Outstanding design and rich intelligent assisted driving functions--In-depth analysis of the LEAPMOTOR C01

In the past two years, with the continuous implementation of car electrification, domestic new energy vehicles have also ushered in comprehensive development, the major car-making new force brands began to collective force, and emerged many high-quality models. The Leapmotor C01 is one of them, it is the first CTC technology production sedan under Leapmotor  car, located in the medium and large cars, the car since the beginning of the booking, has been a very good hot performance, then the Leapmotor C01 overall product power how? The next let us from the appearance of value, interior design, intelligent cabin, space performance, assisted driving and safety, to analyze it specifically!

As for the exterior, the new car's appearance adopts a new design, creating a sense of curved surfaces through soft lines, giving it a full and generous feeling. The front part, with the typical closed shape of pure electric sedan, the front grille adopts concave treatment, echoing with the through-designed headlight cluster, which is set with 48 crystal headlights inside, not only can show the dynamic effect of flowing water and breathing, but also support a variety of light language modes such as unlock, lock, accompany me home and fast and slow charging. The bottom of the through-ventilation cooling openings, using a two-color design, the overall more simple, but also can effectively unblock the airflow under the car.

 LEAPMOTOR C01 exterior

The body part adopts the popular coupe style, with a downward-pressing front end and a large sliding roof design, creating a good sense of movement. The upper and lower "double waistline" adopts a straight design, making the body more slender, while the hidden door handles, bezel-less doors and large wheel design highlight the unique attributes of new energy vehicles.

At the rear, echoing the front design, the taillight clusters are connected with the glossy black trim strip to form a running design, while the duck-tail spoiler design at the top, together with the raised rear surround at the bottom and the rear diffuser decoration, further enhance the sporty feeling at the rear.

The interior design of the Leapmotor C01 is relatively in line with the trend, simple and without losing the sense of technology. The center control part, using a symmetrical "T" layout, the entire center console almost no physical buttons, looks relatively simple and neat. The large size through the triple screen creates a good sense of technology, the three screens have their own functions, the center screen integrates all the car functions, the passenger screen is mainly entertainment, but the triple screen does not use a one-piece packaging process, so the overall sense is not very strong.

 LEAPMOTOR C01 interior

In terms of workmanship and materials, large areas of soft materials are used to cover the interior, and silver trim and stitching are incorporated to enhance the interior. The interior door panels are covered with full leather for a better overall feel, while the suede headliner, leather steering wheel and leather seats further enhance the comfort and premium feel. The color scheme is also more sophisticated, with the solid color interior in black and reef gray being more elegant, while the dual color interior in black/wood brown and reef gray/sky blue is more personalized and stylish.

In terms of space, the length, width and height of the Zero C01 are 5050mm/1902mm/1509mm (1515mm for the 4WD performance version) and the wheelbase is 2930mm, the length and wheelbase have a medium to high level among the same competing models. In terms of riding space, the headroom is relatively generous when the 178cm tall experience enters the front seats, but the width of the car is affected by the width of the front row is relatively general. Keeping the front seats unchanged, the rear headroom is slightly limited, but the legroom is excellent, with the distance from the knee to the seat back close to 3 fists.

As for the luggage compartment, it is equipped with dual front/rear luggage compartments. Due to the structure of the car, its rear luggage compartment opening is not very large, but it has a good depth performance and better loading capacity compared to other competing models.

Ride experience, Leapmotor C01 with 2 + 3 conventional seating layout, low models for imitation leather seats (optional Nappa leather), the top model for Nappa leather seats, the overall texture performance are still good. Front seat internal padding is relatively soft, cushion length is sufficient (510mm), the cushion support and backrest both sides of the wing package are not bad, the rear seat is relatively flat, both sides of the cushion length is moderate and slightly elevated front section, support performance is good, the middle cushion is slightly shorter than the sides, for passengers with long legs, support may be less adequate, but its internal padding is quite thick, and also equipped with headrests.

