With the deep development of the new energy vehicle market entering the second half, intelligent experience has gradually become a differentiated competition point for many car companies. What can be seen is that more and more car companies choose to start to choose Internet-related companies to join hands to build a more intelligent single model or establish a brand, and inject intelligent capabilities into new cars in a strong and joint way.
The brand is the brand representative jointly established by automobile manufacturers and Internet companies. This brand-new pure electric automobile brand jointly created by Geely and Baidu has laid the foundation for the word "smart" as the brand gene since its birth. According to the officially announced structure, this brand is a "high-end smart car robot brand" under Geely Holding.
In terms of specific division of labor, Geely is responsible for manufacturing, while Baidu provides AI capabilities such as intelligent cockpit and intelligent driving. Therefore, on the first model just launched by the ultra-Yue brand, several key messages are also logical: based on the vast architecture of Geely SEA, it is equipped with NVIDIA Orin X chip and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 car chip, and equipped with Baidu Apollo high-order automatic driving system.
So, how does this robot perform on the road?
Before, we launched the # Take the Question to Test Drive # poll in Weibo. Next, we will briefly answer the three questions that won the most votes.
1。 What’s the shape and originality of the new car?
Originated from Geely’s vast SEA architecture, it is also positioned as a medium and large SUV. In a sense, it is also a cousin, so you can see a trace of the latter in the form. However, on the whole, the design originality of Extreme Yue 01 is very high, which is basically consistent with the design of its predecessor, Jidu ROBO-01 concept car, and the concept flavor is very strong. Although it is positioned as a "car robot" that sounds warmer, the "robot aesthetics" is completely sporty, and the most obvious thing is its front shape. However, beyond the movement, the word minimalism runs through the whole process, but it is not minimalism on the stack of component elements, but a high integration of functional parts.
2。 What’s so special about cockpit design?
Just like the "concept car style" in appearance, its cockpit design is also a minimalist style only available in concept cars, and it also has a large number of popular new energy vehicle elements, such as clean and concise center console design, such as ultra-wide central control large screen, and environmental protection decorative materials. But in my opinion, the two design orientations of the cockpit are worthy of attention. First, it is trying to reduce the number of protruding objects in the car, and the materials are only environmentally friendly plastics and artificial leather; Second, the cockpit lines are longer and more coherent, and the bending angle is more modern. This kind of "robot aesthetics" is to show the sense of science and technology everywhere.
3。 Positioning intelligence, how is its intelligent configuration above the mainstream?
The mainstream we are talking about is the configuration of multimedia functions. In addition, the "non-mainstream" intelligent hardware configuration of Extreme Yue 10 is almost the ceiling. For example, at 8155 per capita, it uses the chip of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295, and the stronger computing power supports the car machine to have more powerful and diverse scenarios to realize; As for the intelligent driving part, it is equipped with NVIDIA dual Orin X chips+lidar, with vision as the main part, supplemented by lidar, and Baidu Apollo advanced autopilot system and AI intelligence to inject soul into this hardware. This is almost the most powerful "autobot" you can find on the market.
Appearance: a more dynamic car robot
Extreme Yue 01 is still the pure electric SUV you can imagine. There are a lot of design elements that a typical pure tram should have. The overall design is basically the same as that of its predecessor, Jiji ROBO-01 concept car. The body profile is more aerodynamic and low wind resistance design, and the smooth lines make it quite futuristic in design, which is very similar to a concept car. The overall shape is highly recognizable and attractive, which is a good choice for maverick consumers who like avant-garde.
Its front "clamshell cover" is very wide and extends forward for a long time. In the middle of the convex closed middle net, it is transitioned with penetrating light strips with both ends rising, and its flat factory emblem and concise nose style show its status as a new energy source. The lower part of the front part is recycled inward, and the bottom is added with a trapezoidal lower grille with a small front lip design, showing a certain sense of movement.
On both sides of the front of the car are T-shaped light groups with laser radar. The black technology of the light group is full, and the intelligent interactive lighting system is integrated inside the light group. There are two types of main interactive lights, namely, one eyebrow and one Pixel, and two types of auxiliary interactive lights, namely, wheel eyebrow lights and AI indicator lights, which have different interpretations in different scenes such as automatic driving, voice interaction and security guard. The daytime running lamp is a pixel lamp composed of a plurality of lamp beads, and users can freely program patterns.
