The “national priority” now is undoubtedly the fight against the epidemic.

As for the prevention and control of the "new crown", car companies have the money and strength to contribute, and many car companies have actively responded to the call for factory shutdowns.

As a "hot" Chinese independent brand, Geely has not only set up a special fund of 200 million yuan for epidemic prevention and control, but also donated a total of 84 MPV models - Geely Jiaji - to areas severely affected by the epidemic.

The relevant person in charge of Geely Holding Group mentioned that the front line of the Wuhan epidemic is busy all the time. The ferrying of people and the transportation of materials are the last few kilometers of epidemic prevention and control work and cannot be ignored. Let people with large space and high comfort

The highly secure and highly secure Jiaji can not only increase transportation capacity, but also provide a temporary resting place for overworked medical staff, killing multiple birds with one stone.

In addition to medical staff, Geely has not ignored the travel needs of ordinary people. Although Academician Zhong Nanshan, the "God of Anti-epidemic War", emphasized that reducing travel is conducive to the prevention and control of the epidemic, and we people are willing to actively cooperate, most people still have travel needs.

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In order to better control the epidemic prevention and control, Na Geely took advantage of its Caocao travel platform and established an "emergency prevention and control support fleet" with hundreds of people.

While doing a good job in self-protection and vehicle disinfection, the fleet provides free home services such as meal delivery, food delivery, and medicine delivery to residents in various communities in Wuhan who are inconvenient, and helps urgently send necessary non-febrile diseases to the hospital to make it as accessible as possible.

Our ordinary people are meeting the material needs of the community to the greatest extent without going out.

Recently, Geely announced on its official Weibo that it will spend 370 million yuan to launch the research and development of "all-round healthy cars" with virus prevention functions.

What exactly is this project?

According to An Conghui, President of Geely Holding Group, President and CEO of Geely Automobile Group, virus epidemic prevention is a task that requires the long-term efforts of the whole society.

As a common means of transportation for consumers, cars are used frequently and are highly mobile.

Based on the development direction of the "new four modernizations" of automobiles including electrification, networking, intelligence, and enjoyment, automobile companies should be committed to developing products that help protect the health of drivers and passengers.

This will also be one of the key research and development directions that Geely Automobile will invest in for a long time and continue to invest.

In An Conghui's description, we must take into account preparations for a long-term "battle" against the new coronavirus. In most densely populated cities, the main means of transportation for most people is cars, and Geely has developed a protective driving

Models with health functions are one of Geely's current key research and development directions.

So what means does Geely’s research and development use to ensure user safety?

Even if we are not technical R&D personnel, we know that developing a car cannot be completed overnight, especially the combination of cars and "anti-virus". Even if Geely has a deep "family background", this kind of "cross-border research and development" requires

To break through the technical barriers, you can't just find a few scientific researchers. Even for an ordinary mass-produced model, it takes several months or even several years to complete the series of steps from design, research and development, production to putting it into practical use.

year time.

According to Geely’s explanation: the “all-round health car” will be different from professional medical protective cars and is a consumer-grade product mainly targeted at ordinary consumers.

It not only has the functions of isolating harmful substances in the outside air and quickly and efficiently purifying the air in the car that Geely Automobile products already have, but will also focus on breaking through the virus prevention functions and technologies in the car to effectively eliminate viruses or reduce the harm of viruses to the human body.

At the same time, all materials in the car will not only have high environmental protection, but also have the ability to inhibit bacteria or surface sterilization by adding certain antibacterial substances, achieving "all-round health" with more practical value.

These may sound comprehensive, but we know that there have been no examples of mass-produced vehicles relying on automotive software and hardware to prevent viruses. Although Geely Automobile provides a new perspective on automotive research and development, it will face technical difficulties and required

Cross-domain collaborative projects are also unprecedented.

For this research and development, Geely Automobile stated that it will make full use of the global system and resources, cooperate with relevant professional medical institutions and technology research and development institutions at home and abroad, and jointly set up a special project team to carry out technical research work.

Once Geely's "all-round healthy car" is officially put into the market, the industry's evaluation standards for "in-car ecological environment" will also usher in huge innovations.

However, this research and development direction is also accompanied by negative voices: for example, the "anti-virus car" seems to want to strengthen the functions and technologies of virus prevention in the car, but it will use methods such as adding antibacterial substances.

This means that the car may indeed have the ability to inhibit bacteria or sterilize surfaces, but it may be "powerless" against real viruses.

Such an approach is suspected of being a gimmick in the spotlight.

Some netizens even asked why UV lights can’t be installed in the car?

The interior of the car can also be disinfected when no one is inside.

But we need to know that the interiors of most vehicles now contain a lot of plastic and leather materials. If these materials are often exposed to ultraviolet light, they will also be damaged to a certain extent.

Editor's summary: In addition to responding to the epidemic, Geely's "all-round safety car" will also raise the evaluation standards of the "in-car ecological environment" by more than one "step."