ZEEKR's 001 FR has revolutionized the lifeblood of supercars

Text: Liu Guangyu

Last night, the ZEEKR 001 FR was officially launched, and the attention was unprecedentedly high, and everyone wanted to know what price should be set for this four-motor pure electric car with zero hundred acceleration of 2.02s.

769,000. For less than 800,000, you can have a performance monster that puts a real top-of-the-line supercar to shame.

Without exaggeration, with pride:

ZEEKR's 001FR changed the lifeblood of the supercar yesterday.

First of all, be confident

 Let's start with a few parameters of the world's top supercars:

The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ accelerates to zero to 100 in 2.4s and costs $3.9 million.

The McLaren Senna accelerates from zero to 100 in 2.8 seconds and costs start at $1 million.

Lamborghini's Huracán Performante Zero Hundred Accelerates 2.9s and sells for nearly $300,000.

In the field of supercars, we have always been unconfident, and foreign brands have rich cultural and technical heritage. However, as a latecomer, the most difficult thing for the automobile industry to transcend generations is not technological breakthroughs, because many of these technologies are directly written in textbooks, and the most difficult is patent breakthroughs. In the era of fuel, we have come to the era of a big country in the automobile industry, but we have not transitioned to a strong country.

The statement that "horsepower doesn't need money in the age of electrification" seems plausible at first glance, but it's not. Even the new energy track that is now in full swing has finally made horsepower and acceleration cheap and big after a long period of domestic technological breakthroughs and industrial precipitation.

All the benefits of science and technology are a breakthrough to the traditional blockade, and the blood and sweat of countless people in it can make us say such light-hearted words.

There is no doubt that our country's new energy products and technologies, as well as the huge industrial chain behind them, are now leading the world. With such fertile land, it is inevitable to grow world-class products, and it is inevitable to break through the technological blockade.

The intuitive data that measures a car's performance is its ability to accelerate, brake, and, ultimately, its performance on the track.

The 000 acceleration of ZEEKR 001 FR came to 2.02s, which was enough to make the supercar cry.

I know that there are still a lot of bars here who will pull the top speed of the tram, 04 is not good, so the ZEEKR 001 FR with a top speed of 280km/h and a 0-200km/h acceleration of 6.29s tells you what is called a big brick fly. And this top speed of 280km/h is not the limit of ZEEKR 001 FR, but the limit of the domestic test site!

To run fast, you need to be able to brake. The braking distance of ZEEKR 001 FR is 33.4m per 100 kilometers, which is also a shame at the supercar level. The hardware is supplied by standard AP Racing 10-piston calipers and Brembo carbon-ceramic discs, and the most outrageous of this achievement is that after 15 corners, it can also reach a score of less than 34m, which is good durability.

At this point, many people will definitely question whether the ZEEKR 001 FR is a paper tiger with explosive parameters. Then let's take out the test transcript:

• Zhejiang International Circuit, lap time 01:37:041

• V1 Tianjin International Circuit, Kimi lap time 02:06:74

This score should shut up most keyboard warriors. But I must emphasize that this is a production car that can satisfy the family, and not a professional race car that costs millions of dollars to modify.

Whether it is the parameters or the lap time, the ZEEKR 001 FR, as a mass-produced pure electric coupe model, has the ability to absolutely match the supercar, which is a very happy thing, which shows an important fact:

• China's mass-produced pure electric models are fully capable of supercars.

This is a fact worthy of our confidence and pride, and another sentence of Congcong is to make the self-confidence of ZEEKR and Geely burst, and make all domestic friends embarrassed:

What is the New Era?

What surprised me the most about ZEEKR 001 FR is that in addition to the performance parameters that have reached the peak of mass production. In the new era, I can only say that what makes supercars sad is not only the hard explanation, but also the evolution ability of ZEEKR that amazes me, and the evolution ability is also a sign of the new era.

A month ago, the ZEEKR 001 FR that had just been unveiled, the 000 acceleration was still 2.07s, and now it has been upgraded to 2.02s. The change of the difference between two decimal places is already very difficult to iterate and upgrade on such a top-level acceleration. What's more, it's still in a month's time.

Among them, the engineers of the power system and chassis system must have put in a lot of effort. But to be honest, this kind of iterative efficiency and evolutionary ability is extremely difficult to achieve on the traditional supercar mentioned above, in fact, in order to maintain this peak acceleration ability, a variety of expensive engine oils are required, and a warm engine operation is required before acceleration.

ZEEKR 001 FR achieves such strong acceleration, and its core ability is to rely on the drive of four motors.

