A few days ago, a video was exposed on the Internet showing that two road test vehicles of WEILAI ET5 and ES7 appeared at the same time. Judging from the Reuters video, the ES7 is closely followed by ET5, and the two cars "wear masks" on the road for road tests. ET5 and ES7, both built for the NIO NT2.0 platform, are scheduled to be delivered within the year.
According to official information, ET5, positioning medium-sized intelligent electric coupes, has been officially released and listed on NIO DAY on December 18 last year, and is expected to start delivery in September this year; ES7, positioning medium and large 5-seat SUVs, will be released at the end of May, and it is planned to start delivery in the third quarter. ES7 was originally scheduled to be officially released at the Beijing Auto Show, and a few days ago, Weilai President Qin Lihong replied to users that ES7 will be released at the end of May.
THE ET5 perfectly integrates the NIO supercar gene and the concept designed for automatic driving, equipped with NIO automatic driving system NAD, with NIO panoCinema with AR/VR technology, and more than 100 comfortable, safe and intelligent configurations as standard. On January 29, the first batch of prototype vehicle verification vehicles of NIO ET5 rolled off the production line in Hefei.
ES7, the size is between ES6 and ES8, based on the NT2.0 platform, the level of vehicle intelligence is consistent with et5 and ET7 two cars. The ES7 adopts a family design - roof watchtower design (one lidar + two high cameras), the cockpit or will use a wrap-around type, the official benchmark BMW X5L.
The NT2.0 platform is the second-generation electric drive system developed by Wei, equipped with the latest version of Qualcomm Snapdragon's 8155 chip and equipped with a high-precision camera. Compared with the NT1.0 platform, the NT2.0 platform's locomotive structure cancels the all-aluminum body process and adopts the steel-aluminum hybrid process; at the same time, the relevant hardware of assisted driving and intelligent cockpit has been upgraded. On March 28, the first mass production car of the NT2.0 platform, the NIO ET7, has completed the delivery of the first batch of users.