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In 2022, the joint venture car company will comprehensively attack the smart pure electric market. After Volkswagen has used the ID. series to rush away, this year's Toyota's bZ4X, Hyundai Ani Krypton 5, Kia EV6, GM several major brands using the Aoteneng platform of new models, will also come, it can be said that this year is the first year of the era of traditional car companies to fully develop intelligent electric vehicles.
Among them, Honda is naturally no exception. As one of the earliest Japanese brands to establish the future direction of new energy development and actively take action, Honda has released a new generation of intelligent electric vehicles Dongfeng Honda e:NS1 as early as last year, and if you pay attention to Honda's new generation of global small SUV planning, you know that this is a global model that can combine fuel, hybrid and pure electric fuel forms, and e: NS1 is their first intelligent electric strategic product in the domestic market.
With the approaching time of the new car to market, the car has released a pre-sale price of 180,000-200,000; and some areas have achieved the exhibition car to the store; we have also successfully obtained a new car in the state of quasi-mass production through hard work, in the form of non-manufacturer activity invitations, independently completed a deep test driving experience.
In this article, the core selling points of smart electric vehicles that you care about will be answered one by one.
Charging, battery life and power
To answer the first question that netizens are concerned about, e: Is NS1 oil to electricity?
The answer is obvious, no. In the initial design and planning, the chassis of this new generation of models is compatible with the three power forms of fuel, hybrid, and pure electric, so although it is consistent with the appearance of derivative models such as the new generation of Binzhi that has been unveiled overseas, it does not mean that it is oil to electricity.
The most direct evidence is the ground clearance, we know that the previous oil to electric models, there will be a serious "lack of ground clearance" problem, because the battery pack installed in the later period is not compatible with the chassis, resulting in either forced to increase the body, or the ground clearance is very small.
From the perspective of this Dongfeng Honda e: NS1 real car, one is that it does not deliberately increase the body, the other is the ground height of the lowest point of the outer guard plate of its battery pack, which is slightly more than the length of an iPhone X mobile phone, and Apple's official iPhone X parameter, its length is 143.6mm, we take this as a reference, its battery pack from the lowest point of the ground also has a height of nearly 170mm, to meet the ground clearance performance of an SUV model, no different from the traditional fuel small SUV.
Since it is not oil to electricity, it naturally means that its battery contains accumulation, endurance and fast charging capacity will perform well.
In fact, it is also true that the e-moving model we got pre-sold for 200,000 has a volume of 68.8 kWh, referring to the competitors in the same level and price range, which has been counted as a first-line level; therefore, its official calibration of CLTC 510 km is no problem.
Of course, in the actual endurance performance, the use of comprehensive road conditions is certainly less than 510 kilometers, because the CLTC standard is more to meet the urban conditions, if you add suburban and high-speed road conditions reference, its endurance will inevitably be reduced.
Honda is also very sincere for e: NS1 in-car endurance display, calibrated a more accurate algorithm, may be similar to Tesla's EPA endurance calibration, when we just got the car 100% SOC, its car is displayed as 280 kilometers of range.
After our two-day in-depth test drive, the actual endurance display calibration in the car is very accurate, we use the car completely in accordance with the traditional fuel vehicle, in Chengdu experienced the morning and evening peaks in the city, turn on air conditioning, high-speed running 120 hours, kinetic energy recovery is the weakest situation, its comprehensive road conditions can basically do 1:1 endurance display, and consumers generally praise tesla display effect is similar, there will be no embarrassment of some brands "happy table".
And if we save a little, we can even drive an effect of about 0.9:1, and the actual real cruising range can exceed 300 kilometers.
In the previous video comment area, we also noticed that some netizens do not understand the actual test endurance performance, we can make an interpretation: like the standard endurance version of Tesla Model 3, CLTC endurance of 556 kilometers, but its car EPA display is generally full of only more than 300 kilometers, and it is also about 1:1 The actual power loss, similar to the performance of this Dongfeng Honda e: NS1.
High-speed battery life may be that our expression in the video is not accurate enough, and the content we want to express is actually more in line with the real car scene, rather than the extreme high-speed endurance. As we all know, the fastest SOC range for electric vehicle charging is 20%-80%, that is, it occupies the middle 60% of the total volume of this section, in the actual high-speed continuous driving, only consume the middle 80%-20%, is the highest charging efficiency, the shortest time-consuming needs to take into account, so we expressed about 150-160 kilometers to fast charge once is the most reasonable, not the limit of the power consumption of the limit usage.
If you do the extreme endurance test, according to the running method of the fuel car with a speed limit of 120 hours, its SOC 100%-0% high-speed endurance can also exceed 250 kilometers, which is very close to what we call the real mileage display in the car.
This should be a thumbs up for Honda.
In terms of charging, the Dongfeng Honda e:NS1 charging port is located in the front part of the car, the fast and slow charging is gathered together, and there is a convenient opening button outside the car, and it is also designed with lighting lights and power indicators, and the design is more humane.
But if a later production or modified version can move the charging port to the rear fenders on the side of the body, we think it will perform better.
In terms of power, we test drive this e-dynamic version, single motor front drive, up to 150 kilowatts, converted to 204 horsepower, peak torque 310 Nm, with its small SUV curb weight of less than 1.7 tons, the power can be described as quite surplus, in our actual test, even in the ECO mode floor oil start, can also appear instantaneous slippage, enough to explain its abundant power.
Of course, in the actual feeling, ECO mode and Normal mode, it is still very smooth, accelerated gradual feeling can also make people comfortable; and in Sport mode, the motor response will be advanced, and will more actively release the peak torque reserve, lightly step on the throttle is already grumpy enough, with Honda's special e: NS1 designed sound wave compensation system, sports passion feel full of praise.
