Many people may feel that traditional luxury brands, such as BBA, are stronger than the new forces in terms of comprehensive strength, after all, their brand accumulation is deeper, their car manufacturing experience is richer, and they have more technical barriers, especially in terms of safety, consumers are more willing to believe that BBA can ensure the safety of passengers. But is this really the case? The answer may be no, the Weilai ES8 and Lantu FREE created by their own brands are actually good in terms of security.
Let's take the most popular BMW X3 in the BBA as an example, it is the same as Lantu FREE, Weilai ES8, have experienced C-NCAP testing, and for C-NCAP, I believe that people who have some understanding of the automobile market will not be unfamiliar, which is one of the most authoritative automotive safety evaluation standards in China, and its achievements have a high gold content in the field of automotive safety.
All three cars received five-star ratings in the C-NCAP, but the specific scoring rates were still different. The NIO ES8 may have been a bit overtaken by the other two opponents due to its early launch time, especially in terms of pedestrian protection. And Lantu FREE in terms of occupant protection, and BMW X3 is actually quite close, the performance of both are more prominent, after all, the crash test test is the vehicle's ability to resolve the collision energy and the protection of passengers, for example, in the complete frontal crash test, Landu FREE is the highest scoring rate among the three cars, reaching 93.38%, compared to bmw X3's 92.23% and Weilai ES8's 84.82% have many advantages. However, all three cars have full scores in the side crash test, and they have not made the BMW X3 dominant, and the whipping test three cars have achieved a scoring rate of more than 90%.
(NIO ES8)
(Arashi-tt Free)
(BMW X3)
In terms of active safety, BMW X3 and Landu FREE have obtained a score rate of 100%, and the Weilai ES8 has a big gap, especially landu FREE in the automatic braking ability (AEB-CCR) and vehicle-to-pedestrian automatic braking ability (AEB-VRU-PED) two projects, have achieved higher scores than BMW X3, in fact, the three have cameras plus millimeter wave radar programs, but each in the computing power and recognition accuracy rate is different, which led to the specific score of the high.
Of course, simply looking at the crash test results, in fact, there is only a reference role, we want to understand the safety of a car, or we have to analyze from multiple angles and levels. From the perspective of body material, BMW X3 uses a large number of aluminum alloy materials and 1000MPa of high-strength steel, which can be said to take into account the functions of lightweight and energy absorption collapse, which is also the characteristic of the CLAR platform.
In order to reduce the weight of the vehicle, the car uses a large number of aluminum alloy materials, and some core structures also use 7 series aluminum alloys that meet aviation standards. Such a practice is indeed not small for the lightweight of the body, and the entire hull weight of the NIO ES8 is only 335 kg. Moreover, the aluminum alloy material can also absorb the collision energy very well, which is why the NIO ES8 can take five stars in the C-NCAP test.
The body of the Landu FREE is quite attractive in the same class, and its body has more than 31% of the hot-formed steel with a regional application strength of more than 1500MPa, which is higher than the Audi e-tron and BMW X7. In addition, Lantu FREE applies TRP+Patch composite structure thermoforming A-pillar and 2000MPa aluminum-silicon coated door anti-collision beam technology, which are the world's first unique technologies on Landu FREE, and with their blessing, the structural strength of Landu FREE has reached a higher level.
In addition to the body structure, in terms of safety configuration, these three models also have a certain gap. On the airbags, bmw X3, NIO ES8, and Landu FREE all provided a number of airbags including the main passenger airbag and the front side airbag. However, Landu FREE is equipped with the coupling point explosion technology of the co-pilot overhead airbag and the side air curtain, and the protective area of the airbag is larger than that of the traditional airbag, which can more effectively reduce the secondary injury to the occupants and maximize the safety of the co-pilot passengers.
In summary, from the perspective of safety performance, we can find that although the BMW X3 has outstanding results in the crash test, the Lantu FREE has a higher scoring rate in multiple sub-projects, and combined with the safety configuration and other aspects, Weilai ES8 and Lantu FREE actually have the ability to compete. Moreover, after undergoing authoritative tests, the battery packs of WEILAI ES8 and Lantu FREE are very stable, and there is no spontaneous combustion or explosion. Therefore, traditional luxury brands do not necessarily do more comprehensive in terms of security performance than new forces.