In terms of seat functionality, both the driver and passenger seats are electrically adjustable, with the driver's seat adjustable in 8 directions and the passenger's seat adjustable in 4 directions. The front seats are equipped with heating and memory functions as standard, and the top model is also equipped with ventilation and massage functions (optional for the lower and middle models). The second row of seats is also functional, the top model supports power adjustment and heating function, other configurations can also be equipped with optional heating function, and are equipped with armrests and cup holders. In addition, there is also a foldable phone holder, front 12V power port/USB port, rear TYPE-C port, 15W wireless phone charging and Bluetooth headset charging area and other user-friendly features.

The former has an electric motor with a maximum power of 200kW (272hp) and a peak torque of 360N-m, with a range of 525km (standard range), 606km (long range) and 717km (extra long range). The latter has a total electric motor power of 400kW (544hp), peak torque of 720N-m and a pure electric range of 630km.

Suspension, front and rear dual independent suspension, front suspension for double-wishbone independent suspension, rear suspension for rear multi-link independent suspension, with load-bearing body structure, the overall stability performance is good. Test drive experience, chassis tuning is slightly tight, low-speed driving is relatively easy, the steering wheel is very clear, high-speed driving or rapid cornering, can also feel the toughness of the chassis, for the fine vibration filtered more thoroughly, and encounter undulations larger bumpy sections, the vehicle will not appear more obvious up and down floating.

In terms of intelligent connectivity, the Leapmotor C01 is equipped with the Leapmotor OS intelligent cockpit system, with Qualcomm 8155 car-grade chip as the core, with a triple screen as the carrier, the overall intelligent performance is relatively outstanding. The hardware part, using the mainstream triple screen design, from left to right, 10.25-inch full LCD instrumentation, 12.8-inch central control screen and 10.25-inch passenger screen, of which the full LCD instrumentation and passenger screen resolution is 1920 * 720 pixels, the resolution of the central control screen is 1920 * 1080 pixels, the three screens can be independently operated, but also to achieve three screen linkage. The software part, the car system in addition to more than 40 pre-installed online applications (such as AMAP, KuGoo music, Himalaya and IQIYI video, etc.), can also be adapted to nearly 100 APP applications, users can install and uninstall at will according to their needs and preferences, audio and video entertainment part is also equipped with Thunder-stone car KTV system and exclusive custom microphone, etc..

The AI intelligent voice system adopts KDDI 3.5 generation voice recognition system, which can recognize most natural voice commands with high recognition rate and timely feedback. In addition to supporting regular functions such as telephone communication, navigation system, multimedia system, air conditioning and body control, it also supports full-scene voice, continuous dialogue, mouth instead of hand, no wake-up for common commands and custom greetings, etc., and it can also You can also interact with the car with questions and answers. The three modes are guardian mode, nap mode and power saving mode, and the power saving mode can maximize power saving when opened. Cell phone interconnection mapping, equipped with OPPO intelligent car link, support OPPO, Millet, Vivo cell phone mapping, as well as OPPO watch, cell phone car link. In terms of vehicle control, it has a complete cell phone APP control function, which can realize remote vehicle control, air conditioning control, service reservation, vehicle monitoring, digital key, charging management, and trip log, etc.

In terms of intelligent assisted driving, the Leapmotor Pilot assistance system can reach L2 level, and the system's software and hardware performance are relatively good. For the hardware part, the whole system is equipped with 28 sensing hardware as standard, which includes 1 binocular forward sensing camera, 1 face recognition camera, 4 surround view cameras, 4 blind area cameras, 5 millimeter wave radars and 12 ultrasonic radars (6 front/6 rear), etc. As for the chip and arithmetic power, it is equipped with the Synerchip 01 chip, with a total chip arithmetic power of 8.4 TOPS. Compared with other models in the same class, its arithmetic power performance is not outstanding, but the good thing is that it supports OTA upgrades and can achieve continuous updates.

