From the mutual involvement of traditional car companies to the efforts of new car-making forces, from the protracted war, the "big reshuffle" of car companies' sales and delivery rankings, to the complete fall of some car companies, the market space is more crowded and ......A battle in a critical period that is supported by policies, but is still full of uncertain expectations and fluctuating market sentiment, has synthesized the anxious and fierce atmosphere of the new energy vehicle industry in the past 2023.
Under the anxiety, there are also new energy vehicle companies that have brought surprises - Leapmotor has completely walked out of the "struggle" it once had, and its sales volume will rank among the top three new forces in 2023, and the position of the head new forces will become more and more stable.
In the face of long-term challenges in the industry, only by maintaining the attitude and strength of thinking and maintaining the original intention can we have the confidence to deal with possible risks in the future. For Leaprun, its confidence comes from its technical "heavenly group" composed of leaders of the six core technology modules of global self-development, and it is their technical thinking that has built a solid technical background for Leaprun's self-development.
On January 10, Zhu Jiangming, the founder, chairman and CEO of Leapmotor, together with his team, which is particularly stable and has strong combat effectiveness and the ability of the industry's first-class intelligent electric technology research and development system, was unveiled at the 2024 Leapmotor Global Self-development Open Day. In the form of "open class", the "technology freaks" of Leapmotor announced for the first time the latest technological achievements in the six fields of electronic and electrical, battery, electric drive, intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving, and vehicle architecture.
At the same time, Leap carried out LEAP3The pre-sale release of the first global model, the C10, under 0 - the pre-sale of the extended range version** ranges from 1518-18.180,000 yuan, and the pre-sale range of the pure electric version is 1558-18.580,000 yuan; It will be launched in China in the first quarter of this year and in the European market in the third quarter.
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Technology is the blood of the new energy industry. Speaking of technology, Leapmotor has already contained such genes at the beginning of its birth. The founder, Zhu Jiangming, was an electronic engineer more than 30 years ago, and his greatest desire was to "do more valuable things in the technical field he is good at"; Most of the founding team is also R&D personnel.
Adhering to the technical route of global self-development is to immerse yourself in the deepest technical thinking of Leaprun. Compared with other car companies, Zhu Jiangming said that Leapmotor's technology research and development pursues differentiated innovation, and has achieved the industry's first or even the world's first in many fields. After eight years of technology accumulation, Leapmotor has opened a path of "the world's top three global self-developed car companies", and has successfully promoted the technical architecture to complete the LEAP10 to leap30 upgrade iterations:
In the vehicle architecture module, based on the global self-development, the generalization rate of Leapmotor's self-developed global vehicle architecture has reached 88%, which is the highest in the industry, and can cover A0-C model products; Bring users the world's top body safety design: nine horizontal and three vertical high-strength cage body frame, 736% high-performance material application, 2000MPa submarine-grade high-strength steel is applied in 7 key parts, and the maximum extrusion force of the single-sided roof is 9 tons, which can withstand 45 times the weight of the whole vehicle to create a mobile five-star safety fortress; and the first power in the new energy era: CTC battery + oil-cooled electric drive, the battery is the first choice of CTC, and the electric drive is the first choice of oil cooling, which can bring users a driving experience with higher safety, longer battery life and stronger performance.
The electronic and electrical architecture is the support for the intelligent and networked vehicles, and the integrated electronic and electrical architecture is the foundation of software-defined vehicles, which determines the upper limit of the intelligent performance of the vehicles. Leapmotor's "four-leaf clover"** integrated electronic and electrical architecture, with a SoC chip to create a first-class supercomputer, integrates the cockpit domain, intelligent driving domain, power domain, and body domain, realizes the efficient collaboration of the core components of intelligent electric vehicles, brings users a commonly used and new, higher-level intelligent electric vehicle experience, and brings intelligent electric vehicles into the era of software-defined vehicles.
Self-developed CTC20 battery chassis integration, ultimate integration, safe and durable. Following the release of the world's first mass-produced battery-pack-free CTC battery chassis integration technology in April 2022, the current CTC20 technological innovation adopts battery-pack-free and module-free technology, and the battery and chassis are more integrated to the extreme, making the battery safer, more durable and more intelligent. ctc2.0 technology has an industry-leading battery structure, which is more satisfactory to use; With the industry's original "zero pressure" technology, it can be used more durably; With 720min non-thermal diffusion technology, it is more assured to use; Give full play to the 400V fast charging capability, so that users do not spend money in vain.
leap3.The self-developed new intelligent oil-cooled electric drive platform under 0 is the world's first medium-voltage, high-voltage, round-wire, flat-wire compatible new-generation high-efficiency electric drive platform, bringing an economical, reliable, quiet and more powerful power experience with small and high-energy technical characteristics. Through the output of longer-lasting intelligent oil cooling technology, it can provide the maximum power output for the vehicle for 30min without attenuation; The quietness has reached the international leading level (the electric drive noise is as low as 76db at 60km/h, 5-9db lower than that of the same level), bringing users a more comfortable driving quality; The design life is 600,000 kilometers, which is much higher than the electric drive of new energy vehicles of the same level at home and abroad, and is more durable and safer.
The fun, easy-to-use, and smooth self-developed intelligent cockpit creates a more natural and unified cockpit for users.
1. Smooth interactive experience to create a smarter mobile home for users. Based on the integrated electronic and electrical architecture of Clover** and the industry's top Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 chip, Leapmotor creates a full-dimensional intelligent cockpit with high integration, high performance, Internet of Everything, and intelligent evolution; In particular, it can realize super non-inductive OTA: the cockpit is upgraded within 8 seconds (7 seconds to detect the environment, 1 second to switch the system), so that the OTA no longer pays attention to time, but pays more attention to quality.
