The Fastest Charging Car In The World - Li Auto MEGA

hello everybody Welcome to inside China Auto today we've got one of the most exciting cars of 2024 it is the fully electric Le Auto [Music] Mega [Music] yes this is the Lee Auto Mega probably one of the most distinctive cars that you will see come out in 2024 I mean just look at it it is like a bullet train for the road now the eagle-eyed car fans of you will notice that it does look little bit like a hyundi staria with this low rounded profile nose very sort of sleek shape on it but there are some unique differences on this car pretty much more of them around the back I'll talk about those when we get there but this car is Leo's first fully electric car if you've watched our leoto channels you know that they do extended range electric vehicles rather than full battery electric vehicles this car is changing all of that and it does boast some very impressive specs on paper today we're going to put those to the test but first let me talk about the design you will of course see that we have a very low profile front end on this got of course Le ao's traditional LED light bar across the front this sort of u-shaped panel around here is H of sensors and things like that you got your headlamps over there more sensors down here also vents that open and close for ventilation down at the bottom there you'll also see we have a liar unit on top of the screen that is for Le Auto's ad Max that gives them autonomous driving capability downtown on the highway and in parking situations as well we'll also try and show you some of those in today's video but as I said it is very unique and very aerodynamic if it if you think it looks sleek you are right it has a drag coefficient of just 0.215 CD and you can see that is because they've kept the furniture on the outside of this car very minimal indeed you've only got your your liar up there little bit sticking out here your wing mirrors of course these handles pop in when you're driving so there's almost nothing sticking out on this car and it tapers off towards the back as well which I'll show you in a minute helping that you've got aerrow wheels here they're only 18 Ines this is the only thing that you get the only choice you get you do get very Hefty side walls on there to help give you the most comfortable ride leoto is of course a family car brand more than anything else so they want for to have a very good ride they don't just rely on tires though you do get uh continuous damping control and air suspension dual chamber air suspension on this car as well you get big doors here at the front the only difference on these to the other Le Auto cars is these don't have the soft Clos function because the packaging in here doesn't allow for that I'm afraid of course we do have a sliding door MPV seven seats need a lot of space in here loads of luur it's over 5.3 M long this car it's really really quite massive it's very massive inside but I'll get to that in a minute this point here is the highest point of the car that is to give you the best Ingress into this car it's also quite low especially compared to the other models so you do get a really good amount of space in there you can close that with a switch on there we'll talk about the interior when we take this car for a charge because this car does boast some very impressive stats especially when it comes to the charging which happens down here at the charging port we've got really distinct kick just up there on the p on the on the the side windows here it's also got quite a low Belt Line actually much lower than most npvs which tend to have it a bit higher especially the Alphard that this car is going up against also like the denza D9 zika 9 and of course the Voya dreamer cars like that but yeah overall a really distinctive profile it's a bit Marmite honestly you're going to love it or you're going to hate it I think in this color it looks pretty good I'd like it in Black actually but sadly they don't offer it in that anyway let's have a look at the back and I'll show you how this car differs a little bit more from the Hyundai staria now coming towards the rear of the car you can see it's got a very distinctive profile here because everything tapers off the sides of the car start to taper in at the back the roof tapers down so much so that my eyes are actually Above This Leading Edge here this little tiny spoiler because what they've gone for is that kind of chopped off rear end because that gives you better aerodynamics helps the car to cut through the air a lot faster and Achieve that 0.215 drag coefficient you got yourself a full LED light bar across the back not Disturbed on this one cuz the door the door panel itself is wide enough this one lights up here blue so that you can show when your car is in autonomous driving mode whether that's on the highway Urban Roads or even on parking as well inside you'll see once we've opened the trunk the hinge is actually really quite far back along the back here and that's because well first of all to reduce the amount of space that that door opens because it's already a long car so it's going to be struggling a little bit in some indoor parking spaces so it makes that amount of space that it sticks out a little bit shorter it also gives you more space underneath you can see I'm a 5411 guy I got loads of space up here no problem and then you can fully access this trunk now as it is with the third row seats all the way up you get 500 L of space here it's about 68 cm from the lip here to the back of those seats and 1.25 CM wide if I do need some more space I can press those