html Starting from November 30, the "Circular Design-To the Future You Love" exhibition will be held at the Zhiji Auto Shanghai Tianan Qianshu Brand Experience Center , displaying the winning works of Zhiji Auto and the British Cultural and Education Association cooperation project "Making Matters, China Design Challenge". The recycled materials display and practice section provided by REDO Design Studio will be specially set up on site, and will be exhibited until February 2023. The Intelligent Manufacturing Future Circular Design Challenge aims to explore how the concept of circular economy can become a catalyst for creativity, cooperation and regenerative thinking in the fields of architecture, design and fashion practices, while discovering young creative talents and causing dialogue and exchanges related to circulating design.
The exhibition will also be the linkage activity of "IM Here Zhiji Life Festival" at the end of November and November, and will be moved to "Urban Intersection" space in Shanghai Wukang Road to attract more young people to pay attention and participate in the circular design action.
. About the "Intelligent Manufacturing Future Circular Design Challenge"
Making Matters Intelligent Manufacturing Future Circular Design Challenge, is jointly organized by Zhiji Auto and the British Cultural and Education Association, in conjunction with the YGT Youth Environmental Protection Innovation Program and Manchester City University in the UK. Since the project was launched in September last year, the Zhiji Automobile Design and Research Team has provided professional guidance to the contestants continuously, and the event has received a total of 40 circular design plans for students from domestic and foreign universities. The project encourages young students around the world to save energy and materials through design and reduce environmental pollution, triggering the collision and integration of circular economy and concepts such as innovation, cooperation, and renewability. This is also the manifestation of the design concept that Zhiji brand has always adhered to from a global perspective.
In September this year, the "Intelligent Manufacturing Future Circular Design Challenge" was shortlisted for the "Global Education Oscars" The PIEoneer Awards 2022 "Sustainability International Impact Award", indicating that Zhiji Automobile and its partners are committed to promoting global sustainable development and and helping young talents in innovative cooperation have gained significant influence internationally.
As an new energy vehicle brand, in addition to low carbon emission reduction, Zhiji Automobile also actively explores all aspects of the automotive industry chain , such as materials, parts, processes, production, etc., to create a pure and healthy interior environment. Zhiji Automobile founded the first odor clean workshop in the industry, with strict control of the entire industry chain, and even did not miss the plastic particles at the source, and ventilated the parts for 7*24 hours, reducing the eight national standard "pentafera" of VOC to 1/10 of the national standard limit. Its first flagship model - Zhiji L7 In the cabin air quality when it leaves the factory, it can reach the level of 180 days after the new car is placed. has obtained the only full score of China Automobile Research's "CN95 Fresh Air Cockpit Certification", setting a new benchmark for automobile air quality.
Zhiji Auto was established on December 25, 2020. It is a user-oriented automotive science and technology innovation company jointly created by SAIC Group , Alibaba and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech. As the flagship brand of SAIC Group, Zhiji Auto focuses on creating high-end pure electric smart cars, creating and sharing a new multi-dimensional and diverse travel experience with users, aiming to become the "implementer of the travel change in the smart era."
2. Brand Partner Heatherwick Studio
Zhiji Brand Partner Thomas Heatherwick was named "Contemporary Leonardo da Vinci" by " Times ". The studio Heatherwick Studio, created by Thomas Heatherwick, has left many famous buildings all over the world. The most influential ones include the 2010 Shanghai World Expo British Pavilion - Seed Temple, the African Contemporary Art Museum, and the Shanghai Fosun Art Center. The Tianan Qianshu designed by him is called the Magic City version of "Ancient Babylonian Sky Garden" for its unique shape, and some of its works are also exhibited at Zhiji IM IN.
Zhiji Automobile will work in-depth cooperation with Heatherwick Studio in various aspects such as model appearance, interior design, charging pile design, etc., to build smart cars into mobile digital artworks, and make travel art resonate with people in depth.
