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@@janjansen6443 I’ll take it as a weird compliment because I do. I enjoy making high quality videos. Unfortunately nothing is paid for and every video costs me to produce. I’m in a fortunate position where I can do this as an expensive hobby hahah.

@@ChinaDriven Yes sir, you take that as a compliment. I hope you get more views.

liking commenting and sharing always helps. I just forget to remind people

It's true that drag area (CdA) is ultimately more important. And a vehicle with a smaller front area will have a much lower CdA value.

@@ceedoubleyoustrange. Never noticed that. Try turning down the brake regen. Idk

@@ChinaDriven you would think the salesperson would have suggested that, but he just ignored the observation.

@ ask a service tech is probably a better bet. It could just be your pedal position is just on the line of not accelerating/decelerating. So the brake regen is constantly kind of there. Maybe just a tiny bit more pressure. Like an extra kW

@ it actually happened initially when the salesperson was driving so I thought it was the way he was driving, not holding his go pedal steadily and I only mentioned it after I drove it and ensured I held my foot rock steady and when I mentioned it, he just ignored it and stayed silent, just didn’t say anything.

@ personally I didn’t notice such a thing in the RWD I drove in China or the AWD I drove in the UK. Have you driven another one to see if it has the same feeling?

@@fazekasarpad China has many 6+ seat MPVs. This is just something a little different.

@ I got that, even great ones but for me at least the basic force of an MPV is to host 6-7 persons and their luggage; which is not methere at all; hence I ask: why MPV set up for 5 person?

@ for what they refer to as a “third space.” The open lounge like area. It’s a niche. But a lot of ppl nowadays like to go picnicking with tents and grilles. And this is kind of for those events really. It’s not for everyone. But Zeekr have a big old 3 row MPV the 009. You can also get that with just 2 rear seats. Different strokes for different folks

Yes should have been turning radius. Yes in LFP

HAHA. They went bankrupt about 2 weeks after this. It was very strange. At the auto show there was a lot excitement from the brand, designer and CEO. No notes of trouble, although we knew the Jiyue 01 hadn't been selling well. But everything came crashing very quickly. Rumours started swirling about a two weeks after the auto show on a Monday. By Wednesday it was done. I think because it was a JV between two huge companies, Baidu and Geely, I think many thought there may just be a restructure of management and reinvestment. But they both pulled the plug.

@ I know. The CEO Xia Yiping was my classmate in the Uni. I don’t like him at all.

The big problem for Jiyue was they moved waaayyy too slowly for the chinese market.

@@ChinaDriven Haha. Nothing to do with Baidu doesn’t want to burn through their billions of cash every year.

But the cause of Jiyue's hardship all happened from the Jiyue 01 (which I reviewed over on the Wheelsboy channel) In that review I said that when the Jiyue 01 was announced the spec list was top-notch. But by the time they actually got it to market everything else had caught up or surpassed it. Their city ADAS never truly got going and was never competitive with other Chinese City ADAS from the likes of Huawei, Xpeng, Li Auto or even NIO. Because of that slowness their products just weren't as competitive when they got to market, meaning no one bought them, meaning the company didn't make a lot of revenue, causing Baidu and Geely to burn cash supporting a snail.

Its brake pads not brake calipers that failed.

Zeekr belongs to parent company Geely who also own and manufacture Volvos. So I think this thinking that China can only produce sub-par quality is out of date. Plus this low quality, low cost manufacturing was driven in part by foreign companies using China to produce things cheaply. There has been a dramatic change in Chinese domestic product quality in the last 5+ years.

You getting the Zeekr RT for waymo hahaha. Its based on this platform.

The seats don't come out. Neither does the central console. They just move on rails

@ChinaDriven So I will not switch from my T6. But not only because of lack of this feature 😉

Each to their own on looks. Completely a subjective thing. But I strongly disagree with this take. Its a cute looking thing, definitely not ugly in my eyes.

@@jeffreyr3056 if it had an engine you would have the same amount of interior space. One of the key advantages to EVs is they generally have more interior space.

