On the evening of April 25, the smart genie #1 model officially opened pre-sale, a total of 2 configurations were launched, the pre-price is 190,000 and 230,000 respectively, and the new car will also be announced in June this year. The new car is based on Geely SEA Haohan, and the design appearance is led by Mercedes-Benz, and the whole vehicle is positioned as a pure electric small SUV.
About two or three years ago, the author had a chat with everyone, like smart, mini such as a small and cute route of the brand, it should be pure electric, after all, not many people drive them to go long distances, and limited by the small size of a hard plug an engine in it, the comfort of the whole car is indeed relatively poor.
But it also has to be said that because of its unique personality, smart fortwo has always had a high reputation even after it was fully launched on the market in 2019, although they are rarely seen on the road, but every time it appears, it is very eye-catching. In 2020, Geely and Mercedes-Benz announced that they will jointly form a new smart brand joint venture, called Smart Automobile Co., Ltd., which will also promote the comprehensive transformation of smart.
Although it does not seem to have much to do with the previous smart, as long as it is still called smart, it will still retain its unique brand characteristics. Although the smart genie #1 is a four-door version, its size is still relatively small, with a length, width and height of 4270/1822/1636mm, and a wheelbase of 2750mm. If the size is to define its competitors or more, but considering its relatively petty brand positioning, so the competitor models that can be found at present should be Audi Q2L pure electric and DS 3 such cars, but both models are the products of oil to electricity, so the competitiveness is still much worse.
The exterior design of the whole car is very avant-garde, and it basically retains the overall style of the concept car, of course, you can no longer find the shadow of the previous smart on it. The two triangular headlights are connected by an LED strip, and the starry sky lattice grille below looks exquisite.
The design of the body side is not even inferior to the front face, first of all, the two-color body with the high-tech wheel hub looks very personal, and the detailed design includes the encirclement under the door panel and the smart LOGO on the roof. In addition, the nameplate LOGO of "STYLED BY Benz" located in the B-pillar position is also telling everyone that it is designed by Mercedes-Benz, and Mercedes-Benz understands it very well!
Coming to the car, the smart genie #1 design is also very fashionable, and even very "Mercedes-Benz" taste, and the previous generation of Mercedes-Benz yacht style interior is relatively close, but there are a lot of scientific and technological elements, such as the air conditioning outlet looks more narrow and long, the suspension of the central control screen size is also larger, the steering wheel design is also more exquisite.
It is worth noting that the new car is not equipped with a traditional style of dashboard, but a 9.2-inch full LCD instrument cluster is made into an embedded design and cooperates with the HUD head-up display to display vehicle information, and the sense of technology is still good. The size of the multimedia screen has reached 12.8 inches, and the "smart universe" intelligent human-computer interaction system is built-in, because Geely is responsible for development, so practical habits should be closer to our current mainstream intelligent car machine.
Power part, smart genie #1 using rear motor + rear wheel drive, maximum power 272 horsepower, peak torque 343 Nm, for this size of the car can not be used enough to describe, the official given 0-100km/ h acceleration time of 6.7 seconds, the maximum speed of 180km / h.
In the endurance part, the new car is equipped with a ternary lithium battery with a capacity of 66kWh, and the battery life is 535km and 560km. In terms of charging, the new car supports fast and slow charging, and it takes 7.5 hours to charge 10%-80% in the case of 7.2kW AC slow charging, and less than 30 minutes to use 150kW DC fast charging.
summary:
In the field of exquisite pure electric cars, the country is actually not less, such as the Euler brand we are familiar with, although there is only one good cat because of supply chain problems, but its positioning is actually close to smart genie #1, which is the main female user and needs to have a certain purchasing power. Smart Genie #1 may have an advantage in performance and brand influence, but it also requires you to hold a higher budget.
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