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On May 7, the new HI version of Polar Fox Alpha S was officially launched, and the final price was 397,900 yuan and 429,900 yuan, which was jointly built by Pole Fox and Huawei for four years and personally stood by Yu Chengdong, and only three labels were used to pull the inner volume of the entire intelligent car track to a new height.
Why is it said that Huawei has given eccentricity to the Polar Fox
I still remember that a certain industry tycoon once said that during the critical window period of the transformation of China's automobile industry, "electrification is the first half, intelligence is the second half", and since then the industry has entered an era of extremely internal intelligent development.
And at the end of the inner volume, there is homogenization.
In fact, global car companies are launching a new round of competition around intelligence, but unlike the various high-end intelligent driving technologies released before, either non-mass production models, or just the realization of hardware foundations such as lidar, the real application also needs to be upgraded and opened through the late OTA, and only the arrival of the new HI version of Alpha S has realized cross-era intelligent applications.
And why is the polar fox, after all, everyone knows that although Huawei does not build cars, its every move is more concerned than car manufacturing, which helps some car companies embark on the intelligent track, but only gives the eccentricity to the polar fox.
In fact, as early as the beginning of 2019, the alliance between BAIC BJEV and Huawei has been carried out in a low-key manner, and the 1873 Davidson Innovation Lab built by the two sides "deeply integrates ICT technology and intelligent networking, so it has the identity of Alpha S's new HI version of "the world's first mass production car equipped with Huawei's HI full-stack intelligent car solution".
At the same time, it is also "the world's first luxury pure power production car equipped with Huawei Hongmeng OS smart cockpit", intelligent interaction is simple, the most important thing is its "thousands of faces, all things interconnected" characteristics, listening to songs, watching videos from mobile phones to car machine seamless connection, with the support of OTA upgrades It can continue to grow.
What's even fresher is that the new HI version of the Alpha S has up to 34 high-perception hardware. At present, there are usually only more than ten perception hardware on domestic conventional products, and some high-end new energy products are slightly more, and there may be more than twenty.
Among the 34 high-perception hardware, including the 126-line 3-way lidar with a maximum detection distance of 200m and the 6-way millimeter-wave radar with a maximum detection distance of 250m, all the working conditions, climate, road environment, etc. you can face in daily travel will be covered by its perception, so the new HI version of Alpha S has the label of "the world's first mass production car that supports high-end intelligent driving on urban roads".
Alpha S's new HI version breaks through the smart ceiling
At the beginning of China's development of high-end brands, the industry was not optimistic, but China's high-end brands did "take food from the tiger's mouth" and seized some resources from the hands of joint venture brands;
At the beginning, China had to overtake in the new energy field, and there was no shortage of singing and declining in the industry, but China's new energy brands did seize nearly 80% of the market share at this stage;
Nowadays, there are Chinese brands to be high-end intelligent new energy vehicle brands with global competitiveness, why is it impossible?
In the past two years, the intelligent driving level of domestic and foreign mass production car owners is L2 level, and the general level above the mainstream is L2.5 or L3 level, and many companies are working hard to develop higher levels of intelligent driving, but now they have been done in advance by Ji fox.
Of course, the in-depth cooperation with Huawei has a great impact on the progress of Polar Fox Automobile's research and development of high-end intelligent driving, such as the suffix of the new HI version of Alpha S, which represents "HUAWEI Inside".
Intelligent driving, Hongmeng cockpit and other 5 intelligent system platforms of the new model, so not any product equipped with Huawei technology can use the HI logo, the use of "HI" module after the use of The intelligence level of Jihu products has been greatly improved.
In the process of the birth of the new HI version of Alpha S, Jihu Automobile also installed 800V high-voltage fast charging platform, high-performance powertrain system and other technologies, it is worth mentioning that at present, in the mass production car, only the imported Porsche Taycan uses the 800V high-voltage platform, and Jihu is the first model in China to achieve mass production.
The two sides are related on the basis of Jihu's platform architecture to meet the 400TOPS computing power, compared with Tesla's 144TOPS computing power, the MDC810 intelligent driving computing platform has sufficient hardware foundation to allow Huawei's talents to be displayed, and the "full redundancy" structure of the integration of "5G & Ethernet EE architecture" makes it the world's first intelligent driving platform for mass production.
In addition, Jihu Automobile's IMC intelligent module standard architecture, as the world's first commercial platform equipped with 5G technology for new energy vehicles, not only supports 5G communication and Gigabit all-vehicle Ethernet, but also continuously optimizes the user experience based on the gene of super evolution.
It can be said that the cooperation between Huawei and Jihu makes both sides very comfortable, and you provide a platform for me to play, such a tacit understanding is difficult for other brands to have.
A clear stream in the quality and delivery of new energy vehicles
The establishment time of Jihu Automobile is actually at the same stage as most of the new car-making forces, but when the opponent is in a hurry to grab the market with products, for Jihu Automobile, it is more important to lay the foundation and do actual measurements.
The engineers of the two sides used more than 1200 days of cooperation to test the mileage of more than one million kilometers of generalization to continuously verify the performance of the new HI version of the Polar Fox Alpha S, as early as a year ago, the intelligent driving test on the streets of Downtown Shanghai has made people see the application and reliability of high-end intelligent driving in practical scenarios.
In addition, whether it is a fuel vehicle or a new energy market, the highlights that can attract users are ever-changing, but there is only one point that can retain users - quality.
To this end, Jihu Automobile found Magna with a century of experience in high-end automobile manufacturing, as a supplier of luxury cars such as Mercedes-Benz G-Class and Aston Martin Rapide, Magna built a vehicle manufacturing plant in Asia for the first time - Beiqi Blue Valley Magna high-end intelligent manufacturing base.
In December 2019, when the foundation was completed, the Magna MAFACT production and operation management system was also fully applied to the production and manufacturing process of Jihu Automobile, and the highly mechanized and intelligent factory enabled each car to achieve a unified quality standard, of which the stamping workshop from raw materials to finished products, the one-time delivery pass rate was as high as 97%, exceeding the level of 90% of conventional factories.
You can always trust the manufacturing process and quality of top luxury cars.
The top luxury car has the same high standard factory, how can it not match the supplier of top resources?
In fact, in addition to the cooperation between Huawei and Magna, the two "giants" of their respective industries, there are also top companies at home and abroad such as Baidu, Ningde Times, and BorgWarner in the circle of friends of Jihu Automobile, and this level of "strong and strong cooperation" is actually a bit unreasonable, for a high-end new energy brand, it has been called the top configuration.
The integration of optimal resources, optimal technology and optimal technology has created a foundation for the healthy development of Jihu Automobile, and relevant data show that from January to April this year, the cumulative delivery volume of Jihu Automobile increased by 750% year-on-year, for Jihu Automobile, in 2022, with the arrival of the new HI version of Alpha S, it is the time when the brand position is really prominent.
After all, Mercedes-Benz invented the car for the first time in the world, Volvo invented the seat belt for the first time in the world, their status was laid down from then on, and the Jihu Alpha S as the new HI version as "the world's first mass production car equipped with Huawei's HI full-stack intelligent car solution, the world's first mass production car that supports high-end intelligent driving on urban roads, and the world's first luxury pure electric production car equipped with Huawei's Hongmeng OS smart cockpit", opening a higher-order intelligent era.
By Auto Press (some of the pictures are from the Internet, invaded and deleted)
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