two buttons there fold down the rear seats they split 60/40 so you can do one side or the other if you really want to what I should also say by the way is we do have a false floor here so you can actually lift out of the way and with the false floor out and the seats up you should be able to get four 28in suitcases stacked up in there and then two 20in suitcases on top which should be enough for a full family of seven but as I said if you need more space you've now got more space on top of that rear seat there electrically operated if I hold it down again you see those seats flip up a second time give you up to 1.5 M of length there of space in the back which gives you around or above 1,000 L of space and storage in the back of this car it's really quite impressive and an extra bit here because of course we have the air suspension on this car press this button here you see the car starts to lower down so we get lower lip here easy to get things into the back of the car you simply press that to bring it back up again you get a 12v socket on the side here you do get your base subwoofer on there as well of course it is an electrically operated boot lid so you press this to bring it down I said it's a very distinctive design it looks very interesting I mean I'm not I I I do like it I do like it I'm not 100% certain because it does feel like it's almost extra smooth a little bit too smooth but that's kind of the design principle for this car it's supposed to be smooth that's how you get those amazing aerodynamics which are by the way better than a Porsche Tian and a Tesla Model 3 and they both look like pretty slick cars this is a big car it's got better aerodynamics than both of those but now I'm going to show you the party trick of this car which is the charging so check this out here's the charging port here's our Le Auto 5c charger watch the charging port look at that opened automatically I need a spare hand here so hang that little cap on there and let's plug it in when I plug it in I'm going to start the charging charging has begun I believe so there we go we're now on to two seconds so there's the car the charging will begin in just a moment there you go charging has begun so during this 10 minutes what I'm going to do is check out the car so we've got two cameras in here I'm going try and keep this consistent you can see there we go we're on 8.67% so if you are new to the auto you will obviously want to know how luxurious this car is you've got lovely soft materials on top of the dashboard lovely Nappa leather on the steering wheel and on the doors all lovely soft Leathers all around here see charging is already at 10% and what time are we on on this phone let's have a look s right that's my child 43 seconds so far we've already gone up by about 4% in that time you can see here by the way the charging going up to 653 amps so far we should be able to get up to about 720 amps I believe or 740 amps on this during the process anyway we've got basically 11 minutes to talk about the car so let's do that in front of us we have the steering wheel of course and I'll switch now to the other camera by the way just to prove that we still have our timer going there it is okay so in here what we have is sorry I'll just pop the window up so in here in the leoto what we have is a twin 15.7 in setup pretty much the same as you'll find in every other leoto car and if you want to check out more about that you can check out other leoto videos I won't go into too much detail about the systems the difference with this car today the leoto mega is that it comes with the Snapdragon 8295 processor that means that it's upgrade on the previous Snapdragon 81 8155 processor that was in the previous Le Auto cars and it runs super quick I mean course we've got our charging going on here you can go into Apps you got all the different stuff in there I'm not going to go into the details of that today because if you wanted to check out that you can check out our leoto OTA 5.0 update video in the top corner or you can check out our leoto L7 video over in the top Corner as well but again you've got all your apps in here lovely great stuff I said it's very very quick and this car comes with a pretty impressive sound system 21 speakers 2,160 watts of sound you also get 4D bass cushions in the back so actually when you watch a film you can watch something like June which has those really sort of cinematic effects you get Dolby Vision Atmos thing you can actually find that in the e in the I app you can specifically look for those movies in here you can see when they're tagged on there and you can play those movies in the back of the car which you can watch on of course your third screen in the back of the leoto you get that really sort of immersive Cinema experience and I can genuinely say it is brilliant it's really really good but a normal leoto interior as I said does consist of two 15.7 in screens you get twin Wireless vented Chargers down here as well you do get a glove box on this side and of course you get heating ventilation and massage here in the front row of this car this front Queen seat by the way can recline and the leg rest can come up in sort of a queen seat mode even with the glove box here and without having to go backwards to cut off the leg room to the people in the back terms of visibility it's pretty good actually we get really sort of wide a pillars here I would say that it's than the zika 9 in terms of visibility you get really wide angle here few interesting points here you'll see we have a reverse well rear viiew mirror actually there's a button up here to