When it was reported that Apple had cut the car project, a new energy vehicle brand called icar said: Don't worry, let's make icar.
This is not a joke. In fact, the iCar car really exists, and the owner is Chery. Compared with BYD's far ahead and Geely's rapid development, Chery's presence in the field of new energy seems to be a bit too low-key. However, don't think that people have done nothing, Chery's new energy family has been basically formed, forming three new energy sequences including Chery Fengyun, Xingtu Star Era, and Jietu Shanhai, as well as an independent ICAR new energy brand. From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Chery has successively launched the Star Era ES and Fengyun A8, and rolled off the assembly line a series of hybrid and pure electric models such as Fengyun T9, Shanhai T2, and Star Era ET. Then on February 28, the first model of the icar brand named 03 was officially launched to the market. Chery said, I'm going to start exerting my strength!
Previously, the pre-sale range of the iCar 03 was 1298-18.580,000, and the maximum drop of 20,000 on the market** is really large for an economic model in the range of 150,000**. Therefore, at the listing press conference, a group of scheduled car owners heard **, and the cheers were also quite loud.
Chery is also very fierce in the first battle, which is what many people say about the icar 03**.
Let's first understand what kind of new energy brand icar is. The key word is young, the design style of this brand will be very young, and the configuration will naturally cater to the car preferences of young people.
The icar's first car, the 03, is a very clear expression of the brand's characteristics. It is said that at the Beijing Auto Show, which opens in April, iCar will bring new models and release model plans. I think Chery's classic product QQ is quite suitable for the tonality of the ICAR brand, and I look forward to iCar resurrecting QQ as an electric vehicle.
Why does the icar 03 get good reviews? The reason is very simple, the cost performance is really high.
Its dimensions are millimeters, which is one lap smaller than the traditional A-class SUV, but the wheelbase is as long as 2715 mm, which is completely A-class level, so although this car does not look big, the actual space performance is quite good, and I saw the actual car at the scene and found that the rear legroom is very spacious.
In the past two years, the square box SUV has been very popular, and Chery's own short-distance traveler is also this type of model, and it is very popular, and it was once the best-selling square box SUV, which sold better than the Haval dog. The traveler's pure electric brother icar 03 is also a square box shape, but in addition to being square and tough, it is also very fashionable and cute, and its appearance can definitely be eaten by young men and women.
At the level of details, the logo of the letter I is very ostentatious, and even the headlights have this element, which looks very exquisite.
iCar 03 supports many modifications, I saw a lot of modifications at the launch conference, one model is equipped with a side ladder, at first glance it looks like a Land Rover Guard, and it is quite a tough guy.
And the other iCar 03 with a small school bag looks very cute. The lid of this small bag can be easily opened outward, and if there is a need to separate dry and wet items, it just fits in with the trunk, and the practicality of daily use is absolutely high. In addition, the tailgate is opened at an angle of up to 89The side door is 8 degrees, and it is electrically suctioned.
In addition, there is a retro-style iCar 03, which is the strongest in terms of eye-catching.
The design of the central control is obviously stiff, and the large armrests at the doors and ** passage can intuitively illustrate this. But there are also very delicate things, for example, crystal knobs.
At first, I didn't have hope for this texture, I also went to feel it, and the result was a big surprise, not only the material texture is excellent, but also the rotation is very tight, silky, there is one thing to say, I even feel that it is not inferior to the Geely Galaxy E8 and even the crystal knob of the M9.
In addition to a lot of space, there are two large ones in the car, a large screen, 156 inches; Electric sunroof large, 12 square meters.
The iCar 03 is even more noteworthy in terms of configuration. Just such a car of more than 100,000 yuan, it actually uses an all-aluminum body, the full name is called an all-aluminum multi-cavity cage body, the body-in-white frame weighs only 230 kg, the weight is reduced by more than 30%, the stiffness is increased by 30%, and the curb weight is only 1From 68 tons. One of the major annoyances of electric vehicles is the weight of the car, but there are not many people who are willing to use all-aluminum bodies, one of the reasons is that this material is relatively expensive, so it has appeared on luxury brand models priced at hundreds of thousands before. In terms of body materials alone, the iCar 03 is really comparable to a luxury brand.
Chery's executives said that it was not easy to mess with the 3, and cited the BMW X3, BMW 3 Series, Tesla Model 3, and Tank 300 as examples, and then compared the iCar 03 with them one by one. For example, the iCar 03 and the BMW X3 compared the acceleration performance, and the result was that the iCar 03 won.
This is to talk about the power system of the new car, there are two-wheel drive, there are four-wheel drive, the four-wheel drive version is equipped with dual motors, the maximum power is 205 kilowatts, and the acceleration time of 100 kilometers is 65 seconds. The four-wheel drive version is also equipped with the IWD intelligent electronically controlled four-wheel drive system, which can realize two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive intelligent switching, and supports 8+X all-road driving mode.
In terms of range, the two-wheel drive version is available in two versions: 401 km and 501 km; The all-wheel drive version is all long-range versions, one 472 km version and two 501 km versions. The starting price of the 4WD version is 13980,000, looking at it this way, the attraction of the four-wheel drive version seems to be stronger.
The intelligent driving system of the iCar 03 is very fashionable to remove millimeter-wave radar and ultrasonic radar, and adopts a full-vision solution, equipped with a pair of 8 million inertial navigation binocular stereo vision cameras in front and five 3 million pixel surround view cameras. At the functional level, it supports high-speed NOA and cross-layer memory parking, and the level is still relatively high in the same class. However, these are 16The 980,000 four-wheel drive long-range intelligent driving version is only available, and it also needs to be paid for like high-speed NOA. Of course, the intelligent driving system of the sub-top four-wheel drive model is also quite rich.
In short, the comprehensive strength of icar 03 in terms of design, space, configuration, performance and other aspects is remarkable98-16.The price of 980,000 is worth booking the climax of car owners!
Chery also has high hopes for the ICAR 03, with a target of 10,000 monthly sales, do you think it can be achieved?