"I said from the beginning that only on the new energy track can we as a whole independently develop our industry from large to strong. We don't want to be better than anyone else in China. We want to be strong together as a whole, and we want to PK Tesla as a whole." SAIC Innova

"I said from the beginning that only on the new energy track can we as a whole independently transform our industry from large to strong. We don't want to be better than anyone else in China. We want to be stronger together as a whole. We as a whole need to PK Tesla ", Lu Yong, executive vice president of SAIC Innovation Research and Development Institute, recently revealed at a communication meeting with the media.

"When Zhiji encounters a strange car on the road, Zhiji's autopilot will avoid it, completely competing head-to-head with Tesla. What are the pain points of autonomous driving from point A to point B? How does Zhiji handle it? Tesla We have a video with a detailed comparison of how to deal with it," Guan Yizhong, general manager of the Public Relations Department of SAIC Motor, said on the same occasion.

Just about two weeks ago, on June 14, at a press conference of Zhiji Auto, Tesla became the target of PK+ complaints throughout the conference in the name of a "leading player". In the comparison video, including multiple intelligent driving scenarios such as "identifying special-shaped vehicles" and "stopping", Tesla's intelligent driving is like a reserve team or the initial stage, while Zhiji Auto's IM AD intelligent driving system is "more Like a human being”.

Even SAIC, which has always been known for its stability, has begun to anchor Tesla in all directions, which means that SAIC is well prepared this time.

What are the "Seven Swords"

html On June 24, SAIC Group 's "Seven Swords", that is, the "Seven Technical Bases" defined internally by SAIC, met with the media again. Prior to this, SAIC has announced the important information of the "Seven Technical Bases" in public many times. The first time was the SAIC Group's 2021 Annual Shareholders Meeting on May 20, 2022. This is also the first time of SAIC's "Seven Technical Bases". One meeting with the public. The other time was at the launch of MG’s first global car, MULAN, on June 14.

chose to meet the public for the first time at the "Shareholders' Meeting", and the second meeting was at the launch of one of its models. This style still gave people a "low-key and pragmatic" flavor. This is in line with SAIC’s consistent corporate style of “letting the products speak for themselves”.

So, what exactly are the "Seven Swords"? According to SAIC's definition, "Seven Swords" refers to SAIC's "seven major technical bases", which include three major vehicle technical bases: "SAIC Nebula" pure electric exclusive system platform, "SAIC Everest" mechatronics architecture, "SAIC Galaxy" hydrogen energy exclusive architecture; and four key system technology bases: "Blue Core" powertrain system, platform-based "Rubik's Cube" battery system, "Green Core" electric drive system, and "Galaxy" full-stack smart car solution plan.

From the perspective of these "seven technology bases", they cover pure electric, hybrid, hydrogen energy , and the powertrain of traditional fuel vehicles, battery cells and electric drives of electric vehicles, and full-stack smart car solutions for smart cars. Plans and other routes and multiple core technologies. The wide coverage of these "seven technical bases" means that SAIC must have sufficient technical reserves and R&D depth in the corresponding fields in order to be able to carry out its operations.

As early as 2015, SAIC Group proposed the "New Four Modernizations", namely "electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing". Against this background, in 2016, SAIC Group’s first global mass-produced Internet car Roewe RX5 was launched. In 2018, SAIC's high-performance electric vehicle Marvel X was put into production. In recent years, SAIC has further created new electrified brands Zhiji Automobile and Feifan Automobile, and announced that the two major brands MG and Roewe Automobile have officially started the process of new energy.

"Through two generations of architecture development and two generations of pure electric vehicle development, we have accumulated a lot of development experience and data. We have a deeper understanding and understanding of pure electric architecture and pure electric exclusives." SAIC Innovation Kang Huaping, deputy director of the General Research and Development Institute, pointed out.

No matter from which angle you look at it, these are the "Seven Swords" that are enough to change SAIC. So, how powerful are SAIC’s “seven technical bases”? Why don't we take a look at some specific sets of data.

SAIC’s “Everest” electromechanical integration architecture is the mainstream architecture of independent brands, and has exceeded one million sales in domestic and overseas markets; SAIC Nebula pure electric exclusive systematic platform adopts a lying battery cell design, which can not only improve the battery pack Space utilization, the Rubik's Cube battery solution it uses has L0-level thermal runaway prevention technology, and has applied for a patent in China; Blue Core Power has successfully built the "China Heart" top ten engines; the Green Core drive system has 150KW to 600KW The power bandwidth has raised the electric drive efficiency to a new level; and so on.

