After playing bad cards for a year, Krypton threw the king bomb today.

A press conference made this new brand, which has just been established for more than a year, win the applause of the owners again after facing the trust crisis of the owners for more than half a year. Of course, many people say that this is just a promise to fulfill. The crotch that was once extremely embarrassing should really be explained to the owners, and this account of more than 20,000 owners has made them pay more than 300 million yuan in tuition fees.

Let’s look at the key contents announced by Krypton at this conference:

△ Qualcomm 8155 architecture cockpit, all car owners 0 yuan upgrade.

△ The new car introduces lightning switching function, and the dual-motor four-wheel drive model can cut off the front motor to realize power-saving driving with rear drive.

△ Intelligent anti-skid function upgrade, OTA comprehensive upgrade

△ A new version -ME version is launched, with a price of 349,000 yuan, which is 40,000 yuan cheaper than the top version of YOU.

△ Introducing smart Bluetooth keys, all car owners can get them for free.

As the first user of Krypton 001, I am undoubtedly excited. As for the excitement of other car owners, we can see that they have the same feelings as me from the extremely crowded app, the new travel app and the constant cheers at the press conference.

As the owner of Krypton 001, why are you a little excited this time?

After Weilai and Lantiu successively released the policy that old car owners pay to upgrade the 8155 chip, the pressure faced this time is unprecedented. The pressure is not a pricing strategy, nor is it the experience after 8155 optimization, but the car of the 820AP platform still has poor experience and bugs after many rounds of OTA, and the word-of-mouth crisis of extreme krypton is derived from this. If you choose to pay for the upgrade, users will obviously have the feeling of backstab.

Free 8155 upgrade is undoubtedly the best way to save word of mouth. And if the 8155 platform and the 820 platform coexist, there will undoubtedly be double pressure for the development of extremely krypton cockpit. Undoubtedly, it will be a more efficient choice to upgrade all the more than 20,000 kryptons to 8155, and only update one version of the system in the future.

It is reported that the cost of a set of 8155 control motherboard will come to about 2-3,000 yuan. At the press conference, Extreme Krypton also announced that the upgrade cost exceeded 300 million yuan. Extreme Krypton paid a high trial and error fee for this, but the word of mouth in return is undoubtedly more valuable. It will pave the way for the software team to focus on optimization in the future.

There is another point that you may overlook. The 8155 chip is also a necessary option for Krypton 001, because in the future, the high-order pilot-assisted driving ability of Krypton depends on the processing of perception by eyeQ5 chip, and the powerful display image processing of 8155 is also an element (vehicle display). Although 8155 does not participate in the algorithm of assisted driving, it will present the images of assisted driving in the cabin, and the computing power of 820 is obviously tight.

Therefore, whether from the user’s word of mouth, research and development costs and future driving assistance, this account is extremely clear, and this money must be spent, and this fee must be exempted.

About the experience of the 8155 car, we will also have a detailed video release soon.

The same situation as the previous smart cockpit was spit out is the assisted driving ability of the polar krypton 001. After the release of version 2.0 OTA in April, only ACC can provide polar krypton, and the single function and poor sense of body really can’t satisfy the majority of car owners.

In this OTA, the functions of LCC navigation assistance, antelope avoidance, matrix headlights and so on have been added. In addition, the previous AEB and FCTA pedestrian anti-collision functions have basically achieved L2-level assisted driving.

However, there are some regrets, for example, the rear blind spot reminder called by the majority of car owners is still not equipped, the auxiliary function of lighting and parallel line, and the ability to remotely enter and leave the parking space vertically promised by An Conghui before are still not equipped.

We will show you the specific experience of this L2-level assisted driving by video in these two days.

What I want to say here is that it seems that the assisted driving upgrade of Krypton 001 has no bright spot in the industry, but it also responds to the negative news of the previous cooperation between Krypton and Mobileye on the Internet.

Before, many people in the industry questioned eyeQ5′ s final driving assistance ability. Mobileye’s consistent black box OEM method represented extreme krypton and did not seem to take the initiative.

And Chen Qi, vice president in charge of intelligent driving research and development with Krypton (former founder of Huawei’s autonomous driving team and former minister of autonomous driving research and development department-what a big boss! In the communication, we learned that the cooperation between Mobileye and Krypton in eyeQ5 is not a simple OEM model, but the two companies jointly participate in the research and development of perception and algorithms and jointly promote the matching with Krypton 001.

The research and development progress of eyeQ5 has been delayed, and the test progress of Israeli R&D personnel and krypton engineers in Hangzhou has been affected by the epidemic, and personnel exchanges and experiments have been delayed to varying degrees. In order to solve this problem, Krypton has sent people to Israel, and people from Mobileye headquarters have also come to Hangzhou and Ningbo from Israel to work together to promote research and development.

Chen Qi said that Krypton’s current R&D team has a scale of 500 people, and the cooperation with Moileye has been carried out in an orderly manner. In the future, Krypton will indeed walk on two legs, and the cooperation with Mobileye will continue, and at the same time, it is also vigorously carrying out full-stack self-research.

He believes that Moileye is still the top autopilot solution company in the world, and hopes that everyone will maintain confidence in the next improvement of the assisted driving ability of Krypton 001.

I believe that Chen Qi’s presence will also give our riders a reassurance.

The focus of this conference is to launch a new version of ME, which can be understood as a simple version of YOU, dual motors, 100-degree battery, and cancel some high-end configurations (such as electric doors that have been criticized for a long time), with a price of 349,000 yuan. Combined with the lightning switching function just released by Krypton, this car can not only have the acceleration ability of 3.8 seconds in four-wheel drive, but also have the endurance ability of more than 700km in two-wheel drive.

Really fragrant, as an old car owner, I really envy it. I had to choose WE712 for battery life, but now, battery life and performance can be taken into account.

And the Bluetooth key, needless to say, the negative Bluetooth key of mobile phone has finally been freed this time, and it is also free.

Ok, let’s stop talking about this conference of Krypton 711. I haven’t sent a video about this experience yet, but I still hope to experience the 8155 car I just upgraded today and restore a "new" Krypton 001 to everyone as much as possible.