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In March, the SUV sales list has been released, and the Shenche H6, which has dominated the SUV circle for many years, fell to the top of the list, but it is very surprising that it is not a fuel competitor on the direct price point, but a pure electric medium-sized SUV that is not a dimension at all from price to level, from energy to positioning - Tesla Model Y.
Think about it carefully, Model Y does have the capital to succeed, in the most basic NVH texture of the car, electric innately better than fuel, which is also one of the reasons why a large part of consumers are willing to sacrifice the convenience of energy replenishment, and must also buy pure electric vehicles.
In addition, the Model Y's solid endurance, good power performance, and as an SUV model, the ability to pass, large space, etc., are impeccable existence, coupled with the easy-to-use intelligent driver assistance, pure electric platform unique practical compartment, etc., hot sales are really logical.
So, in the relatively more cost-effective domestic brand SUV, is there a model with a successful idea like the Model Y? We looked around, and there was really one - Chery Big Ant.
It has not been on the market for too long, only more than a year, and from the body platform hardware to the detailed design, from assisted driving to storage space, it has a strong competitiveness, and the price, only half of the Model Y, can be said to be the real sense of "half price equality".
It is precisely for this reason that if more consumers can know the existence of this car, it seems that it is not impossible for its sales to successfully enter the top ten in the future and challenge Model Y.
Pure electric platform, all-aluminum body
The sincerity of the big ant deserves to be seen
In the pure electric vehicle market where the price is relatively close to the people, there has always been a very serious problem, subject to the reasons for technology and model layout, few manufacturers will lay out the exclusive pure electric platform in advance, so it is difficult for consumers to buy the real sense of "pure electric" models, most of which are fuel platforms to electric or derived from oil-electric compatible platforms.
It is not that these oils are not good, but they lack a series of competitive advantages unique to pure electric platforms, including the front compartment with full praise for practicality, lighter curb quality, chassis with better integration and flattening, and so on.
But Chery big ants are obviously not oil to electricity, Chery many years ago the layout of global technology laid a solid foundation for today's pure electric development.
The @LIFE green wisdom modular platform adopted by big ant not only has a pure electric exclusive design, but also from the manufacturing link can be deeply implemented by the word "environmental protection", the traditional four major processes, including stamping, welding, painting, assembly, after being upgraded to welding, assembly two major processes.
The direct benefit of the reduction of the manufacturing process is that the production energy consumption is reduced and the pollution emissions are reduced, which is more in line with the original intention of the development of the concept of "green environmental protection" of electric vehicles.
In addition, the @LIFE platform also successfully brought an all-aluminum body to Chery Big Ant, and the utilization rate of the whole vehicle aluminum alloy exceeded 86%, and the intuitive effect was that compared with the traditional steel material, the body weight reduction was nearly 30%, which in turn made the endurance increased by 7% under the same power.
In the context of the popularity of "false standard CLTC" today, the big ant official still uses a more sincere NEDC standard, with an endurance of 510 kilometers. This also means that under the conditions of the city, if you only commute for the main purpose, the big ant can completely charge once every half a month.
Of course, weight reduction also has a major advantage, that is, after the power consumption is reduced, the battery volume can not be too large, and then with fast charging, 10 minutes can supplement 100 kilometers of endurance, which has obvious advantages in high-speed cross-city or long-distance self-driving tourism, according to the current basic interval between major cities 100-200 kilometers of actual situation, it can be completely worry-free.
And the body made of aluminum alloy material also performs better in terms of chemical characteristics and structural strength, not only more resistant to corrosion of the years, but also makes the torsional steel degree reach 27000N m/deg, with the same aluminum alloy material chassis suspension core components, compared with the same price of the same level of competitors, you can intuitively feel better control when you drive.
In our previous test drive, it was indeed felt that way, compared to the bulky handling of the same level of medium-sized fuel SUV, the lower center of gravity and the large ants with aluminum alloy body had the agility of a small SUV on the mountain road, so that the driver's mouth could smile at any time.
Leaving the road, based on the exclusive advantages of the pure electric platform, the big ant also did not affect the passability performance because of the existence of the battery pack, the vehicle has no ground clearance of 194mm, and the full load is also 166mm, with a proximity angle of 23 ° and a departure angle of 27 °, which fully reaches or even exceeds the multi-road adaptability of some mainstream urban fuel SUVs. Even if you have the occasional mild offroad "wild" need, big ants can satisfy you.
