If you want a car brand to have more added value, a sufficiently appealing brand image is the most important part, so a truly luxury car must be built.Independent brands have been impacting the high-end market for many years. In the era of fuel vehicles, independent brands have made few achievements due to factors such as technical barriers and market barriers to foreign brands.In the new energy era, the situation has reversed. Regardless of the breadth and depth of research and development of new energy vehicle technology, independent brands have many advantages. The improvement of technical level is implemented in the vehicle, which means the improvement of product strength and overall products. The improvement in power will also consolidate the soil for the birth of high-end luxury cars.
Among the "new car-making forces", the NIO brand has entered the luxury threshold with its higher vehicle unit price. ES8 has become the flagship of the NIO family, but NIO's ambition to hit heights does not stop there. . The model with the highest depth and breadth of research and development of the NIO brand to date has officially released its appearance. As the first model with a 9-digit sequence, NIO officially defines ET9 as the flagship product of the NIO brand. This NIO's new flagship is in What are the highlights in appearance design? Let’s take a sneak peek.
Based on the NT2.0 platform, ET9 also has NIO’s current mainstream family-style design language. Compared with any of its models, you will find that its design inherits the family style to a high degree, but it is positioned as a high-end flagship, so its appearance It should not be too ostentatious. This design maintains an administrative feel without being too exaggerated. It maintains Weilai's consistent low-key luxury style.
Under the PURE-TEC design concept,Weilai ET9also continues to make subtractions in the appearance design. Although the level of smart equipment has reached a new high, functional elements are hidden as much as possible, and try to make it more integrated with the overall design. This design is applied to hidden turn signals, integrated radar and cameras, hidden door handles, hidden wipers, and induction-open smart charging covers. The color of the chrome trim is also darker.The lines of the vehicle are made more concise and smooth, and the sense of technology has been further enhanced.
Similarly, after continuing the design concept of "Design for AD", the lidar and camera on the front of the roof of ET9 also adopt the design of watchtower style and horn style distribution. It continues to have a full set of intelligent driving assistance from the future family NT2.0 platform to the top. System hardware, self-developed smart driving chips, including super-sensing systems and super-computing platforms, as well as NIO’s autonomous driving technology, fully demonstrate the intelligent attributes and attitude of ET9 for autonomous driving.
The front part of ET9 has the size and momentum that a flagship car should have. The hood is bulged against the front of the car, which gives people a lot of momentum.The slightly rounded new X-bar has a more concise closed mesh surface and hollow area, and the iconic Shark Nose shark nose is more protruding.The lower part of the front face continues to use a long trapezoidal air intake decoration, and the family-style front allows you to recognize it as a NIO car at a glance.
The iconic Double Dash daytime running lights are placed at the forefront of the front hood, and the edges of the outer contour are sharper and deeper.The split main light groups are placed at both ends of the bumper and integrated into the side air intake decorative panels.The main light group adopts a projection lighting method, which can provide targeted focused lighting on the road or objects ahead, and can also project a light screen image on the road ahead. The lighting method and effect are amazing, giving it a more intense High-tech electric car flavor.
ET9 not only applies light to the main light group, but also introduces a new style of welcome light mat at the door. The projected area is larger and the color is more elegant, making the driver and passengers entering and exiting the car more ceremonial.
The new car adopts a sporty fastback shape, and the side waistline is much softer and cleaner. It also has the sharpness and uncompromising large space in the car. It has a long wheelbase and long rear overhang, and is slender. The narrow windows and 23-inch oversized wheels bring a more pure and coordinated car side aesthetic.In terms of body size, its measurements are 5325mm × 2016mm × 1620mm, and the wheelbase is 3250mm, which also gives it a vague SUV feel in its shape.
The tail shape is undoubtedly the key part of ET9. The fastback shape brings a compact and upturned dynamic tail, but the visual effect is not as compact as that of ordinary fastback cars, but it continues to maintain a good sense of momentum. It is quite round and concise, which not only conforms to the current popular style of new energy vehicles, but also leaves enough headroom in the rear row.The family-style through-type taillight design further enhances the aesthetics, and the width indicator light strip is unusually slim and very flattering.
Because it has the top performance equipment of the NIO family, the wheels of the ET9 have also reached the strongest level in the NIO family. The size of the wheel hub has reached a very exaggerated 23 inches, which is very exaggerated among mass-produced passenger cars around the world. The rim adopts a dense-spoke design and is matched with red Brembo custom brake calipers to achieve both visual effects and braking performance.As for the tires, the real-life vehicle uses the Pirelli brand P ZERO series tires with a size of 265/40R23, which is a tire positioned for sports control.
In terms of power, according to official information from NIO, ET9 is a 900V global high-voltage platform with a peak charging power of 600 kilowatts and a 5C charge and discharge rate.The power battery part uses 46105 large cylindrical batteries, whose energy density reaches 292 watt-hours per kilogram.In the motor part, the new car will use NIO’s fourth-generation electric drive, which is a 180-kilowatt asynchronous motor in the front + a 340-kilowatt oil-cooled permanent magnet synchronous motor in the rear.
The fully wired intelligent chassis adopted by NIO ET9 is currently the only truly fully wired intelligent chassis in the world that integrates three core hardware systems. The VMC intelligent computing platform it is equipped with realizes the decoupling of software and hardware, and supports flexible deployment when combined with Tianshu SkyOS. , can be expanded with new functions and new line control hardware.
ET9 changes the gear shifting method to a hand gear, which adds to the convenience of driving control.The chassis part adopts Tianxing Skyride fully active suspension. Each suspension valve body contains a motor with rear wheel steering function.In the steering part, the new car will also come with a brand-new black technology: full wire-controlled steering technology. NIO officials said that when facing a parking scene, the steering wheel only needs to turn 0.6 turns without "crossing hands."
As for the cockpit, this static experience has not yet been officially opened.According to existing information, NIO ET9 adopts the intelligent digital architecture of the entire vehicle. The biggest highlight of the cockpit is that the central control screen has been changed to a horizontal layout, and a 1.4-meter-long "skyline screen" is added to the center console with numbers. The skin function can realize LED panoramic digital space with "skylight printing" scene mode.
The audio part is customized with 35 speakers, with 8 headrest speakers, the power reaches an astonishing 2680 watts, bi-amp + 7.1.4 channels, and the noise reduction capability reaches 800hz.
Because it is a flagship product, ET9 adopts a four-seat layout, which is officially called "Sky Island + Original Four-seat Executive Bridge". The rear seat backrest can achieve a maximum reclining angle of 45 degrees, with 16-point massage and 2 square meters of seats. Heated area.
The executive bridge in the center of the rear row is equipped with an executive-level table that can be freely rotated and infinitely adjusted in angle. The lower part is a refrigerator with a capacity of 10 liters.The four pieces of glass on the side windows are all laminated glass, and there are seven sunshades in total.
Editor’s summary:As far as this brief static experience is limited to the appearance, except for the fastback shape, the rest of the design elements of the Weilai ET9 maintain a high degree of synergy with currently sold models. Under the NT2.0 design The inheritance of this set of family DNA is very obvious, but appearance is not his focus: since the top "9" number sequence is enabled, NIO ET9 will be NIO's strongest pinnacle product to date. There is no doubt that it will be the top of the family in terms of technology, so more information about its future cockpit is more worthy of our expectations.
