Established in December 2020 by SAIC, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech and Alibaba Group, zhiji automobile, the first model zhiji L7 was officially launched in April 2022, positioning itself as a medium and large pure electric sedan, and two models are currently on sale, pro and Dynamic versions are priced at 408,800 yuan and 368,800 yuan respectively.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, especially to create a brand new car.
As Mr. Liu Tao, co-CEO of Zhiji Automobile, said, the pricing of 400,000 is easy for users of luxury brands to accept, but to let this part of the customer pay 400,000 to buy, it needs products with very strong product strength, and as a new brand, the price is similar to that of luxury brands, and the experience, value, performance, configuration, and technology provided by the new brand need to go far beyond the traditional luxury brand, so that consumers will give you a chance to choose.
That Zhiji L7, did it?
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How to please the driver?
The Zhiji L7 configuration is full of blood, but I feel it is necessary to start with the driving part. Performance for the tram, it seems to be within reach, the battery pack discharge power and motor power selection is larger, you can get a good acceleration performance, if you are not satisfied with the last dual motor can harvest N times the acceleration pleasure.
But performance never just accelerates, it also includes manipulation.
But very few trams will use handling as a selling point, and the Zhiji L7 is one of them.
From a mechanical point of view, Zhiji laid the foundation for the L7: front double ball joint double wishbone rear five-link suspension, ZF CDC electronic damping adjustable, ZF rear steering (plus or minus 6°), front 245 rear 275 tire width, Brembo four-piston calipers, British Williams chassis tuning, front and rear dual motors (combined output of 425kW). These configurations are stacked on 400,000 cars, unambiguous.
After dialing the gear lever after the steering wheel, the acceleration under the blessing of the dual motor is naturally no pressure, and it is enough to walk 1/2 of the electric door between the cities, and if you covet the deep electric door, the passengers will not feel very comfortable. The official zero hundred acceleration time of Zhiji L7 is 3.87 seconds, which is the same as the official acceleration time of THEO ET7 and The Extreme Krypton Dual Motor Version by 3.8 seconds.
In the test drive, the driving mode is optional in four modes: standard, energy saving, sport and custom, and the power, brake pedal force, steering, and suspension can be selected in the custom. More importantly, the strength of kinetic energy recovery can be adjusted, which is stronger than Tesla, which is also a Shanghai specialty. However, during the test drive, at the moment when the brakes slowly stop in front of the red light, there will be a non-linear braking sensation, which may be related to this is an engineering car.
Chassis may be the place where the zhiji L7 opens the gap, this pair of suspension after I came up to give me the first feeling is stable, steering and speeding can "hold" the body, this point is actually very important for the tram, if you have driven those oil to electricity, acceleration fast but suspension can not support the weight of the battery pack car will understand what is uncomfortable.
In the face of potholes and vibrations on the road, the suspension can give you a filter, and you will feel the suspension thick and tough inside the car. Compared with the Weilai ET7, the suspension of the Zhiji L7 will have a more flexible sense, it will not be as stable as the ET7, and the L7 suspension will be a little more road driving feedback. From the perspective of driving on its own, the Zhiji L7 may have more advantages.
The Zhiji L7 suspension gives me another impression, is that the suspension to choose the sport mode will be more feeling than other modes, although the damping in the sports mode becomes harder, but the whole suspension feels tougher and more solid, although it may not be the optimal solution for passengers, but if a person opens, I am willing to use the suspension sport mode.
The addition of four-wheel steering makes the 3.1-meter wheelbase, more than 5 meters of body of zhiji L7 become flexible, you will not feel that there is a clear sense of big car when driving on the car, and the steering and U-turn in the city can also be calm.
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A new light factory is born?
In the era of intelligent electrification, the design seems to be along with the sword, and many strange shapes are born. Zhiji L7 is relatively normal, through the very tense light strip design rendering of the quiet texture of the source, good look or not everyone feels different, but the consensus of L7 is not dull. In addition, the difference between the lighting and extinguishing of the daily running lights before the Zhiji L7 is still quite large for the entire front face shape.