The exterior rearview mirror is designed in layers, and the upper shell is painted in black. Functionally, the LED steering indicator light is integrated. At the same time, it is equipped with electric adjustment, folding and heating, and there is a camera at the bottom. It is worth mentioning that four groups of microphones outside the car are hidden in the front, rear, body and exterior rearview mirror. The high recognition rate AI voice interaction system allows you to communicate with people outside the car.
The same highly integrated design also appears on the door. Its four electric induction doors are equipped with four millimeter-wave radars, and all door handles are cancelled. It has a variety of door opening and closing methods such as voice, buttons and UWB keys.
Extreme Yue 01 has five body colors: Xinghe Purple, Xinghui Orange, Xingchen White, Nebula Black and Chineydy Grey. Its side has obvious cross-border SUV style, short front and rear suspension, long wheelbase, slightly raised lower window line and sunken roof line, as well as the profound modeling curve of the side outer panel all have a strong sense of movement. In addition, elements such as contrasting body, hidden door handle, frameless door and D-pillar with large inclination angle are not absent.
In terms of measurements, the Extreme Yue 01 is positioned as a medium and large intelligent pure electric SUV, with a body length of 4853mm, a width of 1990mm, a height of 1611mm and a wheelbase of 3,000 mm. This data is also a quite mainstream figure in its class. The drag coefficient reached 0.249, which is very rare in CUHK.
The rear part of the car body also carries out the minimalist design, and the lines are full of layers. The waistline at the rear part of the car side is connected with the taillights and runs through the whole rear part through the width indicator. The upper part is equipped with segmented spoiler and automatic lifting tail, which has a sense of movement, while the lower part of the line is more prominent and full, showing a slight drop and a certain luxury atmosphere. On the taillight group, there are 52 light beads on the back eyebrow, and the high-position brake light is in the middle position above; The center position below is the backup lamp and the rear fog lamp, with 90 beads.
The automatic lifting tail of the rear tail can be opened manually or automatically to provide additional under-air pressure. In automatic mode, when the vehicle speed reaches above 95km/h, the vehicle will automatically raise its tail wing to reduce wind resistance; When the vehicle speed drops below 65km/h, the tail automatically retracts.
Extreme Yue 01 comes standard with 21-inch /19-inch aerodynamic wheels, and the test drive is equipped with high-performance Brembo exclusive purple calipers, which is sporty in shape. In terms of tires, the test drive used a 255/45R21 tire from the PC6 series of Ma brand, which is a tire with good comprehensive performance and biased driving and control orientation.
Interior: the high intelligent cockpit is the key.
The interior modeling is different from the current common styles, with a 35.6-inch 6k resolution penetrating large screen in the middle, just like putting a color TV with exaggerated aspect ratio. The whole IP platform uses asymmetric design, transverse air outlet and few physical buttons, which brings a quite elegant and minimalist cockpit atmosphere. In terms of materials, the cockpit is decorated with a large number of matte dark decorative boards and suede materials, which makes the whole cockpit have a sports flavor that is not common in new energy vehicles, and then decorated with atmosphere lights, which also gives it a sense of advanced.
The leather wrapped in the double-spoke D-shaped multifunctional steering wheel feels good and has a full grip. Of course, if you are more advanced, you can also choose a U-shaped steering wheel. It not only has a lot of white space on the decorative board, but also has no left and right levers at the rear, which has highlighted its minimalist design style. At three or nine o’clock, double paddles are integrated. Combined with the function setting of the central control screen, many functions such as driving control, multimedia control and adjusting the angle light of rearview mirror can be realized.
This 35.6-inch penetrating large screen can be displayed independently on two or three screens. In the normal state, it is obviously divided into three areas: the left, the middle and the right, and its functions correspond to the dashboard, the central control panel and the passenger screen respectively. Among them, the dashboard has different color matching and display effects in different driving modes. The UI interface looks a bit sci-fi, and the information function area on it is also very rich, but the fly in the ointment is that the font is too small.