change it to a normal rearview mirror if you press the button on top you can actually turn into a digital screen so it'll give you the feed from the camera on the rear end because of course this is quite a long car you can see all the way down the back there 5.3 M sometimes all the headrest it gets a little bit less visible that actually helps out quite a lot standard setup as I said though it's really luxurious materials everything in a Le Auto soft Nappa leather seats we've got a huge bit of storage space under the dashboard center console here and we've got more space in the middle here I'll just show you by the way that we have 3 minutes 55 on the clock at the moment we have 37% there on the screen and some snacks in there we've also got a refrigerator and a heater in here which I'll show you when I get into the back seats but the great thing about the Autos is they keep things again really simple the interior is very very familiar with normal Le Auto designs the same sort of gently rounded C simple geometric shapes they don't over complicate anything everything Veals very soft and luxurious we've got our manual controls for the mirrors and manual controls for reach and rake here on the steering again they like to do the things that are most important right in front of your eyes now what I'm going to do is climb to the back of the car and for that I will switch back over to this camera and I'll show you by the way when we once we do that see we have there 4 minutes 38 on the camera and 42% on there we'll switch over to this one with 40 4 minutes 44 for now I'll climb to the back and talk about the back of the car so here in the rear seats of the car and you see by the way with the charger open the door has stopped a little bit to give us a oh sorry I need to go to a wide angle shot door stopped to give us a sort of a more narrow angle now check out these seats okay these seats are 4D comfort you get in here Heating ventil ation and massage the heating actually covers here here and even the leg rest as well so you get full heating all down this seat you get 16o massage so 10 points in the top seat six under your BM very good for a comfortable Journey they are actually more basic seats than in a z9 for example they don't over complicate things too much you've got a wireless charger here with your ventilation there you got cup holders on the back of the center console in the front and ventilation controls here in the back you can control your heating ventilation and M seets here you've also got your 60 W charger if you want to plug in there we've also got down here a fridge which you can get in a lot of Le Auto cars so you can actually make things cool or you can make them hot I believe it goes up to 50° now if you want to have those buttons on your seat here they are so if you have heating currently we have ventilation on hold that button down changes to heating this one turns on your massage as I said this foot rest comes up here the seat does recline quite a lot down towards the back there so I actually pull both of these up so you can see what this chair looks like in fully reclin mode these seats actually move forwards and backwards by 50 cm as well so they are really really comfortable very very nice seats here and what I'm going to do is take you into the back seat of the car to show you how much space we have in there as well so that's our seat as it is normally as you can see plenty of leg room here let me just move this bag out the way and here we climb into the back of the car with the mosquito this is the leg room we've got here right let me put my feet down there look at that absolutely loads of knee room here and loads of space for my feet these kind of foot garages as Porsche might call them down there under the front seat you also get pockets in the back as well you get a USBC socket in here you get this option here to tilt your own back rest so actually you can tilt the back rest on this seat see like that there you go so you can tilt the back rest angle here you can also put your heating on and in this rear and rear seat here you get Heating in the center piece as well so as you can see absolutely loads of room they say there is Five series levels of space in the back of this car and seven series levels of space u of of leg room in the center in the second row of this car of course you get your ventilation as well and this enormous panoramic roof you get a mirror a window here that is about 1 M long very much feels like you're in a highspeed train as you're driving along here cuz You' got a really large window actually the window space on this car in total is 8.26 square m all the way around which is more than a Toyota alod and even more than a Mercedes-Benz v-class which is based on a van so should have a lot of window space this window does come with a blind as well so that blind will slide back here another thing to point out in the back of this car we do have of course the screen here in the back I can't currently turn it on for you I'm not sure how to make it come down but that's a 7 in screen now so it's bigger than in the Le Auto L series The SUVs so bigger screen in the back so these are really the seats where you're going to want to be you do get these lovely plush pillows they keep things very simple you don't have that much on the seat to be honest you've got a little bit of space in the door here for cups and things like that you get a little tiny bit of ambient lighting just under there and along the side here but again the difference between this one and say a Voyer dreamer for example is soft materials here you've