On April 25, the first car of the new smart brand, Genie #1, held an Asian online conference as scheduled, and released a pre-sale price of 190,000-230,000, and 150 direct-operated stores are expected to land during the year, covering first-tier new first-tier cities and second-tier cities. I quickly paid a 500 yuan refundable order to occupy the pit first, and then began to slowly study the car, and it was out of control.
Although the smart genie #1 debuted in Berlin on April 8, my attention to it really began when the price was released yesterday and spread on the Internet, and even the understanding of the configuration began to be studied after the order was placed. Why is it that makes me so crazy? Is this really the car so on top? Is the price configuration fragrant or not? And listen to me slowly:
smart genie #1 based on Geely Haohan SEA pure electric platform to build, is the brother of extreme krypton 001, designed and developed by the German Mercedes-Benz headquarters, Geely's Xi'an factory production and manufacturing, positioned as a pure electric small SUV, is expected to be officially delivered in the fourth quarter of this year, this year's domestic production can reach 20,000 vehicles, half delivered to the domestic market, half sold to the overseas market.
Regarding "how to build a delicate car", I believe that no one has more say than smart.
They have been studying this since the establishment of the brand, and in today's era of electrification, their car-making ideas have not changed. Smart Genie #1 presents users with a small but not low-end, personality but not niche boutique pure electric model. Its product positioning pinpoints the mainstream needs of the market, and today' increasing homogenization will become its biggest core advantage. The electrification technology resources from Geely ensure that it will not be left behind in the fierce competition. At the press conference, the positioning of this car is: tomorrow's urban close friends.
In terms of appearance, the appearance of this smart genie #1 and the original smart seem to draw a clear line, from the original mini car to a standard small SUV, although the length of the car is only 4270mm, but the wheelbase reached 2750mm, more than the wheelbase of most compact models, the body width reached a staggering 1822mm, and the mid-size sedan BMW 3 Series is almost the same. In order to fully take care of the user's personality expression, 11 body colors and 4 interior styles are available to choose from.
The overall appearance of the interior is very simple, and the surrounded center console retains the characteristics of the concept car, equipped with a 9.2-inch LCD instrument, a 12.8-inch floating central control screen and a 10-inch HUD head-up display, which enhances the sense of technology in the car.
In terms of intelligence, the new car is equipped with up to 23 high-precision perception hardware, and is also equipped with 6-way electric adjustment of the front seats, intelligent driver assistance system, intelligent fragrance system, wireless charging of mobile phones, kick-type electric tailgates, 3.3 kW reverse charging and other configurations. In addition, the new car offers 3 driving modes as well as 3 steering comforts to choose from.
Just look at this configuration: the price-performance ratio is already quite good at this point in time. It should be known that almost all electric vehicles and even fuel vehicle brands have begun to increase prices since March this year (including but not limited to Extreme Kr, BYD, Euler, Xiaopeng, Tesla, Weilai, Mercedes-Benz BMW, etc.). Although the top match is 230,000, it is still very cost-effective compared to these competitors after the price increase. The configuration is also directly pulled to the explosion, power, endurance, driver assistance, cockpit material atmosphere is not bad. To know the same size of the Great Wall Euler good cat GT configuration full now are more than 170,000.
