Description
Exterior Design
The exterior design of the Yuan PLUS was led by Wolfgang Egger, so let’s put aside the designer and look at the product. The exterior of the Yuan PLUS is still BYD’s family-style DrgonFace design, but unlike the Yuan PRO, the Yuan PLUS adopts a low-slung shape with a sloping back, and the low-slung shape brings a different aspect ratio, so the visual effect of the Yuan PLUS is wider than that of the Yuan PRO, and the streamline of the whole car looks better. In addition, the front surround of the Yuan PLUS is wider, which is also the current popular “big mouth” design, “big mouth” design coupled with the narrow new headlight design, so that the front face of the Yuan PLUS looks more aggressive.
The dimensions of the Yuan PLUS are 4455x1875x1615mm, while the dimensions of the Yuan PRO are 4375x1785x1680mm. The Yuan PLUS is 80mm longer and 90mm wider than the Yuan PRO, but the height of the Yuan PLUS is 65mm lower than that of the Yuan PRO, and the exterior design of the Yuan PLUS can be seen from the dimensions of the three circumferences, which are wider and lower, which means that it is More low profile. Wheelbase on the yuan PLUS is 2700mm, than the yuan PRO’s 2535mm wheelbase is 165mm more, the yuan PLUS interior space is particularly large. So the vehicle positioning on the Yuan PLUS is a compact SUV while the Yuan PRO is a small SUV, but with the Yuan PLUS aspect ratio, it actually looks quite like a crossover SUV.
The rear design of the Yuan PLUS eliminates the rear-mounted spare tire design, but of course the Yuan PLUS and Yuan PRO are not products of the same platform, so it is not appropriate to say that it is eliminated. Yuan PLUS rear adopts a through-type taillight design, this design can make the tail of the visual width wider, taillight group above the line and the waistline connected to the sense of line is more prominent. In addition, we can also see the vehicle’s D-pillar design of a chrome-plated decorative plate, the top of the vehicle formed a floating roof state.
Interior
The interior of the Yuan PLUS has changed a lot, summed up in one word is “exquisite”, the interior uses the concept of sports and fitness to create a two-tone interior color scheme, and many design elements are related to daily sports and fitness, such as the muscle streamline center console, dumbbell air conditioning vents, the grip type door handles, thrust type electronic gear lever, Treadmill-style central armrest table and so on, highlighting the vehicle interior of the young attributes, the details are not to say, in general, quite good and beautiful, in addition to the material progress is also very big, from the above picture you should be able to see, the interior, in addition to the central channel (around the electronic gear lever) and the center of the steering wheel, the other positions are basically soft materials, tactile performance is good.
The hardware of the multimedia system adopts BYD’s family-style adaptive pad swivel screen with a size of 15.6 inches, and the system adopts BYD’s DiLink 4.0 Intelligent Internet Connection System, which, without going into details, is basically a “one-network” of commonly-used functions. In addition, the Yuan PLUS is also equipped with an 8-speaker Dirac audio system, which also supports the car microphone, so it’s no problem to play games and sing songs in the car, and the leisure and entertainment functions are relatively comprehensive.
Vehicle Architecture
The Yuan PLUS is designed and built using BYD’s ePlatform 3.0, BYD’s new all-electric architecture, which utilizes BYD’s eight-in-one electric powertrain, with high integration, high power density and high efficiency being one of the main features of this assembly, so this also brings about lower power consumption, with the official figure being 12.1kW-h/100km, and the vehicle being able to output 150kW peak power (about 204hp), peak torque can reach 310N-m, 100km acceleration time can reach 7.3 seconds, can enter the “8-second club” for the Yuan PLUS this volume of models, pure electric vehicle itself power output is characterized by a strong explosive force, so the Yuan PLUS power performance is still good. The power performance of Yuan PLUS is still good. In addition, Yuan PLUS also adopts the front MacPherson matched with the rear multi-link four-wheel independent suspension model, so the Yuan PLUS power and daily driving experience is quite worthy of expectation.
e platform 3.0 also has a better point is the integration of the battery and body design, unlike some “oil to electric” models in the fuel car finished chassis changes, e platform 3.0 belongs to the pure electric architecture, so in the beginning of the design will be the first to consider the role of the battery pack in the vehicle, e platform 3.0 will be the vehicle’s The ePlatform 3.0 places the battery pack at the bottom of the vehicle, forming an integrated design with the body, which is not only the vehicle’s energy supply core, but also a link in the body’s force transmission path, which is helpful in improving the moment transmission of pure electric models and also improves the rigidity of the entire vehicle. I know there will be some skepticism about the safety of the battery pack, but that’s what I’m going to talk about next.
Blade batteries are standard on all models developed and produced using the ePlatform 3.0 architecture, and the Yuan PLUS is no exception. Blade battery can be seen as a special structure of lithium iron phosphate battery pack, lithium iron phosphate material battery pack itself is better than the safety of lithium ternary material battery pack, encountered an internal short-circuit reaction is relatively soft, there will not be an open flame, BYD’s blade battery structure itself is more able to bear the force, so it may be that BYD dares to blade battery pack as e platform 3.0 architecture models of the power transmission structure of a link in the e platform 3.0 architecture. This is probably the reason why BYD dares to make the blade battery pack a part of the e platform 3.0 architecture.
