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On April 9, the official picture of Panda Cardin, Geely's mini electric car, was released. It is understood that before this, the Geely panda family has launched the panda mini, the panda kart two models, the release of the panda karting overall shape is still based on the panda mini to build, the appearance draws lessons from the kart design elements, the overall shape is more personalized.

In terms of appearance, the new car uses the usual "small square box" shape of mini electric cars, which is very recognizable as a whole. The front face uses a narrow-banner closed front grille, and a decorative strip is added to the edge of the grille to decorate it with a round headlamp group to create a cute and retro visual effect.

The side of the car body, from the official picture, the new car provides racing black, adventure white, crazy gray and other car paint, the car body with flower decoration, 14-inch rims, wide body effect wheel eyebrows / front and rear enclosure, large tail, etc., and the use of two-door 4-seat layout. In terms of size, the new car has a length, width and height of 3150/1540/1685mm and a wheelbase of 2015mm, which is slightly longer than the Knight version currently on sale. As a comparison, the Knight Panda has a length, width and height of 3135/1565/1655mm and a wheelbase of 2015mm. In the rear part, the new car uses a relatively simple design style, and the polygonal taillight group is matched with an embedded inverted trapezoidal license plate area with a high sense of hierarchy. In addition, the new car is also equipped with a large size spoiler to further enhance the motion properties of the vehicle.

In terms of interior decoration, the new car provides super powder, 100% white interior color matching, with 9.2-inch liquid crystal meter, 8-inch central control screen, knob shift mechanism and other configurations, in line with the overall needs of the current car. In terms of power, the new car uses a rear drive with a 30 kilowatt drive motor and a peak torque of 110 Nm.

On February 6, 2023, Geely Panda mini officially launched four models with a price range of 3.99 yuan to 53900 yuan at that time; on March 1, 2024, Geely Automobile announced the launch of Panda mini 200km Longteng version with a price of 39900 yuan. On April 1, 2024, Geely announced that Panda mini can enjoy a cash discount of 10, 000 yuan, with a starting price of 29900 yuan.

As we all know, the profit of miniature pure electric vehicles is very low, but there are still many car companies to join this market segment. Since SAIC GM Wuling launched the Hongguang MINIEV to become a popular model, there have been a lot of imitators on the market, including Chery QQ Ice Cream, Reading Mango, punk Duoduo, Lingbao BOX, Bizhi Bear and Dongfeng scenery MINIEV, etc., but it is not easy for these models to surpass the Hongguang MINIEV. At present, the performance of the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV is still very eye-catching and occupies a large share in the market segment.

As a new member of Geely Panda series, Panda Cardin will further enrich Geely Panda series product matrix after listing. But at the same time, as a mini electric car, Panda Cardin also has many competitors, such as Hongguang MINIEV, Changan Lumin, Chery New Energy QQ Ice Cream and so on.

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