Weilai ES7, when it finally arrives

"Thank you for your expectations for the ideal L9, the best family flagship SUV within 5 million? Yes!"

The Dragon Boat Festival is coming to an end, if there is one thing with the highest volume in the car circle, most people will vote for Li Xiang, the founder and CEO of Ideal Auto, who published the opening sentence of this article on his personal Weibo.

As a bystander, you can think that he is exaggerating, or even seriously inconsistent with the facts, but it is understandable that, borrowing Luo Yonghao's "explosive" evaluation of the ideal ONE, Li Xiang once again completed a very eye-catching at a very low cost. Self-marketing, sparking discussions across the industry.

It was also announced that the Ideal L9 will be officially released on June 21. All stores across the country will start test drives in July, and will be officially delivered to users in August. In September, the delivery volume is expected to exceed 10,000 nodes and targets.

In contrast, as a "competitive teammate" in the same echelon, the first medium-to-large pure electric SUV ES7 was born on the NIO NT2 platform. The final launch date has also been determined to be June 15, about a week ahead of the ideal L9.

At the same time, as early as last month, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the 356th batch of new car declaration catalogues, and the information of this new car has been found.So far, some of its parameters have been disclosed.

First of all, in terms of body appearance, compared with the changes of NIO ES8, ES6 and EC6 (hereinafter referred to as "866"), the main focus is that the front face uses the latest generation of family design language that is similar to ET7 and ET5, and the tail is also changed. Through-type taillights.The optional wheel shape and body details have also been optimized and adjusted to a certain extent.

In terms of vehicle size, the length, width and height reach 4912mm, 1987mm and 1720mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 2960mm.For reference, the ES8's four data are 5022mm, 1962mm, 1756mm, and the wheelbase is 3010mm; the ES6's four data are 4850mm, 1965mm, 1758mm, and the wheelbase is 2900mm.

It can be said that the ES7 is completely between the two, positioned as a large five-seat SUV, and the wheelbase is 60mm longer than that of the ES6, which is expected to provide legroom for rear passengers.At the same time, as its biggest competitor in the fuel vehicle segment, the four data of the new domestic BMW X5 body are 5060mm, 2004mm, 1779mm, and the wheelbase is 3105mm.

In terms of power, the ES7 adopts a front and rear dual-motor four-wheel drive layout. The drive motor is provided by Weiran Power and is equipped with silicon carbide technology.The parameters of the entire power system are exactly the same as those of the ET7. The maximum power of the motor is 180kW in the front and 300kW in the rear, the total system power is 480kW, the total torque reaches 850 N m, and the top speed is limited to 200km/h.According to its official news, the ES7 will become the first SUV model of NIO with a zero-to-100 acceleration time of 3 seconds.

From this, it is certain that after the arrival of ES7, for those users who do not just need 6 seats, it is the flagship SUV in the product matrix of NIO that can be bought at this stage, the latest vehicle platform, the latest electronic and electrical architecture, the latest The intelligent configuration, the latest interior and exterior design, and the latest power system.

On the whole, it is expected that the starting price of ES7 will be in line with the performance version of ES6.