Hualong Net News (Qi Che) On June 7th, 2024 (26th) Chongqing International Automobile Exhibition was grandly opened at Chongqing International Expo Center with the theme of "Zhiqi New Journey Leads the Future". This year’s auto show lasted for 10 days, bringing together more than 100 global mainstream automobile brands, focusing on displaying 1025 models. All participating brands brought new energy and intelligent driving system models to participate in the exhibition, and the participating automobile brands realized 100% intelligence. Zhou Lin, CTO of Cyrus, was interviewed by auto channel of Hualong. com during this wheel feast. Zhou Lin said, "We brought a full range of AITO products to this auto show, and recently released Cyrus’ Rubik’s Cube Platform, which can bring users a good, easy-to-use and super-safe car experience." The following is an interview record:
Q: What new technologies and achievements did Celestial Auto’s lineup bring to this auto show?
Zhou Lin: At this auto show, we brought a series of AITO products: the all-round flagship AITO M9 created by the wisdom and electricity technology; "Extraordinary value, extraordinary driving control, extraordinary safety, extraordinary intelligent driving and extraordinary space" AITO asks for the new M7 Ultra；; "Charming, enterprising, energetic and magical" AITO asks for the new M5.
At the same time, we also brought our own innovative Celestial "Rubik’s Cube Platform", which brings together 20 years’ experience in vehicle technology of Celestial Automobile, and has the characteristics of "panoramic safety, diverse power, ever-changing space and intelligent guidance" in combination with the diversified needs of users, and integrates industry-leading technologies such as safety, power, chassis and software across domains, aiming at bringing users "easy to open, easy to use and super safety". In addition, this auto show also exhibited a new generation of all-in-one super extended range assembly, integrated die-casting body, highly integrated electric drive seven-in-one assembly and other core technological achievements.
Q: What are the core highlights of AITO’s M9?
Zhou Lin: As the flagship SUV of Panoramic Wisdom, the M9 in Wenjie has "Panoramic Wisdom, Global Security and Luxury Space", and it is the all-round flagship product of current intelligent and electrical technology. The ever-changing space of the leading generation makes all three rows first class; Leading the generation of intelligent cockpit, easy to realize multi-person multi-screen multi-device interaction; The Turing intelligent chassis based on the Rubik’s Cube platform, which is the first generation, has achieved better driving, safer and more comfortable; Leading more than one generation of intelligent driving has realized that the whole country can drive, and the more it is opened, the better it is; Super-strong basaltic body casts the ultimate fortress, and the aluminum alloy volume of the body accounts for 80% of the strongest AEB in history. It is not afraid of things and can avoid things, which has achieved hard core safety and is ahead of more than one generation.
There is also a killer weapon for the M9. Its body size is 5230mm long, 1999mm wide and 1800mm high, and its wheelbase is 3110mm. It belongs to a full-size SUV, but it is as flexible as the new M5, and there is no feeling of driving a cart. There is our very important technology-"owl turning", which is very sensitive to turning and turning around, and has the feeling of "heart moving" when driving, without the heavy feeling of a big car. At present, the total number of cars has exceeded 90,000.
Q: Celestial Auto recently released its own innovative Celestial Rubik’s Cube platform. What are the highlights of this platform?
Zhou Lin: Cyrus Rubik’s Cube Platform is a super-intelligent platform with changeable and continuous evolution created by Cyrus Auto, which has accumulated 20 years’ experience in vehicle technology, combined with users’ diversified car demand and independent innovation. The platform has the characteristics of "panoramic safety, multi-power, ever-changing space and intelligent guidance", and integrates industry-leading technologies such as safety, power, chassis and software across domains, which can bring users a "easy-to-drive, easy-to-use and super-safe" car experience.
