In the "NIO Day 2021" NIO Brand Day event held on December 18, NIO launched a new medium-sized pure electric sedan ET5, which is also the second car product launched by NIO after ET7, the new car will be equipped with the latest 75kWh hybrid battery pack and 100kWh and 150kWh ternary lithium battery pack, the largest CLTC comprehensive working condition of more than 1000km. After the new car is launched, it will compete with many popular models such as Tesla Model 3 and BMW 3 Series to compete for the luxury mid-size sedan market.
Weilai ET5 positioning medium-sized pure electric sedan, the new car will compete head-on with Tesla Model 3 after the launch, but compared to Model 3, ET5 has a more high-end positioning, a more luxurious atmosphere and more textured quality. In addition to the new car will collide head-on with the Model 3, the fuel models such as the bmw 3 series, audi A4L and Mercedes-Benz C-class of traditional luxury brands will also become its competitors.
At the press conference, Weilai also officially announced the price of ET5 and opened pre-sales. ET5 adopts the vehicle purchase scheme, the price of 75-degree electric model is 328,000 yuan before subsidy, and the BaaS battery rental method is used to purchase, the price is 258,000 yuan before subsidy, and the monthly battery fee is 980 yuan. The price of the 100 kWh electric model is 386,000 yuan before the subsidy, and it is purchased by baaS battery rental, and the price is 258,000 yuan before the subsidy, and the monthly battery fee is 1480 yuan. Deliveries of the new car will begin in September 2022.
In addition, WEILAI officials also said that for users who buy NIO ET5 now, they will enjoy the preferential activities of 5,000 yuan discounted to 10,000 yuan of car purchases. For existing car owners, the purchase of this car will receive a 7,000 yuan discount + 30,000 NIO points red packet, while the OWNERS of the inaugural version of NIO ES8 will receive 10,000 yuan discount + 50,000 points red packets when they buy NIO ET5.
appearance:
In terms of appearance, ET5 adopts the Weilai family X-bar front face design, but compared to the ET7 details have more innovation, if you see it as a small ET7 is a bit sloppy, closed grille shape with slender headlights, looks very simple, the front hatch line is uplifted, with a stronger sense of power, sporty front face and coupe-style body design, so that it has a higher recognition.
The vehicle will come standard with a Sun-themed look and feel, and you can also spend $4500 to opt for a more distinctive Moon-themed look. In addition, ET5 also offers up to 9 body colors to choose from, clear space powder and cloud yellow are the exclusive colors of ET5, and the annual color Aerospace Blue will also be installed on ET5.
Among the 9 colors, the five colors of Cloud Initial Yellow, Mirror Air Powder, Xiaguang Orange, Aurora Green, and Aerospace Blue need to be optional, and the price is 10,000 yuan, which is 2,000 yuan more expensive than tesla's optional body color.
Above the front windshield of the new car, it is equipped with a lidar and is equipped with the latest NIO Autonomous Driving technology NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving), which is equipped with 19 driving assistance functions as standard, and the complete functions of NAD adopt the service subscription mode of "monthly opening and monthly payment", that is, ADaaS (AD as a Service), the service fee is 680 yuan per month, and the service will be gradually provided after the completion of development and verification. The ET5 has also become NIO's second pure electric sedan (NT 2.0 autonomous driving platform) equipped with new autonomous driving technology after THE ET7.
Et5 is also equipped with Aquila, NIO super sensing system as standard, and is equipped with 33 high-performance perception hardware, including 1 ultra-long-range high-precision lidar, 7 8-megapixel HD cameras, 1 enhanced main driver perception, 5 mmWave radar, 12 ultrasonic sensors, V2X vehicle-road co-sensing and 2 sets of high-precision positioning units.
At the same time, the whole series is equipped with ADAM, Weilai supercomputing platform, with a computing power of up to 1016TOPS, which is the most powerful mass-produced mobile computing platform so far. Aquila's powerful perception and ADAM's powerful computing power will bring easier and safer driver assistance functions.
