At the end of last year, Li Yinan, the bearer of the battery car industry and the founder of Maverick Electric, officially released the NIUTRON brand, also known as "Self-Traveling Home".
Their first car, which also revealed a lot of details this month, called the "Self-Touring NV", is a medium-sized range extender hybrid SUV that is close to the ideal ONE size. Isn't the ideal self ready to give up the extender? However, this car is from the self-developed twin platform, which has a delicate name, and supports range extenders and pure electric, so there will be pure electric versions in the future.
In short, this car is aimed at the ideal ONE, I estimate that the pricing is also attached to the ideal ONE, 30-350,000 looks. After all, the ideal ONE sold more than 90,000 bicycles last year, which is eye-catching...
Maverick electric bicycle is not built, run to build an electric car?
In fact, The maverick's electric bicycle, that is, the battery car, is still being built, and they also make electric motorcycles. As for the current self-traveling NV, it cannot belong to The Maverick in the strict sense, because its parent company is called Niu Innovation Energy, and The Maverick Electric is actually two companies, but the core executives have a certain intersection, and then the founders are Li Yinan.
In fact, when it comes to calves, I always feel that when they make battery cars, they already have the smell of cars in them. Like their first product N1 released in 2015, not only uses lithium batteries, but also adds kinetic energy recovery systems, as well as OTA upgrades, GPS positioning, automatic return of turn signals, etc., is it similar to today's electric vehicles?
Therefore, for them, to build an electric car, in fact, there will not be too many concerns or difficulties in terms of software, in fact, what is the most difficult thing to build a car now is qualification.
Now since the Youjia NV car manufacturing qualifications and production base, in fact, are derived from Mahayana, Mahayana in Changzhou Jintan has an area of 770,000 square meters, annual production capacity of 180,000 vehicles factory, as the Mahayana is getting cooler, the factory together with the qualifications are all taken over by the calf pocket.
Therefore, for Boss Li, building a car is also a natural thing.
What kind of car was the first model, the Self-Touring NV?
The Self-Touring Home NV is a medium and large SUV, and it is a large 5-seater, in the official parlance, that is, "in this car body, we still want to give customers a more comfortable and calm feeling, so there is no need to squeeze so many seats in the car." ”
Translated from this statement, they think that the size of this car can not do 7 seatSUV, otherwise it will be very crowded, according to the size of this car 4915/1950/1750mm, wheelbase 2900mm, smaller than the ideal ONE, I think it can be made into 6/7 seats.
I don't know if you have found a problem, the vast majority of new forces, their first model is SUV, you don't care about the size, anyway, it is an SUV.
Some people may say, is it because of the high market recognition of SUVs, so everyone has to do SUVs?
In fact, the market recognition is only a small part of the reason, and a larger part of the reason is that the SUV can ensure the internal space of the vehicle as much as possible, because the chassis space is more, even if the ordinary battery pack is used, it will not encroach on the internal space excessively, which can reduce the difficulty of development, save costs, and will not be spat at by people about the small space.
The self-touring NV is based on their self-developed twin platform, which can build both pure trams and extended range cars, and only the extender version has been announced.
Big dog
From the design point of view, many people feel that the shape of the self-touring NV is a bit like a Land Rover, and also like the JEEP Free man and the Haval dog. It is really possible to see at a glance that the Calf Electric is a family, and the round and autumn headlights are exactly the same as the headlights of the Calf Electric.
This car also embedded in the C-pillar charging indicator, this design belongs to look fresh, but the actual effect is very chicken ribs, because whether it is a car machine or a mobile phone, it can now display the charging status, this function can only be said to be more showy than actual.
And to the interior, this car has not been announced so far anyway, but it is said that this car will not have a penetrating central control screen, nor will it be equipped with lidar, the reason is to catch up with the market and rush delivery. In fact, the power configuration has very little information released, there is a taste of PPT car in it, the known news is only 100 kilometers to accelerate by 5.9 seconds, but is this the range increase or pure electric version of the data? Then the smart electric four-wheel drive system and a variety of driving modes are standard to meet the needs of mild off-roading.
Until today, this car still has a feeling of holding the pipa and half covering the face, and the information released by the official is actually very limited, so I can only say what will happen after the car is officially listed.
When will this car be launched and delivered?
The latest news is that the car in March small-scale trial production, the first half of the year to open the booking, estimated booking time and trial production time is almost the same, and then the fastest September officially off the line and delivery. Not next year, just this year.
But I think it is very strange, the earliest rumor of the calf car is the end of 2018, last September only changed the name of the purchased Mahayana factory, at the end of last year to officially announce the car and release the brand, this year after the small-scale production, and then in half a year ready to deliver. Even if many things are readily available, there is a certain technical correlation between making electric bicycles and electric vehicles, but this is too fast, right?
