As a new car company, Xiaopeng Automobile positions itself as a "smart car that understands China better". Xiaopeng P5 is the latest product that proves its "intelligent strength". The new car has three product highlights of "the strongest intelligent driving hardware", "all-voice on-board system" and "versatile intelligent space", and is the world's first mass-produced intelligent car equipped with lidar, and the first model in China to realize VPA-L cross-floor parking memory parking.
Recently, Brother Ruan was invited to participate in the test drive of Xiaopeng P5, focusing on the experience of the model's VPA-L cross-floor parking memory parking, intelligent interaction system that supports the whole scene and high-speed NGP intelligent navigation assisted driving experience. So, how does this model perform in actual use? Let's talk about it today.
The 2nd floor is smoothly moored, and there is no need to take over the whole process
First of all, let's briefly introduce the Xiaopeng P5, which currently provides three configuration levels of G, E and P. Among them, the G series does not provide driver assistance systems, the E series is equipped with XPILOT3.0 hardware, and the P series is equipped with XPILOT 3.5. The P series models are equipped with the strongest intelligent driver assistance perception hardware in the same level, including the integration of 2 lidar, 12 ultrasonic sensors, 5 millimeter wave radar, 13 high-perception cameras, 1 set of sub-meter-level high-precision positioning units, etc., which allows xiaopeng P5 to achieve VPA-L cross-floor parking memory parking, and also has a very rich auxiliary driving capabilities.
In the actual experience, the driver is first required to manually drive the car into the basement, complete the first parking, and the system can remember your driving trajectory and parking space. When you re-enter the parking lot for the second time, the vehicle will prompt us with a voice "Memory parking is available, please click Start", follow the voice prompts in turn, Xiaopeng P5 will start to drive to the designated parking space on the minus second floor according to the route of the last memory.
That is to say, Xiaopeng P5 is like a student, the owner only needs to teach it how to park in the designated parking space, it can learn itself and never forget. Regardless of how many floors of the parking lot, as long as the distance is within 2 kilometers, its memory parking function can be done. With the longest 2 km memory line in the industry, parking will become more comfortable in some large supermarkets, residential areas and other large underground parking lots.
However, some people here have to ask, is there a safety problem in the memory parking process of VPA-L cross-floor parking lot? In fact, there is no need to worry too much about this. First of all, during the parking process, the speed of the vehicle is maintained within 15km/h; in addition, the sensors equipped with the Xiaopeng P5 are in the working state, and when there is an obstacle, the vehicle can automatically brake and wait for the obstacle to leave to ensure safety. Xiaopeng's system has reached the point where the car can be completely driven by itself when it gets off the basement.
Of course, the VPA-L cross-floor parking lot memory parking is only part of the Xiaopeng P5 intelligent driving, which also optimizes the NGP intelligent navigation assistance driving function. Specifically, the night assisted safe driving tips, cone barrel display experience, down ramp experience and congestion follow-up experience are optimized. The above functions are just the tip of the iceberg of Xmart OS 3.1.0 update, and in the future, with the continuous update of OTA, Xiaopeng Automobile will also bring us more fun and easy-to-use intelligent and safe travel experience.
In addition to intelligence, comfort is not bad
After talking about memory parking, let's take a look at how this car is driving.
The Xiaopeng P5 is equipped with a single motor with a maximum power of 155kW, and the power output is not as violent as that of the dual motors, but it is quite smooth. As soon as the electric door is stepped on, the power is continuously output to the front wheel, and the subjective feeling of speeding up is still very fast. The overall driving style is a relaxed, easy-to-drive type.
Xiaopeng P5 provides three driving modes of standard, sport and economy, the calibration of the three modes is very clear and clear, and the sports mode is recommended when driving at high speed. Of course, on the high speed you can also use the NGP intelligent driver assistance system, which can make it easier for you to drive, automatically follow the car, automatically change lanes, enter and exit ramps, adjust the speed limit in real time, etc.
Let's talk about the chassis, although the Xiaopeng P5 adopts the suspension structure of the front McPherson rear torsion beam, the overall tuning is moderate and soft, and it can be handled more comfortably when passing some potholes, but when changing lanes quickly and turning around, the roll suppression is not strong, so the handling can only be considered decent.
In fact, the Xiaopeng P5 itself is an electric car positioned for home use, so the most important thing is to drive and use it comfortably enough. Speaking of easy to use, I have to mention its intelligent AI voice interaction, what is just "small P, open the car window, trunk, adjust the air conditioning, give me a song ...", Brother Reel with great interest issued a number of instructions to Xiaopeng P5 continuously, and "Small P" also successfully completed the task. In addition, there are voice support for private customization, source/sound zone locking, etc. In short, the more you use it, you will like this intelligent interaction, too smart.
summary
With APA smart parking, VPA parking lot memory parking and VPA-L cross-floor parking memory parking, Xiaopeng P5 is currently a mass production model that can cover the most parking scenarios, which is very suitable for users with fixed parking spaces. Through this test drive, Brother Rudder also truly felt the improvement of Xiaopeng Automobile in terms of details, whether it is driving texture or product technology is worth affirming, Xiaopeng P5 This car is indeed quite fragrant. (Wen | Chen)