At the beginning of 2024, Geely Galaxy fired the first shot of the involution of the new energy market.
As a new brand of Geely established in 2023, in less than a year, two models with sales and reputation have been launched one after another, and Galaxy has gained market recognition to a certain extent. But L7 and L6 alone want to gain a foothold in the new energy market, which is obviously not enough, and the Galaxy E8 is not far behind.
2023 is a year of intensification of the new energy war, the first war continues to set off, car companies continue to increase, and intelligence has become the main theme of this year. In addition to the old players who have already participated, Xiaomi, which is famous for its intelligence and cost performance, is also about to end, Xiaomi Su7 is eyeing up and preparing to kill the new energy market. In this context, if the Galaxy E8 wants to stand out, it is bound to have its own advantages.
16.A C-class sedan starting at 980,000 yuan.
As early as the beginning of the pre-sale price announcement, the Galaxy E8 won with 18The ** that starts at 80,000 yuan has become popular on the Internet. At that time, there were many voices that this C-class pure electric car ** may still have room to explore, after all, in such an involution environment, the official**lower than the pre-sale** seems to be becoming the consensus of various car companies.
On January 5th, the Galaxy E8 was officially launched, launching 5 models, as expected, in the end** did decline, but I didn't expect it to drop so much, from the original 18The minimum sales of 80,000 yuan are directly reduced by 130,000 yuan, 17580,000 yuan-22880,000 yuan. At the same time, the official also announced that users who delivered Dading before January 31 can also enjoy the expansion gift of 2,000 yuan deposit to 8,000 yuan for the car. In other words, the starting price of the Galaxy E8 will come to a lower 16980,000 yuan.
I thought it was 1880,000 yuan to explore 5,000-10,000 yuan is already Geely's limit, but Geely obviously wants to completely make a sound, with 16The shock of 980,000 yuan is a good start for 2024. **As soon as it comes out,There are also many voices that think,Su**,It may affect the pricing of Xiaomisu7,After all, the latter is in the mobile phone industry with the shock of 1999 yuan to build a brand in the mobile phone market,In the new energy market, it will continue the cost-effective strategy。
In terms of configuration, the Galaxy E8 is built with the same SEA vast architecture as Zeekrypton 001 and Lotus Eletre, with a body size of 5010 1920 1465mm and a wheelbase of 2925mm, which is the only model in the pure electric car market of the same level with a length of more than 5 meters.
The exterior of the vehicle is based on the design elements of the original Galaxy concept car, but as a pure electric model, the overall style is more three-dimensional and smoother. In particular, the front face is extremely aggressive, and the sharp shape of the first class group + the irregular design on both sides of the front surround allows this style to be released to the greatest extent. The wide trapezoidal vents in the front bumper allow for heat dissipation and aerodynamic optimisation.
It is also thanks to this design that the drag coefficient of the Galaxy E8 has achieved an astonishing 0199, which can achieve better acceleration performance, while reducing power consumption and improving the range of electric vehicles.
Although the Galaxy E8 has two platforms, 400V and 800V SiC, only the most expensive dual-motor four-wheel drive version uses the 800V SiC high-voltage platform, but considering that its price is only 22880,000 yuan, which is not inferior to the same level of models. The front-wheel drive version will be equipped with a 400V platform with a single-motor rear-wheel drive layout, with a total system power of 200kW, a peak torque of 343Nm, and a 0-100 acceleration of 5.95s。The dual-motor four-wheel drive version is equipped with a front AC asynchronous motor with a peak power of 165kW and a rear permanent magnet synchronous motor with a peak power of 310kW, with a comprehensive system power of 475kW, a peak torque of 710N·m, and a 0-100 acceleration of 349s。
Depending on the version, the Galaxy E8 is equipped with a 62kWh battery, a 76kWh battery, and a 75kWh batteryThe 6kWh battery can bring a range of 550-665km, which is completely sufficient for this performance. And even with the 400V platform, the power consumption of the Galaxy E8 per 100 kilometers has achieved a lower 127kwh/100km。
Intelligence is advancing by leaps and bounds.
