Introduction | It may also be related to the fortune of China Zhijia.

How many days does an entrepreneur need from crying to laughing? For Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Vietnam, 13 days.

First, the sales of Extreme Yue 01 made him cry.

Before the Chengdu Auto Show on August 28, Xia Yiping burst into tears in the interview: "I sold more than 200 units in January and more than 100 units in February, and I feel very uncomfortable myself."

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His reflection is that there are some "anti-human designs" in Extreme Yue 01 that have aroused users’ dissatisfaction, such as half steering wheel, screen shifting and key steering. Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that this is based on Tesla’s design.

Xia Yiping believes that there is no problem with these designs themselves. The problem is that there is very little system power and fame of Tesla, so it is difficult to be accepted by the public. This reflection is correct.

Che Jujun also expressed similar concerns when he test-drove Extreme Yue 01 in November 2023. The accompanying public relations partner naturally explained: Is Huan’s new Model 3 designed in this way?

Che Jujun said seriously: There are some things that Tesla can do, but other brands may not be able to do.

It seems that it took more than half a year to finally understand this truth.

Summer tears, do not rule out the composition of flow. But half a month later, in the Capital Gymnasium, when the second car, 07, went on the market, his joy and heroism should be true.

Because in the past August, the sales volume of Extreme Vietnam 01 suddenly rose to 2,147 vehicles, equivalent to 10 times that at the beginning of the year. This sales volume is not good for mature car companies, but it can be said that it has come back to life for the extremely faltering start, "now it is a step from the beginning."

The reason or as Xia Yiping said, he has never lost the trust and support of shareholders.

For Apollo Zhijia, behind it is Baidu’s 150 billion investment in 10 years; For the SEA architecture, Geely has invested 20 billion yuan in five years. Both software and hardware are top resources in the industry. The more temporarily sleepy, it may just take time. Therefore, even when only 147 sets were sold every month, Li Yanhong and Li Shufu didn’t publicly criticize Xia Yiping as Zhou Hongyi publicly criticized Zhang Yong.

On the other hand, the ultimate innovation really takes time to be accepted by the market.

Extremely, the manual operating parts in the car are made extremely simple, in order to meet the era of fully automatic driving that will be realized soon. If the car is mainly driven by machines, why do you need so many physical keys? This is a bottom logic of extreme transcendence.

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Che Jujun has some reservations. Last November, I tried the pure visual intelligent driving of the ultra-01, and it did have many advantages. There were not many manual takeover times in the whole trip. But it is a few takeovers that are full of risks. For example, on the Jiamin viaduct, we walked in the rightmost lane, and the lane ahead was suddenly interrupted due to road construction. The pure vision system did not perceive the change of the end and the sign of the isolation pier, and continued to go straight at a constant speed, so it could only be manually intervened.

On August 28th, at the pre-sale meeting of Extreme Yue 07, Xia Yiping announced that Extreme Yue 07 will be equipped with ASD for the first time. It is also announced that Extreme Vietnam is the first electric vehicle brand in the world to apply the L4-class self-driving model.

The full name of ASD is: Apollo Self Driving, Apollo Autopilot. That is to say, machine driving is the mainstay. This name, and Tesla’s FSD(Full Self Driving) fully automatic driving, has the same effect. Xia Yiping made no secret of his ambition to mark Tesla: from beginning to end, we wanted to have a fight with Tesla.

He further declared that ASD knows more about China road than Tesla FSD because he was born in China and grew up in China.

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Will the renamed ASD be a qualitative improvement over the extremely smart driving one year ago?

This year, Baidu’s smart driving has indeed undergone many changes. For example, unmanned taxis powered by Apollo have been put into operation in several cities in China, especially in Wuhan, which caused a sensation as soon as it appeared. People even worry that this advanced intelligent driving will rob the network car and taxi drivers of their jobs.

The data shows that Apollo’s "Radish Run" unmanned taxi has completed a total of 6 million travel services, and its autonomous driving operation scale ranks first in the world.

