The development of domestic automobiles in recent years has been obvious to all, and it has been able to compete with joint venture models in the domestic market, but is this really enough? Probably not. Taking a long-term view, from the perspective of the world automobile market, domestic car brands have always been in the blockade of European and American cars.
How can this situation be broken? European and American automobiles have developed a hundred years before domestic cars, during which technical barriers and brand barriers have been constructed, and the road of traditional automobile manufacturing industry is full of thorns for domestic automobiles. Tesla's success has given an example, giving all car companies the opportunity to stand on the same starting line. The car-making structure that is completely different from the traditional car will weaken the advantages of European and American cars by half, and domestic cars have seized the opportunity, and new power car brands such as Weilai, Ideal, xiaopeng, etc. have stood in the opponent position of European and American car brands.
So, what is the killer weapon of this new energy vehicle field and the new power brand? Mainly from the perspective of intelligence.
Hardware upgrades, the effect is guaranteed
Intelligence is the part that new energy vehicles have been very concerned about since they were "born", and it is also the part that traditional cars have been ignoring, and it is also the general trend of automobile development. If you want to occupy an advantage in intelligence, the hardware can not be ignored, the so-called "sharpening the knife without mistakenly cutting wood", with the tools to take advantage of the hand, in order to maximize the effect. In this regard, domestic cars have always understood very well, such as the perception system, the domestic has always attached great importance to this, multi-hardware combination has become the norm, and has also entered the era of lidar.
WEILAI ET5 is equipped with 33 high-performance perception hardware, including 1 ultra-long-range high-precision lidar, ideal for the new car to be launched this year, but also burst out 12 cameras, military-grade ultra-high-precision inertial navigation, high-precision maps, 5 millimeter wave radar, 12 ultrasonic radar, V2X vehicle-side technology configuration, and support NVIDIA Orin X (500 ~ 1000 + TOPS) + 2 lidar upgrade capabilities. Of course, to say that the earliest domestic / global into the field of lidar car brand, or Xiaopeng, Xiaopeng P5 is the world's first lidar mass production car, also integrated with 33 perception hardware, including 2 lidar, 12 ultrasonic sensors, 5 millimeter wave radar, 13 high-perception cameras, 1 set of sub-meter-level high-precision positioning unit (GNSS navigation system + IMU inertial measurement unit), of which, dual lidar once caused onlookers.
Compared with the national car, Tesla is more willful in the hardware part, and does not care about lidar, at present, Tesla FSD is equipped with a high-precision millimeter wave radar, ultrasonic sensors, 8 cameras, meter-level positioning units, and continues to promote pure visual solutions.
Autonomous driving research, intelligent scramble focus
Of course, no matter how high the hardware is stacked, it is still necessary to see the final effect to know who is the real "wise man" in the car industry. What kind of spark will there be when Xiaopeng Automobile, which has the highest level of intelligence among the new power brands, collides with Tesla? Xiaopeng P5, the latest model released by Xiaopeng, is pushing the latest OTA upgrade, making it a big step closer to the ultimate goal of intelligent driving, not only to achieve cross-floor parking memory parking, but also to upgrade the NGP experience.
Long before the upgrade, the Xiaopeng P5 had "done a game" with the Tesla Model 3. Driving intelligence evaluation results show that Xiaopeng P5 won the evaluation with a more humane driving experience, such as softer braking, more linear deceleration, more natural turning, etc., and finally scored 67.8 points, tesla Model 3 scored 65.55, slightly inferior. Moreover, the urban NGP upgrade of Xiaopeng P5 is gradually on the right track, and soon after, it can also realize the functions of traffic light intersection traffic, roundabout passage, etc., further liberating users.
The rise of domestic cars is becoming a foreseeable thing, seizing the outlet of new energy intelligent vehicles, which bypasses most of the barriers of traditional automobile manufacturing. In this matter, Xiaopeng Automobile is undoubtedly one of the best new power brands, whether it is hardware or algorithms, it has reached the first-class level, compared with Tesla, quite a kind of back wave to push the front wave meaning.