CHANGAN automobiles originated from the Shanghai Marine Gun Bureau in 1862, which is a new star left over from the modern industrial movement. A history of more than 160 years ago has made CHANGAN Automobile an important player in the entire automobile market. The corporate mission of CHANGAN Car is to lead the automobile civilization for the benefit of human life; they hope to build a world-class Chinese automobile brand through the spirit of self-criticism, scientific rationality, and painstaking innovation. At a time when the new energy wave is booming, CHANGAN Automobile is also actively transforming, and the “Shangri-La Plan” released in 2017 marks the formal entry of CHANGAN into the era of electrified vehicles. This is the “third venture” initiated by CHANGAN motors , and the plan this time is to combine the enterprise’s culture, efficiency, and software capability to build the core competitiveness of the vehicle, so as to transform to the direction of intelligent and low-carbon. Nowadays, CHANGAN PHEV models have covered the whole category layout of sedans, SUV and MVP, and become a force to be reckoned with in the current hybrid vehicle market.
CHANGAN Automobile has 14 manufacturing bases and 34 factories around the world. Taking the Nanjing Smart Factory in China as an example, it integrates various production technologies such as flexibilization, intelligence, automation and greening, and is the first 0-emission production factory of CHANGAN autos. The factory is fully covered by a 5G private network, and the MEC edge computing technology can realize bi-directional data transmission and control of 12,000 production equipments at the same time, which improves the production efficiency by up to 20%. The stamping process department in the factory adopts intelligent flexible inspection system, which can realize the design accuracy of the vehicle within the error of plus or minus 0.5mm; the welding process department realizes 215 robots to work at the same time, and the overall automation rate reaches 98%; the painting process department adopts environmentally friendly water-based paints, which not only responds to the call of the global green environment protection, but also realizes the quality upgrade of the vehicle; in the final assembly process, the factory is equipped with intelligent production lines to realize automatic assembly of major components such as chassis, tires and glass. In the final assembly process, the factory is equipped with an intelligent production line, which realizes the automatic assembly of chassis, tires, glass and other major components. These flexible industrial technologies realize the deep combination of automated production of automobiles and digital IoT, ensuring efficient and smooth production processes. Based on the internationalization process of CHANGAN Automobile’s production, their Rayong, Thailand base has already realized the localized production of PHEV models, and the plant invested in Mexico is in full operation, producing vehicles mainly for the North American market.
CHANGAN’s R&D engineering team comes from 31 countries around the world, totaling more than 18,000 people, who work in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing in China, Turin in Italy, Yokohama in Japan, Birmingham in the United Kingdom, Detroit in the U.S., and other countries and regions, forming a global synergistic R&D layout of “six countries and ten places”. These R&D centers are involved in software development, styling design, intelligent driving R&D, power R&D and so on. These R&D centers are involved in software development, styling design, intelligent driving R&D, power R&D and so on. They have professional automotive R&D system and testing system, which can ensure that each automotive product can achieve the standard of being used by customers for more than 10 years or driven for more than 260,000 km.
The technical highlights of the CHANGAN PHEV model are reflected in the following areas:
CHANGAN PHEV models include: EADO PHEV, UNI-K iDD PHEV, UNI-Z PHEV, UNI-V PHEV, UNI-T PHEV、NEVO Q05 PHEV, NEVO A07 PHEV and more!
Take the CHANGAN UNI-V PHEV as an example, this is a coupe model positioned for young consumers, with a borderless grille with a flattened logo design, making the entire vehicle appear more elegant and dynamic. The vehicle focuses on the sporty style, surrounded by a full set of surroundings to make its appearance more low-slung sense, the rear of the vehicle with electric tail, the classic Fastback design can make people forget. Hidden door handles can effectively reduce the driving wind resistance, but also can do intelligent sensing, active welcome. The interior seats are ergonomically designed for electric sports, providing a balanced sense of support, and the main driver’s chair is able to move forward or backward automatically when the driver is getting in and out of the car, adding a sense of ceremony to every drive. It is equipped with a new generation of Blue Whale 2.0T high-pressure direct injection engine with Aisin 8AT model, no matter for city commuting or high speed driving, the overall power output is very smooth, and the 6.5s 100km acceleration time is able to realize the top speed up to 215km/h. DTV Dynamic Torque Vector Control enables users to achieve intelligent distribution of tire driving force and precise control of the vehicle’s driving trajectory when making curves. Its in-vehicle system realizes full-scene intelligent voice interaction, and the vehicle is fitted with an advanced algorithmic model for higher recognition accuracy and shorter response time.
CHANGAN PHEV model has won the “Heart of China” Top Ten New Energy Power Award for three consecutive years, and UNI-K iDD has also won the Red Dot Product Design Award in Germany. In addition, CHANGAN Automobile has been increasing its popularity in the global market by participating in international auto shows, organizing various brand activities and sponsoring sports events. At present, CHANGAN Automobile has exported to more than 40 countries, especially in the Middle East, with an export ratio of more than 12%, and the European version of PHEV model has passed the ECE R100 certification, which has been widely praised in the European market.
With Chinese military quality as the foundation of the industry, intelligent and smart technology as the wings, and energy saving and convenience as the starting point of research and development, CHANGAN is committed to bringing different travel choices to global consumers, and helping the world to transform into a greener, lower carbon and smarter direction.