In terms of computing power, Apollo cloud computing power has exceeded 5.5 EFlops. Based on this, Extreme Yue can carry out AI cluster training to realize rapid iteration of intelligent driving model, and the cycle can even be as short as weeks.

This is an advantage of Baidu’s deep cultivation of autonomous driving for ten years, and it is also an advantage of China’s huge market and rich scenes. At the same time, it is probably one of the reasons why Xia Yiping was able to smile when he went public in Extreme Vietnam 07.

Second, the prospect of extreme auto-driving made him laugh.

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On the evening of September 10th, the Capital Gymnasium ushered in its first new car launch conference-Extreme Yue 07. This is a medium-sized and large-sized pure electric car, and it is the second car under the banner of Extreme Vietnam, with a limited-time preferential price of 199,900.

There are many bright spots in Extreme Yue 07, such as design. But Xia Yiping passed by, and then went straight to the point: two days later, he will drive the Super Yue 07 with ASD to challenge the non-standard pontoon bridge.

Sure enough, on September 12th, Xia Yiping sat in an extremely cross 07, opened the ASD and passed a pool in Maling Mountain, xinyi city. It is worth noting that the pontoon bridge on the pool is temporary, and it is not on the map at all. This move wants to prove that the pure vision scheme can achieve high-order intelligent driving without lidar and high-precision map.

The test project of crossing the pontoon bridge was carried out five times, including night working conditions. Xia Yiping’s conclusion is that one pass is accidental, and five safe passes are inevitable. We are full of confidence in ASD’s intelligent driving.

Therefore, he dared to shout out at the press conference two days ago: "Extreme Yue 07 is the most intelligent car on the planet". Of course, in order to avoid regulatory risks, what is printed on the screen is: _ _ _ _ smart car on the planet.

Then, Xia Yiping introduced some highlights on the hardware of Extreme Yue 07.

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▎ Extreme design. I wonder if its designer is Virgo? In order to make the front of the Extreme Yue 07 longer and look more like a rear-drive performance car, its A-pillar moved back by 65 mm.. The price is 300 million yuan.

You know, it only sold 7,000 cars in total. Even if a car earns 20,000 with a gross profit of 10%, the total gross profit is only 140 million. It feels like the boss worked hard to support his family, and all the wages he earned were taken away by his parents and doubled, and he turned to do plastic surgery for his second child. Fortunately, the face value of Extreme Yue 07 is really handsome.

▎ Extreme performance. Based on Geely SEA architecture, equipped with 800V dual motors, the total power is 530kW, the peak torque is 653N·m, the maximum speed is 230km/h, and the acceleration of 100 kilometers is 3.5 seconds, which is 0.4 seconds faster than the basic version of 911.

By the way, the performance of the Extreme Yue 07 dual-motor version is almost the same as that of the Lectra Z10, but the speed is slightly lower.

▎ Extreme endurance. Extremely over 07 three models, equipped with three kinds of batteries. The low-grade lithium iron phosphate battery is 71.4 degrees, which comes from honeycomb energy; The middle distribution is 100-degree ternary lithium battery, which comes from Times Geely; High match is 93.4-degree ternary lithium battery, from Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited Kirin battery.

The CLTC life of three batteries is very easy to remember: 660km, 880km and 770km.

The most cost-effective is the middle match, which can have a battery life of 880km as long as it is 219,900. The concept is that from Shanghai to Beijing, only one charge is enough.

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In order to prove the strength of the battery, Zeng Yuqun was also invited to the scene at the press conference of Extreme Yue 07.

▎ Extreme security. Gao Huan, CTO of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, came to the stage to explain the battery technology. He gave a landmark conclusion: At present, the battery failure rate in Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited has been reduced to 1/100 million, which is equivalent to the change from PPM to PPB, which is three orders of magnitude lower, or the safety has been improved by 1000 times.

The Kirin battery carried by the ultra-Yue 07 High-Match uses Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited’s original double-large-surface water-cooling technology, aviation-grade thermal insulation pad and specially controlled non-diffusion technology, and a bulletproof coating is sprayed on the bottom of the battery pack, which improves the waterproof, wear-resistant and impact-resistant capabilities. It is said that if you wrap eggs with it, it will not break when you fall from more than ten floors.

