Last month, Huawei's Hongmeng Zhixing (the original Huawei Smart Car) launched the first sedan Zhijie S7, and Yu Chengdong also took the lead in a wave of huge releases.
Everyone knows that Huawei itself does not touch the whole vehicle, and the Zhijie S7 is also jointly developed by it and Chery, which is equivalent to Huawei's foundation for Chery, plus its own technology.
Chery, on its side, is also using this "foundation" to develop its own new car, the Star Era ES.
In simple terms, the two cars can be seen as twins. The S7 will be released first, let's just think it's the older brother.
Just last night, the younger brother Star Era ES was also launched.
Since it is a twin model, the basic parameters of the two cars in terms of body size are similar.
The appearance is that turnip greens have their own love, and I personally think that the front face shape of the Star Era and the posture of the whole car should be a little more coordinated.
Of course, what everyone is most concerned about must be the internal differences between the two cars.
Let's directly summarize the provincial stream:
Compared with the Zhijie S7, the Star Era ES is 1-20,000 cheaper, and it lacks Huawei's intelligent driving and Hongmeng technologies, but it gives more things in terms of configuration.
One by one, the price of the Star Era ES is 225,800-339,800 yuan.
It can be seen that compared with the price of Zhijie S7 24.98-349,800, whether it is an entry-level model or the top configuration, it is so low.
This small price difference of 20,000 yuan is exactly the same as the cost of Huawei's ADS intelligent driving.
Let's just say whether it is possible, Chery is pricing according to this.
But if we take a closer look at the configuration, we will find that Chery actually has a hand.
Let's talk about the most fierce first, the Star Era ES is equipped with air suspension + CDC as standard, and even the cheapest Air standard endurance version of 225,800 is available.
This is in the Zhijie S7 next door, but it is placed in the Tuling chassis and costs 349,800 yuan to buy it.
Even if it is other models on the market, this set of configurations will cost you 300,000 yuan.
Crucially, its air suspension also comes with a lifetime warranty.
Car companies like to not give you the law of Air (air spring) in the Air version, which has been broken by Chery!
The rest of the chassis isn't bad either, with double wishbones in the front and a five-link in the rear. The front wheels are 6-piston calipers, and the braking distance per 100 kilometers is 33.1m.
Then the rear subframe, front and rear knuckles, brake calipers and other places are all made of aluminum alloy to reduce weight, and the unsprung weight is reduced by 25%.
Just looking at it, the more I feel that it is very similar to Huawei's Turing chassis.
For example, this intelligent preview and auxiliary pass function, in the intelligent driving and chassis to do some integration, if the car recognizes that there are potholes in front, will let the chassis do some responses in advance.
There is also this comfortable braking, which avoids starting to raise your head and nod your head when braking.
These functions are available in the intellectual world next door.
But in any case, Chery's standard air suspension + CDC is too ruthless. It's really a fight, and even his own brothers don't let go.
In addition to the chassis, another feature of the Star Era is that the power consumption is well controlled, with a power consumption of only 11.7kWh per 100 kilometers. The power consumption of the Zhijie S7 per 100 kilometers is 12.4kWh.
In fact, the power consumption of Zhijie is not bad, and this level of sedan can achieve 13kWh to top the top.
But it's still a bit far behind its sibling, the Star Era is a 97.7-degree battery, and the CLTC has 905km. While the Zhijie 100 degree battery, the CLTC is 855km.
Star Era can achieve such low power consumption, of course, the 800V high-voltage platform and SiC motor must be on it.
This has to talk about Chery's careful thinking, Zhijie S7 is made of 800V as standard, but it is only available in the high configuration in the Star Era, and the low configuration is still a 400V platform.
That's how the spread is pressed.
Then let's take a look at its intelligent configuration.
On the car machine, Star Era uses 8155 chips, which is no longer the first echelon. Recently, many new cars have been replaced with newer 8295s.
Chery didn't catch up, so maybe the later models will be upgraded.
In terms of intelligent driving, although Star Era does not have Huawei NCA, Chery has reorganized its own high-level intelligent driving NEP.
Good guys, NOA has one more word for replacement.
Chery uses 2 NVIDIA Orin chips with a computing power of 508TOPS.
In addition, it not only has functions such as high-speed intelligent driving and valet parking, but also has the same intelligent driving capabilities in urban areas as Huawei.
At the press conference, it was also Xi to the intellectual world, and it appeared in an unmanned way.
However, as for whether it can handle the complex roads in the city, we have not seen the actual performance, so we can only put a question mark first.
Other features worth mentioning are that the car has a UWB key, 23 speakers, and the electronic architecture is Gigabit Ethernet.
By the way, it also has a "one-key power-off" function in the car machine.
Translated, it means that the train "turns off".
Nowadays, most trams do not have a start/stop switch, and Chery is doing this to allow you to turn off the power and save some electricity when you are stuck in traffic.
So car owners should remember to have this function when the time comes.
In general, from the Star Era car, it can be seen that Chery is very eager to do something in new energy.
It puts the Star Era under the high-end brand Xingtu, and the goal is not low, what "Chery's BBA", the export unit price will exceed one million.
Even the Star Era ES is listed together with Mercedes-Benz EQS and Tesla Model S, referred to as 3S.
The slogan is shouted, but judging from the current volume of voice on the Internet, Huawei's blessing of Zhijie S7 has a higher degree of attention.
However, this matter can also be looked at from a different angle. It is precisely because Chery has chosen to cooperate with Huawei that many people will pay attention to the twin models of the two brands at the same time.
This is not a good thing for Chery.
In the end, the logic is very simple about how to choose these two cars.
If you have experienced Huawei's intelligent driving and like to use intelligent driving, then it is directly intelligent to finish.
But if you don't need to drive intelligently at all, and you want to buy a car with a large amount of tubes, then it is recommended to go to the Star Era.
Don't worry, a bunch of pure electric cars such as ZEEKR 007 and Xiaomi SU7 will come soon.
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