Taiping Heavenly Kingdom-Three Civilian Confrontations in Zhejiang

[Editor’s note]2021 is the 170th anniversary of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom jintian uprising. The Paper Liu Chen, assistant professor of the Department of Private History and Peking University History, invited scholars at home and abroad to write a series of manuscripts to introduce readers to the new direction and achievements of the research on Taishi, hoping to help related research.

In the Zhejiang occupied area in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were several local resistance forces led by civilians, the most famous of which were Bao Lishen Tuan Yong, Shen Zhangda Tuan Yong and the bandit troops of Gaitianwang, all of which were over 10,000 people. Generally speaking, the occurrence of these three large-scale mass mutinies is inevitable under the rule mode of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom tribute system in Zhejiang province [that is, collecting tribute from the people and the Taiping Army’s "pioneering" (plundering) and "sending large donations". According to the theory of class analysis, the above three forces are all "reactionary landlords’ regimentation", but in fact, unlike ordinary vigilante groups, they have no direct organizational connection with the Qing government; The main body of its leaders and participants are civilians, which can intuitively reflect the opinions and demands of ordinary people; Moreover, some political hostility consciousness is not obvious in the initial stage. Therefore, through the observation of these three civilian-led events against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we may reveal the true face of the opposition between the people and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Jinhua, Zhejiang, the former site of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Shi Wangfu

Bao Lishen and the "White-headed Army"

Bao Lishen, also known as "Li Sheng" and "Li Sheng" in historical materials, lived in Bao Village, Zhuji, Zhejiang Province for more than 20 years. He was illiterate. In the notes of scholars at that time and later, unofficial history recorded that he was a farmer, a farmer, a villager, a village tyrant and a family farmer. Not only farming, but also engaged in business. It is recorded that he "tasted selling lime from shoulder to shoulder", which shows that he is probably a yeoman. Bao Lishen’s family background is also not prominent. A family of 17 are all working in rural areas. Among the relatives, Feng Yangshan, a cousin, is only a petty official who has not entered the class. Therefore, it can basically be concluded that Bao Lishen and his family belong to the civilian class.

But he is a "special person" among ordinary farmers, or can be called a "civilian elite". Bao Lishen probably systematically studied some popular witchcraft among the people, and most historical materials think that he once studied daoist magic’s technique. It is not new to use witchcraft to organize the people. The uniqueness of Bao Lishen’s uprising lies in "controlling evil with evil", and he turned the spearhead of his struggle to the Taiping Army, which also started with "witchcraft" and "heresy". It shows that it has certain ability and strategy. Moreover, Bao Lishen has political ambitions. He claims to be "the leader", and his proclamations are all written in Jia Zi, not in the official lunar calendar of the Qing Dynasty, which is deliberately different from the Yong ying organized by Feng Za. Bao Lishen has also received the support of some small and medium-sized intellectuals, such as Zhu Zhilin, Yu Guanying, Fu Guantao and Shen Fangyi, all of whom are gentry. However, these literati are only driven, and most of them are "weak writers", and a few of them are counsellors and military aircraft, and only Bao Lishen is in charge of the overall situation and forbids it. Baocun’s armed forces are private armed groups with Bao’s family as their headquarters, and even the bureau responsible for military equipment is located in Bao Shangjie’s close friend’s home. Therefore, the leading position of "civilian elite" Bao Lishen is unshakable.

In the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), in September, the Taiping Army defeated Shaoxing and Zhuji, and Bao Lishen used the "witchcraft" as an excuse to swear, claiming to be a descendant of the "White Crane Real Person" and founding the "Whitehead Army", which fought dozens of battles with the Taiping Army. People in neighboring counties have cast their families. In May of the first year of Tongzhi (1862), Li Shixian, Dai Wang Huang Chengzhong, Ti Wang Lian Ye Kun, the first king Fan Ruzeng and Lai Wang Lu Shunde led more than 100,000 Taiping troops to encircle Baocun again, cutting off its water and route for providing foodstuff. On the first day of July, the Taiping Army came out of the tunnel, wiped out Bao Village, and Bao Li died. According to Jiang Yili, then the governor of nursing Zhejiang, there were "14,777 deaths" after Baocun was attacked by Taiping Army. Chiang Kai-shek only refers to the number of deaths in Baocun. Because the war has been delayed for nearly a year, every time there is a war, the dead must be buried; Bao Lishen often led troops to attack, and many people died in other places; Coupled with the deaths caused by non-war factors (such as hunger and thirst, epidemic disease, suicide, etc.), and considering the environmental carrying capacity of Baocun, it is reasonable to have a total of "tens of thousands" people killed. Taiping Army also suffered heavy losses.

As for the cause of Bao Lishen’s uprising, it can be analyzed from two surviving essays. These two essays are programmatic documents of Bao’s resistance to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The first article is Bao Lishen’s campaign against Guangdong bandits. This essay was kept in the "A Brief Account of Yi Min Bao’s Establishment" compiled by Bao Zuqing in Shanyin, and it was signed "Written by Wang Xiaotie in Hangzhou". Its formation time was between the end of the eleventh year of Xianfeng and the beginning of Tongzhi Yuan, which revealed the main reasons for Bao Lishen’s uprising: First, the Taiping Army’s military discipline was corrupted; Second, the Taiping Army exterminated culture and trampled on customs.

The second article is "Dong ‘an Rebel Commander Bao Helped to Tell Qi Xin to Kill a Thief", which is included in Feng’s Huaxi Diary and Shen Zi’s Avoidance Diary in Haining. The formation time of this essay may be a little later than the first one, about shortly before March of the first year of Tongzhi. At this time, the people of Baocun had fought several large-scale battles with the Taiping Army, and both sides suffered casualties. It is inevitable that there are inaccuracies in the rhetoric of a campaign, and such absolute accusations as "regardless", "regardless", "all are", "everywhere" and "do everything" may be exaggerated. For example, the phenomenon of captive soldiers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom runs through all the time, which is really the harm of the early universal conscription system. However, in principle, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom pursues the conscription system, which is implemented in various places to varying degrees. Therefore, the term "regardless of industrial and commercial farmers, they are taken captive as soldiers" in a campaign is exaggerated. This essay announced the twelve major crimes of Taiping Army: 1. Inciting cults; 2. Indiscriminate killing of innocent people; 3. Adultery of women; 4. Sogon looting; 5. burning houses; 6. wanton abduction of soldiers; 7. Imposition and extortion; 8. cruel punishment law; 9. Extinction of culture; 10. overstepping the name; 11. Destroy Zhongliang; 12. trample on customs. The twelve major crimes can be divided into three aspects: first, the accusation of Taiping Army’s military discipline corruption (sins 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6); The second is the accusation against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s economic policy (sin 7); The third is the accusation against the social transformation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (sins 9 and 12). This shows that the main cause of Bao’s uprising lies in the military discipline of Taiping Army and the social, economic and political strategy of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.The remaining charges of inciting cults, cruel punishment, overstepping the name, and harming loyalty (Sins 1, 8, 10 and 11) are hostile to heresy from an orthodox standpoint, which should be the result of Bao Lishen’s intellectuals’ embellishment of the essay.