Large ant trunk
At the same time, the @LIFE platform also allows big ant to achieve the biggest selling point of the electric vehicle " , based on the fully optimized body structure, the big ant easily laid out the front trunk, and Tesla's design concept is almost the same. Of course, you might ask what is the use of this design?
Put it this way, when parking everyone is the front of the car outward, if there is not much in hand, put things in the front compartment and then get on the car, is not far superior to the opponent who only has the trunk in terms of convenience? And when traveling between friends, the pressure is even higher.
In addition, the pure electric @LIFE platform has also successfully enabled the big ant to achieve the same rear-drive form as Tesla, with a 150 kW, converted into 204 hp, peak torque of 295 Nm electric motor, the dual agility of control and power has also been perfectly reflected.
As for the performance of the space, it is even more needless to worry, the large ant body width positioned in the medium-sized SUV has reached 1910mm, and the back row will not be crowded even if there are three adult men, with the 2830mm long wheelbase brought by the pure electric exclusive platform, the space is "big to waste" for the vast majority of families.
Of course, more spare space also means that big ants have the possibility of using more cars.
In the owners' forum, we found that there are many purchased car owners who like to go out camping with big ants, its huge front and rear trunk loading capacity, with a 220V power supply function, in a one-way only tens of kilometers of urban suburban camping, can be fully transformed into a "giant mobile charging treasure", not only can K song barbecue, can even drive the projector to a romantic open-air movie.
In other words, on the basis of the current 150,000 levels, Chery Big Ant is the hardware "ceiling" of pure electric SUVs.
Intelligent driving, intelligent interaction
The core configuration of the big ants is everything
Of course, nowadays are talking about the concept of "intelligent electric vehicles", when intelligence has been inseparable from pure electric, Chery big ants naturally did not miss this development opportunity, although not like some brands like to release the "futures" function in advance, giving consumers full expectations, but the current 2022 big ants have been able to do L2+ level intelligent assisted driving and vehicle intelligent interaction, is still a very popular existence of consumers.
In terms of intelligent driving, we take the 2022 Big Ant Smart Cabin as an example, the core L2+ level automatic driving assistance is directly standard, in the face of up to 12 ultrasonic radar, 1 front-view camera, 4 surround cameras, 3 millimeter wave radar sensor combination, directly can achieve 20 driving assistance functions, including the core adaptive cruise (ACC), lane keeping (LKA), lane departure avoidance (LDP), active braking system (AEB), automatic parking (APA).
In other words, in the daily urban congestion with the car, high-speed long-distance travel, the big ant can become your most intimate labor-saving little assistant, the brake throttle to help you control, even the steering wheel can intervene to take over; for the driving safety of a more guarantee.
As for the automatic parking function, old drivers may not use it, but as a family car, when your lover or family member is averagely skilled, but you need to drive, it can play a big role.
In contrast, Tesla's standard AutoPilot assisted driving is just like this, and even less than the big ant's core automatic parking function.
Of course, based on the new BAWS fatigue monitoring function of the 2022 model, the big ant can not only avoid the safety hazards caused by the incorrect use of assisted driving for you, but also improve the interactive experience in the car based on this set of sensors - the addition of the Face ID wisdom privilege-level identity function allows the car to recognize the owner, take the initiative to automatically adjust preset preferences after recognition, such as music content, etc., with the 2022 new fragrance system, the sense of honor and the sense of premium are directly full.
In addition, the basic intelligent interaction capabilities, the 2022 Chery Big Ant also performed well, double 12.3-inch screen design, bringing it high-quality display hardware performance, with online navigation, Internet of Vehicles, entertainment and voice control interaction functions, you need two-way communication between cars and people, people and cars can all be done.
In other words, on the basis of the hardware is already a 150,000-level pure electric SUV ceiling, the intelligent performance of soft power, and the big ant is also the head level of this level.
Write at the end:
The only all-aluminum body of the same level under the pure electric platform, the comprehensive hardware performance of the same level of "ceiling", coupled with the good intelligent soft power, Chery Big Ant actually has the basic conditions for hot sales.
Of course, considering that more consumers at this level of models buy cars "practical" rather than "early adopters", Chery New Energy has also sincerely prepared the first lifelong warranty policy for the owner of the whole vehicle for the big ant, including the battery pack that consumers are most worried about.
And if you consider the fact that at this stage, the big ant models in some areas have terminal discounts, then its cost performance is more worthy of recommendation.
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