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Introduction: Due to the epidemic situation, we have not been able to conduct a dynamic experience of THE PVD yuan PLUS, and this time we finally have the opportunity to have an in-depth understanding of its real product power in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, and the most surprising thing for us is that although the yuan PLUS has achieved monthly sales of more than 10,000 yuan immediately after its listing (the actual order exceeded 20,000), However, the yuan PLUS product group has a sales target of 45,000 units per month for its future sales, and once BYD's advantages in the 100,000-150,000 yuan pure electric sedan and SUV market will be infinitely magnified, it is only a matter of time before it sits on the throne of total sales of independent brands.
In fact, through the previous static experience, we have a certain understanding of the design and spatial performance of the metaPLUS, so in the test drive process, we will focus more on the car, driving experience and thinking about how the metaPLUS impresses the potential passenger part, to see how many brushes the metaPLUS has. Of course, it should be explained in advance that our test drive this time is a yuan PLUS sub-top model, priced at 157,800 yuan, and the pure electric endurance is 510km.
What does e-platform 3.0 bring?
According to BYD, the core advantages of e platform 3.0 are aesthetics, intelligence, efficiency, safety, I believe that most people see these words are still in the clouds, can not understand the real e platform 3.0 the first A-class tide running SUV yuan PLUS brings what differences, such as aesthetics, many people will have questions "how can a platform affect the visual experience of a model?" ”
However, friends who have seen the metaPLUS real car should also find that although the yuan PLUS (4455mm) may not be as good as many fuel version compact SUVs, the overall sense of volume can be said to be not weaker than the latter. You know, the design of the metaPLUS short front and rear suspension is easy to make people look small visually, and the meta PLUS not only does not have such a feeling, but it is a suspension roof and a special wheel shape with a certain sense of high-end.
The reason is that the e platform 3.0 makes the meta PLUS body center of gravity lower at the same time, the visual center of gravity is also lower than the previous A-class SUV, so that the whole car looks more dynamic, coupled with the body width of the level of 1875mm and the design of the front and rear of the car are intended to emphasize the horizontal visual width of the meta PLUS, so that the coordination of the whole car is relatively prominent (especially the body and window parts), even if it is still a meta series of products, but the overall look and feel and the previous meta Pro and other products have opened up a significant difference.
As for the intelligent, efficient, safe, it is relatively easy to understand, due to the wide temperature range heat pump air conditioning, eight-in-one electric assembly, the highest 128kW fast charge, DiLink4.0 intelligent network connection and other configurations to join, the yuan PLUS is placed in the same price market, compared to Xiaopeng G3, Nezha U, AION Y and other products in the technology can also be said to have some advantages, such as most of the competing models are not equipped with heat pump air conditioning, charging efficiency peak is also about 60kW, The addition of these configurations will greatly improve the user's car experience, especially in the northern region.
Can be fast or slow, free to switch
In the dynamic driving part, the metaPLUS made me most impressed: when the driving mode, kinetic energy recovery, steering wheel feel switched to different levels or modes, the whole car presents us with completely different performance in the driving experience, that is, you can choose buddha-nature, leisurely driving mode, and you can also enjoy a certain driving pleasure.
First of all, in the ECO mode, even if we deliberately increase the opening of the electric door, the performance of the metaPLUS power emergence is still relatively "lazy", and will not actively respond to the needs of the driver, which is obviously more inclined to save energy as much as possible in the power output setting, which is more suitable for the user to follow the car in the urban congested road section;
Switching the driving mode to sport, the state of the meta PLUS has obviously become much lighter, with the increase of the electric door opening, the entire power emergence has become more and more obvious, even if we have four adults and some boarding luggage in the car, the performance of the sharp acceleration is also close to the feeling of a traditional fuel car 2.0T version of the model, but due to the characteristics of the pure electric model, the entire acceleration or deceleration process has no frustration.
Overall, if you are not particularly concerned about the performance of power consumption and battery life, we still recommend using normal and sport modes to drive the meta PLUS in daily driving, and the entire driving experience will better reflect the advantages of pure electric models.
