New Car Notes
Written by | Chen Hui
On February 19, BYD Yuan PLUS was officially listed, compared with the pre-price, the official price of the new car was 1,000 yuan lower, and a new configuration was added, and after comprehensive subsidies, the price of 5 models was 131,800-159,800 yuan.
It is worth mentioning that meta PLUS is not just developing in China. BYD defines it as a global car for the global market, after the domestic listing, the meta PLUS will also be listed in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, America, the Middle East and other regions, such as in Australia, the meta PLUS will be listed under the name OFTO 3.
Flying across the ocean and selling around the world, where does the confidence of yuan PLUS come from? What are its advantages over competitors?
From the new platform, completely get rid of the "oil to electricity"
As you all know, many car companies will use a workaround in the early stage of entering the new energy, that is, "oil to electricity", BYD is not exempt. Although "oil to electricity" has many advantages, such as short research and development time and low cost, because fuel power and new energy power have essential differences in structure, the market is not cold to "oil to electricity" models.
The yuan PLUS completely took off the hat of "oil to electricity" - it is from the BYD e platform 3.0, and like the BYD Dolphin previously launched, it belongs to the platform's first compact SUV model. The benefits of the pure electric drive platform are at least three points, first, thanks to a more reasonable system structure layout, the meta PLUS with a length of 4455mm and a wheelbase of 2720mm has a greater practical space; second, the safety of the whole vehicle has been significantly improved; third, the new platform is also very suitable for the driving stability of the whole vehicle.
Although most models are now popularized pure electric drive platform, the platform advantage is not unique to meta PLUS, but no matter how to say, yuan PLUS is a pure pedigree, genuine pure electric model.
The exterior is not stunning, but the interior has a lot to offer
We must admit that since the joining of international big-name designer Egger, BYD's design progress in recent years has been rapid. As a new model, the Yuan PLUS also reflects the design level that BYD should have.
In terms of appearance, the meta PLUS adopts the Drgan Face 3.0 design language, thanks to the popularity of BYD's many explosive models in recent years, consumers are already familiar with this design. For example, the meta PLUS uses the same by-bydirhan EV through-type front face decoration strip, but the meta PLUS exterior design is more simple and does not have much special.
But designers have to work with money, and compared to the shape, the interior design of the metaPLUS is quite unrestrained. According to the designers, the interior of the new car is inspired by the gym, creating a unique young sports atmosphere. To mention a few details, the metaPLUS center console is shaped like a "dragon's whisker", with muscle streamlines running through the door panels and dashboards; the air conditioning outlet is designed in the style of dumbbells; the central armrest is like the tracks of a treadmill; and more specifically, the door panel decoration of the new car adopts a fresh shape - like a guitar, in which the red strings can also make a similar sound.
After reading this unique interior design, the author has to admire the wisdom of BYD, the yuan PLUS is only 150,000, rather than competing with everyone for the difficult shape, it is better to spend some effort on the entire set of interiors that make young people remember deeply, at present, BYD's selection is successful.
Excellent performance, standard blade battery is very skinny
In terms of hard-core technology, meta PLUS also came up with BYD's master technology. The new car is equipped with a blade battery as standard, the battery capacity of the low and medium is 49.92kWh, the battery capacity of the medium and high is 60.48kWh, the cruising range under clTC conditions is 430km and 510km, and the power consumption of 100 km is 12.1kWh, compared with the mainstream of the same level of 13.8kWh of 100 km power consumption, the yuan PLUS has a more excellent energy efficiency.
In terms of power, the yuan PLUS is equipped with an eight-in-one electric drive system, in which the book parameters of the drive motor are 204 hp, the maximum torque is 310 Nm, the book data is comparable to the 2.0T fuel engine, and the official zero hundred acceleration time is 7.3 seconds. Compared to the 8-10 seconds of the competitors in the same class, this performance has already won. In the previous media test drive activities, the best result measured out reached 7.1 seconds, which fully shows that the overall performance of the meta PLUS is very good.
Not only that, the performance of the metaPLUS with the new pure electric drive platform in terms of handling can also be remarkable, although the tuning idea of the whole vehicle is still comfortable, but under the premise of fully ensuring comfort, the meta PLUS can also provide sufficient chassis support during intense driving, bringing the driver a better sense of human-vehicle communication.
Intelligence is not limited to the car machine, but the whole vehicle
In terms of intelligence, metaPLUS has created a new concept, that is, vehicle intelligence. For most models, intelligence is the intelligence of the car machine, and installing a car machine with an intelligent system on a car is intelligent. However, the metaPLUS is different from them, it is equipped with BYD independent research and development, and has complete intellectual property rights, dedicated to the field of vehicle control of the operating system BYD OS, through the complete decoupling of the vehicle hardware, effectively optimize the allocation and management of the vehicle's resources.
In addition, the metaPLUS is also equipped with such as the integrated ACC-S&G start-stop full-speed adaptive cruise system, AEB automatic emergency braking system, ICC intelligent pilot system, TSR traffic sign intelligent identification system, LDWS lane departure warning system, BSD blind spot monitoring system, etc. It can be said that in terms of the intelligent driving assistance configuration that is generally valued by the Chinese people, the meta PLUS also has a competitive advantage.
『 Write at the end 』
Looking at the pricing alone, the BYD dollar PLUS is not cheap, and even slightly higher than the competitors of the same level. But even so, in just one month of pre-sale period, it still received 20,000 orders, and the enthusiasm of consumers is enough to prove that in the field of new energy, BYD's appeal can indeed not be underestimated.
Of course, influence ultimately pays for by products. Overall, the comprehensive strength of the metaPLUS is also worthy of its pricing, the new BYD e platform 3.0 gives this car excellent genes, blade battery technology, eight-in-one electric drive system, new design are its plus. Judging from the pre-sale orders in the early stage, the yuan PLUS is very likely to become BYD's main sales model this year and continue to serve its annual sales.
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