GAC Aion V was launched in June last year and is known as the world's first 5G smart car. However, according to the observation of electromotive force , in addition to its outstanding intelligent attributes, this car also has strong electric attributes.
For example, Aian V adopts a pure electric platform. This is the second among traditional independent brands to choose to use a pure electric platform to make electric vehicles. The first is Chery New Energy. Moreover, among the old and powerful new energy brands, the sales volume of these two are quite good. Is this a coincidence?
Rather than a coincidence, it is better to say that the pure electric platform is more adaptable to the market, including cost reduction and product strength improvement. Therefore, we selected Aian V for the new three-power column to see how strong it is.
In addition, we also took the opportunity to take a look at GAC Aian’s three-power development strategy. As one of the most successful traditional new energy brands currently turning around, GAC Aion’s ideas and approach to the three-electric strategy may be worthy of reference and learning by other manufacturers.
As for the pure electric platform, some European car companies began to wake up after the oil-to-electric was ruthlessly hit by the market, and quickly rushed into the development of pure electric platforms. From a regional perspective, car companies in China, the United States, Europe and South Korea have now realized the importance of pure electric platforms. Except for the Japanese, they are still wandering and entangled in the long history.
The research and development of pure electric platforms by traditional enterprises is definitely not achieved overnight, but requires a transitional stage. For example, GAC Aian changed from oil to electric to the current pure electric platform, which roughly took three steps:
Before 2017, pure oil was changed to electric; In 2017, a battery-centered pure electric platform was launched; in 2019, a "battery + electric drive"-centered pure electric platform was launched, which is now the GEP2.0 pure electric platform.
It is said that GAC Aian spent 3 billion yuan to build the GEP 2.0 pure electric platform, which is the same as the Xpeng SEPA pure electric platform that gave birth to the P7. Since
is a pure electric platform, its product characteristics are naturally different from those of fuel platforms. I have summarized several structural features of the GEP2.0 pure electric platform:
1, 50:50 front and rear weight ratio;
2, the lower body uses a large number of high-voltage Vacuum casting, extrusion , stamping and other aluminum alloy materials;
3, 52.1% of the upper body is made of high-strength steel and hot-formed steel, and independently developed the second generation GAC vehicle collision energy absorption control technology to achieve Stable impact bearing capacity, the cabin structure can absorb more than 60% of the energy;
4 and 80.3% of the overall body are made of high anti-corrosion materials, and zirconium-based electrophoresis technology achieves a 10-year corrosion grade of ≤4 at the overlap of steel and aluminum parts. Other features of
include a new design of the exterior and interior, which is not as awkward as changing from oil to electric; the modular design of the electric drive and battery pack makes it possible for multiple models to share electric drives and multiple brands to provide battery cells. On the one hand Performance is guaranteed while keeping costs under control.
Taking Aian V as an example, it can be clearly seen that the GEP2.0 pure electric platform improves product performance. The length and wheelbase of
Aian V are 4586mm and 2830mm respectively, with a wheel-length ratio as high as 61.7%, surpassing the outstanding player Tesla Model 3, and also ranking first among products in its class.
Last week, based on a spontaneous combustion accident of Tesla Model 3, we innovatively proposed the issue of collision warning for electric vehicle chassis. The article attracted great attention in the industry. Many people began to pay attention to the height issue between the battery pack and the ground. This is Good thing.
checked the data and found that the GAC Aian V battery pack has a high ground clearance of 160mm, which exceeds that of pure electric models of the same level. This is another dominant feature of the pure electric platform. In addition to the overall performance improvement of
, the cost control of the GEP2.0 pure electric platform not only has no disadvantages, but has certain advantages. This should be beyond the expectations of many traditional companies, which is also a core reason why they have not developed pure electric platforms.
Let’s take two representative independent compact pure electric SUVs as examples: the 2020 GAC Aian V and the 2019 BYD Song Pro EV (the 2020 model has not yet been released). The former comes from a pure electric platform, and the latter is an oil-modified SUV. electricity.
Looking at the data comparison, the manufacturer's reference price of the 2020 GAC Aion V80 Smart Edition is 199,600, with a comprehensive range of 600 kilometers, while the manufacturer's guide price of the 2019 BYD Song Pro EV is 199,800, but the comprehensive range is only 405 kilometers.
Yes, the BYD Song Pro EV (oil-to-electricity) is not only 200 yuan more expensive than the GAC Aian V (pure electric platform), but its comprehensive range is 195 kilometers shorter. The range-price ratio can be said to be almost completely destroyed. Although there is a one-year product gap between the two, this gap is too great and cannot be solved by a minor facelift in one year.
