Tesla is playing again, Model 3 has undergone a major overhaul! Automatic driving hardware upgrade The price is less than 200000 yuan

The new Model3 is really coming!

As an entry-level product for Tesla, the Model 3 has been sold for over six years since its release in 2016, and consumers are left with little freshness. And from the domestic market perspective, the sales of Model 3 have also shown a decline, lagging behind Model Y.

In addition, with an increase in competitors, it is indeed necessary for the Moonel3 to bring a fresh and visible appearance to enhance its competitiveness. Since the beginning of this year, news has been circulating about the new Model 3, and spy photos of its appearance have also been made public, sparking heated discussions.

Car blogger @ SugarDesign also created a new car image based on spy photos of the actual car. Compared to the current Model 3, the new car has a stronger sense of luxury, which once made netizens excited and expressed that "once you go out, you must buy".

No, here comes the good news! The latest news shows that mass production of the new Model 3 seems imminent.

Recently, a netizen filmed the current situation of Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory in China using a drone. The video shows that the factory is very busy, but most of the activities are concentrated in the ModelY production area, while the Model3 factory area is very quiet, and the production line seems to have been suspended.

Is it that the more you look at it, the more wrong it becomes? If I remember correctly, some foreign media recently revealed that Tesla's Shanghai factory is preparing for the final stage of trial production of the revised Model 3. In order to adapt to the adjustment of the production line for the new model, the production line of Model 3 may be shut down for a few days at the end of May.

Even insiders have revealed that starting this month, some production employees at Tesla's Shanghai factory need to place their phones in dedicated storage cabinets outside the production line to prevent photos of the revised Model 3 from being leaked.

If something goes wrong, there will always be demons. At that time, many people speculated that "something big will happen" as soon as the news was released, and the factory photos of netizens further confirmed that the new Tesla Model 3 will soon arrive!

Adjustment of exterior details and interior Modelization

According to Tesla's previous facelift of the X and S, the new Model 3 will be a mid-term facelift with minimal changes in appearance, only minor optimizations in details, mainly focusing on adjustments to the front and rear bumpers, light groups, and interior details.

The circulated camouflage images have focused on covering the front and rear of the vehicle

Specifically, the iconic arc shaped lines on the front face have disappeared and replaced them with more rounded curves. The overall shape has been flattered and sharp, giving it a fierce visual effect.

Looking further down, the new car features a completely new style of front bumper design and eliminates the air intakes on both sides of the current bumper, which is expected to bring better aerodynamics to the new car and improve its range performance.

The interior of the headlamp set is also adjusted accordingly. There is an LED light strip at the bottom, and a yellow turn signal lamp is also integrated inside. In addition, a brand new camera is faintly visible in the headlight position of the new car. Tesla's automatic assisted driving adopts a pure visual solution, and the new camera will further improve the vehicle's "visual" ability.

The side of the car is similar to the current model, with almost no changes in the lines. The hidden door handles, integrated glass roof, and aluminum alloy wheels are still familiar. However, this new 7-spoke Y-shaped wheel hub style looks very different from the previous generation model.

When we arrived at the rear of the car, the biggest change was still the headlights. The new car will be equipped with a brand new tail light module, with a specific "inverted L" shape of the tail lights, which will be more slender than the current design. The rear of the car will also incorporate a spoiler design to improve the visual effect of the rear.

Upon closer inspection, it seems that the rear of the car has been lengthened, and the performance of the rear space may be optimized. Overall, there have been some changes to the exterior of the all-new Model 3, but the scope is limited. On the contrary, the interior adjustments have undergone greater changes, breaking free from the so-called "bad wind".

At present, various sources have pointed out that the new car will have a brand new steering wheel and an upgraded central control screen. The interior style has also undergone some changes, especially with the commonly used wood grain trim being replaced with fabric or Alcantara material to enhance the quality of the cabin.

In particular, the new Model 3 is also moving closer to the Model S, eliminating the original gear shift design and setting a gear shift area on the far left side of the screen, instead of sliding gears directly on the screen. (Referring to ModelS, in the shifting area, upshift to forward gear, downshift to reverse gear, and top to park gear) How to say that this change is indeed quite significant, but in practice, many car owners may not be accustomed to using it.

But this is not the biggest highlight yet Earlier, it was reported that the new Model 3 will also have an additional display screen in the rear. According to common sense, a rear display screen not only has functional control functions, but also some additional entertainment functions, such as playing games and watching movies.

Imagine again Can the Steam game on the new ModelS and ModelX also be used on the Model3 with the addition of rear display screens?

