For a long time in the past, the niche personalized cars that attracted young users the most were nothing more than those three: mini, smart, and Beetle, but with the rapid progress of the automotive industry towards new energy, such niche personalized cars had to find another way to absorb users, and electrification was the only way.
Following the mini announced the transformation of electrification, and the Great Wall cooperation to introduce domestic production, smart side also cooperated with Geely to show the genie #1, in order to seize the market genie #1 took the lead in the official release, after reading the information of the new car, I just want to say that it is really a weapon to harvest young people.
Many people may see it at first glance, will feel that this is completely different from the previous smart model, because after all, it is a new masterpiece of transformation, so there must be some innovative design, so genie #1 uses the Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle, BYD joint venture Denza can see such a rounded design.
The "X" style of the rounded triangular LED light group and the through-led daytime running lights, below is the closed trapezoidal intake grille, the entire front face is still very recognizable, and there are hidden door handles with ice-breaking functions, frameless doors, 19-inch low wind resistance wheels and a suspended roof with smart logo, and the rear of the car is an "X" style through-type light group that echoes the front face. Overall, the sense of science and technology that should be there is in place.
In terms of body size, compared with the past smart models are significantly longer, the length, width and height are 4270/1822/1636 mm, the wheelbase is 2750 mm, the size is similar to the MINI COUNTRYMAN, with a five-seat layout, and the second row of seats supports 4/6 proportional split and recline.
Compared with the exterior of the car is more important, because the interior of mercedes-benz will not disappoint, the overall interior layout design takes the simple style, there are quite a lot of Mercedes-Benz elements, round rectangular air conditioning outlet, gear shift, multi-zone atmosphere lights and so on. In terms of scientific and technological equipment, there are 9.2-inch LCD instrument screen + 12.8-inch floating medium screen + HUD head-up display, and the imaging quality of the three screens is quite impressive.
On the car and machine system, it is equipped with a chip with powerful computing power and hardware with 12GB of memory + 128GB of storage space, and there is also an AI genie assistant Avatar and rich ecological APP functions
In terms of intelligent configuration, Genie #1 is equipped with the latest smart Pilot intelligent driving assistance system, including adaptive cruise, lane keeping assistance, traffic congestion assistance, automatic parking assistance, adaptive low beam and other functions, in addition, infotainment, driver assistance systems, electronic vehicle architecture and other more than 75% of the vehicle components support OTA upgrades.
As for the most critical performance renewal, the genie #1 has only a rear-drive single motor version in the early stage, with a maximum power of 200 kilowatts, a peak torque of 343 Nm, and zero hundred acceleration of 6.7 seconds, which is similar to the Xiaopeng P7 and BMW iX3, so this kind of power is completely enough.
In terms of cruising range, Genie #1 uses a 66-degree ternary lithium battery pack, coupled with the body's own aerodynamic kit, active air intake grille and other designs, the maximum cruising range under CLTC conditions is 560 kilometers, and the fastest charging time of 5-80% is less than 30 minutes.
In short, the design, configuration, performance of this genie #1 are very good, the product strength is still quite capable, as for the price, and Mercedes-Benz products are generally not too cheap, it is estimated that the starting price will be between 200,000-250,000, and should not enter the mercedes-Benz and Geely sales to obtain, and finally sit and see how Geely and Mercedes-Benz tell a good smart new story