"NIO Day 2021" held -The new EV Sedan ET5 will be unveiled and the landing in Japan is also suggested

[Official archive video]

2021 NIO Day from Nio On Vimeo.

* Lee CEO's presentation starts around 57 minutes.

Steadily expand commercial models

NIO (Chinese name: Shanghai Ultime Motor) was established in 2014 by Lee Lee (William Lee).In 2016, launched the pure power supercar "EP9" with an output of 1341HP.The EP9 recorded a lap time of 7 minutes 5 seconds 12 on the famous German circuit "Nürburgring", and quickly became a hot topic with the title of "the world's fastest electric vehicle".

In addition, it has been involved in the "FIA Formula E World Championship", which is also known as "F1 of electric vehicles", and is currently participating in the name of "NIO 33 Formula E Team".It is a brand that has a stronger impression of Formula E than a commercially available pure electric vehicle.

Currently, the models on the market are four models: "ES8", "ES6", "EC6", and "ET7".Among them, ES8 is a 6/7 -seater full -size SUV that appeared in 2018, the first model of NIO.Currently, two types of batteries, 75kWh and 100kWh, are available in the NEDC method, respectively, 450km and 580km.The motor is equipped with 160 kW on the front and 240 kW at the rear, boasting a tremendous power of 536 hp and a maximum torque of 725N · m in total.

The remaining ES6 is a smaller middle size SUV, and the EC6 is a coupe style SUV based on it.NIO has long been developing only SUVs, but the long -awaited sedan model was officially announced at the "NIO Day 2020" held in January 2021.This model, named "ET7", is a commercial version of the concept model released as "ET Preview" at the 2019 Shanghai Motor Show.

This sedan, which has a body length of 5908mm, a total width of 1987 mm, and a height of 1505mm, and belongs to the full -size sedan class, is said to be a rival to Tesla Model S, but maybe there is already a part that has already exceeded Tesla. Hmm.

Tesla has given up on a replacement type driving battery rapidly

One of the major features of NIO is the "replacement -driven battery" that Tesla also gave up on the development.NIO provides this from the first model, ES8, and users immediately replace their car battery with the replacement station "Power Swap", which is installed all over China, and do not care about the cruising range.You can enjoy a trip.

NIO Day 2021 announced that it has set up 733 stations as of December 18, 2021.In January 2021, NIO Day 2020 said "500 places by the end of 2021", so we achieved its goal with a significantly higher number.In addition, it has emphasized that it has been replaced more than 5.5 million times throughout China to date, but it is calculated that someone is doing battery swap at once every 4.2 seconds.I think you can see the greatness from this number.

The exchange station has been mainly installed along the major highway that runs endlessly in China, but from this year, it has partnered with Chinese petrification (synopec), Chinese oil (Petro China), and shell to a gas station.We are also installing replacement stations.NIO, including these plans, will increase the number of replacement stations to more than 1300 by 2022.In addition, we do not neglect support for normal battery charging.The number of superchargers is more than 6,000, and the number of destination chargers (types attached to facilities such as restaurants and hotels) will increase to more than 10,000 places.

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Emphasize that it is a rich lifestyle brand

What I felt when I saw the announcement at NIO Day 2021 was that NIO is a "user -based" brand that evolves the user's lifestyle into a richer one.First of all, the event created with our own brand users from NIO Day 2021 is different from other EV brands.This time, 490 volunteers and 450 NIO users were involved in the establishment, guidance, and holding of events.

We have a number of programs that are part of the owner's lifestyle, such as communities that can interact with NIO users and can help each other in the fields of EVs, and to help each other in each specialty field, and NIO sponsored charity projects.These points are not only as an EV brand, but also from the perspective of car manufacturers so far.

