On January 29, according to the Financial Associated Press, the first batch of production line verification prototypes (validation builds) of NIO's fifth model ET5 have been rolled off the production line at the Hefei plant, and according to the company's plan, the car will be delivered in September this year.
The new car offers up to 9 years of color options, including 3 exclusive colors, namely Mirror Air Powder, Cloud First Yellow and Aerospace Blue, Mirror Sky Powder is not pink in the traditional sense, but more like a yellowish silver gray. In Xiao Lei's view, the three exclusive colors can well set off the high-end sense of ET5, and without losing the fashion atmosphere, the number of colors can also provide consumers with enough choices.
From the appearance point of view, the future ET5 is like the "youth version" of ET7, whether it is the tail of the big walking back shape or other positions, and the latter is not much different, the difference may be the size, ET5 size 4790/1960/1499 mm, wheelbase of 2888 mm, slightly larger than the mainstream compact sedan, the space requirements are not high can not wait for ET7.
Weilai Automobile said that dual motors are the label of high-end intelligent electric vehicles, so ET5 is equipped with a dual-motor intelligent four-wheel drive system as standard. The maximum power is 360kW, zero hundred acceleration takes only 4.3 seconds, and the maximum cruising range can reach 1000 km. The standard endurance version of the Tesla Model 3 next door can not do this kind of data, even if the high-performance version of the acceleration is stronger, the endurance is still a lot of distance.
Xiao Lei also learned that the entire NIO ET5 series is equipped with Aquila NIO super sense system and ADAM NIO supercomputing platform, with the latest generation of automatic driving system NAD, it is said that point-to-point automatic driving can be easily realized. Then again, there is no one in automatic driving technology who can pat his chest and say that he will never "roll over", in the process of using this function, Xiao Lei suggested that drivers should still concentrate and be ready to deal with unexpected situations at any time.
As a positioning high-end electric coupe, the starting price of WEILAI ET5 is 328,000 yuan, and the 100kWh battery version is 386,000 yuan, which is no longer within the scope of subsidies for new energy vehicles, and consumers' enthusiasm for purchasing may not be so high. Of course, if you want to be cheaper, you can only buy a car without buying a battery pack, the car price dropped to 258,000 yuan, but you have to pay 980/1480 yuan of battery rent every month, if the frequency of the car is not high, it is recommended to buy a battery pack.
I have to say that the current domestic car has done quite well in all aspects, and has already called high-end products and benchmarked luxury brands such as BBA. Overall, Xiao Lei believes that although the price of ET5 is slightly more expensive than expected, it is still worth considering from the perspective of product strength and power support.