When traditional car companies face the new energy wave, most of them will not put eggs in the same basket, such as Geely Automobile, which has both extreme krypton cars that focus on the high-end electric market, geometric cars that choose to take the people-friendly route, and Maple Leaf Cars that are about to fade out of people's sight and currently play the B-end market.
Although it has abandoned the main battlefield of new energy and retreated to the operating travel market, it is clear that this strategy of avoiding its sharp edge has not allowed Maple Leaf Automobile to regain its life, and the sales performance has been in a state of sliding on the ground for a long time, especially in the past two or three months, the monthly sales data of the entire brand has not broken through three digits. The market performance of the pull-across and the small transparent brand power make Maple Leaf Auto a replacement at any time.
But it is clear that Geely does not intend to give up on this, and it has joined forces with Nirvana's reborn Lifan to create a new model with a power exchange mode - maple leaf 60S. It is reported that the car will mainly face the B-end operation market and be officially listed in February.
Although it is a brand new model, the performance of the Maple Leaf 60S in the face value is indeed a bit stretched, and the previous Maple Leaf 80S and Maple Leaf 30X, in the design of this piece are borrowed from Geely's models, and maple leaf 60S follows the geely Emgrand GL that has been discontinued, and uses a closed forward grille to highlight the identity of its electric vehicle. This design that adopts the method of taking it does save time and effort, but it also derails it from the entire market trend in terms of appearance, and the age is full of flavor.
The performance of power and endurance is also mediocre, with a single motor with a maximum power of 100 kW, a peak torque of 230 N·m, and a NEDC endurance of 415 km. If it weren't for the power exchange mode, which is a long lean body, it really wouldn't be much to see. Officials said that the car will provide 30 minutes of DC fast charging and 60 seconds of power exchange two modes, and plans to build 5,000 substations by 2025 to meet the power exchange needs of 1 million vehicles. Obviously, it is to win the favor of the operating market by improving the efficiency of energy replenishment.
It is undeniable that the power exchange model does have a lot of attractiveness for the operating market, but it is obviously not enough to turn around just by relying on this.