This platform is the only platform in the industry that can be compatible with three power forms: super-increase, pure electricity and super-hybrid. Among them, in the field of super-increase, through five iterations, the thermal efficiency of the Celestial Extended Range 5.0 system has reached 45%, and the oil-electricity conversion rate is as high as 3.65 kWh/L. The platform can also cover B-D models, and has the expansion ability of cars, SUVs and MPV models, truly realizing the ever-changing Rubik’s Cube.
This platform also has the intelligence level of leading industries. It adopts the central computing architecture, matches the cloud big data application platform, has super high computing power and high integration, and lays a solid foundation for meeting the extreme scene car demand of users. The launch of the Celestial Rubik’s Cube platform shows that Celestial has established a solid technical base in many technical fields such as safety, power, chassis and software, laying a technical foundation for the multi-path development of new energy vehicles and gaining the first-Mover advantage in the future market competition.
Q: What does the "panoramic safety" system, the first in the industry, put forward by Celestial Motors not long ago specifically mean?
Zhou Lin: Under the background, Chongqing needs a high-end "Industry-University-Research" platform to build a trillion-level industrial cluster of intelligent networked new energy vehicles. Therefore, we have actively established a joint intelligent safety laboratory. China Automotive Research Institute is a national tripartite authoritative testing organization, which has accumulated a lot of experience in testing, which is worth learning and studying.
In terms of specific content, Sailis insists on defining safety by scenes, and puts forward the industry’s first "all-scene safety" system, which achieves high quality, high technology and high safety, and truly makes users feel at ease and comfortable in using cars. As an important technical achievement in the field of automobile safety, the "Panoramic Safety" system not only covers the dimensions of car body safety, battery safety and privacy safety, but also extends to every detail of the user experience, providing all-round and full-time safety protection from car scenes such as parking, boarding and driving, ensuring users to enjoy an intelligent and secure car experience.
At present, based on the whole life cycle of users’ cars, "Panoramic Safety" has covered more than 150 safety scenarios and developed more than 200 safety functions, among which more than 40 safety technologies are at the leading level in the industry. Thanks to the panoramic safety system, the battery test standard of Celestial Automobile also far exceeds the national standard, and the cumulative sales volume of AITO exceeds 300,000 units. Through in-depth cooperation with authoritative organizations, Sailis will continue to promote the innovation and development of automobile safety technology and truly practice "safety is the greatest luxury".
Q: What achievements have been made in the safety field by the joint laboratory established by Celestial Automobile and China Automobile Research Institute?
Zhou Lin: We have cooperated with them in the development of three car series, namely, Wujie M5, Wujie M7 and Wujie M9. We have released the first phase results of the intelligent safety joint laboratory, and issued a total of 19 achievement certificates, covering four fields of passive safety, active safety, health safety, power and energy safety, of which 4 are the first in the industry and 15 are the first in the industry.
In the field of passive safety, the M9 model of Wenjie has obtained the A-level certification of front and rear attack protection, which is the first top hard-core experiment in the industry. The 80km/h high-speed frontal crash test of the models of the M9, M7 and M5 is the first highest standard in the industry. The M7 model of Wenjie has obtained Class A side coping protection and Class A frontal collision protection, both of which are leading in the industry.
In the field of active safety, five models, namely, Wujie M9, Wujie M7 Max, Wujie M7 Plus, Wujie New M5 and Wujie M5 Standard Edition, have obtained ACC performance test certificate and AEB performance test certificate, which are leading in the industry.
You know, safety, as a hidden factor, is difficult to be directly perceived by the naked eye. The two vehicles stand side by side, although their appearance is similar, but their inner core may be quite different. In the past, we may pay more attention to the surface modification and addition, such as the addition of configuration or the upgrade of functions, because these intuitive changes can be quickly perceived by users and thus quickly transformed into practical value. However, the improvement of security requires a lot of cost and energy, and the results are often difficult to be directly perceived by users. However, the importance of safety cannot be ignored, and once a potential safety hazard is encountered, the consequences may be irreparable. Therefore, we must always put safety in the first place to ensure that every trip can be secure.