[Introduction]: Wei Lai Automobile has received much attention since its inception. The investors behind it have contributed a lot. Recently, the ES8 test drive was off the assembly line, and some media have already carried out the test drive. How does this rookie electric car test drive experience? Please see below.
The first ES8 prototype was off the assembly line at the Nanjing plant on May 13 last year. It has been a year since the NIO team conducted more than a dozen iterations of the models they have high hopes for. . At this time, the founder Li Bin finally dared to hand over the car to the user and the media for test ride and test drive.
On May 18th, in the Beijing Zhongqi League parking lot, Xinzhijia and Weilai ES8 had a very close contact. Of course, the ES8s we saw this time are not the final versions to be delivered to users, but they are very, very close.
Qin Lihong, co-founder and president of Weilai, said that the vehicles were the third batch of small-volume production vehicles. Before mass production, there was another small-volume mass production, which is currently being carried out in Hefei's all-aluminum plant. In terms of hardware, the car has been basically shaped, and the space for modification is not large; on the software side, it is 1-2 iterations from the final version.
In this test drive, Wei Lai also moved the simple version of NIO House to the China Automobile League parking lot. The related "Wei Lai" service is readily available, which is also the performance of this company's consistent emphasis on user experience. On the same day, Li Bin also came to the scene and responded to some questions about ES8 mass production.
In response to the postponement of the original ES8 delivery plan at the end of April, Li Bin said that he was considering the multi-faceted factors and the results of testing and verifying the vehicles in various places, and said that some early users were expected to get the car in June. Of course, the plan to deliver 10,000 original ES8s by the end of September this year, promised at the time of the ES8 launch last December, has not changed.
Li Bin revealed that at this stage, Hefei's factory will produce several vehicles a day. The process of fully completing the mass production ramping will be around August. The whole mass production is following trial production, climbing, product improvement and production consistency. Quality Assurance These steps are carried out step by step.
After understanding these basic information, we will focus on seeing what is worth paying attention to in the ES8, the most expensive electric car in China. These may affect whether you are willing to pay for the bill.
X-Bar, heartbeat taillights, can the Weilai family design impress you?
As usual, start with the design of the ES8.
This is a large 7-seat SUV. In order to meet this positioning, the ES8 has a body size of 5022mm, a width of 1962mm, a height of 1756mm and a wheelbase of 3010mm, which is basically a full size. The original version comes standard with a hub size of 21 inches and a base version of 19 inches. The base version can be fitted with larger wheels.
The front face of the vehicle uses the Weilai family design language X-Bar, which is said to be the largest integrated chrome-plated auto parts in the world. Below the X-Bar is the air intake grille, mainly for the purpose of cooling the air conditioning system installed in the front of the car, because the front of the air conditioning system also led to the ES8 does not have a design trunk. Of course, Weilai also hopes that the user can open the front cover as little as possible. In case it needs to be opened, it is best to operate by Weilai staff.
For this front face design, people who like it think that they are very technical, and those who don't like it think that the front face of "squid mouth" is unsightly. However, as a family design language of Weilai, there should be no major changes in a short period of time.
The ES8 adopts a suspended roof design, which is quite beautiful from the side; in the rear part, Wei Lai's other big family design language “Heartbeat Taillight†debuts, full of three-dimensional feeling; also equipped with kick-type automatic switch backup The door is equipped with intelligent sensing capability.
Because it is the original version of the model, the words of Founders EdiTIon have been added to the tail of the ES8. This special tail is estimated to cost 300 RMB. As for the final delivery version, the tail should still add "Jianghuai Weilai".
For the original version, there are two other places to display the user's signature, which appear on the B-pillar on the right side of the vehicle and on the right side of the center console.
The ES8 features a more avant-garde recessed door handle design that presses the right end of a door handle and four door handles pop up, allowing the user to open the door. Weilai’s staff told Xinzhijia that when the electronic ejection mechanism failed, the user could mechanically open the door by pulling the left end of the door handle.
Of course, because the ES8 is equipped with the NIO Pilot, a self-driving autopilot system, many elements have been added to the hardware. The most obvious is the camera and millimeter wave radar at the car's intake grille, and the camera at the bottom of the trunk door.
In fact, according to the new wisdom, Weilai's total sensor hardware for the NIO Pilot includes a trinocular camera, four surround cameras, five millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars, and a driving state detection camera. The biggest highlight is the world's first Mobileye EyeQ4 autopilot chip. The basic version of the NIO Pilot will be standard on the car. After that, there will be a lot of features for users to choose from, which will be updated by OTA. In the second half of this year, users can use many NIO Pilot functions.
NOMI and the Queen's co-driver, the perfect combination of technology and comfort?
The interior of the vehicle is actually pretty good. After all, this is a high-end model that sells for more than RMB 400,000. The most interesting thing is that when you open the door and enter the car, the artificial intelligence assistant NOMI will show you a smile.
Wei Lai defines the ES8's interior space as "mobile living space": with the Queen's co-driver; the original version of the car Nappa leather package; the first row of seats equipped with massage, heating, ventilation, adjustment / rear seats with ventilation, The adjustment function; and the intelligent air purification system ensure the breathing health inside the car; in addition, the storage space under the center console and the oversized owner safety box allow the user to no longer worry about the nowhere to put the item.
