Huawei still backed down in the face of thinking, and asked the starting price of the new M5 to be 249,800 yuan, and also gave the right to buy a car worth 37,000 yuan.
The new M5 is on the market, and the price of the old model has not changed, but there is a set of full-blooded intelligent driving configurations, with lidar to support urban areas and high-speed NOA two functions. In a sense, this is indeed a very obvious configuration improvement, which is in line with the background of intelligent driving.
What we see on the bright side is the high-end intelligent driving assistance system, which has brought Huawei into the market of less than 250,000 yuan. In this market at the same price, the M5 with lidar + high-end intelligent driving function should be the only one, and it has also enjoyed the dividends of a wave of full-stack self-developed intelligent driving solutions (Huawei).
So, this time, the new M5 has changed in terms of configuration and three-electric system?
ADS 2.0, starting to probe
The press conference was full for more than an hour, and it took about 40 minutes to talk about the world, and consumers were waiting for the new M5 to have an entry version with a price drop. But in fact, the result has been obvious, there is no price drop of the entry version, but in the case of no obvious upgrade of the battery and motor (configuration upgrades are also included), the starting price is maintained as the old model, and a set of high-end intelligent driving assistance systems are kneaded.
This is already the biggest change in the configuration of this car.
A few words about high-end intelligent driving in the car. ADS 2.0 ease of use,Not as good as we expected,To say that it is easy to use, it is also a better experience on the question worldM9,Better than the question worldM7 and the question worldM5,The good reason is the upgrade of the lidar configuration,The core of this perception scheme is in the lidar performance,Just like the PC's graphics card determines the upper limit of the game screen when you play the game.
Why is it placed on the entry-level model, this is actually a configuration that is easy for consumers to have a desire to buy. But in fact, the price of perception equipment is not as high as before, and some suppliers can even push the price of a radar to the level of 1,000 yuan. Needless to say, the cost of the perception equipment of lidar is decreasing year by year, so it appears on the entry-level model, which is also a normal operation; however, if there is a version without lidar, the price continues to fall, it may cater to more consumer needs.
This time on the entry-level version, the intelligent driving hardware has been added:
- from the original 5 cameras to 11 cameras;
- Under the premise of monocular at the front of the car, an 8 million pixel high-definition camera is added;
- ultrasonic and millimeter-wave radars, the number remains unchanged, 12 and 3 respectively;
- Joined Huawei's self-developed LiDAR, with 126 lines and a maximum detection range of 200 meters.
In fact, the overall perception scheme is the same as that of the old model, and the number and performance of cameras, radars, and lidars are also the same. And the configuration of 126-line lidar, it was already a product two years ago;For the entry-level model,The biggest change in the use experience,Is that the high-speed NOA becomes easier to use,After the lidar is perceived,It can be regarded as a physical enhancement of the high-speed NOA function,The performance of the perception device has been improved,For the use effect,Active merger in,Merge out,Finding the optimal solution in the lane is the most obvious change。
Then, this set of configuration was given to consumers within 250,000 yuan, and the perception of NOA in the urban area. However, the use of 126-line lidar to do urban NOA, there is still a relatively common (similar 128-line radar), that is, in complex intersections, traffic jams, slow driving under the following distance, still conservative, this depends on the frame rate of the lidar, this factor determines whether the target in front can be detected more quickly, the faster you can be more active in the following distance, and the slower is the opposite (after experiencing the M9, you will understand this change in details).
The M5 is indeed very volatile this wave, reducing the high-end assisted driving products to less than 250,000 yuan. Ideal at the same price, only one set of high-speed NOA can be used, but if it is at the level of 279,800, then the intelligent driving function of the two cars is the same, both have high-speed + urban NOA functions.
As for the use effect of the new M5 intelligent driving, the high-speed NOA is indeed good and has been improved, while the urban NOA may be faster when the road conditions are complicated or driven by itself (the use effect of the same kind and the same level is similar, and the use effect is determined by the performance of the lidar).
Biting the ideal L6, but having to sacrifice energy consumption?
As long as you pay attention to the configuration table of the new car, you will find a detail, in the 2880mm wheelbase and 2220kg curb weight are the same as the old model, and at the same time, the battery pack of the new M5 is 2kWh, the pure electric range is shortened by 5km, and the comprehensive range is shortened by 15km.
Looking at it this way, the three-electric system of the new M5 has not progressed.
The new M5 still uses ternary lithium batteries, but it is replaced with a larger 42kWh battery pack, theoretically speaking, the increase in battery capacity will bring greater pure electric and comprehensive cruising range, which can achieve a longer cruising range than the old model (an upgrade idea in line with iterative logic). However, the new M5 did not develop according to this logic.
So, why increase this 2kWh battery capacity?
First of all, the biggest change in the new model of this car is the addition of a set of intelligent assisted driving configurations, 6 more cameras, 1 lidar, and what you can't see is a high-end assisted driving controller. The power consumption of a set of controllers is about 100W, the power consumption of a lidar is about 30W, and the combination of camera + millimeter wave and ultrasonic radar is estimated to be about 70W; then, the total power consumption of this set of configurations is about 200W.
It can be understood that the power consumption of this system is 0.2kWh after 1 hour of operation, and 1kWh of power will be consumed after 5 hours of operation. It is precisely because the configuration of intelligent driving requires power consumption, if the battery capacity is not increased, then on the basis of keeping the original 40kWh battery pack unchanged, its final range will not be as simple as only 5km (pure electric) and 15km (comprehensive) less than the old model, and the loss of cruising range may be greater.
What else can be done other than increasing the battery capacity?
The most cost-effective solution is to limit the maximum output power of the motor, which is simpler and more cost-effective than increasing the battery capacity, but Wenjie did not adopt this solution. The disadvantage of this scheme is that it limits the acceleration performance and power ceiling of this car, and the power level on the new M5 does not give much room to be sacrificed, with a maximum power of 200kW for a single motor unit and a maximum power of 365kW for dual motor units, which is not fast.
In fact, the kind of thinking like the ideal L6 is the right way of thinking. After cutting the power by 30kW and reducing the weight by 130kg, the energy consumption is reduced by about 10% compared to the ideal L7. On the other hand, the ideal L6 product at the same price, the front and rear dual motors are all four-wheel drive standard, with a maximum power of 300kW, and the power is limited to the ideal L6 power gap is getting bigger and bigger (itself Wenjie M5 is missing a motor, suffering), so this scheme is not adopted.
In fact, this is also a more helpless choice, of course, the new M5 must have also thought about optimizing the efficiency of the motor, the problem of weight reduction, may be out of cost considerations, and finally gave up this idea; So on the whole, the most effective solution is the stack battery capacity, but in the end, it still does not level the same pure electric/comprehensive endurance as the old model.
After increasing the 2kWh battery capacity and high-end intelligent driving accessories on the car without restricting the power output of the motor, the comprehensive range of the new M5 on a full fuel and full charge is reduced by 15km. If you change to daily travel conditions, 10 trips with full fuel and full power will reduce the cruising range of 150km, and the pure electric range will be about 50km less.