In July last year, BYD, which was booming in word-of-mouth and sales, suddenly came to the top of the complaint list, which was very surprising. The reason is that its small pure electric SUV Yuan Pro has suddenly dropped by more than 30,000 yuan in just over 4 months after being listed, and without warning! The original 121,300 and 131,400 car buyers instantly became leeks.
This oolong incident has been resolved, but many people do not understand, why did the well-selling Yuan Pro suddenly reduce the price? And one drop so much? Later, when raw materials rose and BYD also had to raise prices, models such as Qin PLUS DM-i, which were already very cost-effective, only rose by 3,000 yuan at a time, while YuanPro rose by 9,000 yuan at a time and 18,000 yuan twice. It can be seen that the original price reduction is already lower than the cost.
But why did BYD do that? Some professionals have analyzed that they feel the pressure from competitors. At that time, the compact pure electric SUV with 400Km pure electric endurance, Aian AION Y, only less than 100,000 yuan! Now, BYD's sales are getting higher and higher, the heat is getting bigger and bigger, and there is already a dominant trend in the field of new energy. In fact, this is not a good thing for both the market and consumers. Fortunately, a brand has not been relaxed against BYD's catch-up, and even more surprising in some areas, this is GAC's new energy brand - Aian.
For example, BYD is most famous for its blade battery, which can make the needle prick without fire. Suddenly, it has caused new topics in the field of new energy. After GAC Aean did not fall behind, it launched a "magazine battery", and even realized that the whole package of ternary lithium batteries could not be pricked with fire, which was the first time in the industry. Moreover, the packaging structure of the magazine battery can be compatible with ternary lithium and lithium iron phosphate, and in May last year, the magazine battery needle piercing test of lithium iron phosphate did not catch fire and smoke, and the surface temperature was only more than 50 degrees.
In terms of endurance, it is not BYD's strength, after all, the upper limit of the energy density of lithium iron phosphate batteries is determined by physical properties. Although BYD's new Han EV has broken through the pure battery life of 700Km, it is still not the top in the industry. GAC E-An, on the other hand, walks on two legs, and most models have two versions of lithium iron phosphate batteries and ternary lithium batteries.
Among them, AION LX Plus even achieved the feat of 1000Km pure electric endurance. You know, the endurance of the pure tram is not completed by simple battery stacking, the large battery is a must, but the larger the battery, the heavier the body, the higher the energy consumption. With the sponge silicon anode chip battery technology, Aeon improves the battery quality and volume energy density, reduces the weight of the body through lightweight design, and reduces the volume of related parts through a highly integrated electric drive system. The breakthrough of 1000Km endurance is actually the embodiment of Aean's comprehensive technical strength.
BYD has a pure electric e platform, and there is already a three-in-one electric drive system in the 2.0 era, such as Tang EV, Han EV, Qin, Song and other pure electric models, all of which are e platform 2.0 era products. GAC Aean also has a pure electric platform GEP2.0, even earlier. After all, most of BYD's models are the products of the same platform as oil and electricity, and in order to be compatible with plug-in hybrid models, some aspects have to make sacrifices. Aeon has no concerns in this regard, such as AION Y, the 4410mm length has achieved a wheelbase of 2750, and even reached the level of BYD Dolphin, Yuan PLUS and other e-platform 3.0.
In fact, bydir's e-platform has been upgraded to 3.0, and Aehan has not stopped moving forward. The latest Star Spirit Architecture is actually an upgrade to the pure electric platform, but it involves a wider range and can be understood as a different name. Like the hardware plug-and-play and software-upgradeable features of e-platform 3.0, the Star Spirit architecture also has the same.
In the field of fast charging, BYD's e-platform 3.0, 800V high-voltage fast charging, can be charged for 5 minutes, endurance 150Km. Gac Aeon uses the A480 supercharge pile, claiming that the world's highest charging power of 480KW, high voltage 1000V, peak current 600A, can achieve charging for 5 minutes, endurance of 200Km.
In addition, in terms of automatic driving, Aeon also has rich technical reserves, such as "infrared intelligent driving sensing technology", relying on infrared thermal imaging technology, the infrared radiation generated by objects in nature is converted into electrical signals, and after processing, it forms a video image that can be recognized by the human eye, and accurately restores the three-dimensional information of each potential obstacle around it.
Cameras are difficult to effectively identify in bad weather such as fog and nighttime. Radar can only detect obstacles, but it cannot accurately image them. This infrared sensing imaging technology makes up for the gap between cameras and radar. You know, intelligent driving needs to do enough security redundancy, this technology is equivalent to adding a heavy security guarantee in addition to cameras and radar.
ADiGO intelligent driving system, which combines vision + radar technology, infrared intelligent driving sensing technology and high-precision maps, can already achieve intelligent driving at full speed and all road conditions.
In the past, because the automobile industry started late, we had to use the market to exchange technology and get stuck in the neck. Now, in the field of new energy, we are not only self-sufficient, but also can reverse the output of foreign car companies. BYD's batteries were sold to Ford, and 90% of Tesla's parts are domestically produced. AEAN, also through the GAC Group, exported its AION S, AION LX, AION V, AION Y and other models to GAC Toyota and GAC Honda.
Recently, many auto media have classified GAC Ae-an into the camp of new car-making forces, perhaps because they are more in line with E-an's innovation and enterprising. In fact, Aeon relies on the traditional car company GAC Group, which has a deep heritage. Technically, it can even compete with BYD. Of course, compared with BYD, which has been deeply engaged in the field of new energy for more than ten years, Aian as a brand that has only been established for 5 years, it is still immature, but I hope that there are more "technical controls" like BYD in China that can emerge and go hand in hand!