AIRO was designed by Zhiji Automobile and world-renowned design studio Heatherwick Studio. As the cutting-edge practice of the integration of Zhiji Automobile to stimulate "intelligent technology" and "humanistic art", AIRO uses cars as a carrier to explore the integration of intelligent technology and home art through innovative aesthetic experience, allowing users to improve the texture of their personal time during travel; and reveal to the future that "the symbiosis and parallelism between technology and art will be the only choice to create future life." In terms of
- styling design, AIRO has picked up modernist architectural design concepts on automotive products for the first time, allowing natural and smooth corrugated shapes to flow in the user's aesthetic points in the form of art. In terms of product design, AIRO is based on the exclusive modular intelligent pure electric platform "Cube-A" newly created by Zhiji Auto, which is multi-dimensional integrated, intelligent and expandable, and can grow and evolve. It boldly breaks through the product structure of the automobile for a century and pioneered the use of the Uni-BOX body structure without B-pillar and the "swan neck" double-door design in mass-produced cars, making the car transparent and brighter, more like home, thus laying a new form of future automotive products.
- AIRO is also a "organism" that can grow and evolve in the intelligent era. The computing power of chips such as Zhihua and Zhicai can be expanded in an array in an infinite way. In the future, software and hardware such as batteries, screens, electronic architectures, and automotive systems can all be agile iterated, allowing users to resonate with the cutting-edge technologies of the times.
- AIRO also innovatively adopts a modular magnetic hot shoe architecture, supporting power network and data exchange, which can achieve seamless expansion and infinite extension of intelligent scenarios. Users can arrange various personalized equipment expansions such as electronic products, homemade lamps, heating cup holders, car refrigerator , and even cat scratch board everywhere in the car.
From July 8 to 11, 2021, Zhiji AIRO was invited by Duke of Richmond to appear at the 2021 Goodwood FOS (Goodwood Festival of Speed, UK Goodwood Speed Festival) . It has won the favor of global car fans with its design concept of "mobile living space" and has been rated as "the ideal smart car" by international authoritative media.
From April 8 to September 18, 2022, Zhiji AIRO was invited by the internationally renowned architect Norman Foster ( Norman Foster ), and appeared at the theme exhibition of the Guggenheim Art Gallery in Bilbao, Spain, "MOTION. AUTOS, ART, ARCHITECTURE" to showcase the future design of the high-end electric car brand to artists, car enthusiasts and collectors around the world.
. New World Gaming Control Flagship Zhiji L7
In April this year, Zhiji Auto's first mass-produced model - the New World Gaming Control Flagship Zhiji L7 was officially launched, launching two models, L7 Pro and L7 Dynamic, with prices of 368,800 to 408,800 yuan.
Zhiji L7 has successfully broken the world record of "longest electric drift" with the only " four-wheel steering + hybrid tire width" in the world and the only " four-wheel steering + hybrid tire width" in the same level, WAE Williams master chassis tuning, as well as excellent performance of 3.87 seconds zero-hundred acceleration and 32.69 meters instant braking, and has successfully broken the world record of "longest electric drift" and achieved the "new king of electric driving control"; in terms of intelligent performance, Zhiji L7's "more like human" IM AD intelligent driving experience is enough to shake the industry's leading players and rank among the first echelon of smart driving in the world; in addition, the "180+ odor level" healthy cockpit created in the industry has achieved the healthy air level of 180 days after delivery and enjoyed the "China Automobile Research CN95 Fresh Air Cockpit Evaluation" industry.
. Zhiji L7 SP performance version
Zhiji L7 SP performance version is a new series designed for pure driving control. The new car has launched a total of Zhiji L7 Snake Performance Lite and Zhiji L7 Snake Performance. The two models are priced at 478,800-578,800 yuan.
Zhiji L7 SP performance version is run by IM Motorsport, the high-performance sports department of Zhiji Automobile. It inherits the powerful driving control gene of Zhiji L7. It is equipped with the Snake Performance driving control performance special kit and the Snake Performance appearance performance kit, perfectly releases the extraordinary driving control potential, and raises the vehicle dynamic limit to a new level. It is an unforgettable performance beast! On October 24, Zhiji L7 Snake Performance topped the "fastest mass-produced electric vehicle in Zhejiang" and became China's first model to enter the world's top high-performance camp.
