An industry disruption usually starts from an unexpected perspective...
Ten years ago, Apple and Android joined forces to subvert the era of feature phones and let the world enter an intelligent life. At that time, the reason why smart phones as a new force in mobile phones could ban Nokia and Sony Ericsson was not better call quality, longer battery life, and even more resistant mobile phone cases, but to create a smartphone ecology that subverted the user experience.
Today, cars have entered the era of "software-defined cars", which is very similar to the nokia smartphone era. At this time, the technology giants who dream of subverting the user experience of the car have begun the road of truly disruptive innovation.
In recent years, with the continuous emergence of digital and intelligent technologies, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation has been triggered. Standing at the turning point of the times, many car brands that dare to innovate and break through have the opportunity to redefine future travel, and Xilis is one of them.
Unlike most new energy vehicle companies, Xilis is a low-key and pragmatic enterprise that has been taking the route of technical self-sustaining. Self-sustaining technology also means having the qualification to talk to peers or cross-border technology and technology giants on an equal footing, which increases the possibility of powerful alliances. No, based on Xilis's deep car manufacturing technology, Huawei's new high-end smart car brand AITO, which is deeply empowered, has been amazingly launched.
The transformation of mobile phones in those years changed people's social ways, and now the emergence of smart cars will subvert people's travel methods, and the user-centered era of car 3.0 is coming.
Based on technology, Cyrus raced wild on the extended-range track
So-called, remembered, there will be an echo.
When we needed to transition from the era of fuel vehicles to the era of new energy, hybrid vehicles took the lead in opening up our vision of new energy vehicles, and toyota Prius at that time proved that adding an electric motor to the car was a correct operation. The motor not only reduces the energy consumption of the car, but also further improves the power performance of the vehicle.
This was followed by pure electric vehicles, which made people have new expectations for automobile energy savings. Most people's daily use of cars are mainly low and medium speed, and the motor just happens to be an excellent driving solution for this car scene, but because the construction of the supplemental energy environment has not yet been in place, it has produced huge endurance anxiety. As a result, the last extended range car to enter has the opportunity to catch up later.
The biggest reason why people first paid attention to extended range cars is that it is easier to solve the mileage anxiety, but with the development of technology, battery life is no longer its biggest selling point, and now the huge advantage is to achieve energy saving and environmental protection on the basis of long endurance.
Cyrus may have seen this from the very beginning and has been working in the field of electric drive range extended range technology for many years. In 2016, Xilix established an R&D center in Silicon Valley. Since its establishment 6 years ago, it has accumulated more than 1,000 new energy-related patented technologies, and is one of the first automobile brands in China to master the core three-electric technology, especially in the field of extended range, it has achieved an industry leader position.
In fact, the reason why the drive solutions of range extended range vehicles continue to evolve rapidly is well understood. From the perspective of the operation mode of the automobile power unit, the engine of the traditional fuel vehicle needs to cope with complex road conditions, so the fuel economy is compromised in order to maintain sufficient power. If the engine only needs to do a good job of powering the motor, it can continue to maintain the speed range with the best fuel economy, and then by increasing the energy conversion ratio, it can continue to reduce the fuel consumption of consumers' daily cars.
For example, the pure electric drive range extended range platform (DE-i), showing the many core technologies of Xilix in the past six years, has been fully optimized in terms of integrated intelligent generator sets, gold drive combinations, battery PACK, intelligent control, etc., and can achieve a conversion rate of oil and electricity greater than 3.2kW.h/L, which is 20% higher than the industry.
First of all, the 1.5T depth Miller range special engine of Cyris has a maximum compression ratio of 15:1, and also uses lightweight pistons and crankshafts to reduce the inertia of motion, while improving the handling process of the cylinder wall to obtain a lower coefficient of friction, because the thermal efficiency of this engine can eventually be as high as 41%. On the other hand, the EGR system efficiency of this range extender can reach 30%, which further ensures the stability of the engine, significantly reduces fuel consumption and makes engine emissions more environmentally friendly.
An efficient energy conversion system is only the first step, and with it comes issues such as battery safety, ride experience, and power control.
In terms of battery safety, the use of CTP moduleless design battery PACK in each cell is the use of independent fireproof packaging technology, you know, in the past for secondary packaging of the battery pack, the battery module inside are dozens of cells packaged into a group, and the contact between the cells is the existence of battery hidden dangers.
As for the body chassis, take the AITO brand of the Qijie M5 as an example, the car uses an all-aluminum alloy chassis, as well as double wishbones, rear multi-link independent suspension structure, which can make the body maintain good stability and comfort under extreme control. At the same time, through the front axle equipped with asynchronous AC motor, rear axle equipped with permanent magnet synchronous motor dual motor four-wheel drive scheme, 100 km acceleration into the 4-second level, and in the more stringent WLTC working conditions, the endurance of more than 1100 km.
