4D seats, lidar and the strongest sound? Ideal L9 Latest Revelations Detailed Interpretation

Today's ideal sent two waves of revelations, one is the appearance of the L9 (intelligent driving hardware), and the other is the L9's seats and audio.

First of all, the conclusion, whether you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the last wave of appearance revelations, the highlights of the ideal L9 in the seat and sound will make you crazy grass, which is the most capped performance of this price point.

Next, we will give you a detailed interpretation in the order of appearance - sound - seat, and pick up on demand.

Old rule, first look at the picture:

The relevant copywriting did not disclose any information, only the pre-sale price of 450,000-500,000 yuan that had been announced last time and the time information released during the Beijing Auto Show, and the ideal once again emphasized that the L9 will have different configurations.

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How many points do you give for this look?

This look is not good, we do not make a comment, the comment area is left to everyone.

The overall shape of the ideal L9 continues the design of the ideal ONE, and the most conspicuous part of the appearance is the lidar placed on the roof, and we will analyze the lidar in the second half.

In the design of the front face, the L9 and the current ONE have a relatively large change, still using a penetrating star ring headlight, but there is no huge grille, but the use of a more "electric car" closed front face.

The lines on the side of the body are consistent with the height of the current ideal ONE, but it is clear that the length of the rear door is longer due to the increase in body size.

The design of the rear of the car not only continues the design of the ideal ONE, but also echoes the star ring headlights at the front of the car, but unfortunately, from the line of the trunk, the ideal L9 does not use a very high-pitched heaven and earth gate.

After looking at the overall surface, let's buckle the details again.

About car paint

These 4 pictures reveal L9 in 2 paint colors.

The first is similar to carbon black, which we have not expanded too much;

The second is Champagne gold, a color that is very rarely used in full-size SUVs, and the only known uses are the Range Rover and Bentley Bentayga.

Full-size SUV models due to their large size, will generally choose to use dark car paint, to make themselves less conspicuous, dark paint can visually make the car look smaller, while highlighting more details of the body line.

The ideal L9 with gold car paint is very challenging, and there is no front photo in this picture, so we can look forward to how the real car will work together.

About the hub

In terms of wheels, it can be seen that the L9 does not follow the wheel hub of the ideal ONE, but the style is very similar to the new launch of the 2021 ideal ONE.

In terms of size, the wheel size of the L9 reaches 265/45 R21, and we guess that the ideal full range of models will only have this one size of wheels, but there will be multiple styles of wheel hubs.

In addition, the tire model is a Michelin Pilot Sport 4 SUV tire.

About the headlights

The headlights of the Ideal L9 adopt a split design, with an LED star ring daytime running light running through the front face in the upper part and a far and near light body in the lower part.

Unlike the new ideal ONE, this through-the-light strip is a complete one, there is no breakpoint, but it can be expected that the night lighting will have a very good visual effect, but behind it is also a higher cost.

The lower half of the near and far lights use led light sources, and the addition of lenses, on the current ideal ONE, the low brightness of the headlights has been criticized, we hope to have a breakthrough improvement on the L9.

Other details

The lower intake grille adopts an active intake grille, which is also designed on the current ideal ONE, which has the advantage of reducing wind resistance and improving the thermal efficiency in winter;

The end of the ideal L9 ring lamp also has two small yellow lights, which is a very rare design, and we guess there are two possibilities, one is to add yellow edge lights in order to comply with U.S. laws and regulations; the other is to achieve high-end automatic driving reserved work lights;

The camera trim on the side of the car uses a silver material, which forms a contrast effect with the body;

The door handle adopts a hidden design;

The front of the roof is lidar, there is a dividing line above the B-pillar, combined with the last exposed interior photos, we guess this is the dividing line of the skylight, the front will use a small canopy that cannot be opened, and the rear will be a super large canopy extending to the third row;

Ideal L9 without luggage rack;

The "tail wing" of the ideal L9 is very prominent, and we guess that in addition to the hidden rear wiper, a large number of positioning devices for assisted driving are also placed;

The brake calipers are floating calipers located in front of the shaft, similar to most models with McPherson suspension, but based on previous information, the L9 will have a double wishbone front suspension;

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About smart driving

In the prospectus released before the ideal revealed that L9 will be equipped with hardware that supports L4 automatic driving, although the ideal only released 4 pictures this time, but you can also see a lot of information about intelligent driving from the pictures.

