Lantu Announces New Model FREE 318 with Extended Range Hybrid
TapTechNews on May 30th, the car brand Lantu announced today that its latest model, Lantu FREE 318, officially kicks off pre-sale today and will be listed on June 14th. The official temporarily didn't announce the price information. As a reference, the current price of the existing Lantu FREE is 266,900 yuan ($38,246), with a pure electric range of 210 kilometers.
According to the pre-sale policy, a 1000-yuan ($143) pre-sale deposit can be deducted from 10,000 yuan ($1430) of the car purchase balance. This car is an extended-range hybrid model, with a pure electric range of 318 kilometers and a comprehensive range of 1458 kilometers.
TapTechNews summarizes the new car information as follows:
Based on the family-style design of the FREE series, the Lantu FREE 318 model has been upgraded and renovated, carrying the exclusive titanium crystal gray car paint. The blade mecha design concept makes the front face of this new car more tensile, and the side of the body adopts black five-spoke wheels with red sports calipers, with a unique color-collision design style.
The interior of the car adopts a black-green-matching interior design. The overall design is mainly black, and green stitching and carbon fiber trim plates are decorated, which conforms to the positioning of the new car as sporty. In addition, Lantu FREE 318 supports high-speed pilot, urban assistance, and precise intelligent parking functions, etc.
According to the previous official preheating information, the new car will offer multiple wheel rims to choose from, and the addition of red/orange/yellow calipers further enriches the exterior color combination scheme. There are also black C-pillar lettering marks, variable skylight (the standard skylight for Lantu FREE) and rearview mirror cameras to choose from.
The official claims that the car has Baidu Apollo L4-level intelligent driving, with less than one takeover per 100 kilometers, and supports high-speed pilot assistance. It has an all-scenario interactive intelligent cockpit with a 0-level interaction interface, millisecond-level voice response, and lane-level high-precision navigation.
The declaration information shows that the length, width, and height of this new car are 4905mm, 1950mm, 1660/1645mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 2960mm, and the highest vehicle speed is 180 kilometers per hour. In terms of power, the new car is equipped with an extended-range hybrid system composed of a 1.5T extender + electric motor and is equipped with a 43 kWh amber battery and a rear single electric motor. Its maximum pure electric range is 318 kilometers, and the comprehensive range reaches 1458 kilometers, with a fuel consumption of 6.19 liters per 100 kilometers in the power loss state.