In terms of content, both essays emphasize that nature is an important reason for Bao Lishen’s trouble-the Taiping Army’s military discipline is corrupted and the customs are destroyed, while the second one emphasizes the economic factors that are almost completely omitted in the first one, which may be the most important thing for Bao Lishen, who is an ordinary peasant. In Bao Lishen’s second essay, there is a long paragraph accusing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the heavy taxes and fees. Therefore, the peasant resistance movement, which is the largest, the longest lasting and the fiercest struggle in the occupied area of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, has comprehensive inducing factors, among which the root of the people’s resistance lies in the social panic caused by the social and economic bad behaviors that have been or may occur in Taiping Army, such as exorbitant taxes, corrupt military discipline and destruction of customs. At that time, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Shaoxing Fucheng and Zhuji County, it did not actually complete the political construction work for the vast rural areas, and most of the social and economic politics were not carried out in Baocun and its nearby areas. The opposition among the people in Baocun mainly originated from panic rather than practical feelings.

To resist tyranny.

Shen Zhangda, the only one in all kinds of historical materials named Huaxi Diary as "Shen Changda", was a vegetable farmer from Ganpu Town, Haiyan County, Jiaxing, who was "gardening for a living" and his family was "destitute". He was 61 years old when he started. Guangxu’s Haiyan County Records recorded its name in the list of Martyrs’ Gentlemen and Soldiers’ Surnames, and specially marked its identity as a "civilian" to show that it really belongs to the civilian class. On May 11th, the 11th year of Xianfeng, Shen Zhangda gathered more than a thousand villagers to the Ganpu Township Official Bureau to question the township official Yao Chengchu. Just when hundreds of villagers in Huangwan also complained, they jointly demolished the bureau house, bound Yao Chengchu and arrested the township official along the way. By May 13th, more than 10,000 rebel teams had gathered, and they cooperated with the Qing army to attack Tongyuan and Yucheng in Haiyan, and returned in defeat. On the 18th, the Taiping Army plundered Ganpu and claimed the first thing. On the 26th, Shen Sui stepped forward and was captured and killed.

The causes of Shen Zhang’s uprising are recorded in Huaxi Diary, which can be roughly divided into four categories: 1. Le Gong. In March of the eleventh year of Xianfeng, the Taiping Army took two grams of sea salt, which was adhered to according to the city. "In May, the thief Le Gong gradually crossed, and Tong Yuan Huang set up a trap from the thief, and paid more than 10,000 yuan in tribute to the seven maps, which was not enough for the people. Haiyan county nuclear office thirty-two thousand, to the seventh day of April, and add fifteen thousand, and want to levy silver, every two or seven discount two thousand and fifty ". 2. Taxation. At the beginning of May of the same year, "I wanted to divide the house numbers, write the number of people, and each card was B yuan and 40 cents, and each person was required to levy 20 articles a day, 100 per kitchen day, and 50 per kitchen." We can see that there are three names: house number fee, per capita tax and kitchen donation. 3. Collect rent after grain. On the ninth day of May, the Taiping Army authorities threatened with guns and boats that "after Tian Yin was chased, the scholars were afraid of the tiger’s potential, and they all lost all their money, and they still issued it as a series of tickets in Xianfeng for ten years, and by the eleventh, they had more than a thousand yuan", and "occasionally some owners took advantage of the situation to collect rent". 4. The township officials are greedy and cool. "chayuan Chen Yuchun … secretly gave directions to do tribute, claiming that he could deceive the public, and from the time of collecting silver, he occupied the bureau with Wang Zhuchuan, a traitor", "Gui Yingshan was also a thief, and first set up the silver bureau in his house, named Liu Quan Pavilion", "Five people visited the rich, and the letter was Shi Shuai, and the house number was set up ……. so the road was fat. If Xu Tu can collect fees item by item, the people may be able to cope, but the deterioration of the situation lies in "the ninth day of May,Unexpectedly, the doorplate, the kitchen expenses and the bank of Waizhuangtian were all launched, starting from the tenth day, without delay. Occasionally, the owners took advantage of the situation to collect rent, and they also threatened to chase it very tightly with guns and boats. "The people had nothing to accuse" and the people were already overwhelmed.

The reasons for the farmers’ resistance in Haiyan can be summarized as the harsh economic policies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the greed of township officials’ politics. Different from Bao Lishen’s uprising, the root of Shen Zhangda’s uprising lies in the people’s real feelings about the social, economic and political strategy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Among the above two points, the people hate the excessive collection of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom even more; Although the politics of township officials is greedy and cool, it can promote the chaos, but their actions are also the embodiment of implementing the economic policy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Four aspects of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s economic policy-paying tribute, taxation, paying off grain and collecting rent, in which paying tribute is the key to the antagonistic behavior of Haiyan people. Guangxu’s Haiyan County Records states that "from time to time, the thief’s first name, Kwai Tian Yu, came to the city to secure the public, called on the officials and people, and ordered the county to send high officials to invite people to do things, so sophistry would not disturb the place. A few days later, the four townships were ordered to contribute, and there was no empty day to chase. Zhang thief forced a huge sum of money to Nanxiang, and the women learned to take off their hairpin, and the scholars all hated it. " Grain and rent collection were not the main factors that triggered the revolt of Haiyan farmers. Although Haiyan authorities tried to restore the traditional social and economic order in the spring and winter of the eleventh year of Xianfeng, due to the constraints of subjective and objective environment, the collection of land tax in Haiyan area was not fully launched until December of the first year of Tongzhi, but the implementation was not good, and the traditional social and economic order failed to become the mainstream of the administration of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In April and May of the eleventh year of Xianfeng on the eve of the Shenzhang uprising, the official land tax and rent policy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had not been officially promulgated, and the collection work had not been fully launched.

