Changan Automobile, Huawei and CATL announced the joint creation of a high-end smart car brand, and the Ark architecture was released at the same time

When a foreign new energy automobile giant built a factory in China and put it into production, a "new battle" affecting the new energy automobile industry also started. Where should China's smart new energy vehicles go? How to achieve a breakthrough? Become the biggest challenge of the moment. In the face of this urgent situation, on November 14th, in the first issue of CCTV's "First Release" program, Zhu Huarong, chairman of Changan Automobile, officially announced that in order to comply with the development of the times and the needs of users, Changan Automobile will join hands with Huawei and Ningde. Times has jointly created a new high-end smart car brand, and its high-tech high-end smart products will also be launched soon.

Leading companies form a "national team". The impact will affect the future of the industry.

As a leader in the automobile industry, ICT industry and smart energy industry, the strong alliance of the three leading companies of Changan Automobile, Huawei, and Ningde era can be said to be a "national team." The "chemical reaction" generated by the assembly will have a positive and significant impact on the future development of the entire automotive industry. For this alliance, 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 travel 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 of confidence includes the "New Energy Automobile Industry Development Plan" promulgated by the State Council in November 2020. As a national development outline, the plan states: “The new energy automobile industry faces unprecedented development opportunities from 2021 to 2035 and becomes an important engine for the sustained growth of the world economy. Automobiles have moved from simple means of transportation to smart terminals, energy storage units, The transformation of the digital space drives the transformation of energy transportation and information and communication infrastructure, and effectively promotes the optimization of energy consumption structure, the construction of intelligent transportation systems and smart cities. It has broad market prospects and huge growth potential."

Therefore, Changan Automobile, Huawei, CATL The combination of powerful forces in this context is not only a strength gathering of China's leading technology companies, but also the strongest response of Chinese companies to the upcoming "new battle" in the new energy field! With the arrival of the "national team", the winner will be announced soon.

Ark's architecture is first publicly available, will evolve and subvert the industry's cognition Since the birth of the

car, changes have never stopped. But wanting to be able to evolve with the external environment like the creatures in nature is regarded as a fantasy. At the "First Release" site on November 14th, in addition to the disclosure of information about the three companies jointly building high-end smart car brands, the Changan Ark Architecture, an evolving smart architecture, also appeared for the first time. Tan Benhong, Executive Vice President of Changan Automobile, took the stage and personally launched a detailed interpretation of all aspects of the Ark's architecture, announcing the arrival of a new era of comprehensive intelligent vehicle manufacturing for Chinese auto brands.

is 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 benchmarks that meet the global mainstream safety evaluation system, and a complete process assurance system are integrated, with four major aspects: future technology advancement, human-vehicle integration, diversified experience design, and quality bottom line leapfrogging Core values, and continue to evolve and continuously improve, to provide users with high safety, pleasant driving and high-quality car experience.

can be said that the name is derived from the Ark structure of the "Bible", which not only represents the perfect combination of Changan Automobile's intelligent technology and basic car building technology; but also represents the ability to continuously evolve and break through to adapt to future environmental changes. It will provide users with a safe, reliable, trustworthy, and future-oriented car experience. At the same time, it will also become a boat of hope for Chinese auto brands.

Realize the continuous evolution of products with the blessing of four core values.

In terms of future technology advancement, it relies on the layout of high-end autonomous driving, under the Ark architectureA new generation of products that support safe and scalable intelligent driving configuration. 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 48V low-voltage hybrid (LV-HEV), high-voltage hybrid (HV-HEV), and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) 3 types of electrified power, matching 8 types The transmission module has 16 power combination modes to fully meet the forward-looking power layout.

In terms of human-vehicle integration, 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 has an acceleration time of 0-100km/h. Maximum shortened by 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 the driver to release his driving passion.

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 structure has a more compact powertrain and a more reasonable layout. The center of gravity is also reduced by 20-65mm, giving users a wider front 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 quality bottom line leapfrogging, the new generation of products under the Ark structure not only has a higher safety standard, but also builds a high safety line of defense. Covering the global NCAP, the US IIHS five-star evaluation, and the China Insurance Research Index (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.

To build a world-class automobile company is the vision that Changan Automobile has always adhered to. For this reason, in 2017, Changan Automobile released the "Third Entrepreneurship-Innovation and Entrepreneurship Plan", which is the first to embark on the transformation of a traditional car company into an intelligent mobility technology company. New journey. Now, with the trilateral alliance of Changan Automobile, Huawei and CATL, the transformation journey of Changan Automobile has entered a new stage. It is believed that under the strong combination of the three leading companies and the guarantee of the many technological advantages of the Ark Architecture, in the future, Changan Automobile will provide users with more constantly evolving and continuously improving high-value products, bringing high safety and pleasure Driving, high-quality car experience. Strength interprets the brand positioning of "Technology Changan Smart Partner", and continues to promote Changan Automobile to a new upward and forward!