The most important thing in this era may be a new car brand. Among the many new brands born last year, "Avita" is undoubtedly a special one.
Different from the fledgling cross-border new cars, but also different from the combination of independent brands and the Internet, Avita is like a "most familiar stranger", standing behind it is Changan Automobile, Ningde Times, and Huawei, three old friends, can be said to have brought together the "Wolong Phoenix" in the automotive field with its own strength.
A few months ago, when Avita carried its first model, the Avita 11, was unveiled, speculation was more about how this cooperation model differed from the average supplier. When the experience of the automotive industry collides with the experience of ITC giants and energy giants, what kind of chemical reaction occurs? What kind of model was built?
On March 13, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the declaration of the 354th batch of new cars in the "Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Product Announcements", "Avita 11" was listed among them, and the speculation was finally revealed little by little.
Empowered by the "Big Three" to gnaw on the hardest bones?
At the brand launch 4 months ago, Avita presented their first model, the Avita 11. This model with "futurism" as the core design concept is bold and confident in the overall design, with obvious visual impact. Four months later, judging from the photos given by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the mass-produced version of the car almost 100% restored the concept design, retaining the sharp lines of the body and the highly visually impactful F-type headlights.
Looking at the specific parameters, the Avita 11 is 4880mm long, 1970mm wide, 1601mm high, and has a wheelbase of 2975mm, which is a standard medium to large SUV size. Compared with the Model Y and NIO ES6 currently on sale, the Avita 11 has a slightly longer length and wheelbase, but the body height is lower, the overall shape is more "flat", and the sneakback design reinforces this visual effect.
Avita's first model is aimed at the most competitive area in the market today – medium and large SUVs. In order to kill the "Blood Road" in this "King of the Scroll King" field, the "Big Three" behind Avita can be said to have used their own trump cards, the core of which is the CHN platform jointly created by the three parties.
According to the announcement, Avita 11 is equipped with a dual motor combination provided by Huawei, with a front motor of 195kW, a rear motor of 230kW, and a maximum power of 425kW. This combination also allows it to accelerate from 100 km/h to within 4 seconds.
In terms of batteries, with the blessing of the second largest shareholder of the Ningde era, Avita 11 is equipped with a 90.38kWh ternary lithium battery pack with a maximum endurance of 600km. At the same time, it took the lead in using the new generation of CTP moduleless technology in the Ningde era, which directly composed of battery packs with batteries, reducing module space and materials, improving the energy density of battery packs, and liberating the space required for the layout of power batteries.
This makes it easy to see why the Avita 11's low body height and walking design still guarantee head space in the rear.
According to the disclosure of the previous brand conference, Avita also plans to reach 700km+, and it is not known whether a long-lasting version will be launched in the future.
In addition to the power battery, the Avita 11 is equipped with a 750V high-voltage system with a maximum charging power of 240kW and a charging time of only 15 minutes for 30% to 80%. The high-voltage pure electric platform has a leap forward in the efficiency, endurance and fast charging speed of electric vehicles, and the only thing that may affect the experience is that the high-voltage overcharge network that is not perfect enough at present limits the play of the fast charging level.
However, 2022 is destined to be the year when the high-voltage platform starts to "explode". Lantu, Xiaopeng and Ideal, which have previously begun to preheat the high-pressure platform, will successively launch products, and Avita is also the earliest batch of high-voltage platforms. With the landing of high-voltage pure electric platform products, the speed of high-voltage superfill pile infrastructure will also accelerate. For Chang'an, which does not currently have a self-operated charging system, it may be a quick and feasible solution for Avita to quickly spread the east wind with the help of high-voltage supercharge piles. Or is Avita another option?
CTP battery, 600km endurance, Avita 11's power battery configuration is reminiscent of the CATL era launched two months ago to replace the brand EVOGO. EVOGO enables cross-brand battery swaps through "chocolate swap blocks" using CTP technology, each "chocolate swap block" can provide an end life of about 200 km, and each car can be equipped with up to 3 chocolate batteries, which can provide exactly 600 km of battery life.
For Avita, who has a deep relationship with the Ningde era, joining the power exchange system of the Ningde era and enjoying the power exchange service may be another good choice?
Another suspense in Avita is Hua Wei. As a company that has "blossomed at multiple points" in the automotive field, what difference will Huawei bring to Avita?
At the previous brand launch, Avita announced that the CHN platform will be equipped with Huawei's smart cockpit platform CDC, autonomous driving domain controller ADC and some three-electric components. This means that in addition to the aforementioned dual motors in front and rear, the Avita 11's smart cockpit and autonomous driving hardware and software solutions are also provided by Huawei. Compared with the previous BAIC Polar Fox and Xilis, this cooperation will be more in-depth.
According to the information given by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Avita 11 is equipped with 3 lidars, 6 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars, 13 cameras, and has 400Tops computing power, which can realize high-level intelligent driving in all scenarios such as high-speed and complex road conditions in urban areas. Compared with the Beiqi Polar Fox Alpha S HI edition cooperated by Huawei last year, the two cars are equipped with the same number of sensors, but the computing power is one piece higher than the 352Tops of the Extreme Fox, providing more computing power redundancy.
Before last year's Shanghai Auto Show, Huawei showed off a high-end intelligent driving solution and earned enough eyeballs. It is conceivable that on the basis of the same computing platform and sensor configuration, after a year of algorithm iteration and more abundant computing power, the performance of Avita 11 in intelligent driving is still worth looking forward to.
However, such a high intelligent hardware and software configuration, the cost can also be imagined.
At last
As the first model empowered by the "Big Three", the first shot of the Avita 11 has been fired, which also allows us to see the opening of a new cooperation model in the era of intelligent electric vehicles.
Just from the content of the publicity, we can not speculate more information, but from the perspective of various parameter indicators, Avita 11 can be said to be in the configuration of the "blood cost". Whether it is Changan, Huawei or Ningde Times, they have poured their own top technology into this car. As for what kind of spark they will spark, will it achieve the effect of 1+1+1>3? We'll have to wait and see.