In the new energy vehicle market in 2024, in addition to the parameters such as volume size, power and battery life, high-level intelligent driving is also a new track with involution, and various terms such as lidar, pure vision scheme and dual NVIDIA chips emerge one after another. In this article, we will introduce two cost-effective cars with a price of 250,000 yuan-Hehe. These two cars not only perform well in terms of size, power, endurance and other parameters, but also have high-level intelligent driving ability. Let’s take a look. Whose intelligent driving is better?
Extreme Yue 07 has a body size of 4953 * 1989 * 1480mm and a wheelbase of 3013mm. It is equipped with a rear single motor with a maximum power of 200kW, and the official zero-hundred-acceleration time has not been announced yet. However, according to Extreme Krypton 001, a "brother model" which is also a vast structure of SEA, the zero-hundred-acceleration time of the extreme Yue 07 single-motor model is about 6.5 seconds, while that of the medium-equipped [2024 single motor model].
The body size of Xiaomi SU7 is 4997*1963*1455 mm, the wheelbase is 3000 mm, it is equipped with a rear single motor, the maximum power is 220 kW, and the official acceleration time is 5.7 seconds. The cruising range of the middle-equipped [2024 830km rear-drive ultra-long endurance high-end intelligent driving Pro version] model has reached 830 km, which cannot be underestimated.
Since it is a smart driving, let’s take a look at the smart driving systems of the two cars. The ASD smart driving of Extreme Yue 07 is based on Baidu Apollo technology, and adopts a pure vision solution like Tesla FSD, and applies the popular end-to-end large model technology.
The volume of Baidu’s intelligent driving is not so high at the C-end (user end), but the technology is very strong. Recently, the well-known radish fast-running unmanned taxi was equipped with Baidu’s intelligent driving, reaching the L4 autopilot level (the automobile industry is only at L2+ level at present), and ASD is the product of the decentralization of Baidu Apollo L4 autopilot capability.
In order to perceive the surrounding environment as comprehensively as possible, the whole vehicle of Extreme Yue 07 has 11 cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars and 5 millimeter-wave radars, and is equipped with 2 NVIDIA Orin-X chips to process information, and the chips are finally 508 TOPS. It is worth mentioning that all models of Extreme Yue 07 are equipped with full-body ASD intelligent driving. Even the entry-level model with a price of 199,900 has two Orion-X chips and 28 cameras+radars.
The ASD intelligent driving of Extreme Yue 07 is expected to cover 90% of the car scenes by the end of this year, so as to achieve "nationwide driving". I have also experienced the actual intelligent driving performance in Wuhan. For the basic high-speed navigation function, Extreme Yue 07 can basically take over the whole journey at 0, and vehicles can intelligently overtake and choose a smooth lane according to the traffic situation. As for the urban navigation function, ASD can take over less as long as it is not around the island, the road with unclear indicator lights and the old city with complex environment, and the overall intelligent driving experience is in the first echelon of the industry.
The intelligent driving of Xiaomi SU7 is a self-developed Xiaomi Pilot system, which is divided into two versions: Pro and Max. The low and medium versions are equipped with Pro as standard, the middle version is equipped with optional Max, and the high version is equipped with Max as standard. Pro version is only equipped with one NVIDIA Orin-N chip, with a computing power of 84 TOPS, no laser radar, and only supports high-speed navigation function. Max version is equipped with two Orin-X chips, with a computing power of 508 TOPS, and adopts a vision+laser radar combination scheme. The whole vehicle has 11 cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars, 3 millimeter-wave radars and a 128-line laser radar.
As a player who entered the new energy vehicle market this year, Xiaomi Pilot’s smart driving experience is naturally not as good as that of the old driver Baidu Apollo. Its Max version of the city navigation function only started part of the internal test in May this year, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in the performance of urban smart driving. However, Xiaomi has made rapid progress. Xiaomi Pilot also adopts end-to-end large model technology, and the OTA upgrade frequency of SU7 is also very high, but it is still far from the first echelon in the industry.
To sum up, from the hardware point of view, the Extreme Yue 07 comes standard with 2 Orion-X chips, and all models support high-order intelligent driving function. The millet SU7 low-profile model is Pro version intelligent driving, the middle model is equipped with optional Max version intelligent driving, and the high-profile model is equipped with Max version intelligent driving, which is not as good as the extreme Yue 07 in configuration.
From the software point of view, Yuejie 07 is backed by Baidu Apollo, and there is a precedent for radish to run fast. The experience of high-order intelligent driving is better. Although Xiaomi SU7 started late, its current performance is average, but the OTA upgrade frequency is not low, which has great improvement potential.