreme cold
In addition to experiencing the driving pleasure of FAW-Volkswagen SUV models and the ID.CROZZ family, the endurance of the two pure electric models is the most interesting topic of this test drive. As the sales of electric vehicles continue to rise, consumers in the north are also more and more concerned about whether electric vehicles can continue to sail in the extremely cold weather of minus 30 ° C.
As a result, in this test drive activity, FAW-Volkswagen challenged its ID.CROZZ family for the first time in an extremely cold environment, showing its true endurance strength through a low temperature environment of minus 30 °C and a 75-kilometer road experience around the lake.
At the beginning of the listing of the ID.4 CROZZ, the good battery life stability laid the foundation for the reputation of FAW-Volkswagen pure electric vehicle models, and this advantage was also continued after the listing of the ID.6 CROZZ. The ID.CROZZ family is equipped with a 175Wh/Kg high-density ternary lithium battery in the Ningde era, and the battery capacity of 84.8kWh is outstanding.
Therefore, in the test drive process, which lasted 2 hours of low-temperature endurance challenge, the ID.CROZZ family demonstrated its range anti-attenuation ability far superior to that of its electric vehicles with efficient motor efficiency and optimized energy recovery logic, combined with low wind resistance modeling design. It is worth mentioning that the ID. The CROZZ family is also equipped with CO2 heat pump air conditioning, which can increase the endurance by up to 28%, technically guarantee the endurance, avoid the sudden and significant reduction of power due to low temperatures, and reduce unnecessary trouble in the process of using the car.
At 45 degrees north latitude in the icy snow, mobile phones are often shut down at the moment of exposure to cold air, ID. The crozz family's performance is reassuring: in terms of the remaining endurance display, id. The computational logic of the CROZZ family also demonstrates the rigor of Ashkenazi industry. Its endurance algorithm is based on the current remaining power and nearly 300 kilometers of driving data and calculated the mileage, more reasonable and more realistic.
Judging from the ID.4 CROZZ lake test, the remaining mileage shown in the table does not appear during the driving process caused by low temperature endurance attenuation, what you see is what you get, which can largely eliminate the endurance anxiety caused by inaccurate mileage display, so that users have a good idea when traveling, and become a strong guarantee for them to worry and rest assured.
The most pioneering and unknown section of the "Thousand Miles Extreme Cold Challenge" this time was left to the 530TSI model participating in the media test: 130 kilometers of off-road roads including stone roads, dirt roads, bumpy roads, and jungle snow roads.
With the golden power combination of the 2.5T VR6 engine + DQ501 dual-clutch transmission, the "VW Xeon Heart" can deliver up to 500Nm▪of peak torque, and the deep torque output and power reserve allow the car's large SUV longer than 5 meters to maintain abundant power in harsh environments.
In Songlin Snow Road, because it is equipped with the sixth generation BorgWarner-Henderson 4MOTION intelligent four-wheel drive system, the environment has shown a more agile response speed; in the process of climbing the hill, this four-wheel drive system also achieves 100% power rear-wheel drive through intelligent power adjustment, ensuring the continuous output of the power of the environment, becoming a trustworthy "teammate" for users in the journey through the unknown; in the bumpy road conditions of the forest sea snowfield, how to maintain stability while taking into account the comfort and sports performance is the key to vehicle tuning, with DCC Dynamic chassis, suspension softness and hardness can be adjusted and changed in real time, so that the driver can face all road conditions when the power input is at ease, can calmly complete the action, the passengers on the car can also have a comfortable riding experience.
For most consumers who pay more attention to models than companies, it may not be understood how FAW-Volkswagen has become a sales champion for many years in such a fiercely competitive Chinese auto market, even under the double blow of the epidemic and lack of cores, it still topped with sales of 1.778 million vehicles in 2021, surpassing the second place SAIC Volkswagen by more than 300,000 vehicles.
For a joint venture and industry leader that has celebrated its 30th anniversary, the first step taken is like walking on thin ice like this ice test drive. The FAW-Volkswagen brand and mass base have left a long-term imprint on the road of this step by step. In the end, the hard power of each product, the driving pleasure of each smooth and vivid driving, and the safety protection brought by each car type converge into a force, just the word "rest assured", but it deeply affects generations of consumers.
Although the speed of progress of the times is always surprising, although the industry's wave of innovation is somewhat caught off guard, but with the continuous introduction of safe, comfortable and high-quality products such as the FAW-Volkswagen SUV and the ID.CROZZ family participating in the challenge, FAW-Volkswagen's industry leadership and posture are precisely "a thousand grinds and a strong blow, Ren'er's east, west, south and north winds".
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