Chinese EV revealed with clever Ferrari, Corvette technology

The caller Deepal L06 whitethorn not look wildly antithetic from different Chinese electrical sedans, but it packs thing unsocial nether its skin.

Deepal touts the L06 is the archetypal exemplary from a mass-market Chinese marque to diagnostic magnetorheological suspension, which it’s speedy to boast is the aforesaid exertion recovered successful Ferraris.

Of course, this exertion was primitively developed not by Ferrari but alternatively General Motors’ Delphi division, debuting successful the 2002.5 Cadillac Seville and subsequently being utilized successful a raft of GM products since then, including the Chevrolet Corvette. It’s besides been utilized by different brands similar Ford, which has fitted it successful the Mustang.

These dampers usage a magnetorheological fluid, containing robust particles, that’s controlled by a magnetic field. This allows the damping characteristics to beryllium continuously controlled utilizing a magnet.

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MagneRide exertion is offered by Chinese-owned BWI Group, which acquired Delphi’s chassis part successful 2009.

The steadfast announced successful February it would proviso its fourth-generation MagneRide exertion to an unspecified “leading Chinese automaker”, who volition enactment it successful a sedan, SUV and a “high-performance vehicle” with an yearly measurement of 400,000 units and accumulation commencing successful mid-2025.

In summation to the Deepal L06 from Chinese elephantine Changan, BWI Group volition besides proviso this suspension tech for the upcoming Polestar 5; the Swedish marque is owned by Chinese automaker Geely.

In a (translated) property release, Deepal says this tech delivers exceptional stableness successful the L06 with “no bouncing connected steep inclines and nary deviation during cornering” and “supercar-level handling and composure successful regular driving”.

The L06 features MacPherson strut beforehand and five-link rear suspension.

Deepal claims the L06 bushed the Porsche 911 successful the moose trial astatine the China Automotive Technology and Research Center, achieving a velocity of 85.6km/h.

The rear-wheel thrust L06 features a azygous 200kW/290Nm electrical motor, with claimed 0-100km/h acceleration times of betwixt 5.9 and 6.2 seconds depending connected the variant – reasonably tame numbers successful a marketplace wherever the likes of Xiaomi connection dizzying performance.

It’s offered with either 56.12kWh oregon 68.82kWh lithium robust phosphate (LFP) batteries from CATL, delivering 560km of scope connected the CLTC rhythm with the erstwhile and 670km with the latter.

There’s besides an extended-range electrical conveyance (EREV) mentation which features a 1.5-litre four-cylinder motor arsenic a scope extender. This uses a smaller 28.39kWh artillery and offers 240km of electric-only range.

Deepal name-checks Tesla, claiming the single-stage end-to-end intelligent assistance algorithm of its Deepal AD Max operator assistance strategy is similar that of the American automaker’s, and claims its strategy features “the industry’s archetypal mass-produced municipality autonomous roaming function”.

This strategy is powered by 11 cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors, 3 radars and 1 LiDAR unit.

The Chinese automaker besides says the L06 features an “industry-first four-map fusion real-scene lane-level navigation system” that “far surpasses mobile telephone navigation”.

Inside, there’s a 15.6-inch touchscreen infotainment strategy and an augmented world head-up display. Deepal besides claims implicit 90 per cent of the interior’s surfaces usage soft-touch materials.

The sedan measures 4830mm long, 1905mm wide and 1480mm gangly connected a 2900mm wheelbase. That makes it astir identical successful size to 2 different vehicles successful Deepal’s lineup: the SL03 EV and extended-range electrical conveyance (EREV) liftback range, and the related L07 which is efficaciously an SL03 utilizing a suite of exertion from Huawei.

The SL03/L07 formed the basal of the caller Mazda 6e, owed successful Australia successful mid-2026.

As for the Deepal brand, it launched present precocious successful 2024 with the mid-size S07 electrical SUV, pursuing it up successful September 2025 with the quirky E07 Multitruck. This antithetic mash-up of a ute and an SUV is really borrowed from Changan’s Nevo brand.

Deepal has besides confirmed it’ll motorboat its tiny S05 electrical SUV here, though it has yet to corroborate immoderate of its rider cars oregon its ample G318 off-road and S09 crossover SUVs.

To the extremity of October, Deepal has delivered 332 vehicles successful Australia this twelvemonth – with the caveat that its tallies didn’t look successful monthly VFACTS income reports until May.

Nevertheless, Deepal’s genre-busting E07 Multitruck could beryllium resonating much with Australian buyers, though it’s inactive excessively soon to sell.

In the 2 months of deliveries recorded, Deepal has shifted 115 E07 Multitrucks, against 217 examples of the much affordable S07 from May to the extremity of October.

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