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New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems

Jul 17, 2024

Wuling unveils new SUV – Wuling Starlight S with safety features like body and battery. The new car will have Shenlian batteries and ultra-safe body structure. In terms of power, the new car will offer pure electric and plug-in hybrid power systems. It is reported that the new car will officially go on sale in August.

New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems

In terms of body structure, Wuling Rongguang S adopts a six-ring high-strength steel body structure, and the multi-ring skeleton enhances the body rigidity, making the whole vehicle resistant to deformation and helping to improve the overall NVH performance. The new car body uses industry-leading 1200MPa ultra-high-strength steel cold stamping technology, with a high-strength steel coverage rate of over 82.5%. The vehicle has a total of 24 key positions using 1500MPa aerospace-grade hot-formed steel, distributed in various key collision positions throughout the vehicle to protect occupants and battery safety.

New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems
New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems

In addition, the new car comes standard with front and rear crash beams equipped with energy-absorbing boxes, made of aluminum alloy material up to 2.5mm thick, reducing harm to occupants and batteries, lowering maintenance costs.

New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems

In terms of battery safety, the new car is equipped with Wuling Shenlian battery, using industry-first top core technology, ‘non-flammable’ battery through multi-faceted optimization design, ensuring the battery does not short circuit, leak, lithium, or catch fire. Stable even when punctured, does not explode at high temperatures.

New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems

In terms of system security design, Shenlian Battery uses Wuling’s unique MUST multifunctional integrated battery pack, increasing battery structural strength by 60%, while also considering high integration and strength as well as detachable and maintainable batteries, effectively reducing maintenance costs.

New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems

At the same time, the battery box of Shenlian adopts the third generation of aviation-grade 1500MPa high-strength steel, with a coverage rate of over 83% of ultra-high-strength steel, a stable design structure of three transverse and six longitudinal, a tensile strength of 1200MPa ultra-high-strength steel bottom plate, enhancing the safety of the battery bottom. The multi-cavity structure roller steel design effectively absorbs impact force during collisions to protect the battery system.

New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems
New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems

In addition, the vehicle is equipped with Wuling’s self-developed intelligent battery management system (BMS), combined with cloud-based AI-BMS system, to achieve 24-hour cloud-based intelligent battery safety monitoring. Over 240 safety regulations, over 80 fault warnings, ensuring safety without delay.

New Wuling Starlight S SUV: Safety Features, Shenlian Batteries, and Power Systems