On December 15 last year, Li Yinan, the founder of Xiaoniu Electric, released the NIUTRON brand and announced his official entry into car manufacturing. The brand's Chinese name is "Self-Traveling Home", which will focus on the field of intelligent high-end new energy vehicles.
Today, the NV, the first model of the tour, announced detailed configuration information on the intelligent cockpit and assisted driving. The car has a 15.6-inch central suspension screen and a 12.3-inch instrument screen, and the whole series is equipped with a high-end driver assistance system as standard, with L2+ assist driving capability.
According to reports, in terms of car-machine interconnection, car owners can achieve insensitive unlocking through mobile phones or smart wearable devices, and can also authorize digital keys to relatives and friends at any time through the Self-Traveling App.
Based on Android Automotive, the new car developed NIUTRON OS, innovative design of Smart Stacks block interpolation interaction, support for seamless switching between the car machine native system NIUTRON OS and the car mobile phone application, the two logic is highly consistent, as far as possible to reduce the user's learning costs.
At the same time, when the user carries the iPhone into the self-touring NV, it can be connected to CarPlay without feeling.
Both NIUTRON OS and CarPlay support the dual display of user-used navigation, music, vehicle status and other information on the central hovering screen and the 12.3-inch instrument screen. In addition, the car machine also supports Carlink and HiCar wireless interconnection, as well as AR navigation functions.
In terms of assisted driving, the self-touring NV is equipped with 24 AAD (Advanced Assistant Driving) functions as standard, including AEB (automatic emergency braking), ACC (full speed domain adaptive cruise), LCC (lane center control), LCA (lane change assist), BSD (blind spot monitoring), APA (fully automatic parking) and other functions.
The hardware configuration on automatic driving is also more luxurious, and the self-touring NV and Horizon have reached a cooperation, and the multi-sensor system based on the Journey 2 chip includes a front-view camera and 5 millimeter-wave radars.
According to the previous introduction, the body size of the new car is 4915/1950/1750mm, and the wheelbase is 2900mm, positioning medium and large SUVs.
The core power endurance part, based on the GEMINI twin power module system, launched pure electric and extended range two power modes, the pure electric version of the CLTC working range of 550km, while the extended range of the model pure electric mode of 150km, the extender comprehensive cruising range of 939km (WLTC working conditions);
The self-Touring NV extended range model uses a 1.5T four-cylinder engine as a range extender, and the drive system consists of two motors at the front and rear, with a maximum power of 130 kW in the front motor and 140 kW in the rear motor. The pure electric model is also equipped with two electric motors in front and rear, and the maximum power of the system is 280kW and the peak torque is 452Nm.
According to the official introduction, the Self-Touring NV is a 5-seat medium-sized extended range SUV, according to the plan, the new car is scheduled to open reservations in the first half of this year, and officially delivered in September.
There is no doubt that the arrival of the youjia NV will constitute a competitive relationship for models such as the ideal ONE, Lantu FREE, and even BYD Tang DM. And in the end, who can stand out in this market, the subsequent sales will give the answer.