(Standard 64-color mood lights, main driver seat memory, rear seat back angle can be adjusted and reclined, armrest box air outlet refrigeration, high equipped with heat pump air conditioning, air quality system and PM2.5 sensor, N95 filter, for the epidemic situation can not be underestimated in the future interior space to provide the pursuit of the ultimate detail control)
(On the intelligent driver assistance system, it is equipped with 14 high-precision perception hardware units, and 23 high-precision perception hardware units: 12 ultrasonic radars, 5 millimeter wave radars, 4 surround view cameras, 1 front-view camera, 1 cockpit camera, and high-end lane keeping, automatic lane change assistance, front-to-back collision mitigation, front-to-back cross alarm, automatic and remote control parking, 360 panoramic image function)
(In the cockpit, the standard Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 intelligent cockpit chip, 10-inch head-up display, 9.2-inch LCD instrument, 12.8-inch suspension central control screen, the car machine system is said to be created by Yijiatong, with a very young and modern style, how to perform how to further experience the real car)
(Low and high with more than 40,000 yuan difference, more HUD, heat pump air conditioning, 13 speaker Beats sound, light show, mobile phone wireless charging, kick power tailgate, 19-inch low wind resistance rim, front seat heating, illuminated steering wheel logo, luminous welcome foot pedals, leather seats and steering wheel, in fact, it looks high and cost-effective)
(By the way, I think the most indispensable thing is this finishing touch on the B-pillar door: the design is from Mercedes-Benz, the trident star YYDS)
I think the direct competitor of smart genie #1 will be the domestic pure electric MINI of the Great Wall BMW joint venture beam car, and the current domestic pure electric MINI has not yet been listed, depending on the pricing of the follow-up domestic MINI electric vehicle.
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Among the many existing domestic or joint venture small pure electric SUVs are such as:
The Yuan Plus brought by BYD, which was the first to develop domestic Sandian Technology, and BYD Dolphin, which won the sales championship of pure electric small cars less than half a year after its listing;
Or the threatening ID.3 and ID.4 of the Volkswagen Group, the third largest auto market capitalization in the world;
Great Wall specializes in attracting urban beauty white-collar Workers of the Euler brand of various "cats" set up a good cat GT;
In order to facilitate consumer comparison, I also added the Xiaopeng P5 and Tesla Model Y, GAC AION Y.
The tonality and positioning are both for the urban youth new luxury class of the volkswagen ID.3, the size is also similar to the smart genie #1, sold to 16.53-17.93 million.
From the known parameters, smart genie #1 is 102 horsepower larger than the 170 horsepower front motor on the mainstream joint venture brand Volkswagen ID.3, with an endurance of about 100 kilometers, and the battery capacity is nearly 10kWh larger than the ID.3's 57.3kWh.
In this comparison, the price of smart genie #1 is still relatively pragmatic and grounded, which can make the public ID.3 how to sell ah. But if you compare the price of ID.4, it may be fairer. The ID.4, like the ID.3, uses a drum brake instead of a disc brake for the rear wheel, and the 100 km/h acceleration is 8.4s, although the ID.3 also needs 7.4s for light weight. Therefore, I think ID.4 is more suitable for some consumers who pay attention to their families and want to take their families to an outing.
After carefully looking for parameters and making tables, which lasted more than an hour, I also marked the models with advantages in red font.
It can be seen that the Tesla Model Y ranks first in wheelbase width and space, of course, its price of 316,900 is also the first of all the comparison models.
If it was the lowest price last year before the price increase was 275,500, I have every reason to explain why Model Y can kill domestic new energy vehicles and even fuel vehicles at this level. In the first quarter of 2022, Tesla Model Y sold a total of 74,600 units, more than the 100-month sales of fuel car champions Great Wall Haval H6 and BYD Song, the reason for the good sales is nothing more than that it is only more expensive than tesla Model 3 more than 30,000 yuan, but the space is larger and more suitable for the whole family to travel, so it is more cost-effective than Tesla Model 3's characteristics that are only suitable for one person to drive.
But after the april 2022 price increase, will consumers in the domestic market still pay for more than 300,000 castrated versions of the 2022 Model Y that have also weakened the acceleration performance?
As a smart genie #1 with the best power, endurance and 100 km/h acceleration performance and even configuration, can it start delivery in the fourth quarter as scheduled, catching up with the last wave of madness before new energy vehicles may be refunded. Also Geely SEA vast platform of the big brother Extreme Kr 001 from the end of October last year has been delivered for 6 months, even in addition to the February holidays and production capacity of the trough, it has only delivered less than 15,000 units, Geely's Xi'an factory can withstand the pressure of the epidemic and rising raw material prices, for those of us who want to buy "electric exquisite new luxury cars" consumers as soon as possible to deliver the smart genie #1, we can only look forward to it with an optimistic attitude!
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