In recent years, the sales growth rate of the domestic new energy vehicle market has been increasing. According to data, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in my country in 2022 will be 7.058 million and 6.887 million respectively, with year-on-year growth rates of respectively It is 96.7 and 93.4, and its production and sales have ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years. Major independent car companies are also willing to develop new energy vehicles. On the one hand, "converting oil to electricity" has become a major trend in the development of the automobile market. Early deployment in the new energy vehicle market will help seize the market and establish a reputation; on the other hand, Because the new energy vehicle track can help independent car companies achieve "overtaking in corners" and develop upward. Just like NIO, all models are priced at more than 300,000 yuan, which is priced at the level of luxury cars. The sales volume in the market is not bad, but this is difficult for domestically produced cars to achieve in the past. BYD Auto even launched a sub-brand targeting the million-level market, raising the price ceiling of domestic electric vehicles.
For Tesla and BYD, China's "Volkswagen" has released new cars, and joint venture cars have fallen behind. On February 23, Geely Automobile held the Geely Galaxy New Energy Strategy Conference. At this press conference, Geely Automobile officially released the Geely brand's new mid-to-high-end new energy series, namely Geely Galaxy. The series' prototype "Galaxy Light" was officially unveiled. The series' first smart electric hybrid SUV, Geely Galaxy L7, made its global debut. and start booking. The arrival of the Geely Galaxy series has enriched Geely Automobile's new energy vehicle system and complemented the existing Geely series and Geometry series models. It can meet the various needs of users through different series of models and also raise the height of Geely's brand. .
Those who pay attention to the automobile market should know that it is difficult for domestically produced cars to develop upward and break through the "price ceiling". So why does the Geely Galaxy series dare to be positioned in the mid-to-high end? In fact, the answer to this question has something to do with the car-making background and technology accumulation. Geely Automobile is called "China's Volkswagen" by netizens. Like Volkswagen, it has many sub-brands and leading technologies. Currently, Geely Group owns Lynk & Co, Geely, Lotus, Volvo, Proton, Polestar and other sub-brands. brand. Moreover, Geely, like Volkswagen, pays attention to platform development, and Geely's CMA architecture is quite famous in the automobile market. Let’s talk about sales. Geely Automobile’s annual sales volume is often No. 1 among independent car brands, which is also comparable to Volkswagen. From the above information, we can also find that Geely has a profound background in car manufacturing.
At the technical level, Geely is also not to be outdone, and has equipped Geely Galaxy with many high-end technologies, such as e-CMA architecture and Thor's three-electric safety technology. Among them, the e-CMA architecture inherits the safety genes of Geely's frame-based vehicles, which can be seen from the naming method. Specifically, the models born with this architecture will use a one-piece hot-formed boron steel door ring unique to its class to further strengthen the closed "cage" frame structure of the body, making the body's structural strength comparable to that of a roll cage. The body of a racing car is less likely to deform after a collision. This architecture also has a clover collapse force-removing structure patent. The body is designed with two force-discharging paths and double bending technology. It can absorb more kinetic energy during a collision and is safer than traditional body structures such as BYD's e-platform 3.0.
Thor's three electric technologies also include technologies closely related to safety, such as Geely's original and Geely Galaxy-exclusive Aegis battery safety system. This system is optimized at both the hardware and software levels. In the battery pack itself, 17 fixed connection points are used to achieve a firm connection with the body, which is inferior to BYD and Tesla. The internal cross beam of the battery pack is connected to the bottom cross beam of the car body through four high-strength bolts, which improves the shear resistance of the car body. The battery pack also adds a 1.2mm thick lower guard plate with a tensile strength of 1200Mpa, and a battery anti-scratch beam is added to the front subframe, which is 10mm lower than the battery pack. This is the only design in the industry. Geely Galaxy has therefore become the first electric vehicle in the industry to achieve bottoming impact at 30 kilometers per hour and no damage to the entire vehicle at 20 kilometers per hour.
