Pure electric car: the king plays fun Bronze fight endurance

Since the day electric vehicles began to appear, range anxiety has been a hot topic. Years later, mileage anxiety is still a problem to be solved in front of every pure electric vehicle owner.

Fortunately, in the past few years, driven by technological innovation, the range of electric vehicles has been greatly improved - from 300 kilometers at the beginning to 1,000 kilometers at present.

To tell the truth, the endurance of more than 1,000 kilometers is higher than that of most fuel vehicles on the market today. But the huge leap in the range of electric vehicles has not completely ended consumers' mileage anxiety.

In fact, consumers' anxiety about the range of electric vehicles is not limited to the mileage, but a kind of inner uncertainty at work - compared to the gasoline that can be seen, touched, and smelled, electricity is much more ethereal - for things that cannot be seen or touched, people's instinctive reaction is a lack of security.

For a simple example, when your smartphone is running out of power, find a charging interface to try to charge it to 100% as much as possible before giving up; keep the power at full, maybe to get enough security.

From a certain point of view, it is basically not feasible to solve the range anxiety of electric vehicles from the mileage level, and it is already a physical limit to achieve a mileage of 1,000 kilometers. If you blindly increase the battery, there will be a "zero-sum game" situation.

In fact, the best way to solve the mileage anxiety is to make consumers forget the mileage.

Nowadays, any smart phone that comes out at will, its endurance is not as good as the so-called smart phone of more than a decade ago. 15 years ago, nokia 7610 battery capacity of 900mah, only one-third of the current mainstream smartphones, standby can reach two days, and today's smartphone battery capacity has been several times without achieving longer standby.

The reason why smartphones are popular is that they can bring people a better and happier experience.

The development process of smart phones may have a good reference significance for the development of electric vehicles. While facing the problem of solving the range anxiety of electric vehicles, can there be another direction - let consumers focus on other things.

In the matter of diverting consumers' attention, the new forces of car manufacturers have given an intelligent solution.

Whether it is Tesla or Weilai Xiaopeng. These new forces car manufacturers are sparing no effort to make the owners of electric vehicles forget the mileage of electric vehicles through on-board intelligent equipment and higher dimensional automated driving logic. In particular, high-level automatic driving has become the key to the survival of new car manufacturers, Xiaopeng's NGP, Weilai NOP, the realization is much the same - through high-precision signal acquisition capabilities, combined with high-precision maps, so that vehicles can be like science fiction movies, to achieve unmanned driving.

From the perspective of experience, this is indeed fresh enough, and it does attract the attention of many young people. Therefore, in recent years, the driving texture of the car has no longer been mentioned, and instead of how much computing power, how much radar probe. The entry of intelligence makes electric vehicles more and more like technology FMCG.

For some consumer groups, the car is already a mobile terminal that can drive; driven by the charm of early experience technology, it will indeed ignore the anxiety of electric range. In fact, Weilai has done a good job, through the establishment of a community, there are many fans, and these Weilai iron fans will not calculate the mileage of the vehicle.

In addition to Weilai, there is also a way to play, which is the Wuling Hongguang MINI EV. Whether you say that it is a high-end old man or a low-end electric car, Wuling Hongguang MINIEV uses the default electric vehicle short board and firmly restricts the use of the scene to commute in the city, and dissolves the consumer's mileage anxiety into invisibility - 2.9-meter car, 120 kilometers endurance - the vegetable market kindergarten is its main position, and it can't arouse your desire to drive it farther.

To tell the truth, Weilai's "circle layer play" and Wuling Hongguang MINIEV's "specific scene" play are more in the "art" of catering to the market and seeking sales, so will there be a "way" in the future to completely pull pure electric vehicles out of the "quagmire" of range anxiety, or change consumers' perception of pure electric vehicles? The answer is yes, and that is the joy of driving.

Whether it's intelligent high-end autonomous driving or commuting in cities, they ignore another important product point of the car - driving pleasure.

When you buy a car and you can be smart enough to take care of all the driving process, then what is the difference between this process and taking the subway? The charm of the car is not just a simple tool, it also bears the fun of toys. So, the joy of driving, why can't it become a way to forget the anxiety of the range of electric vehicles?

The driving pleasure that electric vehicles can create is not just about accelerating. With a little tuning, they can create a fun that fuel cars simply can't match. For example, lexus RZ.

RZ is indeed a subversive product, or, in the context of automobile development, this is the direction in which an electric car should go. Because, in this car, you can find the driving pleasure that a car should have, rather than a bunch of "sensors".

On the Lexus RZ, there are two keywords, one is steer-by-wire, one is directed4 electronic dynamic four-wheel drive system - and it is steering and four-wheel drive, and the names of these two product points alone are enough to make us feel a hint of "gasoline smell" from the computing power data of "inner coil".

Steer by Wire variable ratio electronic steering by wire, has completely eliminated the steering machine, with electronic signals to replace the mechanical connection of the traditional car, the steering wheel at this time only plays a "switch" role, the driver's instructions to the system, so that the system automatically calculates the required steering angle at this time.

Because the variable-ratio electronic steer-by-wire breaks the mechanical connection with the wheel, there is no correspondence between the angle of steering wheel rotation and the steering angle of the front axle. So, the system sets the steering wheel rotation angle to 150 degrees left and right - not even a turn. What is this concept, completely racing - the steering wheel of the car, it can't turn too many laps. On airplanes, this kind of thing is called wire-to-wire control.

DIRECT4 electronic dynamic four-wheel drive, is to enlarge the response of the motor advantage, with based on wheel speed, acceleration pedal and steering sensor information, to determine the state of the vehicle and the owner's intention, to achieve the distribution of front and rear axle drive force, so that the dynamic response of the vehicle is closer to the state of "human-vehicle integration".

If you still can't understand the increased driving pleasure that these two technologies bring, then you can imagine that the Lexus RZ allows you to run like Takumi Fujiwara when you first get your driver's license.

The fly-by-wire control and direct4 electronic dynamic four-wheel drive make the technical threshold for driving it fiercely, greatly reduced. And this is thanks to the unique electrical architecture of electric vehicles - it makes it easy to achieve multi-dimensional control.

From a certain point of view, the development concept of RZ and most pure electric vehicles are completely "incompatible" - while everyone is working hard to improve the range and achieve a higher level of intelligent assisted driving, Lexus is focusing on "driving pleasure", which is a kind of cleverness.

Just like the concept when Lexus developed the RZ: first a Lexus, and then an electric car.

Let's take a different perspective on the relationship between the driving pleasure and range anxiety of the Lexus RZ – do you think that Fujiwara Takumi took fuel consumption into account when he drifted around Mt. Akina? Similarly, when driving the RZ off the track to enjoy driving pleasure, do you still consider the battery life?

Speaking of which, I think of a motorcycle. Harley's X48 is a 1200cc displacement quasi-public upgraded cruise car, the official 100 km fuel consumption of 5.2L, the actual fuel consumption to reach about 8L, but its fuel tank is only 7.6L. In other words, a full tank of fuel may not even be able to run 100 kilometers.

So much so that some people "ridicule" Harley X48 owners can only ride around gas stations. But X48 owners don't care about battery life. They believe that the X48 is not a fast rider, and the sound of horseshoe and the visual beauty brought by the peanut fuel tank and sparkling chrome parts are what they care about the most.

A real car, first a car with a joy to maneuver, and then a car that can carry people for commuting. After all, fun is the scarcest thing in this day and age.

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