60,000 ET5 NIO units were ordered in 5 days

According to Ming Ge Pingche, the official information from NIO, the first batch of prototypes of NIO’s fifth model, the ET5, has been rolled off the production line at the Hefei factory! The pre-sale price is between 328,000 and 386,000 yuan. The car offers three versions with a range of 550 kilometers, 700 kilometers, and 1,000 kilometers. The acceleration from 100 kilometers to 100 kilometers is only 4.3 seconds. As the cheapest car of NIO at present, NIO ET5’s competitors are almost identical in price positioning for the Tesla Model 3!

Weilai ET5, the last straw to overwhelm Tesla Model 3

Li Bin, the founder of NIO Automobile, released the new pure electric mid-size sedan ET5, and announced the pre-sale of the new car! According to the official disclosure of NIO, the order for the new car exceeded 60,000 units in 5 days, and the NIO ET5, which sold at ¥328,000 units, is really so popular?

First of all, one is a highly controversial electric car, and the positive reviews are almost the same as the negative reviews!

What is a good review?

As the second sedan of NIO, ET5 has attracted countless attention once it was launched, or the market is full of too many cookie-cutter sedans. ET5 follows the simple design language of ET7, which is both elegant and dynamic. The body lines are smooth and smooth, rendering a strong futuristic color. As a new model under the NT2.0 platform, NIO ET5 is equipped with lidar as scheduled, and the technological content is also what impresses many consumers!

Weilai ET5 is available in two versions this time, one is the purchase of the whole vehicle (including the battery), and the other is the rental of the battery, so the prices are also different!

First of all, let’s talk about the purchase of the whole vehicle. According to the different battery life, the battery life of the 75kWh model is 550km, and the battery life of the 100kWh model is 700km, and the prices are 328,000 and 386,000 respectively!

The price of the battery rental plan for 75kWh and 100kWh models is 258,000 yuan, which seems very attractive. Don’t forget that the monthly battery rental fee is 980 yuan, and the annual cost is 11,760 yuan!

If it is a long-range version with a battery life of 1000km, you need to pay a monthly rent of 1,480 yuan, and the annual cost reaches 17,760 yuan, and the price of the naked car is the same!

In my opinion, NIO ET5 is indeed a bit expensive. I expected the entry price to be around 290,000. I didn’t expect NIO to be so hard! After all, Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y are still controlling the market in this market!

The NIO ET5 has a body length, width and height of 4790/1960/1499 mm and a wheelbase of 2888 mm. Its size is larger than that of the Model 3. Is this the reason why it is more expensive than the Model 3?

Taking 10,000 steps back, the two battery life versions of 550km and 700km are already comparable to the mainstream electric vehicles in the market. For most consumers, it is definitely enough! However, NIO ET5 only supports power exchange, and for now, the power exchange stations are limited to first-tier cities, and there are not many power stations!

Therefore, there are many unfavorable factors. For example, car owners who buy Weilai ET5 should not drive it to those sparsely populated places, especially where there is no power exchange, otherwise they can only call for rescue!

And the technical backwardness problem that Weilai ET5 is currently facing has been revealed!

For example, there is no 800V super fast charging, and there is no better large screen, which is extremely backward in the current new car-making forces! Secondly, the glasses for the additional VR panoramic immersion experience are even more tasteless. The boss of Weilai may not know how good Tesla’s fast charging technology is!

A sedan with a strong sense of technology does not have super-fast charging, what is the difference between it and salted fish, which can easily be seized by opponents. After all, after the era of full electric vehicles, there are more and more models, and you don’t know it at all. There will be several new car-making forces coming out every month, especially the delivery time of NIO ET5 will be in early 2023. Everyone chooses to change more every month, and they are getting impatient to wait for NIO ET5!

The order of 60,000 units in 5 days and the NIO ET5 sold for 328,000 units is really so popular? What do you think about this? Welcome to leave comments!