Here I have to mention the Queen's co-driver of ES8. This special design has become the configuration that Li Bin focused on at the launch conference in December last year. The Queen's co-driver is equipped with leg rests and footrests. The footrests are sacrificed by sacrificing the box in front of the co-driver. The overall comfort is very good, and the back massage function is absolutely worthy of the "Queen's" enjoyment.
Moreover, in addition to the electric rearward sliding seat, the secondary driving seat can also manually slide back a certain distance, so the entire stretching space is very sufficient, the front seat back can almost touch the rear seat, which is convenient for the rear driving mother to take care of the rear row. Child. From this point of view, the Weilai ES8 was born for family cars.
In the main driving part, the overall technical sense of the ES8 is still relatively strong.
Equipped with a 10.4-inch high-definition multi-touch central control panel, 8.8-inch LCD digital instrument panel, the central control panel is equipped with NIO OS human-computer interaction system, equipped with basic navigation and various entertainment functions, can be 4G through the built-in Sim card Internet connection. In addition, the ES8 is equipped with a HUD enhanced heads-up display that shows the meter and navigation path. There is also a wireless charging tray in the central control tray position.
In terms of driving control, the ES8 has no traditional gears. It adopts the design of the front and rear sliding shafts, and only the R, D, and P gears.
Of course, the most technologically-sound inside the entire vehicle is the artificial intelligence partner NOMI (Know Me).
In one sentence, it is “to understand the owner, to have temperature, to create intimacy with movements, expressions and soundsâ€. It can receive voice commands to control the air conditioner, window and sunroof in the car; it can take self-portraits through the fisheye camera on the top of the car; it can also make jokes, and whoever talks with it will look at it; Moreover, you can just change it to a favorite name instead of using a wake-up such as "Hi, NOMI".
However, NOMI now has some minor problems, such as the response of the voice interaction is not so fast, the motor sound of the base is slightly larger when rotating.
It is understood that the current NOMI is the Mate version, and there will be a Halo version in the future, which may not be a physical form. Qin Lihong, president of Weilai, told Xinzhijia that he will conduct targeted training on NOMI's system, such as teaching it to read dialects. Of course, NOMI's system can also be self-learning, and the longer it will be with the owner, the more aware the owner.
A family car with outstanding sports performance?
After reading the appearance and interior, of course, you can't lose performance.
As an electric car, the user's first consideration is its endurance. The official information given by Weilai is that the ES8 is equipped with a 70kWh liquid-cooled thermostatic battery pack with a total operating range (NEDC) of 355 kilometers. This battery life data is not very outstanding, but as a family car, only Say "enough".
It must be mentioned that the car is only 4.4 seconds in 100 km acceleration with a weight of 300 kg. This is because the ES8 is equipped with front and rear dual motors with output power of 240 kW. The maximum output power of the vehicle is 480 kW, the highest. It can provide 650 horsepower with a peak torque of 840 N·m. If the user wants to drive, the ES8 will definitely meet the demand.
Of course, running fast is part of the ultimate performance, and it's just as important to stay. The official braking distance of the 100-kilometer speed brake is 33.8 meters, which was confirmed at the Weifang ES8's listing conference in December last year. Helping the car achieve such braking performance is the result of Brembo's 4-piston front brake calipers, Bosch's iBooster electric power brakes and high-performance custom tires from the mainland.
In order to ensure driving comfort, the ES8 comes standard with a front double wishbone independent suspension and a rear multi-link independent suspension. It is also equipped with an active electronically controlled shock absorber to intelligently adapt the road conditions and respond. It is very fast and can scan up to 100 times per second.
On the other hand, the vehicle also needs to undergo various steering actions during driving, which puts high demands on the quality of the body and the chassis. According to reports, the ES8 uses an aerospace-grade all-aluminum structure with a torsional stiffness of 44,140 N·m and is equipped with variable-speed electric power steering. This performance is guaranteed.
For the waterproof performance of batteries and motors, the ES8 pursues the goal of IP67. Wei Lai said that the team has made great efforts in waterproof sealing. This test ride and test drive also specially set up wading.
Construction of operational service network
The product is close to final version, mass production is delivered soon, and subsequent operational services have become another major focus of Weilai. So, is Li Bin ready?
The answer is yes.
Li Bin said that the entire company is now fully committed to establishing a service network. At present, there are more than 5,800 employees in Weilai, increasing by about 100 per week, mainly in the operation of the server. The plan is to establish a service team in 169 cities across the country this year.
He revealed that there are more than 170 ES8 cities with more than 5 orders. Among them, North, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing and other places are high-demand cities. Next, Weilai plans to complete the service coverage of the above-mentioned 46 first- and second-tier cities with 22 NIO Houses.
Regarding the change of power station, Li Bin said that Wei has locked the venues in major cities since last year. It has locked hundreds of venues that can be placed in the north, upper, wide and deep, depending on the local users. The situation is to carry out the construction of the power station. However, Li Bin also believes that the best experience of using electric vehicles is to install charging piles in the user's home, so this piece is also a work that Wei Lai is making great efforts to advance.
The principle of Weilai is that the charging pile takes precedence, and then the mobile charging car and the power station are deployed.
When it comes to mobile charging cars, Li Bin bluntly stated that the license is actually the biggest limitation. Therefore, Wei Lai has also “smashed†hundreds of licenses for such vehicles in cities such as North, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. use.
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