Hycan is a new EV brand in China. It was founded in 2018 as a joint venture between state-owned GAC (Guangzhou Auto) and Nio. This week, Hycan Z03 was officially announced on the market. There are four trims, with a price range of 132,800 yuan to 168,800 yuan (US$ 20,000 – US$ 26,000).
The overall appearance of the new car
adopts the combat aesthetic design style and outlines a fashionable and advanced
face by using a large number of sharp lines. The front face adopts a closed
grille design, which is the design style that many electric vehicles will adopt
at present. It also adopts LED daylights, combined with lens matrix headlights
on both sides, so that the whole body looks very characteristic.
The side of the car is mainly full, the
door area is round, and the waistline is deliberately sketched very light,
almost invisible. It also adopts a hidden door handle, a two-color body, and
its sports hub, which are very in line with the aesthetics of contemporary
young people. As for the rear of the car, the design is also straightforward,
but to echo the front face, it also adopts the through LED lamp group, coupled
with the all-black tail wing and the surrounding horizontal lines, which
immediately lengthens the horizontal visual effect and has a high degree of
recognition.
Although the positioning of the new car is
a compact SUV, the length, width, and height are 4602 / 1900 / 1645mm, and the
wheelbase is 2750mm. In addition, the new car is also equipped with 18-inch
wheels.
Although the layout is quite simple, it
can be used as a highlight of the whole car in terms of interior decoration. It
is said that with the super long wheelbase with leapfrog performance, the front
seats can be put down 180 °, coupled with 14.6-inch suspended central control
screen and 10.25-inch full LCD instrument panel, and Hycan pilot 2.0
intelligent driving assistance system and intelligent voice control system, the
playability and entertainment in the car are very high.
Hycan z03 Cool play version and Cool smart
version are equipped with drive motors with a maximum power of 135 kW and peak
torque of 225 Nm. The high-performance Version (Z Cool version) is equipped with
drive motors with the full power of 160kW and a peak torque of 225Nm. In terms
of range, it will provide two battery packs with different capacities, 64.6kwh
and 76.8kWh. NEDC also has two options: 500 km and 600 km.