got Nappa leather not sure if it's napple leather on the doors but it's certainly ly soft all the way along there you got soft lining around the sides here so there's no harsh plastic surfaces you got carpet down there you even do get isopix mountings on the two rear seats which is great and you get a rear armrest in there as well we do get of course our speakers in the back what you also get if you really want is a plug down here this plug Works to plug in your PlayStation or your Nintendo switch you can actually plug in a PlayStation 5 player on the screen that comes out from the roof here and you've got your 3C your USBC charger there now let's have a quick look in the front we are currently on 71% so let's get my phone out my pocket we'll check what time we're on 9 Minutes 28 seconds so far we're up to 72% that's 513 km of range we came in here at I believe about 9 something per so we've added 63% in just 9 minutes and you can see we're currently at 415 amps 820 volts coming through there now one thing that I'm not so sure about in the back of this car is the switch here to close so if I close the door you can see loads of leg room here absolutely no problem at all there we also get window blinds by the way on this second row seat so you can blow lift those up your window switch is all the way forwards here so it's actually quite far away you do have to lean forward to press that you also have to lean forward to reach these cup holders in the middle it would be nice maybe to have some cup holders here in the seat but we don't have those at the moment and only this seat here comes with a tray table that pops out like that of course these controls here are to move this front seat further forward if you really want to this is just a pocket down here so it's not a leg it's not a leg rest as it is on the Le Auto L7 but as you can see loads of room in here the other thing is the door switch that's all the way up there so that's not as easy to switch either but it's fully electric you can also do this from the screen over there in the cabin so you'll see now we are at 77% I believe we started at about 7 about eight what percentage are we on Ting we on 9% before it's done in like couple minutes I think so we're nearly done so let's just check it out again where we at 11 minutes now we've now got 563 km of range on there that's pretty impressive I think so yeah that's the interior of the Le Auto Mega so now we're out on the road in the Lee mega and we've chosen bit of a country road here so it's kind of a bit more bumpy it's made of those sort of concrete panels so it's a little bit more bumpy let's say in terms of the ride quality but we have just compared it to a Toyota Alpha which of course is a plus one million R&B car and I mean yeah overall the concept of the alphad is more than 8 years old now so compared to this it should be worse this car is significantly better it comes of course with that continuous damping control that dual chamber air suspension and the difference between the two is light years to be completely honest with you it is so much smoother so much quieter of course cuz this is an electric car the Alphard is a car with an engine this car is considerably smoother and quieter and we've got in Comfort mode at the moment what I'm going to do is switch it over into sport mode what you'll find here is even in sport mode the handling does tighten up a little bit still pretty soft I mean it's a family car it's a big you know it's an MPV it's not supposed to be a racing car it's not a spass F1 or anything like that but it does tighten up the the the handling ability but at the same time it's still really comfortable it's still soaking up all these bumps and what's basically Happening Here is cameras are reading the road and preparing the suspension in advance to give us the most comfortable ride quality that you can get and like any Lee Auto it is absolutely beautiful to drive it's the same with the L Series SUVs the mega is very much in the same vein as those really able really soft so now we got a few Corners so I'm going to keep it in sport mode just see if we can test out the steering a little bit the steering did try out a little bit earlier it is still soft I wouldn't say it's it's sharp but again you're not supposed to be racing this car it's not going to be a car where you're going to be wanting to feel everything that's coming through you're going to be wanting to kind of enjoy it certainly up against the alpha the alpha did have better steering feel but you know you're you're chauffeuring people around you're not taking them on you know laps of Silverstone for example natur the Ling on these Corners is still pretty good I mean we've got these 18-in wheels of course with big chunky side in side profile tires so it's about 6 cm the side com the side wall on the tires so you're going to get a little bit more kind of roll you're going to get a bit more Comfort overall I would say though definitely Comfort geared not a sport sporty car as such until you put your foot down so this car will do 0 to 62 mph in 5.5 seconds we're currently doing about 60 km per hour if I thump my foot to the floor you get a real boost up the backside and it's really really quite quick I mean again not quite as quick as a z9 that's probably a bit more explosive bit more aggressive but it is what what tends to happen is if you Accelerate from zero you do it like 0er to 100 km perh speed test what you'll find is it comes in gently at the bottom and then has that kind of sarb mid-range turbo it actually starts to accelerate quicker after that point and