Recently, driver Dong Changkai drove the Leopard car Leopard 5, and successfully crossed the N39 uninhabited area of the Taklamakan Desert in a single bicycle, and crossed the desert limit of 792 kilometers in 5 days and 14 hours, achieving a milestone event for new energy vehicles off-road. As a result, Formula Leopard 5 has become the world's first new energy vehicle brand to cross the N39 "Tower 1 Line" in the Taklamakan Desert, representing the strongest strength of China's hybrid vehicles.
Hell difficulty, challenge the sea of death in the off-road world
"Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles". Dong Changkai, the protagonist of this crossing mission, is a senior desert player in the off-road circle, known as the "King of Tamo", not only the world record holder, but also the first person to cross the Tadesert by single bicycle, and meet this hell-level challenge at the age of 63.
Taklamakan is the largest desert in China and the second largest mobile desert in the world. The Taklamakan Desert N39 is 792km in a straight line, about 1,000km in a roundabout, and the difficulty level can be called hell, which is recognized as the most difficult and longest desert cross-country route in China in the off-road circle, and is called "the land of death" by explorers. This is not only a test of the driver's will and body, but also an all-round verification of the performance, safety and quality of the vehicle.
Because the fine sand cannot be blown out of the basin by the wind, the accumulation of tens of millions of years makes it softer than other desert sand and difficult to control the car, so you can only find a relatively suitable driving route in the sand mountains, sand beams and chicken nest pits. Quicksand is easy to mislead and get lost, coupled with the complex terrain structure and treacherous wind direction, which increases the danger of driving. In the desert with an average annual rainfall of less than 100 mm, it is scorched by a high temperature of up to 67.2 °C, and the temperature difference between day and night is more than 40 degrees.
With the blessing of DMO technology, the all-round strength is not afraid of hardships and dangers
"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." In the face of the complex and difficult environment of the N39, as the first model of the DMO super hybrid off-road platform, the Leopard 5 is mainly electric, bringing an inherently strong and dazzling performance.
With the blessing of the DMO super hybrid off-road platform, the Leopard 5 is equipped with a 1.5T high-power engine and front and rear high-power dual motors as standard, with a system power of 505kW and a comprehensive system torque of 760N·m. The Leopard 5 starts in the sand with only 300ms, which is 5 times different from the traditional mechanical off-road, and the intelligent electric four-wheel drive can also accurately identify the changes in the adhesion of the sand surface in real time, so that the powerful performance can be released to the extreme, and the dry pulling and breaking results of up to 150m can be easily achieved, which is second to none in the hard-core SUV camp.
The long-distance travel of a single bicycle through a large area of uninhabited land has become a major problem, which also poses a more stringent challenge to the endurance level of the Leopard 5. Relying on the DMO super hybrid off-road platform, which stands on the shoulders of BYD DM-i and DM-p, the Leopard 5 has a fuel consumption as low as 7.8 liters per 100 kilometers, which is 35% lower than that of mechanical off-road fuel consumption;
Desert driving requires continuous high-power output, and the power consumption of the whole vehicle is fast, and ordinary hybrid off-road vehicles have to face the embarrassment of charging half the time and washing the sand half the time. With the support of the DMO platform's electricity-based technology, the Leopard 5 can still maintain full power output in the 30% power supply state, and cooperate with the efficient energy conversion system to quickly and efficiently recuperate energy and convert engine power in the off-road process, combined with a more advanced power protection strategy, the power output is more durable. In the extreme off-road environment of the Ta Desert N39, the Leopard 5 allows the brave people who constantly challenge themselves and dare to conquer the unknown, and enjoy the poetry and distance of "the desert is lonely and the sun sets over the long river".
The Taklamakan Desert has a harsh climate, and in the desert with an average annual rainfall of less than 100 mm, it is always accompanied by the scorching of high-temperature "steamers", and the temperature difference between day and night of up to 40 degrees puts forward higher requirements for battery safety and reliability. The DMO super hybrid off-road platform adopts off-road special CTC battery, the battery adopts heat pump direct cooling and direct heating technology, double-layer cell arrangement, sandwich structure design, has intelligent temperature equalization ability, and the temperature difference of the battery cells is smaller, which improves the comprehensive thermal management performance and meets the use of extreme environments. This time, the Leopard 5 completed this crossing in 5 days and 14 hours, the body is almost unscathed, and the wear is very little, which not only creates a result that other cars cannot surpass, but also proves the super reliability of the Leopard 5 as an electric drive hard SUV, showing its strength as the king of "new energy girder hard SUV sales champion".
Continue to upgrade the experience and solve the unknown wonders of life
In order to engrave and convey the spirit of daring to explore new things and new worlds, the Leopard 5 launched a new "Tamomi" color interior to commemorate the world record set by the Leopard 5 this time through the Tamo N39. Leopard 5 through the concrete interpretation of the purity and enthusiasm of this journey, in order to continue to break through with more car owners in the future, to solve the unknown wonders of life.
The strength of the champion is not only evolving. In May, the Leopard 5 will also open the second OTA upgrade to further optimize the driving experience, adding functions such as altitude-based information constant display, traffic light counting, etc., and the Yunlin flagship version will also open camping leveling, ultra-low mode and welcome mode. Through this OTA upgrade, the richness of Leopard 5 functions and the intelligence of interaction will be fully evolved, helping users improve their car experience. Not only that, Formula Leopard Automobile officially released the Leopard 5 Yun Yuan Luxury Edition at the 2024 Beijing Auto Show, with an official price of 329,800 yuan. As the second Yun Yuan model after the Leopard 5 Yun Yuan Flagship Edition, the Leopard 5 Yun Yuan Luxury Edition fully "Leopard Power Attack", with a lower price and more extreme experience, leading users to solve more possibilities of new energy hard SUVs.
Under the severe test of Tamo N39, Leopard 5 joined hands with Dong Changkai to successfully cross Tamo N39 and set a world record, which is not only an affirmation of Leopard 5's own quality, but also a strong proof of the leading technology of DMO platform champion technology. With the strong off-road ability and all-round performance brought by new energy technology, the Leopard 5 will continue to refresh users' perception of new energy hard-core SUVs in the future, bringing users a new high-end travel experience.