Hengchi Automobile starts winter testing and independently developed power batteries will be mass-produced in the second half of the year

Yitau News On February 3 in Yakeshi, Inner Mongolia, Hengchi Motors officially started the winter endurance test. 10 Hengchi vehicles will be tested in extremely cold weather and complex ice and snow road conditions.

Hengchi Automobile Winter Test

It is reported that this winter test lasts for three weeks to test the reliability, safety and stability of Hengchi Automobile in extremely cold environments. and comfort. The projects include winter calibration of vehicle power performance, winter testing of three-electric performance, winter calibration of battery thermal management system, winter calibration of body stability control system, winter testing of chassis, vehicle environmental adaptability and reliability testing, and winter testing of electronic appliances.

Xu Jiayin also went to the front line to supervise the pace of Hengchi’s winter testing. At the test site, Xu Jiayin also learned about various test items in detail from the test engineers. Li Junxiu, dean of Evergrande Battery Research Institute (formerly dean of South Korea's SK Group Battery Research Institute), reported to Xu Jiayin the test plan for battery thermal management performance, extreme cold cruising range, charge and discharge and other projects. Li Junxiu said that the power battery independently developed by Evergrande Automobile has reached the world's leading technology level and is planned to be mass-produced in the second half of this year.

Li Junxiu, President of Evergrande Battery Research Institute, reported the battery testing plan to Xu Jiayin

Judging from the pictures we obtained, the winter test model participating this time is an SUV model. Hengchi launched six models in the first phase in August 2020. The product names are Hengchi 1-Hengchi 6, which are two sedan products, three SUV products and one MPV product. Judging from the body size, the test model is most likely to be positioned as a pure electric luxury C-class SUV, Hengchi 3.

Hengchi 3

The Hengchi 1 will be Evergrande Automobile’s first mass-produced model and is expected to be officially mass-produced in August 2022. The new car will be built based on the EM3 platform, the first skeleton platform developed by Evergrande Automobile. The new car is positioned as a pure electric ultra-luxury D-class sedan.

Hengchi 1

Hengchi 1

Currently, Evergrande Automobile has officially launched trial production at its two major production bases in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Both bases are built according to Industry 4.0 standards, equipped with 2,545 intelligent robots, and adopt the world's most advanced equipment and technology to achieve advanced intelligent manufacturing. It is reported that when the two bases reach full production, they will be able to produce one vehicle per minute. According to the plan, Evergrande Automobile will achieve an annual production capacity of approximately 1 million vehicles by 2025 and 5 million vehicles by 2035.