becomes really Qui quite thrilling at that point you really do start to feel like you're in a Chinese bullet train the way that the speed of the the scenery outside starts to come past the window but as I said it comes in nice and gently and then ratchets up after about 20 to 30 km per hour really starts to come on song and this car is pretty powerful it only comes in one version you get 400 Kow of power it's 155 on the front axle 245 KW on the rear axle and that's 542 Newton m me of torque so it's certainly plenty Punchy enough and again compared to all of your standard Rivals if you compare that to a an alard or a Mercedes-Benz v-class 260 or if you compare it even to the SUVs like Mercedes BMW X7 or Mercedes-Benz GLS it is more power than all of those and quite honestly there's plenty of it on top actually in reality you could probably just have a 200 Kow motor on the rear axle and it would still be enough I said that in the Galaxy E8 video I don't think any car really needs more than 200 KW of power but if you do want that extra bit of punch if you want to glide through the you know the scenery or the motorway a little bit faster this car will certainly help you do that I'm going to try and slide past this Audi here if it'll give us a bit of space on his left side there we go so as as I said when you need that mid-range punch there it is it comes all the way in and we actually tested it on the highway earlier so when Ting was driving we had it on the highway doing about 120 130 km per hour the ambient noise in the cabin was just 58 Newton M sorry 58 DB of sound so it was really really quiet and again those numbers compared to all the other Rivals even the prestigious Mercedes-Benz S-class this car in all three rows actually beats the S-Class uh the S-Class myb back version even in terms of interior sound quality you can have a completely decent conversation here I've got two guys from Le Auto got Ting in the third row there doing his thing as well Tim can you hear me back there yeah quiet no problem at all okay so now we're going slower we're doing like 60 km per hour here but as I said even at high speed it's just it's whisper quiet you can even have a you can even speak gently really quietly and people can still hear you all across the car which of course makes for a really great experience if your passengers choose to use this 17in screen here in the back or even that 15.7 in screen there in the front and listen to that amazing sound system as as I said earlier 2,160 Watts 21 speakers and especially in that second row when you put on you know a movie where you get all that really sort of atmospheric sound you start to feel the the shake the 4D bass speakers in the rear seats really do make it like you're in a cinema yeah okay not a it's not a 100 in screen or anything like that but it's incredibly immersive if you actually want to watch a film like that it's also apparently they have a certificate for the blue LED quality because blue LEDs apparently a lot harder to make than red and green LEDs this one has the most blue let's say the screen this screen here has 1,100 knits of brightness which is really bright and I believe a 2 million to one contrast ratio so you get really good quality video on there as I said in terms of the driving experience it is everything that you would expect from a Le Auto it's comfortable it's gentle what I do like is that you get base cushion adjustment on this not extension but you do get base cushion tilt angle on this so you can get into quite a comfortable position I would like maybe a little bit more reach on the steering just because I like to have it a little bit closer but I got the seat on the lowest setting now there's still plenty of leg room for everybody in the back down there and I feel like I've I've got a comfortable driving position here the VIS visibility is really good of course we have this split a pillar here as you would expect on an MPV if you compare this to a zika 9 which has pretty terrible forward visibility in your front three quarters there this is much better I think these windows here on the side the sort of quarter light windows are significantly bigger they feel brighter yes the nose of the car is quite a bit lower than on the zika 9 so you might find it a little bit harder to judge where the front of the car is but with the 360° camera you can easily see what's going on around the car so you don't have to worry too much about whether your front end is going to nudge one thing I would say is this car in terms of comparison to say the the xong X9 doesn't come with the rear wheel steering of course it is a big vehicle it's over 5.3 M long which actually by the way if you compare that to a UK parking space is much bigger than a UK parking space because they're actually traditionally 5 m in the US it would fit in the UK it's going to be a little bit longer than that space but it does mean that you get not the greatest turning Circle in the world I would say it's actually slightly worse than the alphab we tested it in the same Junction with the alphab the alod almost made it this had a little bit more to go to do that so that's one place where the xong X9 which admittedly is at a lower price bracket than this would have an advantage but I mean it's it's it's one compromise that you're making I would say in terms of what you get in terms of the Interior the space the 5.3 m is well worth it because back there I mean Ting's not the tallest guy in the world but I he's got plenty of rout right 5 172 there you go 172 I got like a palm leg room and then the second R got like Yeah so basically