The biggest attention is the announcement of the new model "ET5"

The most notable NIO Day 2021 was the announcement of the new model "ET5".The ET5 is the second sedan model after ET7, which corresponds to a C -segment sedan with a total length of 4790 mm, a width of 1960 mm, and a total height of 1499 mm, a Tesla model 3 in terms of rivals, and the same Chinese Shao Pen (Sensei, XPENG) P7.increase.

A headlight that draws a beautiful line, a sharp -protected lip spoiler, and a front design with a "Shark nose" that protrudes like a shark, like a shark.It is very cool and is very cool.The rear duck tail -style rear spoiler, the tail lights connected to the left and right, which are recent trends, and the rear device inspired by blade, were impressive.

The roof is full glass, and while cutting 99.9%of UVs, the 1.28 square meter panoramic roof tells the crew the beauty of the wide sky.By the way, there are three small "bumps" in front of the roof, but there is a built -in "ultra -long -distance high accuracy LIDAR" sensor.Including this, seven 8 million pixels cameras, 4 Sony 3 million pixel surround view cameras, 5 millimeters radar, 12 ultrasonic sensors, two high -precision positioning units, V2x (Low Road Cooperation)It is equipped with a total of 33 high -performance sensors, including) and ADMS (Advanced Driver / Monitoring System).

Not only active safety, but also passive safety, which is a safety performance in collision, is not compromised.It emphasizes that the safety performance of the Rollover (rollover) specified by the NHTSA (US Department of Road Safety Transportation) has recorded a score of more than 1.45 to 1.6, a 5 -star standard value.The Euro NCAP and C-NCAP (Chinese car assessment) have the performance that can achieve 5 stars.

The in -car entertainment function that should be noted is the in -car AR/VR function.For the first time, ET5 is an interior design assuming the reason for AR and VR.Specifically, it is possible to see the necessary information when driving through a specially designed AR glass, which eliminates the need to install a display such as HUD in the car.In addition, in the VR function, by using a dedicated VR headset, for example, you can share the scenery during the operation taken via the headset with a friend who is not in the car and get a feeling of traveling together.It will be possible.It seems to bring a new sense to the entertainment on board with the VR function in the car.

The vehicle price before the subsidy is applied, the model with a 75kWh battery is 328,000 yuan (Japanese coin conversion: about 5888,000 yen), and the model with a 100 kWh battery is 386,000 yuan (about 6929,000 yen).In addition, by subscribing to "BaaS", which uses a replacement battery alone on a monthly basis separately from the vehicle, the main unit price is 258,000 yuan (about 4,631,000 yen).The BAAS usage fee is 75 kWh for 980 yuan (about 17,000 yen) per month (about 17,000 yen), and 150 kWh is 1480 yuan (about 27,000 yen) per month.In addition, an autonomous driving system will be contracted for 680 yuan (about 12,000 yen) per month.

By the way, the ET5 owner has a 10 -year warranty and a free home charger, as well as the battery replacement, connected function, and road service for many years, and the value provided by ET5 is not just a car.

Land in Japan by 2025?

Many innovative electric vehicles I've seen so far have no specific plans to advance to Japan, and Japanese "electric car lovers" had no choice but to look at their fingers.maybe.However, there is a possibility that NIO does not.

NIO has recently landed Norwegian, but is planning to enter Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark in 2022.In addition to them, the event was scheduled to be deployed in more than 25 countries by 2025.

What I want to pay attention to here is the world map displayed when you mention 25 countries.In addition to European countries, the United States and other countries are also drawn, but it was a world map that included Japan.The presentation did not tell the country name "Japan", but this can be interpreted as suggesting that NIO will land in Japan by 2025.Naturally, a network of the battery exchange station should be built in Japan.

At the end of the event, the original song by the NIO original band "NIO Band" was performed, and a list of NIO users who cooperated in the event was displayed on the screen.Isn't there a car brand that provides entertainment to users so far?We will keep an eye on providing new value creation, which the car brand has not done so far.

(Sentence / Hiroto Kato) * In the article, the image is quoted from the official archive video (other than the note).