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When smart and electric are no longer scarce, nothing resonates more than "spoiling the user." Leather and wood ornaments may become obsolete, but at any given time, people are eager for a thoughtful service. Weilai proves with actions that luxury can be so warm. Focusing on the high-end certainly helps to enhance the brand image, but it also discourages many consumers. As rivals of the new forces rose to catch up, Weilai gradually lost its former sales advantage. Because of this, WEILAI urgently needs a product with a more close positioning and a wider audience. Today, it's coming.
A few days ago, NIO officially released a new mid-size car ET5. With the emergence of WEILAI ET5, the previous rumors have finally settled. There has been speculation that the WEILAI ET5 will significantly lower its value and confront Tesla Model 3 head-on. Indeed, if the BaaS battery rental scheme is used, the price of NIO ET5 has dropped to 258,000 yuan. However, after experiencing it firsthand, I think that the ET5 is not a competitor to some "3", but more like a smaller ET7. In this way, the name of WEILAI ET5 has great significance - 5 is greater than 3.
At NIO Day 2021, NIO ET5 was officially released. The new car is positioned as a coupe-style mid-size car, with a starting price of 328,000 yuan (before subsidies). If you use the BaaS battery rental scheme to buy a car, the starting price before the subsidy is 258,000 yuan. From the pricing point of view, weilai ET5 has successfully cut into the position of Tesla Model 3, Xiaopeng P7 and other models.
NIO ET5 is based on the NT2.0 platform and shares the platform with NIO ET7. In terms of appearance, ET5 follows the simple design language of ET7, which is both elegant and vibrant. The body lines are smooth and smooth, rendering a strong futuristic color. The wheel arch design concept is derived from ep 9, and the expanded shape highlights the muscular feeling.
The split light group is the family design of Weilai, and the recognition is more prominent. The LED headlights are designed in a unibody with near and far beams, which naturally blend in with the deflectors (air ducts) on the outside of the bumper. The slender shape of the lamp shape plays the role of a daytime running light. The designers strengthened the front face "X" shape, aiming to strongly adjust the cutting-edge and enterprising design concept of the trolley.
Weilai ET5 adopts a "Shark Nose" design, and the front of the car looks "fierce". The line twist between the canopy and the bumper is very sharp and gives the impression of boldness. The spoiler under the bumper protrudes forward, further enhancing the sporty temperament.
As a new model under the NT2.0 platform, THE NIO ET5 is equipped with lidar as scheduled. Like the ET7, the ET5 features a tower-like sensor layout, which helps increase perception range for a better assisted driving experience. Remember when the ET7 was first released, the watchtower layout was not very adaptable. Over time, more and more consumers began to accept this design.
Nio ET5 is positioned in a mid-size car, and the body size has certain advantages in the same class. Specifically, the length/width/height of the new car is 4790mm/1960mm/1499mm, and the wheelbase is 2888mm. The car is designed in a coupe style, and the roof line is very rounded, like an upward curved arc. The larger side windows help to improve visibility inside the car and provide a better sense of openness.
Nio's ET5 comes standard with 19-inch low-drag tires, with an optional 19-inch multi-spoke rim and 20-inch five-spoke rim. Depending on the rim size, the tires are available in 245/45 R19 and 245/40 R20. The vehicle is equipped with 20-inch rims and the tire pattern is selected from the Pirelli P ZERO series.
The stern is short and sleek, and the shoulder line is full, creating a sense of momentum. The high-level brake lights are arranged in the middle of the tailgate and "hidden" in the black highlighter panels. The new car also features a ducktail spoiler for improved aerodynamics. Officials said that the wind resistance coefficient of THE NIO ET5 is 0.24.
IllumiBlade light front taillights are the finishing touch to THE NIO ET5. The taillights are made of a blackened 3D shell, which is very three-dimensional when lit, looking deep and powerful. Looking down, you can see that the ET5 is equipped with a vertical knife diffuser, which knows how to please young users better than the ET7.
The NIO ET5 is available in 9 body colors. Cloud white, star gray, deep space black, stratosphere blue are free colors, cloud first yellow, mirror air powder, xiaguang orange, aurora green, aerospace blue need to pay an additional 10,000 yuan optional. Among them, Yun Chu Huang, Mirror Air Powder and Aerospace Blue are exclusive coatings for ET5.
It is worth mentioning that the WEILAI ET5 series is equipped with frameless doors and electric suction doors as standard, and the sense of high quality is very in place. You know, usually only large luxury cars will be equipped with electric doors, and it is even rarer to use a frameless design.
