At present, when many people buy electric vehicles, what are the functions they are looking for? Is it a strong acceleration ability, is it more expensive to use electricity than burning oil, is it a sofa refrigerator and a large color TV? In fact, it is not.
Especially this year, with Huawei's ADS2.0, Xpeng XNGP and other functions can also be used on most urban roads across the country, autonomous driving has officially become one of the biggest reasons for everyone to buy electric cars.
After all, sofas, color TVs, refrigerators, can also be experienced on traditional fuel, large screens are not a problem, and even smart cockpits can be realized on many traditional fuel vehicles.
But it is the automatic driving function, and no one currently has a gasoline car, so you can't experience it, and you can only experience it by buying an electric car.
So many people will find it very strange, many people like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi brands, and control, and like the autonomous driving function of electric car companies such as Huawei.
Why don't BBA and Porsche equip their own petrol cars with autopilot functions? That satisfies the needs of the vast majority of consumers who like petrol cars and need autopilot functions, and such cars will definitely sell out, so why don't BBA and Porsche do this?
For example, you said that BMW 3\5\7 series, X7\X5\X3\X6, as well as Mercedes-Benz's C/E/S class, GLC\GLC\GLS, Aoda's A4\A6\A8, Q7\Q5\Q3 and other hot-selling models, are equipped with Huawei's ADS2.0 to achieve mapless autonomous driving that can be driven on all roads across the country, which must be sold out, so why don't these car companies do this?
In fact, these car companies must want to do this, but the oil truck can't do this.
Whether it is Huawei ADS, Xpeng's XNGP, or various autonomous driving functions of other car companies, are based on various sensors and powerful algorithm chips, which are finally realized through algorithms.
Behind these sensors and algorithms, a lot of power is needed. At present, the power consumption of LiDAR is about 15W, while the power consumption of Nvidia's Orin X chip is 55W.
If it is dual lidar and dual Orin X chips, these two items alone are already 140W power consumption, plus other sensors and so on, if it is equipped with a large screen, it is estimated that the power consumption of these things in a car will exceed 300W.
At present, the storage battery of the oil truck is usually 12V, the capacity is 70Ah, the maximum output power is 840W, and the battery capacity is about 0.84 kWh.
Such a battery cannot support the computing needs of the entire intelligent cockpit and automatic driving of the smart car, and must be replaced with a battery like an electric car.
Therefore, why can't the oil truck be equipped with an intelligent cockpit and automatic driving, because the price of intelligence is a large increase in power consumption, and the oil truck cannot provide such a large tram with electricity.
Otherwise, people like BBA and Porsche would have already equipped their own fuel cars with intelligent cockpits and automatic driving functions. However, there are also some compromise solutions, such as adding another battery to the oil truck to power the intelligent cockpit and intelligent driving functions alone, but relatively speaking, the cost is very high and the design is complex, so it is not liked by consumers.