In the past two years, mainstream Chinese car companies have collectively launched a larger-scale electrification transformation strategy, and some brands' investment in the development of new energy vehicles has shown a multiple-growth trend compared with the past. As a "pragmatic faction", Chery Group is naturally continuing to increase its weight. Last year, as the core "engine" of Chery Group, Xingtu Automobile also clarified the plan to open the "Star Era" series of models.
According to the "Automobile Business Review", Chery Automobile recently launched a new car Star Era ET after the Star Era ES, and the emergence of the Star Era ET may be the beginning of the large-scale outbreak of Xingtu Automobile's brand market performance in the field of new energy. Because of this car, it really smells. First of all, the price is fragrant, the new car has launched two major versions of extended range and pure electric, the pre-sale price of the extended-range version is 19.9-239,000, and the pre-sale price of the pure electric version is 23.9-329,000. The more fragrant product power, we have to continue to look down.
High-value large space, family highly recognizable style
Since a few years ago, China's auto market started a wave of rejuvenation, and the product design of the entire Chinese auto circle seems to have undergone a large-scale evolution, one by one. As a high-end new energy vehicle brand, Xingtu Auto has also continued to achieve design advancement over the years, integrating feedback from users and optimizing in the process, and now has formed a stable family design style.
As a new energy product, the Star Era ET is based on the classic closed shape, the front face as a whole is based on a simple and elegant style, the lamp group adopts a split shape, and the LED daytime running lights above are like a burst of slender laser, making the new car look full of momentum. The matrix lamp beads are built into the high and low beams on both sides, which creates a stronger sports atmosphere for the new car as a whole.
In addition, the length, width and height of the Star Era ET are 4955mm, 1975mm, 1698mm, and the wheelbase is 3000mm.
From the side, the Star Era ET has a smooth silhouette, the vehicle adopts a large number of curved designs, and the body presents a more flexible visual effect under the change of light and shadow, while using the current popular design elements such as suspended roofs and hidden door handles, coupled with sharp wheels, makes the new car look more fashionable and has a good sporty atmosphere.
The tail shape is also extremely simple, the slender through-type taillights and headlights adopt a similar design technique, forming a front and rear echo effect, and the change of the shape stacks up a sense of hierarchy, in addition, the "EXEED" character plays a certain role in embellishment, but also enhances the recognition of the Star Era ET.
Intelligent/comfortable/driving control, the experience is fully sublimated
Epoch ET is a very "white-collar style" product, because it exudes an elite and capable temperament from the inside out. Coming to the car, the interior design and exterior also maintain a minimalist design style, while the cockpit materials are remarkable, the center console, the central armrest box and other areas are covered with soft materials in a large area, and the double-spoke flat-bottomed steering wheel has an excellent grip, and the exquisite shape is also very pleasing to women.
The sense of scientific and technological atmosphere of the vehicle is just right, equipped with a 15.6-inch floating shape large-size central control screen, and a 10.25-inch full LCD instrument panel, the car machine supports 5G network, vehicle OTA upgrade. At the same time, it is equipped with Lion AI large model voice, which not only supports 1800+ function voice control, but also supports dialect recognition, offline speech recognition, and four-tone sound source positioning, which plays a new trick with the common configuration of voice interaction.
At the same time, based on the integration of in-vehicle vision and AI algorithms, a DHS smart health monitoring system that can monitor user health indicators has been created, which is very user-friendly.
In order to allow users to get a more comfortable car experience, the new car is equipped with the first row of mobile phone wireless charging, seat heating/ventilation/massage, speaker Lion Melody sound system, 256 color ambient lighting, 1.57 square meters panoramic canopy, negative ion generator, fragrance system and other configurations, the audio-visual experience has been well sublimated.
At the level of driving assistance, the new car is equipped with full-speed adaptive cruise, lane departure warning, merging assist, front/rear collision warning, active braking, automatic lane change assistance, high-speed, urban navigation assistance system, and also has 360 ° panoramic image + chassis perspective, as well as automatic parking, remote parking, fatigue reminder and other multiple functions, in the intelligent driving assistance level to achieve a value leap ahead of most products of the same level, the safety and convenience of driving have been well blessed.
Strong performance, battery life, and fast charging
In order to meet the diversified needs of consumers, the power technology of most automobile brands is now taking the development model of "multi-line simultaneous development". This time, Epoch ET provides users with two versions of pure electric and extended range to choose from.
First of all, the power of the pure electric version of the model is subdivided into two versions: single and dual motors. Among them, the maximum engine power of the single-motor version is 230kW, the maximum torque is 425Nm, and the acceleration from zero to 100 is 6.4-6.6 seconds, the maximum power of the dual-motor version is 353kW and 413kW, and the maximum torque is 663Nm, 691Nm, respectively, and the acceleration from zero to 100 is 4.7 seconds and 3.8 seconds, respectively.
In terms of range, the new car is equipped with CATL's ternary lithium battery, with a battery pack capacity of 77 kWh and 100 kWh, respectively, and a pure electric range of 540 km/625 km and 760 km/655 km in CLTC mode, respectively. In terms of energy replenishment, with the blessing of 800V high-voltage fast charging, the new car can achieve 50km of energy replenishment in 1 minute and 475km in 11.5 minutes.
The extended-range version is equipped with a 1.5-liter engine with a thermal efficiency of 44.5%, with a maximum output of 115 kW and a maximum torque of 220 Nm. The motor has a maximum power of 195kW and a maximum torque of 324Nm, and takes 7.8s from 0 to 100 km/h, and has a pure electric range of 200 km in CLTC mode and 1500 km in CLTC comprehensive mode. As a "fuel-using tram", the fuel consumption of the extended-range version is 5.2L/100km.
Written at the end: Looking back on the past and looking forward to the future, the definition of "luxury" cars in the Chinese market is divided into three stages, the first is the era of underdeveloped Internet, people's understanding of luxury mainly looks at the "standard", and in the Internet era, it is a pile of materials such as "refrigerator color TV sofa". Now, Epoch ET interprets a more advanced "luxury" with a comprehensive and perfect product force, not only the configuration is enough, but more importantly, it can use a more humanized attitude to deal with the user's perception of details, perhaps this will open a "new era" of Chinese-style luxury revolution.
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