'How big is the development space of SEV? Can cars and homes bring more surprises to us?' Li Xiang, a car home, set up a car and home, and Li Bin, a car dealer, set up Wei to the car But also Wei to founding one of the shareholders.) But compared to Wei, Li think the car and home, then feel a lot of low profile, and even some people feeling, one of the few sources, the source is often still personal microblogging Li.
On December 4, Li would like to expose the pictures of the first car and the family SEV on Weibo, saying that SEV officially went on the road and that cars and homes are about to start sharing travel business in Paris and San Francisco.
Small size, flexible
The reporter saw the picture of this car, the first impression is small, quite some 'old scooter' appearance features.But the internal design, SEV car is slightly different from the traditional sense of the car with a series of tandem This two-seater layout of front and rear makes it easy for traffic jams to pass between two cars and makes Lee think that the idea of a car parked side-by-side can be realized. , The car also has off-parking function, but also make effective use of space.
For SEV's position, the car and home think it will become a new category of transport, designed to provide innovative solutions for short trips to the city. Although the appearance of the body looks a little flattered, but it and the impression There is a world of difference between the old scooter, which has a top speed of 45km / h but can not be equated with the low-speed electric current commonly available in the market because of its speed limit. The car still has some of their own taste in it.It is reported, SEV smart light with the quality of passenger cars, low-speed electric vehicles in the continuation of compact, easy to put advantages at the same time, with even higher than the average passenger car Manufacturing process.The car also supports remote OTA upgrades, 4G network coverage and other functions, aimed at the user group is not simply the elderly.
Power, the new car powered by pure electric, the maximum mileage of 100km, and can not rely on charging pile, plug can be used directly to charge 220V, while the car battery removable replacement.
Why choose SEV? Shared car
In a bunch of new car manufacturers, Li think of the car and the home seems to be an alternative.Viewing the new car company, such as Wei Lai car released the first production model is 7 SUV - ES8, Xiaopeng car's first mass production The model is also positioned as a pure electric SUV ... ... SUVs are the first production cars to be produced by almost all of the new car manufacturers except the car and the home, after all, this is a huge market segment of rapid growth.Although the SUV market, cars and The future of the home will be involved.But the car and home from the very beginning of the invention, chose a new species - SEV. Car and home considerations?
First of all, from the data point of view, from the travel distance of this dimension, there are statistics that 80% of the travel needs of the commuter radius within 30 km, of which 0 to 3 km is a bicycle, balance the car market, 3 to 10 Km, and even 10 ~ 30 km radius, which is a variety of two-wheeled vehicles, low-speed electric car market.Li Fan once felt with emotion: 'north-south, 80% of the travel needs within 30 km, but there is no ultimate Efficient transportation. "In Li's opinion, sharing bicycles is a good solution to travel between 0 and 3 km / h and SEV is tailor-made for a 0-20 km / h storm-free shared trip.
However, the car time-share rental market, compared with the shared bicycle market, is also faced with heavy assets + B2C + heavy operations.After all, the cost of the car is 200 times the bicycle, in addition to car but also consider parking spaces, charging pile, vehicle scheduling, charging, Maintenance and a series of operational issues.
The car and the house did not claim to be super-run or Chinese version of Tesla, they are pragmatic choice of less than 4 million low-end market (previous SEV products), by providing higher than the level of products To reduce the risk while reducing the cost of cycling, but also conducive to the same input to get a greater coverage density; removable battery replacement at any time, you can solve the charging problem, improve operational efficiency; bicycle volume more Small, you can significantly ease the parking problem.
The first reason to test the water in foreign countries
However, the first product of the car and family is the first in Paris and San Francisco to start sharing travel business.As early as June 16 this year, the car and home and the French timeshare operator Clem signed a letter of intent, both sides will be car And home SEV-based start innovative mode of shared travel services October 11, the car and home again with the United States timeshare operator SCOOT Networks signed a letter of intent, the two sides will be vehicles and home intelligent light electric SEV (Smart Electric Vehicle) As the basis for launching the Pilot Shared Travel Service in San Francisco, USA.
Appears in the fresh car, the reason why the first test of water abroad, on the one hand is the current domestic time-sharing leasing market competition is also very intense, the strength of the car and home may not be as Beijing Auto, Geely car companies such size investment The establishment of time-sharing leasing company to do the operation while the market more of the other operating companies will buy such as BYD e6, BAIC EU400 such a long life model.So the car and home did not choose the first time in the country to launch SEV time-sharing leasing, But in less competitive France and the United States, the United States and local time-sharing leasing operators, but also to avoid confrontation, but also a sensible thing.
On the other hand, in order to improve the environment, European countries are also actively developing new energy vehicles, have formulated a timetable for the ban of fuel trucks and countries in Europe are also actively promoting time-sharing vehicles, electric vehicles is undoubtedly the preferred program, but the old city The time and cost invested in new or retrofitted charging posts have put pressure on governments, and SEV's flexible charging and switching modes and networking attributes have brought a whole new dimension to the government's resolution of this issue.
In addition, the new car was also informed that the new car will be officially listed in the country next year.However, some people also said that from SEV's positioning, either it out to subvert the existing new energy vehicle market, and really become a new category of traffic Tools, or they may face high uphold on the new energy passenger cars and low-speed electric vehicles in the attack on two camps lost.