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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen grass Luo Yuzi for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com March 12, the ideal car CEO Li Xiang revealed through social media last night that the ideal ONE initially developed a version of the PHEV, and that the ideal ONE has a pure electric MPV on the same platform.

Li Xiang said that the L series is the REV 2.0 platform internally, and the 800V high voltage pure electricity is the BEV 2.0 platform internally, because the BEV products with the same platform as the ideal ONE have been developed and put on the road.

According to Li, ideal Automobile began to cooperate with a travel platform in 2017 to jointly develop a special ride-hailing product. At that time, the partner chose two automakers to work together, with BYD D1 with small 1.2 seats and D1 Plus with 1.3 seats. At that time, there were already many spy photos of the road test on the Internet. This pure electric MPV and ideal ONE platform, even the wheelbase is exactly the same, NEDC pure electric driving 500km, space priority, regardless of wind resistance coefficient (0.35), with urban areas as the main use scene.

▲ Tu Yuan: Li Xiang Weibo Li wants to point out that as it received strategic investment from Wang Xing and Meituan in 2019, and Meituan and the travel platform are competitors, both sides have some concerns about such cooperation, so they have terminated the product. Because the product is completely designed for ride-hailing, such as not suitable for running high speed, no trunk, no left car door, relatively simple configuration, and the special, special and tight capital chain of the company in 2019 (the financing of hundreds of millions of dollars obtained is only enough to deliver the ideal ONE and build a direct sales, delivery and after-sales system), so they are "ALL in" ideal ONE and extended range electric.

CTOnews.com reported that ideal delivered a total of 16620 new cars in February 2023, a year-on-year increase of 97.5%. Since delivery, the cumulative delivery of ideal cars has reached 289095.

The following is the full text of Li Xiang's Weibo:

In addition to spoiler ideal ONE initially developed the PHEV version, and then spoiler ideal ONE also has a pure electric MPV on the same platform to complete the research and development and on the road. The L series is the REV 2.0platform internally, and the 800V high voltage pure electricity is the BEV 2.0platform internally, because the BEV products with the same platform as the ideal ONE have been developed and launched.

In 2017, we began to cooperate with a travel platform to jointly develop a special ride-hailing product. At that time, the partner chose two automakers to work together, with BYD D1 with small 1.2 seats and our D1 Plus with large 1.3 seats. At that time, there were already many spy photos of the road test on the Internet.

This pure electric MPV and ideal ONE platform, even the wheelbase is exactly the same, NEDC pure electric driving 500km, space priority, regardless of wind resistance coefficient (0.35), with urban areas as the main use scene. We have made a lot of reference to the design concept of special taxis in Tokyo and London, and in order to prevent ride-hailing users from often leaving their luggage in the trunk, we put the suitcase space in the co-driver's position (also for the ride-sharing scene). The second and third rows each have two separate seats to support contactless carpooling during rush hours. The right rear electric sliding door is used, and the right front door is a safe escape door, so the left rear door is cancelled and there is no trunk, which can effectively reduce cost and weight.

The head of the design and product of the service provider is an exterior designer from Lexus with rich experience and high design level. before the cooperation, we hope that he can join the ideal car to become the design leader of the exterior decoration. But the partner took the lead. Since then, Benjamin, a young designer from Porsche 911, has become the design director of our exterior accessories and dominated the new design language of the ideal car.

As I said a long time ago, if you want to develop an extended-range electric car, you must first develop a pure electric car (we are the first to design the electric platform, and in the early stage we need to apply for production qualification with the ideal ONE of pure electric). The design and development of this product are quite smooth. Dozens of cars have been tested on the road in 2019, and the design performance and targets have been achieved, because the structure of pure electric vehicles is still much simpler than that of extended-range electric vehicles.

However, with the strategic investment of Wang Xing and Meituan in 2019, and the relationship between Meituan and the travel platform is a competitor, both sides have some concerns about such cooperation, so we terminated the product. Because the product is completely designed for ride-hailing, such as not suitable for running high speed, no trunk, no left door, relatively simple configuration, and our 2019 capital chain is special, special, particularly tight (the financing of hundreds of millions of dollars obtained is only enough to deliver the ideal ONE and build a direct sales, delivery and after-sales system), so we have the ideal ALL in ONE and extended range electric.

The cooperation process of the two teams on the definition, design and development of the product is still very valuable. How to better control the cost and how to comprehensively measure the operation of the vehicle TCO are valuable lessons learned from the partners.

The project manager of our D1 Plus was very depressed. He was stopped as a child's painstaking product. I went to do his psychological work several times at that time. Later, he became the project manager of ideal L9, L8, and L7, especially the ideal L7, which was also a project that was almost cancelled. He started it from scratch. He was a project manager who knew both technology and products. He did not compromise and worked very hard. Finally, the value of the ideal L7 product far exceeded the original expectations.

Today, the ideal L7 is officially delivered. Looking back on his persistence for so many years, I am especially happy for Liu Youbo.

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