However, the so-called rear display screen still needs to be confirmed. Compared to this, it is more likely that the new car will be upgraded in terms of screen size, resolution, car chips, and other aspects to optimize the user experience. In short, the interior is more practical.

Integrated die-cast body, without 4680 batteries

Speaking of it, power has always been Tesla's strength. According to previous rumors, the new Model 3 is expected to optimize its battery and powertrain, or adopt a 4680 battery, which will improve battery capacity, power, and endurance performance.

This model of battery is not unfamiliar. It has been installed on some overseas Model Y before, and if it is really placed on the cheaper Model 3, it will undoubtedly increase the competitiveness of the car.

Just as everyone thought the 4680 battery was a certainty, the recently concluded Tesla 2023 shareholders' meeting experienced a major reversal.

At that time, Musk mentioned that it would take time for Tesla to mass produce the 4680 battery, so... this year, the 4680 battery will not be on board. In other words, it is highly likely that the modified Model 3 will not use a 4680 battery, but will continue to use the current 2170 battery.

Actually, aside from other factors, returning to the vehicle itself, the Model 3, as a sedan with limited chassis and lower space, has a low probability of using 4680 battery cells

As for other changes, it is currently known that the new Model 3 may adopt integrated die-casting body technology, which not only improves the rigidity of the body but also improves production efficiency. Given that this technology has already been applied to other Tesla models, it should not be a problem to use it on the new Model 3.

Based on past experience, in addition to hardware modifications, OTA upgrades at the software level are also being regularly pushed, and Tesla has indeed left ample redundant space for product upgrades, believing that it can continue to bring new user experiences.

ModelY has also been upgraded with more powerful cameras

In addition to the new Model3, another "facade" ModelY has also taken action this time. New news shows that Tesla has started delivering some of the Model Y models produced at its Fremont factory in California, with the biggest highlight being the installation of Hardware4 (HW4).

HW, also known as Tesla's core computing platform. At present, Tesla's products all use the HW3.0 platform, and this new HW4.0 platform is designed to adapt to Tesla's transition to visual based autonomous driving, break away from its previous dependence on radar sensors, and will once again enhance Tesla's autonomous driving field.

It's funny to say that Tesla didn't hold a press conference or notify the car owner about developing the HW4, but instead delivered it directly to the car Playing cards completely out of common sense. Even before, when the ModelS and ModelX with HW4.0 were launched, many car owners were skeptical, and even foreign netizens sneaked into Tesla showrooms to seek confirmation.

And this time, the netizen also found pictures of Model Y equipped with HW4.0. It is currently known that compared to vehicles previously installed with HW3.0, these vehicles have more powerful cameras.

From ModelS, ModelX to ModelY, the importance of HW4.0 can be seen. In fact, Tesla's explosive giant, the well-known dismantling expert "Greentheonly," has long made public the hardware information of HW4.0 autonomous driving.

Compared to HW3.0, HW4.0 is slightly larger and has started to become regular and flattened. The installation points have changed from three to four, and the water cooling inlet and outlet have also been adjusted. There have also been significant changes in the hardware interfaces of the two generations. HW3.0 originally had 9 camera interfaces, but HW4.0 has increased to 12. Each port is marked with the connection location of the camera, such as F-SVC, L-SVC, R-FF Red, etc., with one marked as a backup.

And the kernel has also been upgraded. HW4.0 is still based on Samsung Exynos-IP, with an increase in the number of internal CPU cores from 12 to 20. These 20 cores are divided into 5 clusters, each with 4 cores, with a maximum frequency of 2.35GHz and an idle frequency of 1.37GHz. At the same time, the number of TRIP cores has increased from 2 to 3, with a maximum frequency of 2.2GHz and an estimated total computing power of 300-500Tops.

In addition to improving computing power, the all-new HW4.0 also features powerful computing chips and 4D millimeter wave radar, among others... Musk once threatened that HW4.0 could be 500% safer than humans. At the same time, he pointed out that Tesla will address the issue of fully autonomous driving by the end of this year, and HW4.0 may be an important step in the company's future launch of a complete FSD kit and Robotaxi plan.

According to the latest news, following Model Y, the new Model 3 will also be equipped with the all-new HW4.0. Overall, the new Model 3 has undergone significant changes as a replacement model, with an evolving appearance and a potential for more diverse intelligent technology configurations.

At the same time, there is speculation from the outside that with the localization of new cars, their prices are also expected to decrease, with an estimated price of less than 200000 yuan. In this way, this will be Tesla's cheapest car model since its inception! Dear prospective Tesla car owners, are you excited?

This article is from Jiguo. The original title is: "Tesla Plays Live Again, Model 3 Completely Renovated! Automatic Driving Hardware Upgrade... priced at less than 200000 yuan"