Japanese university professor dismantles China Wuling Hongguang MINI EV: costs about 26,900 yuan

IT home January 25 news, the starting price of only 2.88 million yuan Wuling Hongguang MINI EV can be described as a real fire, last year in China sold nearly 430,000 vehicles, the new energy annual sales crown, this car has also attracted overseas attention, how did this car achieve such a low price?

According to the Nikkei Chinese Network, Professor Masayoshi Yamamoto of Nagoya University in Japan and others disassembled and analyzed the car and found that by simplifying the brakes, cooling systems, semiconductors and other borrowing existing products, a low price of 28,800 yuan was achieved.

After disassembling the highest-end version of the Wuling Hongguang MINI EV (2020 model, 38,800 yuan), Professor Masayoshi Yamamoto and others estimated that the cost structure of the car was a total of 480,000 yen (about 26,900 yuan). There are two reasons for this low cost. One is that it is not equipped with devices that are considered common sense on ordinary pure electric vehicles. In particular, the regenerative brakes and water cooling devices are eliminated, and the effect of reducing costs is obvious. Another reason is that the parts are equipped with existing products and are not designed for purpose.

IT Home learned that the dismantling also found that The Wuling Hongguang MINI EV simplified the brakes, and the semiconductor borrowed products for home appliances. Although it is easy to damage, take the entire module replacement design for easy repair.

According to the official news of Wuling, as of December 31, 2021, the overall sales volume of Hongguang MINIEV has exceeded 550,000 since its listing, of which 426452 units in 2021 will be sold, winning the annual sales of new energy.