With the recent official announcement of NIO DAY not to be postponed, nor to change to online, it can be basically concluded that the long-awaited second car ET5 of Niolai will be released on the 18th of this month. Immediately after, Weilai exposed a new car trailer video, although from the video fragmented information, can only roughly analyze the new car through the taillight effect, but does not prevent everyone from speculating that this move is also to warm up the ET5.
In fact, from the information exposed many times before, and the initial impression that the author encountered ET5 when he test-drove near Shanghai Automobile City in the past six months, this new car can be roughly regarded as a "scaled-down version" of ET7. For example, the front face is almost the same as the ET7, using The iconic X-Bar2.0 design language of Weilai, compared with the original ES8, ES6 and other SUV models cancel the hexagonal grille and some complex air parts, the overall appearance is more simple and avant-garde.
According to the information revealed in the NIO Day 2021 trailer, the coating of ET5 will probably use bright yellow and blue.
However, it is interesting that the previous ET7 was criticized for placing lidar on the roof of the car, as if the horn shape of the great demon king in the anime. The roof of the ET5 is flat and smooth this time, and there is no obvious bulge around the front face and body, which inevitably makes people speculate that the ET5 may not be equipped with lidar. In other words, its level of automatic driving is likely to not reach the height of the ET7 model L3 level.
Although ET5 is the most important car within Weilai, after all, whether it can create a blockbuster is due to a battle, presumably all channel resources will be arranged. However, since it is a volume model, et5 will inevitably open up the gap with ET7 at the product level.
In addition to the absence of lidar, high-end configurations such as the silicon carbide motor introduced when the ET7 was released may not have too much expectation. However, ET5 after all small car, the current known length, width and height size of ET7 are 5101x1987x1509mm, wheelbase is 3060mm, and according to the recent online revelations, ET5 body length between 4800-4900mm, the overall size and maintenance quality will be significantly smaller, in the case of body streamline and wind resistance, battery PACK, battery pack should be more than ET7, which instead reflects its pragmatic tonality.
Regarding the price, according to the future difference between ES8 and ES6 120,000 yuan, considering the starting price of ET7 440,000 yuan, the ET5 entry-level model is expected to be around 320,000 yuan, which will also become the lowest priced model of the NIO brand.
Of course, more information about new cars will have to wait until the NIO Day 2021 event. It is understood that in addition to the debut of ET5, this conference will also launch the third generation of Weilai replacement power station, and announce the hardware upgrade plan for NT 1.0 platform models, let us wait and see.