On November 19th, at the 2021 Guangzhou International Auto Show, GAC Aion officially unveiled the AION LX Plus.
At last year’s Guangzhou Auto Show, GAC Aion announced its independence and now, after only one year, we can see what achievements GAC Aion has unlocked:
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In terms of battery technology innovation, GAC Aion has developed technologies such as the clip battery, the ultra-fast battery, and the sponge silicon negative electrode battery.
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By 2023, a swappable battery electric vehicle (BEV) model based on the GEP 3.0 platform will be mass-produced and will achieve hardware plug-and-play, software updates, and L4 autonomous driving capabilities.
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Since the mixed-ownership reform was launched, the efficiency of GAC Aion’s organization has been effectively improved. The mixed-ownership reform of GAC Aion will be completed by as soon as 2022.
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Up to now, GAC Aion has established 166 car dealerships and 113 supermarkets in key cities across the country, with a total of 279 channel end stores.
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Currently, the Aion Intelligent Ecological Factory has achieved 15% of its production needs with clean energy through “photovoltaic + energy storage”, and will continue to improve the percentage to over 30% through technological transformation and energy conservation. At the same time, wind and nuclear power will be introduced to achieve 100% clean energy supply, as well as participate deeply in afforestation. By 2023, it will build the first zero-carbon factory of GAC.
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Currently, the production capacity of the Aion Intelligent Ecological Factory is 100,000 vehicles per year. Due to the surge in user orders, the capacity utilization rate has exceeded 140%. In order to meet the growing demand for Aion products in the new energy vehicle market, GAC Aion will complete the expansion of the first factory’s production capacity to 200,000 vehicles in early 2022, and the second 200,000 capacity factory will also be built and put into operation at the end of next year. By 2023, it will have a production capacity of 400,000 vehicles per year.
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At the GAC Group’s press conference, a new electronic and electrical architecture named “Xingling” was also announced. GAC assembled a team of more than 1,000 R&D personnel and invested 12 billion yuan to successfully develop the Xingling architecture, which has more than 150 core patents, with a proportion of invention patents accounting for more than 80%.
The Star Architecture is an electronic and electrical system architecture that combines car and cloud computing with the help of three core computers, namely the digital imaging cloud, the central computing machine, the intelligent driving computer, and the information entertainment computer. It is equipped with area controllers to support pure electric and hybrid control, and constructed using high-speed Ethernet and 5G technologies.
Compared with the distributed architecture consisting of 53 electronic control units, the Star Architecture reduces the number of controllers by about 20 while increasing computing power by 50 times and shortening wire harnesses by approximately 40%. By utilizing high-speed Ethernet, it improves data transmission rate by 10 times, achieving plug-and-play hardware and regularly updated software. In addition, the independent encryption management module implements the ASIL D safety standard through redundant design of brake, steering, and electrical systems and the use of various algorithms such as national encryption standards and SECOC.
AION LX Plus Lives Up to Its Flagship Title
-The driving range exceeds 1,000 kilometers.
As the flagship SUV model of GAC-Aion, the AION LX Plus has a driving range of 1,008 km on the CLTC test cycle.
Under the technology of sponge silicon negative electrode, it overcomes the difficulties in application of silicon negative electrode materials in large-scale power batteries. Through the development of nearly 50 patents, the energy density of battery system is increased to 205 Wh/kg, and the battery energy reaches 144.4 kWh.
- Advanced Driver Assistance System
The AION LX Plus employs three second-generation intelligent variable focus lidars, six millimeter-wave radars, twelve ultrasonic radars, eight high-definition automatic driving cameras, four panoramic cameras, and two independent high-precision positioning modules for its sensing hardware in advanced driver assistance systems. In combination with a high computing power intelligent driving computing platform of 200 TOPS, it provides users with an unparalleled urban NDA leading assistant driving experience.
Compared with the first-generation mechanical LiDAR, the second-generation intelligent variable-focus LiDAR can achieve a maximum detection range of 250 meters, with an environmental awareness refresh rate of 10-30 Hz, millisecond-level detection frequency, and rapid identification of sudden situations such as merging and ghost cars; the resolution can be intelligently controlled between 0.2-0.05°, accurately capturing far-distance cones, bumps and other road conditions, predicting risks from a long distance, and decelerating and changing lanes in advance. In the future, AION LX Plus will also bring more highlight features to users through continuous OTA upgrades.
- 2-second Acceleration
AION LX Plus with a two-speed dual-motor “four-in-one” integrated electric drive technology can achieve 2.9s acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h!
- Configuration
AION LX Plus is equipped with Qualcomm 8155 cockpit chip and the latest ADiGO 4.0 intelligent IoT system, as well as a 15.6-inch high-definition central control screen, 10-speaker Alphard master audio, Nappa leather seats, second-row leg support, hidden electronic air outlet, and other configurations. The upgraded IBCM touchless start, new AR reality navigation, and DMS+OMS cockpit monitoring make the vehicle more functional.
Concept Car
Guangqi’s “Intelligent Flagship Electric Concept Sports Car” TIME also made its stunning debut at this year’s auto show. The car is themed around “TIME,” aiming to promote the time liberation of high-knowledge and elite people with the improvement of technological efficiency. The car’s outer structure combines bullet-penetrating fluidity with inner space of intelligent rounds, bringing users a collision and fusion of future and classic, further enriching people’s beautiful longing and yearning for future intelligent travel.
Source: GAC Aion
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