At present, the average number of cars is 8155 chips. This central control large screen of Yuejie 01 is equipped with the 8295 chip of the fourth generation Snapdragon digital cockpit platform in Qualcomm for the first time. For the first time, two NPUs are fully enabled, and the AI computing power reaches 60TOPS, which supports the AI model to get on the bus. Under its blessing, this full-screen touchable large screen has no obvious perceptible hysteresis in the response to touch and drag, and it takes six to fly.
The basic functions of the car machine and the pre-installed software of the car network are also rich enough. With strong enough hardware and rich enough functions, the scene has become the highlight of Extreme Yue 01. It can realize the full immersion experience cabin mode, and you can switch between the game hall, KTV, movie viewing hall and lounge. If you are a game enthusiast, when you play the pre-installed game "Wild Racing", the car will also realize the 4D game experience according to the dynamic effect of the game, such as releasing nitrogen to adjust the wind in time and space, tightening the seat belt during collision, and so on.
This screen directly in front of the co-pilot area is blank in daily conditions. If necessary, it can be used as a part-time navigation function, and the content displayed on the central screen can be switched by flying screen.
In terms of intelligent voice, Extreme Yue 01 can realize the full localization of voice AI algorithm. The official claims that the speed of full-end voice recognition is as fast as 500ms, and the end-to-end voice response speed is within 700 ms. And completely get rid of the dependence on network signals, and realize the global off-line voice. This "SIMO" can be accurately recognized even in places with poor vehicle network signals.
In terms of intelligent hardware, in addition to Qualcomm 8295 chip, dual NVIDIA Orin X chips are also equipped, and the AI computing power of the whole vehicle is 568TOPS. The intelligent architecture JET is oriented to high-level autonomous driving, linking more than 100 sensors in the whole vehicle, and integrating the electronic and electrical architecture EEA and the vehicle-level operating system SOA. It is deeply empowered by Baidu, and the AI technical capabilities such as intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving and ERNIE Bot are all blessed on the Extreme Leap 01.
Extreme Yue 01 is equipped with ROBO Drive advanced intelligent assisted driving system, which is jointly developed by Jidu and Baidu. Its core function is point-to-point navigation assistance. At this stage, the advanced intelligent assisted driving ability is mainly realized by integrating pure vision+Baidu AI+ less laser radar assistance. At present, point-to-point navigation assistance can be realized with intelligent driving maps. In terms of data, the data closed-loop system is called ROBO Meta, which also has the ability of continuous iterative evolution.
The test drive car is equipped with dual-zone automatic air conditioning with fragrance, which fully integrates the air conditioning information in the car on the central control screen, and the display interface operation is also very easy to use.
Because of the minimalist design, the armrest platform has become a pure storage space, providing double cup holders and storage compartments with sliding covers. The front end of the armrest is a mobile phone with wireless charging, and the armrest box has a built-in 12V power supply and dual Type-C interfaces, which is convenient for the front row to use electricity.
Space: What a medium and large SUV should look like.
The seat of Extreme Yue 01 is full of sports atmosphere, and the whole seat is very futuristic in shape, with a suspended headrest with integrated audio unit. Its shoulder has large wings, backrest and cushion have good lateral support, NAPPA leather covers feel good, and the filler is thick and elastic, making it very comfortable to ride. Functionally, the main driver supports electric adjustment of front and rear, backrest, height (4-way) and waist (4-way), and the main driver and auxiliary driver support heating, ventilation, massage and memory functions.
The back row of the test drive is equipped with a 7-inch LCD touch screen, through which air conditioning and multimedia can be controlled.
Compared with the front row, the three-dimensional feeling of the rear seat is reduced, but it still has suspended headrest and wing support, and the riding feeling is not much different from that of the front row. The space occupied by the bottom battery is well controlled, the height is acceptable, and the overall sitting posture is relatively comfortable. The flat space also makes the central seat in the second row more meaningful.
The integrated panoramic skylight is also equipped, but there is no sunshade. However, the official said that it can achieve 99% ultraviolet isolation, and the light transmittance is less than 5%, and the total solar energy transmittance is less than 20%. In short, you don’t have to worry about getting sunburned when sitting in the car.
