For consumers who want to buy a car, the reason why a considerable number of users are still in a wait-and-see state when choosing new energy vehicles is largely that they hope battery technology can make greater breakthroughs, thereby solving range anxiety, charging anxiety, safety issues, and so on. Well, at this year's Guangzhou Auto Show, one automaker launched the world's first mass-produced model equipped with a semi-solid-state battery, and it is the "All-New MG4 Semi-Solid-State Safety Edition," which is about to start deliveries in December.
A fully equipped model in the 100,000-yuan class
As an electric car priced at less than 100,000 yuan, although the All-New MG4 Semi-Solid-State Safety Edition is positioned as an A-segment car, its body width reaches 1842 mm, and its wheelbase is as long as 2750 mm, making the cabin even more spacious and comfortable than many B-segment cars.
At the same time, to meet cargo-carrying needs, the car also has the largest trunk in its class at 471 L, easily accommodating two 25-inch suitcases, and after folding down the second-row seats, it can instantly turn into a 1.87-square-meter large bed room, satisfying travel needs in multiple scenarios.
Since travel is mentioned, whether it is a male car owner or a female car owner, sun protection is a factor to be avoided while driving. In order to give models under 100,000 yuan an excellent sun protection experience as well, the All-New MG4 Semi-Solid-State Safety Edition is equipped with a double-layer silver-coated front windshield, UV-IR coated glass front side windows, rear privacy glass, and a panoramic sunroof sunshade, forming the only 360-degree sun protection guardian in its class, so users no longer need to worry about skin problems caused by direct sunlight.
Not only that, as an important model in MG's new century new energy strategy, the All-New MG4 Semi-Solid-State Safety Edition has also invested heavily in the smart cockpit. For example, the car is not only equipped with a 15.6-inch 2.5K central control LCD large screen, a full LCD instrument panel, and the 8155 chip, but its MG x OPPO smart phone-car interconnection system also brings the best smart cockpit and ecosystem integration experience in its class, allowing a small car under 100,000 yuan to have a car experience comparable to a high-end smartphone.
But that is not all. Would you believe that a model at this price also has excellent intelligent driving capability?
That's right. In terms of intelligent driving, the All-New MG4 Semi-Solid-State Safety Edition is not only equipped with the industry-first Horizon Journey 6E chip and more than 20 high-precision sensors, providing a solid hardware foundation for the intelligent driving system, but also carries high-level assisted driving functions such as highway NOA and parking assistance, greatly improving driving safety while also bringing users the best assisted driving experience within 100,000 yuan.
World's first to feature a semi-solid-state battery
Although the All-New MG4 Semi-Solid-State Safety Edition has already performed very well in terms of space, configuration, and intelligence, its biggest selling point is not these, but the battery that auto users around the world are paying attention to, which is exactly the world's first and the industry's only semi-solid-state battery put into mass production in a vehicle.
Compared with traditional liquid lithium batteries, semi-solid-state batteries have higher energy density, faster charging speed, and are also relatively safer. Especially in terms of range, for the same range of more than 500 kilometers, because the semi-solid-state battery has higher energy density, its battery pack volume is also smaller, which makes the vehicle body lighter, thereby bringing better energy consumption performance.
At the same time, the safety of semi-solid-state batteries is also more outstanding. For example, at the Guangzhou Auto Show site, the MG brand demonstrated the battery safety performance of the All-New MG4 Semi-Solid-State Safety Edition. Through the industry's most stringent safety tests on the equipped semi-solid-state battery, after ultimate verification under extreme working conditions such as threaded steel nail penetration, three-direction extreme extrusion, saltwater immersion, extreme cold freezing, bottom ball impact, and high-temperature fire burning, neither the battery pack nor the battery cells showed thermal runaway, fire, or explosion, which also demonstrates the reliability of semi-solid-state batteries under extreme conditions.
The reason why the MG brand can achieve breakthrough success in the battery field is thanks to strong background strength. For example, during the research and development stage of semi-solid-state batteries, SAIC and SAIC Qingtao jointly invested as much as 10 billion yuan in R&D funds, and gathered more than 600 top industry authoritative experts, including 1 academician, more than 20 PhDs, and national-level talents such as those in the Thousand Talents Plan. After more than 20 years of technical accumulation, they obtained more than 1,600 patents. This not only provides strong technical support for the ultimate safety and low-temperature performance of semi-solid-state batteries, but also brings leading battery safety and performance experience to a broader group of users.
Daxia Car Talk: There is no doubt that "semi-solid-state battery" will become an important product label and strategic trump card for the MG brand in the next stage. It will continue to promote the iteration and application expansion of this technology, and gradually cover more models in the future, allowing the safest pure electric solution to enter thousands of households at a more affordable price!
