Entering November, the Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI version model will be delivered in small batches this month. Previously, this car was released at the Tianjin Auto Show, with its stylish appearance, backed by Huawei's Hongmeng OS system, and as the world's first mass production car with three lidars, it attracted the attention of many media colleagues. At present, the car is in the pre-sale stage, and the pre-price of the basic version model is 388,900 yuan, and the pre-price of the high-end version is 429,900 yuan.
Who is the Polar Fox?
Many friends who do not understand the industry news must be confused when they see this brand, and some people regard the Extreme Fox as baic's car. In fact, Jihu does have a deep relationship with BAIC and is a new energy brand under the joint venture between BAIC Blue Valley and Magna. But if you just regard it as BAIC's car, you are wrong, after all, Beiqi Blue Valley has spent a lot of money to sign technology licensing agreements with some overseas companies, bought platform architecture, chassis technology and so on.
Then, we can regard Jihu as a new energy brand that BAIC has spent money to smash, and the technology used by the brand is not entirely developed by BAIC.
After understanding the brand, we have a general understanding of Polar Fox. The product to be released in November, Alpha S Huawei HI Edition, can be understood as the advanced version of Alpha S, the two are consistent in shape, and show a modern urban aesthetic in a cross-border style. Its three-dimensional dimensions are 4930/1940/1599mm and the wheelbase is 2915mm.
Design we will not talk about, as the "Huawei HI version", its most noteworthy highlight is that it is equipped with the Hongmeng OS system, and it is also the first mass production car equipped with Huawei's high-end ADS system. In terms of intelligent driving hardware, it is equipped with 3 96-line vehicle-grade lidar, 6 millimeter-wave radars, 12 cameras, 13 ultrasonic radars... It can be said that it is full of radar.
The more radar, the higher the requirements for on-board computing power, and the Huawei chip equipped with this car can reach 400TOPS... To know qualcomm's entry into the car chip, its 400TOPS hashrate chip will not be officially deployed until 2023.
Speaking of which, you may understand why Jihu specifically pointed out the "small amount of delivery" in November, because for well-known reasons, Huawei's chip inventory is very limited, even if there is a "secret OEM" thing, it is also a very, very small amount in progress.
Different from the general driving assistance, with the blessing of Huawei's system, it can achieve full-scene automatic driving, including traffic light intersections, mixed traffic and vehicle obstacle avoidance, basement scenes... It can even identify scenes that respond to close-up gags. In other words, it is more like high-end intelligent driving designed for this congested and complex road condition in China.
Of course, this is probably the only highlight of this car.
I used to wonder why Huawei had such a good thing to do with The Extreme Fox, and now I want to understand. Huawei's system touched the core cake of the car brand, that is, the application of the entire system of intelligent driving, if this technology car brand can not be in their own hands, it will become a processing plant specifically for Huawei shells, which is not the result that car companies want. Considering its own industry status, Beiqi Blue Valley seems to be Huawei's best choice at present.
As for the Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI Edition, is this car worth buying? Obviously, I think that people who buy this car are most likely to buy it to study its intelligent driving system. As individuals who consume travel, let's keep an eye on it and keep watching.