all rows of the car have got massive amounts of leg room I am massively impressed by that back row I never sat in the back of an MPV with such massive space the voy dreamer which is a little bit shorter than this but was actually the second longest MPV in the world until this one came along the third row in that is no comparison to this whatsoever the fact that you have that space for your feet under the seats in front and loads of leg room not only that though of course you get all the space in the trunk at the same time so you can still fit a lot of suitcases in and seven people in the car at the same time it's massively impressive in terms of space as you would kind of Hope by the way with that length of car but it's yeah I mean if you want to move people are across the country in Grace and comfort and silence this is really an excellent way to do it now in terms of range we do get a battery on this uh only one choice again it's 2.7 KW battery that'll give us 710 km of range and of course I've already demonstrated the charging you can charge more than 500 km in less than 12 minutes so imagine if you're going on a long trip for example and you need to stop on the motorway a few times of course if you got a family you've got kids they need to stop at the bathroom every 5 minutes usually if you want to do that you know you can charge for 3 or four 5 minutes you can add another 200 km of range in that time that is going to be game changing especially once Le Auto's charging situation comes on track because they're going to have they're going to have 2,000 of those 5c chargers across China by the end of this year and 5,000 by the end of next year now of course one of the big key things about Le Auto as we showed in our leoto 5.0 OTA video is the new Urban NOA and the highway NOA that they can have actually do so because we are in sna not a small City like we were in that video we actually have the opportunity to turn it on so of course you turn it on by tapping down here and you can see now on the screen we've got our Blue Line you can actually change this screen to the main one so you can see what's going on over there and we can test it out in real time so this is kind of an urban setting we've got a lot of buildings and hotels around here in SAA and a lot of other vehicles around at the same time so we'll give it a quick Go and show you what it's like so what we've got coming up now in the lane in front of us is a car that's parked up and a scooter to negotiate at the same time we should be okay on our rear corner cars pulling out it's navigated that really nicely see I just have to keep my fingers near the wheel cuz it's got a capacitive touch on it we drift back into the lane that we were in got another car now that's an obstacle there it spotted that it's happy it's driven around it left it loads of space that's cool now we've got a temporary traffic light even so a little traffic light in the middle here it's going to get a bit tighter because it's two lanes and it's going down to one kind of the traffic light is still going we just annoyed that Cheval that cries little behind us there but we navigated that pretty good I would say and again we got more obstructions here another car parked in our road a guy getting into his car and a car coming the other way how's it going to deal with this again real comfort that was actually very impressive scooter over there now what I will say is when we were driving with Ting in the car in s you get a lot of people who are really quite comfortable with life they'll just drift out into the road whether they're walking or on three-wheel Scooters or even four-wheel scooters what I would say is it gets close sometimes it get it's a little bit scary but you never actually have an accident if you just leave it to do its thing you don't have those accidents it just feels a little bit scary at the same time but that is kind of that is the that's the combination there between that's the combination between humans and Ai and that's currently where I see the friction in those two things because AI can't always predict what humans are going to do they are pretty interesting people so NOA has now finished so we now have to take control of the car so that was a that was a good little test though that urban road then I quite enjoyed that and the car did really well actually better than it did in the hometown that I was in the uh for the otaa 5.0 video so really nice there overall really great Driving Experience I like it a lot so that's it for our review of the Lee Auto Mega a fantastic first fully electric car from the brand and that charging speed is really quite incredible it'd be interesting to see if anybody can match that in 2024 could well be a game changer it's everything that you would expect from a Le Auto it's plush it's refined it's absolutely packed full of Kit autonomous Drive systems dual chamber air suspension brilliant surround sound overall an excellent package if it's priced right it should do pretty well it's an MPV so it's going to be interesting to see exactly how many sales it adds to the brand but as a statement piece for a first full electric car it could not have gone better I don't think for the auto if you've enjoyed this video do please consider giving it a thumbs up it does help to get the channel out to more people thank you very much for watching and if you do thank you for subscribing we'll catch you next [Music] time

Channel: Inside China Auto

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Length: 32min 23sec (1943 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 01 2024