Appearance | Frameless electric suction door as standard
In the interior part, WEILAI ET5 makes people feel familiar. With ET7 taking the lead, ET5 only needs to learn and learn from, without too much innovation. For the relatively lower positioning of ET5, the "matryoshka doll" design is undoubtedly a good thing. At present, the interior of the real car is still in the stage of secrecy, and shooting is not allowed at the event site. Therefore, the interior pictures are temporarily replaced by official pictures, and please forgive the card friends.
Weilai ET5 almost copied the interior design of ET7, the atmosphere of the carriage is simple and bright, but the sense of quality is not affected at all. The designers wanted to turn the ET5 cabin into a "second living room" that would give people a warm and relaxing feel to use. Interior colours are available in Sands Rice, Tech Black, Speed Grey, Tundra Green, Amber Orange and Electric Purple, and can also be paired with a black or light ceiling.
The NIO ET5 adopts Qualcomm's third-generation digital cockpit platform, and the whole series is equipped with a 10.2-inch HDR LCD instrument and a 12.8-inch AMOLED central control screen as standard. Why not use a three-screen or four-screen design? In Weilai's eyes, more screens do not mean a good experience. For entertainment needs, ET5 offers NIO PanoCinema with a panoramic digital cockpit. With the help of special AR glasses, users can enjoy a large screen effect of 6m+201 degrees.
The center console is made of Clean+ eco-friendly fabric, reflecting a unique luxury style. The new car comes standard with a 7.1.4 immersive sound system and applies Dolby Atmos Dolby Atmos technology. The car is equipped with 23 speakers, and the speakers are hidden in design, which enhances the overall feel of the doors. In addition, the new car uses UWB ultra-wideband communication technology, which makes communication more secure and allows people to use digital keys with confidence.
The NIO ET5 is equipped with digital light curtain mood lights as standard, and the interior lighting effect is gorgeous. The strips are spread throughout the centre console, door panels and storage compartments, supporting 256 color adjustments. The car is equipped with 1 Type-A interface, 2 Type-C interfaces and 2 12V power supplies, and the wireless charging power reaches 40W.
Nio ET5 is equipped with NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving) autonomous driving technology. Backed by Aquila's NIO Supersensitive System and Adam Supercomputing Platform, NAD can achieve at least 19 driver assistance functions.
Aquila consists of 33 high-performance perception hardware, including 1 ultra-long-range high-precision lidar, 7 8-megapixel high-definition cameras, 4 3-megapixel high-sensitivity surround view cameras, 1 enhanced main driver perception, 5 millimeter-wave radar, 12 ultrasonic sensors, V2X vehicle-to-road co-sensing and 2 sets of high-precision positioning units.
The Adam Supercomputing Platform consists of four NVIDIA Orin chips that provide sufficient performance redundancy for driver assistance systems. Orin's single chip hashrate is 254TOPS, which means that Adam's final power reaches 1016TOPS.
The NIO ET5 is equipped with a dual-motor four-wheel drive system, which continues NIO's practice of not producing single-motor models. The combined maximum power of the electric drive system is 360 kW and the combined maximum torque is 700 Nm. With the help of the intelligent all-wheel drive system, the new car can accelerate from stationary to 100km/h in just 4.3 seconds.
The NIO ET5 is equipped with a dual-motor four-wheel drive system. The maximum power of the front axle permanent magnet synchronous motor is 150 kW and the maximum power of the rear axle AC asynchronous motor is 210 kW. With the cooperation of the two motors, its acceleration time from 0 to 100km/h takes only 4.3 seconds.
NIO ET5 provides three kinds of battery packs of 75kWh, 100kWh and 150kWh, corresponding to CLTC cruising ranges of 500-550km, 640-700km and 1000km respectively. At the beginning of the market, ET5 only supplied 75kWh and 100kWh battery packs, and 150kWh solid-state batteries were temporarily unsuitable.
In terms of chassis, NIO ET5 adopts front five-link suspension and rear five-link suspension. Among them, the front suspension is a variant of the double wishbones, and the upper/lower A arms are decoupled design, which theoretically allows for better dynamic pin parameters. A little regrettably, WEILAI ET5 only provides coil springs, and cannot be equipped with gas springs.
Editor's comments: In the NIO product matrix, the NIO ET5 is the lowest price model, but its sense of luxury has not been reduced. Although the NIO ET5 is positioned as a coupe, it does not overemphasize the sporty sense of appearance, and it can be seen that there is much care for the space. With the blessing of the NT2.0 platform, ET5 has intelligent hardware that is in line with ET7, and the automatic driving capability is worth looking forward to. Faced with a pricing price of 328,000 yuan, is et5 worth the money? Feel free to share your views in the comments section.
Smart | 1016 TOPS hash rate