From：Internet Info Agency 2020-11-16 17:22:18
On November 14, IIA learned from Changan that the automaker announced that it would join hands with Huawei and CATL to jointly create a new high-end smart car brand, and its first high-end smart product will also be launched soon.
As a leader in the automotive industry, ICT industry, and smart energy industry, the "chemical reaction" produced by the powerful combination of Changan Automobile, Huawei, and CATL will have a positive and significant impact on the future development of the entire automotive industry. For this joint, Huawei’s Senior Vice President and CEO of Consumer Business, Yu Chengdong, said, “Let’s work together to make China’s smart manufacturing stronger and our smart mobility solutions to bring a better experience to people’s lives.”
According to reports, the high-end smart car brand jointly created by the three parties this time includes a world-leading, autonomous and controllable smart electric car platform, a series of smart car products and a super "person car home" smart life and smart energy ecology. The three parties are obviously full of confidence in the future of new energy smart travel.
The basis for confidence includes a development outline promulgated by the State Council in November, stating: “The new energy automobile industry faces unprecedented development opportunities from 2021 to 2035 and has become an important engine for the sustained growth of the world economy. Automobiles have moved from pure transportation to The transformation of smart terminals, energy storage units, and digital space will drive the transformation of energy transportation and information and communication infrastructure, and effectively promote the optimization of energy consumption structure, the construction of intelligent transportation systems and smart cities. It has broad market prospects and huge growth potential."
Since the birth of the car, the change has never stopped. But wanting to be able to evolve with the external environment like the creatures in nature is regarded as a fantasy. On November 14th, in addition to the disclosure of the information of the three jointly built high-end smart car brands, the Changan Ark smart architecture also appeared for the first time. Tan Benhong, executive vice president of Changan Automobile, personally launched a detailed interpretation of all aspects of the Ark's architecture, which means the arrival of a new era of comprehensive intelligent vehicle manufacturing for Chinese auto brands.
As a new car-making concept of Changan Automobile's R&D 4.0 era, the Ark architecture plays an extremely important role in Changan Automobile's continuous improvement of the basic performance of the vehicle under the background of intelligence and big data. The architecture of Changan Ark fully covers all models from A0 to C. Under the trend of future intelligence and electrification, the Changan Ark architecture uses intelligence and big data to empower the basic performance of the entire vehicle such as the body and chassis to iteratively evolve. The basic modular platform, high safety standards that meet the global mainstream safety evaluation system and a complete process guarantee system are integrated, and continue to evolve and continue to improve, to provide users with high safety, pleasant driving and high-quality car experience.
In terms of future technology advancement, relying on the layout of high-end autonomous driving, the new generation of products under the Ark architecture supports safe and scalable intelligent driving configurations. Growing electrical and electronic architecture to realize the provision of smart car services in all scenarios. It is also compatible with 8 engine states, with a displacement covering 1.2-2.0L, compatible with 3 electrified powers of 48V LV-HEV, HV-HEV, and PHEV, matching 8 transmission modules, and 16 power combination modes, which fully meets forward-looking power layout.
In terms of the combination of people and vehicles, the new generation of products under the Ark architecture achieves more surging power performance and unprecedented power through the full range of Blue Whale power. The new generation of products under the Ark architecture shortens the acceleration time of 0-100km/h by up to 24 %. At the same time, it also has better body stability, confident and comfortable driving. The response is more timely and the control is more precise, allowing drivers to have unprecedented driving pleasure.
In addition, in terms of experience design diversification, by reducing the engine crankshaft center by 12mm, the power layout inclination is optimized from forward 7.5ﾟ to backward 10ﾟ and other technical methods, the new generation of products under the Ark architecture has a more compact powertrain, a more reasonable layout, and a center of gravity. It is also reduced by 20-65mm, giving users a wider front field of vision with a minimum increase of 9%, making the eyes healthy and comfortable. In addition, the model body is more adaptable and the man-machine layout is flexible and changeable to meet the rationalization of the internal space of different body models.
Finally, in terms of the bottom line of quality, the new generation of products under the Ark structure not only has a higher safety benchmark, but also builds a high safety line of defense. Covering the global NCAP, the US IIHS five-star evaluation, and the C-IASI excellent safety performance evaluation; and the Ark architecture has also established a model of the Chinese brand car system by virtue of a more complete system guarantee. Achieved first-class intelligent manufacturing, higher-end craft quality, and better value feedback, bringing users a leapfrog driving quality.
Automobile electrification and intelligence are the development direction of the future automobile industry. As a century-old company, Changan Automobile has joined forces with Huawei and CATL this time. The three companies all master the core technologies of their respective industries. With such a strong R&D background, combined with the technical advantages of Changan Automobile's Ark architecture, the products launched by the new brand must be worth looking forward to.
