[Pacific Auto] The second model of Aouita — — (|) officially went on the market today (November/October, 2023). The new car has launched three models, with the price range of 30.08-40.08 million. At the 2023 Munich Auto Show, 12 made its world debut. Aouita is a brand jointly built by Huawei and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, and Aouita 12 is positioned as a medium and large sedan.
The new car provides 1+1+1 limited-time rights and interests, including 5,000 yuan deposit deduction of 15,000 yuan, that is, a discount of 10,000 yuan; Give 10,000 yuan to the matching fund and 10,000 yuan to the front double zero gravity seat. The first car owner’s lifetime warranty three-power system, as well as low-interest financial car purchase policy.
The design of the front of Aouita 12 is similar to that before, and the light groups on both sides form the opposite "double E" shape. Besides, there are not many similarities in the design. It is worth mentioning that Aouita 12 is still dominated by the famous designer Nader, who once led the design of classic car works.
The body lines are very smooth, and the design of the tail is a hunting version. The overall design of the tail is very heavy, with a rounded design, which greatly increases the recognition of the whole vehicle. The length, width and height of the new car are 5020/1999/1460mm respectively, and the suspended version is 1450,3020 mm. Among the same or the same size models, the car height is lower, creating a better hunting and running posture.
Aouita 12 offers an optional electronic rearview mirror, and the screens showing the rearview mirror effect are installed on both sides of the remote screen in the car. In fact, since July 1, 2023, cars have been allowed to drive on the road only through vehicles with external cameras as rearview mirrors. The electronic rearview mirror has a smaller visual blind area and has a better imaging effect in bad environments such as night/rainy days. The electronic rearview mirror does not provide electric folding.
The simple horizontal line shape at the tail still has high recognition. It is worth mentioning that the design of the rear windshield is cancelled at the rear of the new car, and it is necessary to rely on the streaming rearview mirror to obtain the rear road conditions, which not only brings better rear vision, but also makes the design of the whole rear more coordinated.
The design of the interior did not directly follow the design of Aouita 11. The most conspicuous thing is definitely the embedded huge 4K widescreen, with a size of 35.4 inches. As the digital information center of the whole car, it not only strengthens the function of the instrument panel, but also greatly enriches the interior scenes, bringing an unimaginable sense of science and technology. In addition, the unique steering wheel looks a bit like the steering wheel of a racing car, and it is standard in all departments, and the driving feel is also very exciting.
The suspended central control screen design is the same as that of Aouita 11. The big difference is that the new car will be equipped with the latest HarmonyOS OS 4.0 system, which is also the first appearance of the system.
The whole system comes standard with dual 50w wireless fast charging. When the mobile phone is put down, the lower part of the panel will automatically descend to form a certain angle, and a built-in hot fan is provided. This area is made of real wood imported from Europe, including mother-of-pearl, ash and birch, and the lines of the connected panels are the same.
The space in the back row is excellent. We have jointly developed the battery design of "Double Energy Well" with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited. The principle is that there is no battery in the area of the back row, which makes the space script space bigger. With the space optimization of the glass canopy, the ride in the back row is very comfortable.
In terms of power, Aouita 12 continues the power system of Aouita 11. The single-motor model is equipped with a motor of 230kW, while the four-wheel drive model is equipped with two motors with a maximum of 195kW and 230kW respectively. The battery pack is 94.53kW/h from Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited’s Tri-lithium battery, in which the maximum cruising range of the single-motor long version can reach 700km, and the dual-motor version is 650km.
In terms of chassis, the front and rear multi-link structure is adopted. In addition, the new car also provides an optional air suspension system, and the supply is provided by Kong Hui. This will be a highlight in terms of driving quality.
In terms of intelligent driving, the whole system comes standard with 29 intelligent driving sensors, including 3 laser radars, 3 millimeter-wave radars, 11 high-definition cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars and the autopilot chip of Huawei MDC810. The maximum computing power is 400TOPS, which is the strongest hardware capability among Huawei’s intelligent driving at present.
Vehicles use laser fusion GOD network, fully call the perception ability of laser radar, display obstacles in pixels by occupying grids, restore the 3D world, and accurately identify and avoid even abnormal obstacles that have not been learned by machines. In addition, the lidar is not afraid of night and backlight, and the safety of driving at night is greatly improved. BEV fusion perception+road topology inference network (RCR) can build the scene from the vehicle side, which makes the vehicle get rid of the dependence on high-precision maps.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, Aouita will gradually open the navigation assistance function of intelligent driving without relying on high-precision maps, and then the whole country will be able to use advanced intelligent driving.
Aouita 12 has a unique design, positioning a large-scale high-end coupe in China. In this price range, Krypton 001 is a direct competitor, and users of Weilai ET7 will also overlap.
In terms of size, Aouita 12 is located between two competing products, but the gap is not big. The differences among the three designs are still obvious. The Krypton 001 is a crossover model, while the ET7 is more inclined to executive cars. The biggest advantage of Aouita 12 lies in the intelligent experience under the blessing of Huawei, including Huawei ADS2.0 and HarmonyOS OS4.0 systems.
HarmonyOS cockpit has become the benchmark of intelligent cabin with its super smooth experience and Huawei’s HarmonyOS ecology, but how does Huawei lead the way in complex intelligent driving? The core is the GOD fusion sensing network and RCR road topology reasoning network in Huawei ADS.
GOD fusion perceptual network is like the process of people seeing and understanding objects. By voxelizing three-dimensional space, the system will try to predict whether each voxel is occupied or not, and predict whether the object is moving or static. Because GOD learns by geometry, not by the traditional annotation box, and geometry is the basic attribute of all objects, it is easy to generalize the model and identify all kinds of irregular obstacles.
The version of GOD fusion sensing network was 1.0 before, but now it is upgraded to version 2.0. In addition to the geometric information needed for driving, it also adds more semantic information needed for human driving, such as whether the roadside door is open, the turn signal status of the preceding car, whether the obstacle is winning or soft, and so on. In a word, version 1.0 makes intelligent driving safer, and version 2.0 makes intelligent driving more anthropomorphic.
RCR road topology inference network reconstructs the map by matching the navigation map with the real-time perception picture. However, in actual driving, real-time perception will be incomplete and delayed, such as being blocked by large trucks, which requires RCR road topology network to "brain" according to the network model, so as to reconstruct more complete map information.
(Photo/Text/Photo: Pacific Auto Chen Zifeng)