From the road to the bridge, to the vehicle will become smarter.
About future travel, people have imagined countless versions.
Someone is looking forward to self-driving and liberating their hands, while enjoying safe travel while enjoying simple travel time; some people hope to get on the aircraft to achieve instant arrival between cities; others dream of rockets becoming a kind of daily traffic. Easily complete intercontinental travel in the shuttle between the Earth and the universe…
But at the moment, there are still “long roads” for people to travel from this series. Electric vehicles may be the closest to reality in terms of technology, cost, infrastructure, and even ethics.
Although electric vehicles are often seen as new products in the automotive industry, as early as 1828, the Hungarian inventor Yedlik Anush, the father of DC motors, was experimenting with electromagnetically rotating mobile devices. And before 1920, electric vehicles had the advantage of being odorless, no noise, no shifting, and low price, and steam and internal combustion engines.
However, the development of oil and the improvement of internal combustion engine technology have changed things. Electric vehicles have gradually lost their advantages, and the automobile market has gradually been monopolized by fuel vehicles. Until the 1990s, oil resources were declining and environmental pollution was increasing, reminding people of electric vehicles.
The key node was 1990. The GM1 was unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show, evoking the memory of the riders and the general public. Even if the car was forced to be scrapped because of the interests of the oil giant and the US government, it was impossible to stop the story of the electric car from going back to the public.
From the beginning of Tesla’s image as a pioneer, its “Chinese apprentices” Wei Lai, Xiaopeng, and Weimar have also appeared – the first to scream in the global electric car market is what these are called. A player who is a “new force.”
However, as a “newcomer” in this field, the new forces have clearly encountered obstacles after gaining a lot of attention. Lack of car experience, safetyBeing questioned, the capital chain is tight, and the stocks are short-selling is the problem they are facing at the moment.
Weilai, which was successfully listed in the four years of its establishment, also suffered a lot of negatives. Several auto-ignition and smoke incidents caused by batteries have occurred. Weilai had to recall 4,803 ES8 electric vehicles. Then, news of a series of executives leaving, layoffs, and financial constraints continued to flow. After the release of Q2 earnings on September 24, the company’s share price once fell to an all-time low of $1.97, with a market capitalization of only $2 billion. Around the Golden Week, the user’s “privacy leak” triggered another storm…
When the Weilais were overwhelmed, the industry pattern was quietly changing.
For the sake of profit and market maturity, traditional car companies have been moving their way through the iterative fuel vehicle. But nowadays, the market recognition of new energy is constantly improving, and various technologies are gradually improving. The key time points that the traditional car manufacturers are waiting for have arrived. They are rushing to release their own products in 2019 and 2020. Pure electric car.
The Audi e-tron, also at this point in time, came at the right time. As the first pure electric car under Audi, Audi regards this car as a sincerity to consumers. It started in September 2018 and came to China in 2019. It plans to achieve localization in 2020.
The Audi e-tron production team has an average production experience of 19.3 years, and most of the installations are done on intelligent production lines. The lithium-ion battery is equipped with an intelligent energy storage system and an efficient thermal management system to ensure safety and extend driving life. At the same time, Audi e-tron has also completed a rigorous road test environment test, spanning four continents, driving 85,000 hours, orbiting the Earth 125 times to 5 million kilometers, and listed on the list of the most safe security issued by the American Highway Safety Insurance Association The list of choices has become the only electric vehicle on the list.
On the road show of the Audi e-tron Brand Experience Center held in Shanghai on September 18, 2019, founder Liu Chengcheng talked about the test drive experience of this car and the imagination of future travel. In Liu Chengcheng’s opinion, this car is an electric car with Audi characteristics.
As for the intelligence of the entire transportation infrastructure, it is a broader concept including smart parking lots, smart traffic lights, and intelligent road networks. The application and communication technologies are closely related. In the context of the current maturity of 5G and Skynet (the constellation networking, etc.), these changes are more anticipated and more realistic. . Before the breakthrough communication technology was fully implemented, Audi Connect’s online service function has been supplemented by the navigation system. Specifically, Audi’s connect service provides online traffic information, “point of interest” searches, and navigation. Among them, the charging station service can display all charging stations in the area according to the distance, which makes the user’s experience more convenient.
“Overall, I think that the future travel should be smarter from all angles. From infrastructure roads, bridges, to vehicles, it will be smarter. It can realize intelligence based on solving mileage anxiety. The electric car is the car that many users are expecting now.” Liu Chengcheng elaborated on the future travel picture in his heart.
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