Besides speeding up your grades, Lucid? Other dynamic parameters of Air almost completely crush Tesla's current flagship Model model? S in silicon valley, this car has another nickname-revenge? Car), and the object of revenge is Tesla or Musk. Sober? What is the relationship between the motor and Tesla? Is the product as powerful as the official claim? This week's super broadcast reveals the answer for you.
◆ awake? The past of motor
After joining Tesla as chairman, Musk has the highest decision-making power. Dissatisfied with the management team at that time, he launched a "cleaning campaign". One of them is called Xie Jiapeng (Sam? Weng), a member of Tesla's board of directors and head of battery research and development, left Tesla during this period because it was inconsistent with Musk's philosophy.
In 2007, Xie Jiapeng founded Atieva Company (later renamed Lucid? Motors), the company is mainly committed to the research and development of three electric systems for electric vehicles, serving car companies. On the surface, there is no direct competition with Tesla, but in fact, within a few years, the company began to brew a model, which was the only model sold in cooperation with Tesla at that time. S-stage competition for new models.
20 12, two heavyweights joined Atiye Eva, one of whom was Denise Grey (Dennis? Gray), former Volt project manager of General Motors. The other is Peter rawlinson (Peter? Rawlinson), the chief engineer of Lotus and Jaguar for many years, later worked for Tesla, responsible for Model? S engineering design, also established the corresponding research and development team. The combination of the two seems to be just to brew a brand-new model.
In the following years, there was news that Tesla employees joined Atieva, and some of them seemed to have a certain holiday with Tesla or Musk when they left. In Silicon Valley, Atieva team is even called Tesla's "The Avengers".
Later, BAIC withdrew its capital and transferred part of its shares to LeTV, making Jia Yueting's shareholding ratio close to 40%. However, the cooperation between LeTV and Atieva was put on hold because of the broken capital chain in Jia Yueting. It is reported that Jia Yueting also sold most of the shares in the later period.
The car was originally planned to be mass-produced at the end of 20 18, but later, due to the unsatisfactory performance of the 400V electrical architecture adopted by the car, it could not meet the company's definition of a luxury pure electric vehicle. Therefore, after a great improvement, the car has become a model with 900V electrical architecture. Is the name still Lucid? Air, but the battery was upgraded from 18650 to 2 1700, and the supplier was changed from Samsung SDI to LG Chemical (domestic model? 3 2 1700 battery suppliers).
Although the company name was changed and a new car was released on 20 16, it didn't let Lucid? The operation of the motor has improved. Instead, it fell into a serious financial crisis, and even in 20 17, it was reported that it would be acquired by Ford. It is understood that the top management of the two companies had made contact at that time, but it was later dropped.
However, Fortune still cares about this Silicon Valley car company that wants to "revenge". In September of the same year, Saudi sovereign wealth fund PIF went to Lucid? The automobile company provided an investment of 654.38 billion US dollars. You know, at that time, it was widely rumored in the industry that this investment was originally for Tesla, so that Musk announced the news of Tesla's privatization in advance. However, I don't know what happened later, and the money was given to Tesla's competitor Lucid. The car company also caused Musk to lose the position of chairman of Tesla because of manipulating the stock price, and paid a large fine.
Finally rich, sober? The motor will move frequently in the next few months. First, in February of 20 19, it was reported that the second brand-new SUV model would be unveiled in the summer of the same year, and then in July of the same year, Peter Hohdinger, vice president of production of Tesla (Peter? Hochholdinger).
It is worth mentioning that at this time, six of the company's 12 executives had worked in Tesla. They are Peter rawlinson, CEO and CTO, Eric Bach, vice president of hardware engineering, Peter Hohdinger, vice president of manufacturing, Peter Hasenkamp, vice president of supply chain, Doreen Allen, sales director, and Jonathan Butler, vice president of legal counsel. These talents have a clear goal, which is to help the company produce better models than Tesla. So is this really the case? Next, we'll pass Lucid? Air is a car that understands the company's technical strength.
