Overview
- Industry leaders have pushed back on the label “速成车,” saying the true test of a car is whether it finished all required validation steps rather than how many months it took to develop.
- Lu Fang, chairman of Lantu, said modern tools like platform modularity and virtual simulation let teams compress schedules while still running millions of virtual and physical tests.
- Li Xueyong of Chery described the Wind T7’s roughly four-year path to market and said the company deliberately kept three areas from rushing: product R&D, regulatory and field verification, and global user co‑creation.
- Automakers cite large test footprints to support their claims, noting industry norms of three to five years for new models and public figures such as Geely’s multiyear cycles and claimed 100 million-plus kilometers of tests and Xpeng’s G9L reporting about three years of development and over 6.7 million test kilometers.
- If companies shorten calendars, consumer safety and global reliability will hinge on whether regulators and firms insist on the same breadth of real‑world trials and homologation for different markets.