The four doors are frameless self-priming doors, and the temperament is further enhanced. The main door also supports automatic opening and closing (high-end models), which can be opened and closed with one button through the buttons of the door handle and door trim. This automatic opening and closing door is inductive, and if there is an obstacle next to it, the opening will be controlled. But this function is not perfect, because when people stand next to the door and press the button to open, the door will sense that there is an obstacle, the opening will be relatively small, then you can only walk away a little and then press the door again, when you are in a hurry, you are a little crazy.
At present, the car machine integrates 14 light show scenes, 3 light expressions and sketchpad handwritten projection display, and can also make detailed settings for the light off show, such as left and right lamp projection position, projection position, etc.
Zhiji also excavated a way of playing for the headlights: it can project a bright area equal to the width of the body in front of the road, and the light area will be linked to the steering, which can help the driver better understand the road situation in front.
On the upper and lower sides of the headlights and the lower part of the taillight belt, it is equipped with ISC streamer shadow before and after interactive lights, which is actually L
The information display area composed of ED lights, the front and rear lights add up to more than 5,000 LEDs. If you press the pedestrian button on the left side of the dashboard, the streamer and shadow interaction lights will show the animation effect of pedestrian passage, and the headlights will also project the dynamic arrows of the passage on the ground, so that you can give way to pedestrians with the outside world.
Do you think the Zhiji L7 has a lot of ideas in terms of lighting? Zhi Ji dares to say that he is the second, and it is estimated that no one dares to say the first.
However, for headlights, its essence is used to illuminate the road ahead, and manufacturers will focus more on how to improve the quality of lighting, so that drivers can see the road ahead in all scenarios. Although the BBA also has the name of a light factory, they are more innovative in lighting solutions, and consumers will not have much interest in things like headlight projection and interactive lamps. Therefore, in terms of lighting, Zhiji is really playing in the wrong direction.
Zhiji L7 has a raised thing in the middle of the roof, which is the CarLog car camera system, the camera module will rise after the machine selection function, and there are three 48 million pixel cameras in the module, which support 180 ° ultra-wide angle recording and 4K shooting. There is a saying that the picture quality of this thing is quite clear, but the actual significance is not great, not to mention that it also needs to spend 9800 yuan to choose.
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Achieve screen freedom?
The visual center of gravity in the Zhiji L7 car is obviously the huge immersive smart scene screen that spans the entire central control screen. This screen is actually composed of a combination of 26.3 inches on the left side (the instrument center control screen is integrated) and 12.3 inches on the right side (co-driver entertainment screen).
In addition to the size is the highlight, the two screens support independent lifting, through the touch key of the center console can choose to lift and descend. And the animation transition in the process of screen lifting and descending naturally does not appear stuttering, and the performance is much better than another new power brand with central control lifting.
The principle that zhiji essence has more than the opponent, and a 12.8-inch supercomputing central screen is also set up under the center console, which has a narrower border, and because it uses AMOLED material, the resolution reaches 2K, and the PPI reaches 220, so the visual experience is better.
So many screens, and the resolution is very high, the performance demand for the cockpit chip will naturally not be low, Zhiji to the L7 cockpit equipped with a Qualcomm 8155 chip, with IM OS multi-screen unbounded intelligent interactive system, to achieve the cross-screen linkage and interaction of the screen in the car.
What I'm curious about this cockpit is the 12.8-inch touchscreen below. It integrates vehicle settings, air conditioning settings, applications, and even navigation and music applications. Strictly speaking, this screen can be taken out separately, and it can become the central control screen of other models, so is this screen overlapping with the horizontal screen above?
In fact, Zhiji has made a functional division for the upper and lower screens: the upper screen belongs to the scene screen, which is used to display functional pictures and audio-visual. The lower touch screen is only responsible for the setting interaction of the function. For example, the navigation search setup is done on the lower screen, and the interface to start navigating is displayed on the upper central control screen. In addition, movies and music are played, both displayed in the upper screen.
However, Zhiji may not have thought about how these three screens interact, and some functional experiences are fragmented. Or take the navigation as an example: after searching for and selecting the destination on the lower central screen, the driver needs to shift his gaze to the upper central control screen to select the route and click to start navigation, and the cancellation of navigation is also done in the upper central control screen.
