HANGZHOU: Chinese EV maker Zeekr, has announced a major over-the-air (OTA) upgrades to its 001 vehicle.
At its first Zeekr Experience Day on Monday, and less than a year after the first products were delivered to customers in China, Zeekr confirmed that 001 models will be subject to an extensive OTA update which covers driver comfort, cockpit interface, and smart driving technologies.
Zeekr has also announced a host of hardware improvements to the body and chassis of 001 for the 2022 model year.
Zeekr 001 is now the world’s first production car equipped with two 7nm autonomous driving chips, which is embedded within a complete visual fusion sensing system and enables a 001 to self-adapt autonomously at speeds of up to 130kph.
In testing environments, a 001 will automatically slow when it detects pedestrians or non-motor vehicles approaching. The 001 will also automatically detect a car door open on the side of the road or a truck approaching on the side, turning wheels slightly to avoid a possible side collision.
The latest upgrades also include a high performance 8155 Snapdragon microchip which has optimised over 200 key items of user control functions within the cockpit.
Zeekr’s new intelligent driving system enables users to switch among different driving modes and has a distributed traction control system, designed only for pure electric vehicles.
This new system includes signal transmission and a processing rate 10 times faster than most existing systems, bringing computing down to milliseconds.
This improves acceleration performance by 31% on harsh road surfaces, or in snow and ice conditions, whilst increasing the maximum controllable concerning speed.
This newly updated driving system will give user the option to switch between rear wheel drive, all-wheel drive, and real time adaptive four-wheel drive systems based on the road conditions.
