Seeing the information about this new car, I wanted to buy it.
Author: Guo Decheng
At nio NIO Day held on December 18, NIO unveiled its second and fifth model, the ET5. The starting price before the subsidy is RMB328,000, and the starting price before the BaaS (Battery Leasing) Scheme subsidy is RMB258,000, and delivery is expected to begin in September 2022.
In addition, NIO announced that the LARGE-scale smart electric flagship car ET7 will open the lock order on January 20, 2022, and the delivery will begin on March 28.
Weilai defines et5 as a "medium-sized intelligent electric coupe", with a body length, width and height of 4790/1960/1499mm, and a wheelbase of 2888mm, between tesla model 3 and Xiaopeng P7.
The overall design style of et5 is consistent with ET7, continuing to use family front face and slipback style, and the taillights are also consistent with ET7, all of which are through taillights.
It is worth noting that the ET5 series is equipped with electric suction doors as standard, and provides 9 kinds of body colors to choose from, including two ET5 exclusive colors of Mirror Empty Powder and Yun Chu Huang.
In addition, WEILAI also provides ET5 with two different appearance style kits: Sun theme, mainly bright color chrome decoration, mainly fashionable modern style; Moon theme, mainly matte gray chrome decoration, mainly sports passion style.
In the autonomous driving auxiliary part, NIO equipped ET5 with 33 high-performance perception hardware, including 7 8-megapixel high-definition cameras, 4 3-megapixel surround view special cameras, 1 ultra-long-range high-precision lidar, 5 millimeter wave radar, 12 ultrasonic radars, 2 high-precision positioning units, 1 vehicle-road collaborative perception and 1 enhanced main driver perception, which can generate 8GB of image data per second.
In terms of chip capability, ET5 uses four NVIDIA Drive Orin chips, with a computing power of up to 1016TOPS, which is much higher than Tesla Model 3 and Xiaopeng P7.
The interior is also the consistent style of Weilai, the size of the instrument screen is 10.2 inches, the central control screen is 12.8 inches, and the ET5 interior of the material uses a large number of Clean+ environmental protection materials, which is equivalent to recycling 100 standard PET plastic bottles per car, and at the same time applying the shuttle weaving process to present a 3D surface mechanism.
At the same time, the ET5 car is also equipped with a panoramic canopy roof and a 1.28-square-meter ultra-wide dome-type glass roof, which can isolate 99.9% of ultraviolet rays. Total energy transmittance
The ET5 is equipped with a dual-motor four-wheel drive system, a front induction asynchronous motor, a maximum power of 360kW for the whole vehicle, a peak torque of 700N·m, and an acceleration of 0-100km/h for 4.3 seconds.
In terms of endurance, models using 75kWh battery packs have two versions of 550km and 500km depending on the tire configuration; 100kWh battery packs are 700km and 640km.
In addition, WEILAI also said that the ET5 will use a new 150kWh battery system, with the most advanced mass-produced solid-state battery technology, reaching a 50% increase in energy density, through material and process innovation, to achieve 360Wh/kg ultra-high energy density. Models with this battery pack will have a range of more than 1,000km. (All of the above are CLTC test standards)
As the lowest priced model in the current PRODUCT LINEUP, the ET5 will undertake more volume tasks. And if you use the BaaS battery rental program to buy, the price can be as low as 258,000 yuan, while the 75kWh battery pack chooses the rental plan, the rent is 980 yuan / month; the 100kWh battery pack, the rent is 1480 yuan / month.
Therefore, choosing the BaaS battery rental program to buy is a very cost-effective thing. According to this calculation, basically a down payment of 50,000-60,000 yuan can buy a Weilai ET5.
In addition, NIO's NAD autonomous driving assist function is also available in the form of leasing, and the rent is 680 yuan / month.
As for competitive models, Xiaopeng P7, BYDHan EV, Tesla Model 3, Extreme Kr 001 and other pure electric products, as well as fuel models such as BMW 3 Series, are all competitors of WEILAI ET5, but Weilai ET5 is more cost-effective on the purchase threshold of automatic driving assistance, and the battery rental scheme can also make the price of the vehicle lower.