With a range of more than 500 kilometers, a number of long-endurance cars such as SAIC Zhiji, WEILAI ET7, and Xiaopeng E.5 have entered the market.
Today, SAIC Motor announced that Alibaba, SAIC Motor and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech will jointly build Zhiji Automobile's first model, the Zhiji L7, which will be officially launched.
Zhiji Automobile announced the record of Zhiji L7 continuous drift of 1 hour and 6 minutes, 258 laps, and 43.646 kilometers, and successfully removed the new crown with the longest drift distance. This world record, which takes into account the overall performance of the car's handling, was previously broken by the Porsche Taycan in August 2020 at the Porsche Experience Centre in Hockenheim, Germany. Zhiji Automobile successfully won the Guinness World Record for the longest drift distance of electric vehicles, setting a milestone for the "rapid change and redefinition of automobile performance standards" for Chinese cars.
SAIC motor said that the Price of the Zhiji L7 Pro is 408,800 yuan, and the Configuration and Price of the Zhiji L7 Dynamic is 368,800 yuan. Zhiji L7 Dynamic is a performance benchmark model jointly created by Zhiji Automobile by condensing the superior resources of the three major shareholders of SAIC, Ali and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech.
It is reported that the power of the Zhiji L7 is equivalent to the power of the 4.0T engine, and through the high-density energy battery, the four-wheel drive version of the model can reach 615 km CLTC cruising range. The car has a package energy density of up to 195Wh/kg, and adopts the industry's first mass-produced horizontal battery cell solution, 125mm ultra-thin size, which makes the vehicle's center of gravity 66mm lower than the luxury fuel vehicle benchmark. In terms of safety, the Zhiji L7 accelerates to 3.87s with 000 km/h and has a braking distance of 32.69 m 100 km/h.
It is worth noting that a number of heavyweight domestic new energy vehicles have recently appeared in the market, and new energy vehicles have opened up a new competitive pattern. Last week, WM Motors announced that the intelligent pure electric home car Weima E.5 was officially listed, which is the industry's first intelligent pure electric car developed by user thinking, which will take long endurance, large space, intelligence, etc. as standard equipment, with a range of 500 kilometers, and the price of the car after comprehensive subsidies will range from 180,100 yuan to 190,100 yuan.
Recently, Weilai Automobile announced that the smart electric flagship car ET7 began to be delivered, the official guidance price of the car is 448,000-526,000 yuan, this car has a total of three versions, the endurance is 500-550km, 640-700km and 1000km.
According to the data, the wholesale sales of new energy vehicles in China reached 455,000 units in March this year, an increase of 122.4% year-on-year. In the first quarter of this year, China's wholesale sales of new energy vehicles reached 1.19 million units, an increase of 145.4% year-on-year.