The live video shows that when the Kirin battery pack was shot, bullet holes only appeared on the outermost side of the bottom guard plate, and the bottom guard plate itself was not penetrated, and the bullet finally got stuck in the bulletproof coating. Stand still for 2 hours, without fire or smoke.

▎ Extreme energy consumption. Permanent magnet synchronous motor adopts 800V silicon carbide technology, uses the thinnest silicon steel sheet and X-pin winding in the world, and the comprehensive efficiency of electric drive is as high as 92%. This makes the minimum power consumption only 12.4 degrees/100 kilometers.

According to Xia Yiping, the BMW 5 Series costs more than one yuan to run a kilometer, and it costs only 3.7 cents to run a kilometer over the 07. The premise is to use home-filled piles to charge at night. Take Shanghai as an example. After 22: 00, the electricity charge is 0.33 yuan/kWh, and it takes 33 yuan to charge 100 kWh. If you run 880km, it is only 3.7 cents.

The problem is that CLTC’s battery life of 880km does not mean that it can actually run so much. According to the spring and autumn period, you can run 700km, which is 4.7 points/km. Not bad either.

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▎ Extreme energy supplement. Also thanks to the 800V high-voltage system, the battery charging rate of Extreme Yue 07 reached 5C, and the charging time of 10%-80% was only 10 minutes. In the same charging method, it takes 10.5 minutes for the second-generation BRICS battery of Krypton 007 and 15 minutes for the first-generation BRICS battery of Lectra Z10.

Xia Yiping also gave a specific value: charging for 10 minutes can increase the battery life by 600km, which is equivalent to one kilometer per second. Che Jujun thinks that this premise is to use V3 super fast pile filling. Take krypton V3 pile as an example, its peak power is 800kW and its maximum current is 800 A.. To get close to this kind of power, there are probably only the latest charging piles of Wei Xiaoli and Hua Xiaote, and the power of most charging piles on the market is about 100kW.

Che Jujun measured the charging efficiency of the high-speed service area this summer. Taking Yinhe E8 as an example, charging 260km in 15 minutes is the peak level, and the median is 200km. Some overcharging stations in urban areas are even lower, about 140km.

Despite some praise and ideal working conditions, the product strength of Extreme Yue 07 is still quite powerful. Even when Che Jujun watched the Z10 in a Linke store, the sales said: It’s not Xiaomi SU7 that can compete with Linke Z10, but extremely Yue 07.

It should be a kind of recognition to be praised by competitors behind their friends. No wonder Xia Yiping smiles more naturally.

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When other car companies are still discussing whether to cooperate with Huawei to drive intelligently and whether to hand over their souls, Extreme Yue was born with a first-line soul, a first-line body, and a first-line face value: Baidu provided Apollo with intelligent driving, Geely provided the vast structure of SEA, and spent 300 million yuan on plastic surgery to properly build a Gao Fushuai.

The key is to worship Tesla as a teacher and concentrate on pure visual intelligent driving.

I feel that Extreme Yue 07 has filled all the buff that China car companies can think of. If it is not sold well again, it is not surprising that Xia Yiping is crying. A variable, still time. FSD’s entry into China is imminent. Before catfish enter the pond, the native fish must practice their internal skills, otherwise it will not look good if they are really eaten in a mess. At this time, the polar cross 07 may become a leading fish. It can only be done well, otherwise there will be fewer opportunities for so many drivers in Wuhan to reduce.

As for the sales volume, the news is that 5000 vehicles were ordered within 48 hours of listing. It can’t be compared with the 88,000 vehicles in 24 hours of Xiaomi SU7, or even the 5,000 vehicles in 24 hours of Lexus Z10, but it is very good for a new brand that once sold more than 100 vehicles a month.

The big deal is that Baidu will do it again, and let radish run and purchase a batch of extremely fast.