The main cause of the Shenzhang incident was that the people could not bear the economic burden of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In all kinds of economic burdens, Le Gong of Taiping Army is the main aspect, and people’s resentment is boiling, which is aroused by Shen Zhang’s great enthusiasm and eventually leads to drastic changes.

"King Gai" who is troubled by "salt" and "food"

The uprising of "Gai Tianwang" was also forced by the participants’ real life. In August of the second year of Tongzhi (1863), Yan Xiao and Chen San gathered to revolt. "Gai Tianwang" is not the code name of the leader, but the spiritual symbol of the uprising team. The rioters gathered at the Three Temples in Huangwan, Haining, and pushed the three gods in the temple to be kings. "The so-called Gai Tianwang is also the Emperor Wu of the Yuan Dynasty in the temple." By September, there was a rumor among the people that "Gai Tianwang" was recruited by the Qing army in Shaoxing. The authorities in Jiaxing and Haining of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom arrested the troublemakers, but the results were not great. In October, the hungry people gathered more and more. "The hungry people were recruited, and the investors did not count, totaling more than 10,000." The Taiping Army "was also afraid of the situation and dared not move." Until the end of the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this local force, which is mainly composed of hungry people, has not been completely dispersed.

The team of "Gai Tianwang" is often called "bandits", but they have obvious political demands like Yong Ying, such as "flagging openly" and "uprising in the temple". The targets of the struggle are directed at the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government and the Taiping Army, looting local banks, appraising villages, mountain products banks, etc., as well as township lawsuits, centurions’ homes, and even delivering documents to Zhejiang general He Xinyi to borrow food. Why are you afraid of it? On the 10th day of November, the second year of Tongzhi, the leader, Chen Sanyatou, led more than 1,000 people to fight with the Taiping Army in Huaxi towns, killing more than 30 people of the Taiping Army all the way, burning the cards at the city’s tip, burning the township official bureau, and attacking the Taiping Army camp at Zhuziqiao and Hualongqiao. Therefore, the team of "Gai Tianwang" is by no means a general bandit who robs houses and houses, and can be regarded as a "vigilante" and "uprising".

The "Gai Tianwang" incident is a typical case in which farmers in the occupied areas of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rose up and rebelled because of famine and hunger. In December of the second year of Tongzhi, the Tongxiang authorities of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom arrested three "Gaidang", and after being interrogated by the military commander Yao Futang, they recorded the following confession: "I was hungry and cold, so I planned to rob. ….. I wait for righteousness, so the robbery is selfless. If we are hungry, we will die. If we die, we will fight to kill. If the root cause is investigated, then the gods can’t get it; If you punish the party and the party, it will be everywhere, not less than tens of thousands of people, and you can’t win. " It’s hard to imagine that this generous statement of "people fear not death is afraid of death" came from bandits who were characterized as "rebellious" by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, but their background of starving people and their motivation to stand up for survival actually added some justice to this incident.

The formation of the hungry people is that the land can’t be cultivated because of the backward flow of seawater into the inland. "After the seawall falls, the brine in the paddy field can’t be planted, and the residents no longer eat grain. Because of the robbery, the number of people attached to it is increasing." The unemployment of salt vendors was attributed to the implementation of the public monopoly system of salt by the Taiping Army authorities, which led to the salt vendors’ no profit, so they made a living by looting. Salt monopoly system has existed since ancient times, and salt policy is a national plan, which was attached great importance by successive governments, and so was the Qing government. In the Qing Dynasty, the salt law was mainly in the form of official supervision and commercial operation, and private salt was repeatedly banned. However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom implemented a complete monopoly, with township officials as daily managers or full-time managers, and the right to sell salt was returned to local governments. Banning the smuggling of salt can not only curb the loss of national wealth, but also prevent businessmen from hoarding and profiteering from it. It is understandable that successive governments have strictly enforced it. However, salt is a daily necessity of the people. The government monopolizes the price increase and makes profits on behalf of salt merchants. Not only are ordinary businessmen unprofitable, but even the basic needs of ordinary people’s families are deeply affected. For example, the "salt fee" levied in Changshu and Zhaowen is completely unfair and can only intensify social contradictions.

"King Gai" was troubled by "salt" and "food", which are the most basic needs of the people. It can be seen that the governments of Haining and Haiyan Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have not even completed the basic social appeasement. Although the political nature of the whole incident against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is remarkable, it cannot conceal the simple original intention of the people to join in the resistance, that is, to survive. Compared with the other two incidents, because the composition of this bandit team is basically people struggling on the verge of death, the color of "officials forcing the people to rebel" is even stronger.

It needs to be specially explained that because of the strong nature of the civilian-led militia, it is easy to misunderstand their battle with the Taiping Army as "farmers beating farmers". Jane Youwen once said: "Is it because most of the Taiping Army soldiers are farmers, so it is called the peasant revolution?" However, aren’t the Hunan soldiers who attacked and destroyed the counter-revolutionary Taiping Army farmers in Xiangxiang area? It is clear that farmers beat farmers. "(Jane’s essay: A Complete History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Volume I, Hong Kong: Jane’s Rushing into the Bookstore, 1962, with preface and supplementary note on page 3)The soldiers and brave fighters of the regiments led by the Qing army and local gentry also come from the people. Under the control of various political forces, there will be fundamental conflicts between the Taiping Army and their classes and interest groups, and most of the people who participate are organized. The interests and political demands of organizers and leaders are not exactly the same as those of the vast majority of the people. Therefore, this kind of opposition can not be completely regarded as the opposition between the people, but more of a political opposition between leaders. For these civilian-led resistance teams, their leaders and main participants are all from ordinary people, and their demands are relatively consistent, and the interests represented by the leaders and organizers have not been obviously alienated in the resistance. Therefore, the opposition between the civilian-led resistance team and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be regarded as the opposition between the people and the ruling class of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but it cannot be regarded as the opposition between the people and the people.