Despite this, Zhiji still made some optimization in the screen interaction, and by sliding two fingers on the upper central control screen and the co-driver entertainment screen, the film and television screen can be switched to different screens. Two fingers on the central screen can be swiped up and down to adjust the temperature, and left and right slides can adjust the air volume.
In terms of cockpit scenario capabilities, Zhiji currently has four built-in scene modes for car owners to use, and also combines the advantages of the lifting screen, launched a super running mode, after pressing the screen will be reduced, the display is also driving-related information, the three screens will also switch to the background of black belt speed light effect shuttle.
Zhiji's love for touch is not only large screens and multi-screens, even the physical buttons in the car must be killed. In addition to the double flash, SOS call button and door switch are entities in the car, the rest of the buttons are all touch keys with vibration feedback, even the window lift buttons have not been spared. To be honest, in fact, the basic function keys do not need to be so "intelligent", keep the physical buttons, use the transparent crystal of the key material, the texture can come out, and do not delay the practicality. In this regard, the intellectual may wish to learn the BMW i7.
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Fee/Arrangement
Although the screen is the visual focus of the L7 cockpit, zhiji has also worked hard in other aspects of the inner cabin. In the case of materials, the center console is coated with a large area of leather, even where the lower part is less often touched, it is covered with leather or flocking. The door panels are also composited with a variety of materials: soft-lined molding, leather cladding, solid wood and so on. It is worth mentioning that the wooden panels of the doors are made of solid wood panels of Lake Como, Italy, and there is a special logo printed on them.
The roof is covered with microfiber velvet, so in the entire cockpit of the Zhiji L7, the places that can be touched by the hand are basically soft. The materials used in the L7 car are the same as the ideas of WEILAI ET7, that is, to pile up materials in the dead.
When it comes to materials, you have to mention the seat by the way. The Zhiji L7 seat is available in Nappa perforated leather and Bavarian semi-aniline leather in Germany, the former asking for 16,000 and the latter at 32,000. And Zhiji also gave a discount to users who booked in the A round: free upgrade to Nappa material, semi-aniline leather optional only 6800 yuan. Regardless of whether the price is expensive or not, the feel of semi-aniline is really comfortable to touch.
Speaker holes can be seen on the shoulders of the four seats in the front and rear, and there are a total of 22 speakers in the Zhiji L7 car, and the power amplifier power reaches 1120W. For my kind of fungus, the sound system texture is in place. But the audio thing is a bottomless pit, there are always stronger solutions than you, such as BOSE PANARAY, Revel, Mark Levinson and so on. For the L7, such a bloody configuration of 400,000 is indeed a bit difficult to plug in the big-name sound scheme.
Perhaps because Zhiji feels that he is a nascent brand and needs a lot of different to support, so even the wireless charging panel in the front row must engage in a new meaning: this wireless charging panel can be lifted and lowered, and the panel will automatically lower and tilt after the mobile phone is put up, so as to avoid the mobile phone being thrown out during the drive, and when the mobile phone is taken away, the panel will automatically rise. I think this idea is a bit interesting, but there is no need to directly design this area as a concave and inclined charging panel, so that you can put other items when you do not put the phone. In addition, the horizontal charging panel is not as good as the vertical direction, so that it will be more convenient to take and place the phone.
Although the Zhiji L7 has nothing to do in the configuration, what seat massage heating ventilation, air conditioning sweeping and so on. But I suddenly found a vacuum zone on the L7: the rear row. There is no independent air conditioner in the rear row and no independent function screen, so if the rear seat is to be heated, the front hub screen or voice control must be used. After all, the Zhiji L7 is a medium and large sedan with a wheelbase of 3.1 meters, and the rear row has plenty of space, and it is a bit unfair if it does not give the rear row some control freedom.
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space
5 meters body and 3.1 meters wheelbase are placed here, the space will not be worse than somewhere, plus the pure electric platform, the floor is flat, the rear passenger space is normal, but it is not as exaggerated as imagined, perhaps related to the shape of the whole vehicle. The only thing in the rear is the height of the seat, which seems to be affected by the overall design, and the rear seat cushion is relatively low, so that the thigh part cannot actually be fully supported.
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Driving assistance also has a new way to play?