This is the strength of Xilis in the field of new energy vehicles, but it is not all its technical achievements. In order to truly understand Xilix, we also need to start with AITO, a new high-end smart car brand that is deeply empowered by Huawei.
Software as the core, AITO's new smart car ecosystem
It is the smartphone that has banned the camera, and the smartphone is not subverting the role of feature phones, but opening up a new social mode. On the basis of providing automotive hardware, Xilis created the AITO brand through Huawei's empowerment, not only to provide better car system functions, but also to create a new ecosystem of smart cars.
In the history of the development of the automobile industry, the era of traditional fuel vehicles that mechanically define the car lasted for a long time, when the car only played the role of a means of transportation, and considering the advantages and disadvantages of a car was only the basic transportation functions such as speed, passability, reliability, and fuel economy.
Since then, the car has entered the era of 2.0 intelligent electric vehicles, and the power of the drive unit and the computing power of the car machine system have become the symbols of this era. In the case that the motor and battery have fully met people's needs, and the system's computing power has soared but may not necessarily match the corresponding functions, this stage is more like a stage of development transition, and it still has not changed people's assumptions about cars.
The emergence of AITO is to inject the soul on the basis of smart cars and let the automotive industry enter the era of 3.0 smart cars.
The same is to make the car "smart", why not the car 2.5 era? This should be seen from the core idea, the past intelligent car era spelling system computing power, to see the configuration form, at best only let the user have a better car, but can not change the user's way of using the car. It's as if Nokia in the past provided N95 users with a longer screen and more built-in software, but it still failed to change users' expectations of mobile phones.
In the same year, Apple's first-generation iPhone came out, a phone with better hardware capabilities and a smoother system, and the key is that it provides a new model and experience. And that's exactly what AITO is trying to do — adding intelligence to AUTO.
As Xu Lin, rotating president of Xilix, said: "The key point of smart cars is that through intelligent interconnection, they can learn independently, actively adapt, and ultimately let smart cars have ideas and connections." Let the car no longer be a cold travel tool, but have an active service thinking. ”
In the era of smart car 3.0, the car is not just a means of transportation or a functional container, but also an important member of the Internet of Everything. The screen in the cockpit no longer only looks at the size, but through this screen, break the barriers of space and achieve unhindered contact with the outside world, which is the ability given by Huawei HarmonyOS to the AITO brand model.
Since the birth of Huawei HarmonyOS, it is to break the information gap between different devices, but the car is no longer an island, but a super terminal that can seamlessly circulate with people, mobile phones, smart homes, smart watches, etc., and truly realize the connection of all things.
When cars are intelligent and interconnected with all the devices of the tech society, there will be more things that people can do in the car, and with that comes the evolution of the car to match more usage scenarios. Just like the emergence and continuous evolution of smart phones, low-end cameras, MP3s, MP4s, radios and other products have gradually been eliminated, and even correspondingly internet radio, Meitu cameras and other APP.
So, it's not so much that the iPhone broke the phone landscape as it opened up an era. Today's AITO brand, adhering to this user-centered concept, makes car manufacturing no longer focus on how to improve the function of the car as the core idea, but has become how to provide people with better travel solutions as the primary task.
Take subversion as your responsibility and open a new era of travel
From the perspective of industrial products, cars are more difficult and more complex than mobile phones, if the original smart phone is born, then NOW AITO can be said to be ready to go.
Chongqing Xiaokang Group, backed by Xilis, has more than 30 years of car manufacturing history from its inception to the present, and has experienced the national process of automobile parts manufacturing to vehicle research and development and manufacturing, which can be called the sweeping monk in the car-making jianghu. And when the sweeping monk stood at the turning point of the times and met Huawei, who also had the dream of subverting it, a great idea of "opening a new era of travel" was born.
Therefore, the AITO brand is not only a strong combination of technology brands and automotive technology brands, but also another substantial landing of the restructuring and cross-border integration of the automotive industry, which is also the deep foundation of AITO to open the era of wisdom in the automotive industry 3.0.
In the past, car brands were only vehicle providers for users, or repair and maintenance service providers for after-sales cars. In the days to come, thanks to the blessing of Huawei's all-scenario smart ecosystem, AITO will provide comprehensive intelligent services in every link of user travel, truly achieving the experience of "travel as a service", thus officially becoming a supplier of people's travel solutions.
In the past, smartphones combined with the Internet changed people's social networking; today, smart cars combined with the Internet will change the way humans travel.