Compared with Bao Lishen, Shen Zhangda and Gai Tianwang, the three causes of armed incidents led by civilians, whether due to social panic or practical tyranny oppression, all reflect the simple original intention of the people to survive and seek security, that is, the content of resistance is basically an economic issue related to people’s livelihood. Although the specific protest content of each incident is different due to the type of incident, the place of occurrence and the socio-economic background, and the focus of the causes is also different, the people’s dissatisfaction with the social, economic and political strategy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom through the actual actions of resistance is consistent, and the common protest content is such as economic policies such as donation and contribution, as well as the principles, methods and effects of policy practice. From the analysis of the object of protest, the main object of protest of the people is the township officials. The greed and disorder of township officials’ politics-the deviation of policy implementers-are the common factors that form these protest events, but the township officials’ politics of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mainly focuses on the practice of Taiping military authorities in economic policy. It can be seen that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not realize the transformation and alternation between the old society and the new society in the occupied areas, on the contrary, it regressed from the old social order. The disadvantages of the parallel social order of tribute system and the traditional social and economic order were constantly exposed. In some areas, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not even maintain the basic livelihood, which inspired the people to resist the social, economic and political strategy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. This shows that the opposition between ordinary people and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is mainly the opposition of their own interests, not the opposition of political positions. Therefore, as long as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can safeguard the interests of the general public, it can win the initiative in the long-term anti-Qing war. In the early days,The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom described and promised a complete and beautiful vision for the general public, which represented the interests of the general public to a certain extent, so as to widely mobilize the people to join the rebellion, which was unprecedented in scale and intensity and dealt a heavy blow to the decadent Qing Dynasty. However, under the conditions of long-term war, the policies and measures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the performance of government officials at all levels and Taiping Army officers and soldiers at all levels may deviate from these goals, triggering political resistance events led by civilians like Bao Lishen, Shen Zhangda and Chen Sanyatou. This shows that the grass-roots governance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did have serious problems of irrationality and violent oppression.

Media comments on BiBi Zhou’s new album "LUNAR": the concept is completely sung in general.

  Appraisal object: BiBi Zhou’s LUNAR.

  Issue date: July 11th.

  Text/Hu Guangxin

  Since the end of last year, the voices of Chinese female musicians have become clearer and clearer. UGLY BEAUTY by Jolin Tsai is naturally the best among them. Besides, Ai Yiliang’s Living Vertically, and Bai An’s 1990s, all of them jump out of the shackles of petty love and open up richer expressions about women themselves. The previous female singers still write about women from their own experiences, while BiBi Zhou’s "LUNAR" is much more ambitious — — She broke away from the concept of individual direct play and explored female consciousness with body elements such as ears, figure, wrinkles and shoulder blades.

  It is worth mentioning that the lyrics of the whole disc are arranged by Zhou Yaohui. A few years ago, in Juno Mak’s concept album Evil is a point of view, he handed over five lyrics from a female perspective, and expressed the changes of the heroine in the song with themes such as First Opening, Groaning and Rufa. LUNAR may be a continuation of this idea. Compared with his gorgeous and complicated Cantonese lyrics, the wording and sentence-making of the seven Chinese songs in LUNAR are much simpler. However, there is a clever idea in this album. He runs through the whole album with the core image of "the moon". In the western tradition, the moon represents feminine, and it has crazy mysterious power, which is a metaphor for women. Therefore, he described the subconscious in The Rebellious Muse, described the female physiological period by the tide in The Woman Flow, and divided "Fat" into "Half Moon" to discuss the relationship between figure and beauty … … Although this approach is a bit flattering, it is also true in an album with such a strong concept.

  This album continues BiBi Zhou’s music preference in recent years, wrapping R&B rhythm with electronic sound effects, which also fits the feminine and emotional music atmosphere of LUNAR. However, in this album, which is complete from concept to presentation, BiBi Zhou’s singing is a bit dramatic. Her timbre was originally low and hard, lacking a little soft color, but when she met the extremely feminine theme of LUNAR, her singing was even more puzzled.

  Appraisal object: Sammi Cheng.

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  Issue date: July 12th.

  Sammi Cheng’s latest collection "We All Grow Up This Way" includes the theme songs of the 2019 concert of the same name "We All Grow Up This Way" and "Believers Love" and "Mi".

  Appraisal object: Zheng Ed Sheeran.

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  Issue date: July 12th.

  "Huang Boss" Ed Sheeran’s new album "No.6 Collaborations Project" was launched. The album contains 15 songs, and 22 singers are invited to cooperate. The genre covers rap, R&B, electronics, adult lyric and so on.

  Appraisal object: Suda Masaki’s LOVE.

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  Suda Masaki released his second solo album "LOVE", which included 11 songs including the hit single "まちがぃさがし".

Pandora’s box? How to solve Tesla’s frequent "brake failure" incidents

  21st century business herald reporter Zheng Zhiwen Intern Wang Qingwei Shanghai Report

  On November 25th, Chengdu Longquanyi Public Security Bureau reported a traffic accident on Chengluo Avenue in the district. When a small car was driving in the direction of Xihe River at the Shiling Interchange ramp of Chengluo Avenue, it collided with the vehicle in front at the intersection of Shiling subway station. Three people were slightly injured in the accident and all were treated in the hospital.

  According to the video taken by the driving recorder of the rear vehicle, all the vehicles were waiting for the traffic lights at the intersection, and a white Tesla car suddenly rushed out and hit more than a dozen cars in a row. The scene of the accident was a mess, car parts were scattered all over the place, and many cars were seriously damaged.

  On November 27th, Tesla responded to the cause of the accident. Tesla said that by checking the background data, it was found that when the collision occurred in the video, the accelerator pedal of the accident vehicle was depressed at a depth of 100%, and the vehicle speed increased from 54km/h to 132km/h at the time of collision. However, the brake light was not turned on because the driver stepped on the brake pedal, but because the collision in the video was not the first collision. After the first collision, the "multi-collision braking" function of the vehicle was triggered, so the brake light was turned on in the video. The background data also shows that the driver did not step on the brake pedal within 2 seconds after the collision in the video.

  In view of the fact that the vehicle did not stop in time, Tesla said that by checking the background data, the driver stepped on the brake pedal 2 seconds after the collision in the video. However, combined with the background data and the damaged state of the vehicle, after the first collision, the front wheel of the vehicle has fallen off, the braking system pipeline has been damaged, and the vehicle has been unable to brake normally.

  It is worth noting that this accident is not the first storm in Tesla’s braking, and related "brake failure" incidents have emerged in an endless stream in recent years.

  The whole story of "Shanghai Auto Show Roof Rights Protection Event"

  At the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show, two Tesla owners dressed in "brake failure" made a big fuss about Tesla booth demanding rights protection. Since then, Tesla has been shrouded in the suspicion of "brake failure".

