In today's rapid rise in oil prices, more and more consumers who are about to buy a car are turning their attention to the pure electric market. Indeed, compared with fuel vehicles, the "ten times difference" travel cost of electric vehicles is indeed the choice of true incense, so what kind of pure electric products can be purchased to achieve the law of true incense to the extreme? Today, we came to the WM User Center in Daxing, Beijing, and let's take a look at whether the upcoming pure electric sedan E.5 of WM meets your requirements.
The WM E.5 is positioned as a medium-sized pure electric sedan with a wheelbase of 2810mm. Compared with compact cars such as GAC AION S and BYD's Qin PLUS EV, it is one level higher in size. In addition, the new car also has a 1.91㎡ panoramic canopy, a 12.3-inch central control screen and a 505km long cruising range, let's take a look at how this new model performs.
Appearance - simple and atmospheric
In terms of appearance, the WM E.5 adopts an electrified front face design, and the closed grille design plus simple line use not only optimizes the aerodynamics of the front of the car, but also makes the new car look simple and atmospheric. Above the closed grille is also designed a black decorative strip that runs through the left and right headlights, which makes the front of the car more layered and at the same time makes the entire front face have a wider visual effect.
The decorative strip that runs through the left and right headlights adopts the high-brightness piano paint process, with the bright silver electroplated LOGO is more simple and atmospheric, and it is worth saying that the front LOGO can also achieve interactive luminescence (top matching), highlighting the sense of science and technology.
The headlights adopt a quadrangular design, the upper left corner of the lamp body is the led daytime running lights of the vehicle, and on the right is a far and near integrated halogen lamp with a lens. In the current environment where many products are equipped with LED headlights as standard, it is still a pity that LED headlights are not used.
A small grille is designed at the bottom of the bumper to dissipate heat from the entire car's cooling system. We actually shot the WM E.5 Smart Travel version of the model, and installed a millimeter wave radar in the center of the grille, which can realize functions such as ACC adaptive cruise, AEB automatic emergency braking and FCW forward collision warning.
The side of the car is also a simple design style, the design of the double waist line makes the side of the car look very three-dimensional, and the upper waist line runs from the front headlights to the rear tail lights, making the body look more slender. In terms of body size, the WM E.5 has a length, width and height of 4718/1838/1535mm, and a wheelbase of 2810mm.
Mounted on the rear fenders of the vehicle are AC and DC charging jacks. In terms of charging, E.5 fast charge takes only 39 minutes from 30%-80%, and AC slow charge takes 0%-100% only about 9.5 hours. At the same time, the E.5 is also equipped with a high-temperature liquid cooling system, a battery pack electric heating system and an energy recovery function.
In the wheel hub part, the new car uses 18-inch 5-spoke two-color wheels, and the dark and debut match highlight the sense of layering. In terms of tires, the new car uses Chaoyang brand tires, with a specification of 225/50 R18 and a market price of about 500 yuan.
The rear part of the car, its design also continues the more square modeling style of the whole vehicle, a bright black decorative strip connects the tail lights on both sides, and the overall design echoes with the front of the car, which not only increases the layering of the rear but also reduces the visual center of gravity of the rear, and widens the visual effect of the tail horizontally.
The taillight shape echoes the headlights, and the blackened treatment makes it look very textured. Inside the taillights, we can also see that it adopts the X-type width indicator light shape, and the recognition after lighting is still very good.
Interior - practical at home
The interior of WM E.5 adopts a simple and practical style like the appearance, the straight center console line allows you to have a very good horizontal visual experience sitting in the car, and through the use of different colors and materials in the upper and lower parts, the center console has more layering.
The steering wheel is a three-spoke design, and the WM E.5 Smart Travel model we shot uses soft materials from the parroding process, and does not use real wrapping. However, it is more surprising that the steering wheel is equipped with a wealth of multi-functional buttons, which can control the vehicle's adaptive cruise and multimedia functions through the buttons.
The vehicle's instrument uses a 12.3-inch digital meter, which is a little worse than the function and visual effect displayed by the liquid crystal meter, but it is still no problem in terms of functionality. Including the remaining mileage, digital instruments, vehicle driving mode, time, temperature, tire pressure monitoring and other rich information.
