Some things have nothing to do with whether you are mentally prepared or not, but when it is about to come, it suddenly breaks in, such as your daughter who suddenly has a boyfriend, and this grown smart.
After Geely invested in Daimler, it also took 50% of the shares of the smart brand, and Daimler also threw this hot potato half out. Subsequently, the smart brand also ushered in a new life and became a pure electric brand. The Smart #1 we see today is the first product after smart ushered in a new life.
Is the current naming really so uncreative? The first car is called #1, the number one car? This is probably the pot of auspiciousness, after all, so-and-so 001, so-and-so 01, 02, 03, 05, 06, 09... (Then you will find that the naming is not exactly in the order in which the product was launched)
By the way, after the joint venture between Geely and Daimler, Smart has a Chinese brand named "Smart Motor", and in terms of product name, the Chinese name of this first car is "Genie #1". Neither "sprite" nor "#1" seems to be less friendly to retrieve.
Smart's "previous life"
This brand new Smart #1 is probably the same as the previous Smart ,probably only the brand is the same (on closer inspection, you'll find that even the brand isn't exactly the same). In the past smart, small is king, I still think it is a kind of small that is difficult to imagine.
I mean, you know it's small, but every time you see it or even drive it, that kind of smallness is still outside the imagination.
The previous smart fortwo was smaller than the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV that we can see all over the street now, and it was a little larger than the uncommon Wuling NanoEV (formerly known as Baojun E200).
In addition to small, smart seems to have no other pursuit, in fact, think about the smart price at that time more than 100,000, it is really quite expensive. Although I've always believed that cars shouldn't be expensive in terms of size, cars don't have to be cheap. But smart this little car, it also does not belong to the category of boutique cars, whether it is static appreciation or dynamic experience, it has nothing to do with the word "advanced".
What the? You say the rear-facing rear-drive layout is simply full of keyboard values? I took the U.
So at that time, the owners of the car spent a high price to buy this car, and what they bought was really small. After all, there is a saying on the Internet: no matter how ugly something is, as long as it is small, it will be cute. Well, the fit must not be small enough. (Manual Dog Head)
Probably because the previous smart is small, it is also a kind of "you want rather than just need" thing, so it is also a ticket to hold a luxury brand, plus, it is indeed sold in the mercedes-benz showroom, so selling a hundred thousand, it is really not too much at all.
In fact, the reason why smart is a hot potato at the beginning is because the Daimler Group has lost a lot of money on it in the past two decades, although for its size and experience, smart does sell quite expensive, but it still does not make money. The reason why Daimler has been struggling for so long is said to be to reduce the average of emissions and fuel consumption, which is very similar to the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV. Now that there are electric vehicles, Daimler has no need to "keep" smart anymore.
Is this smart enough smart?
The smart #1 seen in front of you has undoubtedly completely abandoned the small size of its "previous life", although the absolute size is still not very large (4270 * 1822 * 1636, wheelbase 2750), but compared with before, it is also completely two worlds.
However, this size makes the smart #1找到了集体, because the size of the Volkswagen ID.3 and Euler good cat electric vehicles is basically at this level, but the smart #1会略微比它们都要高一点.
By the way, although the previous smart and MINI are often mentioned together, their size is really different, and now after the era of electrification, when MINI has launched a real electric model, they should be able to "be together" in the right name and door to door.
Since smart is currently 50% of the shares of Geely and Daimler, then the research and development of this product naturally has its own division of labor, Geely is responsible for engineering technology, and Mercedes-Benz is responsible for design, it can be said that the art industry has a specialty. (How does this plot seem to have been seen somewhere?) ）
Smart #1出自吉利的SEA浩瀚架构, that is, the platform where Extreme Kr 001 was born. To say that the specification base of the extreme krypton 001 is indeed very high, I also wondered at first, #1这小尺寸的车上真的会有极氪001的机械规格吗 in the smart?
In fact, there is no, at least in the front axle there are visible structural differences, the pole krypton 001 uses a rear caliper, and the smart #1则是前置卡钳. While there is no more information at the moment, it is certain that smart #1与极氪001在基础结构上的区别包括而不仅限于前桥. What does this mean?
Illustrates that the compatibility of the SEA vast architecture is very high!
In terms of design, from the release of the concept version to the release of the mass production version, I seem to have heard some negative voices, good or bad I will not evaluate, at least I think smart #1是不够独特的, the highlights of the design are not enough to cover the previous smart a "small" word can bring the uniqueness, I think it will be a little difficult to impress consumers.
And on smart's official website, the effort of #1 in aerodynamics was highlighted, and then the wind resistance coefficient with a specific value of 0.29 was presented. This is not a very good result, for reference, the drag coefficient of the Volkswagen ID.3 is 0.26.
So this "double kitchen linkage", do you think it is dreamy enough to be ecstatic?