  On the afternoon of the auto show, Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla China, responded to this matter: Tesla had no way to compromise. The next morning, Weibo, the official of Qingpu Branch of Shanghai Public Security Bureau, issued a notice saying: Zhang, a woman involved in the "Tesla Auto Show Encountered Owners’ Rights Protection" incident, was sentenced to administrative detention for five days for disturbing public order, and Li was given an administrative warning for disturbing public order.

  Since then, the two sides have opened the curtain of going to court, and whether Tesla has "brake failure" has also attracted much attention.

  On May 6, 2021, Ms. Zhang formally sued Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Tesla (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Tao Lin, global vice president of Tesla. Ms. Zhang believes that after the rights protection incident at the Shanghai Auto Show, some remarks made by Tao Lin and Tesla officials were intended to create a negative image of the plaintiff’s unreasonable troubles and professional car troubles, which violated their reputation and caused troubles to their lives. These remarks include "all the recent negatives are her contribution", "only willing to pay high compensation" and the so-called "there is a team from Beijing". Ask the defendant to stop the infringement of the plaintiff’s reputation right, apologize to him and pay 50 thousand yuan for mental damage.

  Two years later, Tesla issued a document in response to the failure of the female car owner of Tesla’s roof rights protection: the female car owner of Shanghai Auto Show advocated that the woman sued Tesla’s reputation right dispute case and personal information protection dispute case. After trial, the court of first instance decided to reject all the claims of Ms. Zhang in the two cases. On November 22, 2023, Tesla v. the case of infringement of the reputation right of female car owners in Xi ‘an "Shanghai Auto Show Incident", the court made a first-instance judgment, and found that Ms. Li in Xi ‘an was guilty of reputation infringement, and she had to publicly apologize to Tesla and compensate for the losses, and at the same time bear the vehicle appraisal fee.

  Recently, according to Tesla’s news, the court made the latest judgment in the case of Tesla v. another female car owner in Xi ‘an, who was involved in the right to defend the roof of Shanghai Auto Show, and found that Ms. Li in Xi ‘an was guilty of reputation infringement, and she had to apologize to Tesla publicly and pay 2,000 yuan, and at the same time bear the vehicle appraisal fee of 20,000 yuan. After identification, there is no braking problem in the vehicle involved.

  It is reported that before this, the judgment was made in December 2021, and the result was that Ms. Li won the case. Tesla then filed an appeal, and the Xi ‘an Intermediate People’s Court ruled that the case was sent back for retrial. On November 9, 2023, the weiyang district court made a new judgment, and the verdict was that Ms. Li lost the case. For the result of Tesla’s victory in the first instance, Ms. Li said that she respected the court’s decision, but she would appeal again.

  It is worth noting that in March 2021, Weibo, the "Tesla Customer Support", said that the accident liability certificate issued by the traffic police showed that Mr. Zhang (the owner’s father) was found to have violated the relevant laws on safe driving and keeping a safe distance from the vehicle in front, and should bear full responsibility for the accident.

  After the "Shanghai Auto Show Rights Protection" took place, Tesla provided the data one minute before Ms. Zhang’s vehicle accident, and made a written explanation, which stated that when the driver stepped on the brake pedal for the last time, the data showed that the vehicle speed was 118.5 kilometers per hour. Within 2.7 seconds after the driver stepped on the brake pedal, the maximum brake master cylinder pressure was only 45.9bar. After that, the driver stepped on the brake pedal more, and the brake master cylinder pressure reached 92.7bar. Then, the forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking function started (the maximum brake master cylinder pressure reached 140.7bar) and played a role, reducing the collision amplitude. 1.8 seconds after the ABS action, the system recorded the collision. After the driver stepped on the brake pedal, the vehicle speed continued to decrease, and before the collision, the vehicle speed decreased to 48.5 kilometers per hour. Through the inspection and analysis of vehicle data and on-site photos, it is found that ABS works normally during the braking period of the vehicle, and the functions of forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking are started and played a role, and no abnormality is found in the vehicle braking system.

  At this point, the dispute over rights protection at the Shanghai Auto Show has also come to an end for the time being. Although Tesla won the rights protection, the price it paid was also heavy. In the face of rights-defending car owners, Tesla CEO Musk dissolved the public relations department and showed a tough attitude of refusing to apologize. Tao Lin, global vice president of Tesla, publicly told the media that Tesla had no way to compromise and asked consumers to strengthen education and study. This attitude caused dissatisfaction among many car owners in China, which made Tesla’s share price plummet at that time, and its market value evaporated by hundreds of billions of dollars overnight.

  In the lawsuit with Ms. Li, Tesla asked Ms. Li to pay 5 million yuan in the first instance, but the amount of compensation awarded was only 2,000 yuan. On November 27th, Tesla said that it would continue to appeal. The incident caused huge losses to it, and the loss of Tesla’s orders and goodwill was as high as 100 million yuan as assessed by the judicial evaluation agency.

  Give up the "single pedal" mode

  In the storm of Tesla’s "brake failure", the "single pedal" mode seems to have become the target of public criticism.

  This year, Tesla recalled 1.1 million Tesla cars around the world. The announcement on the website of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine once said that drivers were not allowed to choose the energy recovery braking strategy for vehicles within the scope of this recall; At the same time, it may not provide enough reminder for the driver to step on the accelerator pedal for a long time. The superposition of the above factors may increase the probability of mistakenly stepping on the accelerator pedal for a long time, which may increase the risk of collision and pose a safety hazard.

  In the analysis of professionals, Tesla’s kinetic energy recovery technology is the strongest in the industry. Through kinetic energy recovery, it can save about 20% of energy and improve the endurance by about 15%-20%. Moreover, Tesla’s energy recovery mode is mandatory default mode, and the owner can’t set it by himself and can’t choose to turn it off. Most of the energy recovery modes of other electric vehicles on the market give the owners the freedom to choose.

  Many users reported to 21st century business herald that the "single pedal" mode was not suitable for use at first, but it was really "fragrant" after being used to it, but some users still could not accept the "single pedal" mode.

  Tesla said that the "single pedal" mode is more convenient and efficient. However, there are also risks. A survey report in 2021 showed that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had investigated 246 cases of Tesla’s runaway acceleration, and all 246 cases were caused by stepping on the wrong pedal.

  "There is no evidence that there is any fault in the accelerator pedal assembly, motor control system or braking system that leads to accidents, and there is no evidence that design factors will increase the possibility of pedal misuse." NHTSA said.

