When you think of Weilai, what do you think of? Is it their founder who said: "He can't understand why contemporary people still buy gasoline cars", or "Weilai is going to be China's BBA". To tell the truth, Weilai's ES6, and even ES8 have a good product force, and the power exchange equipment is also more convenient, but it is undeniable that the brand premium is too high.
And just recently, Weilai's first medium-sized and large-sized sedan, ET7, is about to be delivered, and its guidance price has reached 448,000-526,000 yuan, so what is the outstanding strength of this car? Let's take a look.
To say the selling point, let's first take the positioning and pricing of this ET7, ET7 positioning is a medium and large pure electric car, and as a pure electric model, its starting price reached 448,000 yuan, and the top match exceeded 500,000 yuan, so based on the above we look at what its selling points are.
First of all, within 500,000 yuan, it is the first intelligent electric flagship sedan with automatic driving capabilities, as founder Li Bin said, for a car's high-level automatic assisted driving, lidar is an indispensable part. The car's lidar is visible at a glance on the roof, in addition, the cameras distributed on both sides are also embedded in the roof, which looks like two "horns".
Of course, in addition to its hardware devices such as lidar and cameras, there is also a platform with powerful computing power. NIO ET7 uses 4 Nvidia Orin chip platforms, compared to the previous Intel chip platform, this platform can process a larger amount of information, but also has a larger storage space, based on these, but also makes the WEILAI ET7 driving assistance capabilities further improved.
Of course, as a consumer, you must know that the NAD automatic driving system of Weilai needs to be subscribed on demand, and the cost per month is about 680 yuan. Similar to Tesla, all hardware systems are standard, and consumers can subscribe to their own needs.
As a new force of "luxury, high-end" car manufacturing, batteries below 100 degrees are far from technical challenges and gimmicks for publicity, so the focus of this time is to release a new 150-degree solid-state battery pack, but at this stage has not been officially equipped, and it is expected to be launched and mounted on ET7 in the later stage, which can achieve an endurance of more than 1000 kilometers.
The current battery pack is 70 degrees and 100 degrees battery versions, and its endurance has reached 500km and 700km respectively, which is only an average level at present, of course, not counting the discount rate.
In terms of performance, founder Li Bin has more than once promoted the positioning of ET7 luxury cars, and emphasized that luxury cars must be equipped with front and rear dual motors, and ET7 is the same, which makes its performance stronger, 0-100km/h acceleration time of 3.9 seconds. Of course, this has to be in the sport + mode, and in this mode, you don't have the luxury of taking into account the battery life.
In addition to the above, which can make it a "luxury car", the interior atmosphere created is not bad, even if it is compared with the BMW 5 Series or Mercedes-Benz E-Class.
In terms of ride space, ET7 has a more cross-level performance, especially for passengers in the back row, running long distances or urban commuting have a good performance.
ET7 is indeed a good product, it is different from the traditional luxury model, in the sense of experience to give users a fresher feeling, but a set of batteries + four wheels, and a set of automatic driving technology, can it really sell for more than 500,000?