Posted on 12/22/2021 8:36:48 AM PST by Red Badger
Chinese electric vehicle brand Nio has debuted a new mid-size family sedan with a battery option for all-day driving. The ET5 can be specified with an "ultra long range" pack that delivers up to 1,000 km of driving – although all might not be as it seems.
The ET5 will be a sprightly drive, with peaks of 360 kW (483 horsepower) and 700 Nm (516 lb-ft) through a two-motor AWD system. It'll hit 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.3 seconds from a standing start, which will handily see off most combustion cars at the lights.
It's got a tidy cabin, a nice big 12.8-inch touchscreen, a 7.1.4 surround sound system, mood lighting, a panoramic sunroof extending into a sweet fastback and a generally classy, understated sort of look about it. It's got a voice assistant called Nomi, which is "now smarter and funnier" – I wish I could say the same about myself. You can bring along a set of goggles or glasses, and it'll treat you to an "immersive AR/VR panoramic in-car experience," if you're into that sort of thing.
It aspires to autonomy, and while Nio doesn't make it abundantly clear exactly what it'll be capable of doing for itself when it hits buyers' garages in September 2022, it's got enough "Nio Aquila Super Sensing" and "Nio Adam Super Computing" to do the job when software and regulations allow. Nio will switch on the "Nio Autonomous Driving," or NAD, system in stages as a subscription service. So customers are going to have to rent their own NADs; truly we are living in the future.
So far, so electric car. The ET5's banner feature, though, is its battery pack. Not the standard 75-kWh one, mind you, or the 100-kWh long range pack. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at newatlas.com ...
EV braking reclaims substantial usable energy, and motors are off.
Contrast with ICE braking reclaiming nothing, burning fuel to idle during braking (& stopped) times, and wearing down brake pads.
The all-electric Nio ET5 will come for a starting price of 328,000 yuan ($51,450) before government subsidies.
And not necessarily 620 miles in a row.
Until it won’t. Until a new battery is made it has a limited temperature range.
The Lucid Air Is a Tesla-Rivaling Luxury Performance Sedan
SuperCar performance
Power: 1,100HP
Range: 520 miles
0-60: 2.4 seconds
https://www.lucidmotors.com/air/configure
DougDeMuro Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRUvz1QPueA
“Tesra”
Good post. Right now the only real market for electrics are people willing to pay more/get less for a car that is cool.
Per your Bolt experience short range delivery vehicles make a lot of sense, and Amazon/FedEx/UPS will be mostly electric soon.
After that there are still real barriers to greater adoption.
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