Almighty and intelligent choice, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 and Xiaopeng P5, who is the love of young people?

It is also an urban transportation tool, for young people, after seeing the fun performance and control charm, it is difficult to raise interest in ordinary grocery shopping cars.

Fortunately, this generation of young people has caught up with the "good times" of new energy. The characteristics of the motor allow the electric vehicle to achieve a dimensionality reduction blow to the fuel vehicle, and the front section accelerates the crushing of the same level of fuel vehicle, breaking the power price constraint of the previous fuel engine through the species advantage. You can also get a green card, and the cost of using a car is lower. In short, for young people, pure trams that meet the "environmental protection concept" may be a way to spend as little money as possible and experience "city happiness" cars.

If we narrow the scope of choice a little more, the budget is placed below 200,000 yuan that is generally applicable to young people, and the Xiaopeng P5 and SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 are the choices that combine word of mouth and sales. So the question is, one is a traditional joint venture factory production, the other is a new car-making force to bring the entry car, who is more suitable for young people's first pure electric "happy" car?

To attract young people who are happy first, styling and performance are two key options that cannot be bypassed.

In terms of appearance, both cars focus on the young consumer market. The Xiaopeng P5 produced by the new forces adopts a family design style, with through-led headlights integrated with the body, rounded curves and sharp edges, although not ostentatious but quite avant-garde. However, the overall design is still slightly subtle and low-key, especially the big brother P7, which is relatively relative to its own coupe style.

The design of SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is mainly "tide fun", which is also a closed front face, the shape of the light group is slightly raised, anthropomorphic look, it seems to be smiling, very friendly. This kind of cute shape will surely attract the favor of many female users. IQ. Light LED matrix intelligent headlights, not only full of technology, functional aspects, day lights, follow-up steering, dynamic high beam adjustment, the same are not many. The particle-like grooved texture of the beam of the bumper and C-pillar presents a sense of rhythm, which is officially called "parametric design", which further adds recognition to it.

In addition, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 provides five body colors in terms of aurora green, superconducting red, cyber yellow, ion gray and crystal white, which are richer and bolder than the P5. In addition, the 2022 model also adds a welcome light effect, presumably there will be a good lighting effect and ritual at night.

In order to highlight the identity of smart electric vehicles, the interiors of the two adopt avant-garde and simple design styles. Xiaopeng P5 is not stingy in screen size, of which the control screen is 15.6 inches and the full LCD dashboard size is 12.3 inches, probably because it knows the attractiveness of a large screen to Chinese consumers. In addition, the lines in the central control area are straight and capable, simple and generous at the same time, and the grade of the car is improved through the collocation of some soft materials, which is also a consistent feature of Chinese brands.

The interior design of the SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 will show more youthful and energetic side. Although the screen size is not as intuitive as the Xiaopeng P5. However, the same color contrast treatment of the interior panels and body creates a youthful and stylish atmosphere. The simple central control shape and the liquid crystal instrument connected with the highly distinctive electronic block handle can give people a simple and high-tech visual effect.

In terms of performance, the power data of the two is actually similar, and from the perspective of our actual driving experience, it can meet the needs of the vast majority of people for acceleration performance. However, performance is often guided by new energy vehicle companies as a simple "acceleration achievement", in fact, it covers many subdivision indicators. In particular, tuning is the key.

People once thought that the output characteristics of battery motors can make electric vehicles easily run out of fuel supercar performance. However, it was not until the transformation works of traditional car companies entered the market that consumers began to understand that power is by no means the standard for evaluating a pure electric vehicle. When traditional car companies put chassis tuning and power calibration, which they are good at, into electric vehicles, accelerating briskly and driving well is the quality that electric vehicles should have. As an old traditional car company, Volkswagen has decades of experience in vehicle tuning, which is not yet available to the new force Xiaopeng Motors.

Looking at the driving experience, the Xiaopeng P5 is a front-mounted front-drive, while the ID.3 is a dynamic and more flexible rear-mounted rear-drive.

On the one hand, the rear wheels have a strong grip when accelerating, the power output experience is better, the front wheels are only responsible for steering, which is more flexible than the front-drive steering and control, and helps the ID.3 achieve a front and rear counterweight of 50:50. Whether it's starting at a traffic light or changing lanes to overtake, chassis following is handy. At the same time, the STEERing wheel of SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is precisely pointed, the turning radius is only 5m, and the speed steering system is adopted, which makes the urban low-speed driving feel light and flexible. Two-way single lane can make a U-turn, roadside parking is also quite convenient; high-speed driving steering will become calm, feel not "fluttering", a variety of car scenes can be done easily.

