In other words, more and more consumers recognize new energy vehicles, and manufacturers also realize that new energy vehicles are the general trend of future development. Therefore, in recent years, the automobile industry can be described as a "fairy fight", and traditional brands headed by BYD and Geely are actively transforming and have achieved good results; The new forces headed by Wei Xiaoli have also emerged, and many "dark horses" have flooded into the market.
Although the "involution" between car companies can make products and services on the next level, factors such as high pressure on car purchase, high maintenance cost and cruising range anxiety still exist. Coupled with the impact of rising raw material prices and supply chain bottlenecks, pure electric vehicles are more expensive than the same level of fuel vehicles, which makes many consumers who are interested in buying pure electric vehicles discouraged.
Of course, some friends who just need it can still choose their favorite models through a number of price comparisons. Take a friend of mine as an example. He needs a pure electric car, which can meet his daily commute and weekend travel and camping, so Bian Xiao went to the 4S store with him to explore the market.
After a round of comparison, I hesitated between Speed Fox Alpha S and Speed Fox Alpha T, because these two models not only meet his needs, but also have many user benefits to enjoy. So, what is the real situation? Let's take a look along the shopping process.
How much user benefit is there?
When entering the store, a salesperson asked us which model we wanted to see, and told us directly that the car purchase benefits recently introduced by Extreme Fox Automobile were very attractive, which supported flexible adaptation to various financial policies, including 0 down payment for financial leasing, up to 200,000 interest for three years, up to 60 low-interest loans and 60 easy loans, which eased the pressure on consumers to buy cars to some extent.
At the same time, Fox Auto has also introduced the right to "use the car at zero cost". After all, "it is easier to buy a car than to maintain it", so it provides five years of free flow, free charging, free maintenance and scratch repair.
Specifically, free traffic covers all applications on the vehicle side, including speech recognition, application upgrade, navigation and map update, media playback and content promotion. Make car owners travel smarter and more convenient; Free charging is easy to understand, that is, polar fox will provide users with 2000 kwh electric cards every year. If calculated according to the electricity price of 1.5 yuan/kwh, the car owners will save 1.5 million on the charging cost compared with other brands in five years, which is still very fragrant.
In addition, it is inevitable that there will be scratches when driving outside, so really few brands will pay for scratches. According to the sales explanation, polar fox provides one-year double-sided scratch maintenance service. According to the market price of one-sided 800 yuan, the total value of five years is 8,000 yuan; In terms of maintenance, basic maintenance is provided once a year, including vehicle inspection and replacement of reducer oil.
Is the safety factor high enough?
Hearing this, is it a little exciting? But when buying cars and other commodities, we still need to choose carefully, so our friends in Bian Xiao have done a lot of homework in terms of safety and intelligence.
In recent years, the frequent spontaneous combustion and explosion problems are constantly fermenting the discussion about whether the batteries of electric vehicles are safe, and polar fox has also noticed this, adhering to the concept of "more protection, more safety" and making every effort to ensure the safety of consumers' cars.
According to the official introduction, the polar fox car is made of steel and aluminum, in which the torsional stiffness of Alfa T is as high as 55,000 nm/deg and that of Alfa S is 60,000 nm/deg, which can be said to be the leading level in the automobile industry. At the same time, the cage frame structure is surrounded by high-strength steel, while the A-pillar, B-pillar, middle passage and other parts are all made of thermoformed steel with strength above 1500MPa, which further improves the safety performance of the car body.
However, while the iron is hot, it needs to be hard by itself. Hard-core body can really reduce injuries, but "whether the battery will be affected when the vehicle is rear-ended or side-collided" and "whether the battery will be scrapped directly after soaking in water" are the issues that consumers are most concerned about.