Intelligent interaction and assisted driving
Smart electric vehicles, two keywords electric and intelligent, Honda has done a good job of "electric"; and the second point, "intelligent", is the killer of this car.
Among the independent, new forces and joint venture brands that we have tested, and the pure electric SUV models within 200,000, the intelligent strength displayed by Dongfeng Honda e:NS1 can be ranked in the first-line camp.
Two points, intelligent interaction and intelligent assisted driving, e: NS1 has achieved more than 80 points of performance.
In terms of intelligent interaction, Dongfeng Honda e:NS1 is equipped with Honda CONNECT 3.0 intelligent guidance interconnection system as standard, and adopts a large-sized central control screen with a new flat UI display style, which should have voice interaction, online navigation, online music, audio, video, and even payment, entertainment, and cross-hardware interconnection capabilities, and the touch response speed and fluency are also at the head level of the joint venture car.
Moreover, from our actual experience, its flat UI design is also very humane, not only intuitive and easy to understand, but also to avoid the "anti-human progressive menu operation", all commonly used functions are on the first-level desktop menu, there will be no understanding and operation obstacles; more importantly, such as the commonly used air conditioning temperature regulation and other functions, but also directly fixed at the bottom of the screen, the actual use experience is similar to the traditional physical buttons.
The only point worth complaining about may be because this car is not the final mass production delivery reason, the Chinese of the central control system does not seem to be finished, and some of it is displayed in English. But this is not a problem, e:NS1 supports OTA upgrades, all software problems can be solved, and can continue to optimize the experience and even add new features, which is the fundamental reason why we say that Honda "understands smart electric vehicles".
In addition, e:NS1 also supports face emotion recognition and fatigue driving monitoring, according to actual measurements, the accuracy of its recognition is still very high, and such as bad mood, fatigue after the prompt is also more reasonable.
In terms of intelligent driving assistance, the e-moving version of our test drive is equipped with Honda SENSING safety supersensitive system as standard, reaching L2 level automatic driving assistance capabilities, including full-speed domain adaptive cruise, active braking, lane keeping, road traffic sign recognition and other functions, in our actual experience, it is very accurate for road conditions, marking identification, and thanks to the advantages of electric vehicles with fast innate response, it is better than fuel vehicles in terms of car following, cruising, etc., and its lane keeping ability is also good. Even if there are occasional cases where the lane line is not clear, it can be centered.
In addition, this test drive also has a visual fusion automatic parking function, support automatic parking, parking function, in our actual experience, even in the dimly lit basement, as long as the parking space markings are clear, even if there is no reference vehicle next to the ultrasonic radar ranging, only by relying on the camera to identify the location of the parking space, you can also accurately park in and out.
What's more exaggerated is that unlike some models that only support the ability to find a parking space forward, dongfeng Honda e:NS1 even supports reversing to find a parking space, which is extremely praised.
Finally, still that sentence, its existing intelligent performance has been good, and considering that the new car also supports OTA upgrades, this Dongfeng Honda e: NS1 is really a recommended "smart electric vehicle".
Space, configuration and comfort
After talking about the core "smart electric vehicle" performance, let's talk about the performance of this Dongfeng Honda e:NS1 in terms of the most basic space, configuration and comfort as a family car.
In terms of space, the body size of e:NS1 is 4390*1790*1560mm, and the wheelbase is 2610mm; although it can only be regarded as a small SUV, the actual space performance is not worse than that of compact SUV, especially the electric vehicle has reduced more mechanical space, with honda MM design concept, its vertical and vertical space performance is quite surplus, and the rear legroom is comparable to the level of traditional A+ compact fuel SUV.
The only deficiency is the lateral riding space, because the body width is only 1790mm, resulting in the rear seat being slightly crowded when riding three people; while the other parts are all cross-level space performance, and there is no problem for the home.
The same is true for storage space, although there is no front compartment, but the trunk volume is quite sufficient, whether it is the depth of storage or height, are fully praised; the trunk cover also supports two levels of height adjustment, in the high position, the lower part of the trunk can form a hidden storage space, and after putting down the rear seats can be close to the flat state; and in the low position, it can directly increase the height of the trunk interior, forming a larger conventional storage space.
In terms of configuration, in addition to the basic full configuration of intelligent configuration, our pre-sale 200,000 e-dynamic version e: NS1 is also equipped with streaming media rearview mirrors, the display effect is clear, smooth, no delay; at the same time, in addition to the front seat heating, the rear row is also equipped with seat heating; at the same time, the new car is also equipped with a panoramic sunroof + sky curtain, different from the design of other models, the second half of the sky curtain also supports manual installation of sunshades, compared to other panoramic sky curtain models, more adapted to the strong summer light, humanized feeling is more in place.
In terms of comfort, because of the addition of the motor, the NVH performance of e:NS1 is also relatively good, there will be no annoying mechanical operation sound like traditional fuel vehicles, and in terms of suspension filtering, e:NS1 has more toughness in addition to fully filtering the initial bumps, and the sense of high quality is good, meeting the performance of the pre-sale 180,000-200,000 level.
Write at the end:
At present, Dongfeng Honda e: NS1 pre-sale is two models, respectively 180,000 and 200,000, the known difference is only power and endurance, if the configuration is consistent, in fact, more recommended 200,000 e-dynamic version; especially the current battery price increase, many new forces and traditional car companies can not stand the price pressure, if e: NS1 the final official price can be lower than the pre-sale, combined with such a configuration performance, then in 2022, it is definitely a good choice that cannot be missed within 200,000.
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