Talking about today’s new energy vehicles, in addition to the forms of energy use, the most important thing is the intelligent experience of products. Indeed, because nature has a complete and more centralized electrification architecture, the biggest difference between new energy vehicles and fuel vehicles is that the former can be continuously upgraded except for energy use, and the details of boarding, functions and even driving and control of power systems have more extensive and in-depth upgrade potential. Under the continuous upgrade, the system is often updated, which can bring users a fresher car experience. Therefore, almost every new energy brand is building its own intelligent experience, and strives to explore the differentiated competitive advantage in today’s auto market.
The models of this brand with trendy and intelligent positioning also have this trait. At present, there is only one model on sale, that is, Extreme Krypton 001. However, from the current end-user experience, even with the blessing of vast architecture, the overall potential of the car seems to be conservative: it is related to the intelligent use experience that can’t keep up with the mechanical quality level of the car itself, and the whole car system doesn’t seem to meet everyone’s expectations.
However, after several software-level OTA upgrades, the consumer experience has improved to some extent. Today, a brand-new hardware with a high voice appears on Krypton 001: Qualcomm 8155 chip, and the new ZEEKR OS 2.1beta system with new features is unlocked together. What upgrades have been made to the extreme krypton 001 experience after the blessing of both hardware and software? Let’s experience it together.
It should be noted that ZEEKR OS 2.1BETA is still in beta testing stage, so its full name is ZEEKR OS 2.1beta. After that, the new feature system will continue to be DEBUG and optimized, and its final form version will be named ZEEKR OS 3.0 in the official release. Our experience this time is only based on the ZEEKR OS 2.1beta (hereinafter referred to as ZEEKR OS 2.1) system installed on the experience car.
Before explaining ZEEKR OS 2.1 system, let’s first understand the main hardware configuration of this car related to the car experience system.
However, in the later stage of system upgrade, after the further superposition of the functions of the Krypton 001 car and the further optimization of the UI, the problem of insufficient computing power of the CPU and GPU of the 820A chip was further amplified in the face of rendering complex pictures or action processing, so that the situation of jamming or even black screen crash occurred. As the biggest prerequisite for this upgrade, the upgrade of paper data of the 8155 intelligent cockpit computing platform with this replacement can be described as a big step.
As for the upgrade plan, the official should also have a complete plan: we expect that in addition to some brand-new cars after the official release, the old users of Krypton 001 can also enter the store to upgrade in the future, dismantle the current 820A, and then replace it with a new 8155 chip through technical means. Thanks to the high-specification embedded allowance of the whole vehicle’s hardware, there is no need to disassemble and replace the wiring harness motherboard during the upgrade and replacement process, so the scope of disassembly and assembly of the vehicle is very limited, even if the chip with a higher order than 8155 is replaced in the future, it is equally convenient. Of course, this is only our forecast. Please pay attention to the official announcement of Krypton for the specific upgrade method and cost.
With the brand-new 8155 intelligent cockpit computing platform, its super ability also enables the car to handle more and more detailed tasks, and also provides the application basis for some functions that cannot be applied when carrying 820A, so the brand-new ZEEKR OS2.1 is also launched.
Since its release, the KY001 car has undergone four upgrades: on November 5, 2021, ZEEKR OS 1.0.2 was pushed, and on November 30, ZEEKR OS 1.0.4； was pushed; On February 12, 2022, ZEEKR OS 1.1.1 and ZEEKR OS 2.0 were pushed. Four OTA upgrades for all krypton 001 users involved 43 ECU units, added 30 functions and optimized 595 detailed experience items. At present, the latest version of Krypton 001 is Zeekros 2.0.1c.
Although it is called 2.1beta, this version can basically be regarded as a preview that is extremely close to ZEEKR OS 3.0. The official said that the new system has three characteristics: faster response speed, smoother human-computer interaction, richer cockpit experience and response speed. The wake-up time of the car is only 2 seconds. At the same time, the cold start speed of the vehicle under low temperature/low power condition is 20 seconds. As for the operation part, the sliding frame rate is increased by 66.1%, and the average opening time of the in-vehicle application is only 1.3 seconds. Its whole response speed has been greatly improved, and there is almost no obvious jam.
Man-machine interaction focuses on upgrading the control logic and interface, and optimizing the details. In addition, many new functions have been added. The HMI has not changed much, but the optimization of details makes it more intuitive to display. The official said that it can be "understood at a glance, reached at a touch, and controlled by one button".
In the intelligent driving part, LKA lane keeping auxiliary function and full speed active cruise control function (LCC+ACC) are added.
On the whole, this upgrade of Kyk 001 really deserves the slogan of "BIG OTA". The overall upgrade of the four major domains of the whole vehicle has completely surpassed the previous system modification that is more like DEBUG, and really put the user experience in the first place; As for the car parts with the most comments and suggestions from users in the past, but also with the highest frequency of interaction, ZEEKR OS 2.1beta, which is infinitely close to the full version of ZEEKR OS 3.0, has made great progress compared with the version before the upgrade, and the overall interactive speed, interactive logic, interactive mode and functional richness after the optimization have been greatly improved.
Thanks to the 8155 chip, Krypton 001 equipped with the new system already has the capital to compete with the intelligent system of new energy vehicles with high-level intelligent experience, which also makes us look forward to the subsequent upgrade of Krypton 001.
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