  The so-called "single pedal" mode, in simple terms, can realize starting, accelerating, decelerating (braking) and other operations only by controlling the switch pedal. In this mode, kinetic energy recovery can not only save electricity, but also reduce the use of brakes, which can improve the cruising range of electric vehicles. Although the "single pedal" mode is not only equipped with one pedal, it is still equipped with a brake pedal. However, in this mode, users put their feet on the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal for a long time, which changes the way users are used to driving traditional fuel vehicles, but there may be potential safety hazards in an emergency.

  Tesla has cancelled the "Kinetic Energy Recovery Adjustment Option" since the beginning of 2021, that is, on Tesla cars, this function is mandatory, not a switchable option. According to Tesla, after the OTA recall, car owners who like energy recovery braking can continue to choose the "standard" mode, and control the speed by "foot feeling", while improving the endurance of the vehicle by 10%-20% and reducing the wear of brake discs and pads. Car owners who are not used to this function can now choose the "low" mode to transition.

  Although Tesla returned the option of kinetic energy recovery to the public, there are still other doubts that not recognizing the wrong operation of the owner can explain all the accidents of Tesla vehicles out of control and brake failure. Tesla’s roof rights car advocates that the top of Ms. Weibo is the video of Tesla Hainan accident released by another well-known Tesla rights car owner. The car owner can’t step on the brakes, but the staff will open the video that still can’t step on the brakes. In its latest Weibo, it forwarded a video recorded by another Tesla owner who obviously stepped on the brake system but mistook the owner for stepping on the accelerator.

  There is also a question about whether Tesla’s data is reliable. "All data collection is based on Tesla’s unilateral provision, and Tesla only records the data collected by itself in the background. Is this data record objective? For example, if the owner steps on the brake, but can’t step on it, is it recorded in the background that he didn’t step on it? The owner did not step on the acceleration, and the vehicle automatically accelerated. Will the background also be recorded as acceleration, which means that the owner is stepping on the switch? "

  Regarding the data problem, industry experts also said that there is no institution in China that has the professional ability to detect the data of smart electric vehicles. Zhang Xiang, a member of the automotive industry expert think tank of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in an interview with the media: "Now the institutions on the market basically only test mature and long-developed technologies, that is, mainly test traditional cars. As a smart car, Tesla can’t be tested according to the standards of traditional cars. Moreover, Tesla’s time to market is not long, and the technical iteration is changing with each passing day. Our regulations and industry standards have not kept up. "

  There have been different opinions about the real cause of Tesla accident. Whether it is the owner’s "habitual thinking" or the quality of car design, the result of frequent vicious traffic accidents is unacceptable. At the moment of rapid development of new energy vehicles, car safety is the most important issue, and it needs the joint efforts of many parties to form effective supervision.

How to choose 200,000 pure electric coupe SUV BYD Song L and Zhiji LS6?

A few days ago, BYD’s new coupe was launched, with a sporty body and a younger front face. The starting price of the new car is 189,800 yuan, which is much lower than the pre-sale price of 220,000 yuan. After the listing, it will bring a lot of pressure to the same class of models. How to choose two pure electric coupes? Let’s see their specific performance.

Although it is a coupe, BYD defines the Song L as a hunting outfit and prefixes it with "the most beautiful". The new car adopts a large back design, with a lower body, which is full of sports. The front face has also been greatly adjusted, and the narrow headlights are integrated through decorative belts, which is more delicate, and is much more beautiful than other sibling models.

The appearance of the Zhiji LS6 is very distinctive. The body is designed with a large slippery back, and the smooth lines are matched with a large number of arc corners, which looks very round and full of sports. In the design of the front face, the Zhiji LS6 is equipped with slender curved headlights, which form an X-shaped shape with the decoration below, which is very recognizable.

In terms of size, Song L is positioned as medium-sized, with a body length of 4840mm, a wheelbase of 2930mm, a trunk volume of 410-1053L, and a front compartment of 48L, which is relatively spacious. Zhiji LS6 is positioned as medium-sized and large, with a body length of 4904mm, a wheelbase of 2950mm, a trunk volume of 665-1640L, and a front compartment volume of 32L. Its size and space performance are better than Song L.

Price, Song L guide price is 18.98-24 9,800 yuan, less than 190,000 yuan starting price in the same class of models which is still very competitive, and fill the product gap between Tang EV and Song PLUS EV. Zhiji LS6 guide price is 22.99-29 1,900 yuan, the market end point has the highest 12,000 yuan discount, the actual starting price is 21.79-27 9,900 yuan, compared to Song L or much higher.

In terms of power, Song L offers two versions of single motor and dual motor, of which single motor models have 150kW and 230kW, corresponding to CLTC cruising range of 550km and 662km respectively; the maximum power of the model is 380kW, zero hundred acceleration can reach 4.3 seconds, strong performance, CLTC cruising range of 602km, very practical.

Zhiji LS6 also offers two versions of single motor and dual motor, among which single motor models have 231kW, 250kW and 379kW power, CLTC cruising range also has 560km, 680km and 760km three; four-wheel drive models are equipped with 579kW front and rear motors, with a total torque of up to 800Nm, zero-hundred acceleration can reach 3.48 seconds, and CLTC cruising range is 702km, which is quite powerful.

Write at the end: After comparison, you can see that today’s new energy market competition is fierce, from the brand and heat point of view, Song L has BYD to support, all aspects of performance and price positioning are also very good, the future will become a high probability of hot-selling products, but also a good choice for pure electric family cars; but in turn, the appearance of smart LS6, fashionable, powerful, all aspects of the performance is very good, such power and configuration, 200,000 early pricing has a strong competitiveness, no wonder the sales in November reached 8158 vehicles.

Faye Wong’s concert collapsed and more than 60 were injured. After a day, she apologized for the cancellation of the performance


The concert was a complete mess.


Many spectators were injured


The concert was temporarily cancelled


Faye Wong later apologized on Weibo
 

    At least 64 spectators were injured and many suffered fractures when seats collapsed at the Chongqing station of Faye Wong’s tour concert held at the Chongqing Olympic Sports Center at about 8:10 p.m. on the 17th. The concert was temporarily cancelled.

