November 14, Changan brand day activities in the CCTV "first release" program premiere, at the scene of Changan Automobile Chairman Zhu Huarong formally announced that Changan Automobile will be jointly with Huawei and Ningde Times to create a new high-end intelligent car brand, which also means that the brand will focus on high-end intelligent products.

In addition to announcing the three joint efforts to build a high-end smart car brand, Changan Ark Architecture, an evolutionary smart architecture, was also unveiled for the first time at the scene. This platform is a new car-making concept in Changan Automobile's R&D 4.0 era, and the Ark Architecture is extremely important to Changan Automobile's continuous improvement of the basic performance of the entire vehicle in the context of intelligence and big data. The architecture can encompass small to medium-large classes, which also covers 90% of the current vehicle classes.

Products under the Ark Architecture support safe and scalable intelligent driving configurations and are compatible with 8 engine states, with displacements covering 1.2-2.0L, and 3 types of electrified power, including 48V low-voltage hybrid (LV-HEV), high-voltage hybrid (HV-HEV), and plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and are matched with 8 types of transmission modules, with 16 modes of power combinations, which are fully satisfied with the forward-looking power layout. It can be said that the current mainstream power system it can include.

The new generation of products under the future Ark architecture will also carry the current Changan new generation of Blue Whale series engines, and the official said that the 0-100km/h acceleration time of the future new products will be shortened by a maximum of 24% compared with the existing models. At the technical level, by lowering the engine crankshaft center 12mm, power arrangement inclination angle from the front 7.5? optimized to the rear 10? and other technical ways, the Ark architecture under the model can make the powertrain layout more compact, the focus is to allow the vehicle's center of gravity to drop 20-65mm, the daily driving experience can be brought to the front of a wider field of vision, a lower center can also allow us to drive the stability of daily driving Better.

With the tripartite alliance of Changan Automobile, Huawei and Ningde Times, it also means that Changan has entered a new stage. I believe that the strong combination, coupled with the launch of the new Ark architecture, will bring us products with a higher sense of security and quality in the future.

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