Time and Hotspots

Time and hotspots are like swords hanging over the heads of all new forces.

However, there is such a “stubborn” pure electric brand that has maintained silence for more than nine months between two statements – Salon Automobile.

Different objects have different sensitivities to time. For a new brand, more than nine months may be a test from establishment to extinction; for human beings, more than nine months means from the germination of life to birth.

And this time Salon Automobile expressed a message with more than 100 pages of PPT and three hours of explanation: for Salon Mechadragon, more than nine months means from initial appearance to near quantity production.

We also extracted three interesting “Doubles” from the vast content.

Brand Double

For those who have paid attention to Salon Automobile before, there is no need to say more. Newcomers who saw the Salon Mechadragon for the first time can quickly grasp the front-end core of this brand from the appearance of the vehicle-“Mechadragon”.

Therefore, this time Salon Automobile’s brand logo has undergone some new changes.

First, its Chinese name. Since “Mechadragon” is one of the core elements of the brand, Salon Automobile has incorporated it into the brand logo, and “Salon Mechadragon” has officially arrived. At this point, as the world’s first mech-tech brand, the name “Salon Mechadragon” sounds even “harder”.

Second, its English name. Above the Chinese logo of “Salon Mechadragon”, the letters “SAR” occupy a larger space.

Salon Mechadragon said that “S” represents “Soul”; “A” represents “AI”, “Ahead”, “Associate”; “R” represents “Relationship”. Stringing these three letters together, they want to “use speculation to enable humanity, technology, future, and circle to live together”.

This is even a somewhat obscure aspiration. In the small print below this PPT, they explain their ultimate goal: “Starting with cars, but not limited to cars.“Car is still the first foothold of SAR, and Salon Mechanical Dragon is also their “another answer to the world” with mecha technology.

Regarding the car itself, Salon Mechanical Dragon uses “Ultimate Function + Ultimate Performance + Ultimate Intelligence + Ultimate Interaction” to interpret their car-making ecology.

This also happens to be the four keywords for us to review this car.

“Ultimate function” is the concept that requires the most explanation, while it’s also the one that needs the least.

Official description of its appearance highlights it with “Combat star ring wide-body fender, mobile armor combat front face, mechanical ballistic three-dimensional waistline, storm spear double five-spoke wheel hub”.

The so-called “function” is the feeling you’d search for when you want to describe Salon Mechanical Dragon with one word after seeing its appearance.

This kind of functionality is almost unique. On the one hand, such a personalized appearance is not something everyone can design boldly, On the other hand, the mecha’s edges and lines that need to comply with safety standards belong to the typical “both required and expensive”.

Luckily, cost is clearly not a sensitive area for Salon Mechanical Dragon. This can also be found from its “Ultimate Performance”.

The first is fast. The peak power of the front and rear dual permanent magnet synchronous motors is 400 kW, and the peak torque is 763 Nm. The 3-second-level zero-to-hundred acceleration and the peak acceleration of 0.9g are the fruits of this. If you have no concept of 0.9g acceleration, it’s roughly equal to the acceleration when a fighter jet takes off.

The second is strong. If the CDC electronic controlled continuous damping adjustable shock absorber, Brembo front four-piston fixed caliper, 37,000 Nm/° of body torsional stiffness and other chassis hardware determine the bottom line of the mech’s handling, then the 3,572 hours of professional chassis tuning is to explore the handling limit of this set of hardware. This undoubtedly raises our appetite for its dynamic test drive.

Third is far. Battery packs of 93.9kWh and 111.6kWh support 610km and 730km of CLTC range, respectively. By 2023, there will even be a further range version of 802km.

SAR has a slogan, “Let the world be warm and cool.”

Obviously, the mech and performance shoulder the responsibility of “cool”, while “warm” is naturally taken on by intelligence and interaction.

Intelligent Double

The intelligence of intelligent vehicles can generally be divided into two parts: intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit.

On this front, Sarlon Mech Dragon has no exceptions, except in the next second.

