On October 26, 2022, the China Automotive Technology Research Center announced the results of the new round of C-NCAP tests, and Geely's large five-seat flagship SUV, the Star Yue L, was awarded a five-star C-NCAP rating with a combined score of up to 85.7%. It is worth mentioning that the Star Plus L has also become the industry's first five-star model since the implementation of the new C-NCAP (version 2021) standard.
The evaluation data shows that the Star Plus L performs very well in occupant protection, pedestrian protection and active safety, and scores higher than the industry average in five of the items, demonstrating its high safety performance.
C-NCAP (Version 2021) is the most stringent in history, and the Star Plus L was crowned with a high score of five stars
As a domestic authoritative auto assessment, C-NCAP (China New Car Assessment Program) will take the initiative to upgrade the safety crash test standards every once in a while, and has been in line with the international mainstream NCAP as a whole, and some of the assessment items have even achieved international leadership. The technical requirements of the newly revised C-NCAP (2021 version) regulations have been comprehensively upgraded.
C-NCAP is established by the China Automotive Technology Research Center, an independent and impartial third-party evaluation organization, to give consumers systematic and objective vehicle safety information through safety performance evaluation, and promote automobile enterprises to develop and produce in accordance with higher safety standards, ultimately effectively reducing injuries and losses in road traffic accidents.
Compared with the 2018 version of the evaluation protocol, the 2021 version of the test items are more comprehensive and more difficult, C-NCAP (2021 version) evaluation involves occupant protection, pedestrian protection, active safety three modules. Among them, the occupant protection module, in the frontal medium offset overlap collision conditions with MPDB barriers instead of ODB barriers; new dynamic evaluation of the second row of child occupant protection and static evaluation; new air curtain pressure retention, E-call and rear SBR whether to ride the monitoring function and other assessments; pedestrian protection module, head test new WAD2100-2300 two-wheeled vehicle head impact area, leg type The test uses the aPLI leg type that better reflects the biomechanical characteristics of the human lower limbs to carry out the test; active safety module, under the enrichment of the original functional evaluation scenario, new AEB two-wheelers, LKA, LDW, BSD and SAS evaluation, new headlight safety evaluation, including low beam and high beam illumination performance, glare, advanced lighting technology test. The above shows that the new version of C-NCAP evaluation is more comprehensive and strict on vehicle safety.
In addition, C-NCAP (2021 version) part of the evaluation content even exceeds the current 2020-2022 version of Euro-NCAP requirements, especially in the evaluation of side air curtain protection, C-NCAP than Euro NCAP more unfolded form, dynamic protection and air curtain pressure requirements; pedestrian protection C-NCAP than Euro NCAP head impact increased WAD2100 C-NCAP adds WAD2100 -2300 test area, which has a wider test range, and adopts the most advanced aPLI leg impactor in the industry; in active safety, C-NCAP adds ESC and lighting safety evaluation to Euro NCAP, which is a more comprehensive investigation of safety performance.
It can be seen that the new version of C-NCAP evaluation is more comprehensive and strict in its examination of vehicle safety. The Star Plus L received a five-star safety rating from C-NCAP (version 2021), fully demonstrating the excellent quality of Geely products and the safety genes of the world-class CMA architecture.
Occupant protection score of 89.49%, excellent crash safety design
Thanks to the global leading safety gene of CMA architecture, the Star Plus L is born with high-level safety strategies and can easily cope with the requirements of crash star tests and safety regulations in the global market. In this test, the Star Plus L scored 89.49% in occupant protection with its excellent crash safety design, far exceeding the average score of 71.35% for the tested models.
In terms of materials, the Xingyue L uses 26 thermoformed parts around the "cage" structure of the passenger compartment, accounting for 22% of the total weight and 79% of the high-strength steel, which far exceeds that of other products in its class. The front bumper uses 7-series high-strength aluminum alloy to achieve light weight and energy saving while further enhancing crash safety. The key safety parts of the body are all made of ultra-high strength, accounting for 30.7% of the total weight, which are distributed in key safety locations throughout the vehicle, building a basic barrier for safety.