At the same time, last year, the media had already visited the factory, and at that time, some media asked Boss Li, what is your product playing style? What is competitiveness? Mr. Li replied directly: "I didn't think it through", "I can't answer it for a while", "Competitiveness is not the most important"... It's either too rushed to even prepare the official language, or it's just too Buddha, and I don't bother to answer your cookie-cutter garbage questions.
Who will be the competitor of the self-touring NV, and can it play against the opponent?
The first is the ideal ONE of 338,000, which is also the benchmark model of the self-touring NV.
But now the information of the NV is too little, the same as the extender, who made its charging treasure? Who made its battery pack? How about battery life? How about the interior? What about the configuration? What about intelligence and autonomous driving?
But I think if it is at the same price, it can't beat the ideal ONE, because the ideal ONE already has a first-mover advantage, unless the self-touring NV is much stronger in some aspects. At the same time, the self-traveling NV has eaten less than 6/7 seats of this wave of sales, and the people with this part of the demand are also the main sales sources of the ideal ONE, and these people are really many.
The only variable is that the ideal ONE does not do the extender in the future, this is almost certain, but its pure electric version is very bad, or since the tourer NV out of 6/7 seats, and then do surprisingly well, otherwise I can not think of other factors can beat the ideal ONE.
But at present, the self-touring NV is still a big 5-seater, so its pure electric version will definitely meet Weilai's ES6 and EC6 at this price point, of course, more is more than 300,000 low-end ES6. At present, I can only judge that the price of the self-tourer may be dominant, the configuration is higher at the same price, the cost performance is higher, after all, Wei calls itself a luxury brand, and the self-tourer seems to have not said that it is luxurious, space, wheelbase is estimated to be half a pound eight two. The various parts of ES6 are more mature, and their own systems and services are more perfect.
There is also Tang EV, 27.95-31.48 million, will form a certain overlap with the pure electric self-touring NV, I mean the price, maybe buy pure electric self-traveling NV minimum match, you can directly buy the top of the Tang EV. Tang EV is a medium-sized SUV, although it is not much smaller than the self-touring NV, but the style is also biased towards traditional car companies, and it is not necessarily for the appetite to like the new power style, but its four-wheel drive high-performance version of the power is really strong. However, the sales of this car have not been as good as OTHER BYD cars, or wait for the 2022 model, a major overhaul.
In addition, there is Tang DM, 23.68-28.68 million, which will form a little competition with the range extender self-touring NV, a little bit. Tang DM power will be much stronger, while DM plug and mix and range extension is still different, an engine to a certain extent or dominate, the engine, the motor together, and DM compared to DM-i more performance oriented, the other engine is just as a charging treasure, so called range extender instead of engine. Refer to the ideal ONE, full of fuel and full power of the battery life I bet that the extender from the tourer NV will win, Tang DM although the battery life is also very strong, but not as anti-sky as DM-i, of course, here are theoretical.
As for Tang DM-i, it is basically not in the same price range as the self-touring NV.
Will you buy this car?
I think, according to the current news, this car really does not have the feeling that the Maverick electric brought to me in the past. Maverick Electric in that era of garbage battery cars flying all over the sky, let me think that the original battery car can be so smart and exquisite, just like the current new forces compared to traditional car companies.
And don't forget, Maverick Electric 15 years out of the N1, when the vast majority of new forces of PPT have not yet created files. More importantly, buying a car is too difficult, many people dare not risk buying new forces, and battery cars are different, a month's salary can buy a calf, easily experience a new force in a battery car.
But now, self-touring home, or self-touring NV, seeing that there seems to be nothing groundbreaking now, it feels that self-touring NV is still following the old path of others, and even in order to hurry up, even the road has not gone well. Of course, maybe they still have a lot of things hidden, after all, this car has not even announced the interior now, only a shell...
But before, there was a concept map of the Maverick electric car on the Internet, which is a two-door four-seat car slightly larger than MINIEV "NIU 4 FUN", hanging the label of the Maverick Electric, the design is also very sci-fi, 400 km endurance, selling 70,000-80,000. But the concept is only a concept, and now that there is a self-traveler, the calf is estimated not to be able to produce an electric car by itself.
I think such a sci-fi car is more in line with the tone of the calf, focusing on personal travel, looking very technological, and may be more attractive than the current self-traveling NV. Don't the new forces focus on ecology? Isn't the ecology of Maverick Electric ready-made? It is a pity not to use it, and it is a cross-border ecology, if it is two years earlier, it may be able to cover the MINIEV.