On March 24, NIO officially announced that the first batch of NIO ET7 mass production vehicles was officially rolled off the production line at hefei Jianghuai NIO Manufacturing Base, and will officially open delivery on March 28.
According to the price announced by WEILAI Automobile in January this year, the standard battery pack (75kWh) subsidy is 11340 yuan, and the CLTC comprehensive cruising range is 530 kilometers. The purchase price of the whole vehicle is 436,660 yuan; the long-endurance battery pack (100kWh) subsidy is 12,600 yuan, the CLTC comprehensive mileage is 675 kilometers, and the vehicle purchase price is 493,400 yuan; the first version of the long-endurance battery pack (100kWh) subsidy is 12,600 yuan, the CLTC comprehensive endurance is 675 kilometers, and the vehicle purchase price is 513,400 yuan.
For NIO, the importance of ET7 is self-evident, it is not only the fourth mass production model launched by NIO after the ES8, ES6 and EC6, but also the first pure electric sedan under NIO. In particular, Weilai Automobile's recent four consecutive months of delivery is in decline (last November delivery of 10878 vehicles, December 10489 vehicles, January this year delivery of 9652 vehicles, February 6131 deliveries, the first two months of this year's delivery volume is not only lower than the ideal and Xiaopeng, and even by Nezha Automobile, which has been in the second camp of the new car-making force, as the head of the new car-making force, Weilai has now fallen to the second echelon of the new car-making force. Desperately need sales to prove themselves again. With the listing of ET7, Weilai obviously has high hopes.
Not only that, last year, when some netizens asked Qin Lihong, co-founder and president of Weilai, which level of model ET7 was going to benchmark against the BBA, Qin Lihong's answer was bmw 7 series. So, why does this car benchmark against the BMW 7 Series?
Equipped with NIO supercomputing platform
Air suspension comes standard throughout the series
Nio ET7 is positioned as a medium and large electric car, with a length, width and height of 5098/1987/1505mm and a wheelbase of 3060mm.
The new car adopts the Design Language of the Weilai Family, the front face adopts a closed grille and a split shape of the headlight group, the side modeling adopts the slip-back coupe model, the lines are simple and smooth, the body also adopts a borderless door and hidden door handle design, and the taillight group with a black taillight group adopts a penetrating shape.
In the interior, the ET7 is equipped with three displays, including a 10.2-inch HDR digital meter, a 12.8-inch AMOLED central control screen and a 6.6-inch HDR multi-function control screen. At the same time, it is also equipped with NAD NIO autonomous driving technology and ADAM NIO supercomputing platform, and the whole vehicle has 33 high-performance sensing hardware, supporting UWB digital keys and smart keys.
In terms of power, the car adopts the second generation of high-efficiency electric drive platform built of new materials, the combination of dual motor four-wheel drive with front permanent magnet + rear induction, the motor layout of the front 180kW/ rear 300kW, the output of the total power is 480kW, the peak torque is 850 Nm, and the acceleration time of 0-100 km/h is only 3.8 seconds.
In addition, et7 is also equipped with the latest NIO Autonomous Driving technology NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving), based on NIO Aquila NIO supersensitive system, NIO Adam NIO supercomputing platform, etc., will gradually realize the easy and safe location-to-point automatic driving experience in high-speed, urban areas, parking, power-up and other scenarios. At the same time, et7 is also equipped with air suspension and CDC adaptive dynamic damping technology as standard, through high-precision maps and sensors to predict road bumps in advance, actively adjust the suspension, some similar to the magic carpet suspension of Mercedes-Benz BMW, helping to improve comfort and handling.
Et7's current models are equipped with 75kWh and 100kWh battery packs, respectively, and the comprehensive working conditions have a range of 530 kilometers and 675 kilometers, respectively. NIO also has models equipped with 150kWh battery packs, which can achieve endurance performance of more than 1000km (NEDC), no price, and no time to market.
Regarding the delivery time, NIO's arrangement is: the order of locking the configuration before March 28 will be arranged in the order of payment of the reservation fee; from March 29, the order of the lock configuration will be arranged in the order of locking the order.
What is the benchmark BMW 7 Series?
The real opponent may be them
Who are the competitors of NIO ET7? All along, many netizens are very concerned about this. Qin Lihong, co-founder of Weilai, once said in response to questions from netizens that the model of Weilai ET7 is a large car such as bmw 7 series.
Many students may have a question mark: BMW 7 Series is bmw's flagship sedan, only imported into domestic sales, the official guidance price of 800,000 yuan, up to 2.6 million yuan or more. Compared with ET7, BMW 7 Series is a traditional luxury flagship, ET7 and its price difference is very large, no matter from the brand, level, price is nothing comparable, Weilai Automobile why dare to say that it is to benchmark BMW 7 Series?
Of course, THE BASIS OF WEILAI is the representative of the new electric force, and various software and hardware are also good, such as its AQUILA supersensitive system equipped with ultra-long-range high-precision lidar, a total of 33 high-performance sensors, and the system is supported by the OPERATION OF THE ADAM supercomputing platform equipped with four NVIDIA Orin chips, and it is said that the automatic driving ability is quite good.
In addition, the ET7's wind resistance coefficient reaches 0.23cd, the maximum cruising range can reach 1000 km (currently available), 100 km/h acceleration is 3.9 seconds, the braking distance is 33.5 meters, and the whole series is equipped with air suspension, HUD head-up display, 10.2-inch instrument, 12.8-inch central control screen and rear multi-function control screen, which are indeed incomparable to the BMW 7 Series.
However, although ET7 comes standard with various hardware for automatic driving, it adopts the subscription model ADaaS (AD as a Service), and users who want to use the automatic driving mode need to spend 680 yuan per month to subscribe to Weilai's automatic driving services.
However, the configuration of ET7 is good, just a brand value, BMW 7 Series can beat it down, people who buy BMW 7 Series basically will not consider ET7. But people who buy ET7, if the economic strength allows, many people will still consider the BMW 7 Series.
Of course, Weilai knows that ET7 cannot compete with the BMW 7 Series, and an important reason why it dares to touch porcelain is that it hopes to raise the image of ET7 by benchmarking the BMW 7 Series.
So who are the competitors of ET7? If you talk about fuel vehicles, I think maybe you can BMW 5 Series, Audi A6L and other luxury medium-sized cars just a little bit, from the price to the body size, they are still relatively close.
And if you look for it in an electric car, then Tesla's Model S may be said to be an opponent. The ET7's maximum power and peak torque, at 480 kW and 850 Nm, respectively, are comparable to the Model S, and the acceleration from 100 km/h is also very close.
Next Monday, the ET7 will start delivering, so let's see what the owners say.