About lidar

Ideal, like Weilai, puts lidar on the roof of the car, and has 3 advantages:

Because the radar position is higher, whether it is a congested road section or a long-distance object, it can have a better detection effect;

Because the radar position is on the roof of the car, not in the bumper, the possibility of damage is less likely to occur in the event of a bump, and the cost of subsequent maintenance is lower;

Since the radar position is on the roof, the shape of the bumper does not have to consider the radar, and it can have better results when doing pedestrian safety collisions.

The disadvantages also have 3 points:

Although the radar manufacturers have tried their best to control the size of the radar, the vehicle effect is still very abrupt, and compared to the WEILAI ET7, the ideal L9 has a rougher treatment in the shape;

Because lidar needs to transmit a large amount of data when working, and needs to do a good job of heat dissipation, it will occupy more space on the roof, and here we hope that it will not occupy too much internal head space;

The bulge in the roof introduces more wind noise, which is a test of the drag coefficient and NVH of the ideal L9.

Another detail is that although the ideal L9's lidar is placed on the roof, the highest altitude of the radar does not exceed the height of the vehicle.

On the model of lidar, as far as we know, the SEMI-solid-state lidar of Hesai Technology AT128 is used, the laser wiring beam is 128 lines, the laser wavelength is 905 nm, the maximum detection distance is 200 meters at 10% reflectivity, and the field viewing angle is 120° x 25.4°.

If you are interested, you can deduct a lidar science popularization in the comment area, we can do a special period of science popularization on the above parameters, here is not too much to expand, comprehensively, the performance is at the upper middle level.

We have also collected the lidar parameters of Xiaopeng G9 and NIO ET7, which you can refer to.

About driver assistance cameras

From these 4 drawings, it can be seen that the ideal L9 uses 2 front cameras, 4 side cameras for intelligent driving, and 4 surround view cameras for parking.

Since the 6 cameras we saw only covered the perception of the front and left and right 3 sides, we guessed that under the rear spoiler, there would also be a camera used as a smart driving camera.

So in terms of cameras, the L9 will be equipped with 7 intelligent driving cameras and 4 surround view parking cameras, a total of 13.

One detail to note is that the L9's foreight does not use the current mainstream three-eye, but uses 2 cameras.

Here to do a simple unfolding, the early limited by the chip computing power, most models can only be equipped with monocular camera, after the subsequent increase in computing power, some car companies have adopted a three-eye camera, these three cameras are the main medium focal length camera, the telephoto camera responsible for long-distance detection and the wide-angle camera responsible for blind spot detection.

However, with the improvement of camera pixels, more and more car companies have cut off the original medium focal length camera, replacing the original trinocular camera with a higher pixel wide-angle camera + high-pixel telephoto camera.

In addition, the 2021 ideal ONE has adopted an 800 W pixel camera, so we guess that the smart driving camera on the L9 will also use a higher pixel, better quality 800 W pixel camera, as for parking, it is possible to use a 300 W pixel camera like Weilai.

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21 speakers, 2160 W of power, and Dolby Atmos

About this set of speakers we first look at the parameters:

21 speakers

The maximum power of the amplifier is 2160 W

With Dolby Atmos technology

7.3.4 Panoramic sound layout

Standard throughout the series

Ideal L9 and NIO ET7, do not use OEM audio, but according to the information we learned from suppliers, L9's audio has shangsheng electronic OEM, and Shangsheng electronics is also OEM for high-end audio brands such as B&O.

21 speakers is easy to understand, that is, there are 21 sound units, in terms of quantity, compared to the 23-speaker NIO ET7 and Mercedes-Benz GLS 400 Maybach's 26 speakers are not dominant, but in terms of power, the ideal L9 reaches 2160 W.

The amplifier is responsible for amplifying the sound signal into audible air vibrations, and the greater the power, in addition to making the sound louder, it will also provide more energy reserves to ensure that the rich details can be reflected in the vibration of the speaker.