Interject a detail game
We still leave the big design to everyone to judge, let's pick up a detail. Smart #1整个交互界面与极氪001都非常接近, including a slender dashboard screen, and the layout of the entire multimedia large screen. In addition to that, smart #1的方向盘也是跟极氪001几乎一样的. Of course, I'm not talking about style, but the keys of the 3- and 9-point function keypads.
Why should I take this detail out in detail, this is also my personal conjecture.
The steering wheel buttons of Extreme Kr 001 are two large keypads, and even the respective up, down, left and right buttons are not backlit, and friends who have opened extreme krypton 001 and even Lynk & Co 09 should know how difficult the buttons of this steering wheel are to use. Smart #1的方向盘多功能按键则是相对传统的分割开的独立按键, and all backlit, minimizing the possibility of misoperation.
Since Geely is responsible for the engineering and Mercedes-Benz is responsible for the design, it probably means that the key is the program provided by Geely (from the perspective of Extreme Kr 001 and Lynk & Co 09, it should be true), and the appearance design of the function key is the program provided by Daimler. I think Daimler's use of independent buttons can still reflect the consideration of details by a traditional car manufacturer.
Although on the Mercedes-Benz model, we can also see some touch-type steering wheel multi-function keys, some even at a glance is very complicated, but in fact, they still have a number of function keys, which will not make you feel confused about the functional direction of each button during driving.
I think this is still worth learning from some domestic car manufacturers, and should not sacrifice the use experience for some so-called design sense on the surface, of course, if you can save a little cost by doing that, then... It's even more of a rush.
Should smart be "bigger and stronger"?
As we just introduced, smart used to be small, whether it was their product form or the size of the entire brand. Today, the brand has shown a trend of becoming bigger and stronger at different levels.
The first is the physical level, that is, the product form, just now we have said that smart #1比起以前要大得多的尺寸, "bigger". In addition, the smart #1比起以前的smart也算是 "stronger" because it is equipped with a 200kW rear motor, 0-100km/h acceleration time of 6.7 seconds, which is comparable to ID.3 with strength.
The 66kWh battery is also capable of providing a CLTC range of 560km, which is decent. As a new era of electric vehicles, smart #1自然也会配备一套合时宜的辅助驾驶系统. Compared with the smart in the past, of course, it is also a lot of "stronger".
The question is, should smart really be "bigger and stronger"?
Once upon a time, when Smart announced that it would transform into an electric vehicle brand, I was still thinking that if Smart's future products became electric on a small basis, and then became more refined, it would be an ideal form of urban commuter car. However, it obviously did not maintain the original "small" foundation, and the general direction has changed.
▲Smart's early attempts on the electrification route
Of course, there is a reason for this, if the small size of smart is maintained to make an electric car, there will be two problems.
First of all, under the constraint of size, the battery capacity will be very limited, but this problem is not unsolvable, if you design according to such a route, the goal will be very clear, that is, to make a city commuter car, similar to Wuling Hongguang MINIEV bar, at most it is advanced. Of course, such a positioning is still relatively limited, it is difficult to show its skills, and the previous micro smart is a bloody example.
▲ Smart's early attempts on the electrification route, +1
The second problem is that micro-electric vehicles are difficult to guarantee profit margins, the cost structure of electric vehicles and oil vehicles have a big difference, we may have heard of Wuling Hongguang MINIEV's bicycle profit is extremely low (mainly by selling new energy credits to make money), coupled with consumers' requirements for a commuter micro-electric vehicle may really be "dynamic on the line", so the mini size smart attraction may not be as good as Wuling Hongguang MINIEV.
Then, restart the game and play again with another map.
As for whether you can see smart as small as before in the future, one word, hard!
After all, at the level of brand management, Geely obviously will not be as idle as we said at the beginning of the investment in Daimler at the same time "hand" to hold 50% of the shares of smart, for this hot potato that has been losing money for many years, it is natural to hope to reverse the situation, and it is hoped to become bigger and stronger.
Their first step is to make smart bigger and stronger in terms of product form, and become a more adaptable car. Feelings or something, "smart no longer smart" or something, only those who look at it and don't buy it will hang on their lips every day.
In fact, I think that if you really want a micro-electric car, go buy Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, you really don't have to deify the miniature smarts of the past, they have nothing to linger on, because there is really only one "small" word.
The question now thrown at smart is, #1该卖多少钱? As just analyzed, I think smart #1定位看齐ID.3 is reasonable, but it is clear that smart #1的动力 and battery life are above ID.3, that is about 200,000? This is a bit expensive, but still backed by the mercedes-Benz background does not give me any reason to have a lower price expectation for it... Well.
At present, it is still uncertain whether smart will be sold in the mercedes-benz showroom in the future, if it will, it may also give smart #1带来一定的溢价幅度, and at the same time promote the supporting industry of the three-prong star logo, don't ask me how I know, I see that the Denza X running on the road is not a few still pasted with the Denza logo that comes with the factory.
Issue 1850
Author: Chen Houze