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On December 23, NIO's flagship sedan ET9 was officially released and opened for booking, with a pre-sale of **800,000 yuan, and now you can enjoy 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan when you place an order, and the new car will be delivered in the first quarter of 2025. The car is positioned as a pure electric large sedan with a four-seat layout. As NIO's flagship model, it is equipped with a series of new NIO technologies, including a fully drive-by-wire intelligent chassis, 900V high-voltage architecture, ultra-low internal resistance battery, self-developed 5nm intelligent driving chip Shenji, and the vehicle's global operating system, SkyOS Tianshu, etc. In terms of power, the car uses a silicon carbide high-performance pure electric four-wheel drive system, with a maximum power of 180kW for the front motor and 340kW for the rear motor. In addition, NIO also released 640kW supercharging piles and *** battery swap stations.
In terms of appearance, the ET9 continues the design language of the NIO family, with a split headlight design. The new model is equipped with Mirco LED headlights, which prevent oncoming drivers from being disturbed by high beams, and features such as lane markings, which greatly improve driving safety at night. The front end of the ET9 looks wide and heavy, reflecting the aura of a flagship model. The car has three raised sections on the front edge of the roof, with a lidar in the middle and cameras on either side, serving the intelligent driving system.
From the side, the ET9 adopts a coupe-style large slip-back design, and the entire body line is stretched and smooth. However, this car does not look like a coupe, but is taller and offers more space. In terms of body size, the length, width and height of the car are 5324 2016 1620mm, and the wheelbase is 3250mm. The ET9 is equipped with 23-inch multi-spoke wheels with a floating emblem similar to Rolls-Royce's, which can remain upright when the car is in motion, further reflecting the premium feeling of the flagship model.
At the rear, the car adopts a family-style through-tail light design, and the silver trim strip under the rear balances the heaviness of the rear. In addition to the radar on the front edge of the roof, the ET9 is also equipped with two lidars at the rear of the car that detect to the side and rear, and the three radars form a 360° detection capability without dead angles. Recently, LiDAR can detect 10 cm and up to 150 meters, and can detect pedestrians and electric bicycles that suddenly rush out when driving in urban areas, further enhancing driving safety.
The interior of the car is still in the development stage and has not yet been fully revealed. However, judging from the teaser map, the car adopts a four-seat layout, equipped with an "administrative bridge", nearly two meters long through the front and rear rows, and integrates 20 subsystems, including an electric opening and closing smart refrigerator, and is also equipped with a 360-degree stepless adjustment of the executive seat, and the seat has functions such as massage heating. The car is equipped with a newly designed rectangular steering wheel and a full-focal segment AR head-up display system, and is equipped with a flow ** rearview mirror, 156-inch AMOLED central control screen, 145-inch rear display, 8-inch rear multi-function control screen and other configurations.
In terms of power, the ET9 uses a silicon carbide high-performance pure electric four-wheel drive system, with a maximum power of 180kW for the front motor, a maximum power of 340kW for the rear motor, and a peak torque of 5000N·m. The car uses a full-range 900V architecture and can be applied to 500V-1000V charging piles. ET9 is equipped with a self-developed 46105 cylindrical battery, with a peak charging power of up to 600kW, a peak current of up to 772A, an energy density of 292Wh kg, a capacity of 120kWh, 255km of energy in 5 minutes, and only 3 minutes of battery replacement.
The battery is equipped with very low internal resistance cells, which further improves the advantages of energy consumption and fast charging under the high-voltage architecture, and the thinner and lighter battery pack can also bring more spacious riding space. In addition to the 900V architecture and self-developed battery, let's continue to learn about several other technological configurations of the car.
1.Full wire-controlled intelligent chassis - SKYRIDE. The ET9 uses telecommunication transmission between the steering wheel and the steering motor, and the steering mechanism has no mechanical connection, which makes the structure lighter and supports OTA upgrades. The car is equipped with a rear-wheel steering system, with a maximum steering angle of up to 8 degrees and a steering diameter of only 109m, according to different driving conditions, the steering angle of the rear wheels can change with speed, improving flexibility at low speed and stability at high speed. In addition, the car is equipped with a fully active hydraulic suspension, and each shock absorber is controlled by an independent electro-hydraulic pump, which supports a large height adjustment.
The control core of the full wire-controlled intelligent chassis is the VMC intelligent computing platform, which realizes the decoupling of software and hardware, supports flexible deployment in combination with Tianshu SkyOS, and can expand new functions and new wire-controlled hardware. It is connected to AD intelligent driving and actuators, and integrates drive-by-wire hardware such as drive system, braking system, steering system, and active suspension, so that the vehicle's motion control has reached a new height.
2.Self-developed 5nm intelligent driving chip - Shenji NX9031. NIO ET9 (parameter |Inquiry) is equipped with two self-developed 5nm intelligent driving chips, with Qualcomm 8295 to form the ** supercomputing platform ADAM20, it supports the computing functions of 6 major sectors: intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent chassis, body, power, and cloud domain. NIO said that the intelligent driving algorithm will definitely evolve in the direction of end-to-end and large models in the future, so the core components must not only meet the current needs, but also consider whether they can match the end-to-end large model algorithm in the future, so the intelligent driving chip must meet the algorithm evolution needs of at least more than 5 years.
3.The global operating system of the whole vehicle is SKYOS Tianshu. SkyOS is the underlying operating system of NIO's vehicle, which includes the vehicle system, intelligent driving system, intelligent cockpit system, China Unicom service energy supplement, and mobile Internet, which can solve complex problems such as safety and real-time performance between various systems of the vehicle, so that various devices can be organically integrated together to achieve efficient collaborative work.
NIO also released a 640kW supercharging pile and a battery swap station:
640kw supercharging pile:
At this press conference, the 640kW fully liquid-cooled ultra-fast charging pile was also officially released, with a maximum output current of 765A and a maximum output voltage of 1000V, which will be deployed in April next year.
**Battery swap station:
**Battery swap stations will also be deployed in April next year, with 23**, a maximum of 480 daily services, and a 22% reduction in battery swap speed, while NIO will continue to add 1,000 battery swap stations and 20,000 charging piles in 2024.
Competitor: BMW i7
Mercedes EQS
As a flagship large sedan, the ET9 should be sold for millions in the future, and there are not many electric competitors in this class, mainly Mercedes-Benz EQS and BMW i7, which are the flagship electric sedans of traditional luxury brands. NIO may not be as good as these imported models in terms of brand power, but it is better in terms of technology configuration. If the perspective is broadened to the field of traditional fuel vehicles and luxury cars, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 7 Series, and Audi A8 will also form a competitive relationship with them.
Editor's comment: As a flagship model, the first thing to do is to be large, not only the interior space must be large, but also the style must have a calm and atmospheric flagship temperament, and it must be face-to-face. In this regard, NIO ET9 is indeed not inferior to the million-level luxury cars currently on the market. However, at present, the recognition of traditional luxury brands by users in the luxury car market is still very high, and NIO has played the card of science and technology, whether it is the 900V architecture or the full-wire intelligent chassis, which is the highlight that can really improve the car experience, and it is also the capital that dares to compete with imported luxury cars. Although not all luxury car users pay attention to technology and are willing to pay for it, in this era, it is necessary to grasp the future by grasping technology. Chinese car companies have never stopped hitting the high-end, and the NIO ET9 can be regarded as another milestone on the road to exploring the high-end.