The 7.3.4 panoramic sound refers to the whole car surround composed of 7 sets of speakers, 3 subwoofers forming a bass matrix, and 4 top speakers forming the sky surround.

According to Ideal's official introduction: "The flagship body of the Ideal L9 provides a larger acoustic cavity volume, the front dual 8-inch woofer design allows for more low-frequency diving, and the matrix of high-power woofers at the rear of the car allows the bass to be evenly distributed in the car." The car has 21 speakers, the tweeter is made of aluminum, the midrange is made of Kevlar, the woofer is made of carbon fiber, and the ceiling is standard in the car audio."

From the hardware point of view, this set of audio has been declared a cap, but the actual effect also depends on the software tuning and NVH of the audio.

We understand that the ideal sound team is the former Dirac China Chief Tuning Team, which was responsible for the sound system of Volvo Bowers & Wilkins.

Regarding the material and technology of the sound, we are not professional, so let's not expand too much, welcome professional friends to share in the comment area.

It is clear that the ideal L9 is the standard of this top-of-the-line audio series.

As I mentioned in the previous VIDEO of NIO ET7 and the first wave of the ideal article, audio will become the core power point of the cockpit in the new era.

From the buttons to the screen, the car cockpit has completed a round of evolution, but before the realization of full automatic driving, it is difficult for the driver to really liberate from driving, so the only thing that can be carried out at the same time during the driving process is listening, so improving the auditory experience is the core power point of the cockpit of all car companies in the future.

We can see that NIO ET7 has taken the auditory experience to a whole new height, and from the current information, the ideal L9 is also close behind.

Combined with the 15.7-inch OLED screen and VR technology announced for the first time, it can be expected that a very good audiovisual experience can be obtained in the car of the L9.

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The 6 power seats are also heated

In terms of seats, we also look at the information first:

Each of the 6 seats supports electrical adjustment

All 6 seats support seat heating

4 seats support seat ventilation

The 4 seats support a 10-point massage

In the 2020 ideal ONE, the hard seat is the owner of the more complained about the place, in the 2021 ideal ONE, the ideal replaced the full range of seats, and added 4 seats to the original configuration of the waist massage.

On the L9, the ideal directly to the 6 seats are arranged with electric adjustment, for long-term with a baby or an elderly family, the whole car electric seat in the convenience is greatly improved. And all 6 seats support seat heating!!

In addition, the first and second rows of seats also support seat ventilation and massage, unlike the pneumatic waist rest on the current ONE, the L9's seat massage is a 10-point massage of the Zheng'er Bajing.

As far as we know, in the past year, the Ideal Chair team has recruited a large number of Faurecia's R&D personnel, so the actual results are worth looking forward to.

In addition, there is a detail, the explosion of the ideal second row of seats shows that there is a vibration module at the waist, and we guess that the second row of the ideal L9 uses 4D seats similar to the Mercedes-Benz S and BMW iX.

BMW iX 4D seat

Unfortunately, this ideal did not expose the style, space and trunk space of the third row of seats, which may only wait until the static experience.

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The secret of TouchbBar

In addition to the above two highlights, ideal official also released a photo of the main driver, the instrument is speculated to be the touchBar screen official name "safe driving interactive screen", in order to cooperate with the HUD design to display the necessary driving information.

The screen is made of Mini-LED material, supports multi-touch, and can display all driving-related and effective information (including navigation and intelligent driving).

Therefore, the central control screen of the ideal L9 can display the navigation screen or parking image in full screen to enhance the car experience.

Judging from the display effect of the rendering, both the clarity and texture are very good, but we are also very curious about the convenience of clicking on this screen and the ease of reading in the urban bending environment.

Finally, a few more details:

This time the steering wheel has added Li's logo, which is much more coordinated than the last time it was announced;

Small screen display drive power consumption of 16.8 kWh/100 km;

The steering wheel has the same button layout as the 2021 Ideal ONE;

Steering wheel supports electric adjustment;

The air conditioner outlet is suspected to be an aromatherapy outlet below.

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To sum up

The appearance, sound, and seat of the ideal L9 are the details we see, about whether the appearance of this car is in line with your appetite, welcome to communicate in the comment area, if there are any details that we have overlooked, we are also welcome to add in the comment area.

Author: June 3

Edit: June 3

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