- Chinese EV maker Nio unveiled its first sedan, the ET7, expanding its lineup to four vehicles.
- The ET7 offers buyers several battery and charging options, including 70.0 and 100.0-kWh batteries and a forthcoming 150.0-kWh battery. Drivers can also opt into Nio’s battery swapping service.
- The ET7 also offers Nio’s latest autonomous technology and features a lidar system. It isn’t yet clear what Nio’s autonomous system is capable of.
Nio, a China-based electric-vehicle maker, unveiled its fourth production vehicle and first sedan, the ET7, over the weekend at an event it called Nio Day. The company has made a name for itself in its home market through impressive technology, and the ET7, which the company claims will offer a solid-state 150.0-kWh battery by 2022, follows suit.
The ET7’s standard 70.0-kWh battery offers a range of more than 310 miles, according to Nio. A 100.0-kWh battery with up to 435 miles of range is also offered; a solid-state battery, which won’t become available in China until next year, will give drivers a range of more than 620 miles. The largest battery in the ET7 would easily best the longest-range battery Tesla offers, which comes on the Model S and rings in at 402 EPA-rated miles.
Way back in 2018, Nio discussed plans to eventually enter the U.S. market with a possible electric crossover. But the company has not provided any details or an estimated timeline for when that might happen.
Starting at around $69,000 for the 70.0-kWh option, the ET7 and the Model S will battle for the same buyers. That said, the price drops to around $58,000 if the buyer opts for Nio’s Battery as a Service (BaaS) subscription, which allows drivers to swap their batteries at Nio Power Swap stations in China for a fee of around $150 a month. The Power Swap stations are Nio’s answer to the time-consuming process of charging an electric vehicle. The ET7 features motors at front and rear with a combined output of 643 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque. The sedan is claimed to accelerate to 62 mph in a swift 3.9 seconds.
The Nio ET7 is a luxury sedan with a simple yet attractive design. The look is sleek and clean with sharp in front accentuated by the narrow headlights. The gentle slope of the roofline meets a slim taillight that runs the width of the vehicle.
Inside, the ET7 features a 12.8-inch infotainment screen and a digital gauge cluster, and it drops the air-vent design seen in Nio’s other vehicles to adopt a look more akin to that of the Tesla Model 3. Buttons are few and far between, and the steering wheel has a two-spoke design like that in new Genesis vehicles.
Nio claims the ET7 is an autonomous vehicle, but it’s unclear what the advanced driver-assist system in the ET7 is capable of in terms of driver intervention and monitoring. We know that the system does have 11 8-megapixel cameras and what Nio calls “ultra-long-range high-resolution lidar,” along with five radar and 12 ultrasonic sensors, among other technologies.
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