In terms of structure, the roof compressive strength of Xingyue L reaches 87.3KN, which can withstand 5.23 times of the roof compressive capacity, significantly better than the average level of joint venture brands. The unique elongated design of the energy-absorbing box, the unique six-rectangular cross-section and the local strengthening structure can ensure that the box can withstand a stronger impact and absorb more collision energy than the general energy-absorbing box, thus protecting the body beam from deformation or less deformation during the collision, improving the convenience of maintenance and reducing maintenance costs. In a high-speed frontal collision, the engine may be crushed into the cockpit. In order to ensure the survival space, Xingyue L adopts the design of frontal collision subframe shedding, in a high-speed heavy frontal collision, the front subframe is disconnected from the body to make enough space for the engine to sink, so as to ensure the cockpit is not deformed, thus minimizing the injury to the occupants.
In terms of occupant protection, it is equipped with class-leading active pretensioning seat belts, which combined with ADAS signals can achieve occupant safety positioning and pretensioning force-limiting functions during a collision; equipped with pressure-holding side air curtains, whose pressure retention rate is as high as 87.61%, much higher than the 50% requirement of C-NCAP, to meet the demand for occupant protection under rollover conditions; anti-whiplash safety seats can achieve a 50 mm seat translation after a rear-end collision, which can reduce the impact on occupants by up to 40 percent. The anti-whiplash seat can achieve a 50 mm seat translation after a rear-end collision, which can reduce the impact on the occupants by up to 40-50%.
Active safety is comprehensive and detailed, and intelligent driving control is abundant and leading
Based on the intelligent gene empowerment of CMA architecture, the Star Plus L has leading safety performance, closely combining active and passive safety technologies, equipped with rich intelligent driving control, the intelligent driving control in the car reaches the level of L2, which can give stronger safety protection to the people in the vehicle.
The Xingyue L has 22 sensors with all-round super sensing, like an attentive guard at all times, and has a multi-scene driving assistance system with class-leading active safety risk-avoidance technology, like a mature car coach always accompanying. For example, if the vehicle encounters an obstacle vehicle at high speed, when the driver is unable to avoid an accident by braking, the emergency obstacle avoidance steering assistance system will assist the driver to achieve steering faster and avoid rear-end accidents. In addition, the Star Plus L is also equipped with RCW rear collision warning, TSI traffic sign recognition system, AEB pre-collision avoidance, large vehicle intelligent dodge and other core risk avoidance safety to avoid dangerous conditions at all times.
Considerate and attentive pedestrian protection, practicing the concept of all-area safety
In the concept of all-area safety, CMA architecture has exclusive safety technologies and standards. As the flagship SUV of CMA architecture, the StarCross L not only has safety blood in its bones, but also has strict requirements for every safety guarantee to obtain the ultimate safety performance in all areas and meet the global major safety standards of all-area safety technology.
All-area safety emphasizes on people-oriented, all-round attention to itself and the other vehicle driver and passengers
It covers various scenarios in the use of the vehicle, such as driving, parking, maintenance and repair, including life safety, health safety, property safety and privacy safety. Xingyue L adheres to the concept of full-domain safety development and provides full protection for the head and legs of pedestrians outside the car, with a pedestrian protection score of 76.81%, especially in the health safety domain using advanced environmental protection technology, air management technology, CN95 filter technology, so that the car is completely isolated from pollution and enjoys forest oxygen bar level fresh air, giving the safest environment for the elderly, children, pregnant women and other special people.
Re-evidence of high value and high quality, the Starling L opens a new era of Geely's five-star safety
Since its launch last year, the Xingyue L has been a hot seller, with average monthly sales of over 10,000, and has always maintained a leading position in the segment market, paving the way for the popularization of high-end products with high value and high quality. Since the implementation of C-NCAP (2021 model), there have been ten models of independent and joint venture, fuel and pure electric models tested, and Xingyue L is the first model that passed the test successfully and obtained five-star evaluation, which once again proves its high value and high quality.
Meanwhile, this C-NCAP crash test fully demonstrates Geely's strong R&D capability and responsible attitude to consumers. Geely has always insisted on independent research and development, and under the guidance of the "safety first" research and development strategy, it has taken a series of initiatives such as in-depth research on traffic accidents, construction of a constantly improving safety technology system, and comprehensive practice of C-NCAP evaluation, and has come out of a road of Chinese automobile safety practice. As the first to pass the new version of the C-NCAP five-star leader, Geely will work harder to make good cars for users!