In terms of self-developed intelligent driving, the Leapmotor intelligent driving system allows users to dare to accept and use it with peace of mind, and supports the full-scene experience of urban NAC high-speed NAP with 30 high-performance sensing elements + high-computing power modules, which can be expanded to L3 intelligent driving capabilities. Leapmotor is the industry's first single-chip cabin driving and parking trinity fusion system, which realizes the integration of the three-in-one functions of cabin driving, driving and parking with an 8295 chip, and the cockpit is combined with intelligent driving data to feed back to the driver to help the driver drive better; The industry's first NAC (full-time ACC) navigation-assisted cruise, in the absence of high-precision maps, through the multi-modal perception model to identify road traffic lights, zebra crossings, lane line curvature and obstacles and other information, automatically adjust the speed, the driver does not need to control the pedal throughout the process, only need to control the steering wheel, to achieve straight driving, turning, and U-turn on urban roads.
C10 is the culmination of eight years of self-research in the whole domain.
In Zhu Jiangming's view, only when a technology is really used in the car and can be used and used well, can it reflect its value. Adhering to such values, the leap3 brought by this Leap Run0The core technology of the six modules has been "put on the car" on the Leapmotor C10, which has just opened pre-sale, and the technology behind it has been put on the table.
It is reported that as Zero runs in LEAP3The C10 is the first global strategic model launched under the 0-technology architecture, which is based on the travel needs of young family users, and continues the "dual power" strategy of the C series, providing dual options of pure electric and extended range. Among them, the maximum battery capacity of the pure electric version is 699kWh, CLTC range up to 530km; The maximum battery capacity of the extended-range version is 28With 4kWh, CLTC has a pure electric range of up to 210km and a CLTC comprehensive range of up to 1190km.
In terms of technology, C10 is equipped with the industry's only "four-leaf clover"** integrated electronic and electrical architecture, the world's first batch of 8295 chip AI intelligent cockpit in the same class, and the only AI high-end driving assistance system with Orin+ LiDAR hardware in the same level, which is a product under the real software-defined car.
Leapmotor C10 is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon's first-class cockpit platform, and its 8295 chip adopts 5nm process technology, and the NPU computing power reaches 30 TOPS, which is 75 times; The sixth-generation Qualcomm Kryo CPU computing power reaches 200K DMIPS, and the capacity of the main computing unit is increased by more than 50% compared with the 8155. Qualcomm Adreno GPU computing power reached 3000 Gflops, an increase of 300% compared with 8155.
Based on such ultra-high performance, Leapmotor C10 has industry-leading strength in terms of the fluency, functional scalability, graphics rendering capabilities, and intelligent driving model capabilities of the intelligent cockpit system.
Adopt 1025-inch HD gauge +14The ** combination of the 6-inch central control screen is another highlight of the C10. 14 of themThe resolution of the 6-inch central control screen reaches 2560*1440, reaching 25K HD level. The bezel adopts a full-lamination process, and the narrowest part of the black edge is only 72mm；Oxide technology has the core advantages of low power consumption, low frame rate and high transmittance.
At the same time, thanks to the supercomputing power of the "four-leaf clover"** integrated electronic and electrical architecture, the Leapmotor C10 is the first model in the industry that can realize the non-inductive OTA upgrade of intelligent driving in the cockpit. As long as you choose to agree to upgrade the vehicle, whether it is parking or driving, the next time you start the vehicle, it will be a new upgraded state, and truly achieve "second-level update".
At the level of intelligent driving assistance, with up to 30 intelligent driving sensors + 254 TOPS, Leapmotor C10 can realize 25 intelligent driving functions including NAP high-speed intelligent navigation assistance and NAC navigation assistance cruise, and has L3 level of intelligent driving assistance in terms of hardware capabilities.
Among them, the first NAC navigation auxiliary cruise function, can be combined with the navigation map, according to the traffic light signal, zebra crossing recognition, road pointing recognition, speed limit recognition and other information, to achieve adaptive start and stop, turning and turning, intelligent speed limit function, greatly improve the vehicle's driving assistance adaptive ability in the intersection curve, liberate the driver's feet.
In addition, in CTC 2With the support of 0 technology, the Leapmotor C10 adopts a one-piece skeleton structure design, and the torsional rigidity of the body-in-white is as high as 42500N·m °. The front and rear door anti-collision beams, B-pillar reinforcing plates, seat beams, etc. are made of nuclear submarine-grade 2000MPa hot-stamping steel. The proportion of high-performance materials containing aluminum alloy is as high as 736%, surpassing many top luxury brands. Based on this, Leapmotor C10 has won the 2023 China Top Ten Body and Best Body Structure Individual Awards.
In the past 2023, Leapmotor's main models on sale, the C11 series, C01 series, and T03 series, performed well in the market, with a cumulative delivery of 144155 units, a year-on-year increase of nearly 30%, and a cumulative delivery of more than 300,000 units since its establishment. Among them, in December 2023, Leapmotor delivered 18,618 units, a year-on-year increase of 119%, a record high. The industry believes that the growth resilience of Leapmotor may be closely related to its forward-looking global self-development layout.
At this press conference, Zhu Jiangming solemnly announced that starting from the 2024 Leapmotor Global Self-development Open Day, Leapmotor plans to release the "Technology Family Bucket" in January every year to bring the latest technological achievements of global self-development; In March every year, the "Product Family Bucket" is released to bring high quality-to-price products after technical achievements are put on the car.
With the hard work of continuously strengthening the self-developed "moat" in the whole area, it is expected to overcome obstacles in the most fertile market of 150,000-200,000 yuan traditional fuel vehicles, and create the greatest value for users' travel and life.