The newly born high-level intelligent trams basically cannot escape the blessing of driving assistance functions, and in turn, the smart trams that do not do driving assistance at present have become different. Zhiji L7 is equipped with IM AD evolvable intelligent driver assistance system, and the hardware currently equipped with it is 5 millimeter wave radars, 11 high-definition perception cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars, 2 high-precision positioning units, and NVIDIA Xavier chips.
In addition, the Zhiji L7 can also be equipped with free optional lidar embedded rapid upgrade, in the delivery of the vehicle will be buried special wiring harness connectors, radar brackets, roof glass and other parts, so that the follow-up can quickly complete the two lidar installation located in the left and right corners of the roof. (Angel wheel users can use data rights to exchange for lidar upgrades, A round users need 10,000 + data rights upgrades)
At the same time, in the future, it will also be able to upgrade the smart driving domain controller chip, and the upgraded chip is NVIDIA Orin, and there will be a big improvement in computing power. Zhiji did not choose to directly embed the hardware on L7 but upgraded it after the opening day, and it is estimated that it is still related to the fact that the time of the Zhiji project is not sufficient and the supply chain is not in place.
In terms of software, IM AD can evolve intelligent driver assistance system into basic packages and full-featured packages, which are standard configurations, including collision warning, automatic braking, blind spot monitoring, full-speed domain adaptive cruise, lane keeping, light lane change, visual fusion parking, remote control parking and so on
The full-featured package adds high-speed pilot assistance, high-precision automatic parking and trust enhancement to the base package. The full-featured package is worth 36,800 yuan, but angel wheel users are free for life, and A round users are free for 3 years, and can be purchased for 8,000 yuan or with data rights after 3 years.
Let's not talk about how the experience is, at least the first batch of pre-ordered users can experience full-featured driving assistance for free,
This is a bit more generous than other new forces. The starting point of Zhiji's doing this is believed to be the same as the ideal: because the function is not yet powerful, it makes up for the defect through free means, and it is expected to increase the amount of driver assistance data collection by increasing the number of users to facilitate the background system to learn and correct.
In addition, the driving assistance data of Zhiji L7 is part of the user's rights, so Zhiji has added a user data rights plan - Rough Stone Valley. Users can mine rough through mileage when using cars every day, and the accumulation of rough can be exchanged for mall products. Although the operation mechanism of this thing is quite complicated, at least the user's driving data will not be completely free of charge, which is more or less an improvement.
Back to the function, the adaptive cruise and lane center functions of the Zhiji L7 are opened by the gear lever down dialing classification, while the cruise speed setting and the following distance adjustment are realized on the left and right steering wheel paddles. Adaptive cruise and lane keeping functions can be performed normally during the test drive, but due to the test drive time relationship, in-depth driver assistance performance can be experienced.
At the same time, I also tried the automatic parking of Zhiji L7 in the underground garage, after opening the intelligent parking near the parking space, the system will automatically search for parking spaces, and because it is visual fusion parking, as long as there is a parking space marking on the ground, the system can identify the parking space, and it does not need to have a car on both sides to identify. When passing through the parking space, the system recognizes the parking space relatively quickly, and several empty parking spaces on both sides can be displayed for the owner to choose to park. The deceleration and steering of the berthing process are linear and smooth, giving a good impression. The only thing to pick is that the parking space is animated, there is no real-time image parking space display, and sometimes it is not certain whether the parking space it provides is the one you want.
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summary
In our short few hours of experience, we can feel that Zhiji is "fierce" on L7, the material stacking and adjustment are not ambiguous, and the sense of experience can also compete with the same level of luxury brands. But in front of Zhiji L7, it is not a product problem, but a production delivery, user rights, vehicle configuration, system construction and other issues, these links in the current environment is very challenging to the Zhiji team, I hope that this fledgling brand can fight the first battle.
In addition, just after writing this test drive, Zhiji official sent a text message over, April 29 is the closing day of the A round of rights, A round users have seat materials, Brembo calipers, car paint, the main co-driver massage seat free upgrade. At the same time, it also has the right to use the intelligent driving full-function package for 3 years free of charge, and the ecological service of zhiji. Friends who are interested in zhiji can consider whether they need to place an order before the A-round equity deadline.
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