The trunk is electrically opened. The second row of seats in our test drive can be split and laid down in 4/6. In terms of storage space, the regular 710L and regular space are enough, and the regular space further enhances the utilization efficiency of the trunk. The rear seats can be expanded to 2161L, greatly expanding the practical space.
Under the floor of the trunk is a large storage space, where the home charging line, air pump and triangle warning sign are placed for the test drive.
Test drive: vast architecture, control with surprises
Born from the vast structure of Geely SEA, it is produced in line with Kyk-001. In a sense, Kyk-001 and Kyk-001 are also cousins, and their power systems are completely consistent. They provide two powertrains, single-motor rear-drive and dual-motor four-wheel drive, with maximum power of 200 kW and 400 kW respectively.
Extreme Yue 01 is equipped with three kinds of power: single motor +71.4kW lithium iron phosphate battery single motor +100kW ternary lithium battery double motor +100kW ternary lithium battery, and the pure electric cruising range under CLTC condition is 550/720/660 km respectively. Its charging interface is located on the side of the car, which can realize voice, screen and automatic induction opening and closing. Compared with the clamshell electric opening, the way of polar-over 01 translation and sliding electric opening is more ceremonial.
The power system parameters of Extreme Yue 01 are very explosive, and the data are actually implemented at the moment when it is turned on. Its accelerator pedal adjustment is very linear, and the global power output is quite direct. The linear force is sufficient but very controllable, which is enough to reassure the rear passengers. Unless the floor is electrified, you won’t feel that this is a beast with a peak power of 400 kilowatts. He can make the power very violent, but as an "automobile robot", the first thing to do is to understand the needs of the owner.
Its power is more inclined to let you enjoy the linear output of stepping on the accelerator pedal, but it is not stingy. Sufficient power reserve ensures that it will meet your needs in a rapid and dense state whether it is dealing with starting or accelerating in the middle. In the track, the power reserve of the whole vehicle is particularly sufficient, and the acceleration in the middle section is very fast, so there is no need to leave more allowance time for overtaking.
Its acceleration mode has two gears: comfort and sports. In comfort mode, stepping on the accelerator pedal a little deeper can also bring you a smooth and powerful feeling of speeding up, and the acceleration ability can beat most cars on the road. Not to mention the sports mode, the dual-motor four-wheel drive will become an out-and-out heavy artillery player, and the acceleration is from beginning to end on the big straight of the track.
Thanks to the front and rear double motors, it also has an electric four-wheel drive system, officially named "Lightning Four-wheel Drive", and the switching time is 0.4 seconds. The distribution of driving force is completely left to the computer to make corresponding adjustments according to the real-time road conditions and even the needs of drivers. In most cases, the power distribution of this car is more inclined to rear wheel drive, and only a small proportion of driving force is allocated to the front wheel in order to reduce energy consumption.
Based on the vast architecture of Geely SEA, the new car adopts front all-aluminum double wishbone and rear all-aluminum H-arm multi-link independent suspension. CDC real-time damping adjustable shock absorber has millisecond monitoring and response capability of 500 times per second, and can intelligently judge driving intention according to information such as vehicle steering angle and longitudinal acceleration, so as to actively adjust the damping of shock absorber in response to different road conditions and improve driving stability.
Its chassis has a tough texture, and it can return to its original position immediately after filtering for large and small vibrations. The whole movement is clean and neat, and the suspension system can also level the broken road when driving on the gravel road. The overall style takes a tough and highly advanced route. When facing the speed bump, the vehicle is also very calm, and the shock absorber is in place to suppress excess bounce.
The electronic flavor of steering is not heavy, and the whole steering force is evenly distributed in different speed ranges, and the damping gain with speed and angle is just right. Steering feels sporty, but not "thief". And because the power battery layout also brings lower center of gravity and better body following for the whole vehicle, subjectively, it has a stronger sense of control and at the same time it is not as tired to drive as the main driving car, and it is a bit addictive to drive.
Editor’s summary: Today’s demand for electric vehicles is undergoing profound changes. Where is the next differentiated competition point of electric vehicles? All manufacturers are exploring. And beyond the basic performance guarantee of Geely Empowerment, the biggest signboard is undoubtedly "high intelligence", and its propaganda slogan of "AI car robot" condenses its character.