Geely models have been plagued by intelligence problems in the past 2023, especially in the new energy market, which has made a lot of noise in the new energy market, and has also received a lot of criticism because of intelligence. Since the acquisition of Meizu to establish Meizu, Flyme Auto, which is based on Flyme, has finally come to fruition, changing the decline of Geely's lack of intelligence in the past.
Galaxy E8 also took advantage of this shareholder wind and played its own characteristics in intelligence. The most eye-catching thing about the front cabin of the new car,Nothing is that48inch8K resolution of the unbounded smart screen,Its final effective display area is fixed in1130*138mm,The reason why it is a long bar instead of a rectangle,Because Geely takes into account138mmThe height is just the same as a mobile phone,The user's transition from a mobile phone to the car will be more natural。
Before the Galaxy E8, its brother Jiyue 01 was also equipped with a huge fish screen, but the size was only 356 inches, but it has brought a strong shock to many users. This is also related to the current development trend of the new energy market, and now new energy vehicles have transitioned from the last round of qualitative changes in the automotive powertrain to the intelligent cockpit change in the second half, as a large central control screen that directly interacts with users, it has naturally become the focus of attention of Geely Galaxy E8.
Galaxy E8 is equipped with Qualcomm automotive-grade chip 8295, this chip is built using 5nm process, and the CPU computing power is increased by 2 compared with 81552 times to 200K DMIPS, GPU computing power increased by 31 times, more than 3000 Gflops, of which the AI computing power of the NPU is increased by up to 8 times, reaching 30 tops.
Although the in-car system uses its own Galaxy N OS Unbounded Edition, its bottom layer is still Flyme Auto, so it also has the full functions of the latter, including the Flyme Link handcar interconnection function. With the use of Meizu mobile phones, users can seamlessly transfer the content on the mobile phone to the car machine through this function, directly becoming the computing center of the car machine, which is not limited by the computing power of the car machine chip, and can ensure the user experience even if the function is insufficient in the future.
And in terms of intelligent driving, 21The 880,000 yuan intelligent driving version has 1 solid-state lidar, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars and 10 cameras, equipped with Galaxy high-end intelligent driving 20 system, support high-speed high-loop NOA. And this system can realize the urban commuting assistance driving function through repeated memory and training of point-to-point high-frequency routes.
The other four versions are equipped with 3 millimeter-wave radars, 6 ultrasonic radars and 5 cameras, and support L2+ driver assistance functions including AEB-P active emergency braking, ACC full-speed adaptive cruise assist, and ICC intelligent cruise assist.
Can Qikai win?
Before the release of the Galaxy E8, many people regarded Xiaomi Su7 as its biggest opponent, after all, the latter also uses a dual-platform combination of 400V+800V SiC, and it can be seen that there is also an entry model that pulls down **. After the Galaxy E8 was announced**, there were also many voices on the Internet that the new car would bring a lot of trouble to Xiaomi Su7.
As a brand that opens the market with cost performance, Xiaomi has always been the image of a butcher, but after suffering a loss in the mobile phone market, coming to the high-end of the new energy industry will become a part of Xiaomi's consideration. And after the first press conference of Xiaomi Su7, the voice on the Internet about the low price of Xiaomi's first car is also much smaller, for no other reason, the configuration is too powerful.
Especially at the press conference, Xiaomi SU7 showed its intelligent strength, just by pulling Apple devices into its own people, cars and home ecology, it is enough to get a glimpse of its strength, it is really to shock the entire new energy market. Galaxy E8 has indeed made great progress in terms of intelligence, but to compete with Xiaomi Su7 is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.
In other words, the opponent of Xiaomi Su7 is not Galaxy E8, but Weilai ET5, Extreme Krypton 001 and other 300,000 yuan pure electric smart cars, and the mission of Galaxy E8 is more like gaining a foothold in the 200,000 yuan market. So from this point of view, the Galaxy E8 is facing the 200,000 yuan market, and its competitiveness cannot be underestimated, and Geely is expected to create a record of three consecutive cars of the brand.