If to paraphrase Lei Jun's quote to summarize last Wednesday's ideal car spoiler episode two is: "How expensive how to come, how to flagship how to come", then the third episode of spoilers as scheduled is: "how to be strong, how to come, how to develop how to come".
This time, the ideal centralized release of the full self-developed extended range electric system, the full self-developed chassis control system, the full self-developed central domain controller three information, more important than the serial product information may be the ideal L9 price range and release time: 450,000-500,000 yuan, Officially released on April 16.
Regarding the ideal car, the industry generally believes that it is the most product manager thinking car company in the new force camp, for example, the success of the ideal ONE mainly depends on the technological advancement, but on the ultimate product details and supporting precision marketing based on the accurate customer group, so that the ideal ONE captures the hearts of a number of "daddies".
However, from a pricing point of view, the ideal L9 wants to replicate a more pure "family success science" like the ideal ONE, but it is not realistic.
First of all, the price range of 450,000-500,000 yuan makes the consumer group facing the ideal L9 very different from the ideal ONE (300,000-350,000 yuan). This price range has squeezed into the "traditional hunting ground" of BBA mid-size luxury SUVs, and even the mid-sizeD SUV that has crossed the size and configuration has to go head-to-head.
Therefore, the ideal L9 is destined to be a high-end product that raises the brand image/premium and enters the more segmented SUV market, which has a completely different product portrait from the ideal ONE dipped in some pyrotechnic gas. The potential population it anchors should have the following conditions: high income, acceptance of new car brands, keen to try innovative technology, want to take care of family feelings, and have the need to plan to buy the family's Nth car.
More important and more basic, the L9 needs to have the same luxury label as BBA, or a logo and unique product power that can enter the circle. After all, in terms of brand appeal and luxury accumulation, these are not ideal advantages, and the latter can at least give the owner a reason to buy: it is not cheap.
Ideal naturally also realizes this problem, and the "full self-developed three-piece set" released this time is the unique advantages and core weapons of the ideal L9.
In the past, the outside world has been complaining that the ideal ONE's three-cylinder machine is not advanced enough, and it is to pay IQ tax. This time, the ideal L9 completely bid farewell to the Dongan 1.2T three-cylinder range extender, and replaced it with a 1.5T four-cylinder range extender produced and developed by ideals, with a thermal efficiency of 40.5%. This level not only far exceeds the ideal ONE three-cylinder range extender, but also has a significant advantage over the thermal efficiency of 35% of the mainstream engines on the market.
This seems to mean that this range extender is not an ordinary gasoline engine, but introduces many new technologies that reduce their own consumption and improve kinetic energy efficiency. However, it has previously been reported that the ideal X01 (the predecessor of L9) will use a 1.5T, code-named CE15F four-cylinder range extender authorized by BMW, with a thermal efficiency of 40%, and the parameters are similar, and it has become no longer important whether the supercharger is fully self-developed as ideally advertised.
In addition, the fully self-developed extended range electric system with a 44.5kWh battery pack (4kWh more than the ideal ONE), the ideal L9 achieves 1315km endurance under CLTC conditions, of which pure electric endurance is 215km, and the energy consumption of the fuel mode heat engine is as low as 5.9L/100km.
In contrast, the fuel consumption of the NEDC heating engine officially announced by the ideal ONE in 2021 is 6.05L/100 km, which can achieve similar fuel consumption performance to the ideal ONE in the case of significantly enhanced body size, quality and motor power, indicating that the ideal L9 has made a lot of work for power consumption control.
In terms of performance, the ideal L9 front and rear axles are equipped with dual motors with a maximum power of 130 kW and 200 kW, respectively, and the total power of the system will reach 330 kW, the combined torque of 620 Nm, and the acceleration time of 0-100 km/h is 5.3 seconds. Compared with the ideal ONE front 100kW, the rear 140kW motor power increase is significant, and the acceleration ability of the club in 6 seconds is basically equivalent to that of the same level of products such as volvo XC60 T8 plug-in hybrid.
The product power of the sense of luxury is also reflected in the suspension system of "full and strong material".
If the suspension structure of the front McPherson and rear multi-link adopted by the ideal ONE is likened to a PU midsole material running shoe, then the ideal L9's front double wishbone structure and rear five linkage structure suspension system are running shoes with structural shock absorption. The former has many advantages, simple structure, small space occupation, and cheapness, but the disadvantages are also obvious, stability, anti-roll and brake nodding ability are relatively weak; while the latter is almost all advantages in addition to high cost and challenges to space layout.
Thanks to the ideal L9's larger body size and high integration of the powertrain, the double wishbones have room to play, which means that the ideal L9 offers better handling and stability than the ideal ONE.
In addition, the standard CDC continuously adjustable damping damping damper, in addition to automatically adjusting the damping according to the millisecond level of road vibration feedback, will also automatically adapt different suspension heights for different driving modes, which also lays a good foundation for the suspension of the ideal L9 to cope with multi-purpose car scenarios.
The last highlight of this ideal L9 spoiler is the full self-developed central domain controller, which sees more "future expectations".
Among them, the central domain controller uses NXP's latest S32G chip, and the computing power has been significantly improved. At the same time, the management scope of the controller covers the functions of the extended range electric system, the air conditioning system, the chassis system and the seat control system.
In the past, the various domains of the electrical and electronic architecture would be divided according to their functions, like the first generation of the electrical and electronic architecture of NIO, which can be divided into chassis domain, auxiliary driving domain, power domain, infotainment domain and body domain. With more and more intelligent car functions and electronic components, it is easy to lead to intricate wiring harnesses and high costs; in addition, vehicle weight, vehicle efficiency, etc. will be affected by this, and each OTA upgrade will become cumbersome, and it is difficult to upgrade a large version.
For example, at the Guangzhou Auto Show last year, Xiaopeng Motors officially released the latest generation of X-EEA3.0 electronic and electrical architecture, which adopted the central supercomputing + regional control hardware architecture to achieve deep integration of hardware and software.
From the perspective of the L9 multi-functional centralized management of the central domain controller, the ideal car also seems to integrate more sub-modules on the integration of higher dimensions, although its information display is not complete, but it can still see the advanced nature of the ideal L9 in the highly integrated electrical and electronic architecture dimension, which can allow users to use the updated functional experience faster.
The three full self-research on the ideal L9 plays a role in how to enhance the user's positive perception in different scenarios, how to dig deep into the experience of a huge number of users in small details, they are all technical extensions of the ideal ascent process.
Of course, after the "daddy title" on the head, you can better find your own dignity.