Last weekend, WEILAI released a new pure electric car ET5, but recently there is news on the Internet that the chassis of ET5 is not developed by Wei, but bought, and the seller is GAC.
After some netizens commented on a blogger, they attracted the attention of Ma Lin, senior director of corporate communications at Weilai, who replied: Do you mean that GAC can also use our replacement power station?
Obviously, if Weilai's chassis is bought from GAC, then the replacement power station used with the vehicle will also be suitable for GAC electric vehicles, but this is not the case.
In this regard, some netizens bluntly said that "the face is praised".
According to Weilai's official news, the ET5 uses a front and rear five-link suspension, which has higher design freedom and tuning space.
The front suspension adopts a virtual pin design and axle front steering structure: the virtual pin design can effectively suppress the unstable torque caused by external factors when accelerating sharply or decelerating sharply while ensuring a compact layout; the front steering structure of the shaft takes into account the rapid steering response and vibration isolation performance.
The same as the electric vehicle that Weilai has released, ET5 also supports the power exchange model, the price of the whole vehicle is 328,000 yuan before the subsidy for the purchase of 75kWh battery models, the price is 386,000 yuan before the subsidy for 100kWh battery models, and if you choose the BaaS program to buy, the vehicle subsidy is priced at 258,000 yuan, of which the monthly fee of 75kWh battery is 980 yuan, and the monthly fee of 100kWh battery is 1480 yuan.
Li Bin clearly pointed out at the press conference that the competitive goal of ET5 is two "3s", namely BMW 3 Series and Tesla Model 3.