The size of the central control floating LCD large screen is 12.3 inches, and the internal installation has navigation, music and other functions. In terms of voice control, WM has carried out in-depth self-development on the new iFLYTEK 3.5 system, which can realize the operation of dozens of functions such as multimedia, intelligent driving and entertainment.
WM E.5 also supports remote interaction of mobile phone Apps, users can view the status of the vehicle through the mobile phone, such as vehicle location, battery, mileage, charging status, doors, windows, trunks and other status. In addition, it also supports remote up/unlocking, car search, and window switch control via mobile phone.
Designed below the central control screen is the control area of the vehicle air conditioner, the new car is equipped with a single-zone automatic air conditioning, temperature and air volume are adjusted by the knob.
The gear shift mechanism has the same shape as the WM W6 model, and the vehicle start/power off button is also integrated on the P gear above the shift knob. Behind is the button for the vehicle driving mode kinetic energy recovery adjustment, and then backward is the vehicle's electronic handbrake, automatic parking button.
The seats are made of leather and fabric, the front main driver's seat supports electric six-way electric adjustment, the passenger seat supports four-way manual adjustment, and the front seat is also equipped with seat heating.
In the ride space section, the performance of the Weima E.5 is still very good. In the front row, the 165cm tall experiencer sits in the car and has a multi-fist head space.
In the back row, the same experiencer sits in the car, with more than one punch left in the head space. Thanks to the long wheelbase of more than 2800mm, there is also plenty of legroom.
The most spatial sense of the whole interior is the split canopy above the head, which also gives the heads of the front and rear passengers a better sense of space. According to the official introduction, its size has reached 1.91 square meters, and the oversized size can also bring better lighting to the car.
In the storage space section, the WM E.5 performed decently. First of all, the front row, the handle of the left and right door panels is sealed to store mobile phones and other items, the lower storage compartment to put down the water bottle has no problem, in addition to the center console there is a place to put the water bottle and the mobile phone, the co-pilot glove box is also very rich in space.
In the rear part, like the front door, the door panel handle and the storage compartment under the door panel are also designed, and two pop-up cup holders are designed below the rear exhaust air outlet. The performance is still good, and the practicality will be improved if the storage bag can be designed behind the front seats and the addition of a rear center armrest.
The overall size of the rear trunk is also very impressive, with a volume of 425L. Compared to the competitors, the performance is still good, and it is more perfect if the rear seats can be reclined.
In terms of power, at present, WM E.5 has planned two models, one for the Pro version and one for the Zhikexing version. Both models are equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous motor with a maximum power of 120 kW and a maximum torque of 240 N·m, an acceleration time of 0-50 km/h of 4 seconds 0-100 km/h of 8.9 s, and a maximum speed of 170 km/h.
The power battery is a ternary lithium material, the battery power is 58.6kW·h, the system energy density reaches 160wh/kg, and the comprehensive working range of NEDC is 505 kilometers.
In terms of configuration, the first standard of the whole series is the 1.91㎡ panoramic canopy, in addition to the LCD dashboard, central control screen, gear shift knob, four doors and windows one-key lift, automatic air conditioning and CN95 micron air filtration system. In terms of safety, the new car is equipped with ESP electronic stability control system, AUTO HOLD automatic parking system, TCS traction control system, HHC hill assist system, etc. as standard. In addition to the above configurations, the high-end model is equipped with The Living Pilot Intelligent Mobility Assist System, including ACC Adaptive Cruise, AEB Automatic Emergency Braking, and FCW Forward Collision Warning System.
Summary: WM E.5 is still unlisted, according to the official introduction, this model will be officially listed at the Beijing Auto Show, when this model will have two versions to choose from, high-end models are the E.5 Smart Line version we shot today and there is a low-end E.5Pro two versions.
Judging from the configuration list previously given by the official, the main configuration of the Zhikexing version and the Pro version are the same, and the basic configuration is very high. But we don't have to worry, because the slogan shouted out by WM E.5 is "200,000 yuan within the same level of tail four-wheel four-corner long-lasting large space intelligent pure electric car", so we judge that E.5 should have surprises in terms of price, and it is expected to be a medium model that can be purchased with the budget of high-end compact pure electric vehicles in the past.