At the software level, the Geely Galaxy series is supported by the powerful cloud computing power of 81 petaflops per second from the Geely Star Intelligent Computing Center, which enables real-time cloud security protection through AI computing power.
Among them, Geely Galaxy’s “BMS3.0 Battery Doctor” can accurately predict and protect battery thermal runaway, battery life, battery status, etc., increasing battery life by 20%. It also has feed-forward thermal management, which can use high-frequency pulse self-heating technology in an environment of -30 degrees Celsius to quickly increase the battery temperature to about 10 degrees Celsius, achieving a battery life rate of more than 90% at low temperatures. Geely also expects to complete the networking of 72 low-orbit satellites in 2025, allowing Geely Galaxy intelligent driving to achieve global positioning capabilities without blind spots, and build Geely's "sky and earth integrated" intelligent safety ecosystem.
Geely Galaxy will also be equipped with the Thor electric hybrid engine 8848. Among them, the new generation Thor electric hybrid engine B-Plus has the highest thermal efficiency in mass production at present - 44.26. Such thermal efficiency is even in mass production of Toyota, Honda and Mazda. It doesn't appear on the engine either, and BYD's Xiaoyun series hybrid engines also can't do it. The thermal efficiency of the next-generation Thor electric hybrid engine has exceeded 46 and is currently in the verification stage. This system also has 8 major intelligent control technologies and 20 working modes. For example, the industry's first predictive energy management system can combine the user's usage habits and travel routes to bring ultra-low energy consumption and energy recovery that exceeds the same level. Charging efficiency and energy saving rate can be increased by up to 15%.
Let us take a look at Geely Galaxy’s first model, the Geely Galaxy L7. This car may be positioned in the 200,000 class, and it is also an “uncompromising” high-value model. For example, in terms of comfort, configurations like the queen's passenger seat are usually only available on high-end new models priced at more than 300,000 yuan, but the Geely Galaxy L7 has a unique "pampering passenger seat" with a passenger legroom of 630mm, which is the largest in its class. In addition, the passenger seat supports folding down, and also has electric leg rests, heating/ventilation/massage/memory/physiotherapy functions. The height of the armrest in the door panel of the passenger seat is also different from that of the main driver, which comprehensively improves the riding comfort of the passenger seat. The passenger seat also has the only super-large overhead airbag in its class, with a deployment time of only 0.04 seconds, which is 0.02 seconds shorter than the deployment time of traditional airbags, and can more comprehensively protect the safety of passengers.
For another example, inside the cockpit, Geely Galaxy L7 is equipped with Qualcomm 8155 chip and Galaxy N OS system as standard. The interface UI interaction is smooth without lag, and the voice wake-up speed only takes 0.5 seconds, reaching the fastest level in the world. Even for Xpeng Motors' smart cockpit, the voice assistant wakes up at a speed of more than 1 second. The current relatively common flow of navigation information is also supported by the Geely Galaxy L7. The navigation information on the mobile phone can be automatically synchronized to the car. As for performance, with the blessing of Thor Hybrid 8848, the Geely Galaxy L7 has a top speed of over 200km/h, can accelerate from 100 kilometers to 100 kilometers in 6.9 seconds, and has a fuel consumption of 5.23L per 100 kilometers and a CLTC comprehensive endurance of 1370 kilometers.
After seeing the technical background of the Geely Galaxy series, it is difficult not to be "sweaty" for Tesla and BYD. After all, the e-CMA architecture Thor three-electric technology has made this series of models have Achieve industry-leading product capabilities. It is worth mentioning that Geely's Galaxy series once "slogged" BYD. The slogan given in the naming poster was "The Milky Way, the starry sky that everyone looks up to." This is obviously a tribute and challenge to BYD's Galaxy series. But judging from the new car Geely Galaxy L7, Geely is more pragmatic in building cars and targets a more popular consumer group. It is not like BYD looking up to others, but it is decentralizing high-tech to mid-to-high-end models. From this point of view, many joint venture cars should be outdated. In the future, the first choice for mid-to-high-end models may be the Geely Galaxy series.
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