[Introduction: Not long ago, WEILAI released its new flagship first medium and large electric car ET7 last year, and finally officially announced that it was officially rolled off the production line in Hefei manufacturing base and opened for delivery at the end of March. Weilai executives said that this car will fully benchmark the BMW 7 Series, with the comprehensive strength of the WEILAI ET7, can it really compete with the BMW 7 Series? 】
Written| by Cai Jialun and editor | Hezi
The price range after the subsidy of the new car is 4366-513,400 yuan, for the positioning of this new car, Weilai co-founder Qin Lihong has replied to netizens comments that after the listing, it will fully benchmark the BMW 7 Series. Although WEILAI has been among the forefront of the domestic new energy vehicle field in recent years, the BMW 7 Series has already been tested by the market after all, and Weilai's new car wants to compete with it, which makes people wonder, who gave the courage?
Appearance comparison
The shape design of THE NEW CAR of NIO ET7 is very successful, even in the new energy models with relatively high appearance, ET7 is still a model with outstanding appearance. The NIO ET7 has a length, width and height of 5098/1987/1505mm and a wheelbase of 3060mm, while the current BMW 7 Series has a length, width and height of 5273/1902/1498mm and a wheelbase of 3210mm. It can be seen that compared with the BMW 7 Series, the WEILAI ET7 is indeed a circle smaller in body size and wheelbase.
The ET7 as a whole follows the ET Preview concept car released at the 2019 Shanghai Auto Show, and the styling emphasizes a simple and smooth design style compared with the three SUV models launched earlier by itself. The front face adopts a closed grille and a split type of headlight group, without too much chrome decoration, the body adopts a borderless door and hidden door handle design, the side is a slip-back coupe shape, and the tail light group adopts a penetrating shape. The overall style is obviously more sporty and concise than the BMW 7 Series, and this style is also more popular with young people.
In addition, the smooth body design of THEIS ET7 also brings the smallest wind resistance coefficient of 0.208 in the same class, which pressures first-line luxury brands such as Porsche and Tesla.
Interior contrast
In terms of interior, WEIO ET7 is equipped with privacy glass and silent glass as standard, and the ET7 interior adopts new materials in many places, and the standard microfiber velvet roof and Nappa leather are standard, creating a strong sense of high-grade. In addition, the highlight is that the NIO ET7 is equipped with a 23-speaker 1000W 7.1.4 immersive stereo system and supports 5G networks.
The latest BMW 7 Series listed in 2019, the high-end model uses a large area of Merino leather coating, coupled with diamond check stitching and fine line stitching process, the rear row provides foot rests, seat massage, boss key and other configurations. Its interior highlights are the BMW 7 Series' up-to-date full LCD instrument panel, the newly popularized iDrive 7.0 multimedia system, and the 12-speaker BHWer Health audio.
Performance comparison
Nio ET7 adopts a motor combination of 180kW front permanent magnet + 300kW rear induction, with a comprehensive power of 480kW, a peak torque of 850 N·m, and an acceleration of less than 3.9 seconds per 100 kilometers. And the car is equipped with the first 4 piston Brembo brake calipers as standard, and the braking distance from 100 kilometers to zero is only 33.5m, which is also a fight with supercars. In terms of battery life, the first version of NIO ET7 adopts a solid-state battery, with a battery capacity of 150kWh and a cruising range of 1000KM, reaching the longest mileage of all NIO models.
The BMW 7 Series offers 2.0T, 3.0T, 4.0T and Rolls-Royce's same 6.6T V12 engines, with official acceleration times ranging from 3.8-6.3s to 100 km/h and maximum engine torque of 850N·m. And the advantage of large-displacement engines over battery packs is how to step on how to have, the throttle is not bottomless, and electric vehicles will be weak at medium and high speeds.
Weilai ET7 intelligent configuration advantages
In the autonomous driving part, THE NIO ET7 has 33 perception systems, and the body uses an 8-megapixel high-definition camera + ultra-long-distance high-precision lidar. In terms of cockpit, NIO ET7 adopts the third-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto digital cockpit platform and Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto 5G platform, equipped with an 8-megapixel HIGH-definition camera, which is 6 times that of Tesla. Nio ET7 is equipped with air suspension and CDC adaptive dynamic damping technology as standard, which predicts road bumps in advance through high-precision maps and sensors, and actively adjusts the suspension, which is similar to the magic carpet suspension on Mercedes-Benz BMW, and further enhances comfort and handling.
In terms of algorithms, the ET7 is equipped with four Orin chips from NVIDIA, has an ultra-high bandwidth image interface, is an ISP can process 6.4 billion pixels per second, and has a final force of 1016 TOPS, making it the most powerful mass-produced mobile computing platform to date. This value is 7 times higher than the current Tesla chip computing power, and the Tesla self-developed chip applied to the Model Y hashrate of 144 TOPS.
Back to the product itself, from the technical and black technology level, Weilai ET7 does have eye-catching technology, lidar, solid-state batteries, super computing power platform, etc., in terms of acceleration performance, automatic driving, intelligence are far beyond the BMW 7 series, which is beyond doubt. But if you just take the configuration list to see, these full of black technology under the blessing of Weilai ET7 piled up a variety of the most advanced hardware technology, and the current new car-making forces in the general direction is no different.
Comments
In the market segment of medium and large cars, new energy models have been in a blank state, and the Weilai ET7 that has been called out has indeed not disappointed, which has directly enhanced the overall competitiveness of the new energy vehicle market, but because the overall market share of new energy models is still small, it is still difficult to hope for ET7 to shake the market position of traditional luxury brands in the short term.
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