"Through the top-level design of the R&D system, seven high-value modules of technical bases can be quickly implemented to continuously improve the market value of our products and empower SAIC's current brands to be competitive domestically and internationally." SAIC Innovation Research and Development Lu Yong, Executive Vice President of the General Hospital, said when talking about these "seven technical bases".

This means that with the release of SAIC’s “seven major technology bases”, SAIC’s “new four modernizations”, especially the “electrification” process, has entered a new historical stage.

SAIC Nebula: Higher than Mount Everest is Yun

From the naming point of view, SAIC named the mechatronics "Everest" and the pure electric architecture "Nebula", which means that "electrification" is obviously SAIC's " The top priority of "Seven Technical Bases".

According to reports, "SAIC Nebula" is a pure electric exclusive system platform (MSP, Modular Scalable Platform) of SAIC Group. It has future-oriented and highly flexible technical scalability, covering an ultra-wide energy matrix of 44 to 150kWh, and an ultra-wide energy matrix of 150 to 600kW. Wide power range, wheelbase bandwidth covers 2690-3100mm, covering the global market of compact cars, medium-sized cars, medium and large cars, luxury cars and sedans, sports cars, SUVs, MPVs and other multi-level and various types of vehicle products, compatible with high-pressure casting, solid-state battery , wire-controlled chassis, full-stack electrical architecture, autonomous driving and other cutting-edge software and hardware technologies. It is reported that as soon as 2023, SAIC Nebula platform will launch models with a range of 1,000 kilometers.

"Nebula is the carrier of SAIC's electrification and the carrier of SAIC's cloud-pipe-end technology. Every data will run on the cloud. Through the calculation of big data, the car can continuously iterate itself to meet the needs of thousands of users. This That’s where the name Nebula comes from. Nebula is a pure electric platform, and it is SAIC’s ‘software-defined car, data-determined experience’ platform, laying a solid foundation for SAIC to achieve the peak of carbon emissions and in 2025,” Kang Huaping revealed.

In terms of crucial battery technology, SAIC Nebula platform will adapt to batteries using CTP technology, covering lithium iron phosphate , ternary lithium, semi-solid and other chemical systems. The battery capacity includes 10 power gradients from 51 kilowatt-hours to 135 kilowatt-hours. There are both energy gradients and cost gradients.

It is understood that the first model under SAIC Nebula Platform is MG MULAN. MG MULAN is equipped with batteries with three capacities of 51kWh, 64kWh, and 77kWh, including different electrochemical systems such as ternary and lithium iron phosphate. Due to the design of lying cells, MG MULAN’s battery pack saves expansion compensation sheets and insulation and insulation materials required for thermal isolation, which improves the volume utilization of the battery pack, while reducing costs and improving safety. coefficient. In terms of battery thickness, the batteries of the three MG MULAN models are all 110mm. At the same time, SAIC Nebula platform can also provide a battery thickness design of 123mm. This standardized design provides convenience for SAIC Nebula’s “power swap” mode.

"If you don't have sales support, it's not a very reasonable stage to build a platform." Kang Huaping revealed: "In 2023, I will have 16 electric vehicles from 4 models of each brand. This is the output of our platform. We also look at The market for electric vehicles will rise sharply between 2022 and 2025, so I say it’s just the right time.”

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SAIC Motor’s presence in China and even around the world is in a state of rapid growth. Data for 2021 show that SAIC passenger vehicle sales exceeded the 800,000 mark for the first time, a year-on-year increase of 22%. In the same year, SAIC Motor's sales in overseas markets reached 697,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 78.9%.In the field of new energy, MG New Energy's sales in one European market reached 33,000 units in 2021; the entire SAIC Group's global new energy vehicle sales were 733,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 128.9%.

Today, SAIC has created a structure of four independent brands: Zhiji, Feifan, MG and Roewe, and established brand positioning and product layout from high-end, mid-to-high-end to inclusive. How these four major brands work together is a new problem currently faced by SAIC. Today, the release of the "Seven Major Technology Bases" undoubtedly points out a new direction for SAIC.