Faced with these problems, polar fox proposed a design scheme of integrating liquid cooling plate and "dry-wet separation" thermal management in the bottom plate structure of battery box. On the one hand, it can reduce the risk of coolant contacting charged equipment when water cooling pipes and connectors leak, and improve the safety of battery system; On that other hand, the space on the side wall of the battery box is utilize, so that the space for arranging wat channels inside the battery is saved, the space and the cost are saved, and the utilization rate of the battery pack is improve.
In addition, on the battery case, Alpha S and Alpha T adopted a brand-new self-tapping riveting technology FDS, and at the same time applied the integrated design of battery case gluing and riveting technology, which made the whole battery case lighter than the traditional case by 13%, and largely avoided the deformation of the case caused by welding stress. In terms of protection, the battery pack of Polar Fox meets the dust-proof technical standards of IP68 and IP69K, so don't worry too much even if it is flooded in the city. It is worth mentioning that the battery pack is also equipped with a fire-proof structure, which can also win enough escape time in the event of an accident collision.
Looking at these data alone, the safety of polar fox seems impeccable, but for consumers, seeing is believing is more reliable.
So in order to verify whether the polar fox is as reliable as the official description, a collision test was conducted. As can be seen from the figure, the main longitudinal beam of the polar fox Alpha T is relatively complete, only the front section has a certain collapse, and the side door has a slight deformation, which can be easily opened. Compared with Tesla Model Y, the deformation degree of the polar fox Alpha T on the A-pillar and B-pillar is better.
Then there is the chassis and battery pack that everyone pays more attention to. Extreme Focus Alpha T only has the front floor deformed, and the rear floor has no deformation. The battery pack is basically intact and there are not many signs of distortion. In addition to the deformation of the front floor and the rear floor, the battery pack of Tesla Model Y has also undergone significant changes. Obviously, compared with Tesla Model Y (Tesla Model Y has won the five-star safety rating of NCAP in Europe), the safety performance of Extreme Fox Alpha T is beyond doubt. It can be seen that the fox car still attaches great importance to safety.
Is the "quantity" of science and technology allocation enough?
Looking at the whole automobile industry, we will find that many models will show their sense of science and technology through "stacking", and Alpha S and Alpha T are also unavoidable. They are equipped with a 20.3-inch 4K large screen, which can display applications on different screens, taking into account the different needs of the main and co-drivers, and can even be realized by 10. 1 inch touch screen, 8-inch windshield HUD and 12.3-inch full LCD instrument panel.
In addition to showing a sense of technology on the "hardware", Alpha T also provides 360-degree circular images, transparent chassis, automatic parking and reversing side warning, so even novices don't have to worry about the situation; Alpha S is equipped with more intelligent RPA remote sensing parking, remote driving, and automatic turning down of exterior rearview mirror parking.
It is worth mentioning that the α-Pilot intelligent driving of Alfa S and Alfa T adopts Bosch's latest generation scheme, which consists of 1 domain controller, 1 third generation 200 Wan Chao high-pixel multi-function camera, 4 second generation panoramic cameras, 5 fifth generation millimeter wave radars and 12 sixth generation ultrasonic sensors * *, which can realize automatic car following.
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New energy "national compensation" withdrew, and fuel vehicles "cut prices" to grab the market. Where will pure electric vehicles go? As can be seen from Fox, maybe we can start with security and intelligence. After all, "the fragrance of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley", and good products can stand the test of the market.
In addition, the involution between brands can promote the progress of industries, such as battery technology, electric drive and control technology, electric vehicle technology and energy management technology. , making the new energy field grow rapidly.
It can be seen that with the rise of young consumers, they are more and more picky about choosing cars, not only with fashionable appearance and abundant motivation, but also with comfort and sense of movement. It can be seen from the Alpha collision results of Polar Fox that Alpha T is superior to Polar Fox in terms of structural safety and battery safety, which once again verifies the product quality concept of Polar Fox's intelligence and safety.
Finally, "two-pronged" polar fox, will you pay for this excellent product? Welcome to comment below.
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