The hidden door handle will be on par with the same door big brother ET7, which can make the body side cleaner and further reduce the wind resistance coefficient. It is worth mentioning that ET5 is also equipped with a smart frameless electric suction door and a digital key based on UWB technology, which has a more accurate positioning, which can truly achieve sensorless entry and exit, and the sense of technology and convenience are far beyond the same level.
As a medium-sized pure electric sedan, ET5's length, width and height are 4790/1960/1499mm, and the wheelbase has reached 2888mm, compared with Tesla Model 3, the ride space of Model 3 has been criticized, and ET5, as a direct competitor, will obviously have better protection in this regard.
The vehicle is also equipped with a large double-layer insulated glass dome as standard, which can block 99.9% of ultraviolet rays, and the all-glass roof will also provide a more transparent view of the interior.
The wheel rim design of the real-life model is very dynamic, and the size is 20 inches, which is large enough (the vehicle will be equipped with 19 inches of low wind resistance cloud sail wheels as standard, and it will be paired with 245/45 R19 tires).
Of course, WEILAI will also provide different rim styles for consumers to choose. Includes a 19-inch multi-spoke silver wheel (optional price 3500 yuan), a 20-inch five-spoke flower racing wheel (optional price 9500 yuan) and a 20-inch five-spoke sharp? Rim (optional price 9500 yuan).
The vehicle will be equipped with AG's high-performance four-piston aluminum alloy one-piece black cast caliper as standard, and the official 100 km to zero braking distance is only 33.9 meters, which is already a supercar level. As a performance-level coupe, it is not only necessary to have performance-level braking performance, but also to have a caliper color that is worthy of it, and the price of the qihui orange caliper is 3500 yuan.
The ET5 adopts a coupe-style body design, the rear of the car is a slippery shape, and the excellent design will also give the vehicle a low wind resistance coefficient of 0.24. The through-type taillight shape is also very different, which seems to have become the standard design of new energy models, and the visual effect after lighting is very outstanding, and the same use of full LED light sources.
In addition to the dynamic exterior design, the luxuriously positioned ET5 is also designed according to C-NCAP and Euro NCAP five-star safety standards on the body, using an ultra-high-strength steel and aluminum hybrid body, and the vehicle has a torsional stiffness of 34,000 N·m/deg. In addition, the et5 vehicle center of gravity height is only 482.6mm, with a 1,685 mm ultra-wide wheelbase, anti-rollover coefficient of 1.7, exceeding the American NHTSA five-star standard.
Interior:
The interior of et7 has a lot of innovation compared to the three SUV models, this luxurious and textured interior will also be equipped with ET5, hidden air outlet, simple instrument panel, door handle, electronically controlled unlock button, door armrest, hidden speaker, integrated, forming a sense of peace of mind surround space.
ET5 not only provides a variety of exterior colors to choose from, but also in the interior color matching is also extremely rich, providing including Sands Rice interior + black ceiling, technology black interior + light ceiling, technology black interior + black ceiling, speed gray interior + light ceiling, speed gray interior + black ceiling, tundra green interior + black roof, tundra green interior + light ceiling, amber orange interior + black roof and electric purple interior + black roof 9 color schemes, the latter four schemes also need to be optional, the price is 4800 yuan.
The size of the central control screen is 12.8 inches, and the resolution is as high as 1728 * 1888, and we can expect its car performance. It is worth mentioning that in areas such as door panels and central armrests, ET5 also uses innovative environmentally friendly fabric materials and polymer materials, and its seat belt will also adopt the same color design as the interior, making the interior design more unified.
In terms of configuration, in addition to more than 100 comfortable, safe and intelligent configurations as standard, the ET5 will also provide different optional packages, including the right package, including steering wheel heating, 14-way electric adjustment of the front seat (including 4-way waist rest adjustment and seat extension), front seat ventilation, front seat massage, second row seat heating, intelligent fragrance system and negative ion generator, priced at 9500 yuan. Nappa Premium Interior Set $22,500 includes Nappa perforated leather seats, Nappa leather upholstery and Microfiber microfiber velvet roof. The Microfiber microfiber velvet roof is a separate option price of 6500 yuan.
