Test drive

In recent years, car companies and technology companies have cooperated to build cars from time to time. Ali and SAIC, Huawei and Changan, Baidu and Geely, etc., all show complementary advantages to a certain extent.

A few days ago, the new brand jointly created by Geely and Baidu officially went on the market. The first model is extremely 01. This product is positioned as a medium and large pure electric SUV with a price range of 219,900-309,900 yuan.

Extreme Yue 01 photo/Shell Finance reporter Bai Haotian

Combining the dual experience of Geely and Baidu, can Extreme Yue 01 show a different side than other competitors in the market? Shell Finance reporter was invited to test drive this new car.

Rich in configuration, some functions are highly integrated and creative, but users still need to adapt.

In terms of appearance, Extreme Yue 01 has adopted its own design concept, its length, width and height are 4853/1990/1611 mm respectively, and its wheelbase is 3000 mm..

Because the vehicle is built on Geely’s vast platform, its width is close to that of Krypton 001, and the width of Krypton 001 reaches 1999 mm, which is high in the market. In terms of height, although the Extreme Yue 01 is higher than the average car, it is still slightly lower than the Star Yue L (the height of the car is 1689 mm), another main SUV of Geely.

This ratio makes the vehicle look lower. Although it is an SUV, it has a strong sense of crossover, with a drag coefficient of 0.249. In the real experience, the rear leg space of the vehicle is close to that of a medium-sized car, which may be related to the longer cushion length.

In the design, a large number of soft leather and soft plastic packages are used in the ultra-Yue 01, with very few plastic parts, and the overall materials are relatively solid.

Extreme Yue 01 Interior Photo/Shell Financial Reporter Bai Haotian

In terms of configuration, the new car uses frameless doors, push-button door handles, electric suction doors, electric lifting tail fins, Qualcomm 8295 intelligent cockpit chips, NVIDIA DRIVE Orin chips, suspended headrest, ROBO SOUND sound sound system, etc., which are rich in configuration in the same price model.

It is worth mentioning that, like brands such as Tesla, the ultra-Yue 01 car adopts the avant-garde interior design concept, with almost no physical buttons, and a large number of functions are concentrated on the central control screen. On this basis, the steering lever of the vehicle is cancelled and the function is integrated into the steering wheel button. This design is innovative and bold, but for users, it may need to adapt gradually from the operation and concept.

Thanks to Baidu’s blessing, the voice-controlled car of Extreme Yue 01 has strong recognition ability, and many functions can be completed by awakening intelligent robots. In addition, Extreme Yue 01 supports off-line voice communication, and even if there is no signal, the voice assistant in the car can interact with the driver.

The driving performance is stable, and the auxiliary driving function does not lose competing products.

Although Extreme Vietnam has many avant-garde scientific and technological ideas, it is not a "flower shelf". On the basis of Geely’s car-making, the driving and control experience of Extreme Yue 01 gives people a sense of reliability.

As we all know, Geely Automobile has acquired many internationally renowned automobile brands, including Volvo and Lotus. With the feedback of these technologies, the acceleration of the switch pedal is very linear.

Extreme Yue 01 photo/Shell Finance reporter Bai Haotian

According to different models, the Extreme Yue 01 has single-motor and dual-motor versions. The former has a maximum power of 200 kW and a peak torque of 343 Nm. The latter has a maximum power of 400 kW and a peak torque of 686 Nm.

During the test drive, the single motor system of Extreme Yue 01 can provide powerful explosive force.

Although the car is nearly 2 meters wide, the steering and handling experience of this product is not bad during the test drive, and it is not difficult in the process of reversing into the warehouse.

Geely’s car-making foundation shows a certain competitiveness, and the more it relies on Baidu’s intelligent driving system, it is not inferior to other technology companies.

Based on Apollo’s high-order automatic driving ability, Jiyue 01 can realize the functions of automatic following, overtaking and avoiding large vehicles on Fushi Road Expressway. According to the official introduction of the company, at present, vehicles can carry out advanced intelligent driving on more than 90% highway sections, and some cities have opened advanced intelligent driving in urban areas. At the end of the month and in 2024, Extreme Yue 01 will apply advanced intelligent driving to more cities.

Extreme Yue 01 photo/Shell Finance reporter Bai Haotian

In addition, the ultra-cross 01 can also realize automatic parking, automatic wayfinding parking in the parking lot and voice wake-up outside the car to leave the parking space. The driver can talk to Extreme Crossing 01 outside the car, and commands such as opening the car door and leaving the parking space can be executed.

Beijing News Shell Finance Reporter Bai Haotian Editor Yue Caizhou Proofread Zhu Mingxian