It may be that the three-child dad who responded to the call finally made up enough money to change the MPV, and the recent electric MPV market is extremely hot.
There were former Lantu Dreamers and BYD D9s, and now the Roewe iMAX 8 pure electric version is also coming.
Recently, the Roewe iMAX 8 EV released a set of official pictures, and also announced that the new car will officially open pre-sale on May 5.5.
The fuel version of the Roewe iMAX 8 is priced at between 188,800 and 253,800, and it is expected that the price of the all-electric version should be between 200,000 and 300,000.
This price and size, basic and Lantu Dreamer and BYD D9 are not on the same track anymore, taking a more people-friendly home MPV route.
In the interior, the Roewe IMAX 8 EV basic and fuel version are also consistent, the biggest difference is that the fuel version of the central control area and the armrest box is not connected, such a design, previously in order to achieve the central control armrest box before the movement.
This "magic bar" Xiaoice box, which can be summoned by voice and move back and forth on the middle track, was once a novel selling point of roewe iMAX 8, and was also called the soul of iMAX 8 by many car owners.
However, after the 2021 rebranding, the current car no longer has a "magic bar" function. Without the "magic bar", the pure electric version simply connects the central control and the handrail box in the design.
The iMAX 8 EV's rear seat is fitted with privacy glass to further enhance the quietness of the rear seat. In addition, the second row is also a separate seat with retractable leg rests, and I have sat in the second row of seats in the iMAX 8 fuel version before, and I personally feel very comfortable.
The pure electric version has not announced the perspective of the rear row looking forward, but from the fuel version, the second row of the iMAX 8 EV will most likely have a folding small table board and a narrow screen.
The small table board in the back row is still a relatively rigid configuration for the MPV, and it is no problem to put an iPad to watch a drama every day, or to put a computer to work. In addition, the narrow-sided small screen is a very pleasing design on the iMAX 8, which can make the rear row cut music, air conditioning control and so on more efficiently in the form of a touch screen.
I think for non-driver's seats, touchscreen controls must be a more efficient way to deliver than voice assistants.
If the back row of the Roewe IMAX 8 EV can have a lower hanging screen like the ideal L9, with a Type-C interface that can connect devices, and then add the "magic bar" Xiaoice box back, then I think this cockpit is more complete.
Otherwise, it has switched from the fuel version to pure electric, added a lot of car use scenes, and the cockpit has to be moved from the fuel version unchanged, which is too thoughtless.
In addition, in terms of assisted driving, the current EV will also continue the configuration of fuel vehicles. Roewe iMAX 8 is equipped with 6 cameras and 3 millimeter wave radar, which can achieve basic adaptive cruise and automatic parking functions, but without lane keeping functions, only lane shift assist, only barely reach the side of L2 assisted driving.
The Roewe iMAX 8 EV does not give an introduction to the sensor configuration and driver assistance functions, but it has released a schematic diagram of the sensor, which is the following figure.
Honestly, this picture is very bad, I can only understand the front and back of each 6 ultrasonic radar this less important configuration, and the other light does not know whether it is a camera or millimeter wave radar, the position is not quite right, I feel that this map is better than not to put it.
Through the figure can also be felt, the Roewe iMAX 8 EV auxiliary driving, do not have too high expectations, the probability is also ACC adaptive cruise, driving a long distance basically can not help much.
On the whole, this is a home 7-seat MPV with more than 200,000, fully charged may actually run more than 400 kilometers, and its performance in intelligence is mediocre, but the practicality is OK.
Would you consider buying in order to get a card?