The first core concern of bulk consumption is peace of mind. No matter how unique the current intelligent electric vehicle experience is, or subverts the traditional engineering design, it can be tasted at a cost, and the people are never willing to do so.
Therefore, the deep blue brand technology sharing meeting held by Chang'an a few days ago tried to return to the original intention and restore the original intention of the new energy vehicle: the original intention was to replace the travel of fuel vehicles. This matter has an appeal, after all, in recent years, I have seen more "pompous" operations of new forces, and now there are car companies willing to turn back to you about "returning trams to their essence", which is indeed moving.
The technical sharing of the Changan deep blue brand and the informal product conference, in addition to announcing the shape and main performance parameters of the new brand's first product C385 (code name), more than 90% of the entire content is about the technical framework supported by the new brand.
Although it is not the final mass production version, from the currently exposed picture, it should be said that the sense of technology and recognition of the Deep Blue C385 is high enough. Whether it is the front face integrated with the hood, or the distinctive "rocket pusher" lighting shape is impressive. As the first model of a new brand, it is often remembered that success is often the first step.
The real focus is naturally on an all-electric digital platform (EPA1) based on a 5-year, 2,000-person team.
The first model born of the platform, the Navy C385, is expected to have a cruising range of 700 km, a maximum power of more than 190 kW, and a power consumption as low as 12.3 kWh/100 km or less; it has 105K DMIPS hash rate, 27 sensing components, and can support L4 level automatic driving up to 105K.
It can be seen that the positioning of the deep blue C385 is not blindly greedy.
It does not pursue the industry's top acceleration performance, it is aimed at the position between the first echelon and the second echelon in terms of endurance and computing power. You may think that such a product strategy will make the deep blue C385 lack of "screaming" selling points, but the author feels that this is conducive to the on-time mass production of the product, and leaves more room for price.
Importantly, this pragmatic product strategy actually runs through the core presentation section of the entire Deep Blue Technology Sharing Conference, which is the most followed all-electric digital platform (EPA1).
The beginning of the Project of Changan Deep Blue brand was as early as 2017. That year, for China and even the global new energy vehicle field, was a humiliating historical node. In the new energy market for a year, public opinion is full of voices such as "cheating" and "industrial garbage", and most users do not accept it, or even do not understand what a new energy vehicle is. It was also in that year that Changan decided to implement the "Shangri-La Plan" in order to solve the pain points of the use of new energy vehicles and improve the inherent impression of new energy vehicles in the minds of consumers. In order to make a new pure electric drive dedicated platform with completely independent intellectual property rights and positive design, EPA1 development plan was established.
In other words, the underlying logic of the development of this all-electric digital platform is not like the so-called "subversion" and "creation" of some new car-making forces, and the launch of "high and low" PPT futures, but to solve user pain points and correct consumer confidence.
If you want to solve the problem, you must first find the real who is hidden behind the problem.
The three eternal pain points of trams are anxiety about battery life, shrinkage of high and low temperature mileage, and poor energy replenishment efficiency. The second is safety anxiety, the battery has the hidden danger of overheating, facing the safety challenge of the whole vehicle. The third is the anxiety of the driving experience, many consumers after driving a pure tram, often complain that the tram is not a fuel car mature and easy to drive.
To this end, the solution proposed by Changan Deep Blue All-Electric Digital Platform EPA1 is - deep integration all in one. In simple terms, it fully integrates the three-electric system to achieve smaller volume, lighter weight, more integrated functions and performance, improve the utilization rate of the vehicle and space-to-weight ratio, and optimize the safety and efficiency of the three-electric system. In fact, these are the most basic and core indicators of new energy vehicles.
Pick a few examples that are more impressive:
On the issue of battery life, the technology will announce the new generation of Chang'an super collector electric drive, the maximum efficiency of up to 95%. What is this level? The mainstream level of the industry is about 85%, which proves that the efficiency of Chang'an's electric drive system has reached the domestic head level, and the high efficiency of the electric drive system directly brings about the reduction of power consumption.
The so-called tram can not drive Shanhaiguan, and it is very difficult to use electric vehicles in the northern region in winter. Deep Blue brand has launched the world's first micro-core high-frequency pulse heating technology, which can improve the low temperature dynamics by 50% and shorten the low temperature charging time by 15% in the extremely cold and bad weather of -30 °C, so as to alleviate consumers' concerns about the endurance of winter trams.
Regarding safety issues, the EPA1 platform meets the C-NCAP five-star safety standard, adopts a horizontal nine-vertical ring body design, and accounts for more than 45% of high-strength steel. And through the iBC digital battery housekeeper, effectively avoid battery thermal runaway.
Regarding the rough driving experience of the tram, the solution of the EPA1 platform is to install a dual-redundant braking system and an H-arm multi-link independent suspension. Provide you with optional, softer and more linear energy recovery braking, and effectively shorten the braking distance, enhance vehicle following and high-speed stability. At the same time, the vehicle calibration calibration, pay more attention to the delicate driving experience, step down or release the acceleration pedal instantly, so that the electric drive can basically completely achieve zero hysteresis response.
In addition to solving the essential problems of new energy vehicle travel, it is also the world's first platform that supports pure electricity, extended range, and hydrogen fuel cells at the same time. And support global intelligent control and OTA, although not the industry's top, but also worthy of the leading intelligent cockpit and automatic driving and other technology configurations, intelligent expression is also remarkable.
So, do you feel that the strategy of the development team of Changan Deep Blue is very clear, and the main and secondary issues are clearly listed. All kinds of "the past is the prologue" car-making concept, and showmanship, exaggerated technology configuration, let the new car-making forces to explore the way, I just need to shout in the back "I am the same, not worse than you" on the line.
Putting aside the phenomenon and returning to the original appearance of the new energy vehicle as a travel tool, you will find that it spends its mind on electric drive technology, safety performance, and driving experience, which really need time to precipitate and need to see the real kung fu content. So the whole sharing session is actually quite boring, because most of the time I am preaching obscure dry goods.
Although the Deep Blue C385 does not even have an official name at present, we cannot know the platform advantages mentioned in the sharing meeting, which is ultimately reflected in the success of mass production vehicles and whether it creates a new energy travel with quality first. But only with this original intention of "returning to the essence of car building", I think Changan Deep Blue at least deserves a thumbs up.