The ET5 is also equipped with nirapan digital cockpit PanoCinema with AR/VR technology. NIO and innovative AR equipment company NREAL have jointly developed exclusive AR glasses that can project a large screen with a visual distance of 6 meters and equivalent to 201 inches; and have also cooperated with NOLO to develop NIO VR Glasses, equipped with ultra-thin Pancake optical lenses, which can achieve binocular 4K display, which is absolutely unique in its class.
With a length of nearly 4.8 meters and a wheelbase of nearly 2.9 meters, the ET5 is a standard mid-size car size, and excellent space utilization will also give the vehicle excellent seating space. In addition, the ET5 also adopts a sports-type one-piece seat, which is functionally, and the functions of electric adjustment, heating, ventilation, massage and memory will not be absent, and the comfort is guaranteed.
Power and endurance:
In terms of power, ET5 continues the high-performance gene of Weilai, the whole series adopts the form of dual motor four-wheel drive, of which the front axle is equipped with a 150kW permanent magnet synchronous motor, the rear axle uses a 210kW asynchronous induction motor, the system comprehensive power is 360kW, the peak torque is 700N·m, the vehicle's front and rear counterweight ratio reaches 50:50, and the five-link front and rear independent suspension is used, matching 8 driving modes. It takes only 4.3 seconds to accelerate from zero to 100 kilometers, and the energy reserve is equipped with a long-endurance battery pack (100kWh) that lasts for more than 700 kilometers, and a long battery pack (150kWh) with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers.
Equipped with a standard endurance 75kWh hybrid battery pack model CLTC range of 550 kilometers, in the new hybrid battery pack, the use of ternary lithium and lithium iron phosphate battery mixed arrangement, ternary lithium battery has a higher energy density, higher power density, better low temperature endurance performance, and lithium iron phosphate battery has an ultra-high cycle life, stronger thermal stability.
The battery pack also adopts a new SoC estimation method, which solves the problem of excessive error in soC estimation of lithium iron phosphate batteries, the error is reduced from 10% to 3%, and the ternary lithium battery will not lead to SoC jump. In addition, the new battery pack also applies a new generation of CTP (Cell to Pack) technology, which increases its volume utilization rate by 5% and energy density by 15%.
The ET5 battery life with a mixed and matched battery pack can be improved by about 30 kilometers, and NIO is also the most comprehensive solution to the problem of charging difficulties and endurance anxiety, including household piles, overcharge, power exchange and third-party charging stations. In order to continuously improve the experience of power exchange services, WEI HAS also released a second-generation replacement power station this year. The single-day service capacity of the second-generation substation can reach 312 times, and the vehicle can be automatically parked, and the user can start the self-service power exchange in the car without getting off the car.
In 2021, the 700th substation of NIO was completed. The rechargeable, replaceable and upgradable charging and swapping network will continue to be deployed in 2022, and in China, NIO will have more than 1,300 substations, 6,000 supercharge stations, and 10,000 destination charging piles.
In the field of battery technology research and development and innovation, NIO has been insisting on moving forward, relying on the industry's leading power exchange technology and the early start of the layout of the power exchange network, so that WEILAI users can continue to enjoy the dividends brought by the progress of battery technology. At the same time, with NIO Power's "rechargeable, replaceable and upgradable" energy service system and continuous layout of the power-up network, users can enjoy more convenient and easier low-carbon travel.
summary:
In 2021, Weilai Automobile has achieved good market performance, and the layout of the replacement power station has also been further improved. This time, the launch of the new car ET5 will also give friends who love the Weilai brand more room for choice. The new autonomous driving technology, comprehensive configuration, excellent power performance, endurance of up to more than 1000km, and MANY other factors will also give it excellent product power. However, this model will also face competition from tesla Model 3 and traditional luxury brand fuel models. New cars will be delivered starting in September 2022, will you choose the ET5 as your family car? Feel free to let me know in the comments section.