  According to Xinhua News Agency, the reporter saw at the concert site that the collapsed seats were located at the back of the stage. These seats were placed on metal structural brackets and were up to about 1.5 meters above the ground. After the seats collapsed, the reporter saw some injured spectators being escorted out of the scene. Several people suffered foot injuries and some suffered bleeding head injuries and were sent to the hospital for treatment. At present, the audience at the scene has been basically evacuated. The concert has been rescheduled to 20:00 on the 19th.

– Live

Collapse or cause the audience to stand up and sit down as a whole

  Wei Jun, the audience at the scene, introduced to reporters on the evening of the 17th that at 7 o’clock that night, Wei Jun and his friends and a group of 9 people entered the venue. Wei Jun introduced that the concert stage was built on the large lawn in the gymnasium of the Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, and the audience seats were also on the lawn. They were supported by scaffolds, covered with wooden boards, and then densely lined with plastic chairs, about 1 meter high from the ground.

  Wei Jun introduced that the concert started at 8 o’clock, and around 8:10, Faye Wang was about to enter. At this time, most of the audience stood up excitedly and cheered Faye Wang to enter the venue. Wei Jun said that the scaffolding of the seats may have been caused by the audience standing up and sitting down as a whole, and then scattered. He saw that the E and F districts collapsed one after another, and the G3 district where he was located also collapsed. The area of the collapse site was "several hundred square meters."

  His knee was caught between the scaffolds, causing the skin to fall off.

  At about 10 p.m. on the 17th, reporters rushed to the Olympic Sports Center to see that the audience here had been evacuated. Security cordoned off the scene.

– Rescue

64 injured, 6 fractured

  The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University is 300 meters away from the Olympic Sports Center. On the evening of the 17th, Ren Guosheng, president of the hospital, introduced that after the accident, the hospital received an emergency call and dispatched an ambulance to the scene to rescue the wounded.

  Ren Guosheng introduced that the hospital has treated a total of 64 wounded. Forty of the wounded were photographed and three were examined by CT. Ren Guosheng introduced that the current examination results are 5 fractures and 1 suspected fracture. There is also a pregnant woman whose fetus has been protected by the hospital. The examination found that the pregnant woman’s fetus is fine, but her body is slightly bruised. Ren Guosheng introduced that most of the injured are minor injuries, and there are no serious injuries.

  As of 11:30 p.m. on the 17th, some of the slightly injured were registered at the hospital and left on their own. Wei Jun said they initially saw the concert organizers at the hospital site. But they later disappeared. The organizers have not yet said anything about the aftermath of the injured.

  It is reported that the concert organizing committee said that the concert will be rescheduled to 20:00 on the 19th. Wei Jun said that they will still go to see it. Another injured person, Liu Dandan, said that she will not go to see it again and hopes that the organizers will compensate the injured as soon as possible.

– Respond

Diva Weibo apologized, the concert was temporarily cancelled

    I hope everyone is fine. We will continue tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Sorry for the shock and inconvenience caused to everyone. – Faye Wong

  At present, the conference is still dealing with the evacuation of the audience and other safety issues. We only know from the staff that a small number of spectators were sprained and bruised during the evacuation. Fortunately, no more serious accidents were caused. After waiting for the safe evacuation of the audience, all units will immediately hold a meeting to study, and the organizers will be strictly required to seriously deal with the safety of the seats in the audience… As for whether the concert can be held as scheduled tomorrow, it still needs to be negotiated by multiple units. – Faye Wong’s agent Chen Jiaying

  At about 8:00 on the 17th, the edge of the seats in the A3 area of the city Olympic Sports Center’s Wang Fei concert site slipped due to the displacement of the cushions, causing 11 people to suffer minor leg injuries. At present, all the audience has been evacuated, the injured have been sent to the hospital for treatment, and the accident investigation and handling are in progress. In addition, the organizers said that today’s performance was cancelled and rescheduled to 8:00 pm on the 19th. Audiences can refund their tickets at the 6th floor of the Marriott Hotel. – Information Office of the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government

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BYD’s 2017 Tang 80 exposure configuration is different from Tang 100.

Today, some netizens privately wrote to me in Weibo, and I found two not-so-clear configuration drawings, but these are definitely hard goods, so it is necessary to share them with you immediately. I remember that in the ice and snow test drive of Tang 100, several workers in the black cabin next to it guarded two dark Tang’s, which looked very similar to Tang 100, but felt a little different. I didn’t care at first, but I chatted with my friends from the factory. It turned out that they were testing the 2017 Tang 80!

After many consultations, the manufacturer’s friends did not give the listing time of the 2017 Tang 80, but said euphemistically: "We are also in intensive testing." In any case, this certain model is about to come to our eyes. Let’s take a quick look at the highlights of the exposed configuration tables of the suspected 2017 Tang 80. (Image courtesy of netizens)

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"Suspected" 2017 Tang 80 Publicity Page ""

As can be seen from the front page of this publicity page, "Suspected 2017 Tang 80" adopts a front face design similar to that of Tang 100. From the blurred picture, it is still unclear whether it is equipped with hood "radiator decoration", but it is obvious that "Suspected 2017 Tang 80" has been replaced with 20 inches of Tang 100. And we can see that in addition to providing the function of VTOL mobile power station, we also upgrade the car CARPAD system, which are completely in line with Tang 100.

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"Suspected" Configuration Table of 2017 Tang 80 ""

According to the configuration table of "Suspected 2017 Tang 80", first of all, what is missing compared with Tang 100: 1. There is no memory seat and front heating; 2. There is no ACC adaptive cruise option; 3, cloud services need to be optional (cash and Tang 100 are standard); 4. There is no electric tailgate; 5. There is no driving recorder. At the same time, the car is not equipped with a 220V socket, which is suspected to be adopted, using a wet dual clutch.

There are two configurations shown on the configuration table: 1. Luxury; 2. TAG Heuer, the configuration difference between the two models is mainly in the scientific configuration, such as: 360-degree panoramic image system, 12.1-inch LCD (this should really be standard in the whole system, and only equipped with dual LCD combination in the low-end configuration), VTOL 220V power output, remote control driving, high-fidelity 9,3.3 kW wall-mounted charging box, and advanced exclusive foot pad.

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"Suspected" Price List of 2017 Tang 80 ""

Finally, let’s take a look at the suspected quotation sheet. The suspected price of TAG Heuer is 266,000, which is 13,800 lower than the current "model" of 279,800, and the price difference is 33,900 compared with Tang 100′ s 299,900. According to the electric future plan, Tang 100 subsidizes 36,000 yuan, and it is suspected that the price of the 2017 Tang 80 TAG Heuer will be 230,000 yuan! And the "luxury type" suspected of low matching is expected to be within 230,000!


