Everyone knows that in the field of medium and large SUVs, it is an important brand card position for electric vehicles. Products of this level can not only carry the power of the product, but also have enough driving force. If it is done well, it can pull up and down the product lines of different levels. And at the end of the year and the end of the year, it is also an important time period for electric vehicle companies to enter the spring next year. Products must be launched to hit the market. Of course, competition in the same category is inevitable.
Compared with Weilai, Zhiji is relatively new to the market. But this time, the products of these two companies have collided with each other. In terms of product strength, they all have certain characteristics, which also brings pressure to other competitors in the market who want to enter this category.
Let’s first take a look at the EC7 launched by Weilai, an old player who is a new force in car manufacturing. EC7 has launched 3 configurations, and the price range of the vehicle purchase plan is 488,000 to 578,000 yuan. The starting price of the battery rental version is 418,000 yuan and will be delivered in May next year. As a coupe SUV built on NIO’s second-generation technology platform NT2, the NIO eC7 is equipped with three types of battery packs: 75kWh, 100kWh and 150kWh. The CLTC comprehensive cruising range is 490 kilometers, 635 kilometers and 940 kilometers respectively.
Of course, in terms of appearance, it has a unique coupe-like style in its category. It is the first time to adopt the active lifting rear wing, which not only shapes the visual sense of movement of EC7, but also improves the aerodynamic performance of the whole vehicle. The rear wing provides two gears of drag reduction and extreme speed, which respectively provide the functions of drag reduction and increase of downforce. In manual mode, the user can control the rear wing gear through the central control screen, which is divided into four types: off, drag reduction, control, and automatic. The drag coefficient of EC7 is as low as 0.230Cd, making it the “SUV with the lowest drag coefficient in the world”. In terms of size, the length of the car is 4968mm, and the wheelbase is 2960mm. The minimum ground clearance is 162mm (standard air suspension, the chassis height can be raised up to 40mm), the approach angle is 17°, and the departure angle is 20°. All EC7 series are equipped with standard air suspension, CDC dynamic damping control system and NIO self-developed intelligent chassis domain controller ICC, which supports FOTA upgrade and makes subsequent iterations more flexible.
In terms of intelligence, the EC7 comes standard with the NIO Banyan intelligent system, equipped with the Aquila NIO super-sensing system, and has 33 high-performance sensors including lidar. The entire EC7 series is equipped with 22 industry-leading safety and driving assistance functions as standard; NIO autonomous driving NAD will be gradually activated after verification, covering high-speed, urban areas, parking and battery replacement scenarios. The Adam NIO supercomputing platform is equipped with four NVIDIA Drive Orin X chips as standard, with 48 CPU cores, 256 matrix operation units, 8096 floating point operation units, a total of 68 billion transistors, and a total computing power of up to 1016 TOPS. It can process 6.4 billion pixels per second, and also has a 32GB per second ultra-high bandwidth data network and an independent and complete redundant backup chip.
In terms of interior, it is also equipped with enough technology. EC7 is equipped with PanoCinema panoramic digital cockpit as standard, and N-Box enhanced entertainment host as an option. It has powerful computing power and video encoding and decoding capabilities, and supports simultaneous connection of 4 pairs of NIO Air AR Glasses devices, which is equivalent to having 4 pieces of equivalent 6-meter maximum 201 inch giant screen, everyone has their own exclusive entertainment screen. 23 speaker units form a 7.1.4-channel layout, bringing a fuller 3D immersive Dolby Atmos experience, and form a sound-light linkage with the surround-type light waterfall ambient light, allowing users to experience a 360-degree immersive shocking atmosphere .
The new car is also equipped with a new integrated sports comfortable seat and a newly upgraded queen co-driver, including six 16-way adjustments for the main driver’s seat, seven 18-way adjustments for the co-driver’s seat, and four 10-way adjustments for the rear left seat. 8-way adjustment in 3 positions on the rear right seat.
Let’s take a look at Zhiji’s LS7. At present, Zhiji LS7 offers three power combinations, the pre-sale price ranges from 350,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan, and an attractive exclusive upgrade reservation rights were announced at the same time. The starting price of this price segment is less than that of EC7, and the price of high configuration is similar. Of course, as a latecomer, the price should not be too high, otherwise the pressure to hit the market will be greater.
From the product point of view. The starting point of the design of Zhiji LS7 is how to use modern technology to recreate an SUV that modern people need. The answer given by Zhiji LS7 is “vision”, not only the vision inside the car, but also the layout of the car and the driver. In terms of appearance, LS7 also belongs to the swooping SUV design, which looks full of sportiness. In terms of body size, the length, width and height of the new car are 5049/2002/1731mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 3060mm. In addition, the new car is also equipped with dome glass, which has a very wide field of vision.
Zhiji LS7 improves the rigidity of the whole vehicle in a targeted manner, and uses submarine-grade steel to build the cockpit structure, so that the vehicle’s wading, top pressure, and roll resistance have been stepped up. The chassis of the LS7 is equipped with air springs from Continental Germany, DampTronic electromagnetic dynamic damping adjustment system from Germany’s Biesten, electronic steering system from Germany’s Bosch, and braking system from Italy’s Brembo. At the same time, LS7 has been tuned by WAE Williams master. In addition, Zhiji LS7 also has the only “four-wheel steering + mixed tire width” in its class.
LS7 uses a special-shaped steering wheel, which is full of technology. This triple screen can be raised and lowered, and it is matched with a half-width steering wheel. It is officially called a YAT cruise-type half-width steering wheel. The right side of the cabin is equipped with the longest electric slide rail among SUVs, the co-pilot seat is an innovative “intelligently controlled full-flat folding co-pilot seat”, and the right side of the rear row is a true “zero-gravity buoyant seat” “.
Zhiji LS7 has prepared a dual-lidar + Orin chip autopilot solution, including providing 15 high-definition cameras, 5 millimeter-wave radars, and 12 ultrasonic radar vision fusion solutions, in order to achieve high-speed elevated navigation assistance NOA, high-precision automatic driving functions such as parking. In terms of system, the greatly upgraded IMOS intelligent interactive system is embedded, including 360° panoramic images, vehicle settings, Carlog on-board camera system, multimedia, air conditioning and other adjustments can all be realized by touch.
In terms of power, the new car will provide rear-wheel drive and four-wheel drive models, of which the rear-drive version is equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous rear motor with a maximum power of 250kW. The maximum power of the front motor of the four-wheel drive version is 175kW, and the maximum power of the rear motor is 250kW. In terms of energy storage, the new car will be equipped with SAIC-era ternary lithium-ion batteries.
In short, these two cars will have a positive dialogue in the market. Due to some overlapping prices, it is inevitable that buyers will compare them. And their opponents may not be each other, but high-end luxury SUV models of fuel vehicles. We will verify their quality through the subsequent market performance.