@@sa2591-p5d Australia is a market Zeekr are interested in. I’m not sure if this vehicle will go there. Do you think many people would be interested in it?

@ can’t speak for others but I’d buy one for sure. In an industry where shopping bag hooks in a boot/trunk is considered “innovative”, this is needed.

...wow I've never thought to ask. They say the standard version is good for 1m wading and there is an upgraded version with a snorkel rated for 1.4m. But you can see in this video no snorkel and it was at least 1.4m...but we weren technically wading, we were floating??? I also assume that the engine shuts off and this is using the battery and electric motors only. Perhaps this is why they recategorised this as an emergency feature only and requires visiting a service centre after you do this. They were going back to back in the same vehicle they were rotating between like 3 cars. So maybe giving them time for the water to clear...I'm going to ask them and see if I get an answer.

@@ChinaDriven Thanks for the reply. Yes, I assume the engine shuts off also, but water would still enter through the air intake. Only thing I can think of is maybe the air filter is made to prevent water from entering. 🤷‍♂️

@@jeffhebert8963 I have the asnwer. You need a certain amount of battery to activate the mode. Cos the engine will shut off and use battery and electric motors only. It will also close the intakes so water cannot get in. Not sure on the exact mechanism, but i'm imaging some sort of flap.

Totally agree

HAHAHA. A little unlikely lol

True. This is aiming more for families that like doing day trips. In china they'll call it camping but they actually don't sleep over. They just go for the day pitch like a gazebo thing and eat. let the kids run around. basically glorified picnics. But this got super popular over covid since many couldn't travel far, and it seems to have stayed a thing

Both rear doors are sliding, but the front passneger door doesn't slide. It is does open electrically though.

Glad you liked it!

Powered doors on a minivan isn't exactly new. It also allows the driver to open and close them for passengers. But I hear you. However, I think nowadays these motors are more robust and gunna last a decently long time, but it is another potential point of failure.

The lights around the Jiyue stand were all purple. Purple is Jiyue/Jidu's colour. Or at least it was. The company has gone under. Chances for it being saved are not looking good, and it took a nose dive very quickly.

It's a five seater. Rear bench sits three across.

@@TreyyDaMenaceFan actually that was a mistake. The gross weight is 2.2 tons. The curb weight of the AWD is 1,985kg

@@ecarpo3479 it’s scenic but you need to be a bit better prepared than we were. No Cell signal. No charge points. So if we got stuck might have been quite the hassle

@ I’m not completely sure I took the same road as you for the whole part between Litang and Shang gri la. The road was no where near that bad when I drove it, maybe the landslides were mostly cleared （I did it in early November so probably a lot later than you) or it was a different road. I can imagine in an et5 it would be a lot more worrying. I had upgraded to a 100kwh battery and in my es6 had no real problem with the roads or finding charging along the way. It’s nice for someone who is terrible at filming or photography to see so many places I drove in beautiful cinematic footage. Brought back a lot of memories! 👍

@ Litang and Daocheng/tasing the road is fine that’s the 227 national road. The yading to Shangri-la city there are a couple of routes. The DaoShang highway is full of rockslides, no cell reception

Energy replenishment is just one facet of battery swapping. I went through the 10 advantages NIO claim at 44:42 although there is an 11th as well which is new battery cell chemistries. We have seen the introduction of an LFP/NCM mix 75kWh battery and the introduction of the 150kWh semi-solid state pack.

Most of these batteries often don't charge at advertised speeds, either the chargers aren't capable, too many people are using them, the grid can't provide the power, it's very rare to find chargers that actually charge that fast. The bigger benefit of battery swap for me is you don't have to queue for chargers, don't need to put up with finding chargers blocked or broken, don't have to put up with people cutting in line or fighting over chargers. Makes more of a difference if the weather is bad or youre travelling during holiday periods. Upgrading the battery is also very useful, most people don't need a lot of range most of the time.

Haha yes you have. originally I put out as a four part mini series. but I’ve re-edited it back into a single video