In addition, thanks to the rich tuning experience, the SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is more like a fuel vehicle. For example, from the start of the vehicle, you will find that everything on the tram is familiar, providing D gear, consistent with the fuel car, no learning cost, avoiding mistakes. For example, compared with the Xiaopeng P5, which attaches importance to acceleration performance, the acceleration experience of SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is soft and linear, there will be no obvious sense of abruptness, and the energy recovery brake is also more humane.

On the other hand, the SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 itself continues the consistent chassis of the German car, without the frivolity of the car, and the running fast road is quite calm, giving people confidence. Moreover, the chassis configuration of saic-Volkswagen ID.3 adopts front McPherson and rear multi-link independent suspension. In particular, the multi-link independent rear suspension, more connecting rods, can make the wheel as close as possible, reduce the body bumps and tilt during driving, improve comfort and handling.

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Xiaopeng P5's torque beam is suspended behind, the structure is relatively simple, light weight, small tire grinding, economical, but the improvement of comfort and handling is relatively limited. In other words, from the choice of hardware, it can be seen that SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 pays more attention to the driving experience.

Of course, performance control or appearance, in the end, must serve the use experience of travel scenarios. After all, young people want a city happy car, does not mean that they completely give up the functional experience and the need to take care of the family.

In terms of practicality, the SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 and Xiaopeng P5 car series are differently positioned, one is a sedan and the other is a hatchback. The three-dimensional dimensions of Xiaopeng P5 have an advantage over ID.3, the former length, width and height are 4808*1840*1520mm, and the latter is 4261*1778*1568mm, but the wheelbase is almost the same (ID.3 2765mm &P5 2768mm). From this, we can see that the AUTO VOLKSWAGEN ID.3 is known as "the figure of a golf, the space of the Passat", although it is somewhat exaggerated, it is not unreasonable.

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In terms of improving the convenient and interesting intelligent technology configuration, both car and machine systems can meet the needs of networking, such as intelligent voice assistants, remote control, third-party application ecology and other functions.

The advantage of Xiaopeng P5 is that the voice control coverage is wider, through the "Hello, Small P" wake up the voice system, you can adjust the audio-visual entertainment, comfort configuration, almost all the functions in the car can be done without moving. And the screen is bigger, the software ecology is richer, and the entertainment is stronger. In addition, it supports a variety of interactions outside the cabin, such as a mobile phone Bluetooth key, away from the automatic locking of the car, close to unlock and start the vehicle.

The SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is relatively practical, but it is also slowly improving its richness. For example, the last OTA upgraded and optimized voice control, which is said to be accurate to 95%, and added "semantic awareness", such as "I am hot", as well as added a number of software familiar to Chinese users, including iQiyi. And through the Carplay mobile phone terminal can be interconnected to make up for the lack of software ecology of the native car machine. The new model also adds charging stroke planning, which shows that it is also continuing to improve the intelligent experience for young users.

It is worth mentioning that the digital cockpit of SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 also has a major highlight - AR HUD enhances the head-up display function, which will intuitively present most of the driving information and project it on the front windshield, making driving like a video game.

In addition, the endurance options provided by the Xiaopeng P5 will be richer, and the advantages of SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 are reflected in the dynamic adjustment of the endurance algorithm logic according to different scenarios.

At present, the endurance value of pure electric vehicles is completely different in different regions, different ambient temperatures, and different previous day's use conditions. However, compared with other brands that directly use BMS to estimate electricity, that is, with surplus /theoretical power consumption, whether it is empty or full load, driving fiercely or peacefully, the algorithm is the default standard working conditions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and it is often possible to drive 10 kilometers and lose power for 20 kilometers. Volkswagen ID.3 will be based on self-developed algorithms, its driving computer will always be based on driving data, working conditions and other multi-dimensional factors to predict the mileage, and finally pass reliable data to the driver.

On the whole, compared with the Xiaopeng P5 and SAIC Volkswagen ID.3, the Xiaopeng P5 still has advantages in some fields, especially the cockpit technology sense and intelligent vehicle experience that everyone cares about in the new energy era. But it is too early to say that the new power brand has achieved cornering overtaking on the new energy track. The deep car-making heritage of the traditional brand is not just talking, the driving style of SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is close to that of fuel vehicles, there is good driving control fun, and the dynamic and cool shape is more eye-catching than the Xiaopeng P5. At the same time, it provides a net worth internal space that is not lost to Xiaopeng P5, as well as a more solid and reliable battery life. Overall, from the perspective of driving fun and taking into account practicality, it is still a "city happy" car that is more worthy of young people's choice.