◆ awake? Technical strength of motor
I believe many people have reported on Lucid in the intensive reports in the past few days. Air has a more comprehensive understanding of this car. So the next content will mainly focus on explaining the important technical highlights of the car, thus reflecting Lucid? The technical and product design strength of the motor.
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You can see from the design of the real car that Lucid? Aerodynamic design is adopted in many places, such as the diving posture of the front engine room, which makes the whole body like a cone and reduces the windward side. The slender rearview mirror, hidden door handle and aerodynamic rim design all reflect the car's efforts in reducing wind resistance.
Large storage space, practical
We see that the car has a huge front cabin with a capacity of 202 liters, which is officially claimed to be the largest of all electric vehicles. And in the front cabin, the government also designed a number of storage compartments, which improved the practicality of the space.
As can be seen from the figure, the width of the trunk is considerable. Below the trunk partition, there is also a very deep hidden storage compartment, which can visually put down two 20-inch suitcases, and there is still a lot of surplus. The official trunk volume is 456 liters. You should know that the trunk volume of Tiguan is only 400 liters without the rear seats lying down.
Compact and powerful drive system
Above, we know the advantages of the storage space in the front/rear compartment of the car, and these advantages are realized by constructing the compact mechanical space of the electric car. Sober? Air is very eye-catching in the performance of the drive system, which is not only very compact, but also has high dynamic parameters.
It is precisely because the smaller size can achieve greater power, so this car only takes up a very small mechanical space, providing more storage space and sufficient seating space in the car. The official competition models of this car are Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7 Series, but the length of this car is only 4975.3mm and the wheelbase is 2960mm, but it has the same or even better spatial performance without the dominant size. From the above picture, we can see the space change between this car and the traditional fuel car.
From the official explosion diagram of the motor, we find that the motor adopts the design of coaxial planetary reducer. Although it is beneficial to reduce the size, the motor looks surprisingly small, but it puts forward high requirements for the manufacturing process of the motor, and it is quite difficult to mass produce. Can the motor overcome the capacity problem? I hope so.
Long battery life
We know Lucid from above? Motors used to be a company that developed three electrical systems. The company has been deeply involved in this field for more than ten years, and its experience is naturally sophisticated. Sober? It takes courage for Air to adopt 900V electrical architecture. One advantage of this design is that the charging speed has an inherent advantage, and another advantage is that it can reduce the energy consumption when the vehicle is driving.
Under this concept, many vehicles are designed to improve energy efficiency. The final result is to cooperate with 1 13kWh large-capacity power battery pack to make Lucid? Air has become the vehicle with the longest battery life in the history of mass-produced pure electric vehicles. The car's EPA battery life has reached 5 17 miles (about 832km). Will it be a Tesla model? The 402-mile (647-kilometer) EPA battery life that S can achieve is still far behind.
◆ Summary: There are still many uncertainties in the future development.
At present, the company is also facing some problems. First of all, from the information currently known, Lucid? Although Air is equipped with advanced autopilot-aware hardware, it has little experience in software development. Secondly, the earliest delivery time of the bus will be 202 1 the second quarter. I wonder if there will be a ticket jump. Tesla model at that time? S is likely to have been replaced, the gap between the two products will be significantly reduced, and Tesla has certain advantages in price; Besides, you're awake now? Instead of establishing their own fast charging network, automobile companies choose to cooperate with charging service providers. Compared with Tesla's direct charging mode, this charging experience is still lacking and there is a certain gap.
So far, we have learned about Lucid? The previous car found that it still had an unfriendly past with Tesla. At the product level, Lucid? Air gave us a very amazing performance, its space is practical, its performance and endurance are outstanding, but it is not perfect. Then the question is, under the same budget, would you choose Lucid? Air or Tesla model? You can cast your vote in the voting area below and share your opinions in the comments area. (Figure/text? Car home? Hu Yongbin)