Wenjie M9, this flagship product accompanied by Huawei's halo is finally about to land.
After all, as the flagship model of the brand, it is necessary to establish a benchmark image in the market and raise the height of the brand, and the product power and market recognition of this car must achieve a good performance. What consumers are most concerned about, of course, is still **, so recently the industry has begun to have some speculation about this car.
At this stage, there is a ** information circulating on the Internet, which is roughly 45980,000-54The price range of 980,000 yuan (officially not confirmed), the launch date of the new car will be December 26. Let's not dwell on the authenticity of the suspected price of this **, this time let's see if the technical content of the pre-sale of 500,000-600,000 yuan is enough.
Ask the world M9 to be honest, the new technology is not used less, so is it worth so much money?
In December this year, Wenjie will release its large SUV product AITO Wenjie M9, and has now opened pre-sale, divided into two versions, extended range and pure electric, and the pre-sale ** is about 500,000-600,000 yuan. The technical information that is known now is the new D-class SUV platform, the integrated die-cast aluminum body, and the 800V high-voltage architecture.
Some other hardware, such as headlights and perception hardware. Huawei's smart headlights, although they will not become the standard configuration of the whole system, the cost of this headlight will not be too high;The chips among them may be self-developed (Zhiji and Gaohe are all purchasers). At the level of perception hardware and intelligent driving, it is equipped with lidar and intelligent driving system as standard.
Having these technologies shows that this car has good technical stacking, but it also has a high ability to reduce costs.
Regarding the platform, the car-making platform of Wenjie should still use the DE-I super electric drive intelligent technology platform, which can be used for range extension or pure electric. This time, the range extender of the M9 is still 1The 5T specification is unchanged from the same specification of the range extender used in other range extender models of the same brand.
After all, it is a large SUV product, and the change in size will make the car-making platform also have appropriate adjustments, but the overall logic will not be adjusted much, and there should be some common parts with other models of the brand.
The platform is still this platform, but the size is larger, the range extender has not changed, and there are still two versions of range extender pure electric, which are consistent with the early products of the Wenjie brand. In addition to the platform, we should be able to find more technical highlights in its body structure. Although the DE-I vehicle manufacturing platform cannot reduce costs, it can at least save some costs on the development side.
One-piece die-casting rear body, this can reduce costs.
This technology for this kind of large-size car, in fact, the cost reduction effect will be better, it can be understood that it needs to fix more body parts, larger volume (part size) needs to weld more points, so that the effect of reducing costs will be better. The integrated die-casting parts of the M9 are also selected for the area of the rear bottom plate, and the 9,000-ton die-casting process is used, which is more stressful than the current Tesla die-casting machine.
After using the integrated die-cast parts, the rear floor area of the M9 has been reduced by 222 parts, and the number of parts has been reduced by about 95% to 10 integrated die-cast partsThen, the number of connection points also decreased by about 1,440, a decrease of 70%. The result is a higher level of integration, higher rigidity and a better level of lightweighting.
Then there is a complete set of 800V electronic components + wiring harness, the cost of this architecture, in fact, has also been pressed down, theoretically about 200,000 can support the cost and profit of the 800V architecture. 800V is not as large as before for new energy vehicles at this stage.
The most cost-intensive part of this should be the cost of mold opening and testing of integrated die-casting parts, and the cost of millions or even tens of millions of dollars is laid on this. After that, it is pointed to using production to evenly share these R&D costs. Then, there is the battery, and the estimated information now is that the M9 will use a CATL Kirin battery, with a capacity of about 100kWh for pure electric topping, with a cruising range of about 630km, and the cost of the battery is about 12-130,000 yuan.
For reference, after the battery 130,000 yuan + 800V architecture, the cost may be controlled within 250,000 yuan (including others), plus the commissioning period of integrated die-casting parts, the cost should be controlled to between 35-400,000 yuan, which does not cover other intelligent hardware and other expenses. Roughly calculated, the selling price of 50-600,000 yuan may have a profit of about 100,000 yuan.
800V high-voltage architecture and integrated die-cast parts, these two are technical highlights at the hardware level, seeing that the high-voltage architecture may be more helpful to pure electric users, the extended range version is still only available with 400V architecture. It can only be said that the M9 chose the right outlet this time and used a high-voltage architecture for the pure electric version, which is in line with the mainstream needs of the market, and it is also more in line with the development needs of new energy vehicles in 2024.
So, after having 800V, can you really use ultra-fast charging?
First of all, the M9 uses a Kirin battery provided by CATL, which has a 4C level charging capacity, that is, it can charge this battery (about 100kWh) to about 80% in about 15 minutes, and it probably achieves a range of more than 400km. At least on pure electric models, to a certain extent, the experience of car owners at the charging level has been improved, and there is no need to spend hours to solve the charging problem.
However, some people will start to think about whether ultra-fast charging can really be "used". Even if there is an 800V high-voltage architecture of the tram, the adaptability of the charging pile is not enough, and it cannot play the characteristics of fast charging at full speed.
In this regard, there is no need to worry too much about next year, including all 800V vehicles. Next year, the popularity of ultra-fast charging piles should be very large, and Huawei alone will lay 100,000 ultra-fast charging piles next year, with a maximum power of about 600kW, which is completely enough to charge its 800V architecture models. In addition, the charging piles to be built in 2024 are basically all fast charging piles. Next year, there should be no worries about the availability of ultra-fast charging.
Also, there's one last thing to pay attention to.
For this kind of large SUV, there will be more or less consumers who drive it to try some light off-road scenes, but here is still a word of advice, as far as possible to avoid this kind of use scenario. Because it has 10 one-piece die-cast parts on the rear floor, it will be difficult to repair the deformation if it is driven in mild, moderate or above off-road conditions. Therefore, after using integrated die-casting, you can basically say goodbye to off-road driving.
In addition, there is a common topic that if the rear of the car is hit and the body is damaged, it is also difficult to repair, and the repair cost is relatively expensive. To put it bluntly, more advantages of this technology are for car companies. As a consumer, pay attention to the cost of repairs.