In the software part, more than 20 intelligent driving functions are standard, including HWA high-speed assisted driving, ACC full-speed adaptive cruise control, ICA high-speed cruise assist, TJA traffic congestion assist, LCC lane centering assist, ALC automatic lane change assist, SDIS narrow lane assist system, AEB automatic emergency braking, RCW rear collision warning, FCW forward collision warning, LDW lane departure Early warning, BSV blind zone view and RCTA rear lateral oncoming vehicle warning. Specifically, if the vehicle is found to be unintentionally deviating from the lane, the LDW lane departure warning system will provide a timely reminder; if the distance to the vehicle in front is too small, the FDM forward distance monitoring system will issue a warning; and the FCW forward collision warning system and RCW rear collision warning system will monitor the driving conditions of vehicles in front and behind in real time, which can avoid tailgating and being tailgated.

TJA Traffic Congestion Assist and SDIS Narrow Lane Assist are more practical. The former can provide assistance in traffic jams or slow moving to reduce the driving burden when following a car, and the latter can automatically open 360° panoramic view in certain specific situations to assist the driver to get out of trouble. The LCA lane change warning, BSD blind zone monitoring warning and BSV blind zone viewing system are paired to monitor the information of vehicles in the blind zone when changing lanes or turning to warn of the risk of changing lanes or turning.

In addition, the LEAPMOTOR C01 is equipped with AR navigation system, APA automatic parking system and NAP intelligent navigation assistance system. The AR navigation system can be integrated with the actual road condition screen to show more road information; APA automatic parking system is more practical and can achieve fully automatic parking without driver intervention, which can effectively improve parking efficiency when facing complex parking environment such as small parking space and narrow space; NAP intelligent navigation assistance system matches the high precision map and can independently enter and exit the ramp, overtake, speed limit adjustment and select the optimal lane planning according to the navigation system.

In terms of safety, the LEAPMOTOR C01 performs pretty well in terms of body safety, intelligent power safety and configuration safety. The body safety part is equipped with high-strength cage body, high compressive strength roof and one-piece thermoformed door rings, etc. The proportion of high-strength steel in the body reaches 73.9%, while the front crash beam is also made of aluminum alloy with lighter mass and higher strength.

The intelligent power safety part is equipped with battery packless CTC technology, variable architecture oil-cooled electric drive assembly and full-time AI BMS battery management system, etc. Among them, CTC technology integrates the battery with the lower body, which can effectively reduce the number of parts by 20%, improve the torsional rigidity of the body by 25% and increase the battery layout space by 14.5% compared with the traditional solution. Variable architecture oil-cooled electric drive assembly integrates motor, transmission and controller in a compact design, which can effectively improve the efficiency and service life of the assembly. The full-time AI BMS battery management system can realize data monitoring, safety warning, usage statistics, vehicle network interaction, economy management and power precision management through real-time online inspection and big data management.

In terms of configuration safety, the LEAPMOTOR C01's active and passive safety features are almost fully equipped, such as ABS anti-lock, brake assist, body stability system, active safety warning system (lane departure warning, forward collision warning, rear collision warning, reverse car side warning and DOW door warning), active braking, lane assist, lane keeping assist system, fatigue driving tips, road traffic sign recognition, tire pressure display, front airbags, front side airbags and side air curtains, etc. as standard.

Overall, the overall product power of the LEAPMOTOR C01 is still relatively good. The coupe-style body, frameless doors, hidden door handles, large trilby screen, heated leather seats, penetrating taillights, interior ambient lighting and panoramic canopy meet the needs of young consumers in pursuit of personalization. In terms of performance, intelligent technology and safety, the Leapmotor C01 also shows notable strength. In addition to good acceleration and range, the 28 sensory hardware, 23 intelligent assisted driving functions and rich safety configurations that come standard across the system are also very attractive. However, as a latecomer, Leapmotor C01 can eventually win the favor of the majority of consumers, or to be tested by the market.

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