"We give the user the right to define more functions while ensuring the safety of the car. This architecture has epoch-making significance and will definitely push smart cars to a whole new level and bring users a thousand-sided experience." Lu Fang, CEO of Voyah Auto, said confidently.
On November 14, Voyah officially launched ESSA+SOA intelligent electric bionic body, and the brand's first sedan, also the first new car with this architecture, Chasing Light, will also debut in December.
For Voyah, it will not only be the first brand to complete the full category layout of sedan, SUV and MPV in China's new energy vehicle market, but also, more importantly, a full value chain full stack self-research system belonging to Voyah is gradually surfacing.
In the media communication session after the conference, Lu Fang also answered a series of questions from the media and users, hoping that it will help you understand and know ESSA+SOA intelligent electric bionic body.
Why spend a lot of money to build ESSA+SOA?
The development of an exclusive electric vehicle architecture is a must for every new energy vehicle company, which not only requires a lot of capital and manpower investment. And if the scale system cannot be formed in the later stage, then there is a great probability that the initial investment will be "wasted" and even bring down the whole enterprise.
For Voyah, which is born with high-end, the landing of pure electric architecture is of great significance to both the product and the brand. Lu Fang said, through ESSA+SOA intelligent electric bionic body, we hope to really make Voyah a bigger ecological platform, so that more users can participate in the product co-creation and become a member of the ecological partners. At the same time, this software, architecture and system will become an open architecture to make more contribution to the intelligent and electric industry of Chinese new energy vehicles.
What are the advantages of the platform architecture compared to other brands?
Lu Fang said that ESSA+SOA intelligent electric bionic body has solved the problems faced by new energy vehicles in both electrification and intelligence to the greatest extent, and is the best solution under the current technical conditions. The editor also summarized the four core advantages of ESSA+SOA intelligent electric bionic body.
1、Built for Electricity
ESSA architecture is the only architecture in the industry that is compatible with multiple power systems based on pure electric platform, it is developed based on pure electric platform and can be compatible with pure electric, extended range electric and intelligent multi-mode multiple power solutions. At the same time, for the future, Lu Fang said Voyah also reserved hydrogen fuel cell power solution.
2、Modularity
The ESSA architecture is highly modular in mechanical parts, electrical and electronic parts, and the common rate of parts among platforms and models can reach 85% to meet the derivative expansion of different models, such as trim level sedan, SUV, MPV, and even crossover models.
And the advantages of modularity need not be said, the most direct is conducive to price and cost control. For consumers, can use the same price to buy higher configuration models, and have a very low cost of vehicle maintenance; for enterprises, can significantly improve the efficiency of the vehicle development, to provide users with different products quickly.
3、Software is completely decoupled from hardware
Voyah SOA electrical and electronic architecture consists of one centralized controller OIB plus four VIUs (area controllers), and can completely decouple the software from the hardware. At present, many people in the industry say they are SOA, for example, they only do software decoupling in the cockpit domain, but Voyah is the first one in China to really decouple the whole domain and realize centralized.
Voyah's central controller OIB
"If you look at the hardware form, you can indeed find that our centralized SOA electrical and electronic architecture is very different from other car companies. The popular solutions inside the industry now are still stuck in the architecture of three VIUs, but Voyah has crossed over to the centralized control. In addition, we have decoupled the software service from the hardware, giving users the possibility of very many custom scenarios."
Voyah VIU area controller
And based on the highly modular design concept, both OIB and VIU are also designed with standardized interfaces, which can be upgraded later to make the current vehicle compatible with the next generation of higher performance hardware. It's like we bought a desktop computer, through the phase later upgrade the motherboard, CPU, graphics card, to achieve performance improvement.
4、Giving the definition of vehicle to users
Voyah also introduces developer ecology, so that more users and even more partners can participate in the development of Voyah's models, and even after the mass production vehicles are delivered to users, they can also be co-creative and developed, so as to truly realize the thousand and thousand faces of the car and give the definition of the vehicle to the users.
In terms of safety, Lu Fang said, not only the passive safety of the whole car, active safety, intelligent driving safety, but also the electrical and electronic architecture of the whole car, Voyah has made great efforts. For example, for information security, Voyah has created the first firewall and trusted execution environment, both of which are designed to provide users with the ultimate security products.
"In order to provide a better car experience to users. Based on Voyah's open architecture, we hope more users or more car companies will join this ecology together to bring progress to our Chinese car market and provide users with an experience that is ahead of other car markets." Lu Fang added.
When will the 800V high-voltage fast charging technology be released?
At the end of the meeting, Lu also revealed the progress of Voyah's research and development of 800V high-voltage fast charging technology. Lu Fang said that the development and testing of 800V high voltage fast charging technology has been completed, and it is not difficult for Voyah to develop the technology, but the key is which model to debut.
Because for 800V high-voltage fast charging technology, a single new car equipment is not enough, more need for infrastructure facilities on the ground to
use. "We also hope that this charging ecology can be improved quickly. This requires not only the efforts of Voyah, but also the efforts of all intelligent electric vehicle companies." Lu Fang said.
Editor's Comment
In the editor's opinion, the development of exclusive pure electric architecture is like a big mountain, the process of climbing over it is tough, but once it succeeds, the road in the future will be smoother and smoother. Because it is the foundation, can indicate the direction for the development of car companies, provide resources. As a "national team", Voyah has already climbed over this mountain, and we will see it bring us more wonderful performances.
