Recently, BMW Automotive launched an i3 pure electric vehicle specially supplied for the Chinese market, priced at 349,900 yuan. At a glance, the car knows that it is a purely electric version of the BMW 3 Series. It has a very similar appearance and interior design to the fuel version of the BMW 3 Series. After the launch of this car, the most comment I saw from netizens was why not buy ET5. Later, I compared the price and configuration of the two cars, and I thought that the NIO ET5 could hang the BMW i3.
Both models are medium-sized pure electric vehicles, price point of view, BMW i3 priced at 349,900 yuan, Weilai ET5 has two versions, 75 kWh battery version is priced at 328,000 yuan, 100 kWh version is priced at 386,000 yuan. Here we only compare the 75 kWh version, because the BMW i3 uses a battery capacity of 70 kWh, which is very close. Of course, BMW still has an advantage, that is, it can buy a car after listing, but although the price of Weilai has been announced, it has not really been delivered to users.
From the perspective of appearance, I believe that everyone will choose WEILAI ET5. Because it adopts a slip-on design, the overall appearance will be more moving. In terms of body size, the BMW i3 has some advantages in length and wheelbase, but the size of the NIO ET5 is larger in width and height, so it can be a tie in this regard. In terms of power performance and configuration, I think the BMW i3 has lost to ET5 across the board.
The BMW i3 has a very large similarity with the BMW 3 Series in terms of exterior design, and there is also a small regret in the interior. As a pure electric vehicle, the battery should be tiled on the floor. But the BMW i3 actually has a drum bag in the center of the back row. This is a design that only exists on BMW 3 Series fuel vehicles, and the drum bag in the middle is the drive shaft. Because the BMW 3 Series is a rear-drive model. It is very unreasonable to have such a drum bag on the i3. Therefore, it can be inferred that the BMW i3 is a gasoline-to-electric model of the BMW 3 Series.
However, the BMW i3 is not useless, in the premise of not considering the option at all, I think BMW's advantage may be only one, that is, equipped with air suspension, with the suspension soft and hard adjustment function, this function is very helpful to improve the comfort of the car. Then in addition to this one advantage, all the others are disadvantages, and there is no slight advantage.
The advantages of weilai ET5 are mainly reflected in intelligent driving, because this model has 11 cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars, 5 millimeter wave radar, 1 lidar, using NVIDIA chips, so in terms of overall auxiliary driving capabilities, compared to BMW i3, it is a level higher.
In other advanced features, there are also advanced speakers such as electric suction doors, all-glass roofs, and 23 audio speakers, which BMW does not have.
Therefore, through simple comparison, it can be found that after the arrival of the new energy era. Traditional car brands such as BMW are burdened with many fuel vehicles. The development and design of the product has not gotten rid of some of the disadvantages of the past fuel vehicles. The research and development of new energy vehicles is not thorough enough. Coupled with the FACT THAT the BMW brand also has the burden of the brand, as a German high-end luxury brand, it is still relatively stingy in configuration.
The NIO ET5 is designed from scratch and is completely developed for new energy vehicles. In terms of intelligent driving assistance configuration, it can be said that it has been an era ahead of BMW. The price of these two models is actually cheaper than Weilai car. So in such a case, will users still buy BMW? Will you still think that BMW's new energy vehicles have advantages? As an ordinary user, I think consumers are more willing to wait for NIO ET5.