Recently, the soaring price of gasoline has made many fuel car owners open the "fuel anxiety" mode. Therefore, many fuel car owners have begun to consider switching to the embrace of new energy. There is no shortage of such friends around the author, and recently a small hair has been struggling with how to choose an electric car.
It started from a car I had recently test-driven, when our company got an AION test drive, and in a short experience, its excellent space and rich configuration really left a good impression on me, so I talked about this car after tea with friends. Therefore, he took the AION brand into account. This has led to the current entanglement between Tesla and AION.
Objectively speaking, the performance of the AION V Plus at that time was indeed good, but he had to consider the AION LX series this time, so out of a serious and responsible attitude towards his friends, I still advised him to wait, so I used this time to have an in-depth understanding of the car. After some understanding, I did not continue to recommend AION's model to him, and it is precisely because of this time that I found the fundamental reason why domestic electric vehicles have never been able to replace Tesla.
Really all-powerful? Flower racks
Regarding electric vehicles, what is the core product force in the eyes of consumers? In fact, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than those points: battery life, intelligence, and security. So why didn't I recommend AION LX in the end, let's start with the so-called intelligence.
Open the configuration list of AION LX, you will find that AION LX basically inherits the consistent advantages of domestic brands - the configuration is extremely high, leaving aside the basic configuration and comfort configuration that we use every day. In terms of intelligence, today's AION LX PLUS models are equipped with parallel assist, lane departure warning, lane keeping assistance, road traffic sign recognition, active braking, reversing side warning, full-speed adaptive cruise, 540 ° transparency disk, remote control parking and other configurations, while in terms of intelligent hardware, even the entry-level model is equipped with 5 millimeter wave radar and 5 cameras. High-end models, and even 3 lidars. Although the test model is an old AION LX model, the 80 version still has a similar high level of configuration.
If you talk about the richness of software and the accumulation of hardware, most of the small whites who do not understand cars will definitely think that AION LX has achieved a perfect level in terms of intelligence related to driving. But is this really the case? Perhaps no one could have imagined that the actual performance of the AION LX would not be commensurate with the level of configuration.
Recently, some media have tested the 80 model configuration model of AION LX, but in the active braking project tested by the media, AION LX has "exposed the filling". According to the video, when testing the linear active braking project, the AION LX had a speed of about 50 km/h. Curiously, the vehicle dashboard in the video clearly states that "active brake assist is in action", but the system does not intervene until it hits an obstacle.
Not only is this the case when simulating the rear-end of the front car, but in the "mobile dummy crossing test", the performance of the AION LX is as "stable" as ever, and the dummy is smashed without slowing down. Just think, if this is a real person crossing the road, the consequences will be unimaginable.
However, this is not the end, and then the media will drive the AION LX to a speed of about 80km/h, through the diagonal side of the triangular cone to test the AION LX's adaptive cruise and intelligent assisted driving level. Surprisingly, the AION LX still did not recognize the existence of the triangle cone, and the system did not have any intervention and recognition, knocking the triangle cone on the right side of the road into no one left and did not slow down. Such a performance is worthy of the media's evaluation of its "blind eyes". Therefore, this is also what the author often mentions to you, whether the configuration is not and whether it is good or not are two different things, and the number of piles is not good, then it loses its fundamental significance.
True conscience? Not affordable
Seeing this, many friends may raise the bar, can other brands pass such a test? The answer is not necessarily the same, but I believe that there are only a few models at the same price that can be "blinded" from beginning to end. If this AION LX is cheap enough, these small problems may be bearable, but is this AION LX cheap? The answer is again no.
In recent years, the development and progress of China's automobile industry is obvious to all, and there are more voices about "supporting domestic products". It is a good thing to support domestic products, but I am afraid that some car companies will use "domestic product feelings" to cut their own leeks.
Take the AION LX PLUS that is currently on sale, its price is not cheap, as mentioned above, even the lowest AION LX PLUS 80 Zhizun Edition in the whole series has reached a price of 286,600 yuan. The price of only 300,000 has surpassed the Model 3. And this is just the beginning, AION LX's medium-equipped models have reached 329,600, the high-end Max version is priced at 409,600, and the top-equipped thousand-mile version has reached a guidance price of 459,600.
What can you buy for this price? Let me take stock for you. First of all, let's talk about ordinary brands, you can buy high-end Weilai ES6, low-end ES8, high-equipped EC6. Even the BBA, which represents luxury brands, you can choose between the Mercedes-Benz EQC, audi Q5 e-tron, and BMW iX3. In other words, at this price point, you want more mature products, and there are Weilai options at the same price; if you want more face, traditional BBA can also be bought. Looking back, AION LX, as a third-tier new energy brand that is not popular, why let consumers choose?
Some people also say that the birth of GAC Group is AION's brand advantage. In fact, does AION really inherit the excellent quality of GAC? It doesn't seem to be either. Open the third-party complaint website car quality network can see that there is more than one case of complaints about AION LX only being a serious contraction of the mileage, followed by basic problems including odor in the car, blindness of turn signals, abnormal brake lights, and water leakage in the chassis.
Conclusion: Objectively speaking, are AION's models useless? No, at least relying on GAC's AION in terms of model positioning and other aspects is still more basic than those new forces that have just arrived. However, this is the advantage of AION's strength, not the capital of pride. If it continues at this pace, the AION brand will inevitably not be able to achieve leapfrog development.