Safety is as important as life, both are only 0 and 1. The only difference is that life is absolute, while safety is relative and can be self-selected and constructed. For example, you may think it is safe to stay at home and not go out, but accidents can still happen, such as slipping in the shower, earthquakes, and so on. You can build a “life safety wall” by taking relative safety measures, such as adding non-slip mats and wearing non-slip slippers in the bathroom, living in areas with fewer earthquakes, or buying houses with qualified or even over-standard quality.
Turning to the topic at hand, the vehicles we use every day are the same. Every day, billions of vehicles travel on the roads of China, accidents happen every day, and lives are lost due to unexpected accidents. Many people may think that these accidents will never happen to themselves. When choosing a car, they are often attracted by external configurations such as large TVs, refrigerators, and luxury interiors. They rarely pay attention to configurations related to the safety of passengers, such as high-strength steel, steel thickness, and automatic unlocking.
Below are some of the safety configurations in the LanTu (Lynk & Co) cars.
Emergency braking and basic safety warnings are already provided by most car manufacturers. The key to Lynk&Co’s safety, in my opinion, lies in the body material and battery safety.
- Lynk&Co body material
A large amount of high-strength steel is used in the body, and 75% of the Lynk&Co Free car body has a strength of 1,500 megapascals. The Lynk&Co MPV also uses a 2,000-megapascal integrated hot-formed laser-welded door loop for the first time, covering the A to B-pillar side rails and bottom beams of the vehicle. To put it simply, the strength of the Lynk&Co body material is comparable to the steel used in the landing gear of China’s J-20 fighter jet, which is 1,780 megapascals.
- Lynk&Co battery
Although many people complain about slow charging, I feel that charging speed cannot be compared with battery safety. Whether it is the “mica” battery or the “amber” battery, their internal cells are wrapped up as independent individuals, which means that even if one of them experiences thermal runaway, it will not affect the other cells, and will not cause widespread thermal runaway of the battery. This is why “mica” and “amber” batteries are called “masters of thermal runaway management”.The English Markdown text with HTML tags preserved:
- Actual collision test
The most impressive collision test is the recent one.
As you can see from the screenshots below, Alpha was completely defeated. The materials used in the Voyah Dreamer surprised me.
Double-layered Voyah
- Actual case of vehicle owners
Let’s show you directly with the car owners’ pictures.
Case 1, rear-ended by a 60km/h heavy truck.
Case 2, heavy truck collision.
Minor Scratch Incident Case 3
I hope I’ll never take such photos. Safety comes first when driving.
This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.