bare car price is less than 400,000 yuan. For medium and large SUVs, you must be able to use green brands, and the interior must reach the level of 600,000-700,000 joint venture car . It must have good power and comfortable enough. It is best to have four-wheel air suspension. Let me ask you, which cars can do all of this above at the same time in the market?
basically only 2 units: Ideal ONE and Lantu Free. But the interior of the ideal ONE does not actually meet that high standard, and it is not empty. So the only one that can meet all these requirements is Lantu Free. There are two versions of Lantu Free, namely the extended range version and the pure electric version, but if you observe the monthly sales of this car, you will find that the extended range version accounts for almost the vast majority of the sales of this car. Why is the sales of pure electric version not as good as the extended range?
is actually very simple. The pure electric version of Lantu Free has a clear shortcoming range. With the nominal endurance data of 505 kilometers and such a large and heavy body, the actual endurance is actually not enough. So as the title shows, the free ultra-long battery life pure electric version of Lantu is to make up for its shortcomings. Specifically, the longest range of this new car is 730 kilometers and the CLTC is 631 kilometers. According to Lantu , this is the first battery life among pure electric medium and large SUVs.
So, how is this car driving? Besides battery life, what else is worth our concern? With these doubts in mind, we rushed to Wuhan and had a field test drive experience of the pure electric version of Lantu Free's ultra-long battery life.
This time I really don’t have any anxiety about battery life.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the reason why this car has such a long battery life is closely related to its battery. We have tried to lie down and look at the bottom of the car. From the front axle to the rear axle , there is an extra-large battery pack that is comparable to a large mattress. This battery pack can provide energy of more than 100 kWh. This is the guarantee of the battery life of this car.
Although there is moisture in the CLTC battery life test method, it is not as rigorous as the WLTC standard, and it is even less accurate than the US EPA standard. However, according to the industry-recognized conversion method, the CLTC's range of 631 kilometers is converted into a basically zero moisture EPA range of about 520 kilometers. In other words, as long as it is not extreme weather, driving, this car can reach a real range of 500+ kilometers.
The fact is true. In order to show the battery life of this car, Lantu specially arranged large sections of highways on the test drive route. As we all know, for pure electric vehicles, the power consumption of high-speed vehicles is very large, especially for long-distance highways, which has a greater impact on power consumption. So generally speaking, most car companies will not arrange such long continuous high-speed test drives for pure electric cars (on the contrary, test drives of plug-in hybrid cars like this).
We didn't go to "show mercy" just because this is a pure electric car. The air conditioner should be turned on as big as possible, and the speaker should be played. There are 4 of me in the car. We also conduct "death behaviors" such as sudden acceleration, sudden braking, and noise measurement of the accelerator from time to time (all of the above actions are not performed on the highway). In other words, we don’t have any special driving convenience to the tram just because it is.
But from around 8 am, the car showed 99% of the power in the car to park back to the hotel at 6 pm, and there was still 47% left in the car's power display meter. We ran more than 300 kilometers this day, and we tested all kinds of power and "scattered cars" throughout the journey. If you drive this car in a normal way, its actual range can run around 520-550 kilometers. This is basically no different from the battery life data we converted above. In other words, the 631-kilometer range of Lantu Free is generally not a big problem for charging one week.
In fact, in terms of driving experience, Lantu Free's ultra-long battery life version is basically no different from its extended range version, DNA version and the early 505 km pure electric version.Because the biggest change in the ultra-long battery life version is that compared with the 505-kilometer pure electric version, it has replaced it with a larger battery pack and a stronger motor. There is no difference in other aspects such as frame and air suspension adjustment.
So the overall feeling of driving is basically the same as other versions of Free: the air hang filters out almost all information on the road surface, and your feeling is as if the car is not walking on the road surface, but seems to be hanging in the air, flying against the ground. This feels very much like the magic carpet hanging on the Mercedes-Benz S600 from the W220 period. Of course, like other versions of Free, the steering wheel of the ultra-long battery life pure electric version basically has no road feeling (because they are all isolated from the air suspension). No matter how high the cornering speed is, you can't feel rolling. To put it bluntly, it really looks like the advertising slogan: fly on the ground.
However, compared with other versions, one of the highlights of the official promotion of the ultra-long battery life version is its acceleration: 000 4.4 seconds. This figure is definitely considered to be the top domestic acceleration level in a medium- and large SUV weighing 2.8 tons (in fact, the body size is close to that of a large SUV). When it comes to foreign countries, only the performance SUV like the Cayenne turbo S can compete with it.
You may think that the entire acceleration process must be very violent, right? Just like the Cayenne turbo S? No, the more appropriate statement is that we don’t realize that it accelerates so quickly. We did 000 acceleration several times, and the actual test results all exceeded 100 between 4.5-4.7 seconds, but we didn't feel that the car's acceleration was so fast.
The reason is actually the effect of hanging. A large car without air suspension. When you have such a strong acceleration ability, the occupants in the car can intuitively feel the acceleration of the car from the two sensory experiences of the tilt body and the strong sense of pushing back. But Free's air suspension suppressed almost all the body roll, and similarly, it also digested the longitudinal wave during acceleration in the air suspension. With the exceptional NVH in the car, the feeling you feel when this car accelerates with all your strength is actually very similar to how you feel when you take the high-speed rail, which accelerates to more than 200 kilometers away from the station.
Postscript:
In fact, the entire test drive is at the end, and we want to return to a point that many people are discussing now: the price of this car is close to 400,000, is it expensive? Judging from Lantu's entire product line, it is indeed a bit expensive. After all, you can buy Zhongwei Dreamer if you spend tens of thousands of yuan. But does this mean that this car is not cost-effective?
In fact, its cost-effectiveness is still very high. As a pure electric car, it has the strongest battery life in its class, has excellent air suspension, has strong enough acceleration and fast enough car machine. Its audience actually does not overlap with Dreamers. The prices of its real competitors are generally much higher than that of it, many of which are even million-level models. So from its actual market and population positioning, the Lantu Free ultra-long battery life pure electric version is also a car with no rivals.
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