The domestic new energy vehicle market is still booming, in addition to "Wei Xiaoli", there are more and more dark horses began to "emerge". To this end, the traditional car giants have also come up with their own pure electric platform products, such as honda e:N series and Toyota's bZ series are officially listed in the near future. Different from the thinking of German and Japanese car companies, the American brand General Motors chose to start from its own high-end brand Cadillac as the starting point, and released the first pure electric model called LYRIQ. When the pre-sale began in November last year, the pre-price of 439,700 yuan for the LYRIQ long-endurance deluxe edition caused a surprise, which was not only much lower than the BBA's peer pure electric products, but even lower than the luxury brand model of the new domestic forces - Weilai ES8. With LYRIQ's first pre-production vehicle officially rolling off the production line, this means that the new car is one step closer to mass production delivery. In addition to the small difference in price, both are defined as medium and large SUVs. One is the luxury brand of the traditional joint venture car company, and the other is the luxury brand of the new car-making force, and the two seem to have to be compared sooner or later.
Cadillac more luxurious than NIO?
Whether it is a fuel vehicle or a new energy model, appearance is usually one of the key factors attracting consumers. At this point, it can be seen that Cadillac LYRIQ is also built. Although the front part of the face is still very family-oriented, the grille is equipped with a radial LED light source inside, which not only makes it look very novel, but also has a variety of "light show" gameplay, which can be said to take into account both luxury and futurism. The body side and rear shape are relatively conventional, the side uses the current popular hidden door handle, but the tail retains the split headlights commonly used by Cadillac in the front face, and the idea is roughly the same as the transformation products of other traditional joint venture car companies.
The overall style of the WEILAI ES8 is younger, although it is a pure electric model, but in fact it does not use the design of the closed front face, and it looks quite like a fuel car with a sense of design. The body and rear styling are also decent SUV styles, but the floating roof design with hidden door handles makes the visual effect quite good.
(Pictured is NIO ES8)
The style of the interior is more in line with its own positioning, like the Weilai ES8 more focused on the domestic popular minimalist visual effects, the central control lies in a vertical large screen, and the physical buttons are relatively small. The interior of cadillac LYRIQ has a central control giant screen similar to a dual screen, and it is reported that the size reaches 33.8 inches. In order to make it more convenient for the driver to operate, in addition to the use of the wrap-around layout, it can be seen that it still retains some of the physical buttons, which is still very in line with the design concept of traditional car companies.
In order to catch up with the current intelligent trend of new energy vehicles, Cadillac LYRIQ is equipped with an on-board 8155 chip, and the response speed and fluency of the car machine can naturally reach a relatively good level. After all, qualcomm 8155 chip is the protagonist of the smart cockpit of the current new energy model, and many new cars of car companies, such as Lantu Dreamer and Ideal L9, will use the same chip. Even Weilai ES8 will be upgraded to Qualcomm 8155 chip in the future, although the current future ES8 uses the NVIDIA Tegra X1 chip, but it can continue to evolve the smart cockpit of OTA, so at the moment its car-machine interaction and screen speed can still be played.
Average space, but more seating than the ES8?
Of course, if you buy a medium-sized SUV, the demand for space will naturally be higher. Like the Cadillac LYRIQ, the length, width and height are 5003/1977/1637mm, and the wheelbase is 3094mm. Compared with the body size of the NIO ES8: 5022/1962/1756mm, the wheelbase is 3010mm, and it can be found that in fact, the parameter gap between the two is not large. However, in actual performance, Cadillac LYRIQ did not play the advantage of ultra-long wheelbase, and the current pre-sale of the 5-seat version of the rear space is average, which is similar to its fuel CT5. As for whether the future will launch a 6/7 seat version is not certain, but according to the current control of the space, it may be adjusted to 6/7 seats, and the performance will not be as good as the Weilai ES8. The NIO ES8 in a similar horizontal wheelbase length, the use of 6/7 seat layout, in order to create a more comfortable second row of seats, the third row of space has been compressed, only suitable for emergency use, so its second row of seat space performance is still quite good.
(Pictured is Cadillac LYRIQ)
However, in terms of seat function, it seems that cadillac LYRIQ is more abundant. At present, only one long-lasting deluxe version priced at 439,700 yuan is pre-sold, and the front seat functions ventilation, heating and massage are standard. The Weilai ES8 has reached 478,000 yuan, and most of the seat functions still need to be installed.
The configuration is richer than the ES8, but the power is not as strong as the ES8?
The price of Cadillac LYRIQ really seems to be more real than the NIO ES8, but in fact, in other configurations, it is not completely crushing the NIO ES8. Compared with its smallest price difference, the NIO 450KM seven-seat version, cadillac LYRIQ is richer than the NIO ES8 in terms of handling configuration, with standard side car warning, full-speed adaptive cruise, automatic parking all online, and equipped with AKG audio, directly to the 19 speakers. However, the Weilai ES8 is also equipped with a soft and hard, high-low adjustable air suspension as standard, and the key types are more diverse, which can be said to have its own advantages.
In addition, the biggest gap between the two should be in the power part. At present, the Cadillac LYRIQ rear-drive long-endurance deluxe model adopts single-motor drive, with a maximum power of 255kW and a peak torque of 440N·m, which can achieve a 6.9-second acceleration of 100 kilometers. The NIO ES8 not only adopts dual motor drive for all four-wheel drives, the total power of the motor is 400kW, the total torque is 725N·m, and it can also achieve 4.9 seconds of 100 km/h acceleration. In the endurance part, the cruising range of cadillac LYRIQ is 650km (CLTC conditions), and the NIO ES8 provides 450km and 580km (NEDC conditions) two cruising ranges to choose from. However, because the original price difference between the two is not small, even if you compare the cheapest Weilai ES8 and Cadillac LYRIQ, its mileage is relatively poor.
summary
In the face of WEIO ES8, a player who has gained a firm foothold in the domestic new energy market and has even survived for more than four years, Cadillac LYRIQ not only shows the atmosphere of a luxury brand in appearance, but also has a longer battery life level and a richer configuration, which improves its competitiveness a lot. The focus of the Weilai ES8 is more inclined to handling and performance performance, and the reputation in the market is also outstanding, after all, there is also a nickname for "Haidilao" in the automotive industry, which is enough to see that its service level is still highly recognized. At the same time, Cadillac's transformation of the new energy track, the lower pre-price must also reflect its sincerity, as to whether this can become one of the reasons for consumers to choose it, we wait and see their market performance in the future.