New Travel Wu Ying Comments:

The exposed form has not been officially confirmed, but from the information level, the price of the suspected 2017 Tang 80 is really attractive. Cross-level comparison of the Song DM model (after subsidy) is 209,900. Will the low-grade version of the suspected 2017 Tang 80 luxury model be more attractive? The answer is no. From the above comparison, we can see that the configuration of the low-profile version is quite basic. On the one hand, there is no 360-degree panoramic image, on the other hand, there is no 3.3kW wall-mounted charging box and no standard cloud service system, which is enough to open the configuration difference between the low-profile version of Tang 80 and Song DM.

However, from the consumer’s point of view, the low allocation of Model B and Tang 80 (or less than 230,000) will not form a direct competitive relationship. On the one hand, there are obvious differences in configuration, on the other hand, the positioning people of the two models are different. If the Tang 80 low-end version does not accept reservations within a short time after listing, then the Song DM model is really the only choice to stabilize the 200,000 level. Comparing with the competitors around 230,000, Tang 80 has a certain advantage at this level.

Geely Galaxy E8 fired the first shot of the new energy vehicle "Galaxy Era"

  China Economic News Network (Liu Chenxi)On January 5, "China’s new generation of pure electric flagship" Galaxy E8 was officially launched and delivered simultaneously. The new car launched a total of 5 versions, priced from 175,800 yuan to 228,800 yuan. At the same time, Geely Galaxy E8 also launched a series of limited-time car purchase rights, covering the full dimension of car booking, car purchase and car use.

  At the same time, Geely also showcased innovative technologies and products in intelligent driving, Xingrui model, complementary ecology and the future of Geely Galaxy. In the next two years, Geely Galaxy will launch a number of new products, and the "Galaxy Era" of China’s new energy vehicles will officially arrive.

  The Galaxy E8 adopts the "Ripple Aesthetics" design and pioneers the "Ripple of Light" rhythmic grille, creating the world’s first mass-produced integrated luminous front face, showing the Chinese charm. Six body colors, all inspired by the "Ten Scenes of West Lake".

  In terms of interior design, suspended audio, fragrance, and ambient lights are integrated on the dashboard, just like the three pools of Yinyue in the "Ten Views of West Lake".

  SEAArchitecture fully empowers high-performance driving

  The SEA pure electric architecture allows the Galaxy E8 to accurately achieve a golden axle-to-load ratio of 50:50, resulting in more balanced and stable motion performance.

  At the same time, the SEA architecture’s excellent suspension steering design, with a maximum steering angle of 41.28 °, also allows the minimum turning radius of a 5-meter sedan to be 5.62 meters, which is comparable to a luxury car equipped with "rear wheel steering" technology.

  The Galaxy E8 uses the black technology of "heartbeat fitting technology" to achieve a vertical frequency of nearly 1.25hz on the undulating road that matches the human heartbeat and breathing, so as to achieve "the same frequency of people and vehicles" and drive without motion sickness. At the same time, it also comes standard with a GCS comfort braking system, which can suppress 76.3% of the brake nod and body pitch, effectively eliminating the vertigo caused by pure electric vehicles when braking.

  In order to meet the needs of different users, based on the excellent scalability of the SEA architecture, the Galaxy E8 has two models: 400V and 800V. The Galaxy E8 four-wheel drive performance version is the first 800V four-wheel drive pure electric car in the mainstream market. It adopts high-performance silicon carbide electric drive, dual motor power 475kW, zero-hundred acceleration only takes 3.49 seconds, and the mainstream car accelerates first. At the same time, this version also has 800V fast flash charging, which can last 180km in 5 minutes.

  Geely Galaxy’s exclusive "Aegis Battery Safety System" has created a complete set of four-layer "no blind spot" safety protection systems from battery to architecture, vehicle, intelligent control, and cloud.

  Galaxy Unbounded Smart CockpitAchieve true "intelligent interconnection"

  The Galaxy E8 has made all-round iterations from hardware, software to intelligent interconnection, creating a new generation of "Galaxy Unbounded Smart Cockpit".

  In terms of hardware, Geely joined hands with BOE to create the world’s first 45-inch 8K unbounded smart screen for the Galaxy E8. The world’s widest is 1.13 meters, the world’s thinnest is less than 10 mm, the world’s screen share is up to 98%, and the world’s highest resolution is 8K retina level. At the same time, the reflectivity is only 1.5%, the glare rate is only 4.5%, and with adaptive brightness adjustment, it will not be dazzling at night.

  Matching the large screen is the most powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 chip, which uses a more advanced 5N · m process, which increases the computing power by 8 times compared with the 8155 chip. The Galaxy E8 is also equipped with an interesting soul – the Galaxy NOS Unbounded Edition car machine system, and is equipped with two super brains: Flyme Link mobile phone domain + Meizu mobile phone "super mobile phone brain", and the "super cloud brain" empowered by Geely Star Smart Computing Center.

  Galaxy E8 is a pure electric model empowered by smart technologies such as mobile phones, drones, and satellite Internet. It is also the first model in the world to support Flyme Link, and has launched a customized version of Meizu 21 Geely Galaxy. With just three fingers and one swipe, the mobile phone can be connected to the car without feeling. WeChat, navigation and other applications, as well as functions such as swiping Douyin, browsing Weibo, and playing games, can seamlessly flow with the car. Galaxy E8 is also equipped with an exclusive "escort drone", which can automatically accompany the flight with a throw of the hand, and the screen will be shared on the large screen in real time.

  At the same time, the Galaxy E8 is also a car that can "communicate with satellites". The satellite Internet unique to Geely’s global technology ecosystem will provide two-way satellite communication for the Galaxy E8. Even in the absence of mobile phone signals, information can be sent and received through satellites, so that safety will never be lost. In early February this year, the "Geely Future Travel Constellation" will launch 11 satellites in the second orbit.

  Only when the intelligent Internet is open enough can it satisfy users’ better experience and allow more mainstream users to enter the era of "Internet of Everything". On the Internet of Everything, Geely will also cooperate with excellent brands and products in various fields. On the Handheld Internet, Geely has opened up the ecology of all Android mobile phones; on the Smart Home Internet, it has opened up smart devices such as JD.com, Xiaodu, and Haier.