The “ultimate intelligence” of Sarlon Mech Dragon first covers the coverage range of each type of sensor. 4 LiDARs, 7 8 million pixel HD cameras, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 4 panoramic fisheye cameras, and 12 ultrasonic radars build up a 5-fold 360° coverage perception system.

Above the intensive perception hardware is the industry’s only heterogeneous triple-system intelligent driving solution.

The intelligent driving of Mech Dragon is divided into three parts.

High-order automatic driving, consisting of dual high-performance intelligent driving computing platforms with 400 TOPS computing power and Monmenta software algorithms, which aims to intelligent navigation on highways and cities, memory parking, and valet parking.

L2 level intelligent driving assistance, undertaken by Bosch’s 5R millimeter-wave radar scheme, responsible for forward and backward lateral crossing warning and braking, blind spot monitoring warning, lane change assistance, and so on.

The forward safety system is separately responsible for reliable AEB automatic emergency braking and other functions by the mature Mobileye EyeQ4 scheme.

The top-notch intelligent driving hardware is undoubtedly in the industry’s first echelon.

On the intelligent cockpit side, it embodies the relatively soft “ultimate interaction”.Salon Mecha proposed a new cockpit interaction concept: the interactive screen in front of the driver should replace the traditional instrument cluster.

Their reason is that on one hand, based on the powerful hardware of Salon Mecha Dragon, traditional basic vehicle information is no longer that important on this vehicle. For example, energy consumption information, the Mecha Dragon is equipped with a battery pack of nearly 100 degrees, even with a sport driving style, it could still get hundreds of kilometers of endurance as a guarantee. At this point, is energy consumption information still important?

On the other hand, in the scenario of intelligent vehicles, information is no longer a one-way output from the vehicle to the person, but a smart flow interaction between the person and the cockpit. Therefore, they have set up two Touch Bar screens in the steering wheel control area, which can be linked with the scene’s changes. For example, when a phone call comes in, the right screen will become a shortcut option for answering or hanging up the call. Another example, when a user plays games in the car, these two screens can turn into the gamepad button layout.

Under this concept, the layout of the human-machine interface also bid farewell to fixed partition. The center console screen and the copilot screen, which are physically integrated, provide an infinite platform for the smooth flow of information and animations in different scenes.

Flow is the ultimate interaction that Salon Mecha understands.

Limited Edition Double

Most of the above belong to the inner beauty, and the Salon’s shipment-oriented nine-month closed-door operation is clearly aimed at “both internal and external repair”.

Therefore, at this year’s Chengdu Auto Show, Salon Mecha Dragon brought two new limited editions on the basis of the original model.

The Heavy-duty Concept Version goes beyond the concept of extreme sports and takes the Mecha style to a more extreme level of heavy-duty.

The EVA Limited Edition has moved the “soul of Mecha” for many Mecha fans. For example, our new colleague Cheng Yuan had not previously known about the Salon Mecha Dragon, but at the moment he saw the EVA limited edition picture, he immediately announced that he would become the owner of a Salon Mecha car.

The “Super Charging Station” has created a video about the more intuitive content of these two limited edition products at the first time. You can click the link below to learn more.

Due to our in-depth understanding of the product, we have developed two opinions about the salon mech dragon.

Firstly, people who buy Salon Mech Dragon are definitely familiar with the product, which is not necessarily true for people who buy other electric car brands.

Secondly, people who buy a Salon car definitely have feelings and love for the brand, which may not necessarily be true for people who buy other electric car brands.

We believe that those who read this will resonate with our two viewpoints, and this resonance means that we want to know more information and experience.

Currently, Salon Mech Dragon has opened its first store in Chengdu, and the pace will accelerate in the second half of the year.

Salon Mech Dragon plans to complete the construction of 42 stores in 14 cities by the end of this year, and the number will expand to more than 160 stores in 60 cities next year.

However, the mech dragon not only exists in reality, but also in consciousness and virtual reality.

In the world of the animation “Neon Genesis Evangelion”, “Children” refers to those selected by the Marduk institution. At the same time, they are also people who can pilot the EVA mech.# Welcome, “Qualified” Folks!

Hello there, all you “qualified” folks! Welcome to the world of mechs.

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.