Recently tried a new GAC Aehan LX PLUS, to be honest, I am still quite impressed by this car.
At the beginning of 2019, when the "Electric Vehicle Endurance List" was first made, the first few were occupied by Tesla's models, and it was not until after the listing of GAC Aean LX in October that models with a range of more than 600 kilometers on the list appeared for the first time with their own brands.
After that, the top of the list alternated in turn until the new GAC Aean LX PLUS was listed, and the title of the longest endurance among the independent brands was taken back again. It is also the first model of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to record a range of more than 1,000 kilometers.
Officials said that at a temperature of minus 35 ° C in Mohe, the 144kWh GAC Aean LX PLUS can run more than 650 kilometers. If it is in the Yangtze River Delta or Pearl River Delta region, where the penetration rate of electric vehicles is relatively high, even if it is discounted by 20%, it can have a range of 800 kilometers, which has crushed most fuel vehicles on the market.
Especially at the moment when oil prices are soaring, the advantages of electric vehicles are once again highlighted.
First of all, let's simply calculate an account, the price of 95 gasoline 9.16 yuan / L before the deadline, 50L fuel tank to fill up needs 458 yuan; to 100 kilometers of 8L fuel consumption to calculate, the cost per kilometer is about 0.73 yuan.
Electric vehicles take small orange charging as an example, according to the different period of time, the price of fast charging is between 1.1 yuan and 2 yuan. Based on 1.5 yuan per kilowatt-hour of electricity, the 144kWh GAC Aean LX PLUS costs 216 yuan to fully charge; the 100-kilometer electricity consumption is calculated at 18kWh, and the cost per kilometer is only 0.27 yuan, less than half of the oil price. If you are using a home charge, the fee will only be lower.
If oil prices continue to soar, the cost performance of trams will only be higher.
Back to the point, the GAC Aean LX PLUS for this experience is not a thousand mile endurance version, but a 650 km endurance model. Although the battery life is the same as that of the 2020 model experienced before, it is still very different.
In terms of design, Aean LX PLUS has used a new design language from the inside out, such as the front face is more mobile, and the interior dual screen is replaced by a large-sized central control screen.
In addition, the key upgrade lies in the degree of power and intelligence.
For example, the total power of the four-wheel drive version reached 360kW, which is 60kW higher than the previous four-wheel drive version. Even in the lowest-sized model, he has a power of 180kW and a peak torque of 350Nm. As a mid-size SUV, this power is perfectly sufficient, even when overtaking with 4 people on full load.
At the intelligent level, GAC Aegean LX PLUS is equipped with Snapdragon 8155 chip and ADiGO 4.0 intelligent IoT system. In addition, it also supports functions such as AR navigation and remote control parking.
In particular, the version equipped with lidar has a total of more than 30 sensors, and the detection distance of lidar can reach 250 meters, and it can also realize the dynamic adjustment of environmental perception 10-30Hz. With the help of Huawei's high-computing intelligent driving computing platform, it is easy to achieve high-level intelligent driving.
However, high-level intelligent driving and ultra-long endurance do not coexist, and the 1008-kilometer endurance version is not equipped with lidar, and it also uses a single motor. So if it's not for the sake of ultra-long endurance, it's actually enough to buy a model with a minimum or a lidar version.