On the two steering wheel feels of movement and comfort, the former will be obviously larger in damping, the directionality is accurate enough, and even when the turning action is carried out at low and medium speeds, it will feel that the steering wheel is a bit thief, and the sensitivity is slightly more than expected; the latter is more suitable for a relaxed and comfortable driving style, and the steering wheel will be lighter and easier to drive.
As for the two levels of kinetic energy recovery: standard and large, under the standard intensity, whether it is a high-speed state, or under the urban congestion road conditions, we almost do not perceive that the metaPLUS has a drag feeling after releasing the electric door, including the larger intensity, the overall kinetic energy recovery on the vehicle braking sensation will not be particularly obvious, obviously BYD hopes to bring users a better car experience, as small as possible from the fuel vehicle to the pure electric model of the adaptation time.
In addition, it is commendable that the electric gate and brake of the metaPLUS are very suitable for the general public in terms of foot feel, especially in the sport mode, the performance of braking force and power emergence is relatively in line with the driver's expectations, and there will be no soft front section and hard rear end.
Finally, the chassis performance of the metaPLUS is also commendable, the suspension of the tuning orientation is more homely and comfortable, but also to ensure a certain toughness, in the medium and high speed through the viaduct gap or low speed through the speed of the speed bump, the suspension rebound speed is not slow, the sound part is also very clean, there is no excess noise and vibration into the car. And when we control the amplitude of the action slightly, the body posture does not appear to shake obviously, which can be said to meet the support performance and provide appropriate subjective feedback.
The vehicle and function distribution are optimized at the same time
Compared with the previous e-platform 2.0 products, the changes in the distribution of the machine and functions of the metaPLUS also surprised us, for example, the kinetic energy recovery can no longer only be adjusted through the central control screen, but in the central armrest button area is specially set up for easy for the driver to adjust the independent button.
And in the car part, BYD not only optimizes the accuracy of the DiLink4.0 intelligent network connection system in the navigation part, at the same time, in the voice password part, it has also upgraded more semantic recognition capabilities, and will recognize and feedback the command according to the speed and other states of the vehicle, for example, in the case of high speed, we let the meta PLUS open the main and co-driver window through the password, at this time, the car machine system will first judge whether this command will affect the driving safety or the corresponding use scenarios, and choose to lower the window only slightly, instead of opening all. And if we want to close the windows of the main co-pilot at the same time, we only need one command: Hello Xiaodi, close all the windows.
Of course, DiLink 4.0 brings about changes in the intelligent experience far from this, but because the test drive time is limited, we did not deeply experience this system, but several times combined with the actual use of the voice control instructions of the scene, meta PLUS has made the correct judgment and response, and various dialects can also be accurately recognized, the only thing is that the continuous password is still not supported.
BYD's engineers also told us that in addition to putting forward higher requirements for suppliers, they will also adjust and optimize the systems or functions provided by suppliers according to the feedback of actual users to meet the needs of users' real use scenarios.
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In summary, the dynamic performance of the metaPLUS is still slightly more than our expectations, the driving state in different modes is clearly distinguished, the driver can make some adjustments to the state of the vehicle according to his subjective needs, to a certain extent, to meet the wishes of adults not to do multiple choice questions - sports and comfort can be switched accordingly, will not let consumers feel that "I must make a trade-off between comfort and sports", which should also be one of the main reasons why it can quickly attract consumers to pay for it.
On the other hand, compared with Dolphin, another product of the same e-platform 3.0, Yuan PLUS gives users more sense of value through the level of interior materials/atmosphere, visual senses and car machine systems, etc. Considering that the former has achieved a hot state of more than 30,000 units of monthly orders and a car handling cycle of up to 3 months, we have more reason to be optimistic that Yuan PLUS has achieved better terminal performance than Dolphin. It is worth noting that compared with BYD's other hot-selling products, YuanPLUS also has an advantage in that it is independently produced by a factory and has greater potential in terms of production capacity.
Placed in the same level and price market, yuan PLUS not only has more advantages in parameters and hardware than products such as Xiaopeng G3, but also the actual experience is more in line with consumer expectations. Considering that consumers are becoming more and more receptive to pure electric models and the recent rise in oil prices, it is natural that the YuanPLUS can quickly become a star model.
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