160,000 to buy a medium-sized SUV or an all-aluminum body, this car actually depends on it!

[car home? Interpretation of fresh technology]? Chery Ant, this car has attracted a wave of heat because of its unique name. On August 28, 2020, the car officially opened for pre-sale. The pre-sale prices of the two models are 6.5438+0.6 million yuan and 6.5438+0.7 million yuan respectively. In addition to the surprise brought by the pre-sale price, the official also shared with us some features of the @LIFE modular platform. After reading this article today, I believe that Chery Ant and @ Life Platform will use their strength to circle another wave of powder.

At present, there are many pure electric vehicles on sale in Chery New Energy, such as eQ 1, Arrizo 5e and Tiggo 3xe, among which eQ 1, which is what we call "Little Ant", has the best sales performance. EQ 1 is small, but its market share is large enough. You can often see it on the monthly sales list of new energy vehicles. At the same time, in July 2020, eQ 1, which had just been on the market for three years, also welcomed the car 150000, which is enough to prove the excellent market performance of the car.

The first model under the @LIFE platform was named "Ant". According to the official statement, "Little Ant" should have grown up. In other words, eQ 1 seems to have been unable to meet the ambition of Chery's new energy. At the same time, the brand has better technology, and naturally launched platforms and models with higher gold content, which can continue to provide new strength for Chery's new energy and lay a greater foundation for the brand. According to the official introduction, in fact, the launch of the @LIFE platform is not only to further occupy market share, but also to realize the vision of Chery New Energy to "build a green and smart life".

"Green" and "wisdom" are the effects that Chery New Energy wants to achieve, which need a brand-new platform to support, so "@ Life Green Wisdom Modular Technology Platform" was born. For this brand-new platform, its significance is not only to build a car, but more importantly, it can "create a brand-new production form and create a brand-new car experience".

○ "Green body"

Take Chery Ant, the first model of @ Life Platform, as an example. An important feature of this car is its all-aluminum body frame. Engineers said that general steel will face many difficulties in forming and mechanics, while aluminum profiles have advantages in many aspects. For example, the weight of the latter is reduced by 30% and the stiffness is increased by 20%. Not only the all-aluminum fuselage, but also many new technologies are applied to the new platform, such as incremental machining, micro-machining and borderless splicing. These technologies achieve a high material utilization rate of 96%, and the recovery rate of aluminum matrix reaches 100%.

Another main feature of the platform is the simplification of the manufacturing process. The four traditional processes of automobile manufacturing include stamping, welding, painting and assembly, which is an old tradition, but the @LIFE platform simplifies the four processes into two processes: welding and assembly. The direct benefit brought by the reduction of manufacturing technology is the reduction of energy consumption and pollution discharge, which is also in line with the concept of "green".

○ "Green battery"

How can power batteries be "more environmentally friendly"? The official turned the battery technology of @LIFE platform into "evolvable battery technology". First, its power battery adopts modular design, that is, the battery pack consists of common battery modules, which means that different models of battery packs can be interchanged. For example, in the future, the car battery pack can be upgraded to achieve a longer cruising range, which is "ready-to-use". Of course, these power batteries are recyclable, which is an important condition for achieving "green".

At present, the battery capacity of Chery Ant is 70. 1kWh, and the cruising range of NEDC is 5 10km. Thanks to the modular platform NEDC modular battery pack technology, the car is expected to launch a model with a cruising range of more than 600km in the future.

○ "Smart battery system"

The wisdom of battery system is mainly reflected in thermal management. Chery ant's power battery pack has four energy management areas and a liquid-cooled and efficient heat transfer structure with four inlets and one outlet. Simply put, the car has more accurate temperature control, and a higher level of battery safety is achieved by using a more "intelligent" battery management system.

○ "Intelligent electric drive system"

First of all, the platform has brought structural advantages to Chery Ant. At present, the car adopts rear drive layout. For Chery New Energy, this is not the future. Because the brand is also considering equipping the front axle of the platform model with a front motor or a range extender, so as to realize four-wheel drive or extended-range drive.

○ "Intelligent driving"

For pure electric vehicles, the laying of electronic architecture is relatively easy, and at the same time, the electronic architecture has become more important. Chery New Energy has its own electronic architecture technology with independent intellectual property rights, which can be compatible with various communication protocols such as 100m/ gigabit extranet and CAN/CANFD, that is, this architecture can be compatible with current network protocols and future high-speed network protocols. In addition, it also supports the expansion of 5G and V2X functions.

In addition, regarding the driver assistance function that pure electric vehicles pay attention to, Chery New Energy and ZTE jointly have a full stack technology solution (sub-module set) with core independent intellectual property rights on the @LIFE platform. At the four levels of network layer, control layer, perception layer and execution layer, Chery New Energy has also achieved large-scale independent research and development or collaborative development.

For the layout of intelligent ecological products, Chery new energy alone is impossible to complete. In order to build a smart car association, Chery released the lion zhiyun strategy as early as 20 18. In order to achieve an ideal ecological layout, Lion Cloud System has introduced more than 60 partners in succession, thus achieving the purpose of interconnection between vehicles and some third-party products. At present, 12 products have officially entered mass production. Lion system will be an important participant in the future "smart driving" of Chery New Energy.

Summary:

Finally, Chery New Energy also mentioned three key words: "breaking boundaries", "integration" and "evolution". In fact, these three keywords sum up what the @LIFE platform is doing, what it wants to do, and what it will do, breaking the boundaries: the improvement of vehicle cruising range can help users to continuously explore a larger life radius; Integration: the mutual integration of cars and external scenes and life; Evolution: In the era of network and cloud data, everything inside and outside the car is interconnected, and vehicles can realize continuous evolution.

As a brand that set foot in the field of new energy earlier, Chery New Energy not only launched a new car, but more importantly brought us a forward-looking layout. The @LIFE platform is a way for brands to move towards the future. Chery New Energy's action is like a stimulant, which will stimulate more domestic brands to make great strides and make the future come earlier. (Text/car home? You Dong Qing)