We know that the Lucid Air and Tesla Model S Plaid both use a three-motor setup, and they invariably put the dual motors on the rear axle, and before the ZEEKR 001 FR was mass-produced, they were the world's fastest pure electric production models.

Compared with this layout, in addition to the "great strength" of the four motors, it can also achieve more, which ordinary people can't even think of.

For example, if you want, you can squeak and squeak on the road and turn around in place to attract everyone's attention.

This relies on the ZVC four-wheel torque vectoring control system, which is simply a set of TCS+ESC+ABS system unique to four-motor models. It can not only make the ZEEKR 001 FR achieve a tank U-turn without picking the road surface, but also make the wet road performance of the 001 FR come to the point of metamorphosis.

In the track test announced by Zeekr, Bugatti was able to pass the S-bend on dry ground at a speed of 80km/h. And with the same corner sprinkling, ZEEKR 001 FR can also reach a speed of 80km/h when crossing the S bend at high speed!

ZEEKR 001 FR's quad-motor + ZVC system, in this extreme low adhesion scenario, in addition to proving its ability limit, also proves that this car is extremely easy to control.

Of course, after having such a powerful brick flying and being able to embroider, the drift mode even seems too much to catch. When cornering in drift mode, the car switches into rear-wheel drive mode, where the powerful power pushes the butt to slide behind it, but not overpowered.

ZVC torque vectoring control is one of the magic weapons of the evolution of ZEEKR 001 FR. With the support of this technical base, ZEEKR 001 FR has launched a more customized and imaginative mode: Raikkonen mode.

That's right, the Iceman is seriously involved in the co-creation plan of ZEEKR 001 FR. The increase in 000 acceleration from 2.07s to 2.02s that we mentioned at the beginning is the demand put forward by the Iceman, and the overall power has been upgraded from 1265 hp to 1300 hp.

Raikkonen mode has 9 exclusive content customizations: exclusive accelerator pedal sensitivity, exclusive TCS tuning, exclusive kinetic energy recovery settings, exclusive brake pedal sensitivity, exclusive steering feel, exclusive KW suspension tuning, exclusive braking force distribution, exclusive tire pressure parameters, and exclusive ZVC tuning.

It's no exaggeration to say that when you turn on this mode, F1 driver Kimi will be with you.

Of course, it is not only about peers, but also about competing in the same field.

ZEEKR has specially developed a professional track APP built into the car machine, in addition to quickly setting the two modes of "racing" and "drifting", it also opens up four categories of performance parameters, each of which is more than 10 adjustable gears. Even this track APP has a complete video recording function, as well as the lap time ranking of riders, as Cong Cong said, it is really a weapon for making friends with the same interests!

In order to demonstrate this function at the press conference, Cong Cong also posted the report card of the V1 Tianjin International Circuit, and the Kimi lap time was 02:06:74, which was indeed a lot faster than Cong Cong's 02:24:62 time. But if we take a closer look at the top speed, Satoshi's accelerator pedal is much harder than Kimi's.

The meaning of 001FR

Regarding the model ZEEKR 001 FR, my summary is: It's so easy to blow! I haven't talked about the carbon fiber aerodynamic kit, KW suspension, 8295 cockpit, 2400W audio, double-sided battery heat dissipation, 800V 4C Kirin battery, dragonfly structure integrated die-casting, and even lidar intelligent driving, etc.

If you look at it from a global perspective, then the ZEEKR 001 FR, as my title says, is a revolution in terms of performance parameters and lap time.

But then again, the price of less than 800,000 yuan, compared with the supercar that often costs millions of dollars, its cost performance is too prominent, and it is even too cheap, so that those who are keen on sports car culture may not care much about this product.

But this does not prevent ZEEKR 001 FR from becoming the ceiling of mass production pure electric models. No matter from what point of view, ZEEKR 001 FR is an invincible performance monster with excellent cost performance.

Finally, we return to the ZEEKR brand itself, the price of ZEEKR 001 FR 769,000 makes it the spiritual totem of the ZEEKR brand in terms of price and performance, which can also be seen from the fact that ZEEKR limits its monthly delivery of 99 units.

And as a spiritual totem, we can also see the possibility of the future of ZEEKR products from this car, such as the Raikkonen mode will be pushed to other ZEEKR owners after Kimi personally adjusts, such as 8295's cockpit chip and lidar are one of the configurations of ZEEKR's future product line, I am even thinking that the 001 FR's air kit, exterior and interior combination, may also become a version choice for ordinary car series.

When the 001 FR begins to set off to beat the domestic lap time, the two labels of performance and handling will be deeply imprinted in the genes of the ZEEKR brand.