Last year's NIO DAY brought the first flagship sedan ET7, the model design is eye-catching, and the configuration is also very comprehensive, and for pure tram users to worry about the mileage, gives the answer to the problem of ultra-range 1000 kilometers. At this year's NIO DAY, Weilai Automobile launched a coupe model ET5, with the high traffic of the brand, the new car was quickly promoted to all corners as soon as the information was launched.
According to the official new car information, the starting price of ET5 before subsidy is 328,000 yuan, and the starting price of BaaS scheme before subsidy is 258,000 yuan, and it is expected to start delivery in September 2022. This time, ET5 brings two exclusive colors of mirror air powder and cloud yellow, and the annual color aerospace blue will also be mounted on ET5.
From the appearance point of view, ET5 and ET7, but also the use of clean and concise design concept, but the creation of body lines more consideration, smooth body curves, with a soft side waist line plus the bottom diversion of the chassis armor, the sporty sense of the coupe model is instantly full.
The interior space design of the ET5 continues the concept of "second living room", and the use of Clean+ eco-friendly fabrics enhances the acoustic effect of the carriage. Like the ET7, the ET5 also comes standard with smart frameless suction doors and hidden door handles, with a digital key based on UWB technology for easier access. In addition, ET5 is committed to creating a full-sensory immersive experience, equipped with NIO PanoCinema, a digital cockpit with AR/VR technology. NIO and innovative equipment companies have jointly developed exclusive AR glasses and NIO VR Glasses glasses, together with the new 256-color digital light curtain mood light and 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos sound system, so that the new car forms a full sensory immersion experience.
At the same time, the ET5 is equipped with a 10.2 inch digital meter using HDR high dynamic range image technology to bring images to life. With cutting-edge hardware systems, continuous software development and content expansion, and a new 256-color digital light curtain mood light and a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos sound system, PanoCinema will bring a unique all-sensory immersion experience in such an exclusive space as ET5.
At the level of automatic driving, ET5 is equipped with NIO's latest autonomous driving technology NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving), through NIO supersensitive system Aquila and supercomputing platform Adam, ET5 will gradually achieve point-to-point automatic driving experience in high-speed, urban areas, parking, power exchange and other scenarios.
In addition to the new CAR ET5, many media will also focus on Li Bin's controversial speech. In an interview with the media, Li Bin said: "I don't understand at all, why do you still buy oil trucks now? This is how nostalgic it is to buy a gas car, in addition to the oil car can smell a little gasoline, what else is good? This unobstructed sentence also instantly pushed him into the hot search.
Perhaps Li Bin just wanted to say that at the moment when the new energy industry is accelerating its development and new infrastructure is beginning to be fully laid, consumers are more sensible to buy new energy vehicles. This kind of bombardment and demeaning remarks of traditional fuel vehicles naturally aroused the "verbal criticism" of many netizens. Objectively speaking, new energy vehicles are indeed the leading direction of future industrial development, but any industrial upgrading and industrial transition will take a long time, not a poke and a poke, so many traditional car companies will also transform new energy, ban the sale of fuel vehicles Time node in 5 years, or even 10 years later, this is a relatively rational approach.
However, Li Bin's remarks are really "a pole overturning a boat of people", which means that consumers who choose fuel vehicles are too nostalgic, and the subtext is that such consumers are too conservative in their concepts to keep up with the pace of the times. Think carefully about why so many people still buy fuel vehicles, or hybrid models that can refuel, mainly because the charging pile, the replacement power station these new infrastructure has not kept up, and some charging piles have been installed, but because of the lack of maintenance and the final failure of no one to deal with, as for the private charging pile, due to the lack of community power distribution, community parking space tension and other issues lead to private charging piles can not be installed, becoming the "pain" in the hearts of many new energy vehicle users. The supporting charging facilities for electric vehicles have indeed been built in some areas, but that is also for first-tier cities such as the north, shanghai, guangzhou and shenzhen. Chinese an average of 1.41 billion people, 34 provincial-level administrative regions, a total of 686 cities, can all Chinese "get rid of" the fuel truck?
The most telling thing is that during the eleventh long holiday this year, new energy vehicle users drove long-distance trips and encountered difficulties in charging. High-speed service area charging piles are long queues, charging an hour but to queue for several hours, some new energy owners in order to seize a charging pile and do not hesitate to fight, at that time it triggered the attention of all sectors of society, the relevant state departments also began to think deeply about it.
In addition to infrastructure, pure trams in terms of endurance is still worrying, in order to ensure the safety of power batteries, many pure trams began to use stable lithium iron phosphate batteries to ensure safety, and the energy density is greater, the ternary lithium battery with stronger endurance is not stable enough, so it is slowly walking off the stage, which makes the current endurance of pure trams basically in the range of 500-600 kilometers. At the same time, the cold in the north has greatly reduced the real endurance, and when driving, it is necessary to drive a warm wind to drive away the cold, so that the consumption of the battery is greater, so it is unrealistic for everyone to completely eliminate the mileage anxiety and fully embrace pure electric vehicles.
Pure electric vehicles also have an invisible "pain point" is the high price, Li Bin himself said at the communication meeting, "If Weilai and BMW Mercedes-Benz Audi go to fight, we are still confident, very confident and their fuel vehicles." What does this mean, that is, Weilai Automobile is the target of luxury car BBA, then ask the Chinese who intend to buy a car is that everyone can afford to buy BBA? You let everyone choose pure trams, that is what Emperor Hui of Jin said to the minister, "The people are hungry without corn, why don't they eat meat?" "One truth. Compared with the price of pure trams at 300,000 or 400,000 yuan, isn't the price of fuel vehicles that are more affordable to the people "fragrant"?
Li Bin's words give people a sense of understanding and pretending to be confused, and it is not excluded that he has caused controversy to form a wave of promotion and publicity for the brand. However, in the context of the current transformation of the automobile industry, we should not create a conflict between oil trucks and trams, whether it is the media or car companies, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of oil and electricity products, and let users choose according to their own car needs.